Chapter 51: Traps
Before entering the superstring space, Thorn was a highly gifted surgeon. However, this talent also caused him great trouble, and during an operation on a powerful person, he made a mistake due to excessive fatigue, and although the patient did not die, he was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
When the paralyzed magnate woke up, he tilted all his resentment on Thorn. The assassination of relatives and friends died one by one in an accident, and he himself was tortured so that people did not look like people, and ghosts did not look like ghosts.
Thorn, who died tragically in agony, was recruited by the superstring space and became a reincarnation. Although he soon succeeded in revenge, this experience also made the treacherous psychology extremely distorted, and he never saw people for his true face again, and became an assassin walking in the shadows.
Perhaps the more lonely and miserable people are, the more they crave the friendship and recognition of others. During a mission to the world, the assassin encountered a life-and-death crisis and was finally rescued by Odin. Out of gratitude, Thorn joined the then weak Pantheon and became Odin's right-hand man.
Odin was the only man he admired, and after many adventures, Thorn finally had a friend of life and death again, and a group of close comrades. In fact, any mature team of reincarnators is basically the same, and the partners have a friendship that can entrust each other's lives. Teams that are only combined by interests will always fall apart at some point due to selfishness, and will be eliminated by the mission world and other teams of reincarnators.
After the Temple of the Gods entered the era of sea power for a period of time, basically all the members of the group slowly felt the severity of the form. Since reaching the top of Y-space, they have not experienced this kind of critical moment for a long time, and some members are still a little confused and confused.
Odin, as the head of the regiment, stood up at such a time, and even took on the assassination mission that should have been completed by the thorn. Thorn did not object, not because he was afraid of death, but because he knew that opposition was useless, and the team needed unity more now. However, now that the opportunity is in front of him, he will not let it go.
From the moment he sent the message, he had already made up his mind that he would either succeed or die here. Thorn doesn't do business, but he feels the deal is worth it.
If it succeeds, the whole team will get out of the crisis, even if the world can't destroy the old K group, they still have a chance to rise after entering the X space. The price of defeat was nothing more than his life and the division of the Temple of Gods he led. The Temple of the Gods still has Odin, Athena, and the Ghost Mist, and the Trenches......
Although the treacherous plan is dangerous, it is actually feasible. There are more than 200 pirates in the armed merchant ships he brought, and the core is the seven reincarnations led by him. In addition to stabbing himself as a third-order transfer, there are also three second-order, three first-order peak transferors who are about to enter the second order.
This bit of power is not to mention attacking the Vasa on the surface, even Katarina's pirate team, they can't defeat it. Especially his group of pirates, who, unlike the Viking sailors of the Vasa, only went aboard the ships of the Temple of the Gods for gold and profit.
When fighting a tailwind, they are majestic, and when the situation is critical, they will immediately retreat, and will never die for the temple of the gods. If it weren't for the fact that the Godson's collaborative team was still pumping them gold, these pirates would have rebelled long ago, or would have run out in Serbia.
Although the difference in power is huge, it is not without any chance to stab them. The key lies in Caterina, as long as the thorn induces Caterina and the Vasa to fight, the opportunity of the Temple of the Gods will come.
This scramble did not refer to a duel between the Spanish battleships and the Vasa at sea. Caterina is not a stupid person, even if she has a flower in her treacherous mouth, and even if she uses the national interests of Spain to coax the red-haired female pirate, it is impossible for Caterina to risk the total annihilation of the army and have a duel with the "tyrant of the sea".
The battle that Thorn hopes to happen is in search of the treasure, and Caterina has promised to help them find it. As long as you keep an eye on the Vasa, after the Vasa treasure hunting team has set off, and then lure the ignorant Caterina into the same treasure ruins, the two forces are very likely to fight. What's more, there is still a scheming thorn in this who is deliberately making trouble, and the two sides will naturally have no chance of reconciliation.
As long as Caterina and Alfred, the "Tyrant of the Seas", can be assassinated in the chaos, then even if the Venetian pirate gang led by the assassin is destroyed, the Temple of the Gods will not lose anything. Compared with the artillery battle at sea, hiding and assassinating in a treasure ruin with complex terrain is the best trick.
Thorn's only concern was that Caterina and the Tyrant of the Sea did not personally lead the team into the ruins. Fortunately, Caterina did not track down John Farrell during this time, and she was a little irritable, and wanted to take the opportunity of treasure hunting to relax.
As for Alfred, the other "tyrant of the seas", it is not a variable that can be controlled by the thorn. However, in the treacherous plan, this is only a small problem. As long as the two teams succeed, regardless of whether Caterina and the Tyrant of the Sea die or not, the Vasa and the Spanish battleship will be battled out at sea, and the Temple of the Gods will be the final winner.
