[Congratulations, you triggered the hidden quest 'Captain Willy's Hatred.] 】

[Mission content: Enter the underground river, find the anchorage of the Wraith, and kill all the crew members.] 】

[Mission time only: Before Willy's soul completely dissipates.] 】

[Reward: Ownership of the Ghost Pirate Ship and Ship Spirit's Approval.] 】

[Do you accept it?] 】

"Oh?"

Mu You was stunned. actually triggered a side quest, and it seems to be a large-scale mission, to kill a bunch of unknown level of crew, and the final reward is also very generous, directly to a ship!

"Accept!"

Mu You took a look at it and directly chose to accept it, anyway, there is no punishment for failure in this thing, so he will continue first.

If he did find the ship, he probably wouldn't be able to defeat those crew members, but isn't there still a shadow ghost? In short, it depends on the situation.

Compared to this, what made Mu You more interested in this task was a sentence in the text: 'The underground water roads of the Star Spirit Realm extend in all directions'!

This reminds Mu You, yes, why does he have to compete with those imperial knights on land, he has a fish-man mask, and he can completely take the underground waterway!

He didn't believe that the knights in heavy armor could chase them underwater!

[You agree to Willy's request, pull the lamppost out of the artemisia grass, and put it in your backpack.] 】

[Note that Willy's remnant soul can only survive for a month at most, and you'd better complete the quest within a month, otherwise the quest will disappear early.] 】

[I walked to the edge of the lake, stepped into the lake with one foot, and felt the temperature of the lake, which seemed to be within the acceptable range. Want to jump into the lake? 】

"Yes."

Mu You clicked on the panel to put on a fishman mask for the character, and then clicked OK.

You jumped into the lake. 】

[The moment the gentle lake water floods your head, a biting chill also hits you from all sides at the same time. 】

[You continue to sink, and all that envelops you is the boundless darkness at the bottom of the lake and the hazy starry sky overhead. Unable to land for a long time, you once suspect that you have not fallen into the lake, but into a bottomless abyss. 】

[Fortunately, you finally sank to the bottom.] 】

[The touch of the soles of your feet touching the ground is heard, and you fall into the mud of the riverbed.] The buoyancy under the water ensures that you land without being harmed, but it also slows you down. The current altitude is 13 meters below the water level. 】

You turned on the jack-o'-lantern. The cyan glow of the lanterns illuminates the scene at the bottom of the lake. 】

[What you see in front of you is a magnificent world under the lake. There are rocks, grass and trees, and there are many colorful coral bushes, and the surrounding tall marine plants and aquatic plants all stretch straight from the bottom of the lake to the surface of the lake, and a large number of aquatic species are all over it, and the current hits the nearby reefs, such as the sound of chimes and brass runs, and the sound is endless. 】

[You perceive that the water at the bottom of the lake seems to be flowing, this is not a static lake, under the rocky layers at the bottom, there are several tunnels leading to all directions, through which you can lead to a wider space beyond the bottom of the lake. Fool, which direction do you choose to set off? 】

"To the west!"

Don't hesitate to do this, you can reach Sunset City in the west on land, and the same direction is the same under the water.

You choose to walk towards the tunnel to the west. 】

[The Fishman Mask ensures that you can breathe smoothly underwater, and the silt boots make you walk on the ground among the soft mud and sand at the bottom of the lake, but the resistance of the water still makes it impossible for you to move too fast, and your speed is about 34% lower than usual. 】

[You walked to the west side of the tunnel, and were about to enter it, when suddenly you heard a babbling sound from the inside of the dark tunnel, and it was approaching you at great speed. 】

[You have a premonition of danger and hurriedly retreat.] A small red fish sprang out of the tunnel. The Omniscient Crystal immediately helped you analyze the species of the small fish, which is a self-exploding fish. 】

[Self-exploding fish: 800 enemies and 1,000 self-damage, a creature that grew up eating sulfur on the bottom of the sea, has a strong sense of territory and a fiery temper, and believes in the principle of 'the essence of life is explosion'. When a creature approaches a territory they identify, it will attack on it. Adult self-exploding fish will explode directly when they get close to their target, causing extremely high physical damage, and scattering their eggs into the depths of the ocean through the power of the explosion, waiting for more self-exploding fish to be born, which is a very difficult creature at the bottom of the astral realm. 】

[The self-exploding fish saw you, and its belly instantly swelled into a ball, rushing towards you.] 】

[You want to escape, but unfortunately the speed of the self-detonating fish in the water far exceeds you, and it rushes in front of you in the blink of an eye and launches a self-detonation! 】

[You have taken the damage of the self-exploding fish from a close explosion, and your HP is -600, and due to heart damage, your vampire skin's ability to automatically restore health is nullified.] 】

"What kind of Deidara is this, you will blow yourself up when you meet!"

Mu You's eyelids jumped, and he hurriedly retraced the time and tried other operations.

