Night, on the sea.
Sea Parrot passenger ship, in a "luxury" cabin.
"A Ming... we really don't need to go outside to take a look?"
There were no lights in the cabin, which was not spacious at the moment. A young man's voice sounded in the darkness. His voice sounded a little tired and weak, but he was trying to cheer up.
"No need... brother... you've asked me several times..."
Another man's voice, which was also a little tired, soon sounded. His voice was younger than the former.
"But Brother Fan has been out for a while and hasn't come back yet... You heard the noise outside just now. I feel like there must have been a fierce battle. We can't just wait..."
The older Chen Can went on to say that his spirit, which had become quite weak due to seasickness, showed a bit of anxiety, because this was his first time playing a dungeon, and he didn't quite understand how Chen Ming beside him could remain so calm and so salty in such a situation where his personal life was at stake.
"Brother, what do you think is the use of us going out now? This is on the sea, and there is no place to escape! Moreover, the two of us are now seasick and in such a bad state, and our little fighting power will be greatly reduced. How can we help Brother Fan if we go out? You can't I've seen Brother Fan's strength, so I'm worried that something will go wrong. Let me tell you, Brother Fan's combat power is not comparable to that of ordinary players! Let alone novices like us! If there are enemies outside that he can't deal with, the two of us will just wait to die!"
Chen Ming, who was lying down in this narrow separate cabin, then raised his voice and replied impatiently to his brother. His tone was quite bachelor, full of the wisdom of a player who hugs his thighs and lays down.
"You... he is really that strong?"
Chen Can was immediately speechless by his brother's words, but he also really felt his brother's confidence in Wang Zhifan. After all, the situation outside was a matter of life and death for them. The fact that his brother could lie down like this without even moving showed that what he just said was from the bottom of his heart.
But before Chen Ming could reply to him, there was a sound of footsteps outside their cabin, and at the same time some light leaked from the cracks in the wooden boards. The two of them suddenly became alert, and they both quickly sat up and picked up the firearms in their hands.
"Open the door, it's me."
Wang Zhifan's voice then sounded from outside, and he knocked on the thick wooden board that separated the cabin.
"Oh, Brother Fan, you are finally back!"
Someone in the cabin who had just sat up from lying down immediately stood up and opened the closed thick wooden door.
"Are you two feeling better? Do you want to go out and get some fresh air?"
Wang Zhifan, who came over with a kerosene lamp, then said to the two brothers who were on guard in the "deluxe room". His eyes swept over the faces of the two Pallor who were still comparing themselves to each other under the light.
"It can't be that fast..."
Chen Ming immediately shook his head.
"It felt so noisy outside just now. Brother Fan, what happened outside?"
He asked Wang Zhifan curiously. Chen Can, who had just put the pistol back into his pocket next to him, immediately looked at Wang Zhifan after hearing this. He obviously wanted to know the situation on the deck very urgently.
"Something happened, but it's all settled."
Wang Zhifan then began to organize his own language, not wanting to make these things too complicated and wordy.
"In short, a pirate ship just attacked the ship we were on. Then I went up and killed their leader and all the disobedient pirates. Now that their ship is owned by us, we will take their ship to the Storm Sea to complete the mission."
He paused and recounted.
"I'll go! Brother Fan, are you so fierce?! Just robbed the pirate's ship? I have to go up and have a look!"
Chen Ming, who was still seasick, his eyes lit up immediately after hearing this. He cheered up and got out of the cabin. His brother Chen Can followed him immediately.
"It's good for you to go out for a while. The corpses are being cleaned up above. You two are so familiar with the environment where there are dead people. You will definitely encounter it in the dungeon in the future."
Wang Zhifan said and his eyes paused on the newbie Chen Can.
"And you must be careful. Although those pirates were killed by me, they are still pirates who kill without blinking an eye. You can treat them as ordinary NPCs."
He then reminded the two of them a few more words, and then took the kerosene lamp and led them to the straight ladder leading to the deck.
