Ocean Lords: Start as a Fisherman

Back to Fire Spirit Fish Wharf

Su Wangxian found Cao Ge and gave him 4 liters of holy water.

Only then did they prepare to head to the deeply polluted sea area.

This operation involved only one ship, the Heart of the Dead, while Su Wang had already equipped five Starlink devices, preparing to further extend the Starlink's detection range.

After a quantum tunnel, they reached the edge of Starlink's detection range.

By switching between the perspectives of different Starlink individuals, traces of pollutants can be seen in certain areas of the periphery.

In the past few days, Su Wang had already cleaned up the source of pollution once, purifying and killing nearly a hundred source entities.

Less than a day and a half later, dozens more appeared.

However, since the air and sea fleets were not brought along this time, Su Wang did not launch an attack.

I just quietly tallied the numbers, and will find time to come and eliminate the threat after this exploration trip is over.

"They're appearing faster and faster, and in greater and greater numbers..."

Su Wang's expression was somewhat solemn.

With the current combat power, eliminating a small number of contaminants is no longer a problem, as long as there are sufficient combat resources.

Su Wang was worried about a major collapse of the situation, with an extremely large number of pollutants attacking in a short period of time.

In that case, it would be very difficult to maintain a balance with the current resource production.

This extension of Starlink's detection range is also to give ourselves more reaction time.

Upon reaching the designated location, Su Wang maneuvered the Deathheart to maintain an extremely high altitude and began launching Starlink instances.

After each launch, the satellite travels a certain distance forward while simultaneously monitoring the situation within the newly added Starlink detection range.

As the field of vision expands, pollution sources can be seen from time to time swimming on the sea surface, and the number of them is gradually increasing.

Su Wang's expression grew increasingly solemn.

Once the distribution of the additional 5 Starlink stars is complete,

The number of pollutants captured has reached more than 740.

No wonder that every time the source of pollution is cleaned up, dozens or even hundreds of new ones are discovered every one or two days.

The reason is that there are still so many sources of pollution behind, constantly moving forward, so naturally, after one batch is cleaned up, another batch will follow.

Upon observing this situation, Su Wang had a very bad feeling.

The sea creatures' defenses against the source of the pollution have likely collapsed, and those sea creatures may have been wiped out.

The Heart of Death continued to fly deeper into the sea.

Each time the edge of Starlink's detection range is reached, another Starlink unit from another Starlink launcher is launched to expand the field of vision.

The deeper and wider the investigation goes, the more the density of pollution sources increases.

The number of pollution sources also rapidly increased from over 700 to over 1,000, and finally to 2,000... 3,000...

It wasn't until the fourth Starlink expansion that we finally saw the worst possible scenario.

Regardless of which newly added Starlink instance's perspective you switch to, what you see is an extremely dense array of contaminants.

Within the field of vision of almost every Starlink individual, one can see a terrifying sight of anywhere from a dozen to twenty or thirty individuals.

Su Wang didn't even want to count the number of pollution sources anymore.

Because there's simply no way to complete the statistics!

He could already foresee the situation even before the fifth Starlink unit was launched.

The only thing left are endless sources of pollution, indicating that there is no resistance to stop these sources of pollution from rioting.

Based on the speed at which the pollutants travel, the marine defenses had already been completely destroyed several days ago.

Su Wang silently mourned for the countless sea race warriors who had died.

The riot caused by the source of pollution was triggered by Su Wang's purification of the polluted dock, and the destruction of the sea creatures on the front line was directly related to him.

But Su Wang didn't regret it, and he didn't think he had done anything wrong.

With little time remaining, attacking the polluted sea area is an inevitable move.

Whether the attack comes sooner or later, it will trigger pollution riots, and the situation will not change much.

Without attacking polluted sea areas, Su Wang has no way to obtain a large amount of fish coins, which prevents him from accelerating his combat power development.

