Zhou Zhou lay in Alvia's arms, blinked his amber eyes, looked up at Alvia and asked, "Are you okay?"
"It's okay." Elvia looked at Zhou Zhou who was close to her and turned her head slightly.
"You saved me again." Zhou Zhou said with a smile, with no awareness of the danger he had just been in.
Alvia: "...Can you get up first?"
The two people were lying on the floor in the corridor, with Elvia lying underneath and Zhou Zhou lying in his arms talking, with no intention of getting up at all.
"Oh." Zhou Zhou then obediently left Elvia and stood up.
Alvia sat on the ground, but before he could stand up, Zhou Zhou suddenly turned around, squatted behind him, and pulled his clothes off.
Alvia immediately grabbed the collar of the windbreaker and frowned: "What are you doing?"
"Your back hit the wall just now. The sound was so loud that it must have hurt. Let me see your injury." Zhou Zhou didn't think there was anything wrong with his actions. He was full of concern and honesty.
"No, I'm not injured. Even if I am injured, I don't need to take off my clothes. I will disappear automatically after leaving the copy." Elvia looked at Zhou Zhou with a hint of vigilance, as if Zhou Zhou was a hooligan who might molest him at any time.
"Oh, okay." There was actually some disappointment in Zhou Zhou's tone.
Unable to take off his clothes, he looked at the beef jerky he had been holding in his hand and had not finished eating, and began to nibble on it. However, there was no smell of food in the corridor, and Zhou Zhou didn't feel hungry anymore. He had originally planned to eat some dried fish, but now it seemed unnecessary.
After Elvia stood up, the two of them looked towards Room 105. The door of Room 105 was open, and the floor inside had completely disappeared. Only a few broken wooden boards were connected at the edges, and a part of the bottom of the room was covered by fallen wooden boards. Abandoned broken swords and ruins were scattered all over the ground, and things farther away could not be seen clearly due to the line of sight.
Alvia: "After we look at these rooms, let's go look downstairs."
Zhou Zhou: “Yeah.”
The thrill just now had no effect on the two of them, and they were not even mentally disturbed.
Alvia walked ahead and opened room 104. There are two hammocks in the room and several wardrobes on the left and right. It is very simple and clear at a glance.
After Elvia tested the floor of the room and found no problems, she let Zhou Zhou in. There was nothing in the closet and there was no sign that anyone had ever lived in the room.
Next is Room 103. I don’t know if it’s because there’s nothing in the closet in Room 104, but this room has tall and big closets on three sides. The closets are filled with all kinds of clothing, both men’s and women’s, which are gorgeous and complicated; there are also various accessories, hats, bow ties, necklaces, watches, and shoes. It seems that the owner of the room is either rich or noble, and has very high requirements for dress.
Zhou Zhou was very interested in this room. He remembered that he had only bought clothes and not any accessories. He wanted to buy all these things after the copy was released.
However, there is still nothing in this room that can trigger the main quest.
There were several tables in Room 102, and on them were various guns and weapons. Zhou Zhou observed them curiously at the beginning, but then he didn't even look at these things and seemed to have no interest in them.
None of these rooms contained what they were looking for, so the two of them just looked around and left.
When Room 101 at the front of the corridor was opened, there were several wooden boxes stacked inside with copper locks hanging on them.
Zhou Zhou didn't find the key in the room. He stared at the boxes and tried to pull them tentatively, but they couldn't be opened.
"What do you think is in here?" Zhou Zhou asked while sitting on the box.
"I don't know, maybe gold, silver and treasures." Elvia said casually.
"Treasure?" Zhou Zhou's eyes lit up and he began to look for the key actively again. However, the key seemed to be not in the room at all. He searched for it several times but couldn't find it.
"Do you want it?" Alvia looked at Zhou Zhou, who was dejected because he couldn't find the key.
Zhou Zhou nodded: "Well, I want to see what the treasure looks like."
Alvia walked forward, took a look at the copper lock, exerted force with her arm, and pulled off the copper lock and the lock on the box.
Zhou Zhou stared at the copper lock in Alvia's hand with his round eyes in surprise, and then began to applaud: "Amazing!"
The box was broken into by force, and Zhou Zhou opened it, and found that there was actually treasure inside. A box full of golden coins seemed to be shining. They were heavy, big and round, and anyone could not resist the urge to take some for themselves.
