novelraw Chapter 426 - 225: Landing on the Island_2
Chapter 426 - 225: Landing on the Island_2
Then he turned his head to look at everyone.
At this moment, everyone was already scouting around the beach.
"Oh yo!"
Jason suddenly let out a strange cry, then jumped backward.
Hearing his cry, the people who were looking around on the beach all turned their heads.
They saw a gray crab about the size of a palm appear in front of Jason, its presence quite inconspicuous hidden on the sand.
This crab was waving its pincers left and right at Jason, as if trying to chase him off.
Seeing the crab, Jason grinned.
"Little thing, you still wanna pinch me?"
As he said this, he even stuck out his foot, nudging the crab with a laugh, "Come on then, try pinching me!"
Watching Jason act childish like a kid, everyone else helplessly turned their heads away.
Only Two approached with great interest.
Alka looked at the crab’s appearance.
He had seen this type of crab in those people’s dream realms. It seemed to be quite a delicacy, but one shouldn’t underestimate it.
This crab was a magic beast that had reached One Spiral, definitely not an ordinary animal.
If Alka remembered correctly, he had seen this crab in an islander’s dream, and it seemed that anyone pinched by it would feel intense pain.
In that dream, the islander kept pounding on the crab, venting his inner anger.
But it seemed apart from causing pain, this crab didn’t really have any other attack methods.
Thinking of this, he watched Jason with a trace of schadenfreude.
"Are you thinking up something mischievous?" Chadite asked him from the side.
Hearing this, Alka retorted, "No way, I’m not that kind of person."
Hearing his response, Chadite was now sure Alka was up to something, and followed his gaze toward Jason.
He then saw the gray crab at Jason’s feet and seemed to understand something.
After thinking for a bit, he asked, "It’s not dangerous, is it?"
"Nope."
He had asked around—plenty of people had been pinched by this crab before. Many islanders got pinched as kids.
This is just the necessary price for enjoying a good meal.
"Ah!"
Jason screamed miserably, because he arrogantly let the little crab pinch a bit of his skin.
With his cry of pain, the crab dangled there pinching his flesh, utterly refusing to let go.
Upon hearing the wail,
Matilda, who had only been on board for a few days, hurriedly swam over to check if there was any danger.
Right next to him, Juanlu had already removed the crab from Jason’s hand.
That patch of Jason’s skin showed only a tiny red mark, no real injury.
"With such a tiny wound, you’re screaming that loud?" Juanlu asked in confusion.
He felt that if Jason had screamed any slower, the red mark might have vanished by then.
"It hurts, it really hurts!" Jason frowned deeply, looking at the red mark on his hand. There wasn’t even a real wound, so why did it hurt so much?
Alka and the others also walked over.
"So, what do you think, is that still a little crab?" Alka teased with a grin.
By now Matilda had rushed over and was examining the area beside him.
It only took her a few seconds to figure out the cause. "This is some kind of effect caused by magic power—basically the same as a spell. Nothing serious."
Hearing this, Jason gritted his teeth and forced himself to ask through the pain, "Is there any way to relieve it?"
"Just use your own magic power to flush this spot a few times. It’ll get rid of the magic residue."
Taking Matilda’s advice, Jason hurriedly nodded, channeling his own magic power, flushing the painful spot over and over.
With each flush, the pain rapidly faded until it disappeared.
Jason finally let out a breath of relief.
Such a simple method—so why was that person in his dream so angry?
Then again, there weren’t any ordinary people on this island after all.
Pushing aside those thoughts,
Alka looked at him and said, "Looks like this little lesson should remind you: this is already the Endless Sea. You can’t underestimate anything here."
"Always keep your guard up around anything and everything."
Hearing Alka’s words of wisdom, Jason nodded seriously.
This was also something Alka had done intentionally.
Jason wasn’t really a careless or reckless person—it’s just that he still had the same mindset as when they were in the Homeland Sea.
He wasn’t quite wary enough of his surroundings.
Standing next to Alka, Chadite heard the advice and broke into a small smile.
Jason rubbed his fingers, as if phantom pain still lingered, staring at the crab in Juanlu’s hand.
"Hard to believe such a little guy is so tough."
Juanlu, meanwhile, was studying the crab in his hand.
"This crab’s body is full of magic power. Quite a lot of it, too."
Alka answered right away, "This crab is called a Gray Crab, just like it looks. It’s a One Spiral-level creature—if you get pinched, you feel intense pain. Besides that, it tastes really good."
As for whether it really tasted good, Alka couldn’t say—he just knew from dreams that it was considered a delicacy.
Who knew whether the people on the island shared the same tastes as them?
"Delicacy?" Juanlu repeated, eyeing the crab in his hand.
After a moment, he summoned a thin cord and tied up the crab.
Looking around, he finally turned to Julia.
"Julia, help me freeze this?"
A chilly breeze blew, and a white wave of coldness drifted over, instantly freezing the crab in a coat of frost.
The crab met its end just like that.
Only then did Juanlu toss it into his Pocket Ring.