Chapter 135: White King, Devouring, Black Death (asking for monthly ticket)
If Ji Minghuan wants to swallow the legendary whale, he will have to compete with an entire country.
Even assuming that Li Qingping would stand on his side, it would be very difficult to defeat the six strange news envoys of the Royal Court team with only one shark and one red dragon.
Not to mention that there are many strange story soldiers trained in the whale's box garden, and they are the backbone of this country.
But if they can successfully guide the "White Crow Brigade" into the whale's box garden, Ji Minghuan's combat effectiveness will appear much more impressive, and they may even be able to fight.
"If the head of the group knew about this, there is no way he would miss such a great opportunity. This is a national treasure, a hundred times more valuable than the goods at the auction." Ji Minghuan thought, "But the problem is... How can I let Qi Yuan know this information and convince him of my statement?"
Thinking of this, Shark turned over in the crystal ball. "It seems that I can only try to contact him through the black pupa. If he brings the White Crow Brigade to the Whale Box Garden, the chances of victory for Li Qingping and me will definitely increase greatly."
Cesar lay quietly on the bed, his arms across his forehead, his white hair spread out in the moonlight.
After a long silence, he suddenly said, "Yagubaru, I am so worried about my father."
"Why?" asked the shark.
"Father is ill, very seriously ill."
"What's wrong with him?"
"I don't know what disease it is, but I heard from others that it was caused by a bad guy named 'Bernardo'."
"Bernardo?"
Ji Minghuan's heart moved slightly, and he suddenly remembered that when he was creating the character, the background of the first character mentioned a character called "Bernardo Edward".
That is the holder of the generational curiosity fragment - "Black Death".
"So it seems that the king is suffering from an enhanced version of the 'Black Death'?" he thought. "No wonder... I was wondering how the eldest and second princes would dare to attack the third prince who is favored by the king if the king is still healthy. It turns out that they found an opportunity to take advantage of the king because he was bedridden."
"Then what should we do..." asked Little Shark, "If the king dies of illness, won't the country be in chaos?"
"The Holy Grail."
"The Holy Grail?"
Xi Ze paused, "It is very likely that only the generation-level strange fragment 'Holy Grail' can cure father's illness. I think Li Qingping has been staying outside all this time to help father find that strange fragment."
"So that's how it is..." Shark murmured.
"I am very worried that my father will be targeted by bad people. Many people want the scepter in my father's hand."
"A scepter?"
"The White King's Scepter can disarm the power of oddity fragments below the 'Mythic Level'."
"Will even generational-level oddity fragments be invalidated by that scepter?" Shark asked curiously.
"My father said that only a few generations can forcibly break through the suppression of the scepter, but they will still become much weaker. Apart from that, most generations will be disarmed; not to mention the fragments of oddities below the generation level, all popular and common oddities will be invalidated by the scepter in an instant." Xizel said, "Obtaining the King's Scepter... is equivalent to standing at the pinnacle of the Whale Box Garden."
He paused and said, "So, many people covet the scepter in my father's hand."
"Don't worry. I ate the White King's Scepter so the bad guys can't find it." said the shark indignantly.
"You're here again."
"I was just joking." Shark was no longer indignant.
Xi Zeer said: "Father is usually very good to me, but he is in poor health and I can't leave here. In fact, I really want to help father find the 'Holy Grail' so that he doesn't have to lie in bed every day."
"Will the White Scepter not be stolen when the king is ill?"
Xizel shook his head and lowered his voice: "Father hid the scepter in a special treasury. Only the 'Lord of a Country' can open it."
"Okay." Shark said, "You are so talented. Even if you don't practice, won't someone teach you the knowledge of the Oddity Messenger?"
Xizel got up from the bed, holding the crystal ball, and went to the rooftop.
"Do you see those pointed buildings?" César leaned on the railing and pointed at the tall and protruding buildings on the islands off the sea.
"What are those?" The shark followed his gaze.
"Those are all oddball schools. Children with oddball talents go to school there, and their courses are different from those of ordinary children." Cesar said, "I really want to go to school there and learn oddball knowledge with other children."
He was silent for a while. "But my father said that the prince cannot go to school with the common people. This would constitute an usurpation of status."
"Who will teach you then?"
"Butler," Cesar said, "The butler comes to give me lessons every week, and he is also responsible for my food."
Ji Minghuanxin said the butler... Could it be that he has been bribed by the eldest and second princes? Not every butler is as dedicated as Oda Takikage.
"Next time your butler comes over, can you share with me the food he makes for you?" said the shark.
"Of course, I have a small appetite."
A man and a shark were chatting quietly in the night, and the swimming fish passed over their heads like a gust of wind.
Not long after, an old man in a black butler's uniform and white gloves opened the bedroom door, walked in, and bowed slightly.
