Hearing One-Eye muttering to himself, Lin Yuan immediately understood.
It seemed the Liu Family had mistaken him for a subordinate of some Pirate Emperor.
That was understandable. The East Pole Sea had been sealed off for over two thousand years. Who could have imagined that someone like Lin Yuan would appear from beyond this world?
Most of the islands around the East Pole Sea were as backward as Shattered Island. A powerful A+-rank expert could not suddenly emerge from one of them, either.
So he could only be one of a Pirate Emperor's men.
However, behind every Pirate Emperor lurked traces of the Crawlers.
And the Four Great Families were also entangled with the Crawlers.
Yet after this incident, the Liu Family had not checked through the Crawlers, instead deciding outright that Lin Yuan belonged to a Pirate Emperor.
Was that because the Four Great Families were not actually that close to the Crawlers, or because the relationship between the Pirate Emperors and the Crawlers was more complicated than he had imagined?
As various thoughts turned over in Lin Yuan's mind, he suddenly saw One-Eye stop dead ahead of him.
"Who's there?!"
One-Eye first twitched his nose, then shouted.
Immediately afterward, he beckoned with his hand, and a fierce hurricane swept in, blowing away the Shell Pump's Mirage Mist.
Lin Yuan was revealed where he stood, looking slightly surprised.
Great pirates were experts with C-rank supernatural abilities, so it was no surprise that one could disperse the equally C-rank Mirage Mist skill.
What surprised Lin Yuan was that One-Eye had detected something wrong with the Mirage Mist through Inspiration alone, without using any detection skill.
"It looks like Mirage Mist has its flaws against people with high Inspiration, too."
Lin Yuan committed this lesson to memory.
Since even a great