Chapter 34: The Hidden Trap
Faced with the vision at this time, Fang Senyan calmed down, and according to Kerry's previous prompts, he threw an apple prepared in advance, a portion of bacon fried meat, and two dozen rye bread into the water in front of him. At this moment, a very strange sound sounded in the air, like the sound of a Greek harp playing softly, and then there began to be black shadows shuttling under the water, these black shadows were extremely fast, like a wide black belt moving through the water at high speed. Fang Senyan looked at this black shadow, but there was a feeling of extreme danger in his heart, as if even if he was contaminated by it, extremely serious consequences would occur, he knew that this was a warning brought by high perception, and he couldn't help but take a step back so that he could pounce behind the rock next to him at any time to dodge.
Fortunately, these black shadows never had the idea of going ashore, and after eating the food that Fang Senyan had thrown down, they dissipated one after another. The silver light on the sea surface also began to fade slowly, but at this time, it could be seen that a drifting bottle full of moss and algae floated on the sea surface in the distance at a very fast speed, Fang Senyan scooped up the bottle, and the silver light immediately dissipated, returning to the previous state of the storm.
Fang Senyan was not willing to stay on the coast at this time, because it was too conspicuous to walk alone in such a late night, he came to a bar, directly threw two pounds over, and asked the bartender at the bar for a room, at this time the bar is also a supermarket, a hotel, and even a courtyard, so the bartender is not surprised at all, so he took Fang Senyan around the corner door at the back and entered a room.
Probably because most of the customers were pirates and sailors, this room was also built in a style similar to the cabin, with a decoration on the wall that looked like a rudder, and the windows were typical oval windows, and there were some hand-thrown darts that are currently very popular next to them. The wooden bench next to it had clear burn marks, which looked like they were caused by the pipe of some careless tenant earlier. The grey striped sheets made of linen look old, but they are quite clean, and they exude a fresh smell of being washed in the sun.
Fang Senyan sat down on the bed and began to carefully examine the bottle he had scooped up. It is a dark brown thin-necked round-bellied bottle, the mouth of the bottle is sealed with a thick layer of wax, which allows the cork that blocks the mouth to stay dry, the surface of this bottle is no longer smooth, and things such as barnacles, seaweed, etc., have grown on the palm, and there is a raw roughness that is not deliberately on the touch of the hand. What surprised Fang Senyan even more was that this bottle was extremely cold to the touch, as if it had just been taken out of the cold storage, and there was even an illusion that even the heat in the bone marrow would be sucked out of his hand.
According to Kerry, if the bottle is opened, the mission will be interrupted, and an evil spirit will emerge from it. The evil spirit is in an illusory state, and no attack can hurt it at all, and it will curse the person, causing the opener's health to drop by a total of 100 points for five minutes before disappearing. At that time, one of the unlucky people of their team hurriedly opened the bottle, and was entangled by evil spirits and cursed.
As a result, this unlucky guy was a pickpocket before entering the nightmare space, claiming to be an expert who could fish ten one-dollar coins in the frying fritter pot without injury, and his agility exceeded twenty points under the deliberate stacking, but because of this, his physical strength was only on par with that of a normal person. As a result, after this guy fell under this curse, he was really stunned, and tried his best, but he could only watch himself die little by little in five minutes...... The mood of almost collapse before his death can be imagined.
After encountering this kind of thing, of course, no one dares to open this bottle rashly. After a series of explorations, Kerry's team finally discovered that an old man named Russell in Tutuga Castle was interested in it. The old man had no low status in the castle, similar to the kind of butler who was trusted by his master, and he would come out at nine o'clock every morning to buy vegetables and the like. If you give him this bottle, you will receive a reward of up to twenty pounds (the currency of the world, which cannot be taken out), and you will also be able to gain his friendship, and you will be able to freely enter and leave the outer reaches of Tutuga Castle under the pretext of visiting Mr. Russell. This permission isn't without its benefits, and according to Kerry, using a whetstone in Tutuga Harbor can permanently increase your weapon's attack by 1-1, as well as a chance to take on the rest of the deeper missions.
But Fang Senyan didn't plan to follow the process given by Kerry at this time.
