Chapter 160: Deep Sea Fear (2-in-1, 6600 words)

Under the sea, Mu You hung far behind the boat.

The man was quite alert, rowing the boat while looking back from time to time to make sure that he was not being followed.

It's a pity that Mu You is more vigilant, sometimes the pocket watch is there, and he can predict the timing of the young man's turn back at any time, so as to hide in advance and eliminate all traces of the water.

I tracked it all the way down and never found it.

After following all the way for nearly two hours, the boatman seemed to have finally reached his destination, stopped near an island in the sea, put away his boat, and hurried to the island.

This crescent-shaped island spans only a few hundred meters and is covered with mangrove forests.

As soon as the boatman arrived on the island, he ran to the woods in the center of the island.

Mu You could see it clearly underwater, and under a mangrove tree there, there was indeed a hidden crack in the door, which suddenly appeared in the air.

Mu You didn't come closer, but released a scout beetle in the water.

The beetle paddled through the water at great speed, quickly moved to the shore of the island, and hid under a weed near the beach.

Mu You also put on an invisibility cloak and hid under the water, peeking at the opposite scene from a distance.

Then the boatman ran to the door and knocked carefully.

After a while, the crack in the door was opened, and a broad, muscular man appeared in the doorway.

Obviously, this person is the one who opened this door!

This man Mu You didn't know, but at the moment when this person opened the door, Mu You shook to the scene behind him, which was a bright bedroom, and behind the man, there was a person who seemed to be a subordinate, flashing past behind the door.

Mu You recognized the clothes of this subordinate, and the familiar white uniform and badge were the clothes of the Illuminati that he had seen before.

So this door belongs to the Illuminati?

Mu You frowned. So who is this person who opened the door? Gemini or Taurus?

Due to the distance, the Omniscient Crystal could not read the person's information directly.

However, if this door really belongs to the Illuminati, the owner can obviously only be one of the two founders of Taurus and Gemini, and this body type, Mu You is more inclined to be a Taurus.

At this moment, the beetle also heard the sound in front of the door.

"How's the harvest?" The muscular man asked.

"It's okay, but it's ...... Something happened...... "The boatman said with a worried expression.

"Accident?"

"I missed the last trip just now, the boat ...... It was also stolen ......"

The man suddenly frowned and said seriously, "What's the matter?" ”

The boatman hurriedly recounted what had just happened, but his words were obviously evasive, saying only that the man could breathe underwater, and he did not expect that the ship had been stolen.

The man obviously knew what kind of virtue he had under him, and most of his words were biased, and after a little thought, he also restored what had happened.

But after thinking about it, he immediately realized something, hurried out the door, and looked around vigilantly, but found nothing suspicious.

"Were you followed when you came back?" The man frowned and looked at the boatman.

"Nope!"

The young man immediately shook his head and said firmly: "You also know, President, I have always been very careful in this regard. ”

The man looked him in the eye carefully before nodding after a moment, "Who is the person who stole your ship?" ”

"A thin-faced fisherman, characterized by the absence of eyebrows and beard, and the absence of half a hair, which is easily recognizable......" said the boatman at once.

"Go back and draw the man's face, and go back and show the intelligence services to pay attention." The man patted the young man on the shoulder and let him in.

Then he stepped into the door himself.

However, just as he was about to enter the door, the man suddenly turned around and sprinkled a handful of repellent powder backwards.

The dispersal of powder spread one or two hundred meters away, enveloping the entire island and the nearby sea.

However, when the powder was spilled, the surrounding area was still empty, and no invisible material was visible.

The man then entered the door and closed it again.

"This guy is cautious enough, but he is good enough to hide far enough......"

Mu You stayed at the bottom of the water in the distance, not moving, and not letting the beetle move. Now he still needs to confirm the time of the door closing.

After continuing to wait for a while, Mu You saw several people wearing various skins coming to the door, and like the boatman just now, after knocking on the door, they were picked up by a man at the door.

This man is indeed careful enough, every time someone comes back, he will deliberately go out and take a turn, and suddenly sprinkle a handful of powder around, but he has never been able to catch anything.

After waiting for an hour, Mu You found that the man began to look at his watch frequently, and it seemed that it was almost time to close the door.

