[Not bad, not bad. To mentally prepare myself for the developers sudden emotional stabs, I've decided to watch Jenny's stream every day from now on!]
[Huh, Jenny, did you move?]
[Wow, your new home isn't bad at all. It looks huge, and the decor is very nice!]
[Something's not right, something's not right, why is it that just as Subnautica explodes in popularity, Jenny coincidentally moves? I'm getting more and more convinced that Jenny and the developers have a thing going on!]
[WTF now that you mention it, that actually makes a lot of sense!]
The viewers felt this speculation was highly probable. New World's Subnautica had recently launched, and its sales were explosively high. The developer had definitely made an absolute fortune.
And right at this time, Jenny had coincidentally moved into a luxuriously decorated new home. Coupled with the fact that Jenny was currently the spokesperson for New World, the viewers absolutely refused to believe she didn't have a thing going on with the devs.
Looking at the screen full of 'have a thing going on' comments, Jenny was thoroughly speechless. "I did move, but stop making wild guesses, alright? Okay, let's stop talking about this. Let's get into the game, let's get into the game!"
Hearing this, the viewers instantly grew even more suspicious. Jenny had uncharacteristically chosen not to refute it, and she even looked a little guilty!
In that case, it was probably ninety percent true!
Tsk tsk, for a moment, they genuinely didn't know whether they should envy Jenny or the devs...
After thinking about it carefully, they still envied Jenny a bit more. A wealthy tycoon was far more tempting than a beauty, after all.
Ignoring the viewers' suspicions, Jenny put on her haptic suit, stepped onto the VR platform, and entered the game.
The surrounding environment shifted once again. At this moment, she was piloting the Prawn Suit, standing inside the Aurora's cabin.
"Chat, we've pretty much finished exploring the Aurora. It's about time we left," Jenny said, beginning to head back the way she came.
Seeing this, the viewers also turned their attention back to the game.
Very quickly, Jenny arrived at the Aurora's collapsed deck once more. Looking down at the pitch-black seawater below, even though she was currently in the Prawn Suit and could be considered fully armed, she still didn't dare to go down.
Because she knew that a terrifying Reaper Leviathan was roaming these waters, and the Prawn Suit was absolutely no match for a Reaper Leviathan.
However, there wasn't a complete lack of solutions.
"Chat, let's use a decoy first to lure the Reaper Leviathan away, alright!" Jenny said out loud.
The Creature Decoy was a device she had discovered in the Prawn Suit, loaded into the Prawn Suit's shoulder cannon. The decoy could create high-frequency vibrations that affected the air and seawater to mimic small and medium-sized animals, serving to attract various large predators.
Jenny first cautiously approached the edge of the deck, then activated the Prawn Suit's sonar device.
With a crisp ding, a sound wave emitted from the head of the Prawn Suit, spreading out in all directions. At the same time, a virtual purple line appeared on the transparent screen in front of Jenny, tracing out the surrounding mountains and terrain in the style of a simple line drawing.
This was the function of the sonar device. It could rapidly clarify the surrounding situation with 360-degree vision and no blind spots, just like the Byakugan from Naruto.
And her very first sonar ping yielded results. On the transparent screen, at a depth of just over a hundred meters underwater near the edge of the Aurora's hull, a massive, python-like silhouette could be seen!
[She found the Reaper Leviathan right away!]
[Mm, judging from the shape of this silhouette, there's no mistake. It's the Reaper Leviathan!]
[Tsk tsk, I didn't expect this thing to still be roaming nearby! Isn't it afraid of the radiation?!]
[This sonar device is actually pretty handy, though!]
The viewers marveled.
"Roar!!!"
The next moment, they heard the Reaper Leviathan's piercing roar actually breach the muffled seawater and reach the shore.
Just as Jenny was using the sonar to track the Reaper Leviathan, the Reaper Leviathan was similarly using its own sonar to search for prey in the vicinity.
Hearing this sound, Jenny instinctively took a few step back. She knew very well that given the Reaper Leviathan's terrifying nature, even staying on the shore wasn't exactly safe. That guy could leap out of the water like a carp jumping over the dragon gate!
However, this time the Reaper Leviathan didn't forcefully charge at Jenny on the shore. Jenny took a deep breath and spoke, "OK, viewers, now that I've spotted it, things will be much easier to handle. Let's see if the decoy can do its job..."
Saying that, she pressed the launch button.
With a loud bang!
The Prawn Suit's shoulder cannon fired a decoy, shooting it diagonally into the seawater.
