What's Going On?

"Sandru, Sandru, wake up!"

Liu Zhi, who was deep in slumber, heard a voice ringing in his ears. He tried hard to open his eyes, but found his eyelids felt much heavier, impossible to pry open no matter how hard he tried.

Then the voice continued, "This is your last chance. Make good use of it..."

Before the voice finished, Liu Zhi cried out loudly. His head felt like it was about to explode, as a massive influx of information and memories flooded his mind. These memories were both complete and chaotic, logical and illogical.

Clutching his head and rolling for a moment, Liu Zhi slowly calmed down. At the same time, he had a general understanding of what was happening. The moment he could open his eyes, he involuntarily uttered a sentence.

"No need for a last chance. That poor Sandru no longer has a chance."

It turned out the situation before him was the graduation assessment of a necromancer named Sandru.

This unlucky student, Sandru, had already failed three times. If he failed again this time, after leaving this world, he would wander eternally in the underworld, becoming a part of its backdrop.

But he never expected that this arrogant Sandru, his three previous failures having driven him slightly mad, would forcibly activate a more difficult graduation assessment task. When he sent himself into this world, he was affected and turned to dust, a fortunate turn of events for the unintentionally transmigrated Liu Zhi.

His soul now occupied everything that belonged to Sandru, becoming the actual controller of this body.

After organizing the general situation, before Liu Zhi could even examine Sandru's fragmented memories to understand his plan this time, he was thrown out, crashing heavily onto the floor.

Then, a strong smell of the sea hit him. Amidst the shaking, Liu Zhi finally regained consciousness. He saw that he was in a wooden ship's cabin. He had just fallen from a hammock, hitting a pile of boxes nearby.

Crawling up from the ground, Liu Zhi struggled for a long time before regaining his balance. However, the ship was still swaying continuously, and chaotic footsteps could be heard from outside the cabin.

Without time to sort through the memories of this body, Liu Zhi pushed open the cabin door, and a strange language blurted out.

"What's happening outside?"

"It's Pirate! Civilians, go below deck and hide. If we fail, offer your cargo to the Pirate, maybe it'll save your life."

Amidst laughter, several raggedly dressed Sailor carrying Scimitar passed by the front of the cabin. One of them answered Liu Zhi's question.

Of course, they didn't linger, quickly heading towards the Deck. Only one Sailor turned back and said, "Draw your sword and guard your goods. If any Pirate break in, protect your cabin yourself."

Closing the cabin door again, Liu Zhi grabbed a Scimitar commonly used by sailors from under the hammock. Feeling a little more at ease, he then began to sort through the body's memories.

The body Liu Zhi was currently using was also named Sandru. He was a descendant of nobility, quite handsome, with the family's heirloom golden hair. However, his family was so poor that he sold all his possessions and boarded a ship to the East to try his luck.

This time, he had rented a cabin on one of Xisa's silver fleets, transporting his earnings from the past few years to sell in Xisa.

This was actually a standard way for many impoverished nobles in the 17th century to make a comeback.

However, this noble Sandru was chosen by the necromancer and possessed not because his name was the same as the necromancer from another world, but because during his business in South America, he had unintentionally acquired a peculiar item.

It was this item that attracted the necromancer Sandru's attention, causing him to place his last hope on this fallen noble.

After reading all the memories, Liu Zhi hastily searched the boxes in the cabin. These were spices and precious items that the noble Sandru had acquired bit by bit in South America.

To ensure these items wouldn't get damp at sea, Sandru had gone to great lengths, fearing even the slightest damage to his assets.

At the same time, to protect his cargo, Sandru had brought enough rations and guarded the cabin with weapons, never leaving it for half a step each day, fearing someone might sneak in and steal his belongings if he left.

If the cabin hadn't been too small and he hadn't brought so many things, Sandru would have even considered opening the boxes daily to inventory the goods.

However, even without opening the boxes, Sandru had a deep memory of what was in each box, which made it much easier for Liu Zhi to search. He moved aside a few large boxes placed by the hammock and retrieved a small box hidden among them.

This small box was the most precious item among Sandru's belongings. Opening it, he found it filled with various gems wrapped in cotton.

Carefully moving aside some gems, Liu Zhi took out a golden pendant with a strange design.

The pendant looked distinctly Mayan, a mask of the sun god, with a pair of small rubies embedded in the eye sockets, surrounded by a circle of ancient and mystical hieroglyphs.

The item looked quite old and felt warm in his hand.

As soon as he held it, several thoughts involuntarily arose in Liu Zhi's mind.

He seemed to be able to use this as a material to communicate with the deceased Inca emperor Atahualpa. If he agreed to help fulfill Atahualpa's curse and kill the descendants of the treacherous Francisco Pizarro, then Liu Zhi could use this treasure to summon the heroic spirit of an Inca warrior as his subordinate.

Alternatively, he could obtain the Inca training methods for sun warriors. Or, he could use this item to allow the Inca warrior's heroic spirit to merge with him, gaining all of the spirit's abilities.

Turning the pendant back and forth, Liu Zhi felt puzzled. This was a good item; any of the three choices would be enough for any beginning. But that didn't mean it was worth Sandru risking his life for. Based on some of the fragments left in Liu Zhi's memory, his previous three graduation exams also involved similar choices at the start.

With this doubt, Liu Zhi searched through the fragmented memories and quickly found some different clues.

This pendant seemed to be able to connect with the deceased Atahualpa and engage in some soul communication.

After that, all clues were interrupted, leaving only fragmented pieces with words like "heavenly kingdom on earth," "pyramids," and "ruins," making it impossible to form a complete picture.

This surprised Liu Zhi. Just as he was about to learn the soul communication method left by Sandru to communicate with the soul within the pendant, the ship vibrated again.