Another three or four minutes passed, and suddenly another small boat sailed on the sea in the distance, and this time it was carrying a black-robed man.

"This outfit ......"

Mu You was stunned again, this black robe with a black robe and a little light to see it, could it be the legendary Ten Commandments?

How did these two still get together?

After the black-robed man in the distance docked, he put away the boat and appeared directly by the door.

The two were obviously acquainted, and the man immediately went out to greet them.

"The preparations are all ready, and the action will ...... in four days," the black-robed man whispered in a hoarse voice.

"Don't talk about ...... here"

The man immediately made a silent gesture, glanced around vigilantly, pointed inside the door, and motioned for the other party to enter the door.

The black-robed man also subconsciously swept around, nodded, and entered the door first.

The man followed into the door, stood in the doorway and watched the time, and after tens of seconds, the door closed automatically.

This time it was completely closed, not even a crack in the door remained, and the whole door disappeared directly into the air over there, as if everything just now was an illusion.

Acting in four days?

The last sentence of conversation between the two aroused Mu You's curiosity.

What action?

It's Saturday, and in four days, it's next Wednesday, what do they want to do next Wednesday?

If there is only the Illuminati, it will be forgotten, it is just a second-rate organization, and it will not have much impact. But it's different with the Ten Commandments, if this group of people makes a move, it's definitely no trivial matter!

It's a pity that I can't guess anything based on this sentence alone.

Shaking his head, Mu You had no choice but to put this matter down for the time being.

I looked at my watch, and it was 10:35 a.m.

After silently remembering this time, Mu You summoned the beetle back, and then quietly left the neighborhood.

He didn't go over to check, and he didn't put any teleportation arrays nearby.

With the caution shown by that golden bull, these superfluous actions were likely to become handles, especially the teleportation array.

In the entire Secret Art Association, only he, Scorpio, and Cancer currently have the secret technique of dark teleportation, and once the teleportation array is discovered by the other party, it is easy to lock it onto themselves.

It wasn't until he was far enough away from the island that Mu You took out the boat and rushed back to the Devil's Sea by boat.

When I rushed back, it was much faster, and the speed of this small boat was indeed not bad, especially under the tailwind, riding the wind and waves like a flying fish on the sea, shuttling by.

Soon Mu You returned to the Devil's Sea again.

Stopping at the boundary line of the Devil's Sea, Mu You opened the map, and the location of the marked shipwreck was located near a blood-red coral reef.

Mu You first determined his position on the map at this time, and then carefully estimated the direction and distance of the marked point he was going to, and then drove the boat in the determined direction.

This sea area is called the devil, which sounds terrifying, but in fact the sea is quite calm, and it is precisely because of the nature of this place that it cannot be resurrected, so ordinary people and creatures do not dare to approach it easily, but make navigation in it unimpeded.

This time, the voyage was relatively long. The Devil's Triangle is still very large, and Mu You continued to adjust the direction by referring to the various small islands and reefs marked on the map along the road, and finally found the coral reef group from morning to dusk.

After confirming that this was the place marked on the map, Mu swam in the deep sea area far away from the reefs, put away the boat, and plunged headlong into the water.

The bottom of the sea here is shallower than expected, and after about 120 meters of diving, it sinks to the bottom.

As soon as he landed, Mu You felt that he had stepped on something, and there was a crunching sound.

Looking down, it turned out to be a skull.

It wasn't that he happened to land on a skull so coincidentally, but under the surrounding seabed mud, there were dense human and animal bones, which almost filled the bottom of the sea, and there was no normal place to stay.

Mu You can only step on one foot and move forward with bones.

The sea is calm, but not beneath the sea.

Not long after Mu You landed, a series of dark green ghosts emerged from the surrounding bones, screaming with teeth and claws, circling around him.

These are unlucky people who accidentally die here due to shipwrecks or various reasons, their bodies are corrupted into skeletons, and their souls are turned into ghosts.

The notion that if you become a ghost, you will lose your lifespan, and unless you are purified or devoured by other ghosts, you will only be trapped at the bottom of the sea, tormented forever.

The long mental torment has long since caused them to wear away all humanity, leaving only the instinct to attack and devour each other.