The decoy could be seen constantly swaying left and right, acting just like a normal fish as it began to swim freely through the ocean.
"Roar!"
"Ding!"
The sounds of the Reaper Leviathan and the Prawn Suit's sonar device rang out one after the other.
Through the returned imagery, this time, Jenny could clearly see that the decoy had already swum toward the bow of the Aurora, while the Reaper Leviathan, originally on the left side of the Aurora's hull, also began advancing toward the bow.
"Excellent, the Reaper Leviathan has been lured away by the decoy!" Jenny shouted nervously yet excitedly. "I have to seize this opportunity to escape!"
Having said that, she leaped into the ocean with a heavy splash.
Opportunity knocks but once. Jenny knew very well that the decoy's speed was absolutely nowhere near as fast as the Reaper Leviathan's, so it would inevitably be destroyed by the beast sooner or later. She had to escape the Reaper Leviathan's sonar range within this window of time!
However, the moment the Prawn Suit entered the water, it plummeted straight down. Because of how heavy it was, it was simply impossible for it to float on the surface, let alone swim forward like a person.
Fortunately, this was a shallow shoal, so Jenny quickly landed and found her footing. She attempted to take a few steps forward and immediately discovered a problem: it was way too slow!
This thing was already incredibly slow when walking on land, and walking underwater was even slower, practically equivalent to a normal person's walking speed.
"I can't waste any more time." Jenny immediately switched her arm mode to the grappling hook mode, then fired the grappling hook toward the shallow shoal ahead!
With a swish, the grappling hook flew out and embedded itself firmly in the shoal dozens of meters away. With a sudden yank, it immediately pulled the Prawn Suit flying over!
"Wow, as expected, this ability is just like a Nautilus's A skill, it can let you move dozens of meters straight through the ocean!" Jenny eyes lit up; she seemed to have discovered the proper way to use the Prawn Suit.
"Again!"
Jenny repeated the process. The moment she landed, she immediately fired the grappling hook to latch onto the terrain again, continuing to fly toward the stern of the Aurora.
This way, she would be able to put even more distance between herself and the Reaper Leviathan.
"Wait a minute, if I combo this skill with the jump jet upgrade, it should be even more powerful!"
Jenny suddenly came up with another crazy idea. She threw out the grappling hook for the third time and flew over. Carrying that momentum, just as she was about to land, Jenny pressed the button to activate the powerful thrusters on the back of the Prawn Suit. Bang!!!
A powerful blast of air pressure erupted from behind the Prawn Suit. Under the dual forces of the air pressure's reaction force and the grappling hook's traction, the Prawn Suit's entire body launched forward like a slingshot before it had even landed, violently dashing ahead!
The surrounding scenery instantly blurred past. At this moment, the Prawn Suit's speed easily surpassed that of the Seamoth by a wide margin!
[Gago, Camille's E skill]
[Is that a fucking Omni-directional gear?!]
[HAHAHA, this looks way too fucking fun!]
[Jenny, that move is awesome!]
↳ [I bet you pissed urself, little boy.]
↳ [Who are you? I don't know you!]
[Sigh, selling you this game for $100 is a massive loss for them!]
[Yet another reason to buy Subnautica!]
Seeing this scene, the viewers couldn't help but gasp in amazement. Amidst their exclamations, Jenny instantly flew a distance of several hundred meters and was still hurtling forward!
"Haha, exhilarating!!!"
Jenny also let out a cry of excitement. Wasn't piloting this mech way more exhilarating than driving some Ferrari?!!
Just as she was thinking this, she suddenly saw a reef abruptly appear right in front of her.
"Arghhhh, I'm done for!"
Bang!
The Prawn Suit slammed straight into the reef, then immediately plummeted onto the seabed below, looking rather comical.
"Agh, fuck..." Inside the Prawn Suit, Jenny couldn't help but curse. This crash had directly sent her head spinning and stars dancing in her eyes. Her field of vision constantly swayed back and forth.
[Pfft! Camille's E hit a wall.]
[Haha, Jenny really can't handle a compliment!]
[Jenny, your mechanics are way too trash! Stop playing Camille and stick to playing your Nautilus!]
The viewers burst into another wave of mockery.
However, Jenny had absolutely no mind to interact with the viewers. Forcefully enduring her dizziness, she paid close attention to the sonar's readings.
From the very beginning until now, the Prawn Suit had been continuously emitting sound waves at a frequency of about once every three seconds. Because of this, it could acquire the latest environmental conditions every three seconds.
