He said, "I have no ill intentions, and I do not want to harm the child. If you can tell me about the tri-eyed extreme fish, I can take you away from this planet and provide you with a safe living environment."

The little girl blinked, "How can I trust you?"

She spoke like a grown-up.

Li Changzhou smiled, reminded of his own childhood and his sister, and said, "Do you know about the ranking competition?"

The little girl shook her head.

"Headache... then, do you know 'Si,' a pop star?"

The little girl nodded vigorously.

"Good, I'm a friend of Si's. I can take you to meet her, and she can find you a safe and well-paying job."

"How can I trust you?," the little girl repeated.

"I must get information about the tri-eyed extreme fish. If you honestly tell me, I will take you off this planet and give you a safe job. If you refuse," Li Changzhou stepped forward, "I will kill your sister and blind both your eyes, leaving you here alone."

The little girl's frail body trembled.

"I, I'll tell you," she swallowed, "the tri-eyed extreme fish lives in water."

"Of course fish know how to live in water. Anything more specific?" asked Li Changzhou.

"A year ago, Tonglu Star was prosperous. Though life was hard, people were living well. Then, the tri-eyed extreme fish appeared, causing a flood that submerged everything. The rich left on spaceships, and the poor who survived in the flood make a living by fishing."

According to Si's description, Tonglu Star was once dominated by corporations controlling the economic lifelines with artificial intelligence monitoring everything.

But a top-level billionaire brought a tri-eyed extreme fish from the cosmos.

The tri-eyed extreme fish, placed in a tank, could control all the water in the tank, and in the sea, it could control all the water on the planet, seawater, groundwater, etc.

The fish, which was supposed to be a pet showcasing wealth, was stolen by a servant and released into the sea.

Afterwards, Tonglu Star was destroyed, and most of the rich left. A few of the poor survived, oppressed by the new wealthy who occupied the water fields. Si and her sister managed to lease a water field—the same one where Li Changzhou landed.

The poor had to surrender half of what they caught in the water fields, using the rest for themselves.

This catastrophic flood also caused high-tech floating ships to be used for fishing with nets.

The little girl knew only this much about the tri-eyed extreme fish.

"Do you have any images of the tri-eyed extreme fish?" Li Changzhou asked.

The little girl shook her head, then said, "Deprive might know!"

"Deprive?"

"That's the person who exploits us! He also used a broken prosthetic eye to deceive us, causing us to sell 'Little Opera'!" the little girl said angrily.

'Little Opera' is the name of a floating ship, just as someone might name their daily-used bicycle 'Miku'.

After bringing Si back to the surface, her sister cried profusely, but the crying helped them realize the horror of loss, making the ensuing journey smooth.

Aiming for the base, Li Changzhou kicked the stalled floating ship with his foot.

The raft-like hull raced wildly on the water surface, plowing a huge furrow and throwing up waves.

The two girls felt as though the wind would blow their souls out of their bodies, clinging tightly to each other with their backs against the engine of the floating ship.

"Tell us in advance where to turn or stop."

The two barely managed to open their eyes and saw Li Changzhou standing at the bow, hands in the pockets of his trench coat, the wind lifting the hem of his garment, his legs as immobile as if they were cast in steel.

The girl opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but was suddenly filled with wind.

Her lips twisted as though deformed, and she coughed desperately. Li Changzhou laughed heartily.

Meanwhile, he spread feelings of kindness and relaxation.

By the time the floating ship docked at a small sea town made of boats and trash, the two had come to completely trust him.

If it were a normal instance task, Li Changzhou would spend a day or two gathering intelligence, assessing the strength of 'Deprive,' since the difficulty of instance tasks matched the player's abilities.

But in this competition, it wasn't necessary to bother with that.

Li Changzhou went straight to 'Deprive,' tore the sea apart with a casual punch, and obtained the image of the tri-eyed extreme fish.

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"No wonder the odds are so high." Turquoise Pool looked at the tri-eyed extreme fish on the screen, which was only as thin as a strand of hair and semi-transparent.

Such a creature, let alone finding it in a sea that submerged an entire planet, would be hard to spot in a bowl for someone with poor eyesight.

Yet could such a creature control all the water on a planet?

How many miraculous species exist in the universe? No matter how exaggerated, bizarre, or unscientific, nobody dares assert that they definitely do not exist in the universe.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry. I want to pawn my steel gun, armor, speedster, and ring, placing and doubling my bets!" Li Qianxia communicated with someone at the betting platform using a communicator.

Next to her, Turquoise Pool smiled and asked Yang Qinglan, "Do you want to pawn 'Little Jade Cauldron'?"

Money is a good thing. In Divine Will Great Wall, with enough money, one could buy planets at will.

Earth's parent company needed a lot of high-tech equipment to grow, such as global monitoring through artificial intelligence—Wang Donghua was once human and couldn't be completely trusted.

Besides equipment, they could also purchase various pharmaceuticals, herbs, stones, and even neutrinos.

Yang Qinglan's Neutrino Primordial Spirit needed this.

Every second, billions of neutrinos pass through a person's body, but only 1000 light-years (95 trillion kilometers) of lead can stop a neutrino.

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