"These people don't feel right to me." Jiao Guancheng said behind her back, "Have you noticed that everyone seems to be like this, like this, uh, I can't say it, I just feel that they don't look like living people." ”

Qiu Xuan understood what he meant, probably saying that these executioners in strange black robes were full of dead energy, and they acted as if they were being manipulated by someone. She pursed her lips, and as soon as the blade turned, she simply stopped reining in force, and in a few strokes of the dead hand attacked the man.

Suddenly, there was a commotion at the other end of the crowd, and the danger sense sounded instantly. Qiu Xuan stepped on the flagpole and jumped away in two steps, and saw a pool of bloody corpses lying there where he was standing. Rollo's burly figure stood out among the black and strong men, and she smirked and wiped the flesh on her hands, and raised her fist at the next hapless pirate.

The black-robed executioner who fought with her also seemed to be confused, and stood stunned looking at the twisted corpse, and his subordinates didn't know which direction to put their fierce killing moves. Qiu Xuan stepped on the mast behind her and spun down, she raised her elbow, and took advantage of the overwhelming rain and wind to uncover the hood of the black-robed man.

Jiao Guancheng's eyes widened.

It was a tall, thin, pale-faced man, and he didn't react excessively when his hood was removed. After looking around, he couldn't find Qiu Xuan hanging on the mast at all, so he stiffly but fiercely attacked the executioner on another fool's ship.

Jiao Guancheng swung his fist at the temple of the person in front of him, and directly picked it up and threw it into the surging seawater, before standing aside with a complicated face and watching the chaotic battlefield.

"That man...... He was a member of Lao He's group, and was later killed by Luo Luo with a punch in a game of hide and seek. ”

Qiu Xuan squinted his eyes as he looked at the black-robed executioner, and barely turned out some impressions of this person in the corners of memory. It was indeed the executioner on the same boat, but I don't know why the dead man was here in such a way.

Moreover, where did Bai Hexi go?

Obviously, he was brought in as Liu Qing's guide, but he often came out of nowhere from the moment he got on the boat. In the first two days, I would do some feints and then pretend to "accidentally" throw Liu Qing to Qiu Xuan, but now it's good, I don't even bother to perform feints anymore.

She looked back at the corner of the deck, Liu Qing was still obedient to stay by Qin Jiuyuan's side with impatience written all over his face, noticed her gaze, and waved his hand at her excitedly.

…… I don't know how far she can go.

Qiu Xuan sighed softly in her heart, and walked in that direction.

"Be careful!" For a moment, she seemed to faintly hear Liu Qing shouting something, and Qin Jiuyuan on the side changed his face and snatched the bow and arrow from Liu Qing's hand, pointing straight in her direction. Sensing danger, she rolled low against the arrow, a calf made of steel slamming into the ground in front of her.

The man in the triangular captain's hat, visibly dressed like a standard textbook pirate, withdrew his prosthetic leg and raised his sword to cut off the hilt of the flying arrow.

"Arthur, long time no see. Austin, stay in his small, shabby cab, and tell him to come out and see me. ”

The man, who was suspected to be the captain of the Phantom Shark, locked his gaze on Arthur, who was still fighting with Qing Baichuan, who took a breath in the attack that the other party deliberately eased down, and said, "You are also worthy?" ”

"Hahaha!" As if he had heard some great joke, the pirate began to laugh wildly. He raised his arm into the air, and in an instant, the pirates on the deck and the executioners who didn't know why they had become like this stopped fighting.

The Ship of Fools stared at them vigilantly, clenching their weapons.

"Okay, my dear little darlings, everyone take it easy, don't be so nervous." The pirate captain hissed and chuckled a few more times, and the strangely rough prosthetic eye in his left eye rolled in his socket. "Everyone is also an old acquaintance, so let's give an eighty-percent discount to the old acquaintance, and everyone will take a step back. We need ten tons of fresh water, and twenty boxes of fresh fruit, well, forty boxes of dry bread. Let's go when we get it, it's not too much to ask. ”

"Are you thinking about fart?" Before Arthur could get angry, a sailor working on deck was the first to shout. "That's pretty much all of our supplies, what did you eat from the people on our ship? They all died before they could pass the next port! ”

"Oh, but does that have anything to do with me?"

