111: Chapter 111 The Mermaid Singer, Cleaning Up the Remains!

【Siren Singer, Level 5 Ocean Kin】

【An extremely beautiful ocean spirit. Their singing is their most lethal weapon—a low-frequency sound wave that acts directly on the mental level, stimulating the most primitive greed and desire deep within a person, causing them to lose their reason and approach voluntarily.】

As recorded in the bestiary, the Siren's song is extremely difficult to guard against.

The most reliable way to deal with it is to equip professional soundproofing equipment.

In addition, one can use potions or food that provide immunity to mental interference, but such methods have obvious limitations.

Their protective effect is directly linked to the Siren's level.

Once the Siren's level exceeds that of the potion or food, the buff effect becomes invalid.

Of course, their weaknesses are also obvious.

Their defense is fragile.

Their attack methods are singular.

Once they lose the cover of their singing, they are much easier to kill than the Level 4 Mimic Frost Snail.

Lin Xiao stepped onto a piece of shipwreck debris, his figure pausing slightly, his sharp gaze sweeping across the surroundings.

On the sea surface, at least seven or eight Sirens were preying.

They rushed out from underwater, grabbing struggling passengers with their seemingly delicate hands, their faces instantly splitting into five petals, and took a bite.

Screams rose one after another.

There are two types of Sirens.

The ones that sing are stronger and are called Singers.

The rest are ordinary Level 4 monsters, called Attendants.

There is a significant difference between the two.

The Attendants do not have the membrane capable of producing resonance in their mouthparts, and their bodies are not as alluring as the Singers'.

At this moment, the first Siren Singer to appear was still keeping its mouthparts wide open, emitting low-frequency sound waves that interfered with the mind.

It sat beside the silver treasure chest, its scarlet eyes scanning the entire sea surface, as if enjoying the chaos it had created.

Lin Xiao withdrew his gaze.

He chose not to kill this Calamity Creatures and even sent private messages to several team leaders, telling them not to touch it.

Because by keeping it alive, those affected passengers would not interfere with them salvaging the wreckage, nor would they come to snatch the silver treasure chest.

The current situation was excellent for them!

It wouldn't be too late to deal with it after his subordinates had finished salvaging all the important resources.

As for those Attendants.

Lin Xiao turned around, and his battle axe slashed horizontally.

A red light flashed, and a Siren that had just rushed out from under the sea was chopped in half at the waist.

Gray-white internal organs poured out from the severed section, falling onto the sea surface and instantly freezing into ice slag.

The special ability 【Life Return】 was activated.

The red light on the battle axe thickened by a fraction.

"One," Lin Xiao silently thought.

He continued forward, and with every swing of the axe, a Siren Attendant fell.

Wen Yiran was not far behind him, holding a compound crossbow, picking off the stragglers trying to flank them with one arrow after another.

Jiang Wanwan stood on a piece of debris a little further away, Ice Arrows flying out in succession, freezing those targets that wanted to dive underwater.

Tian Xiwei followed behind Lin Xiao, the halo of [Judgment] falling on him from time to time, ensuring that every axe swing could not be dodged.

The cleanup operation was proceeding steadily.

On the noisy sea surface, the whistling of the axe blade cutting through the air sounded from time to time, accompanied by the humming of crossbow bolts leaving the string, and the screams of the Sirens sounding like crying babies when they died.

Under Lin Xiao's violent output, all the Attendants were killed.

Although this thing was easier to kill than the Mimic Frost Snail, there were no stardust crystal shards or Abyss Water in the drops.

There was only some stardust and scattered materials.

It was not the priority target of this operation!

Lin Xiao withdrew his battle axe, swept his gaze across the sea, then turned and walked deeper.

That was where what he really wanted was.

Under the vision of the 【spirit realm lens】, those shadows lurking beneath the silver treasure chests had nowhere to hide.

The quality of the treasure chests here was very high, and the probability of triggering the "Shipwreck Guardian" had also increased significantly.

Lin Xiao took The three women, sweeping across one piece of debris after another.

If the train wasn't still moving slowly, and if there wasn't half a huge hull waiting to be explored in the iceberg, he would really want to turn this place inside out.

【stardust crystal shards + 15】

【stardust crystal shards + 15】

【Abyss Water + 2】

...

Repetitive actions, mechanical gains.

After working for most of the day, the sky had completely darkened.

The pink sea surface rippled with eerie fluorescence in the twilight.

Lin Xiao stopped and, while resting, took a look at his backpack.

【stardust: 2680】

【Abyss Water: 102】

There was still a long way to go to reach the 3000 stardust crystal shards and 200 Abyss Water needed to craft the 【heart of the ocean】.

He looked up, his gaze falling on the towering iceberg not far away.

In the ice, half a shipwreck emitted a ghostly blue light.

Those surging rays of light were more obvious in the twilight, like a heartbeat, beat by beat...

It seems he had no choice but to break into that place!

Lin Xiao withdrew his gaze and looked at The three women behind him, who were gnawing on corn and drinking coconut juice.