After circling Mu You for a while, some ghosts gradually became bold and penetrated through Mu You's body.

Mu You suddenly felt a chill in his body, a tiny soul was torn down, his blood volume did not decrease, but his spirit was a little sluggish.

This bit of attrition was quickly recovered, but with so many ghosts, one came up and bit him, his spirit would be instantly exhausted, and he would fall into a coma, and his soul would be eaten by the ghosts, and he would turn into a skeleton at the bottom of the sea......

At this time, in the omniscient crystal, the attribute of a ghost has been revealed.

[Normal Ghost (Level 3-7): Attack 3-21, HP 200-1000, Mana 100-900, Ability: Soul Bite, Possession of Skeletons. Negative Talent: Earthbind, unable to go too far from the place of death. 】

These ghosts are weak, but one of the most troublesome things is that they are immune to physical attacks, and all entity-type damage will directly penetrate them, causing no damage.

Fortunately, they are not immune to magic, otherwise they would be invincible.

Mu You directly released a circle of fire, and the raging flames rolled past, driving away the surrounding circle of resentful spirits.

But these guys are not very afraid of fire-based magic, and in an environment like the bottom of the sea, fire-based magic cannot exert much power, and it will be greatly weakened if it appears. For other attributes, the attack power is insufficient.

The only thing that can really deal restraint damage to ghosts and make them fearful is the attack magic of the lightning and light systems.

It's a pity that Mu You doesn't have these two spells at hand right now, but he does have another weapon that can effectively kill ghosts - Vampire Claws!

The casting material of the Vampire's Claw is the 'Soul Purifying Stone', which is originally a stone specially designed to destroy souls, so although the Vampire's Claw is a physical weapon, it can directly attack ghosts.

Mu You directly switched to the vampire skin. It's just dusk, and the Night King's stat bonuses haven't worked yet, but it's enough to have a claw weapon to use.

Mu You pierced a ghost behind him with a claw that wanted to sneak up on him.

The claws thrust into the ghost's body, and there was a snorting sound, like the sound of roasting meat melting.

The ghost wailed in pain, his health quickly slipped, and Mu You stepped up his two claws to completely strangle the ghost.

[Kill a normal ghost (level 4) and gain 4 experience points.] 】

This thing doesn't have a lifespan after killing, and it doesn't have a drop reward, so it's far less cost-effective than killing a normal monster.

But he was able to add experience, watching the experience bar slowly rise, Mu You also had the motivation, waving his two claws to constantly bully these little ghosts, killing them at the bottom of the sea, and soon filling up the experience bar that was not much left.

[Experience points: 645/640, is it upgraded?] 】

Mu You was promoted to level nine on the spot, and all attributes were added to one. 5 free attributes, 1 point of agility, 2 points of intelligence, and the remaining two points add constitution, and continue to increase the upper limit of health.

His current stats are: 12 Strength, 24 Agility, 36 Intelligence, and 14 Constitution.

The density of ghosts under the sea is high enough, and it is very cool to kill monsters and upgrade them like this, but as more and more ghosts are attracted, Mu You will soon be unable to kill them.

Seeing that he was about to be surrounded by dense green phantoms, Mu You decisively switched to the ghost form and assimilated into a member of the ghosts.

After removing the breath of the living, the ghosts finally stopped a little, and looked around in confusion, as if looking for where the living life was hidden.

Mu You took advantage of the ghost time of a minute to escape from the ghost group, found a submarine mountain with no skeletons nearby, and lay down on the narrow mountaintop.

Looking at the ghost legions that were crowded below, almost filling the bottom of the sea, Mu You also felt a tingling of his scalp. This scene is really weird to the extreme, and if you change someone with poor psychological quality, I'm afraid you will be directly scared and faint.

Shaking his head, Mu You took out the lamppost from his backpack and shook the bell on it.

The bell rang, and the lamppost above soon lit up with a faint light. A weak phanteur of the soul emerged in the light, in the form of a man in a pirate hat.

"Hey, I'm at the wreck of the Ghost, where is your ship?"

Mu You asked in Xingling language. When he brushed the ghost just now, he had already scanned the surroundings, and there were only dense skeletons and silt on the bottom of the sea, and there was no shadow of the ship at all.

