"Are you scaring yourself?"

The bandaged man asked, but did not retract his hand. Instead, some grey substance escaped from between his fingers. The substance floated in the wind like sand leaking out from between his fingers and spread towards the corridor.

If someone is standing there, the smoke will reveal the other person's figure. This is the extraordinary power that the bandaged people have cultivated in their long life.

However, to the Bandage Man's surprise, even after the corridor was filled with gray smoke, no figure was revealed.

Only the young man in the classical oil painting hanging on the wall grinned and laughed at the bandaged man's folly.

"Be careful."

The bandaged man let the fishman go first and moved slowly towards the depths of the corridor.

Lu Ban, standing in the room, took a deep breath.

"I was so scared. I almost got discovered."

He sighed.

“…That’s really terrible.”

Feng Yu read it emotionlessly.

Lu Ban continued to follow the two men. The complete invisibility effect given to him by Feng Yu avoided all means of detection by the two men. Even though Lu Ban was walking behind them, the two men did not notice him at all and only looked at the various things in the boat.

The bandaged man walked into a spacious room. Unlike other bedrooms, this room had a bed and a large wooden desk with a nautical chart on it. There was also a display cabinet behind the chair. In the transparent window, there was a model of the Starship.

Obviously, this is the captain's room.

The bandaged man did not touch the things inside rashly. Instead, he stretched out his hand and used the gray mist falling from his fingertips to explore. His eyes swept across the cupboards, windows, portraits, and saw the mirror on the wall.

In the mirror, the bandaged man's appearance is clearly visible.

However, he clearly saw that there was a face behind him.

The face was slightly pale, a completely different race from his own. His pair of dark eyes seemed to swallow everything, ferocious and terrifying.

"!!!"

The bandaged man immediately turned around, and the smoke in his hand turned into sharp thorns, piercing through the place where the man was.

But there is no feedback of any hitting feeling.

There was nothing behind the Bandaged Man, and the Fish Man was exploring another room.

When he turned around, he was the only one left in the mirror.

Snap——

The pen on the table not far away fell to the ground, making a slight noise.

The bandaged man tensed up again and looked over.

There is no one.

He spread the gray mist on his body throughout the room, trying to capture the movements of the possible person, but found nothing.

"illusion?"

Even though what he saw and heard gave him a strong feeling of uneasiness, his own abilities told him that this place was safe.

The bandaged man quickly found the design drawings of the cruise ship. He picked up the drawings and prepared to leave the captain's room.

Before leaving, he turned back and took a deep look at the room before leaving.

In the room, Lu Ban stood by the window and twitched his lips.

"How can you suddenly remove your invisibility?"

He questioned Feng Yu.

Just now, Lu Ban was standing behind the bandaged man, but Feng Yu suddenly cancelled his invisibility, causing Lu Ban's face to appear in the mirror. Although he immediately restored his invisibility, he was almost exposed.

As for the pen, it was also knocked off by Feng Yu when Lu Ban was standing at the table and he suddenly lifted the invisibility on his hand.

"Isn't this interesting?"

There was an obvious smile in Feng Yu's voice.

"No, it's not interesting at all."

Lu Ban answered immediately.

If I were to be exposed to these people, I would have no choice but to go to war.

Lu Ban considered himself a pacifist, and the missions in the Land of Silence were all kinds of strange. Maybe these people might not necessarily be able to lift the seal. It would be so embarrassing if he treated others as enemies just to swim next to that strange city.

Moreover, these people are able to undertake tasks of [Alienation] difficulty, and their strength is at least similar to Lu Ban's level. There are three people on the opposite side, and Lu Ban only has two people, so he may not be able to win.

Uh, wait.

At this moment, Lu Ban suddenly thought of a question.

Where did Laika go?

I was unconscious for a while after being possessed by Feng Yu. When I woke up, Leica seemed to have disappeared.

Is he hiding?

Or...

Considering Laika's characteristics, Lu Ban suddenly felt that the people on this ship might be in trouble.

…

Four Eyes sat on the deck, looking at the island that was so close yet so difficult to reach, feeling worried.

Before his eyes, the flags on the deck twisted into the scarlet, hideous words of SYSTEM.

【Ode to the Old Days】

[In the center of the storm, a lonely temple stands]

[The gods who once dominated everything rest here, waiting for an opportunity to play the hymns of the past and usher in a new morning]

[Enter this temple, try to untie the shackles imposed on the great being, and witness the madness of the feat]

[Quest requirements: Enter the center of the storm and reach the temple]

[Task requirements: Unlock the seal]

[Mission Difficulty: Alienation]

"I don't know how long the storm will take. It seems that this city will only rise from the sea when the storm appears."

The bespectacled boy rubbed his palms and muttered to himself.

There are two companions on this mission. So far, everything is going well, but Four Eyes feels something is wrong.

He had experienced alienated missions before. These missions were extremely difficult, almost a life-or-death struggle. He relied on his previous accumulation, took every step carefully, and sacrificed several teammates before he was able to survive these missions.

Some of those missions involved being attacked by terrifying monsters right from the start, others required assassinating a general who was surrounded by heavy enemies, and some required surviving for seven days in a severely polluted area.

But this time's mission, from the beginning to now, has been extremely simple. They originally thought that they would have to cross the storm in the physical body, but the tunnels in the ruins allowed them to come directly to the vicinity of the temple. No monsters have appeared for such a long time. The biggest problem is that the ship cannot get close to the temple.

It was just too smooth.

It's like a test paper that is said to be extremely difficult and even top students can't finish it, but you end up finishing it in 20 minutes without feeling any difficulty in the process. After you finish it, won't you feel something is wrong?

That's what Four Eyes feels like.

The development of this mission so far has been too simple, without any difficulty at all, which makes it hard for Four Eyes not to suspect that there may be something big waiting for them later.

Would it be that after the seal is released, the three of them would become sacrifices?

This ship suddenly appeared here, it should be some kind of mission element. Maybe there are monsters hiding on the ship?

Just as Eyes was daydreaming, he suddenly saw something flash by at the edge of the deck in the distance.

That thing looked like... a mass of flesh and blood?