Chapter 16 Pirate Ship 15 (End) This is a...
The princess has a soft spot, and once all the clues are put together, everything is easy to explain.
All the items in the room belong to the princess's new husband, the Duke of Newcastle. Back then, the pirates looted the fleet and killed the duke, and finally raped the princess to death. The princess was so resentful that she became a ghost, cursing everyone on the ship not to kill or to die a bad death. And because the pirates originally came to rob money, anyone who touched the gold, silver, and jewelry in the room would be judged by the princess' ghost as the murderer of her husband, the Duke of Newcastle, and anyone who violated this death rule would surely be killed.
And it is obvious that the princess wants to kill Pais the most but cannot. Like Jenny, she is trapped in a specific curse.
The princess only appears when the player triggers the death rule, so basically the player dies when he sees the princess.
The only way to break the deadlock is to find out what the princess desires most in her heart and fulfill her wish. Therefore, An Rao chooses to use Newcastle's dagger to lure the princess out, use Jenny's loyalty to persuade the princess to stop killing, and then give himself the opportunity to help the princess realize her wish in exchange for her life.
The key to all this is the ship's log.
If he didn't know the history of the Mary Rose, didn't know the historical facts recorded in the logbook, didn't know that the child he accidentally rescued was familiar with the witch culture in medieval Europe, didn't know where the captain's room was, and wasn't even a virgin, An Rao believed that he would never be able to find a solution to survive in such a dangerous situation. Perhaps he could abide by the death rule of not touching gold, silver and jewelry, but he could only become a monster when he had to eat.
——This is a deadly game no matter how you look at it.
The nails that were sharp enough to cut iron like mud touched An Rao's shoulders. The princess nodded with dignity and dignity: "Then, please lead the way."
The princess didn't even question herself like Jenny did - in fact, there was no need to. Her nails only rested on her shoulders, and An Rao could already feel the pain of his skin being pierced.
An Rao was almost carried to the deck by the princess and Jenny, while Baichuan followed closely with the child.
Su Ming was completely confused by this and didn't realize that he was in big trouble until An Rao took out the feather of the big parrot.
"Are you a virgin?" To be on the safe side, An Rao asked this question before drawing blood.
Su·Human Blood Bag·Ming was stunned: "Huh?"
"Okay, you are, come here." An Rao grabbed the fingertips of the unlucky boy Su Ming, bit them hard, and then before he could react, he put the parrot's thick feathers close to him.
When the captain's room opened, Pais was strangling Le Fay's neck. The two cursed creatures, neither human nor ghost, could really kill each other until they saw the princess and Jenny, and then they screamed in horror at the same time.
The deep hatred was so deep that the princess and Jenny didn't even need any opening remarks. The four ghosts immediately wrestled with each other, and no one could really gain the upper hand.
"Go to hell!" The princess's sharp nails pierced straight into Pais's stomach.
"Puff." There was a dull sound of a pocket being punctured, and Pais looked down at his stomach, but not a drop of blood flowed out.
"Hahaha, bitch, have you forgotten the curse you cast on me? I will be neither human nor ghost, unable to live nor to die, tormented by hunger and thirst day and night, burned by desire, never able to reach the shore and never able to leave this ship, and you can't kill me!" Pais grabbed the princess's scarred hand bones and broke them hard.
"Ah!" The princess screamed and stepped back, causing Jenny to let go of Le Fay, who she had strangled with her tentacles with great difficulty, and immediately stepped forward to help.
After all, Pais and Le Fay were a pirate leader and a witch respectively, and the two ladies, the princess and the maid, were unable to compete with them and were at a disadvantage after fighting for a while.
"My little beauty, you are no match for me. I have humiliated you to death before, and today I will tear you into pieces!" As he said that, Pais stretched out his hand and grabbed the princess's fragile cervical vertebrae, not dodging the princess's sharp nails like steel needles that were sweeping towards his head.
“I said, I will not die—Aa ...
"I will make you neither human nor ghost, unable to live nor die, tortured by hunger and thirst day and night, burned by desire, and unable to reach the shore and leave this ship forever, unless," a trace of sad and beautiful smile appeared on the princess' tear-stained skull, "unless someone stabs your body with my husband's dagger stained with my husband's blood, then the curse can be lifted."
"Congratulations, the curse is lifted. Next, slowly taste the taste of death!" After saying that, the princess pulled out the nail that was stuck in Pais's head, turned around and gracefully performed the salute of a noble lady to An Rao who came out from behind the pirates and the witch with a bloody dagger.
This was the real reason why Pais ordered people not to go out after dark. The princess made such an impossible condition to lift the spell in order to find her husband, and Pais and Le Fay kept the Duke of Newcastle's body in the invisible captain's room in order to lift the spell one day.
Pais forbade every new crew member to go out after nightfall, and the crew members would be killed by the princess if they touched the gold, silver and jewelry. Those crew members were the lambs used by Pais to calm the princess's anger and desire for killing, and also a test to find people who could pick up the Duke's various beloved things. Anyone who could pick up the gold, silver and jewelry without dying would be taken to the captain's room to break the curse.
Now, someone who can pick up the Duke's dagger and not be killed by the princess has appeared, but it's a pity that he appears at the wrong time.
The spell is lifted, and the real long and horrible death has just begun.
After taking revenge on her old enemy and finding the remains of her beloved Duke of Newcastle, the princess's anger subsided. The noble princess raised her proud chin, drew out her sword with dignity and gently placed it on the right shoulder of An Rao who was kneeling on one knee: "I pardon you, from now on, you are free."
After saying that, the princess put away her sword, took the princess seal handed to her by Jenny, and solemnly stamped it on the maps of the three people in front of her.
The original door of the captain's room suddenly glowed with white light, and the game was finally over!
An Rao and Bai Chuan took Su Ming out of the door. The next second, the three of them stood up from the stopped wooden pirate ship, still singing the brisk but eerie nursery rhymes, and the air was filled with the sweet aroma of popcorn and marshmallows.
Finally, I got out alive!
Although the marks of transformation into a monster faded quickly, the injuries sustained in the game could not heal on their own. The moment An Rao walked out of the small fence marking the "game exit", he felt dizzy, Su Ming's shouting became increasingly distant, and the scenery in front of him gradually lost focus. Finally, An Rao fell into an endless dark void amidst a blank space and piercing tinnitus.
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