Chapter 34 Let's Set Sail, ███! "This is the line I laid..."
Yan Bocheng realized, "Damn, that bastard ran away a long time ago, he wasn't upstairs at all!"
If they've been trapped here for half a day, the enemy will have already found the Giant!
The rain stopped, like a signal. The navigators in the terminal all stopped what they were doing. They paused like puppets, then put away their weapons and chainsaws, and those who had been slashing wildly stopped and let their skirts fall. The gentleman whose head had been bitten off by Lamia stopped struggling, pulled his head out like a severed tail, and stood up with remarkable elegance, straightening his half-head.
In an instant, they abandoned their savagery and bloodshed, their madness as vivid as yesterday. They began to tidy their appearance, finally putting on their butterfly half-masks again, and reverting to being radiant honored guests.
The monsters that kept bringing in coffins also noticed something was wrong and temporarily stopped their actions to observe.
The door on the third floor leading to the aerial tunnel opened first, and the meeting place behind the door disappeared. The repeated people also disappeared, and the ghost wall was no longer effective.
The voyage leader fired a salute, raised champagne, and gentlemen and ladies, their shoes and skirts flowing side by side, hummed cheerfully as they walked around the coffins scattered on the floor and gathered on the third floor, as if to attend a grand banquet.
Undine, holding the hem of her wedding dress, walked out from behind the door, but just as she was about to enter the pipe, a boy suddenly appeared beside her, lifted her veil, and she was forced to stop.
Having deactivated his supernatural powers, Zhu Wen raised his head and stared at the eyes that didn't belong to her in their sockets: "I've been observing you all for a long time, and it turns out they're with you. Auntie, these beautiful eyes, why don't you give them to me?"
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Unable to proceed from the bottom of the ship, Lin Feng and Yan Bocheng quickly returned to Right Port. Yan Bocheng stripped the clothes off the still-present corpse of the Qihang family, put on a mask, and disguised himself as one of the nobles. Meanwhile, Lin Feng, relying on the evil god to conceal his aura, prepared to infiltrate the Qihang family directly.
Unexpectedly, the next second, Lamia, who had been watching, suddenly moved, lashing out with her tail to block his path. Fortunately, Lin Feng was pulled back by Yan Bocheng and didn't become a meat pie.
The monster ignored the annoying sailors and instead surrounded them. Although it did not attack them, the terrifying monster would let out strange cries that humans could not understand and its tail would thrash wildly whenever they showed any intention to move forward. This was a blatant threat.
Lin Feng: "W-What happened?"
Yan Bocheng: "Your former teammate went too far! He wouldn't even let us on the boat!"
This won't do. The two decided to run out of the building first. As soon as they turned around, their tails swept over them mercilessly. These monsters would kill them if they moved even a little bit!
Lin Feng urgently called the evil god, who was inexplicably silent again, but the evil god was intermittent, and more often than not, as if the signal was poor and it didn't respond to him at all. The huge shadow had already fallen—wait? Why did the tail stop?
On the other side, Yan Bocheng also opened his eyes. The tail that was about to snatch his head back lightly retracted. The monsters were suddenly attracted by something and turned to leave.
They tested the waters, and when the monster ignored them, they quickly followed. They saw the missing Zhu Wen standing at the gangway of the cruise ship. The navigators kept climbing the gangway past him to get on the ship, and those who were already on board crowded behind him, using him as their backer and in turn as their backer, while keeping an eye on Lamia and the others.
Zhu Wen arrogantly raised his chin: "The eyes are in my hands. Now that you know, why don't you hurry up and return my treasure? Oh, and also, send the treasures from the other four cruise ships back to the Giant. I don't want them to fall into the wrong hands."
The voyage leaders nodded repeatedly, laughing and cheering for their team.
The monsters circled around for a moment, confirming that the Eye of the Gods was at Qihang's house. They then decisively switched sides again, since they only followed the Eye of the Gods. They tied the coffin to their tails, dragged the smuggled goods, and returned the way they came.
The blocked hull pipes can stop people, but not monsters, since they are made of monster flesh and blood.
Suddenly, the fluctuating smuggling numbers finally turned into a one-sided situation. Coffins were returned one after another, and the number of sailors kept rising. Meanwhile, the opposition, having lost the dungeon, had no external smuggling to balance things out, and their numbers plummeted into the negative.
"【Zhu Wen】I was wondering why Little Jellyfish left halfway through. When she returned to the building and found the newcomer missing, she wasn't flustered or looking for her opponent. Instead, she used her invisibility ability and stealth skills to wander around. So that's what she was after?"