"Wow!" Zhou Zhou exclaimed, and then closed the box without hesitation, looking at Alvia with expectant eyes, "I want to see the rest, can I?"
Elvia violently broke the locks on all the boxes at once, and Zhou Zhou, who was very curious, opened them one by one.
The second box was filled with gems, rich rubies, pure and deep sapphires, cat's eyes with a cross-shaped glow, and so on. Zhou Zhou supported the box with one hand, his head almost sticking in it, but after satisfying his curiosity, he closed the box again.
The third box contained all kinds of precious jewelry. The fourth box was full of pearls, white, pink, and black. Each pearl was almost the same size. The fifth, the sixth...
Zhou Zhou exclaimed every time he opened a box, until the last box. When he lifted up the box, what appeared before his eyes was not gold and silver treasures, but a skeleton. The skeleton was curled up in the box, its head facing Zhou Zhou, and a pair of sunken eye sockets seemed to be staring at the person who opened the box.
Zhou Zhou did not exclaim this time. He stared at the skeleton in silence for a while, then closed the box silently.
"I've finished reading it." Zhou Zhou turned and said to Elvia.
Suddenly, the box containing the skeleton made a loud noise, and even the lid of the box bounced, as if the skeleton was struggling to get out.
Both of them looked at the wooden box. Zhou Zhou looked down at the box, then reached out and opened it. Elvia also took a few steps forward and stood side by side with Zhou Zhou in front of the box.
After the wooden box was opened, the skeleton inside stopped moving again, but the position of the skeleton was indeed different from last time.
Zhou Zhou closed the wooden box, and the box made a clanging sound, and even the whole box moved a little.
Open the box and the skeleton will be quiet.
After closing it again, the box started moving again.
Open it again and be quiet.
Alvia watched Zhou Zhou playing a game with the skeleton, opening and closing the door, and did not call him to stop. She just watched him play.
He didn't know how many times he repeated this. When Zhou Zhou was about to close the wooden box, he suddenly opened it again. The skeleton inside was raising its two bony claws and trying to hit the box.
"I caught you." Zhou Zhou looked at the skeleton triumphantly.
Skeleton: “…”
The next moment, this very active skeleton suddenly scattered at the bottom of the box. It originally maintained its human form, but now all the bones were piled up in the box in a mess.
Zhou Zhou's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at the bottom of the box blankly: "Why did it fall apart?"
Elvia couldn't help laughing. Looking at Zhou Zhou, who was supporting the wooden box with one hand and reaching his other hand in as if trying to put the skeleton together, she quickly pulled back his hand that was about to touch the skull bones.
"Let's go, we still have to look for it somewhere else."
"But, but I broke the skeleton apart."
"It's okay, cover it up and maybe it will recover on its own later."
Elvia closed the last box and took a look at the room full of treasures before leaving. When they opened the box just now, the task panel did not indicate that the main task was completed, which meant that they had not yet found what was required for the task.
They had no choice but to keep going. After the two of them left the cabin, Zhou Zhou was still thinking about the broken skeleton and kept looking back at Room 101.
It is now night, and the ghost ship is drifting in the sea. Standing on the ship, you can even feel the deck shaking left and right and up and down. However, once you enter the cabin, it will become stable and the shaking will be much less.
The wind outside was very strong, and the health points were slowly decreasing again. The two hurried to the deck behind the hull. Elvia seemed to be very familiar with the structure of the hull. He opened the hatch cover on the deck. In Zhou Zhou's opinion, Elvia opened it very easily. In fact, the hatch cover was rusted and ordinary people could not open it at all.
Elvia glanced at Zhou Zhou, then was the first to enter the hatch. Zhou Zhou followed her down. There was a ladder below the hatch. It took about ten steps to reach the ground.
This is the ghost ship's warehouse. It has no windows and no light. In addition, it is night outside and I can't even see where my fingers are.
However, the two people who came in this time had no such trouble at all, as they could see everything clearly in the dark.
The warehouse was just like the environment outside the cabin, shabby and covered with dust and cobwebs everywhere. Because it had been drifting on the sea for a long time and the humidity was too high, green moss even grew in some places.
The two men walked and observed, and Zhou Zhou suddenly stepped on something. He looked down and found that it was an arm that had turned into bones.