Fortunately, the shadow of the Reaper Leviathan did not appear on the sonar map. It seemed the Reaper Leviathan had not discovered her.
Only then did Jenny finally let out a sigh of relief.
"Chat, it's my first time operating this. It's inevitable that I'd make some mistakes, alright!" Once her mind cleared up a bit, Jenny finally had the energy to respond to the viewers' comments. "That was pretty thrilling just now. Let me give it another try, okay?"
With that in mind, Jenny aimed at a reef ahead and fired the grappling hook once more. The moment she was pulled through the water, she activated the powerful thrusters again.
Bang!
However, this time, Jenny barely flew thirty meters before viciously having an intimate encounter with the seabed!
The impact this time was even fiercer; even the seabed itself was smashed into a sunken crater.
"Ding. The Prawn Suit's damage level has reached 20%!" As Jenny was once again knocked silly by the crash, she also heard Gaia notification chime.
"..."
Jenny kept her eyes closed, forcefully enduring the dizziness and nausea. "Forget it, forget it. I can't keep playing like this. My head can't take it, and neither can the Prawn Suit..."
The Prawn Suit's defense was much sturdier than the Seamoth's, but even so, it couldn't withstand such violent, high-speed impacts.
If this had been the Seamoth, a crash like that would have likely completely destroyed it. The fact that the Prawn Suit was only 20% damaged was already incredibly unbelievable.
She took a long time to recover, then used the 3D printing platform to repair the Prawn Suit before moving on. She walked across the seabed for roughly ten minutes, finally leaving the Aurora's irradiated water zone.
The Aurora had already been successfully explored, and information had successfully been transmitted back to Earth. Naturally, Jenny's goal this time was Lifepod 2, located eight hundred meters underwater.
However, she quickly discovered a problem: Lifepod 2 was roughly 50 kilometers away from the Aurora. This distance was nothing for the Seamoth, but for the Prawn Suit, the journey would be a bit slow.
If she sped forward using her Omni-directional Mobility Gear maneuvers like before, it would be absolutely no problem. But Jenny wasn't a pro gamer. Her mechanical skills just weren't up to par. She kept slamming into walls at the drop of a hat, directly wrecking the Prawn Suit in the process.
She couldn't play Camille; she could only play Nautilus. But even with a Nautilus's speed, it would still take a very long time to traverse those 50 kilometers.
"What should I do now? Do I really have to just slowly grind my way over there?" Jenny instantly felt conflicted.
Wooooom!
Just at that moment, she noticed the cry of a Reefback Leviathan. Using the sonar to check, she saw a Reefback Leviathan tens of meters long swimming right above her head.
In fact, just as Lucien had said, Reefback Leviathans really were the most common Leviathans in this game. You could see them practically every few kilometers. Jenny had already seen them several times along her journey.
"Why don't I get on the Reefback Leviathan and hitch a ride!" Jenny suddenly had this thought.
[That's not very realistic, Jenny. How would the Reefback Leviathan know where you're going?]
[Yeah, the developer probably designed this Reefback Leviathan as some sort of mascot, purely for players to admire. It doesn't have any actual use.]
[Besides, the Reefback Leviathan isn't even that fast.]
The viewers chimed in one after another. Jenny, however, didn't care. "The Reefback Leviathan's speed is faster than my current speed no matter what. There's no harm in trying."
With that in mind, Jenny immediately activated the powerful thrusters and flew upward.
Latching onto the Reefback Leviathan with her grappling hook, Jenny easily landed on its back.
"Little fishy, please do me a favor and take me where I want to go!" Gently patting the Reefback Leviathan's back, Jenny said teasingly.
Then, it seemed as if a miracle occurred. The Reefback Leviathan, which had been swimming forward, suddenly changed course. Furthermore, its new heading aligned perfectly with the direction of Pod 2!
Not only that, but the Reefback Leviathan's speed also seemed much faster than before.
"Chat, look! The Reefback Leviathan actually changed course!" Witnessing this scene, Jenny instantly cried out in shock.
The viewers were completely stunned as well.
[Holy crap, what's going on? Did this Reefback Leviathan actually understand Jenny's words?]
[The Reefback Leviathan is this intelligent too?!]
[Wait a minute, I think this must be a hidden mechanic designed by the Devs. They might guessed that players might get stumped by the travel distance, so they deliberately set up creatures like the Reefback Leviathan to serve as vehicles for the players. It all depends on whether the players can discover this feature!]
[Mm, given the developers level of meticulousness, it's highly likely they implemented a measure like this!]
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