It turned out to be useless. The fish was so fast that he didn't even have time to release his magic before he got close, and then blew himself up without saying a word.

Confirm that this injury can't be avoided, Mu You won't struggle anymore, just blow it up if it's blown up, you can't die anyway.

[You searched the area where the Exploding Fish disappeared and found 'Unstable Sulfur'*1.] 】

[Unstable sulfur: The crystals that the self-exploding fish swallow the seabed sulfur condensed in the body for a long time, a special alchemy material, which has some specific explosives, and will explode when it is stimulated to a certain extent, so be careful when keeping it. 】

It was blown up in a daze, and a consoling material was obtained.

Mu You didn't have time to be melancholy, so he hurriedly switched to vampire skin in reality and took off the ghost cloak on the skin.

The explosion of this self-exploding fish is physical damage, and the ghost form of the cloak can be perfectly defended, and it was too late to operate just now, so send it in as soon as you are free.

Since the tunnel is regarded as a 'territory' by the self-exploding fish, there may be other self-exploding fish in it.

Loading the game character with the 'Ghost Cloak', Mu You clicked on the 'Life Drain' in the spell bar on the panel.

[You walk up to a nearby aquatic plant and activate life drain on the aquatic grass. The aquatic plants wither quickly, and the life force in them is absorbed by you, repairing the wounds in your heart. 】

[Under the effect of the Butcher Wolf talent, your injuries begin to recover rapidly, and your health has returned to full value in a blink of an eye. 】

In order to avoid being wasted in the game, Mu You has been staying in reality.

At this moment, this self-exploding fish can hurt his heart as soon as it explodes, which will cause the recovery effect to fail, and Mu You can only use this more troublesome way to treat the injury.

However, the 'Life Drain' spell still seems to be quite easy to use, and it can also be used against plants, so you don't have to worry about finding a target at all.

[You continue to move forward, stepping into the natural tunnel at the bottom of the lake to the west. 】

[This tunnel is an extremely narrow and dark trench, and the deeper you go, the narrower it becomes. At that moment, you suddenly hear a familiar babbling sound in front of you. Through the reflection of the jack-o'-lantern, you see more than a dozen self-exploding fish in front of you, frantically rushing towards you......]

"Sure enough!"

More than a dozen fish rushed together, and Mu Youxin said that most of them had broken into the nest of the self-exploding fish.

Before he had time to think about it, he quickly clicked on the panel and used the ghost cloak.

[You entered the ghost form, and the self-exploding fish exploded around you like firecrackers one by one, never hurting you in the slightest. 】

[A moment later, all the self-detonation fish are over, and there are no other adult self-detonation fish in the tunnel.] You searched around with confidence and obtained 'Unstable Sulfur'*17. 】

A ghost form, picking up seventeen drops in vain, beautiful. But what makes Mu You even more fortunate is that this trench is fortunately strong enough, so many fish were fried together, and none of them collapsed, otherwise he was afraid that he would really be buried here alive.

[You continue to swim forward, after passing through the narrowest section of the trench, the passage gradually becomes wider, and after dozens of meters, the front suddenly opens up......]

[You have entered a brand new sea area, there is no mountain wall around you, and the sea water in all directions is not as far as the eye can see. When you look down, dozens of meters below the seabed, countless glowing marine plants are connected, like thousands of lights on land, illuminating the dark seabed. 】

After passing through the trench, it seems that you have entered a new world under the sea similar to the peach blossom spring.

The text description is very beautiful, but unfortunately Mu You can't see anything, so he can only imagine the scene on the opposite side while manipulating the characters to continue to hurry.

[You come to the bottom of the sea, the current depth, 74 meters below the water level. 】

[You see a fish-man (level 7) passing by, waving a blade made of scallops and rushing towards you.] 】

[After some chaos, you successfully killed the Fishman, Lifespan +1, Experience +7, and summoned a Fishman Zombie from its corpse.] 】

……

[You see a two-headed tailless newt (level 9) lying in the mud and sand in front of it, this creature with a head at both ends has the property of being highly poisonous.] 】

[With the help of the Fish-Man Zombie, you successfully killed the newt, with a lifespan of +1, an experience of +9, and summoned an Axolotl zombie from its corpse.] 】

……

[While passing by an underwater rock, you are attacked by an amphibious nightcrawler (level 8). 】

[With the cooperation of the zombie beast, you successfully killed the amphibious nightcrawler, life +1, experience point +8, and summoned a new zombie beast from its corpse......]

……

Mu You found that his strength under the water was greatly limited, his own movement speed and attack speed were reduced by one-third, not to mention that the bow and arrow were also restricted in the water, and he couldn't shoot too far, in addition, fireballs and fire rings and other fire-based magic could not be used, and the summoned beast war eagle, which was currently the strongest in combat, could not go into the water.

Fortunately, the level of the sea monster near this sea area does not seem to be very high, and he has not yet encountered a magical beast above level ten, even without the help of the warhawk, he can still deal with it with vampire skin.

(End of chapter)