Zhou Zhou lifted his foot and wrapped it around the bony arm, muttering "I'm sorry", then he and Alvia continued to walk inside calmly.
There was a large amount of supplies piled up in the cargo hold. The stacked wooden boxes were dozens of times more than those in Room 101, and these boxes were not locked.
Zhou Zhou opened a box, and all kinds of black insects swarmed out of it, which made people's scalps numb. Elvia immediately pulled Zhou Zhou's collar and moved him away from the place where the insects were advancing.
Zhou Zhou, who was being held up by the collar, watched the bugs crawl back into the corners and cracks and disappear. He then belatedly said to Alvia, "There are so many bugs."
"These boxes should have been used to store food. The food has rotted over time and has bred a large number of maggots. Don't move the boxes. There shouldn't be anything we're looking for here."
Zhou Zhou immediately promised that he would never open it, and Elvia then loosened the back of his collar and put him down.
In addition to the wooden boxes for food, there were also many large wooden barrels, which should be used to store fresh water. Elvia pushed the barrel and deduced from the weight that the water had evaporated long ago and there was nothing inside.
It was not until they reached the depths of the warehouse and Elvia deduced that they were almost directly below the cabin rooms that they were both surprised by the scene before them.
Elvia just raised her eyebrows, while Zhou Zhou exclaimed sincerely.
It seemed that a fight had taken place here. Many skeletons were lying on the ground in all directions. Their clothes had long lost their color due to the passage of time, but one could still tell from the styles that some of them were either rich or noble. Some of them were wearing very simple clothes and should be the followers of the other people or the sailors on the ship.
Elvia simulated the scene through the posture of the skeleton, the wounds on the frame, and the position of the sword. Zhou Zhou looked around, and suddenly ran out from behind Elvia and ran towards a sword.
There are many styles of swords here, most of which have been broken or rusted, but the one Zhou Zhou found is not only intact, but also has a scabbard. What attracted him is the scabbard and hilt inlaid with gems. Although the sword will not glow in the dark, in the eyes of Zhou Zhou who can see at night, the sword is so shiny that it is hard not to see.
The sword body is slightly wide, with a golden scabbard with an embossed pattern, inlaid with rubies and emeralds. The tiny gems are inlaid one by one in the pattern of water patterns, and there is also an extremely large ruby embedded on the top of the hilt, which looks extremely luxurious.
Zhou Zhou picked up the sword from the ground and showed it to Elvia as if he were presenting a treasure.
"Look, Al, look, what I found."
When Zhou Zhou bypassed the skeletons on the ground and ran in front of Elvia, the task panel suddenly issued a prompt.
[Main quest: Find the most valuable item on this ship, completed. 】
Zhou Zhou looked down at the sword in his hand blankly: "You found it now?"
Elvia looked at the seemingly flashy sword in Zhou Zhou's hand, and for a moment she couldn't understand why this sword was the most valuable item on the ship. If calculated by price, wouldn't the dozen or so boxes of treasure in room 101 be more valuable? Is there some secret hidden behind this sword? Or does it represent something different?
Tie the sword around Zhou Zhou's waist. This sword may be used later. After all, in most copies, the main tasks are related to the final way to pass the level.
The main task was completed, and Elvia had no time to study how the skeletons fought. He immediately took Zhou Zhou out of the warehouse, where their health points were slowly decreasing. Although the health points of both of them were not reduced much, in Elvia's view, a little less meant a lower chance of successfully passing the level.
Zhou Zhou, wearing an unusually gorgeous sword, re-entered the captain's lounge with Elvia. No other tasks were released on the task panel afterwards.
"What should we do now?" Zhou Zhou asked while picking the gem on the hilt of the sword.
"wait."
The weather turned very bad before dark. They waited for a while, and then a storm started outside, with lightning and thunder. The whole ship began to shake violently, and the hull kept squeaking, as if the hull could no longer withstand the ravages of the wind and rain.
A flash of lightning suddenly exploded in the sky.
The two of them sat up straight instantly.
"I seem to see a lot of ships on the opposite side?" Zhou Zhou looked out the window and said hesitantly.
"It's not as if." Elvia stood up, walked out of the lounge and went to the front cockpit. The view here was better and he could see clearly all the movements on the sea ahead.
Zhou Zhou followed closely behind and went to the driver's cab.
Not far in front of them, there were more than a dozen boats heading in this direction.
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