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Chapter 56 - Cannon
Chapter 56 - Cannon
After some time, Yang Yi slowly woke up. As he opened his eyes, he saw a faint light.
"My vision is back!" Yang Yi's spirit lifted.
Because he now had only one eye, his field of vision was narrower, but it didn't hinder his daily life.
He tried closing his eye, removed the eyepatch, and switched to his left eye.
Suddenly, the entire world became devoid of colour, yet incredibly sharp.
With just a thought, he could count all the hairs in his eyebrows without a mirror!
He walked to the captain's cabin.
It was still daytime, and there were only two hours of sunlight remaining.
However, whether or not it was dark didn’t affect the vision of his left eye.
The three eyes didn't seem to see by receiving light in the usual way.
When using his left eye, sunlight wasn’t blinding but appeared simply as a ball hanging in the air.
Yang Yi took out a crystal ball from his pouch and used the reflection to inspect his odd eye.
It was made of three gel-like eyeballs clustered together, each with an almond-sized yellow spot in the centre — probably some sort of pupils.
They would slowly rotate and adjust their position as needed.
Yang Yi only tested it briefly before switching back to his right one and putting on the eyepatch.
The colourful world was far more pleasing.
Using his left eye always made him feel reality was bleak and lifeless.
"Are these monstrous eyes really beautiful...?"
Yang Yi recalled Suna’s reaction upon seeing them.
Her sense of aesthetics was twisted.
Under normal circumstances, no creature would have eyes like these! Only Suna would find them beautiful.[^1]
He, instead, thought they were inexplicably grotesque and repulsive.
"The maximum time limit should be around 10 minutes. To be safe, I should limit each use of the third eye to under 10 minutes..."
Yang Yi sent a message to Suna.
"Suna, I'm awake, and my vision has recovered. I'm heading to the island to look for the corpse of the giant silk spider. I need to hurry and upgrade the Nightmare Star; dragging this large sailboat around is severely slowing it down."
He didn't hear back from her — she was probably still busy dissecting.
He checked Suna’s sanity level, which was still within a safe range.
Whenever she had free time, she would read his message.
With two hours until nightfall, Yang Yi wanted to use the time to search and try to upgrade the Nightmare Star to level 3.
He wasn’t planning on going to the spider nest; he had already taken parts from the giant silk spider corpses there. Even if there were some he missed, they were likely in side paths, making them hard to find.
The nest was also far away, so it wasn’t practical to go at that time of the day.
He decided to search for the corpse of a giant silk spider in the nearby woods to gather some fur as material for making a sweater later on.
After searching for over an hour, he still hadn’t found any.
But just as he was about to give up and head back, he spotted a giant silk spider.
"Haha! Taking a different route back was the right choice!" Yang Yi grinned, immediately running back to the Nightmare Star.
By the time he boarded, it still wasn’t dark. Yang Yi began moving supplies from the large sailboat (Hu Wei's boat, which hadn’t yet been dismantled).
Once he had enough materials to reach level three, he immediately made the upgrades in his notebook, pressing the confirm button.
Then, a ghastly green spirit emerged from the Nightmare Star, countless skeletal arms interlacing to form a skeleton that climbed onto the ship’s body, covering the deck like a layer of armour.
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The evolution didn't change the size of the ship, but its appearance had undergone a complete transformation.
The captain's skull at the bow ignited with a soul flame, clasped tightly by numerous skeletal arms, fixed in place, unable to move.
?Upgrade complete. The Nightmare Star is now a level-three vessel. You can view specific changes in the ship interface.?
Yang Yi immediately opened the ship interface.
?Nightmare Star, Level 3, Durability: 4500/4500, Capacity: 12,000 units, Speed: 65 knots Note: 500 durability comes from the Bobbit worm’s head ?
?Ship Skills:
?Description: This ship is starting to grow bones — are you sure you want to keep upgrading it??
Yang Yi’s face broke into a wide grin as he read the attributes.
The ship’s most criticised weakness had finally been resolved! A durability of 4500!
Though it looked a bit strange, it was a ghost ship after all. Having some moving skeletons on board was perfectly normal and nothing to be surprised by!
After seeing it for some time, you would naturally get used to it.
Yang Yi dismantled Hu Wei’s large sailboat, gaining a substantial amount of resources.
Then, feeling exhilarated, he headed down into the ship’s cabin.
With two additional expansion slots, he could install the cannons he’d been longing for. It was time to fully embrace the way of the warrior![^2]
He immediately chose to build an offensive structure — an ancient combat room.
Resources used: Wood x200, Iron x10, Sulphur x10
The glow faded, leaving a new room in its wake, with two cannons equipped.
Such combat rooms could be built in pairs, one for the left and one for the right broadside.
Yang Yi thought it over and built another to avoid having to adjust the ship's direction if an enemy appeared on the left side.
He entered the ancient combat room to check the cannons' attributes.
?Name: Soaked Cannon?
?Type: Ship Equipment (Relic)?
?Quality: Good?
?Description: This cannon is waterlogged; its shells won’t explode but have a longer range and a low probability of firing out mysterious objects. Range: 300 metres.?
?The cannon is fixed in the combat room and cannot be removed?
After reading it, Yang Yi couldn’t help but laugh, "Figures that nothing soaked in water would be normal!"
But these “mysterious objects”—what could they be?
Yang Yi tried firing a dozen or so shots, but nothing unusual happened — only the coastal rocks shattered.
"So, this thing is basically a ballista with better ballistics!"[^3] Yang Yi realised.
After all, a cannonball that didn't explode was pretty much just a large stone.
He discovered that the expansion buildings could be upgraded as well.
To upgrade the ship to level four, all expansion buildings needed to reach level two, except for special ones like the Witch’s Laboratory.
It was unknown whether the Witch’s Laboratory could be levelled up, as there was no upgrade option in the interface.
Without hesitation, Yang Yi upgraded the ancient combat room to level two, consuming Wood x100, Cloth x400, Stone x100, Iron x40, Sulphur x20 — just enough resources.
A glow flashed, and the ancient combat room became covered with a mouldy carpet, which squished and released bubbles when stepped on, as if it had been pulled from the water.
The cannon’s surface was adorned with rusted metal ornaments, upgraded to a level two Soaked Cannon.
?Name: Level Two Soaked Cannon?
?Type: Ship Equipment (Relic)?
?Quality: Premium?
?Description: This cannon is waterlogged; its shells won’t explode but have a longer range and a certain probability of firing mysterious objects. Range: 350 metres.?
?The cannon is fixed to the combat room and cannot be removed?
With a range like that, it was significantly longer than a standard cannon — a major advantage.
Yang Yi had also considered building a glass cannon, but it required 100 crystals and was prone to breaking. He’d save that for a later upgrade.
After construction, his remaining resources were:
Wood x535, Cloth x285, Stone x945, Iron x47, Crystal x14, Sulphur x25, Shell Coins x1400
Hu Wei’s legacy was nearly exhausted.
The resources needed for a level-four ship were also displayed:
Required: Wood x4000, Cloth x2000, Stone x1000, Iron x500, Crystal x1000, Sulphur x500, Ever-growing Flesh x1
Seeing the skyrocketing resource demand, Yang Yi decided to pretend he hadn’t seen it!
## Notes
[^1]: He's blatantly calling her crazy, and I have to agree - Simply
[^2]: Some days, some nights, some live, some die in the way of the samurai~ -Simply
[^3]: Sounds like a sick bar -Simply
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