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"Wood, wait!" After killing the Small-Eyed Demon, Wood was about to continue to lead the way at the front of the team, but was stopped by Xu Mo.
"Admiral?" Wood looked at Xu Mo with some confusion.
"This corridor is a bit weird...... Xu Mo said with a frown.
Wood looked back at the corridor and smiled wryly. When you get here, it's not a straight road, and there's an arc in front of you. The two corpses on the ground were separated from each other, apparently killed by a sharp blade. Crucially, the blood trail beneath them stretched all the way to the bend. These two pirates didn't die here, they died around the bend and were dragged here after they died.
This kind of weirdness is not Xu Mo, everyone in the team can understand it. They couldn't contact Raphael, so they didn't know what traps were here, so they had to rely on their own lives to investigate. Wood was appointed as a scout by Xu Mo, and if he didn't go, who else would go.
"Hee-hee, you're just a lookout, let the stormtrooper do this kind of work!" Just as Wood smiled bitterly, Christina in the team took two steps forward and said with a chuckle.
"Be careful!" To Wood's surprise, in the face of Christina's initiative, Xu Mo nodded in agreement. At the same time, he took a plate of the king squid from Barron's hand and threw it to the English beauty.
"Admiral, she ......" Wood was about to speak, but was stopped by Xu Mo waving his hand.
"Christina is agile and more suitable than you, don't underestimate the stormtrooper of the Vasa!" Xu Mo glanced at the lookout hand lightly.
Wood lowered his eyelids, clenched his fists, and closed his mouth in silence.
Christina watched warily at the sides of the corridor, her feet staggered lightly, and the cat's steps advanced, and the people behind her couldn't help but hold their breath and stared at the Vasa's First Stormtrooper.
As she was walking, Christina suddenly felt a breeze on her side, and the sailor's sweat towel tied around her neck gently swayed, goosebumps instantly erupted on her exposed skin, and a feeling of extreme danger came to her heart......
The crowd behind the English beauty only felt a flower in front of her, and Christina, without warning, suddenly lay back on an iron plate bridge on her upper body, and her feet stood in place as if they were rooted. However, at this moment, Christina's heart throbbed again, and she found that a cool sensation came from her waist......
"Phew!" Xu Mo's eyes burst with essence, and he raised his breath, and the sailor axe in his hand slashed through the air like a bolt of lightning, and instantly appeared in an empty corner of the corridor.
"Dang!" There was a loud bang in the void, sparks flew everywhere, and the sailor's axe seemed to slash together with another giant axe, and it was bounced out in an instant. Hearing the loud noise, Christina was relieved, the cuticle in her hand was blocked at her waist, and under an inexplicable thrust, she rolled and withdrew from the corner.
"Woo~~~" everyone exclaimed. Maybe it was Xu Mo's axe just now that shattered the mechanism in the corridor. Everyone finally saw what the danger was in front of Christina.
At this corner of the corridor, two round guillotines slowly rotated and bounced out of the walls of the corridor. The upper guillotine is located just above the neck of an adult male, and the lower guillotine is located around the waist. The two-sided guillotines are up and down, one in front and one behind, like a pair of scissors staggered through. Regardless of whether the person passing through the curve rushes forward or backward, the body will be split in two.
The two-sided guillotine mechanism is designed to be insidious, not only silent, but also to take advantage of the obstruction of sight around the corner. Unnoticed by first-time passers-by, it's no wonder that Venetian pirates without the Treasure Codex would suffer a loss here.
Just now, Christina dodged the guillotine above with her agility, but she didn't expect that there was a guillotine below, if it wasn't for Xu Mo's axe to block the guillotine slightly, I'm afraid that the English beauty would be miserably dismembered, and Xiang Xiaoyu would die.
"Whew!" Christina exhaled, a blush flashing across her face, and patted her towering chest in retribution.
"Hurry up and get through here, the mechanism is still working!" Xu Mo glanced at the cuticle plate that had been cut out with a deep mark, and waved his hand at the sailor behind him.
The rescue team that passed through this trap soon encountered several traps in front of them, not to mention the nail board crossbow arrows or something, there was actually an acid pool with a flap. In this place, Xu Mo's team finally suffered casualties, and the four Viking sailors accidentally fell into the acid pool and were melted into a pile of white bones, and even Azsha's arm was splashed with acid and suffered a small burn.
Along the way, Xu Mo and the others saw more corpses, this time not only Venetian pirates, but also Spanish pirates. Some of the half-melted corpses were really impossible to carry, so they could only be discarded here by Caterina and her party.
"Admiral!" Just as the crowd began to worry about the Vikings who were following Raphael, Wood heard a warning from the people walking ahead.
Xu Mo stepped out of the crowd and found Wood walking towards him, holding a human arm in his hand. After seeing this arm, Xu Mo's pupils contracted slightly, and a wisp of fireworks jumped in his eyes.