Chapter 58 The plot has changed! "You're really brave..."

"You're really brave. Aren't you afraid they'll actually gang up on you?" Bayer looked at Sang Zhitao, a hint of surprise in his eyes.

Sang Zhitao stood up, walked to the railing, turned her back to the sea, looked at Bayer, and said with her smile still unrestrained and carefree: "Since I have chosen to become a pirate, then I have nothing to fear!"

Bayer was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter.

After a while, he stopped smiling, came up to Sang Zhitao, looked at the calm sea and said, "You will definitely become a new legend."

“Of course!” Sang Zhitao proudly raised her chin, looked at him sideways, her eyes full of provocation, “I will become a being greater than you.”

Looking at the young face of a man who was only seventeen or eighteen years old, Bayer wanted to say that this man was really arrogant, but looking at the several fleets around him, he could no longer bring himself to speak his words of experience as a senior.

Ignoring his silence, Sang Zhitao strode to the previous recliner, lay down, and said nonchalantly, "I think Captain Bayer came to find me because I have this potential, right?"

Bayer didn't return to the recliner next to her; he just stood by the railing watching her with an inscrutable look in his eyes. After a long while, he chuckled softly and said, "Of course."

“Then…” Sang Zhitao raised her glass of juice to him and said, “May I now know your purpose?”

Bayer's smile froze for a moment. He exhaled softly, went to Sang Zhitao's side, and drank another glass of juice in one gulp.

A drop of juice trickled down his chin, which he quickly wiped away with his sleeve before saying to Sang Zhitao, "I want you to take me to an unknown place."

Sang Zhitao paused in her action of taking the fruit, her eyes piercing like sharp swords.

"How did you know?" Her voice was extremely cold, as if made of ice, her whole body tense, looking like she was about to pounce.

Seeing her like this, Bayer knew that if he didn't answer well, she would definitely make him suffer on the spot.

He composed himself before speaking, "Forty years ago, the Duke of Hope suddenly appeared in this sea area, and within a year he became the most powerful being..."

"His eyes can see all the unknown things, and he is the one who tells us that a daughter of hope will be born in the future, who will overturn the path of the Hope and take us to unknown places."

"The Duke of Hope?" Sang Zhitao narrowed her eyes, concealing the shock in her heart.

“Yes, he is the captain of the Hope, we call him Duke Hope.” Bayer nodded, as if acknowledging Sang Zhitao’s guess.

Sang Zhitao looked at the fruit in front of her, silently rubbed her fingertips, and suddenly felt a chill run through her body.

In her and the others' speculation, the world she experienced would inevitably unfold as described in the novels she wrote, just as she would encounter betrayal in the Elf World and rebel forces on the Machine Planet, only she would choose the direction of the story.

But the pirate world is different. The only thing that changed after Sang Zhitao traveled through time was the time it took to obtain the treasure on the island. However, the current plot has undergone tremendous changes since forty years ago.

"Captain Sylph?" Bayer called out cautiously when he saw her lost in thought.

"I'm sorry, I was just a little shocked." Sang Zhitao came back to her senses, concealed her emotions, and forced a smile from the corner of her mouth.

“Of course, it is very offensive of me to keep asking you to share the information, so please feel free to make any request. As long as it is within my power, I will do my best to fulfill it.” Bayer did not care about Sang Zhitao’s reaction. After all, in his opinion, the young captain would definitely be shocked and at a loss upon hearing such news.

“Okay.” Sang Zhitao’s eyes flickered slightly, her fingertips rubbing together as she smiled at Bayer, agreeing nonchalantly.

Bayer was taken aback by her quick agreement. After a moment of surprise, he took a few quick steps with a look of delight before calming down and saying, "That's wonderful! What do you need in exchange?"

Sang Zhitao thought for a moment before shaking her head: "I have power, and I don't lack money. Right now, I really don't want anything else. I'll tell you when I remember."

Bayer hadn't expected to achieve his goal on his first try, and he didn't care that Sang Zhitao hadn't made any demands. After all, in his view, he was willing to give up everything as long as he could go to the unknown land.

He also believed that others who received the news would make the same choice as him.

Three months later, Sang Zhitao led her fleet to plunder all the islands mentioned in the book as having treasures.

The jewelry and gold ornaments were either given to her own crew members or sold to buy better ships, which is why her reputation changed from that of an unspeakable witch to that of a generous and powerful angel.

"I heard the Anling will be docked at our port for the next few days. I wonder if they will continue to recruit crew members." In a dilapidated tavern in the nameless port, well-informed people showed off their knowledge.

"Captain Sylph wouldn't want someone like you, after all, you're far too weak!" The man wielding the giant axe looked at the man with a mocking expression, then burst into laughter.

The man in front ignored his taunts, downed a beer in one gulp, and then said, "Captain Sylph is not as short-sighted as you. I've heard that she never values ​​brute force, but rather intelligence!"

