CHAPTER 330: CHAPTER 208: WE ARE ACCOMPLICES IN THE WORLD’S DESTRUCTION

Cezar stared at the bottomless ravine in the forest for quite some time before piloting the Christmas Sled into the forest, reaching out with both hands to pick up Yaguba sitting on the barren ground.

He placed the little shark onto his shoulder, then turned his head to look at it, asking in a tone of wonder:

"Yaguba, so... you can become that big?"

Initially, Cezar thought that the form he saw in his bedroom was already Yaguba’s complete form.

But seeing it tonight, he realized that it was just the tip of the iceberg, no, maybe not even the tip could account for it...

Judging by Yaguba’s performance, perhaps it can even grow bigger?

"Impressive, right?" Yaguba said nonchalantly, "The more Shark eats, the bigger it gets, remember to feed Shark more."

"So usually you eat fragments for this purpose, wouldn’t you eventually become bigger than the Legendary Whale?"

"The Legendary Whale is only two hundred meters long, if Shark eats more, surpassing it is no issue at all."

"Yaguba, is your entire race this amazing?"

"No, I’m an exception." Yaguba shook its head, "Shark is a millennium genius, a noble among sharks."

As it finished speaking, it lifted its eyes and looked at the prompt box that appeared before it, mumbling, "Chapter one of ’Breaking Whale Dome’, A Fallen Genius, Shark Banished to Terrarium."

[Completed the Whale Terrarium’s Card Event No. ③ - ’Exterminate the Snake-Wolf-Horse Clan.’]

[As a reward, the Event Card - ’Shadow Beast Tide’ has been added to the Third Body’s event card notebook.]

Yaguba poked at the prompt box with its fin, causing the event card notebook interface to pop up.

It selected the first event card and looked at the card’s description screen.

[Event Card Name: Shadow Beast Tide]

[Event Card Number: ③]

[Event Card Effect: Create a tide of shadow beasts in a specific area to block and disrupt your enemies.]

[The event card will disappear after one use; selling this event card can earn ’1’ skill point.]

"Should we sell it?" Yaguba raised its fin and scratched its chin.

"Sell what?" Cezar looked down at it.

"Nothing, I was just thinking about whether we should secretly slaughter and sell that pig Li Qingping after we leave the terrarium," Yaguba said, "He can sleep so well, he must be a very valuable fat pig, right?"

"Oh, oh."

While chatting on the sled, the noises from the forest had long since awakened the townsfolk. This wasn’t the first time such an incident occurred, and they were already prepared to handle the crisis.

The armored guards, spear in hand, were at the front, and behind them, holding the Anecdote Atlas, were the Anecdote Envoys.

This fully armed and organized team guarded the forest’s exit with unwavering focus, like worker bees protecting a hive, ultimately waiting for a long time but saw no shadow of the beast tide, and even the loud noise from the mountaintop had disappeared.

The old man responsible for reconnaissance in the team crushed a disposable "Moving Stairs" in the Anecdote, rose onto the floating stairs, stepping twenty meters high in the air, squinting into the distance, and his eyes widened suddenly, face turning pale.

"What did you see?"

The old man was so shocked he couldn’t speak for a while. He had seen a bottomless ravine in the forest. The ravine buried flattened trees and animals, with greens and sands in disarray, like shattered patches of color.

"The beast tide, disappeared..." he said haltingly, "But it seems there’s something even bigger in the forest?"

With such alarming words, the guards’ nerves instantly tensed even more, even considering a retreat. But behind them was their home, with family members waiting for them to return.

They wouldn’t dare take a step back, or their loved ones would be the ones to die.

Everyone here understood that the lofty royalty would never come down from the heavens to look at them.

From the moment they were born, they’d already become a pitiful frog at the bottom of a well.

Always staying in the dark, looking up through the narrow well opening at the dazzling corner of the Floating Castle.

They knew they’d never be able to leave this cramped well.

When their children were born, they would point up at those luxurious buildings, saying that they too would live in those towering castles, beside the clouds and moon, when they grew up.

The adults were speechless, could only pat their heads and lie, saying that they certainly could when they grew up.

But everyone knew in their hearts, they were born with only the privilege to look up.

The Whale Terrarium had no sun, no moon.

But to them, the older they got, the more blinding the castles above became, like staring directly at the sun, making it impossible to open their eyes.

So the older folks were less willing to look up, only children filled with wonder would point upwards and shout foolishly.

At this moment, no one here would hope that the Royal Court’s guards would descend to help them.

Because everyone understood that no unconcerned noble would truly care about the residents on this island. They were now sleeping soundly in their opulent chambers, how could they hear the cries of the common folk?

So they cannot retreat, they can only rely on themselves. Even as frogs in a well, they must protect their own well.

Without this well, they’d lose even the right to gaze at the clouds and moon.

"A bigger monster?" someone in the guard murmured.

"It’s alright, the Royal Court Team should be arriving soon, even if not, there are still the palace’s elite guards."