"【Zhu Wen】Wow, isn't that just using the newbie's method to defeat the newbie?"
"【Congratulatory Text】What what?"
"【The prayer】is to use the emperor to command the feudal lords!"
"【Zhu Wen】Moreover, the little jellyfish should have already locked onto Undine, deliberately waiting until the Voyager boarded the ship before appearing—because the Giant was about to leave port, nearing the end of the betting mission, so it went all out in one go, not giving the opponent a chance to turn the tide!"
"【Zhu Wen】Damn, so the newbies are using the speed battle upstairs and downstairs as cover, and Little Jellyfish is doing the same!"
On the first deck of the Giant, a steel arrow was ready to be fired from a crossbow, aimed at the boy's wide hood. The moment Zhu Wen turned his back, the arrow was released instantly, spinning and cutting through the damp wind, heading straight for Zhu Wen. The steel arrow pierced the top of the hood, and the inertia carried the boy forward and down the river.
The sailors hurriedly reached out to grab him, only to see the boy fall off the gangway, his fishing line hooked, hanging upside down below the gangway, grinning in Xue Chao's direction, a fake eyeball falling out of his hood—the bait he used to lure his opponents.
The child's lips moved slightly, silently uttering a few words: "They've taken the bait."
Then he vanished into thin air.
[Using the "Invisible" Superpower]
Xue Chao immediately put away his crossbow and left the deck of the first tower.
The opponent's ability is invisibility. Hiding back in the intricate main hull would only make him more vulnerable. He chose a cabin near the superstructure—before the opponent had a chance to hide inside. Once locked, he could know the opponent was coming at the slightest sound, at least he wouldn't be passive.
But Zhu Wen had no intention of using stealth assassination. The dart was thrown in from the outer wall of the ship, passed directly through the railing, and got tightly wrapped around the rigging. The fishing line behind the dart drew a dramatic parabola in mid-air, as if it had been swung by someone in their hand, directly blocking Xue Chao's retreat.
As soon as Zhu Wen landed, his superpower was deactivated. He had deliberately made himself invisible in front of Xue Chao just now, just to play a trick on him.
The boy stood smugly with his hands on his hips, about to launch a sarcastic attack, but Xue Chao attacked without saying a word, and the two were about to fight.
Zhu Wen was quite skilled at fighting. He was petite and agile, able to jump and ride on someone's shoulders. With the help of what seemed like fishing lines growing from his own body, he was a formidable and difficult opponent to deal with. However, if things went wrong for him, he could slip away smoothly, making him both difficult to attack and difficult to defend against.
He was used to observing other people's attack patterns. After observing them four or five times, he would roughly understand them and then find weaknesses to exploit. However, Zhu Wen soon discovered that this man had no set pattern for fighting. His feints were extremely realistic, and when he actually attacked, he was absolutely fast, accurate, and ruthless. You could never guess whether he would attack or defend, kick or punch from behind—he was completely unorthodox!
This skill comes from hard work and raw experience; did this guy used to be a street urchin?
Moreover, the tattered plastic bag did indeed backfire, causing damage. Unable to launch an attack, Zhu Wen had no choice but to adjust his strategy.
Zhu Wen's fishing line missed again. Sensing something was wrong, he immediately went back to defend. The hand that was originally aimed at his face was deflected and landed on his shoulder. Using the force of his jump to dodge, Zhu Wen forcefully threw him over the shoulder, pinning him down. Zhu Wen quickly pulled down the fishing line that had been fixed to his left side, intending to throw himself out and snag another piano string, which would then pierce Xue Chao's abdomen from behind—but there was no reaction, the line had been snapped beforehand!
"Looking for this?" Xue Chao grabbed Zhu Wen by the neck and threw away the piano string in his hand. "You've been buzzing around like a fly for so long, just for this one attack. Why are you so persistent?"
"You, cough cough, how come I've never seen someone like you before?" Zhu Wen's eyes widened, his pupils trembling with a mixture of surprise and excitement. This skill was too much like something he had learned in a game. Which guild had just produced their new ace?
"What have you seen, you little brat? Go home and drink your milk." Xue Chao held the steel arrow in his other hand and swiftly thrust it down.
Zhu Wen scoffed, "Don't talk nonsense. You and I both know that we would never kill each other."
The steel arrow indeed stopped in front of him. Even with his neck being choked, Zhu Wen still had the smug look of a bratty kid: "Compared to fighting our way out now, you and I are more looking forward to the moment when the punishment is carried out, right?"
