Karn sat in the rickety bow with Kaisha in his arms, watching Trist fiddle with his cards in the stern.

The latter turns over three cards in turn, then takes them back in their hands and shuffles them, and the cycle repeats itself many times.

Tonight's approach was in the old-school River Nomad tradition, and the result of the opening made him raise his eyebrows, which may be a big gain, but he has to give it his all.

And so, listening to the bell ringing from Bilgewater for the third time, they finally came to a reef-covered sea.

It is a dense forest of sharp reefs, which resemble daggers raised from the sea.

Of course, outcropping reefs is not a problem. Sailing is like taking things, and the invisible sharp knife is the real killer.

The reef is known as the "widowmakers" because they have taken dozens of boats over the years.

Karn could easily see the wreckage of the shipwreck.

Broken masts were embedded in the middle of the reef, broken planks swirled in the whirlpool, and rotten climbing nets wrapped around the sharp tops of the reef.

Most of this is due to the stupid captains who are reluctant to pay for the Bajou Wanderers to lead the way.

Saved money but lost your life.

This is where the benefits of a small boat come into play.

With Graves at the helm, the boat glides nimbly through the knife-like reef forest, as if walking on a knife's edge.

Trist reminds Graves to adjust its course and let the boat go to its destination.

As the fourth bell of Bilgewater was approaching, Trist made one last card and said, "We arrived, and I didn't expect us to make it so far and unsinkable." ”

Graves stopped his oars, and Kahnkasa got up slightly, looking ahead.

A rugged reef towers high above the sea, large enough to be called an island, but it looks no different from any other reef.

"Is this really the case?" Graves always felt that this treasure place was too low-key, and this was the place where the Abyss Crown was hidden?

"It's true." "I've watched it many times, and the cards keep telling me that this is the place, and the shrine is inside," Trist said. ”

Graves had nothing to say, but trusted Trist and rowed the boat to the smooth rock face in the leeward direction.

The sea rose and fell, as if it was about to smash us to the reef at any moment, and Graves, with his experience, held the ship steady and decisively dropped the anchor.

"How are we going to climb up?"

But then came the problem, he didn't see the entrance on the front just now, and now he couldn't see it on the back. The reef was so wet with sea water that it was slippery to the touch and had nowhere to stay.

"No, I don't go up." Trist reached out of the boat, below the water: "The entrance is below." ”

Graves' heart was half cold, and then he looked at Karn, and the two of them looked as usual, without making any waves.

He suddenly remembered whether Karn had anticipated the situation when he had given him the tarp, and if so, the instinct was terrible.

"If you're scared, you'll be on the boat, I'll go in alone, and of course you'll have to ask our employer first."

Trist had a wicked smile on his face, though he didn't quite understand why Karn and the others were in danger himself, and the trip was not easy.

"So that you can run away alone with the goods? Don't think about good things. Graves said viciously, and began to take off his coat and boots.

"Don't talk nonsense, I can't get that far." Trist was in a hurry to clarify.

The Widowmaker wasn't close to Bilgewater, and his teleportation magic couldn't teleport that far.

Karn meant to ask both of them to enter the altar, and he watched as Graves loaded the bullets and cigars to make sure they didn't get wet, and checked and checked, wrapped the large double-barreled ****** tightly with a tarp, and then tied it securely behind his back and rolled up his sleeves.

"Where's this tunnel?" Graves muttered one last time, took a deep breath, and sank to the bottom of the ocean like an anchor, looking for a tunnel to the altar.

Trist watched as Graves went into the water, then asked the remaining two, "Are you going in too?" ”

"Go!" Karn replied firmly, "We must see the Abyss Crown first. ”

Trist said no more, and a card bounced from his sleeve into his hand, flipping briskly back and forth between his fingers, as natural as breathing.

Trist put the cards in front of his eyes, let his thoughts go out of his body, and concentrate his mind on the cards. Then the cards gradually lit up with blue light, and countless images appeared in the light, and a great sense of oppression followed.

He concentrated his mind and found his destination in the layers of images.

Immediately after that, his body shook, and a frenzied light and shadow disappeared, and Trist disappeared in front of the eyes of the two of them, leaving only a slowly falling card, which had lost all its magic.

"Is it a big change? Had a good time. Karn commented, and his otherwise serious face was replaced by a relaxed expression.

He picked up two Bilgewater cutlass and placed one of them in Kaisha's hand. The grip of this scimitar is carved into the image of a sea serpent, which is why it is particularly popular in Bilgewater.

During the handover, Karn asked her, "Kaisha, do you remember the character we are going to play?" ”

"Two imps who are obsessed with exploring shipwreck treasures and become legends of the sea." Kai'Sa said.

"Try not to expose your skin and armor when encountering monsters, use knives and guns and attacks, and behave weakly, so that they can relax their vigilance and think that we can be bullied."

With that, Karn, covered in skin armor, jumped into the water with a knife in one hand and a gun in the other, followed by Kai'Sa.

……

It was cold and dark underwater, and I don't know what the hell was scurrying around in front of Graves' eyes, flickering in the afterglow.

He quickly dived and saw a small blue circle under the reef, which was the entrance to the passage.

Without much thought, he quickly swam in.

The inside of the passage is darker and not wider, and you can scrape the smooth stone walls on both sides with a stroke of water.

There was light ahead, and he kicked the stone wall and swam forward, thinking it was a way out, but he didn't expect it to be a glowing jellyfish.

The jellyfish's tentacles floated like a deadly trawl, and Graves rounded it up and swam forward until it hit a wall directly in front of it.

He was like a rat in a bucket that was about to be drowned.

Panic swelled like a tidal wave, and the instinct to survive caused Graves to desperately swim upstream, and then crashed into the rock at the top.

He was almost at the limit of his breath-holding, the air in his lungs was like a poisonous miasma, and in desperation, he groped around, and finally found an exit at the last moment.

With the last of his strength, he swam over, broke through the water, and took a deep breath.

It's good to be alive!

The moonlight shone on top of Graves' head, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then scolded the bastard.

It turned out that there was a road on it, and Trist didn't say anything, he had already found a way to go from it.

Fortunately, Trist was not wrong, and if he was a little more extreme, he would have drowned in the water and come back to settle accounts with Trist on the next Soul Eclipse Night.