With such a large sea area, it is impossible to find the ship without some guidance.

Unexpectedly, Willy became excited as soon as he appeared this time, lying on the edge of the lamppost and scanning the bottom of the sea below: "I can feel it!" It's nearby...... The breath of the enemy, and my beloved ship......"

"In which direction?"

"Over there!" Willy felt it for a moment and quickly pointed in a direction.

Mu You had no choice but to switch to the ghost form, rushed in his direction, and then continued to look for it under the guidance of the other party.

After nearly an hour of following the guide back and forth, Willy's prompts finally stopped.

"This is it!"

Mu You floated above the seabed, and Willy in the lamppost excitedly pointed to the opening below.

"Are you sure?"

Mu You looked down, and there was just a piece of sand on the bottom of the sea full of skeletons, flat, and it really didn't look like a big ship was buried.

"You can't go wrong! Right at our feet, the smell of my poor Wraith, and the filthy and disgusting smell of traitors! ”

Seeing that Willy's eyes were red and he was trembling with excitement, Mu You hurriedly took him back into his backpack, which dissipated his excited soul before he found the boat.

Mu You switched to his ghost form, sank into the undersea sand, and searched around.

However, there was nothing nearby except skulls and sand.

Seeing that the time for the ghost form was approaching, Mu You was thinking about whether to switch back to the entity and take a picture of the jack-o'-lantern.

As a result, as soon as I turned back into a physical entity, I suddenly felt a softness under my feet.

The sand below seemed to be hollowed out, unable to bear his weight, and turned into quicksand, engulfing him directly.

Suddenly falling into the depths of the sand, and still falling at a rapid speed, Mu You was also surprised, but he didn't struggle, because he had already seen the hint in his mind.

You have entered the 'Abyss of the Dead', a passage set aside by a group of pirate spirits to save their ships and what remains of humanity in the hope of one day seeing the light of day. 】

Mu You slid all the way down the path of the dead, and after a few minutes, he fell into a deeper and darker sea.

Is there another sea under the sea?

Mu You didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly swam towards the light at a certain location above.

In this claustrophobic deep sea that is so dark that there is no light, any land creature will subconsciously go towards that little light.

A moment later, Mu You penetrated the light and surfaced.

In front of him, there was a vast space with a height of sixty or seventy meters, and he was lying on the stalactites on the shore.

Judging by the location, this should be a hollow rock layer between the bottom of the Devil's Sea and the deeper sea.

At the same time, a reminder appeared in his mind again: "You have reached the Ship Bend, the resting place of the souls of a group of pirate outlaws. 】

"Is this really the ......?"

Mu You climbed ashore, holding his wand in hand, scanning his surroundings.

There is air in this space, and there are many glowing aquatic plants growing, which illuminates this place.

The ground was filled with quicksand and various fish skeletons, and the surrounding boulders, like the fingers of death, blocked other directions and cut off a conspicuous path in the space.

Mu You followed the path and stepped on dry bones all the way.

After passing through a stone arch, Mu You saw the huge ship moored in the sand in the distance.

It was a two-masted sea ship, nearly 100 meters long, and the mast almost reached the ceiling of the stone layer above.

However, this majestic giant ship was broken into two sections from the middle at this time, which was extremely regrettable to look at.

Mu You didn't have time to pity the ship, because as he approached, ghosts quickly poured out of the hull.

These ghosts were all dressed as pirates, armed with muskets and swords, looking at Mu You in the distance, as if they had found fresh meat beasts one by one, and they all rushed towards him with wild laughter.

The level of these pirate ghosts is a little higher than that of the ghosts under the sea, generally between level 5 and 10, and they seem to still retain quite a lot of wisdom, and they actually know how to cooperate between actions!

Mu You used the vampire's claws to solve a few pirate ghosts, but it was still that problem, there were too many of them, and he had to switch ghost forms and retreat to the shore just now.

Fortunately, these ghosts are limited by the earth's binding, and they can't get too far from the ship, and they can't chase the entrance here for the time being.

Mu You stood in the distance and observed that there were at least four hundred pirate ghosts here.

