"Young man, if I were you, I would have decided whether to fight or not after recognizing the situation in front of me." Jiao Guancheng pulled the rope tied to the wrist of the black-robed man and spoke coolly.

The black-robed man closed his mouth when he heard this, lowered his head and followed them honestly, not knowing what he was thinking.

No, something is wrong.

Qiu Xuan followed the two of them, walking in the empty and lifeless cabin of the Phantom Shark. Taking a step back, even if the people on the pirate ship are all naïve, and they do not hesitate to abandon the ship and go out to fight broadside battles, then the original ship should not be like this.

This well-made but ubiquitous cabin exudes a strange sense of disobedience, as if there is no trace of living human existence, it is huge, empty, deserted, and cold. It's so weird that even the filthy pod on the little wreck that makes countless executioners curse shouldn't be like this.

She pulled Raggio Guancheng, who also gave her a slightly ugly look, apparently noticing this as well.

Sensing danger screaming, Qiu Xuan quickly grabbed the doorpost on the side, and by the way, he grabbed the black-robed young man who was tied hand and foot and couldn't move.

The floor that had been hard and dense just now collapsed in an instant, or it could not be said to have collapsed, it was more like a living object similar to the digestive peristalsis of the stomach. Then, before the two of them could realize the situation in front of them, dense tentacles suddenly stretched out of thin air from the depths of the cabin and through the narrow doors, waving towards them with teeth and claws.

What is the name of this pirate ship, the Phantom Shark, it is simply called the Flying Dutchman.

Qiu Xuan scolded a few times, and decisively threw the black-robed man in his hand towards Jiao Guancheng, who had a higher force value and experience than himself, while sliding out the Zimu knife and began to try to cut off those tentacles with teeth and claws.

The green, slimy, octopus-like tentacles were still easy to cut off, but the seemingly infinitely regenerative reproductive power was desperately fast. Often a section has just been cut off by a sharp blade and falls to the ground, and a new section quickly grows on the mouth of the bowl with a broken section, which is inexhaustible.

"Afu, this way!"

With the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, Jiao Guancheng directly guided a tentacle to blast open the door of a compartment. He took the lead and mercilessly threw the black-robed young man in to explore the way, and seeing that there was no danger inside for the time being, he also nailed the tentacle to the doorpost and dodged in.

Qiu Xuan gritted her teeth, took out the machine gun that she had bought "with a huge amount of money" from the accompanying space with her left hand, repelled the endless tentacles in a few strokes, and took the opportunity to enter the room and run into the inner door where they were and threw it on the door panel.

Except for the muffled sound of the chasing tentacles slamming against the door at the beginning, the sound of their attack weakened, as if they didn't know which direction to attack if they couldn't see their prey. The two of them listened inside the door with bated breath for a few moments, and found that the sticky sound of tentacles crawling against the ground was gradually all that was left outside.

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hey, boy, what the hell are you plotting?!" Suddenly, Jiao Guancheng raised his big hand and lifted the black-robed man by the neck into the air, approaching the violent and ruthless face. "If you say it now, I'll let you live, or we'll be the first to kill you even if we take our last breath."

The young man in the black robe had a bruised face in discomfort, and his throat whimpered and gurgled with a clucking sound. Jiao Guancheng relaxed the strength of his palm a little so that he could speak, but the young man just looked at him calmly and didn't say a word.

The man's expression darkened for a second, and then, as if his palm was touching the back of the black-robed man's hand manipulating the corpse with an extremely gentle movement, he suddenly broke one of his fingers from the root under the latter's imperceptible slight trembling!

"Hmm!" The young man snorted, and before he could recover from the sharp pain for a moment, Jiao Guancheng's palm moved down, breaking his next finger as if it were concoction.

"So you're still a young man," the man sighed lightly, "you've been practicing this kung fu for a long time, how about it, say it now, and you can avoid the pain of flesh and skin." ”

"I, I...... Help...... Save me! It seems that he has never been tortured like this in his life in the past few years, and in a hurry, the young man turned his head to Qiu Xuan on the side and asked for help.

