If this player didn't have the item, he would have been eliminated long ago, so he has always been dissatisfied with Cory. If he was killed by a skeleton during the dungeon, he would consider himself unlucky, but it would be very frustrating if he was forcibly caught by other players and used as a shield and then eliminated.
They dragged these people out of the cabin and found ropes to tie up Wu Yu and Kou Li separately. There were not many other things on the boat, but there were plenty of ropes.
Although they were going to throw all the dozen people down, they still untied the others and let them go down by themselves. After all, the players can swim, so they won’t die in the sea for a while. It all depends on their luck whether they can find other ships or islands before their health points and countdown end.
But it was different for Wu Yu and Kori. The player was ready to fight and gave them a "kind" smile.
Both of them were tied up like caterpillars, with only their feet able to move slightly. The player seemed to be quite strong, and actually grabbed the rope on Kori's body and lifted him up. Noticing Kori's resentful gaze, he couldn't help but smile at him and said, "Don't worry, your feet can still move, and you can swim for a while after you go down. My name is Lan Te, and you can come to me if you want revenge. I can give you a ride next time."
After saying that, he threw Corey down. With his upper body tied up, Corey fell into the water in a parabola, splashing countless water.
Wu Yu also became anxious, and tried to explain why he wanted to survive, or to untie the rope, but the player did not respond to his words and threw him down in the same way.
The splashing water became bigger, and Lant nodded with satisfaction.
The boat was finally quiet. Apart from the passengers who were performing pantomimes on their own, the other players were all of good character. They were open-minded about whether they could pass the level, so they got along very harmoniously.
"What should we do now?" asked a player. The quest item was now hanging on the captain and could not be touched at all. Their main quest was also useless. They had no idea about the exit and did not know what they should do now.
Many people looked at Zhou Zhou. After all, many things before were initiated by him, so they were ready to listen to his opinion on the next actions.
Being looked at with expectation, Zhou Zhou blinked and said, "Wait."
Player: ...What are you waiting for?
Alvia guessed Zhou Zhou's thoughts and suddenly explained, "This time, the plot points of the dungeon are all activated by triggering or reaching a certain time, so all we have to do next is wait, wait for the system to continue issuing tasks or reach other scene points."
Since they can no longer continue with the main quest, the copy should not let them be so leisurely. It may continue to issue quests. Moreover, the captain, who has transformed from a skeleton into a human form, has been driving quickly in the same direction. The process of driving may trigger plot points, so they just need to wait now.
There were already passengers in the cabin, so no one dared to go in. The fact that a group of players had just been killed was enough to make them alert, so they better just stayed on the deck.
It was a sunny day today, the sunlight and temperature were very comfortable, the health points and countdown remained unchanged, they sat on the deck and chatted while basking in the sun.
The pace of this dungeon was not fast, and it was the first time for them to be so leisurely in the dungeon. Some players brought cards, and a group of people played cards on the boat.
Zhou Zhou didn’t know how to play cards, so he went to talk to the female player who had always been helping him. He didn’t even know her name.
"Hello, thank you for what I did in the cockpit just now." Zhou Zhou stood next to the female player and greeted her. The female player had no interest in playing cards and was standing on the deck looking at the scenery on the sea.
The female player smiled at him and looked him over. “My name is Doreen, and thank you for letting us on board last night.”
Shirley was bored and wanted to find Zhou Zhou to chat, but when she came over, she heard the female player say her name was Doreen. She paused and her eyes immediately lit up.
"You are Doreen, that Doreen?" Shirley asked excitedly, trotting a few steps.
Zhou Zhou was confused, which one? Is this female player very famous?
Doreen looked at Shirley, who was about to jump up with excitement, and nodded with a smile.
Shirley was so excited that she looked at Doreen's dark red hair and beautiful features, and asked stutteringly: "But, but your appearance..."
"It's a prop. You can fine-tune your facial features and change your hairstyle."