The immense sacrifices of the sea creatures were a desperate attempt to secure a final chance for survival for this world.

The one at fault is Pisces King; it's pollution!

If the Pisces King were willing to provide unconditional assistance and even send troops to fight alongside them, the situation would be much better than it is now.

Unfortunately, the long-term stability of the inner realm has made the Pisces King complacent.

Coupled with the arrogance that came from long-term rule, he was reluctant to relinquish power and was somewhat wary of fishermen.

This is what led to the current situation.

If Su Wang himself didn't exist in this world, he wouldn't even want to get involved in this mess.

Unfortunately, ignoring it is not an option; even for his own sake, the pollution must be eradicated from this world.

With all five newly added Starlink launchers having completed the deployment of their sub-units,
Su Wang immediately stopped his slow sailing and accelerated towards the heavily polluted sea area.

The enhanced talents of the four crew members increased the ship's normal speed by 200 knots, reaching a normal speed of 600 knots.

Utilizing turbochargers, it broke the 900-knot speed barrier, reaching a speed of nearly Mach 1.35.

At this speed, the Heart of Death soon reached the edge of the deeply polluted sea area.

Upon receiving the change in sea area information, Su Wang immediately brought the Wangxin to a stop and simultaneously entered stealth mode, slowly descending its flight altitude.

Due to the pitch-black field of vision, and the inability of sonar radar to detect the presence of the pollution source.

Su Wang could only gather intelligence by lowering his altitude and observing it with the naked eye.

When they were less than 3 kilometers from the sea, Su Wang's expression became serious.

Just now, a series of notification messages appeared in my field of vision.

[A source of pollution has been detected nearby. Please clean it up or avoid it immediately.]

[A source of pollution has been detected nearby, please…]

The number of notifications that appeared in an instant reached more than ten, indicating that the Heart of Death had descended to the top of the group of pollutants and was not far away.

Even through the pitch-black, blurry vision, Su Wang could vaguely make out the outlines of enormous creatures swimming on the sea.

In this situation, the only way to penetrate deeper into the polluted waters is to increase altitude.

But without the Starlink perspective,

The increased altitude will cause the remaining blurry field of vision to be lost, making it impossible to detect any useful information.

Su Wang took a deep breath and decided to take a gamble!
"Hopefully, Menata's talent will come in handy!"

Su Wang immediately activated his perfect mimicry ability, selecting the source of pollution as his target!
The next second, the stealthy Deathheart rapidly changed, transforming into a massive, bizarre creature nearly 1500 meters tall in less than twenty seconds.

The moment the form was completely imitated, a sudden change occurred.

A scarlet notification message suddenly appeared.

[Warning! You have been corrupted by a polluted will. Consuming information fuel can help you resist the corruption.]

Along with the scarlet notification, a strange will also appeared.

Su Wang suddenly felt a chaotic consciousness appear in his mind, trying to take over his consciousness.

At this moment, the faith fuel suddenly began to decrease rapidly, and Su Wang was also freed from this extremely strange state.

The next second, another scarlet notification appeared.

[The faith fuel has burned automatically to resist the erosion of polluting will. Once the faith fuel is completely burned out, it will no longer be able to resist erosion. Fishermen, please be aware!]

Su Wang's face was pale at this moment, and cold sweat broke out on his back. He was still feeling scared because of the sudden change that had just happened.

Tia and Mireille, who were in the command room, had the same reaction as him.

Mirei's young face was deathly pale, and her expression was extremely unpleasant, as if she had recalled something she least wanted to remember.

Tia was also pale, and her face showed a hint of fear.

"Captain... what was that just now...?"

Tia's voice was a little hoarse, and she even stumbled over her words because she was so frightened.

As a saint who had strengthened his soul through burning multiple times, Su Wang was in much better condition than Tia and the others.

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect this to happen, and I'm sorry to have startled you."

Seeing Mirei and Tia's pale faces, Su Wang immediately spoke up to comfort them and apologize.

