Chapter 87 Ghost Ship on the Atlantic (2) “But the way of death…
2V900 sounds easier than Crazy Thursday V50 when it comes out of Si Ling's mouth.
Lucifer was speechless, thinking, "Okay, I will discuss this with Mammon."
After saying that, he returned the podium to Bai Ma, left the classroom, and went to find Mammon immediately.
That evening, Mammon presented the appropriate props—a [Dummy] and a set of silvery-white, silky soft armor. The [Dummy] was familiar to everyone, but Mammon enthusiastically explained that the armor was forged with his own mana, clearly intending to make a killing.
Si Ling had always thought that their relationship of cooperation, mergers and mutual deception was quite interesting, but soon he heard a follow-up rumor that Lucifer agreed to Mammon's shocking offer without even bargaining, catching Mammon off guard.
"...No need to bargain?" It is said that Mammon negotiated with Lucifer with a dull look on his face.
Lucifer simply smiled calmly, "No need, Satan will fully reimburse all expenses this time."
Thus, Lucifer successfully completed the mission, Mammon earned money, the students were guaranteed safety, and the world was achieved with only Satan hurt.
Everyone would set off the next morning. Si Ling had made a rough plan that evening and called the entire Eastern Team into his living room. They gathered around the coffee table and discussed, "Here are the floor plans for the Mockingbird that Lucifer gave me."
She spread the blueprint out on the coffee table and circled several key areas. "This is a cargo ship. Above deck is the cockpit and the crew's living and activity areas. Below deck is the cargo hold, divided into two levels. When used for the slave trade, women and children were kept below deck, while male slaves were kept on the lower level."
Li Qi pondered, crossed his arms, and asked, "Everything?"
"Yes, all of them, but some will be called up to work," Si Ling said. "My plan is for us to sneak into this ship directly from the bottom deck, and then Bai Ma will use evil magic to control the souls of the slaves. That way, we only need to avoid the small number of slaves on the deck. The rest are all targets, which greatly reduces the difficulty of the mission."
"Okay." Bai Ma nodded. "Leave it to me... But it can't take too long. The control of the evil magic is limited."
Si Ling nodded calmly: "If there are no obstacles, it shouldn't be difficult for Xuan Chi and I to deal with more than eighty souls from three hundred years ago."
Li Qi asked again, "Have you arranged for someone to pick up the souls of the slaves?"
Si Ling said, "It's arranged. Lucifer said they'll park the ship to the right of the freighter after the mission begins. It's a ship heading directly to the African Heaven." She looked at everyone and asked, "Any questions?"
Zhu Mengwei asked: "What if something unexpected happens?"
Si Ling said: "If the accident is that there are too many slaves that cannot be controlled and the situation becomes chaotic, or the target attacks us in groups, the physical classmates will help us disperse the firepower; if we underestimate the target's combat effectiveness, you will retreat first, and Xuan Chi and I will slowly deal with it."
Bai Ma raised his hand: "How do we get to our destination? By boat or helicopter? From what Principal Lucifer said... the Mockingbird is always in sailing mode, which means it's mobile. It might be difficult to find a boat? But the helicopter can only take a limited number of people."
This question, which sounded very reasonable, made everyone look at each other. Si Ling smiled but said nothing. Li Qi stepped forward and patted Bai Ma on the shoulder: "Hey, I understand. When I just died, I was not used to thinking about problems in my new identity."
"New identity..." Bai Ma vaguely understood what Li Qi meant that as a ghost there was a better way to reach the destination, but he couldn't think of what that way was.
The answer is that those who are good at swimming can just swim directly, those who are not good at swimming can just float, and those who are not good at either can only take a boat.
Bai Ma was completely stunned after getting this answer: "Isn't this too abstract???"
"It's not abstract," Li Qi said, beaming. "Humans must use transportation for speed and to save energy, but ghosts and gods are often faster than those vehicles. In terms of physical fitness, spirit forms are completely free from the limitations of the flesh. Even a recently deceased ghost can run for days without sleep thanks to their spiritual power. Physical forms may have physical bodies, but look at werewolves and vampires—who doesn't have physical fitness far superior to humans?"
Bai Ma was stunned by what he heard. Li Qi continued, "So most of the time, ghosts will ride in cars or something. They are physical ghosts who are afraid of running around in the city and scaring the living. But in a place like the deep ocean where there are few people, there is no such concern. It's much faster to float there and swim than to take a boat. Believe me."
"That's right." Si Ling nodded and added, "And there's another problem this time - as you just said, the Mockingbird is always underway and constantly moving. If we're on a ship, we can equip it with special equipment to assist in the search, but we'd have to be within a certain range to detect the other party's signal, which is difficult in the vast Atlantic. If we drift or swim, we can split up and inform each other of the coordinates after we find it."
"...Is that so?" Bai Ma, who had a slight fear of the deep sea, shuddered at the thought, but her determination to win at the prestigious university made her unwilling to give in. So she said nothing. Simply because she was rational, she had no intention of swimming at all, secretly deciding to float with Li Qi, Zhu Mengwei, and the others.