It’s actually a real person! Shirley's blood rushed to her head, her cheeks turned red, and her heart beat fast. She carefully stretched out her hand: "Can you shake my hand?"
"Of course. By the way, can you please keep my identity a secret?" Doreen's attitude towards Shirley was also very kind and gentle, completely different from her dashing look when she beat people up before.
Shirley nodded vigorously and shook hands with Doreen. She saw that Doreen and Zhou Zhou still had something to say, so she left with satisfaction. The first thing she thought of at this moment was to show off to Keli, but because she promised him to keep it a secret, she could only deliberately walk back slowly, giving Keli a meaningful smile from time to time.
Keli: “…”
What's going on? Why do you keep smiling at him?
When Shirley overreacted, Zhou Zhou realized that Doreen might be a very famous person in the outside world, but he didn't know her at all, so he could only pretend to look at her calmly and wait for her to speak first.
Doreen didn't say anything more about her identity, but just hoped that after the dungeon was completed, she could add Zhou Zhou as a friend and do the dungeon together when they had time.
Zhou Zhou agreed immediately. Although he was not sure about the other party's identity, Doreen had a good personality and he liked girls like her.
The two chatted casually. Doreen had a very good impression of Zhou Zhou. He was good-looking and intelligent, and he was also very respectful and considerate to women. It was very comfortable to get along with him. She is very busy on weekdays and doesn't have much time to play games, but she still hopes that there won't be too many annoying people or people who hold her back when she plays games.
Elvia was standing not far from the two men. Due to his good hearing, he heard their entire conversation. As expected, his guess was correct. Doreen had entered the same copy as them, and seemed to be particularly fond of Zhou Zhou.
He watched the two people chatting with a calm gaze. When they talked about clothes, Zhou Zhou smiled happily and Duolin also had a smile on her face. Both of them had outstanding looks, one was gorgeous and the other had picturesque features. With the blue sea as the background, they looked very well matched. The other players looked back from time to time, after all, it was pleasing to see these two people in the same frame.
Alvia frowned slightly. Although the scene was pleasing to others, he found it very annoying.
"Zhou Zhou."
Zhou Zhou, who was chatting, immediately turned his head and looked at Elvia, asking what was wrong.
"The captain is going back to the rest cabin. Let's go take a look."
What are you looking at? Zhou Zhou didn't understand, but Alvia had already left, so he could only hurriedly apologize to Doreen and then ran towards Alvia.
Doreen looked at the two men's backs with a smile on her face. Elvia slowed down and waited for Zhou Zhou to catch up, then quickly entered the lounge with him. Her eyes moved back and forth between Zhou Zhou and Elvia. Although she had not yet guessed each other's identities, these two people were indeed very interesting.
"Al, what are we going to see?" Zhou Zhou had no doubt about Elvia's intention. After entering the lounge, he looked around and found that the captain was actually preparing to write a logbook. He quickly stood behind him and leaned over to look.
"The handkerchief on the table is missing." Elvia had discovered this a long time ago, but she said it only now.
Zhou Zhou also saw it in the morning. There were too many people in the lounge last night, and he thought that a player took the handkerchief away.
The two men stood behind the captain and watched him write the logbook. However, after the captain had written just a few words, the two men discovered a problem.
The first line the captain wrote was the date, and the handwriting was different from the logbook they had seen on the ship before.
The format of that log book is exactly the same as the one the captain is writing now, but there is no date and the handwriting is also different. Could it be that the log book was written by another person?
Zhou Zhou's eyes swept across the table, and then passed through the captain's body to find the logbook he had seen before. He put it here after reading it. How come it is gone now?
There was nothing in the drawer. On the table were only the diary the captain was writing, a lighter and a cigar. Zhou Zhou found that these three things on the table could only be seen but not touched.
After the captain finished writing the log, he picked up a cigar, lit it and smoked leisurely. Zhou Zhou and Elvia stood behind him and discussed.