He now roughly understood what had caused the recent upheaval.

At this moment, it felt as if there were two consciousnesses in my mind.

One is his own consciousness.

Another extremely chaotic and untouchable consciousness is the culprit behind Tia and Mirei's current reactions. This chaotic consciousness is driving him toward a certain location.

Su Wang sensed the location of the three purification docks with just a moment's thought.

And this chaotic consciousness may be pollution itself!
It should be a mimicry of the pollution source, causing the consciousness of pollution to connect to the Heartless.

However, due to the isolation of the faith fuel, Su Wang was still able to control his own consciousness and was not controlled by this chaotic consciousness.

This discovery also made Su Wang understand why the polluted individuals who had been purified had no memory of the period of pollution.

Because what controls the existence of pollution is this chaotic consciousness, and all polluted creatures are controlled by this consciousness.

Fortunately, the polluting will only issued general instructions to the polluted individuals, rather than detailed instructions like directly controlling their hands and feet.

In addition, the burning of faith fuel provides protection, so the impact on Su Wang is not significant.

Su Wang controlled the Death Heart, which was disguised as a source of pollution, to slowly descend, constantly on guard against the movements of the huge black shadows nearby.

As soon as they make any unusual movements, Su Wang will activate his shield and quickly retreat.

However, Menata's perfect mimicry ability is truly remarkable, not only attracting the will of pollution to take over, but also making the polluted creatures feel no rejection.

If the pollutant were intelligent, it would definitely be able to tell that something was wrong if it fell from the sky.

However, under the control of the collective consciousness of the polluting will, they turned a blind eye to this "source of pollution" that fell from the sky.

After successfully landing in the water, Su Wang even discovered another benefit.

That means the erosion from the polluted seawater has disappeared!
The "Death Heart," which mimicked a source of pollution, showed no signs of corrosion or damage after coming into contact with seawater.

It's as if they've become real pollutants.

Two hundred meters away, a pollutant source, its tentacles waving, slowly swam by.

Their massive size made this distance practically indistinguishable from brushing past each other.

This was the first time Su Wang had been so close to the source of the contamination, and he was almost touched by the dancing tentacles.

However, mimicking the source of pollution was not convenient for movement, so Su Wang immediately mimicked the image of the Death Heart again, transforming into a strange fish that was a thousand meters long.

Fortunately, during the transformation of the Heart of Death, the pollutants that were swimming around it did not react at all.

Su Wang also breathed a sigh of relief.

Once the transformation was complete, most of the "thousand-meter-long strange fish" slowly sank underwater, leaving only a small part above the surface to observe its surroundings.

The next second, the "strange fish" swung its tail, dodging the pollutants swimming towards it, while heading against the current towards the interior of the deeply polluted sea.

...

Half an hour later, the Heartless, which had transformed into a giant "monster fish," had ventured deep into the polluted sea area.

Although radar images cannot capture images of the pollution source, some targets can still be detected, such as the polluted dock.

After half an hour of in-depth investigation into the heavily polluted sea area, Su Wang discovered the existence of the first polluted dock.

Out of curiosity, Su Wang steered the Lost Heart closer to the polluted dock he had discovered.

As they closed the distance, Su Wang discovered information that shocked him.

At this moment, the strange fish that the Heart of Death had transformed into was less than 500 meters away from the polluted dock.

However, no trace of the strange ship was found.
The polluted dock also exceeded Su Wang's expectations.

Outside in the moderately polluted sea area, the polluted dock was only covered by bizarre flesh and blood, and still roughly resembled a dock.

However, the polluted docks in this heavily polluted sea area have been completely transformed.

If it weren't for the fact that it could be captured by radar and that it covered such a large area, Su Wang would never have associated it with the dock.

The piled-up flesh and blood had transformed the dock into a towering mountain of meat.

All Su Wang could see was the foot of this "mountain of flesh".

