In the underground storage room below the castle's master bedroom, a stone slab was lifted up, revealing a stone staircase with dense footprints on it. It was obvious that these were traces left by the two pirate groups in front.
"Underground passage?! It's truly heaven-and-earth. Let me get in."
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Walking down the long stone steps, the sparse torches could only illuminate a few people in front and behind. Chen Mo, who was walking at the end, could only follow the people in front and could not see the road ahead at all.
After walking for nearly an hour, we finally reached the bottom. The surroundings became wider, and the passage that could only accommodate two people turned into a cave. It looked like a naturally formed underground cave.
The stalagmites above the cave were still dripping water, forming puddles on the ground. The crowd began to disperse, and Chen Mo followed the main group while observing with a torch.
"Hmm? What's that on the wall? A mural?"
With the enhanced five senses, in the dim light of the fire, he discovered a painting on the wall ten meters away.
When I looked closely at it from a closer angle, I had no idea what material the mural was made of. After so much time had passed, in such a dark and damp place, the colors were still bright, the image quality was clear, and the thin stripes didn't look blurry at all.
Chen Mo looked at these murals and found that they were telling a very traditional mythological story.
Long, long ago, a sea monster ravaged an island, causing the islanders to fear it and worship it with totems, hoping for its blessing and peace. The sea monster gradually established a certain relationship with the islanders.
One day, for unknown reasons, the sea monster came back seriously injured and then died. It was buried in this cave by the ancestors of the island.
Soon the world changed and the island was struck by disaster. It changed from the original round island to the current crescent island. The ancestors who escaped from the island were trapped in this cave.
With no food, they had no choice but to feed on sea monsters. Unexpectedly, extraordinary people appeared. Under the guidance of these extraordinary people, some of them left the cave, while others chose to stay and protect this mysterious ancestral land. Some people made a boat out of the sea monster's bones and left Crescent Island.
Those who left didn't say anything, but those who stayed lived on the island during the day and guarded the cave at night. However, due to the lack of food and the harsh environment, many people gradually died.
After an unknown amount of time, when the tribe was about to be wiped out, the people who had left returned and brought many ships with them. They were the descendants of those who left, and they became pirates. Their arrival brought prosperity to Crescent Island, but also brought bloodshed.
The people who stayed behind opposed what they did, but they were too weak and had no choice but to compromise and join the other side.
Then the two powerful brothers of the Brotherhood of Pirates became three, and the third one was a woman.
Then, they also transformed Crescent Island into a magical island. At the peak of their prosperity, the navy appeared and fought against it, but was eventually defeated. However, in the end, at the cost of scrapping the legendary pirate ship, they launched a magical supernatural power, which almost annihilated the navy.
The last painting shows the remaining members of the Brotherhood of Pirates negotiating with the Admiral, making an agreement, and then nothing more.
Combined with the legendary origins of the Brotherhood of Pirates popularized by Jiang Zhe, it can be understood that the other pirates and navy seemed to have abided by that agreement, allowing them to survive.
However, Chen Mo didn't believe that just an agreement could guarantee their survival?!
Chen Mo is even more convinced that the Brother Pirates Group must have some hidden card that made the other pirates and navy afraid to act rashly, and therefore allowed the remaining forces of the Brother Pirates Group to be destroyed!
"What kind of power is it that forces the navy to be cautious?!" Chen Mo asked himself curiously.
"ah--"
A scream came from the front, and Chen Mo immediately rushed forward.
"Is this... a corpse?!"
The road ahead was filled with corpses, which frightened them and made them stop in their tracks.
"This is... the curse of Crescent Island?! It's true, we are all going to die! All of us are going to die!" An old pirate had obviously thought of some mysterious and terrifying legend about Crescent Island. He had gone crazy, talking incoherently and yelling wildly.
An atmosphere of fear began to spread.
Xiaoyan from the Jellyfish Pirates came up to Chen Mo and asked
"What did you find?"
Chen Mo looked at Xiaoyan strangely, feeling a little surprised that she would ask for his opinion.
"I know that the Octopus Overlord Body you Octopus Pirates cultivate is a rare form of Overlord Body that increases wisdom. You must be a very wise person. Now that such an emergency has occurred, I need your wisdom."
Chen Mo has no intention of parting ways with them yet, and needs to continue to lie dormant, so he tells the truth.
"These people are from the Hunter Guild."
"Yeah, I noticed that too. Anything else?"
"They are killing each other."
"What did you say? Killing each other?! How is that possible?!"
Xiaoyan's expression clearly showed disbelief. Although there were many unruly bounty hunters in the Hunter's Guild, they rarely killed each other.
Especially these hunters, who are obviously the direct descendants of the Hunter Guild. They are strictly disciplined and have deep feelings. They can be used as the navy.
It is even more impossible for them to kill each other!
Although I didn't believe it, I still conducted a careful investigation and found out that it was true. All the people died by killing each other.
All of their expressions were extremely ferocious, as if they were killing the person who murdered their father.
This is not normal, very abnormal!
"This phenomenon is too strange. What do you think?" Xiaoyan asked, somewhat at a loss.
"They must have been under an illusion or hypnosis. That's why they killed each other!"
"Hmm - that makes sense. Hiss - there is such a strange and dangerous supernatural power here?! Ah - it's bad, my elder sister and the others..." Xiaoyan suddenly thought of Zhuang Mei and the others, and immediately panicked.
"Don't worry, they should be fine. There are no bodies of the two pirates here. They must have been prepared. Either they took precautions and didn't fall for it, or they broke the illusion here."
"I'm glad you're okay." Xiaoyan patted her chest and felt relieved.
Chen Mo shook his head and said
"Now is not the time to worry about others. Let's worry about ourselves first. If you have anything to say, let's talk about it through here."
"Ah? Didn't you say we pirates are fine? Oh, right, what you just said was that the elder sister and the others either took precautions or broke the illusion in front. You mean, they took precautions before they got through." If you want to chat about "I Created a Wizard" with more like-minded people, follow "Youdu Literature" on WeChat to read novels, chat about life, and find friends~
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