"Ranran."

"Yes!" Wen Yiran swallowed the food in her mouth and jumped down from a piece of debris, her ponytail whipping an arc in the air.

"Go up and take a look." Lin Xiao raised his chin towards the iceberg. "Find out if there's any place we can get in."

Wen Yiran nodded, took a sip of coconut juice, then raised her left arm. A grappling hook shot out, piercing into the ice layer in the distance.

She twisted her wrist, and her whole body soared into the air, tracing a nimble arc in the twilight, and soon disappeared into the folds of the iceberg.

Lin Xiao turned around and looked at Fan Sinian and the others who were still busy in the distance.

While he was clearing out the Mimic Frost Snails and the minions, they had been shuttling between the wreckage, salvaging non-stop, looking for silver treasure chests.

Open the chest, take the goods, and leave.

Their movements were swift and decisive, not lingering in battle.

Fan Sinian stood on a piece of debris, waving at Lin Xiao from afar, the smile on his face extremely bright.

Lin Xiao nodded in response.

Although he did not participate in the salvage, according to the agreed-upon split, he already had a large potential income of resources.

As for the specific amount.

Tch, hard to say, hard to say...

The Siren Singer that could sing earlier had run away directly after all the Attendants were dead.

It dived into the deep sea at an extremely fast speed and disappeared without a trace.

Even 【Death Grip】 didn't have time to strike.

Once the singing disappeared, the rest of the passengers gradually woke up and began to scramble to salvage the wreckage, wanting to get a piece of the pie.

But it was already too late.

The silver treasure chests had been swept clean, and they could only eat the leftovers of Fan Sinian and his team.

"Big Brother Lin!"

Wen Yiran's voice came from overhead.

Lin Xiao looked up.

Wen Yiran was swinging down from the iceberg, landing on the nearby shipwreck debris, and quickly stabilized her footing.

Her face was a bit pale from the cold, but her eyes were bright; one look and you could tell she had made a discovery.

"There is no direct passage to get in; we have to climb to the iceberg and then break through the ice layer, but..."

She panted, pointing to the high part of the iceberg, and continued, "I saw a golden treasure chest!"

A golden treasure chest!

These four words were like a stone thrown into a calm lake.

Jiang Wanwan and Tian Xiwei heard this and immediately gathered around, looking with Lin Xiao towards the direction of the high part of the iceberg.

"Gather the men, prepare to climb the mountain!"

Lin Xiao sent a private message to several team leaders.

Hearing the news of a golden treasure chest, everyone quickly gathered.

A few minutes later.

On the floating ice at the foot of the iceberg, there stood a dense crowd of over a hundred people.

Fan Sinian, Fang Yuan, Xu Shan, Zhou Jun, and the core members of their respective teams were all squeezed in the front, standing in the warm yellow light of the 【entropy element lantern】, rubbing their hands while sharing their gains from just now.

"I opened a Level 3 weapon blueprint, a two-handed sword!"

"Tch, I opened armor, Level 3 leggings, the stats are decent."

"You guys are nothing, I opened a facility blueprint, a Level 3 boiler; I'll install it in the territory later, it can provide heating!"

...

It was bone-chillingly cold on the sea, but at the foot of the iceberg, it was a different scene of bustling activity.

The team members on the periphery who couldn't squeeze in also stretched out their hands to feel the warmth of the lantern, their faces filled with satisfied smiles.

Lin Xiao stood in the center of the crowd, responding simply to everyone's questions.

At the same time, he took off the 【entropy element lantern】 from his waist, placed it on the floating ice, and added some stardust.

According to the agreement, every good thing these people salvaged had to be handed over.

Fifty percent.

That was the rule.

Wen Yiran stood beside him, muttering something, as if mentally calculating how much they would get this time.

Tian Xiwei curiously looked at the people around her.

Jiang Wanwan quietly held her, helping her block the cold wind outside.

After sharing the gains, everyone started discussing the method of entering the iceberg.

"Big Brother Lin..."

A voice came from the periphery of the crowd, timid.

It was Shen Zhuohua.

She struggled to squeeze to the front of the crowd, her face pale, her lips without a trace of blood.

The set of Level 2 equipment she originally had was gone, replaced by a few scattered pieces of Level 1 protective gear, barely wrapping her body.

She looked extremely wretched.

Sensing Lin Xiao's scrutinizing gaze, Shen Zhuohua quickly explained: "My teammates and I followed Big Brother Fan and the others to salvage the shipwreck wreckage..."

The passengers who had newly joined the train carriage had some volunteers join the team under Lin Xiao's command.

After all, they had paid the seat fee and could be taken care of to some extent.

But before Shen Zhuohua could finish, Fan Sinian interjected on the spot: "Oh, those few, they joined halfway, two seriously injured, two slightly injured."

His tone was filled with undisguised disdain.

Shen Zhuohua's face turned even whiter, and she lowered her head, not daring to have any thoughts of arguing.