If there was enough time, Mu You didn't mind slowly grinding away these ghosts, but the problem was that he was very short on time, and now it was almost eight o'clock in the evening, and he only had the last two hours left to stay.

In this case, it seems that only the shadow ghost can make a move......

Mu You first opened his backpack and called Vivien out, asking her if the shadow ghost could deal with the ghost.

"Of course you can, the shadow ghost is originally a kind of half-spirit, and you don't even need to be possessed to directly attack the ghost." Vivien said.

"Great!"

Hearing that he didn't need to be possessed, Mu You suddenly felt a lot more relaxed. Otherwise, in this ghost place where you can't be resurrected, it's really difficult to use the shadow ghost safely.

Taking out the shadow ghost box, Mu You rushed to the pirate ship again, threw the box among the revenants, and then quickly retreated before the ghosts surrounded him.

Here, Vivien had already remotely opened the box with a magic control, released the shadow ghost, and then summoned the box back with a flying charm.

After the shadow ghost appeared, he was supposed to immediately find someone to possess him, but as soon as he appeared, he saw a dense group of ghosts surrounded by him, and he was immediately furious, waving his claws and tearing apart the two nearest ghosts.

When the other pirate ghosts saw that their own people had been killed, they were also full of hostility towards the shadow ghosts, roaring angrily and rushing towards the shadow ghosts from all angles.

However, these low-level ghosts, where can they be the opponents of the shadow ghosts.

Mu You and Vivian hid on the shore in the distance at this time.

This was the first time Mu You had seen the battle of the shadow ghost with his own eyes, and he finally knew what it meant to be ferocious.

Like a tiger rushing into a flock, the shadow ghost kills the ghosts, all of which will not survive under its claws, and as long as they are caught, they will be torn to pieces in the next second, and then swallowed into its stomach and turned into a part of its own energy.

After killing more than a hundred ghosts in a row, the other pirate ghosts finally relented, surrounded the shadow ghosts one by one, but they didn't dare to get close again, and finally they all retreated into the cabin in fear and disappeared.

The Shadow Ghost was about to chase after him, but at that moment, a loud roar rang out from inside the ship's hull.

A skeletal soul more than ten times taller than those ghosts just now, wearing a crown on its head, a captain's cloak behind it, and a giant sword in its hand, slowly walked out of the cabin.

The height of more than ten meters is in stark contrast to the thin body of the shadow ghost.

At this time, Mu You felt that the lamppost in his backpack suddenly began to tremble violently, and took it out to take a look. Willy had already appeared automatically in the lamppost, staring at the skeleton ghost in front of him with red eyes, and said excitedly: "It's him, my co-captain Victor, the leader of the betrayers, the culprit of everything, as long as you help me solve him, the ghost ship is yours!" ”

Mu You glanced over there, and in the omniscient crystal, he fed back the attributes of the giant ghost.

[Level 30 Pirate Ghost Boss, Attack 300-400, HP 45200, Mana 12000......]

"Level 30 ?!!"

Mu You was stunned for a moment, almost thinking that he had read it wrong.

How could there be such a high-level ghost? Besides, if he really had this kind of strength, he should have given what he wanted in the Star Spirit Realm a long time ago, what kind of pirate would he be in his lifetime?

"Because he's been devouring and absorbing the power of other undead."

Vivien explained without surprise: "This kind of environment where earth-bound ghosts gather, just like raising Gu, it is easy to raise some extremely high-level big ghosts. ”

"No wonder the other ghosts under the sea are so weak......"

Mu You nodded and looked at the battlefield in the distance again.

At this time, the shadow ghost and the ghost have become a mess, both sides are hot-tempered masters, and once the fight starts, they can't stop anymore, and each other is doing everything they can, tearing each other violently.

Mu You originally thought it was stable, but the shadow ghost was an invincible existence in his impression, and he could still lose one-on-one?

As a result, after looking at it for a while, he suddenly realized that something was not right: in the face of this level 30 monster, the shadow ghost actually had a feeling of being suppressed!

"You can't beat it, right?" Mu You's eyelids jumped a few times.

If he loses, he will lose a lot, not to mention that he can't complete the mission, and he will lose a shadow ghost.

(End of chapter)