God's Gift

Chapter 525 Endless Sea

In the silence, Yu Youyou suddenly pointed to the distant sky and said in a clear voice, "The sky seems to be..."

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou and listened intently.

Yu Youyou quickly finished speaking: "It looks like a pink loaf of bread."

Like the pink bread she ate in the mall.

Lu Keming looked in the direction she was pointing.

The orange sunset dyed the sea surface pink, blending the ocean and sky into a fluffy loaf of bread, while the clouds in the sky looked like icing on top of it.

Just as Lu Keming was about to reply, Fang Ziang's shouts came from behind them:

"Yu Youyou! Dinner's ready! Ali said we're having hot pot tonight!"

"Eat?" Yu Youyou's ears caught the word precisely. Her eyes lit up, and she grabbed Lu Keming's hand and ran towards Fang Ziang.

As she ran, she asked Lu Keming, "What is hot pot?"

Lu Keming chuckled lightly, "You don't even know what to eat, and you just run over like that?"

"Ali's cooking is delicious!" Yu Youyou quickly led Lu Keming to the restaurant.

She spotted the table in the restaurant with different ingredients at a glance and immediately walked towards it.

Anthony was helping Ye Li chop vegetables. He methodically placed the chopped frozen tofu into a plate and asked Ye Li with a smile:

"Ye Li, why did you decide to cook for us today?"

They all take nutritional supplements, and eating is merely a way to satisfy their appetites, so they rarely get together for a meal.

"Patriarch Lu said this world is the spark... which is also the location of the Dark Star's true form." Ye Li stopped what he was doing, looked at the people gathered around the table, and a genuine smile appeared on his face:

"Let's consider this meal a celebration of how we've overcome countless hardships and finally arrived at our destination."

Looking at the smile on Ye Li's face, Yu Youyou tilted her head slightly and smiled along with him.

"Everyone has worked hard." Shen Minghua took the cleaver from Ye Li and helped her finish cutting the rest of the beef. "Take a good rest today."

"That must have been incredibly tiring," Fang Ziang sighed, reflecting on his journey. Then, looking at the abundant ingredients, he turned to Ye Li and asked:

"Ah Li, where did you find so many ingredients?"

"Master Lu said there's a lot of frozen food in the ship's warehouse, and we can take what we need." Ye Li arranged the baby squid on the table onto a plate.

“In the past, when I came out of the trials, my parents would prepare a table full of dishes for me.”

Yu Youyou chimed in from the side, "Ali's mom's cooking is so delicious!"

Ye Li's eyes crinkled into a smile. "It's been a long time since I've had her cooking..."

Her voice paused, as if she didn't want to bring up such a sad topic at this moment, and she immediately changed the subject:

"Hot pot is convenient, and we have plenty of ingredients in the warehouse, so I thought I'd make this. You probably haven't tried it before."

"Mmm." Yu Youyou poked her head out and nodded. "I've never eaten it before."

Ye Li frowned slightly as she looked at Yu Youyou's hair hanging on the table. She was about to speak up to stop her, but then she remembered Yu Youyou's divine status and realized that she didn't need to worry about such things, so she swallowed her words.

Yu Youyou had no idea what Ye Li was thinking. She followed Ye Li's gaze to her hair and immediately straightened up and put on a smiling face, just like when Ye Li used to scold her.

Looking at Yu Youyou's smiling face, Ye Li sighed, "Everything is almost ready, you can all sit down."

After everyone sat down, Shen Minghua followed behind Ye Li, helping her set out the dishes.

Fang Ziang glanced at the two sticky people and got goosebumps from the cloying feeling. He shivered and then turned his gaze to Yu Youyou.

"Yu Youyou, Anthony said their radar didn't detect any signs of life in this area, is that true?"

"I saw some Blue Dragon soldiers fishing on the ship for a long time today, but they didn't catch anything. Could it be that there really aren't any fish here?"

The others remained somewhat restrained when facing Yu Youyou, whose divine identity had been revealed.

Fang Ziang remained nonchalant, seemingly unaware that Yu Youyou was any different from before, and chatted with her at length.

Yu Youyou picked up a piece of bean curd skin from the plate in front of her and was about to put it in her mouth when Lu Keming stopped her halfway.

Yu Youyou reluctantly put down the bean curd sheet and looked at Fang Ziang: "Who said there was no fish?"

Under everyone's gaze, Yu Youyou remained expressionless, her voice sincere:

"I am not?"

Everyone:...

After a brief silence, Fang Ziang suddenly burst into laughter, belatedly realizing, "Hahaha... Oh right, I almost forgot you're a fish too!"

Shen Minghua looked at Fang Ziang, who was laughing incessantly, his lips twitched, and he turned to Yu Youyou, asking:

"Youyou, is there really no other life in this sea?"

Under everyone's gaze, Yu Youyou calmly shook her head, "No."

There was a moment of silence among them. Their gazes involuntarily drifted to the boundless sea outside the window, and they belatedly realized that the ocean was unusually quiet.

They have woken up with him, but so far they have not seen any fish, nor even a seabird.

Silence enveloped the entire ocean; apart from the hum of the ship's engines, the sound of the waves crashing, and the occasional conversations of the soldiers on board, there was no other sound of living things.

The sea breeze, carrying the scent of evening, caressed everyone, sending a chill through them.

What's more unsettling than opening your eyes to find yourself on an endless ocean is the thought that you might be the only living thing there.

"If there's no life, then where did the original life go?" Fang Ziang stared blankly, then turned to look at Yu Youyou. "Could it be that they're all dead?"

Yu Youyou continued to gaze at the ocean, her seated body resembling a cold sculpture, inexplicably making Fang Ziang feel somewhat distant.

The setting sun cast its light on her face, obscuring her expression.

“Okay.” Seeing that Yu Youyou didn’t answer, Fang Ziang changed the subject and asked, “What about the land?”

When will we be able to reach the shore?

Yu Youyou withdrew her gaze, turned back to look at Fang Ziang, and said in a calm and even voice:

There is no land here.