The positions of the cigar and lighter have not changed, but now they cannot be touched. Will the handkerchief follow the same rule? Regardless of whether it has been taken away by someone, it should not be able to be touched now.
The logbook they saw was not written by the captain. Although it is not clear which of the two logbooks came first, someone must have written an undated logbook and put it here. As for why it could not be found, it may be because there was already the logbook of the genuine captain and the two could not appear at the same time, or it may be that the other logbook was taken away.
These questions are not clear yet, and we can only continue to wait and see if more clues emerge.
After the captain finished smoking, he returned to bed and seemed ready to take a nap. Zhou Zhou and Alvia also left the lounge.
There was a lot of noise outside, and a group of players who were idly lounging around the deck gathered at the stern, seemingly talking about something.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Zhou immediately leaned over curiously. He loved watching the fun the most.
The two players in the innermost seemed to be arguing, one said come up, and the other said there was a problem.
When they found Zhou Zhou coming, one of the players immediately said, "There is a player on the sea who wants to get on the ship, and this guy actually wants to let him on board secretly."
Zhou Zhou looked at everyone in confusion: "Didn't we just let them get off? And didn't we agree not to let them get on this ship?"
Another player said hurriedly, "No, it's not that group of people. It's my friend. He was on this ship before and was thrown off by the Skeleton Captain. I thought he was eliminated, but he is still alive. He really didn't do anything and is not in the same group with Wu Yu and his group. Let him come up."
Zhou Zhou looked down and saw a man following behind the boat, shouting for help with his health bar and countdown. Zhou Zhou had a very good memory. This man was among the people who came up last night, and he was indeed an innocent player thrown into the sea by the skeletons.
"No, there's something wrong with him." Zhou Zhou rejected it without hesitation after reading it.
The player who had been against letting them come aboard immediately agreed, "You don't know, we were on the boat before and there were familiar players who wanted to get on board, but after we put them on board, they turned into ghosts. There were several of us on the boat and we were almost wiped out."
"I've encountered this before, but the players who turned into ghosts didn't have health points on their heads. You all saw that my friend clearly had some."
The others also looked outside the boat and saw the player swimming on the sea, trying hard to catch up, and the two data above his head were indeed all there.
"Zhou Zhou, why do you say there is something wrong with him?" Shirley asked. She didn't see anything wrong with the players at sea.
"Because his values haven't changed." Zhou Zhou blinked. His amber eyes were light in the sunlight. He looked innocent and pure with his head slightly tilted.
"No change? But his health is only half left." How can you say there is no change? There are still many players who don’t understand.
Zhou Zhou sighed and pursed his lips in distress. His mouth was bulging like a puffer fish. It was obviously very obvious, so why didn't anyone notice it?
He pointed at the player on the sea and said, "His stats were half of what they were this morning. He's been in the sea for so long, but there's no change at all. There must be something wrong. The mission panel also said that the seawater has radiation and you'll be eliminated after an hour of soaking. But an hour has passed since the skeleton went crazy. Doesn't that explain the problem? And some of the players who were thrown in should have come up on their own."
Zhou Zhou finished speaking in one breath and stared at a few people in the crowd, who immediately burst into laughter.
It turned out that when the skeletons rushed to the deck, in addition to the player who ran to the mast, there were a few smarter players who lowered the rope ladder at the first time, then climbed on it motionlessly, and waited until the skeletons stopped moving before climbing up.
"Although I didn't see your friend, he should have been eliminated. Several players have not appeared on the sea after being thrown down by the skeletons. At least I didn't see them." said one of the players who had been climbing the rope ladder for a long time.
The people under the sea were still shouting for them to come up. Zhou Zhou stared at them for a while, thinking of the "Shirley" and "Koli" he had met before, and found that these ghosts could not only transform into the appearance of players, but they could not get on the boat directly. It seemed that they needed the players' consent before they could do so.
The player looked disappointed. He had a good relationship with his friend and thought he was not eliminated when he heard the other party calling his name. In the end, his expectations were dashed.