"Are you saying I'm brainless?!" The man wielding the giant axe stood up angrily, pointing the axe at him.

"Hmph." The man gave a cold laugh and ignored him.

This attitude completely enraged the man wielding the giant axe, who charged straight at him with the axe.

For a moment, the only sounds in the tavern besides the fighting were the sounds of tables and chairs being overturned.

Aside from a few who were nearby, the other pirates grumbled and moved away with their glasses. None of the others paid them any attention; after all, fighting was a common occurrence in taverns, even for the owner.

"Do you think what he said is true?" Of course, they also focused their attention on the news the man had just said.

"You mean the Anling is recruiting?" His companions naturally understood what he meant.

"Hmm, we don't know where our captain is right now, should we..." The man in tattered pirate clothes frowned, his face full of sorrow.

"Go! Why wouldn't you go!" His companion blurted out his true feelings.

“But…” The man in the tattered pirate clothes still hesitated.

His companion patted him on the shoulder and whispered, "That's how pirates are. We don't care about loyalty, as long as we can make money. And isn't the captain of the Anling really a generous captain?"

The man in the tattered pirate clothes gulped down his beer, took a deep breath, picked up a piece of meat from the plate, chewed it, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.

The food perhaps eased his guilt. After swallowing the meat in his mouth, the man nodded emphatically to his companion: "Go!"

Sang Zhitao was unaware that her being at sea for too long and losing contact with the land had led to so much speculation, which was why she had been stopped at the nameless port.

"So, it's confirmed that it was Queen Rose's scheme, and I'm just an innocent fish caught in the crossfire?" Sang Zhitao looked at her uncle in front of her, her lips twitching uncontrollably.

"Oh~ my lovely little princess, it's all that damned Rose Kingdom's fault, making my little darling so thin and haggard. Life adrift at sea must be tough." The Duke of Wales, his obese body squeezed into the carved chair, looked at Sang Zhi Tao and almost burst into tears.

Sang Zhitao naturally knew that this uncle was just like her cheap father, always spoiling his favorite family members.

"No, Uncle Wang, I've gained weight recently, okay?" She plopped down next to Wales, dangling her legs to the side, looking quite nonchalant.

"I see you've lost all your royal lady demeanor now, it's all that idiot's fault from the Rose Kingdom!" Wales glared at him, but a fierce glint flashed in her eyes.

Sang Zhitao, of course, knew the kind of methods the king described in the book used to treat outsiders. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Since she wants to kill Princess Rose, why not tell her this? I think that King Rose, who dotes on his sister above all else, will make arrangements that satisfy us, won't he?"

Wales laughed heartily before saying, "Of course, my lovely little princess, your father has already arranged this."

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and a dozen or so handsome knights came forward: "You should have your own style when you're out and about. Take these men with you to the ship."

Sang Zhitao glanced at the knights and shook her head: "No, just give me two capable maids. The ship is full of men, and it's not always convenient."

Wales opened her mouth as if to object, but remembering her brother's instructions before she left, she could only sigh deeply and say, "Alright, whatever you say, my future queen."

After bidding farewell to her uncle, carrying the large sum of jewels she had received from him, Sang Zhitao happily led two skilled female knights onto her ship.

Before she could even greet Barron with the new crew, Barron approached her with a grim expression.

"What's wrong?" Sang Zhitao asked, frowning.

Baron pursed his lips and gestured to the ship behind him: "The sea surface is not right."

Upon hearing this, Sang Zhitao quickened her pace and hurried towards the railing of the boat.

Looking at the barely perceptible ripples spreading across the sea, Sang Zhitao's expression turned somewhat grim.

"The plot has changed again..."

Sang Zhitao simply couldn't understand why the Duke of Hope, who appeared out of nowhere forty years ago, had only created rules specifically for the Dark Vortex to keep everything in order.

But the signal from the reappearance of the dark vortex after only three months told her that the story in her memory had begun to change.

“This isn’t right…” Sang Zhitao bit her lower lip and murmured softly.

"Captain?" Barron looked at her with a furrowed brow.

Sang Zhitao stared at the sea for a long time before saying, "Give the order to set sail and go take a look!"

Barron nodded emphatically and quickly turned to make the arrangements.

Sang Zhitao then recalled the second dark vortex the female protagonist encountered in her memory.

According to the original plot, after the first encounter with the Dark Vortex, the heroine heard the legend of the Unknown Land the following year. She led her fleet into the center of the Dark Vortex and looted all the treasures. This directly caused the existence of the Dark Vortex to become a mystery and a legend of the sea.

But now everything is different. Sang Zhitao's sixth sense tells her that all of this is related to the so-called Duke of Hope from forty years ago, and the only people she can contact now are Bayer and the Unknown Land.