"I naturally support Captain Sven Söng's judgment. He is a professional, and I respect his expertise.
However, we still need to go to the island. Some of my friends are there now, and they suffered heavy losses in the recent battle, with many severely wounded.
We should take as many as we can, and leave some supplies for the remaining people so they can wait for the follow-up teams to arrive."
Aurora nodded, "Once we leave this sea area and establish contact with the outside, I will have our other ships come over.
They will also take some of the wounded and leave some supplies."
Aurora attached great importance to this expedition. They had not just come with the Ice Queen, but in the nearest port city, several large, ten-thousand-ton ships were already prepared.
On the island, under the leadership of Ali and Xuanyuan Changfeng, all the merfolk were killed. However, the island's captives also suffered heavy losses. Out of about 700 captives, more than 300 were killed or injured.
Many severely wounded captives could not receive timely treatment and could only watch themselves die.
Xuanyuan Changfeng began to rally everyone, reminding them that it was not yet time to relax. Things were never truly over. He led everyone to a relatively cleaner beach and threw all the corpses on the beach, both human and merfolk, into the sea.
This immediately led to a feast for the various fish in the sea, especially the hundreds of sharks. Many of these were the merfolk's mounts, and now that the merfolk were dead, these sharks had become ownerless.
The large number of corpses floating in the sea allowed these sharks to eat to their heart's content. However, the humans on the island did not find this satisfying; on the contrary, they felt disgusted.
But there was no other way. No matter how disgusted they were, they had to endure it and drag all the corpses out to sea.
The island was in a tropical climate with an average temperature of over 30 degrees Celsius. These corpses would quickly rot and decay, potentially causing an epidemic, which would kill everyone on the island!
After several hours of hard work, a clean living area was finally cleared. Everyone collapsed on the beach, panting heavily, utterly exhausted. At this moment, they could all feel the constant throbbing pain from their wounds.
Then, a more serious problem arose: food!
These people had fought desperately, escaped, and then worked for hours. They were all exhausted, but without food, they could not survive.
They could not go into the sea to find food at the moment. The nearshore waters were polluted with corpses and blood, and anything they retrieved from there would be unsafe to eat.
As for the deeper waters, they were filled with sharks. These were not ordinary sharks; they were mounts meticulously trained by the merfolk, with explosive combat power that the exhausted humans could not possibly contend with.
Just as Xuanyuan Changfeng was surveying the situation, a Xuanyuan family disciple, assigned to watch the shore, suddenly shouted, "A ship, a ship is coming!"
Everyone looked and immediately let out cheers. Those who could still move, using almost the last of their strength, ran desperately towards the sea!
About fifteen minutes later, two lifeboats and a helicopter arrived at the shore, unloading large quantities of food, medicine, and other supplies.
Xuanyuan Changfeng saw Ling Tian and, grabbing his hand, was moved to tears.
"Brother Ling Tian, thank you for your timely rescue. Otherwise, none of us would have made it back this time!"
"Brother Xuanyuan, what are you saying? We've fought side by side so many times. Our families have such a deep friendship; why are you being so polite with me?
However, it will take some time for you all to leave this island. Our ship was damaged in the battle and cannot sail at full speed.
We can only take a small number of severely wounded personnel, then leave this sea area to contact the outside world. But rest assured, our reinforcements will arrive soon, and we will also leave you with sufficient supplies."
"Alright, Brother, you make the arrangements. I will cooperate with you fully..."
The doctors on the ship quickly got busy, bandaging the captives' wounds, while the captives began to devour their food.
Aurora also arrived on the island. She gathered the survivors, the leaders of each small group, explained the situation, and outlined the plan.
Although most of them were unwilling, wanting to leave the island immediately, no one dared to step forward and cause trouble.
After all, they had seen how the merfolk, who had rendered them helpless, were annihilated. And looking at the little demon Ali, who roamed around with two huge hammers, who would dare to make trouble? They would truly be seeking death!
Moreover, these ability users from all over the world had almost all heard of the Ice Queen. Aurora Cuiyit's reputation was thunderous in their ears.
They all knew that the Ice Queen had a bad temper and could freeze people into ice sculptures at any moment. Even if they were dissatisfied, they couldn't voice it. Besides, her ship was indeed damaged, and it couldn't carry so many people.
As night fell, the ship's searchlights illuminated the entire beach. The ship's crew had been busy non-stop, transporting the wounded onto the ship and unloading supplies.
The others were exhausted and had fallen asleep one by one. At this time, Ling Tian and Ali were not idle. The two of them went directly to the highest point of the island.
In the center of the island was a mountain, hundreds of meters high, standing erect, as if a plateau had suddenly appeared on the island.
The summit of the mountain was shrouded in mist, and tall buildings could be vaguely seen.
However, as the two reached the mountainside, they could no longer advance. They could feel the air gathering here, forming an invisible wall. The further they went up the mountain, the greater the pressure from the air became.
Ling Tian and Ali had no choice but to activate the true essence within their bodies to resist this terrifying pressure.
At the mountainside, Ling Tian even felt that the atmospheric pressure here was comparable to the pressure at the bottom of the sea, thousands of meters below.
Ling Tian and Ali discussed it. They wanted to try using their spatial abilities to see if they could break through this strange energy barrier, but they failed. The terrifying energy above made it difficult for them to open a spatial channel. Out of options, the two had to return to the ship.
Ling Tian once again found Aurora and Lancelot and the others.
"It is extremely difficult to break the outer restrictions of this overseas immortal relic.
To put it this way, even if Ali and I use our full strength, we can only get halfway up the mountain. For anyone else, they might be crushed at the foot of the mountain..."