"What if, what if he has some props to protect himself." The player said weakly, obviously still not giving up.
Zhou Zhou looked at the other person and suddenly said, "Then you give it a try. Try to call him up and let him come up."
What's the point of shouting? If you really want him to come up, shouldn't you lower the rope ladder? The player was confused, but still followed Zhou Zhou's request, stood at the edge, called out his friend's name, and asked him to come up.
The "player" who had been swimming hard just now suddenly stopped, gave a weird smile to the people on the boat, and then flew into the air. The lower body hidden under the sea was indeed a ghost's feet.
Who could have thought that this ghost was so fast that there was no need to put down a rope ladder for it to climb up. With just a word "come up", the ghost actually flew directly from the sea towards everyone.
The players who can still stand here now have basically completed several dungeons. When faced with the game’s specialty ghost, their first reaction is to run away first.
The health points above the ghost's head disappeared, and its normal skin color turned pale. A strange smile hung on the corners of its mouth, and it stretched out its hands and rushed towards the crowd on the boat.
Then, the ghost stopped in mid-air and could not move forward.
Among the players, Doreen and Alvia did not run away, for them one ghost was not enough. Shirley and Keli did not run away. Keli even yawned leisurely. They had already guessed the ending.
Zhou Zhou didn't run away either, because he grabbed the ghost's hands.
Skillfully grabbing the ghost's legs and dragging it back, Zhou Zhou rolled the ghost into a ball and continued to knead it as if he was playing with a ball of plasticine.
The player who had never given up looked at his companion who had turned into a ghost and was being played with by the opponent with complicated eyes. For a moment, he didn't know whether to complain or ask him to stop.
Noticing the other person's gaze, Zhou Zhou handed him the balled-up ghost: "Do you want it?"
The player quickly dodged back: "No, no."
Although he has a friend's face, they have actually nothing to do with each other. He has also been eliminated in the dungeon. After becoming a ghost, he can continue to see how others pass the level through a God's perspective, so his friend might be watching this scene now.
Suddenly I felt so sorry for him, and it seemed a little funny. The player tried his best not to laugh out loud, otherwise he would definitely be beaten up by his friends after leaving the dungeon. Live broadcast is not possible in Nightmare City right now. If possible, I really want to record this part. I don’t know if my friends will show him the relevant video.
After that, several more ghosts transformed into the appearance of players and wanted to get on the boat. The players had discovered that Zhou Zhou was specifically here to defeat ghosts. The skills of these ghosts were more convenient under the sea. They mainly dragged the players on the sea surface to the bottom of the sea, and pushed the players off the boat on the boat. The only additional skill was transformation, which was considered a relatively simple type of ghost Zhou Zhou had encountered before.
The ghost ship was moving forward on the sea. No other tasks were issued and no unusual incidents occurred. Zhou Zhou brought all the ghosts on board and played with them himself.
It’s a pity that it’s daytime now. Although ghosts can appear, each one will turn into foam and disappear after more than half an hour. So in the end, Zhou Zhou had no ghosts left while playing with them.
He stood on the deck and continued to wait for the ghost to fall into the trap, but no ghost appeared afterwards, and he didn't know whether it knew that there was a ghost killer on the ship.
Dejected, Zhou Zhou could only go find other people to chat with. When he walked under the mast, he suddenly heard some movement above.
The torn sail on the mast had been lowered by the sailors and was now shaking in the sea breeze. On the shabby, cracked and torn white sail, there was a small piece of pure white that was very conspicuous.
Others might have thought it was part of the sail, but Zhou Zhou saw the small piece of white move a little, and then quietly move to the top of the mast.
What is that?
He looked up and squinted his eyes. With his excellent eyesight, he saw a little bit of pink on the white edge. He immediately thought of the handkerchief that disappeared in the lounge. The pattern embroidered on it was pink.
Zhou Zhou immediately rolled up his sleeves and climbed up holding the mast.
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