"Brother Fan, are there any pirates that need to be dealt with? I want to try what it feels like to kill someone with my own hands."
While walking, Chen Can behind me suddenly asked.
"Not currently, but there will definitely be opportunities in the future. Don't worry, I will let you do actual combat when the time is right."
Wang Zhifan turned his head slightly after hearing this and responded.
He has indeed considered this aspect, because it is not appropriate to take the two brothers to play dungeons and be completely nannies. They must have some sense of participation and improve their dungeon experience under relatively safe conditions.
"Brother Xie Fan."
Chen Can answered immediately after hearing this. Like his brother, he now understands more and more how extraordinary the young man in front of him is.
The three of them then boarded the deck of the ship at night. The sea was very calm that night, with no wind and waves, but there were dark clouds in the sky, and there was no moonlight. They could only see many people carrying kerosene lamps busy on the two connected ships.
Sea Parrot was quite relaxed here, basically the same as when they came up during the day. It was just that the crew was salvaging cargo containers from the sea for some reason. But it was different on another nearby ship. Chen Ming The two brothers could see blood stains everywhere on the deck over there, as well as some horrifying human limbs and even heads with eyes wide open.
"Ugh..."
When Chen Can saw this scene, even though he was still some distance away, he couldn't help vomiting quickly, even though he had vomited his entire stomach due to seasickness during the day.
"It's really exciting to see so many corpses for the first time, but you'll get used to it the more you see them."
Wang Zhifan's reaction to this new player was relatively understandable. He himself had killed animal bosses and then human enemies all the way up. There was a process of gradually becoming familiar with the corpses, but the other party did not receive this treatment. He was directly faced with the most impactful bloody scene.
"Yes, brother, I saw a scene similar to this when I played a fantasy game with Brother Fan last time. I also vomited at the time, but that time, most of the people on the ground were charred corpses, not so bloody."
Chen Ming on the side also felt something strange in his throat when he saw a large number of corpses being cleaned up on the nearby ship. However, he had seen some scenes before and suppressed the vomiting feeling.
"You two haven't recovered yet, so just stay here and take a look. Be careful of possible attacks. I have something to do over there."
After giving the two brothers some experience, Wang Zhifan let them get familiar with the deck first. He left the kerosene lamp to them and stepped across the bridge to the pirate ship.
At this time, some pirates on the deck of the pirate ship were busy cleaning up the corpses and washing away the blood. They did this not only at Wang Zhifan's request, but also to their benefit, because Wang Zhifan acquiesced that all the property they found while cleaning up the corpses would belong to themselves.
Not long after, he passed by busy figures, and passed by the Sea Parrot crew member who was guarding key positions such as the rudder and sails of the pirate ship. After learning that everything on the deck was normal, he entered the pirate ship below the deck, that is, into the cabin alone.
Currently, under his powerful perception, he knew that the two key figures he valued were down here, and one of them was gathering with some of the surviving pirates, discussing something.
"Old One-Eye, you had such a good opportunity just now, why didn't you kill those people above and let us quickly sail away and escape!"
At this moment, in a certain cabin, a short middle-aged pirate said angrily to the one-eyed old man in front of him, seeming not to understand the other's flinching not long ago.
"Haha... If you want me to die, just say so."
The one-eyed old man then raised his eyelids and replied to the middle-aged man impatiently.
"Old One-Eye, you are really old and you are no longer as domineering as before! Are you so afraid of that boy?"
Another fat pirate next to him couldn't help but point his nose and curse at the person in front of him who was acting particularly cowardly.
ah!!! Then a scream rang out, and the fat pirate's finger pointed at the old man fell to the ground in the blink of an eye. It turned out that the one-eyed old man suddenly took action and chopped off the thing pointing at him at an alarming speed.
"Hmph! Old man, I am indeed old! But I am not someone who can be insulted by just anyone!"
The powerful old pirate then said coldly to a certain fat pirate who was screaming and rolling to the ground with one eye that was fierce. At the same time, he glanced at the somewhat surprised middle-aged short pirate next to him. The other party obviously did not expect that this old guy would suddenly become so angry and actually attack them directly.