Si Ling originally planned to float over, but when she heard that Xuan Chi and A Zhu wanted to swim over, she chose to go with them. After all, to her, there was no difference between floating and swimming.
So the next morning, the students who chose to float over set off directly from the school. The students who were swimming and taking the boat first took a bus to an uninhabited coast. Then the students who were taking the boat boarded the boat in an orderly manner, and the students who were swimming went to a nearby cliff and jumped into the sea one after another.
"Wooow! I haven't been to the sea for decades, but the water is still so salty!" Before Si Ling went into the water, he heard the excited voice of the werewolf Orrik who had just entered the water.
She smiled and dived into the sea. As she had no physical limitations, she did not have to worry about being blinded by the sea water. The moment she entered the water, the corals, water plants, and the mermaid's tail in the sea were all clearly visible.
...Wait, mermaids?!
Si Ling took another look in surprise, his gaze following the black fish's tail upwards. He poked his head out of the water speechlessly, looking at Xuan Chi not far away: "Where did you learn this little mermaid transformation technique?"
She wants a fish tail too!
Xuan Chi suddenly looked embarrassed. "The Suhuang Clan has water attributes. Once they enter the water..." He coughed dryly. "It has nothing to do with mermaids. They are distant relatives of mermen, and we are distant relatives of phoenixes."
"Mermaids?" Ah Zhui turned his head curiously. "Did they really exist?"
Si Ling's heart sank, and then she saw Xuan Chi's eyes dimmed as well. It was obvious that he was thinking of the same thing as her, what the Fox Ancestor had said.
She remained silent. Xuan Chi said softly, "I don't remember much either," then dived into the sea and turned to swim towards the target direction provided by Lucifer.
The destination Lucifer had given was a range that would take about five days to reach by civilian boat, but the ghosts had entered the area within 48 hours. In the early morning of the third day, everyone dispersed and conducted a blanket search of the entire area.
An hour later, a British ghost's voice came through the sound transmission note: "Friends, I found it. I've posted the coordinates in the group."
The ghosts scattered across the ocean all took out their ghost disks to determine their locations and rushed to the location of the Mockingbird.
It took Si Ling about 20 minutes to get there. Xuan Chi arrived a little earlier than her, and Bai Ma, A Zhui and others also gathered later.
Although Bai Ma had floated all the way here, her fear of the deep sea still had some effect on her. Si Ling only saw that her face was abnormally pale. Zhu Mengwei smiled bitterly and said that she had vomited all the way. Li Qi said, "I'm afraid she'll vomit out her soul..."
"Do you need to take a break?" Si Ling asked with concern.
Bai Ma wiped his mouth and said, "It's okay, let's finish this quickly."
Si Ling thought about it and nodded: "Okay."
After confirming that the ship from the African divine realm was in place on the side of the ship, several people floated into the bottom cabin of the Mockingbird together.
They floated in from the stern of the ship, and next to them was a wooden staircase leading to the upper level. Under the stairs was a small foyer of about seven or eight square meters, and then there was a dark and narrow corridor with several wooden doors on both sides of the corridor. Behind the wooden doors was the cargo hold. This was actually not a rare hull structure, but the thought that the "cargo" inside was people always made people feel uncomfortable.
Bai Ma took a deep breath and said, "Then I'll go!"
"Yeah." Si Ling nodded. "If anything unexpected happens, don't force yourself, and feel free to contact me."
"Okay." Bai Ma said solemnly, "I'll start from the very end of the cabin. Wait for my news."
After saying that, she started to float towards the corridor. Li Qi and Zhu Mengwei followed her in as a matter of course. Si Lingxuanchi and A Zhu watched them go until they reached the end of the corridor. Then, they disappeared into the warehouse on the left, and their spirits vanished.
About three minutes later...
"Oh my god!!!" Li Qi screamed suddenly.
Si Ling was startled and looked up, only to see the spirits of the three people floating out again in panic. Behind them, there seemed to be something physical banging against the wooden door, and dust was falling from above.
then--
"Crack!" The wooden board shattered, and the object that hit the door came into Si Ling's sight - several skeletons roared and chased Bai Ma and the other two. Li Qi shouted as he ran, "Why are there still skeleton monsters?! Is this even scientific?!"
Before he finished speaking, Xuan Chi transformed a long spear into his hand and leaped forward. His spirit body and the Bai Ma trio passed through each other. As he landed, the long spear in his hand flew through the air and chopped down several skeleton monsters in the waist.
"flutter--"
"flutter."
But there were a few soft sounds in the air, and the moment the sharp blade of the halberd touched the skeleton monster, the skeleton monster turned into powder and disappeared.
Only then did Bai Ma and the other two dare to stop and turn their heads to look at the dark corridor behind them, with a look of fear on their faces: "Is it solved?..."
Xuan Chi narrowed his eyes in the air, staring at the dust that had not yet completely dispersed: "There is something strange."
"Don't separate." Si Ling held her breath and uttered three words, then walked towards them. A Zhu hurried to follow her.
"It's really strange." Si Ling walked to Xuan Chi's side and stared at the place where the skeleton monster had just appeared. "Their existence is like a physical ghost, but..."
"But the way he died was like a ghost spirit." A Zhui interjected.
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