Qiu Xuan was stunned for a moment, put down the arm he was holding to look at him, and said, "Uh, do you have a deep sense of belonging to the Phantom Shark?" ”

"I, I ......"

"If not, my suggestion is that you'd better say it." Qiu Xuan roughly checked the external injuries on his body, and found that they were all abrasions, so he said: "I admire all the martyrs who can dedicate themselves to their beliefs and dogmas, and I am willing to give them the highest respect." But first you have to understand for yourself whether the 'something' you are willing to give everything for is worth it. ”

"Of course, it's up to you to decide whether it's worth it or not, and if you think the Phantom Shark is worth it, then it's okay to keep your faith and not answer. In this case, I will give you my respect, but there will be no less 'means', and this is my answer. ”

Jiao Guancheng snorted twice, and his palm threatenedly covered his third finger downward. "How's it going, boy, have you figured it out? I don't have the patience to tell you a lot of truths. ”

The black-robed young man trembled and hung his head, as if he was fighting against himself.

Over there, Jiao Guancheng was still playing the role of the cruel Beizhen Fusi, and there was a terrible scream of the black-robed young man in his ears, Qiu Xuan turned around after listening to the scream, and quietly glanced at the crack in the door.

The green tentacles in the sky retreated silently as they came, and the cabin remained the same lifeless and cold appearance as before, as if the so-called cannibal floor and sky tentacles were their imagination.

What happened to the Fool's ship?

In the absolute blind spot of sight, Qiu Xuan quietly moved his fingers to try to mentally contact the executioners who were infected with the Elpis virus, and then found that they stopped the attack in their hands without exception as the black-robed young man was controlled, and stood there one by one in a daze.

Wouldn't all the pirates know that someone had infiltrated the Shark and captured the black-robed man?

She frowned, turned back to Jiao Guancheng with a solemn face, and said, "We must rush back as soon as possible." ”

"It's too late." Jiao Guancheng simply wiped the blood in his hands, threw aside the black-robed young man who had fainted because he couldn't bear the torture all of a sudden, and took out a round mirror to show her.

In the round mirror, the scene on the deck of the Fool's Ship is impressively presented. Somehow, the executioners who had been out of control began to fight mechanically again, and the black-robed young man was broken and his hands and feet fainted to the side, obviously it couldn't have been him.

"Could it be that someone else manipulated the executioner's body?"

"Not necessarily, I think he must have this ability, but this 'ability' is not the only one, you know what I mean?" Jiao Guancheng's expression was solemn. "He's just a decoy, the most conspicuous decoy placed on the Shark, and their purpose is to lure us into a pirate ship and catch them all."

"The people on the lookout, the floor, and the tentacles that don't know what they are, must have been premeditated. Since they want us on board, they can't let us go down easily. ”

Qiu Xuan shook the knife in his hand, "Anyway, you have to give it a try." ”

She opened the door, picked up the black-robed youth, and wanted to throw it out to try the way first.

The young man was the first to sober up and come and see. "Wait, wait...... Ahem, wait a minute, I—I'm willing to say! ”

Jiao Guancheng raised his eyebrows, stepped forward and closed the door. "Yo, wasn't it quite tough just now? Alas, young man, tell me about you, don't you have this consciousness for a long time, and you have to be in pain for a while to feel better? ”

The black-robed young man was thrown to the ground, his limbs still trembling with pain from his hamstrings. He washed his nose with a pale face, and said, "As long as you don't throw me out, I'm willing to tell you anything." ”

"Why?"

"So, those 'things'...... That's the 'Poseidon'! ”

Hearing this, Qiu Xuan and Jiao Guancheng glanced at each other.

Seeing that they couldn't get out and return to the Fool's ship for the time being, they simply listened patiently to the black-robed young man stammering everything he knew.

"I was recruited aboard the Phantom Shark at Noah's Harbor," the young man said, "because I used to be an amateur puppeteer." The people on board the Phantom Shark said they could provide me with food, lodging, and all my survival needs, and they would teach me a whole new skill. Yes, brand new skills, that's what the woman said at the time. ”

He took a deep breath.

