Ch. 170 - Yang Yi, round as a ball
Yang Yi was hauled onto the ship with a grappling hook but got stuck in the cabin, unable to move. After all, the cabin was packed with supplies, charred liquor, sea salt, pale worm oil, food provisions, and more.
The narrow walkways were designed for people of normal size, not for an excessively obese werewolf.
Over three metres tall and likely more than two wide, Yang Yi's wolf legs were as thick as elephant legs. When he looked down, he couldn’t even see his feet, his body was absurdly fat.
After deactivating his werewolf form, his body did shrink a bit, but he was still overweight. He stood at 1.8 metres tall, weighed 480 kilograms, and was over a metre wide. But at least he could move through the passageways, albeit with great difficulty, as his attributes had taken quite a hit.
“Put your mask on,” Suna reminded him.
Yang Yi had long since lost his original iron beaked mask, but luckily he had a spare in his ring. He immediately took it out and put it on.
“Do you remember what you did?” Suna asked, notebook and pen in hand.
“I do.” Yang Yi recounted everything he could remember.
“Looks like the memories remain even during a loss of control, you just couldn’t act on your own will,” Suna nodded. “What about the ‘Craving for Delicacies’? You drank a massive amount of seawater and salt... and even ate the Fruit of Bounty!”
Yang Yi checked his status screen again and found no sign of the "Craving for Delicacies" debuff. It was likely that either the massive intake of sea salt or the effect of the Gluttony Potion had removed it.
Suna jotted down her notes and asked again, “Do you still want to eat?”
“No, I feel so full, I don’t want to eat anything right now.”
Suna nodded, confirming his condition. Aside from being overweight, there were no other abnormalities. The Gluttony Potion triggered an extreme satiety effect once enough food was consumed, suppressing further appetite.
With the crisis resolved and safety confirmed, Suna finally asked the question that had been on her mind.
“What exactly happened in there?” she asked, her crimson eyes staring straight into Yang Yi.
He didn’t hold anything back, he told her everything: the stats of the Child of Bounty and the Salt King, his battle with the former, and the condition of the Fruit of Bounty within the Rotwhale.
A dozen minutes later...
“I see. So, the Rotwhale’s core was usually in a dormant state... What a shame the Salt Wedge is gone, it could’ve been a fascinating subject of study,” Suna murmured to herself.
“What about the Fruit of Bounty? Don’t tell me it all turned to salt?” Yang Yi asked urgently.
If that were the case, then his daring expedition into the Rotwhale would have been a huge failure, he wouldn’t have retrieved the most critical item.
“Most of it did saltify. I only managed to salvage this,” Suna replied, pulling a shrivelled chunk of meat from her treasure pouch.
“This piece fell from where the Salt Wedge was inserted. The rest likely sank to the bottom of the sea.”
Yang Yi took the meat and instantly received its data:
【Name: Withered Fragment of the Fruit of Bounty】