The sailor was angry and raised his sword in indignation. "It's impossible for us to agree to such an unreasonable demand, as long as I have my last breath, I'll fight you to the end!"

Swish.

The sailor's dead head fell to the ground and rolled around the blown up deck a few times. Qing Baichuan's long knife was turned on his shoulder, and seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on her, he seemed to be a little embarrassed to hide his red lips. "Oh, he said he didn't want to live, I really haven't heard such a strange request."

Arthur stared at the still warm head, his big clenched fists clenched and clenched.

"Luther, I thought we shouldn't be negotiating now, why don't you take the lives of our crew seriously?"

"Oh, so we're negotiating?" The pirate captain scratched his ears, "Actually, I'd rather we're 'informing' you than negotiating, but it's not bad. I've made it clear enough anyway, either hand over the supplies or sink the ship. ”

"Arthur, Arthur, do you really think that the new 'outsiders' will help you keep this ship?"

Luther turned his face sideways, and the strange prosthetic eye swept around the standing executioners.

"After all, as soon as they return to the embrace of death, they will always belong to our Phantasmal Shark."

With the pirate captain's grin, he spread his arms as if hugging the bones of the god of death in the void. After that, more and more black-robed men on the deck followed him, brandishing their weapons.

"Afu, did you see that?"

Qiu Xuan sat on the ground, Hephaestus who came out of nowhere and helped her up together with Jiao Guancheng, and the three of them gathered together for the time being, Hephaestus didn't know what he found, and gestured to the two.

"On that pirate ship, there's someone controlling the dead executioner."

Squinting his eyes in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, on the eerie pirate ship lookout, a black-robed figure was sneakily cowering in it, his fingers vibrating as if he were directing some kind of marionette.

"We can sneak up and kill him, and the pirates will lose a great opportunity to threaten us." Jiao Guancheng whispered, and Hephaestus stood aside with a smile and did not say anything, and sat down with a reaction that was not too big to see the excitement.

Qiu Xuan touched her chin. "But we can't get off the boat at all, have you forgotten the man from before?"

"The rules only say that you can't 'get off' the boat, but they don't say that you can't go beyond the scope of the boat." Jiao Guancheng gestured his finger to the pirates' broadside pedals that were set up between the two ships, apparently having planned it a long time ago. "To be on the safe side, we can also tie a rope to our bodies as we would in a broadside battle, and swing all the way to the Phantom Shark. And as long as the port pedal is still there, the Shark can be regarded as an 'extension' of the Fool's Ship, and we are not considered 'disembarking'. ”

On the other side, the death of the sailor and the attitude of the pirates completely infuriated Arthur. The man roared against the wind and waves and the rain, drew his sword and shouted the prelude to the battle.

The two sides fought back together, blood from wounds and heavy rain pouring down, completely staining the crumbling deck.

Hephaestus smiled with a big face, "I think it's doable." ”

This method is feasible, but it is actually meaningless for Qiu Xuan. The reason is simple, because those who wear black robes are dead.

She could easily infect those who were dead with the plague virus, and then she could wrest control of the executioners from the mysterious man. She roughly counted the number of black-robed executioners, about thirty, which was obviously much easier than when the chaos in Riverflow Town forcibly converted two-thirds of the black population of the town.

She may be invincible to those who are alive, but once they die, they cannot belong to either side, but to the arms of her plague.

But for a complete alibi, Qiu Xuan said, "Okay, I'll go too." ”

"Then let's go now, be careful, don't be discovered. Hefphy, do you want to ......?"