"Before that, I thought that Master's ability to manipulate the puppet paper figure was already remarkable, but that woman, she was able to communicate with the undead in the heavens and the earth and the sea, and used it for it. And such a powerful and terrible power, she said she was going to teach me, I ...... Overjoyed and terrified, I eventually began to follow her in learning the art of necromancy, until we used it for the first time to kill an entire merchant ship. ”

At this, the young man lowered his head, and the beautiful young man's voice began to choke. "I used to think it was a miraculous skill, until I saw that there were four hundred and eighteen people on the whole boat, and two hundred died because of me. It's me...... Using this terrifying ability, he killed them. ”

"'Master' said that they were killed for sacrifice."

"Dedicate all of it to the all-knowing and all-powerful God, Leviathan."

Again, Qiu Xuan heard the name from someone else's mouth. In Gary's mouth, Leviathan's incarnation is the end of all things: in the mouth of Baihe Creek, facing Leviathan is the end of the trial; In the mouth of Aker, the Most High descends on them and they are eternally free; At the mouth of Jiaoguan City, the sacrifice called Cassandro seems to have summoned a catastrophe large enough to destroy the Fool's ship......

Wait, wait.

Cassandra?

An idea appeared in her mind, and Qiu Xuan didn't care about pretending to comfort the young man who was completely in a negative mood, but hurriedly asked, "What's the name of your 'master'?" ”

"She is the messenger of the sea god in the world, the only sacrifice that walks on the sea, and the medium that connects the world of the dead. Its name is Cassandro. ”

Really.

It was the mad goddess who summoned the wind and waves that Jiao Guancheng told her before, the suspected fanatic believer of Leviathan, and the executioner who disappeared on the Fool's Ship - Cassandra.

"She was able to get off the boat and still live well?!" Jiao Guancheng shouted in disbelief on the side, "After the first port docked, everyone was speculating that she was wiped out because she disembarked and violated the rules, how could she run to the Phantom Shark?" ”

"You ...... Do you know 'Master'? The black-robed young man looked really confused at this time.

"It doesn't matter." Qiu Xuan's expression was solemn, and he straightened out his thoughts and said: "So now, the Phantom Shark wants to come to the Fool's ship to plunder the supplies is just an excuse, they really want to sacrifice the lives of the whole ship to the Leviathan, right?" And you're a decoy to lure some of the ship's executioners to the Shark and kill them one by one. ”

"Actually...... It was true that he wanted to kill you as a sacrifice, but the original plan really didn't include luring you onto the ship. This is exactly what happened when I didn't learn well and didn't hide it well...... Moreover, I don't know why the avatar of the sea god Leviathan suddenly appeared on the Phantom Shark, it was a complete accident......"

Accidental. Qiu Xuan didn't think so.

"Anyway, we'll have to go back to the Fool's Ship first." "I don't know how Cassandro escaped the rules, but we obviously can't. ”

"I agree, let's go."

Jiao Guancheng sighed, "But you said, if we really face this all-knowing and all-powerful god in this plane by then, what will happen to us then?" ”

Who knows, if you will leave this sad place forever, or if you will be free forever, as the believers say. That's not what we're in charge of right now. ”

"That's right."

Pushing the door open a crack, Qiu Xuan cautiously poked her head out, and then thought about it and threw a tattered cup out of her hand.

Almost instantly, the sticky tentacles that had disappeared without a trace quickly and densely wound up. The already tattered cup was divided and twisted into powder, as if realizing that it was not the flesh and blood of a living person, and the tentacles twisted their bodies in protest for a few moments as if they were very human, and then shrank back in a blink of an eye.

It's pretty cute.

Qiu Xuan gave herself a slap in the face.

“！” Jiao Guancheng looked at her in horror for a moment, and was already searching in his mind for the countermeasure of "what to do if your teammates fall into evil". Qiu Xuan shook her head and kicked out of her mind the terrifying thoughts that came out of her mind at that moment, and straightened her face again.

"I have an idea."

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