"Ethan, aren't you worried that they'll fly faster than you and take first place away from you?"
The Eye of Nightmare watched the birdman army gradually fly farther away and asked Ethan with some confusion.
Ethan, however, simply smiled and said, "Do you think the dangers in this Red Sea could really be this limited?"
"This... That's hard to say, isn't it?"
After its eyeball spun around several times, the Eye of Nightmare shook its head and said, "But given how this game usually works, it really doesn't seem like it's over yet."
"Exactly," Ethan sneered, "Since this round is called the Water Element Trial, the system will naturally have taken into account the loophole of the air force exploiting the sky to get through. Do you think it'll let these airborne troops off that easily?"
After thinking for a moment, the Eye of Nightmare still argued, "But what if this game isn't as twisted as you think? Wouldn't that mean you're guaranteed to lose?"
"Can't be helped. Making money always comes with some risk," Ethan smiled, "If this twisted game turns out not to be as twisted as I thought, then I'll just accept the loss of the bet. Besides, I've already collected 4.21 million Dragon Coins from this huge wave. Even if I refund the money paid by the passengers on my raft, I'll still have made a profit."
"When it comes to being a schemer, nobody beats you."
The Eye of Nightmare had to admit that Ethan's approach to making money was something else.
The important thing was to get the money in hand first. As for what happened afterward, that could wait until afterward.
In this calm and peaceful stretch of the Red Sea, besides Ethan's little raft, quite a few other people had also survived by relying on all sorts of methods.
For example, the three people from Region 4, 9 and 3 Orin, Duma, and the others, at this moment, they were sitting on the back of a giant divine turtle. Orin gazed at the endless red ocean stretching out before them and said with a look of despair, "It's already been three days, and we still haven't had a single drop of water. If this continues, we're going to die out here in the Red Sea."
"Lord Duma, how about...", Blake from Region 3 said somewhat awkwardly, "you go into the giant turtle's belly again and cut out a little of its internal organs for us to eat? I mean, the turtle is so huge. Taking a kidney or something to eat shouldn't cause any problems."
"Are you even human?"
The corner of Duma's mouth twitched as he spoke from Region 9, "Have you forgotten that we almost got swept away by a huge wave three days ago? If I hadn't made this giant turtle forget who its owner was and convinced it that we were its new masters, so that it swallowed us and sheltered us inside its belly, we'd have been dead long ago. And now you actually want to eat the very creature that saved your life?"
"Even if it's our lifesaver, we can only repay it once we're capable of doing so. Right now, we're practically starving to death," Orin from Region 4 chimed in, "Even if we can't cut off some meat to eat, we should at least let it bleed a little so we can drink the blood. Otherwise, we'll really die of thirst. How are we supposed to repay our lifesaver then?"
"You do have a point!"
Duma from Region 9 was also nearly dying of thirst, but his idol image weighed too heavily on him, and he felt that bleeding their benefactor like this was wrong.
But since someone else had proposed it, he could naturally only go along with it, albeit reluctantly... And agree.
"Fine, then!"
As he spoke, Duma from Region 9 took out a hollow bamboo tube.
This was the bamboo staff the Beast Tamers had previously used to tame beasts. Later, when Duma discovered that his spatial ring couldn't be used here, he had carried all the things he thought might come in handy on his back.
Originally, he'd planned to keep this hollow bamboo tube to use as a pot for boiling water or cooking rice.
He hadn't expected it to end up becoming a handy tool for drawing blood.
Immediately afterward, Duma drew the short sword hanging at his waist and sharpened one end of the bamboo tube. Then he thrust it hard into the giant artery at the turtle's head, which was still pulsing.
"EEEEK!"
The giant turtle let out a scream of pain.
It then began struggling wildly, seemingly unable to understand the cruel treatment being inflicted by the "master" on its back.
At that moment, Duma quickly chanted a long string of incantations. Then he pointed the short sword in his hand at the giant turtle's head, and the turtle's eyes instantly became somewhat dazed.
But the pain in its neck still made it struggle uneasily.
In that instant, Duma's expression changed to one of heartache and pity. Looking at the giant turtle, he said, "Turtley, I told you not to chase after that big fish, but you wouldn't listen. Look what happened! Just look at how badly that fish's spines injured you!"
"Alright, stop moving around! Daddy will help you pull the spine out!"
"EEEEK!"
The giant turtle let out another scream of pain, but under Duma's comforting words, it gradually calmed down.
It seemed to genuinely believe that Duma was going to help it.
"That's freaking impressive, Lord Duma!"
Blake from Region 3 secretly gave Duma a thumbs-up while sitting on the turtle's back.
Meanwhile, Orin from Region 4 quickly handed Duma the cowhide waterskin they'd snatched from a Beast Tamer, saying, "Try to fill it as much as possible. Otherwise, it'll be the one suffering later."
"Got it. You two, shut up!"
Duma took the waterskin and glared at the two of them.
Hearing the humans on its back, the giant turtle's eyes filled with another hint of confusion and bewilderment.
Duma could only hurriedly jump onto the turtle's head and pat it, saying, "Don't worry, Turtley. Daddy needs to drain the pus first, then apply some medicine. That way, you'll recover faster. Otherwise, who knows how long it'll take for this wound to heal?"
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