"Get lost!"
However, Ethan paid no attention to this Featherguard Clan member at all.
He wasn't so much of a bleeding heart that he'd go this far. The enemy had insulted and cursed him before, and now he was supposed to open the door and welcome it in to escape disaster?
Only for the enemy to turn around and stab him in the back once the disaster had passed?
Even if it couldn't kill Ethan with that stab, Ethan still didn't want a ticking time bomb sitting beside him. No matter how much money he could make from a dangerous job that put his life on the line, he didn't want to earn it.
"You actually dare tell me to get lost! I'll fucking curse your mother!"
The Featherguard Clan birdman roared in fury. Then, like a rocket, it plunged toward Ethan's raft, seemingly planning to crash straight through the raft's protective shield and force its way down.
"Ahhh! Put me down first! Don't take me down with you!"
The Elf man riding on the Featherguard Clan member nearly died of fright.
In the end, seeing that the Featherguard Clan member simply wouldn't listen, he had no choice but to spread the four wings on his back, which were as thin as a cicada's wings, and suspend himself in midair.
Only then did he frantically pat his chest, looking like someone who had just survived a disaster.
But the Featherguard Clan birdman thought it was incredibly badass. It didn't care at all whether its passenger was still with it. It only cared about having its own fun.
Like a falling meteor, it plunged straight onto Ethan's raft.
Whoosh!
Bzzzzzt~
However, the instant the Featherguard Clan member collided with the protective shield of the top-tier raft, countless electric currents appeared in an instant and surged straight into the birdman.
The Featherguard Clan birdman's entire body instantly went rigid from the electric shock, and its eyes filled with overwhelming disbelief.
It seemed unable to believe that its feathers, which could withstand all kinds of magical elements, had somehow become so fragile.
Meanwhile, Ethan watched the Featherguard Clan birdman with a grin as it was electrocuted until it smelled like cooked meat. He said, "Did you think something produced by the system would be that lousy? If it can't even deal with a mere birdman, then what does it mean to be system-produced?"
"Hiss~"
The Featherguard Clan birdman opened its mouth, wanting to say something.
Unfortunately, it couldn't get anything out at that moment. The instant it opened its mouth, a puff of black smoke came out, and then it fell into the Red Sea.
The moment the Featherguard Clan birdman fell into the Red Sea, it practically turned into a feast for the Devouring Worms.
Because it was so close.
Ethan could even see a mass of red Devouring Worms crawling onto the birdman's body. They directly turned its snow-white wings red, then devoured its feathers and skin, exposing strips of muscle and blood vessels beneath the skin before continuing to gnaw through it layer by layer.
After the remaining Featherguard Clan birdmen witnessed their companion being eaten in an instant by a swarm of red bugs, they all looked terrified at the sight of the enormous red wall of waves in the distance, which rose as high as the sky.
"Sign me up!"
"Count me in too! Respected Transformation Master, please allow me to land on your raft!"
"Transformation Master, may I ask if you can still take one more passenger? I'm willing to pay one million Dragon Coins!"
The last speaker was naturally the passenger abandoned by the Featherguard Clan, an Elf man.
When Ethan heard the offer of one million Dragon Coins, he immediately held out his hand without hesitation and said, "Sure, but you must be the eleventh person to reach shore, because I've already promised the other passengers that they'll be among the first ten. If you can't agree to that condition, you don't have to come aboard."
"I agree! I agree! Absolutely no problem! Even if I'm the twelfth or thirteenth, that's fine!"
The Elf only wanted to save his own life now. Which place he came in no longer mattered.
After he boarded the raft, Ethan looked up at the sky at the densely packed birdmen who all wanted to stop temporarily on his raft and said, "I'm really sorry, but my raft isn't very big. I'm afraid it can't carry that many people."
"At most, I can let twenty members of the Winged Clans stop here temporarily. We'll still use an auction format, with the highest bidder winning."
"The starting price is fifty thousand Dragon Coins per person, and each bid must increase by fifty thousand."
"Let's begin!"
"There's no time left! Three hundred and fifty thousand! Let me on!"
The Rakshasa Clan birdman was already scared out of its wits. It knew very well that if it couldn't get onto Ethan's raft, it would be doomed. So it took out everything it owned and decided to take a gamble.
Ethan glanced at the giant waves drawing ever closer and realized there wasn't much time left either. He simply let this particularly sincere birdman aboard first.
Seeing this, the other birdmen stopped holding back as well.
One after another, they offered the highest prices they thought they could afford.
"Three hundred and ninety thousand Dragon Coins! That's all I have."
"Would two hundred and eighty thousand work?"
"Four hundred thousand! Hurry up and let me on!"
"I'll pay five hundred thousand! Can you bring my passenger too?"
"I only have one hundred and eighty thousand, but my passenger can pay three hundred thousand. Can we come together?"
"..."
In any case, Ethan simply pulled aboard anyone who made a sincere offer.
As for the rest, they were either too poor or still watching from the sidelines, unwilling to part with their money.
Soon, the raft began to sink lower into the water because it was overloaded.
Ethan immediately shouted, "The twenty temporary passenger spots are full! No more people can come aboard! The rest of you will have to fend for yourselves!"
"Give me one chance, please!", At that moment, a Rakshasa Clan birdman kept circling above Ethan's raft and shouted, "I only have one hundred and eighty thousand Dragon Coins! Can you let me in?"
"No more! We're overloaded!"
Ethan shook his head helplessly.
Although he really wanted to make this money too, if the raft started taking on water because it was overloaded, then it wouldn't be a question of whether he could make money anymore. It would mean everyone would be wiped out.
So Ethan didn't dare take that risk either.
However, just then...
The Rakshasa birdman proposed an idea to Ethan. Not only could it keep the raft from becoming overloaded, it could even make room for another twenty or thirty passengers.
It was a way to earn several million more Dragon Coins outright.
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