ck whiskers stood like a massive wall, forming a barrier between him and the source of the voices.
Muffled voices came again from beyond the whiskers.
"I''m still extracting, so please keep quiet. Analyzing the concentration of ck whale blood is a task that requires extreme patience and specialization,"
"Understood, understood."
"No worries, take your time, our best ship''s doctor. We have all the time in the world since we have to wait here for our prey to take the bait,"
Chen Qi pricked up his ears, trying his utmost to analyze the voices.
Two men and one woman.
The woman''s voice was somewhat dispirited, the men''s voices were one older and raspy, and the other had a maic baritone quality.
These two voices took him back to a ship being battered by pouring rain.
The ck Whale Group''s Sawshark''s little raven, and the ck-eyed Captain.
Why were they here? What were they doing here?
A multitude of questions sprang up in Chen Qi''s mind.
Both were third-tier Transcendents.
At this stage, Transcendents were also respectfully referred to as Masters.
Third-tier Transcendents not only had mastered Body Forging Skill and breathing techniques, but the powerful abilities granted by their Transcendent professions also enabled them to establish high-orderbat schools.
Their strength was sufficient to defeat an army of a thousand constructed by mere mortals.
In short, they were not opponents he could contend with at present.
If discovered, I''d be like a weak little sparrow,pletely at their mercy.
Chen Qi carefully backed away, slowly as if he were a stone sculpture.
However, behind him, voices of people conversing arose.
This ce wasn''t home to just one group of pirates.
"Trouble, it seems like I''m trapped here," Chen Qi muttered to himself.
If not for these ck whiskers that were twice as tall as a man and could shield spiritual power perception, at such a close distance, he would have been discovered already.
And at that moment, something unexpected happened.
As his movements slowed, the ck whiskers beneath his feet began to stir.
Slowly, the whiskers wove through his trouser legs, under his clothes, and gently caressed his skin.
These whiskers took advantage of his inability to make any significant movements to ambush him!
Though this was merely their way of showing affection, and quitefortably so.
But they''re too loud!
Keep it down, now is the worst time to be discovered.
Oddly enough, Chen Qi now felt like a naked man hiding in someone else''s wife''s wardrobe.
The little raven looked over and mumbled, "These ck whiskers might be cute, but the sound of their wriggling is really noisy."
Chen Qi held his breath in that instant.
As a sea breeze blew by, the whiskers swayed.
And then, through a tiny gap in the whiskers, Chen Qi saw in an instant.
Ships upon the sea, heavy salvage machinery, the little raven with a microscope, and a man wearing a pure ck mask.
And...
The ck-eyed Captain''s eyes, dark as the abyss, flickered towards him.
The ck-eyed Captain said with irritation, "Indeed, the noise from those ck whiskers is truly annoying."
Following that, his gaze shifted away from the whiskers.
Phew… Chen Qi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
He wasn''t discovered.
Lucky for me, the ck-eyed Captain has poor perceptive abilities.
Moreover, the whiskers clinging to his body and clothes had formed a natural ck ghillie suit.
Now, he had perfectly blended in with the ck whiskers.
Just wait a bit longer, acting rashly would only expose himself.
Chen Qi slowly squatted down, enduring the strange sensation brought by the whiskers, and maintained a posture he could hold for a long time.
Afterward, he focused his attention on the trio beyond the whiskers.
They seemed to be discussing something very important now.
This was a good spot for eavesdropping.
...
...
Opposite ckbeard, on a small boat on the pitch-ck sea.
It was a research vessel, equipped with a small instrument table, and beneath the boat, arge number of tools were ced.
Little Raven stared at ckbeard for a while, then withdrew her gaze and continued fiddling with the microscope on the table:
"The concentration of ck Whale Blood extracted from this mutated ck-blood fish has reached 70%, which is a considerably high concentration of ck Whale Blood, ck Glove."
Underneath Little Raven''s hands, there was a ck object the size of a human head.
Rather than blood, it was more like a squirming lump of ck flesh.
A mechanical voice sounded once again.
"How much? A 70% concentration, Raven, you truly are the finest ship doctor in the ck Whale Group, this concentration is enough to make those from the Ocean Deity Cult kneel down and kowtow a hundred times," said the one called ck Glove.
The person speaking was named ck Glove, wearing a ck mask and dressed in all ck, wrapped in a ck scarf, topped by a slick ck top hat, with thick, ck felt boots and ck gloves.
A person wrapped up tight in his own covering.
ck Glove... In the shadows, Chen Qi let a drop of cold sweat fall.
On the gaming forums, he was a notoriously tough BOSS.
Although he was also a Third-order Transcendent, he hadpleted the construction of his own style, ''Shadow Stream'', making his strength far surpass ck-eyed Captain and Little Raven.
Flower Witch seemed to have fought against him too, and the result was a draw.
But what was ck Whale Blood again? Chen Qi reflected for a moment.
It seemed to be something extracted from mutated monster fish.
Chen Qi remembered that the Deep Sea Merchants had asked for something simr.
ck Glove, delighted with the high concentration of ck Whale Blood, eximed: "Raven, I knew that in these dull times, I wasn''t wrong to wait for you guys.
Little Raven, you have talent, a fishing captain who has failed, a broken-down Sawshark, this isn''t the ce for you."
The air was suddenly thick with tension.
The irritable ck-eyed Captain gripped the new sword he bought for a hundred thousand Shell Coins:
"Shut your mouth, ck Glove, even though I haven''t achieved much recently, you are not much better.
Your Wild Dog Gang and ck Rabbit Gang in Moonstone City were all captured in one fell swoop, weren''t they?
Even, you''re not even willing to go there and retrieve your subordinates'' corpses!"
ck Glove spoke sharply:
"Youck ability, while I only encountered a natural disaster.
Who asked those little rabbits to run into the ck Ship Sea Dragon and the monsters of the Ocean Deity Cult?"
Grinding his teeth, ck-eyed Captain was upset, but his recent achievements did not give him the right to talk back to ck Glove.
Moreover, strictly speaking, ck Glove was already his superior.
ck Glove gently stroked the lump of ck Whale Blood:
"ck-eyed Captain, you were once part of the Hunter operation, the organization gave you a chance, but you brought back nothing but casualties to the organization."
"Go to hell, you maggot lurking in the shadows," retorted the ck-eyed Captain furiously but helplessly.
"Ah~ Keep the insultsing!"
ck Glove, who seemed to have the upper hand in the argument, let out a sound of satisfaction, then pulled out a special ss tube and handed it to Little Raven:
"Little Raven, pack this thing properly. Oh, and I''ve called you here not just to help me with the ck Whale Blood, but also to share some vital news with you all."
"What is it?"
"Recently, all our operations in Moonstone City have been uncovered, and a lot of key intelligence has fallen into the hands of the press and the navy.
Because of the leak, one of the magnificent Whale Father''s children, a cadre who had served the ck Whale Group loyally for twenty years, met an unfortunate death."
ck Glove leaned in close to Little Raven, his words carrying a hint of threat.
Something was wrong... Little Raven''s palms began to sweat:
"An intelligence leak, that really is unfortunate. We''ve recruited too many people in the ck Whale Group, and there are always some bastards who would betray us for money."
ck Glove didn''t speak, but fumbled in his pockets.
Little Raven''s heart rate spiked suddenly.
Had her cover, after so many years, finally been blown?