First of all, Kerry is not a good person, he had cleverly exploited the loophole of the contract before, and deliberately skipped the element of having a good relationship with the Mughals who picked the door, so it caused Fang Senyan a big trouble. Psychologically speaking, people will be the closest to success at the time when they are the least prepared, so if you continue to follow this process, you will run headlong into the trap that Kerry planted again.
What's more, the reward of continuing to do it didn't have any attraction for Fang Senyan. Under Armand's generous share of the spoils, Fang Senyan's total pounds on his body at this time exceeded three digits, and a mere twenty pounds did not matter. Entering the outskirts of Tutuga Castle may seem like a lot of opportunity - but for the boatswain of the Bell and the Glass, the direct murderer of the castle's owner's wife, frequent entry and exit is never a good idea. I can't get the benefits and not bring much trouble.
So Fang Senyan plans to try another branching route - the one where Kerry and his team hit a wall - to open this bottle!
The curse of the wraith seemed to be very vicious, but unfortunately this level of blood deduction did not pose any threat to Fang Senyan, if he wore the title of Pirate Leader on the ship, his maximum health could even reach a full 190 points, even now it was 170 HP points, and it was almost no pressure for him to reduce his HP by 100 points in five minutes...... And that's not even counting the damage reduction that comes with high health.
After carefully weighing the pros and cons, Fang Senyan calmly picked up the drifting bottle, letting the chill from it wantonly absorb his body temperature. Then he took the candlestick next to him, first touched the flame of the candle with his finger, as if to verify the temperature of the candle flame, and then put the mouth of the drifting bottle on the candle flame and baked it evenly, so that the thick and strong wax seal melted away.
With the heating of the flame, the wax seal on the mouth of the drifting bottle began to melt, and it fell on the table drop by drop, and there was a faint fragrance in the air, Fang Senyan looked at this scene, and suddenly thought of the story of the "haunted house" that the fourth uncle told him when he was a child: it probably means that the father of the fourth uncle was traveling with friends in his early years of business, and met a hut in the dark mountains, there was no one in the hut, and there was an evil statue without a head in the hall, but it was not riceThe firewood and the beds were quite complete, and although everything seemed very gloomy, they decided to rest here for the night after a long day of hunger in the mountains, and a heavy downpour.
Naturally, the merchants planned to make a fire to cook and go to bed early when they were full, but there was no chimney in the hut, and the smoke of cooking spread everywhere, and before long they had not even cooked their meals, they noticed that many terrible spirits were coming around them, and in terror they fled for their lives, and two of their companions fell off a cliff on the slippery road. Later, I heard from an experienced colleague that the hut was supposed to be a trap set by the robbers, and that the problem was the firewood they used to light the rice.
The firewood should have been filled with "ingredients" extracted from poisonous mushrooms on Ailao Mountain, which translates to hallucinogens in the language of "tide", and the smoke from the burning will of course cause hallucinations when inhaled. Coupled with the surrounding eerie environment, the psychological hints of the evil headless god statue are naturally full of terrifying illusions in front of you.
And Fang Senyan saw the roasted candle oil at this time, as well as the faint smell that suddenly appeared in the air, and he couldn't help but have a faint sense of foreboding in his heart. Because in this day and age, the most common way to open this drifting bottle is undoubtedly to open the wax seal with a fire - so it's hard to say if there are any traps in it. So he immediately removed the bottle from the flame of the candle, opened the window and took a few deep breaths of fresh air, I don't know if it was a psychological effect or other reasons, Fang Senyan immediately felt a lot clearer.
Although he didn't receive any hint from the Nightmare Mark about being attacked, he quickly checked his personal surname out of a sense of foreboding in his heart, and immediately found the source of his uneasiness! Because there is a line of prompt below the personal surname:
"When your attack hits an enemy, there is a 14% chance to neutralize." However, it was clear that this abominable effect was rapidly fading, because when Fang Senyan read this line and carefully observed his own situation, he found that there was nothing unusual except for this damn dbuff (harmful continuous surname effect). The chance of the attack being neutralized has dropped to 13%, and it seems that in a minute the dbuff will dissipate quietly as it did when it appeared, without alarming anyone.
(To be continued)