As for how to deal with this crow, Ronin had only one thought.
Turn it into a specimen.
The crow's ability was decent, but it was not very useful to Ronin. After all, he could completely replace this type of Manipulation ability with puppet strings.
That was far more time-saving and efficient than the crow's method, which required others to worship it before it could plant feathers on them and control them.
Moreover, he had also discovered that controlling the crow itself was not simple. This thing had many eyes and just as many schemes. If he was even slightly careless, it would probably run away.
If he had to plant some kind of mark on it too, Ronin felt the gains would be too small.
"I'll carry it for now. I'm quite interested in it," Ging said voluntarily.
Clearly, he still felt it would be somewhat of a waste to deal with it directly. After all, a multi-eyed crow, and one that had mastered Nen abilities at that, was truly rare.
Ronin had no objections and directly handed the crow to Ging.
In truth, aside from Ronin, the crow had one fairly useful effect against others: the illusion it could activate through eye contact.
Ronin looked down on that ability completely because he had the Sharingan.
But in someone else's hands, this ability could become a decent trump card. After all, judging from the test results, even an expert like Ging might suffer a first-encounter kill from this multi-eyed crow.
The heavy rain outside the ship still showed no sign of stopping.
Looking up at the sky, the thick clouds stretched to unknown distances.
Over the next two days, the giants began dying one after another. The floodwaters and the deaths of the adult giants completely cut off the hope of survival for the giants who had fled back.
Unable to obtain food and soaked in water for a long time, one giant after another collapsed in despair and permanently lost their body heat.
That was the terror of hypothermia.
Even more terrifying was that amphibians, and even horrifying fish, began appearing in the accumulated water.
"There should be a lake or river nearby," Ronin said, standing at the bow of the ship in a raincoat.
From here, he could see the giants hiding in their shelters being eaten away by monsters in the water.
Perhaps even if the crow had not controlled the giants to find them back then, these giants would not have survived for long anyway.
"At this water level, if it keeps raining for another two days, the ship should be able to start sailing directly," Ging said from nearby, evaluating the surrounding environment.
The water level had already completely passed an adult human's chest, and the docked ship had long since begun rising and falling with the turbulent current.
"Bring the speaker over. I don't want to be attacked while sleeping at night," Ronin said.
He had already seen something in the water approaching the ship.
Although shadow clones could replace him in clearing out things in the water, when a shadow clone exhausted its chakra and dispersed, the fatigue from clearing monsters would also be transmitted back to the main body.
So unless necessary, Ronin still did not really want to use shadow clones.
The speaker was hung underwater. The approaching beasts scattered as if they had encountered a natural enemy, no longer coming close to the ship.
However, there would occasionally be some rebellious ones. But before they could get close, they would be killed by the person on patrol aboard the ship.
The person on patrol was either Ronin or Ging.
Both of them would also bring one person along, treating it as practical training for the team members.
At first, only Neon and Abaki joined the patrol teams. Later, Odo and Veronica also began actively joining.
The two of them seemed to have gradually accepted the situation. Since they could not change the fact that they had arrived on the Dark Continent, they might as well do everything possible to keep themselves alive.
Ronin actually appreciated the two of them quite a bit.
Two days later, the rain in the sky still had not stopped. This stretch of plains had completely transformed into a chaotic lake marsh full of turbulent currents.
The ship started moving and continued south.
Whirlpools would appear from time to time in the rushing water. Fortunately, Kurapika's piloting skills were good enough that he could always steer the ship away from danger.
"This is really the first time I've seen weather this damn awful," Ronin sighed as he looked at the rain from inside the cabin.
"Judging from the number of creatures in the water, perhaps this rainfall isn't the first time this region has experienced something like this. It might happen every once in a while," Ging said.
He was the type who could never stay idle.
So during the few days the ship had been stopped, he had already explored the nearby area.
Because of that, he had gathered more information.
"In that case, the giant tribe led by the crow may have only entered this region by coincidence and didn't have time to leave," Ronin analyzed.
"Mm. That's possible." Ging nodded in agreement with Ronin's guess. "The real danger that belongs to this special water region may not have appeared yet."
"In any case, let's be careful," Ronin said. There was nothing else to add.
But Kurapika, who was steering the ship, thought of another possibility.
"Could this sudden rainfall be related to the Trinity Elixir?"
At present, they only knew the name, appearance, and simple information about the Trinity Elixir. They had no idea what its true state in nature was like.
So Kurapika's guess was possible.
But if that was true, it also meant one thing: after entering the southern region, they might have unknowingly stepped into the habitat of Ai, the gaseous life-form.
However, was this endless rainfall really related to the Trinity Elixir?
Ronin remembered that in the picture they had seen at the Gatekeeper's place, the Trinity Elixir was only a single droplet of water.
Ronin's guess at the time was that it could produce a fixed amount of water every day, similar to Fountain Pot or Wine-Producing Spring from Greed Island.
Wait.
What if his guess was true, but the Trinity Elixir's output was very large, and its location was also rather special?
Ronin raised his head and looked high into the sky.
"Want to go up and take a look?" As he asked this, Ronin was also thinking about how the Mimbo Republic had obtained information about the Trinity Elixir back then, and even how they had fought over it.
If his guess was correct, and the rain falling from the sky was caused by the Trinity Elixir, then the Trinity Elixir was most likely high in the sky right now.
Could it be that the Mimbo Republic's expedition team back then had a large number of ability users capable of flight?
"Let's go," Ging agreed directly with a nod.
He was also curious about what was happening high above. This torrential rain had to have a cause.
Such a large amount of rainfall, lasting for such a long time, was very difficult to form naturally.
Ever since arriving on the Dark Continent, Ronin had been observing the place. The weather here was actually not that different from within Lake Mobius.
But this rain, which had lasted for more than a week and showed no sign of weakening, was clearly different from the weather inside Lake Mobius.