Chapter 261: I Will Not Stop You |
On the bull shark's back, a deep hoofprint had been kicked into it.
Two hoofprints the size of millstones were sunken in, the bull shark's skin becoming swollen and bruised.
It violently whipped its tail and then fled headlong into the distance without looking back.
Chitu, though starting later, arrived first, catching up from behind. It ran ahead of the bull shark.
The bull shark's movement halted. It was stunned for a moment, not understanding why this four-legged fish was running in front of it.
In the next second, it understood.
A continuously enlarging hoofprint came crashing towards its face.
The seawater jolted violently, stirring up large swells of dark currents.
The bull shark's head directly caved in, becoming a flat, pancake-like shape.
And now, this was a Transcendent Mongolian Horse that had broken through the species limit, possessing an eight-star level physical constitution.
The kicked bull shark became like something frozen stiff, standing motionless in place, then slowly sinking down, finally lying rigid and straight on the seabed.
After Chitu delivered that kick, the expressions on the faces of the others watching this scene from not far away became complicated.
In their hearts, they felt an inexplicable sympathy for this bull shark.
That looked painful...
Qin Ziwu was somewhat dumbfounded. Previously, it was just a wild horse that would be scared even by wolves.
Look what you're doing now.
Directly running into the sea and kicking a shark to death.
Someone swam over, wanting to drag the bull shark back.
Qin Ziwen thought the meat of this thing was probably sour, and not many people would likely eat it if brought back.
But then he thought, with so many people in the residential complex, although it seemed like they could find some seafood by beachcombing every day, if divided equally among so many people in the complex, the food each person received on average was still insufficient.
Most people were eating from their "old reserves." The meat might not taste good, but at least it could fill their stomachs.
With the little interlude of the bull shark resolved, everyone continued dragging the bow section.
After expending Herculean effort, they finally worked together to drag it into the other side of the Home.
Then they untied the iron wire cables, brought them to the seabed, and continued tying them up.
After another five or six hours of such toil, they finally divided the shipwreck into three large intact sections, plus thirteen smaller cut sections, and numerous small hull fragment pieces, separately salvaging and bringing them back.
Repeating this process consumed a massive amount of manpower.
The biggest consumption was the Deep Sea Oxygen fruits, using up a full half of the stock.
The remaining Deep Sea Oxygen fruits numbered less than five hundred.
After returning to the Home, with everyone working together, they moved the salvaged shipwreck to the ghost shipyard.
They placed the shipwreck wreckage, still dripping seawater and covered in barnacles on the surface, inside the shipyard.
Tao Fu came over to take a look, his face showing difficulty. The ship was large when intact, but after soaking for so long, it was basically unusable.
"Have those ghostly shipwrights try, and also the black water from that pool," Qin Ziwen suggested to him.
Tao Fu suddenly understood.
He immediately ran back to the shipyard, taking the ghostly shipwrights to attempt the repairs.
While Tao Fu was working on the repairs, Jia Liangcai led some people in distributing wages to everyone who participated.
Nothing was more suitable than meat.
Such a big event couldn't possibly be concealed.
Soon, news quietly spread throughout the residential complex that the Qin Alliance possessed mysterious fruits that allowed people to breathe underwater.
Some didn't believe it, but others claimed they saw some people from the Qin Alliance directly entering the sea yesterday.
After hearing about it, Zou Jianghe stood by the window, staring blankly at the sea surface. "Then he's quite impressive."
"President Zou, should we try to trade with them to get some of these fruits too?" someone behind him suggested.
"No need. These things are definitely very precious, and the quantity won't be large," Zou Jianghe shook his head. "If they were abundant, he would definitely come to trade with us. Since Guild Leader Qin hasn't approached us for trade, it means they are very rare."
In fact, after hearing that Qin Ziwen led the Qin Alliance's elite forces to carry out a decapitation strike against the opposite residential complex, Zou Jianghe had already extinguished any thought of competing with Qin Ziwen.
Because it was meaningless.
When facing an opponent who, no matter how hard you try, the distance between you only grows larger, a sense of powerlessness arises.
"But if we don't trade, many of the ordinary members within our alliance have been secretly contacting the other side recently," an Alliance high-level member said with deep concern.
"Then let them go," Zou Jianghe said calmly. "Can I really stop them from going to a better place? The original purpose of establishing our Alliance was unity, mutual aid, and helping everyone survive better. Since the Qin Alliance can do better than us, what reason do I have to stop them from going to a better place?"
Hearing Zou Jianghe's words, Zhang Bo was shocked.
Wait, how come you're admitting defeat before even fighting?
If you admit defeat, then what's the point of me infiltrating here?
Zhang Bo felt stifled.
Zou Jianghe suddenly turned his head and glanced at him.
Zhang Bo's heart gave a jolt, and he averted his gaze.
Zou Jianghe's gaze swept over Zhang Bo, then passed over the other five Alliance high-level members in the room one by one.
"Not just ordinary members, including those Hunting Team members, and all of you present here, if you want to go, you all can. I won't stop you, nor do I have any reason to stop you. Everyone is free," Zou Jianghe said calmly.
Sitting in his original spot, Huang Tao narrowed his eyes. After pondering for a moment, he suddenly understood Zou Jianghe's approach.
Having more people isn't necessarily a good thing; having fewer people isn't necessarily a disadvantage.
Fewer people can refine the team, distill the core, and concentrate strength to accomplish things. Although there are fewer people, the burden is also lighter.
Just like the Qin Alliance, which initially had fewer people than them.
Yet it gradually surpassed them and continued to develop and grow.
And having more people means more voices and more demands.
People are the hardest to satisfy.
But... the Qin Alliance is different from them.
Huang Tao understood clearly in his heart. The reason their Alliance felt somewhat bloated with so many people was because they couldn't fully utilize all these people, plus this map's environment wasn't suitable for ordinary people to hunt alone.
But the Qin Alliance could. The Qin Alliance had specialized "factories," a shipyard, training grounds. Their weapons were more advanced, and they had Transcendent beings who had surpassed limits. Now they were even building large ships.
They could fully utilize these people as fuel, injecting fresher blood into the Qin Alliance's great ship.
The core problem still lies in the gap in buildings.
To catch up to the Qin Alliance, they could only try to optimize buildings, concentrate on strengthening advantages, and then create distinctive buildings within the residential complex to cooperate with the Qin Alliance. Although the Qin Alliance is large, it definitely can't cover all aspects and have all types of buildings flourishing everywhere. They must also have areas of need.
As long as they can leverage their own distinctive features, they might still survive within the residential complex.