Xiao Tangqiu instantly remembered the black-covered book that Shen Yuan had read. However, before he could inquire further, a heart-wrenching scream suddenly came from behind them: "Ahhhhhhh!"
When everyone turned around, they saw that the pirates who had returned the same way to escape were running back again. The people running in the front were still intact, but the people running behind were covered in wounds, and some even had limbs missing. They were screaming and running away with blood gushing out of their bodies.
The pirates tried their best to run back to the sinkhole. Those who moved quickly could still save their lives, but those who moved slowly died on the spot due to excessive blood loss.
After all the surviving pirates returned to their original places, a huge tentacle stretched out from the hole in the ground. The tentacle's suction cups were full of bloody flesh and some terrified heads.
Xiao Tangqiu suddenly saw a familiar head: "Look! It's that chef!"
Tang Mianmian was the first to react, and he soon started yelling, "Holy shit! It really is that chef from the ghost ship! Wasn't he already dead? How did he die here again?"
Xiao Tangqiu suddenly remembered something, and he hurriedly looked at the surviving pirates. In addition to the group of pirates who kidnapped him and Shen Yuan at the beginning, the other group of pirates who kidnapped Tang Mianmian and others were wearing clothes that were similar to the remains of the corpses on the ghost ship before. This group of pirates were clearly the sailors on that ghost ship!
What is going on?
Shen Yuan also realized what was happening. He frowned and asked, "Could it be that the pirates on that ghost ship didn't actually get the treasure at all?"
Xiao Tangqiu was stunned for a moment, but he quickly understood what Shen Yuan meant. No wonder the chef's diary was vague about how they obtained the treasure. Perhaps they never found it at all. Perhaps they had already died on the treasure hunt, with only the obsession to find the treasure supporting them...
"No! They may not have gotten the treasure, but at least they saw the legendary treasure!" Xiao Tangqiu suddenly thought of something and shouted, "Otherwise they wouldn't know that the legendary treasure is a ruby ring! No wonder the ruby ring disappeared when we got to the luxury cruise ship. They only saw the ruby ring, but didn't live to take it away! Because they all died at the hands of the sea monster guarding the treasure!"
"That makes sense." Shen Yuan's eyes darkened, and he reached into his pocket to touch the ruby ring he found on the luxury cruise ship, then paused.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Tangqiu asked.
Shen Yuan paused and said, "The ruby ring is also missing."
Xiao Tangqiu nodded. "Of course. Since the pirates failed to take the legendary treasure, the ruby ring naturally wouldn't have passed into the hands of anyone else. It should have remained in the treasure chest of the sunken ship all along..."
Fei You couldn't help but interrupt and asked, "So what is our mission? Find that ruby ring?"
Shen Yuan glanced at Fei You and fell silent.
Xiao Tangqiu was not very sure. Since Optus, who was guarding the treasure, was a direct creation of the Abyss Demon and a very powerful high-level demon, the treasure it was guarding was obviously not an ordinary thing. What if it was something particularly dangerous?
But if their mission goal is to get the ruby ring, then they must find the ruby ring, otherwise they will never be able to leave this copy.
Zhang Zuo also spoke up: "No matter what, let's find that ruby ring first, right?"
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