"Dwarf, that man is very strong. I feel that he was just playing around in the previous battle. Even if we killed the people outside just now, we would definitely not be able to escape. If we really fall out with him, everyone will probably die, so we must follow him and maintain cooperation with him..."
The one-eyed old man then explained to the short middle-aged pirate next to him, with a serious look on his wrinkled face.
"Then... let's wait until we get to the port before escaping."
The short middle-aged pirate was momentarily shocked by the solemn look on his old friend's face. He did not expect that the other party rated the danger of the young man so highly. Because he and the fat man whose hand was cut off were not on the deck immediately, they did not see the moment when someone showed his magical power, and could not truly understand how terrifying he was.
"Well, this is a better idea."
The old one-eyed man nodded his head after hearing this.
While these people were discussing, there was a sound of footsteps outside the cabin where they were, and then the figure of a tall young man came uninvited and strangely entered the closed cabin where they were.
"Old man, what are you discussing here?"
Wang Zhifan As soon as he walked in through the wall, he glanced at the old man and the two people beside him, and asked.
"Haha, Captain, we are discussing how to help you find that island."
The one-eyed old man noticed that Wang Zhifan had suddenly arrived, and the serious look on his face quickly turned into a smile.
"Oh? Really? You guys just discussed it and how can you still fight?"
Wang Zhifan simply ignored what the old guy called him, with a somewhat unbelieving expression on his face, and glanced at a fat pirate next to the old man who was picking up a severed finger from the ground with a look of pain on his face.
"Captain, that's how we pirates are. It's very common to cut off our fingers. That's why I'm blind in my left eye."
The old man quickly replied, not wanting to continue this topic with this scary guy who suddenly came in.
"Okay, remember to go to the captain's cabin later. We have to think carefully about the next plan."
Wang Zhifan finished saying these two sentences to him, turned around and left through the wall again, making several people in this cabin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Did you feel it? The murderous intention hidden in that man just now... He almost killed us all... He didn't kill us in the end just because we were still useful to him..."
After the old man confirmed that Wang Zhifan had left, a look of horror flashed in his single eye, and he replied to the two people beside him. It was completely different from his bachelor behavior on the deck not long ago. Obviously, his previous behavior was a performance and disguise.
His perception was not low, and he knew that their previous discussion might have been exposed, but he just didn't understand that he had obviously arranged for someone to watch at the entrance of the deck, so how did the young man come in without anyone noticing, but it was useless for him to think about it now, and he could only regret that the previous arrangements were not well thought out.
At the same moment, in another cabin in the pirate ship, a fierce-looking man who had taken off his steel armor and revealed scales all over his body was kneeling in front of a humanoid statue with no specific face, muttering something in his mouth.
"Great Sea God! Your devout people are grateful for your protection! You are the only master of the endless ocean..."
This big man Crocodile Man kept mumbling, and he didn't even notice that there was a figure coming through the wall behind him. However, Wang Zhifan, who came here quietly, did not directly interrupt his prayers, but listened quietly, while paying attention to the statue he was kneeling to.
"There is no male or female in this statue, and the workmanship seems a bit rough, but it gives me a vague feeling that it is not a mortal thing..."
Wang Zhifan has always stayed away from things related to gods, so as soon as he discovered that the statue was no ordinary object, he once again activated Ghost Shadow Shoes's mysterious power to leave through the wall, and then went to the cabin door again to knock on the door.
Then when the big man Crocodile Man inside interrupted his prayers to open the door for him, he communicated with the other party and asked for information about the statue inside.
"Your Excellency, this statue carries the precious blessing of the great Sea God. It is proof that the great Sea God protects us. It is precisely because of it that this ship is not afraid of wind and waves and can be faster than other ships..."
Soon, Wang Zhifan learned from the big man Crocodile Man that the Sea God Statue in this cabin was indeed not a mortal thing. It was the reason why this pirate ship had some magical abilities.