Distant Fleet!

"I say, my lord... There aren't any ghosts in here, are there?" In the forest, Wang Gou Dan looked around cautiously.

The followers couldn't help shuddering when they heard him...

The main reason was that the forest really was rather strange. The coast had been basking in bright sunshine, but upon entering the forest, they seemed to have stepped into an ice cellar. An inexplicably eerie chill made everyone deeply uncomfortable.

The lighting was strange, too. Most of the trees in this forest were coconut trees, and it wasn't particularly dense, yet the light from outside barely penetrated. A thin layer of mist firmly blocked it outside.

The lord at the front said nothing, but Li Gou Dan, walking behind them, couldn't help smacking Wang Gou Dan's head after being startled. "Can't you stop saying things like that in such a creepy place?"

Wang Gou Dan winced in pain and retorted, "With guts like yours, you still want to become an adventurer? Show some promise, will you?"

Li Gou Dan widened his eyes. "A... an adventurer? What's wrong with that? Would an adventurer really go through this kind of ridiculous nonsense?"

"Why wouldn't he?" Wang Gou Dan asked, looking at him.

Li Gou Dan said, "Such as?"

Wang Gou Dan said, "Tomb Raider, Candle in the Tomb, Grave Robbing Notes, The Mummy..."

"You call those adventurers?" Li Gou Dan rolled his eyes at him. "Those are tomb raiders, all right? I'm a maritime adventurer, thank you very much. If I ran into danger, it would be a tsunami, typhoon, or great white shark—or maybe a man-eating octopus. How could I possibly go off-topic and encounter ghosts and monsters?"

"That's hard to say..."

Li Gou Dan froze when he heard the sudden reply. It hadn't come from Wang Gou Dan. It