“Indeed.” Xue Chao said expressionlessly, then deflected the steel arrow, aiming it at the arm. “Then let’s dislocate one arm.”
The steel arrow still didn't go down, but it wasn't that Xue Chao had stopped again. Instead, the fishing line that swept in from behind firmly entangled the steel arrow. Zhu Wen suddenly grinned, and the next second, Xue Chao was bound by more than a dozen fishing lines that came flying in like dominoes, and was hoisted up in one fell swoop.
—Those were all lines that Zhu Wen had laid out around the area during the fight, like weaving a large net, just waiting for this moment.
"Looking for this?" Zhu Wen pulled up his right trouser leg, revealing a fishing line tied to his ankle. "This line is the trap I set."
Unable to move, Xue Chao could only glare menacingly at the brat.
Just in time, a sailor arrived, dragging an empty coffin and a bamboo raft. At Zhu Wen's command, the raft was pushed beneath the suspended Xue Chao, and the empty coffin was then placed on top. Seeing Xue Chao's truly desperate and ferocious expression, Zhu Wen felt a surge of satisfaction and said, "Just because you're old doesn't mean you're wise. You wanted to stop me at the terminal and escape by boat? Fine, then you can stay in Giant Port and watch how we set sail. But don't worry, I told you, I won't kill you now. Attacking you will only backfire—I'll wait until you crawl up to me and slice yourself in half. That'll be quite a fun time, won't it?"
He spoke without any malice, as if it were just a child's curiosity about toys, perfectly natural and pure.
As soon as the hanging line snapped, Xue Chao, who was bound to death, fell straight into the coffin. The coffin fell with a thud and was then tightly bound by a line around the bamboo raft by Zhu Wen.
This bamboo raft was actually a "relic" of the red and white hunting dogs that Zhu Wen found when he was setting traps everywhere.
Zhu Wen held the extra end of the line in his hand, dragged the bamboo raft and coffin to the side of the boat, and deliberately chose a route that avoided the direction of Lamia's return shipment, so as not to disturb the work of the others.
The bamboo raft and coffin were placed on the railing. The coffin lid was "thoughtfully" tapped twice as a reminder, and then the hand suddenly let go: "Time to send you, this dog of the opposition, home!"
The coffin fell into the water, stirring up waves. The conjoined bamboo raft, once it touched the water, was swept back to the right harbor in the blink of an eye.
"【Zhu Wen】I am super... I still have to be the seventh."
"【██】It still has to be the seventh one."
"【Zhu Wen】killed him and destroyed his spirit, he did a series of operations right before the departure time, leaving no room for maneuver."
"【██】The skill level of your game's top players is still amazing."
"【The prayer document】I already said, this is a prayer document."
At the same time, Lin Feng and Yan Bocheng, relying on Zhu Wen's "command," boarded the ship under the guise of a powerful figure. All the sailors boarded the ship, and the gangway was retracted.
The sound of the flute rose and resounded throughout the giant harbor at sea, like a hymn to the impending turning of the wheel of destiny.
Lamiai sank into the sea and returned to its nest.
At 2:00 AM sharp, the Giant set sail.
“【██】New husband, I’ve come to see you off. I can’t bear to look at you anymore. Goodbye (lights candle).”
"【██】Goodbye (light a candle)."
[Preserve Smuggled Goods (125/25)]
[The betting task is complete...]
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"[Wish Wen]???"
"[Wish text]???
"【██】This clue... haven't I seen this episode before?"
"[Zhu Wen] Holy crap, what's going on, everyone? The number is dropping!!"
"【██】I'm dropping faster and faster, I'm already 40!!"
At the cruise ship banquet, Zhu Wen suddenly stood up and rushed to the deck in disbelief, with Yan Bocheng following closely behind.
What's going on?!
[...40...25...12...]
At the edge of the floating platform in Yougang, the coffin, which was still half outside, suddenly emitted electric light and shook violently, directly shaking it off the underwater platform. The coffin was then sliced open by the fishing line that Zhu Wen had previously laid in ambush on the shore.
Xue Chao plunged his head into the water, and the invisible camera angle followed him into the sea. In the increasingly intense electric light that met the water, the truth became clear.
At the bottom of the ship, coffins were tightly bound together with ropes and fishing lines. As one fell, the others immediately followed, flowing smoothly out through special pipes. With increasing gravity, they continued to fall until the last coffin fell out, and the entire coffin chain plunged into the sea.
Amidst the excruciating pain, Xue Chao whispered, "This line is the scheme I set up."
[Seizure of smuggled goods (125/25)]
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