However, at this moment, one after another, pollutants wriggled their strange bodies and stepped into the water from the foot of the mountain.

“The source of pollution… it’s actually giving birth to a source of pollution…” Su Wang was shocked.

I initially thought that each source of pollution was formed by the aggregation and condensation of strange fish.
But the scene before him forced Su Wang to overturn his previous judgment.

The docks in the deeply polluted sea area have actually been transformed into production plants for the pollutants.

Even before launching an attack on the dock, Su Wang received information about it as soon as he approached.

[Pollution Aggregates]

Polymer durability: 3127 billion / 3127 billion.

Pollution level: Extremely high.

Description: A special mother nest individual formed from a normal dock through deep pollution transformation, capable of drawing on the world's origin to give birth to pollution source entities.

Warning: The broodstock is in a state of mild awakening. Once fully awakened, unpredictable changes will occur.

...

A polluted aggregate transformed from a polluted dock, even having shed its inanimate dock state and transformed into a special kind of polluted entity.

The warning message further stated that it was only in a state of mild awakening, and that further changes would occur after it fully awakened.

However, this pollutant aggregate, which is only slightly awakened, is able to continuously produce pollutants.

This even made Su Wang feel a little discouraged.

How can we counter this?

It goes without saying that there couldn't possibly be just one pollutant aggregate in a deeply polluted sea area.

Rather, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of seats are all underestimations.

Regardless of the threat posed by the polluting aggregates themselves, the mere fact that they continuously generate pollutants makes Su Wang feel somewhat hopeless.

Even Tia and Mireille were pale at this moment.

The reason for his pale face this time was that he had witnessed the "truth" with his own eyes.

In the past, whenever pollution problems arose, Su Wang would always find a solution in time and quickly suppress them.

But after witnessing firsthand the continuous emergence of pollutants from the mountain of flesh, the two, who were not dull-witted, understood what this meant.

After a few seconds of silence, Su Wang steered the Deathheart away from the polluted aggregate, preparing to explore further to see if there were any other discoveries.

During the voyage, Tia turned her head with a dejected expression and asked Su Wang a question.

"Captain...is this world truly beyond saving?"

Su Wang didn't know why Tia would suddenly ask this question.

But he still caught a glimmer of hope in Tia's eyes.

Su Wang understood that Tia was seeking comfort from him, hoping he could give her an answer that would make her feel hopeful.

Seeing that glimmer of hope, Su Wang suddenly felt pressured.

After witnessing what had just happened, he also felt a sense of uncertainty about the future.

Even as the captain and the strongest among the fishermen, if he also adopts an attitude of giving up.

Then there's really no hope left.

Su Wang smiled faintly and responded softly.

"Who says there's no hope? All the difficulties we encountered along the way were eventually resolved, weren't they?"

"So what if pollutants keep coming? In the face of absolute power, quantity doesn't matter!"

These words finally eased the gloom on Tia's face considerably.

Seeing the captain's confident demeanor seemed to give her a sense of hope as well.

Even Mireille turned her head to look over, and a smile returned to her face.

Seeing this, Su Wang felt much of the gloom in his heart dissipate.

What he just said wasn't just for Tia and Mireille, but also for himself.

It's all about human effort. Just do your best, and even if you fail, it won't matter; you won't have any regrets.

Besides, it's not like there's no hope at all.

The air and sea fleets are already capable of fighting against the source of contamination, but their numbers are too small.

With a continuous stream of pollutants emerging, wouldn't that be a great help to expand the air and naval fleets?
Give him ten thousand air and sea warships, and Su Wang is confident he can destroy all enemies.

Now it's all about time and speed.

At this point, Su Wang had already made up his mind.

"Since you're unwilling to put in the effort, then you should leave the stage..."

Su Wang planned to return and begin plundering resources after this exploration trip.

If resources are insufficient, then seize them!

Everything is for the fight against pollution; we'd even be willing to overturn the table!
…(End of this chapter)