"Go ahead, I'll cover for you." Hephaestus seemed completely unconcerned about such a thing, and with a casual wave of his hand, he turned and walked away with his back to the crowd. Qiu Xuan hurriedly followed, making a pretending to help fight, and counted his fingers and brushed them over those black-robed executioners.

It may be the reason why everyone's physical fitness and ability are different, and it is much more difficult to transform the corpse of the executioner than it is to transform a black person. But fortunately, there are only about 30 of them, so the range of energy consumption is also acceptable.

Qiu Xuan's face turned pale for a moment, but she quickly covered it up well, and no one seemed to see the clue.

Seeing that the two were infinitely close to the broadboard, Hephaestus smiled on his back at the pouring rain and began his solo performance.

"Ah, my Poseidon, my primordial gods, my marauders! Seeing your vigorous and enviable majestic life has all left a deep imprint on my hot chest. I ......"

He is really suitable for making a talk (whole) drama (live).

Qiu Xuan sighed for a moment, thanks to the fact that people from both friend and foe were a little stunned by this abstract art form for a while, otherwise they would have been found out if they were walking on the board openly.

As soon as you stepped onto the deck of the Phantom Shark, it was visibly fine and hard and the squeaky deck of the Little Broken Fool's Ship. Fortunately, she is not an aboriginal here, otherwise this psychological imbalance makes her want to abandon the light and the dark for a moment.

The two executioners, who were helpless to bind to the small broken boat, looked at each other, saw bitterness and envy in each other's eyes, they patted each other's shoulders comfortingly, and cautiously touched them in the direction of the lookout.

The two of them climbed on the cold and damp watchtower ladder, and suddenly thought of something, and Jiao Guancheng turned around. "You said that even if it was going to be a broadside battle, it wouldn't be as good as all the people on the pirate ship, at least a few of the ships would have to be left. But why haven't we seen a single pirate along the way, don't you think it's a little too smooth? ”

Qiu Xuan noticed this, but she also shook her head and didn't answer. After all, if anyone unveiled the black robes of those dead executioners now, they would find that some of them had even begun to float on their small arms, and a large area of pitch-black totems was spreading. She came here to make an appearance in order to create an alibi, and even if the mysterious man who manipulated the corpse failed to capture it alive, it wouldn't be a big problem.

"Hey Afu, are you good at main attacks or sneak attacks? Alas, anyway, I'll climb up the lookout from the front to get the man's attention, and then you'll flip up from behind to attack him, even if it's a little heavier, understand? ”

"Okay."

She grabbed her fingers under the railing of the lookout and mentally counted the seconds of Jiaoguancheng's actions.

Now is the time!

The Zimu knife was unsheathed in an instant, and Qiu Xuan's wrist turned over and squatted on the mast behind the black-robed mysterious man, blocking a retreat for him to hide backwards with the blade at the moment when Jiaoguancheng's iron fist attacked.

The black-robed man was stunned and stopped the movement in his hand, but after reacting to it, the attack he swung was amazingly clumsy, and he was firmly restrained by Jiao Guancheng with just one move, unable to move.

"Well done."

After saying a word succinctly, Jiao Guancheng took out the spare rope around his waist and wrapped it firmly around the black-robed man who was restrained. Qiu Xuan crossed her arms and looked at the mysterious person in front of her who was not very beautifully tied, and suddenly raised her eyebrows as if she thought of something, and raised her hand to uncover the man's hood.

“……”

“……”

"It's really, unexpectedly ordinary."

"That's right."

At this moment, the black-robed man seemed to be seriously offended. Because his arms were tied, he had no choice but to stare at the two people in front of him viciously, and Jiao Guancheng was very experienced, and quickly pulled out a secret whistle from his mouth.

Before taking him to make a deal with the pirates, Qiu Xuan followed Jiao Guancheng and walked back, wondering about another question.

"How did you learn this ability to control corpses? Or is it innate, or is it learned? ”

"Why should I tell you?" The black-robed man spoke, and compared to his really ordinary appearance, his voice was a very nice boy's voice.

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