"It's time to rest, Your Highness the Third Prince."
"Okay, I'll go to bed now."
César returned to bed holding the crystal ball and closed his eyes. Seeing this, the housekeeper quickly turned around and left, closing the bedroom door.
"Is the castle safe while you sleep? Will anyone sneak in?" Shark asked in a low voice.
"Don't worry." Xizel replied, "When I sleep, the floating castle will be protected by a barrier, and no one will sneak into the floating castle."
"That's good."
"Good night, Yakubaru."
"Good night, Cesar."
César held the crystal ball, slowly closed his eyes, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
The shark could hear him snoring close by.
Looking at César's slightly rising and falling chest and confirming that he was asleep, the shark swam upwards and silently pushed open the opening of the crystal ball.
Then it released the skill of this body - "Undercurrent", and a black and blue stream of water emerged, wrapping around the shark's body from all directions, driving it to fly in the air.
It spun its body in the water and flew to the rooftop, quietly looking at the brightly lit islands on the sea, and finally its gaze stopped above the Royal Palace.
If it could eat up all the anecdotes left by the historical members of the Royal Court, it would not be surprising if the shark's true size grew to several hundred meters in an instant.
The problem is how to get close to there... In movies and TV shows, such places are usually either heavily guarded or have some ancient barriers. Once invaders get close to them, they will be reduced to ashes.
At this moment, the shark suddenly saw an incredible scene out of the corner of his eye.
In the night sky shrouded in darkness, a staircase stretched upwards. Someone was walking up the stairs, slowly approaching the castle.
If you observe carefully, you will find that this staircase is very magical: every time it extends upwards, a part of the bottom step disappears, and the extended part is equal to the disappeared part.
So the total length of the stairs never changes.
The stealthy figure walked on the seemingly endless suspended stairs, approaching the castle step by step.
"This man should be sent by Xizel's two good brothers... But why can he get close to the castle? Didn't Xizel say that when night falls, every floating city will be protected by an invisible barrier?" Ji Minghuan thought.
As the floating staircase got closer and closer to the castle, the shark's pupils gradually reflected the face of the uninvited guest - this was a man wearing a black cloak, with a mask on his face, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.
"He should be using the oddity fragment 'Mobile Stairs'." Ji Minghuan thought, "I remember it was a disposable fragment that disappeared after use, but this is too convenient."
At this moment, the uninvited guest stopped on the suspended stairs.
He turned his head and looked around, his eyes fixed on the castle rooftop. Then he walked up the stairs from the rooftop into the castle bedroom and glanced sideways at César who was sleeping soundly on the bed.
The man crushed a common card in his hand. The silver pattern on the back of the card flashed in the darkness.
Then a human figure covered with fine black hair appeared in the darkness, and all the muscles in his body were trembling slightly, like an engine.
He had a wolf's head and a human body, with red eyes, and was obviously a werewolf.
In the moonlight, the werewolf's muscles rippled like the tide. He growled softly and moved closer to the bed.
The next second, a shark about three meters long suddenly jumped out from the darkness. Its mouth suddenly expanded, even larger than its body, as if it had turned into a huge mouth of the abyss.
The sharp fangs reflected the moonlight, and the corners of the eyes drew a violent gleam in the darkness.
With a deep roar, the shark swallowed the werewolf into its stomach and then closed its mouth. The two-meter-tall werewolf just became motionless and didn't even make a fuss in the shark's belly.
"Werewolf, it's delicious." The shark burped and made a sound of praise, then turned his head to look at the trembling uninvited guest, "Human... it doesn't taste good."
"What is this? Hey, he didn't tell me there was such a creature here," the man was stunned for a moment, then slowly came to his senses, his eyes full of fear. He stepped back tremblingly, muttering, "Monster... Monster, it's a monster--"
But before he could let out a terrified roar, the shark, with dark blue water all over its body, swooped out in mid-air, swirling and dancing like a fallen leaf, approaching the masked man at a speed that could not be captured by the naked eye.
Immediately it lowered its body, and the shark's dorsal fin drew a sharp arc, slashing down like an executioner's long knife, straight through the assassin's body, cutting it in half from top to bottom.
The shark controlled the dark water flow, lifted up the assassin's body, which was split into two, and the blood spurted out. It moved his two pieces of body to the rooftop and threw them into the sea from the edge, along with the gurgling blood.
"Perfect...the floors and walls are clean."
When the shark looked back, it saw a card with silver light patterns on it, which looked like a popular story - "Werewolf". It lifted the card with the black and blue water and put it into its mouth like tasting ice cream.
[You have swallowed a "popular-level" oddity fragment, triggering the effect of the exclusive training system "Oddity Taotie", and your real body size has increased by 2 meters. 】
[Unit 3 - Eternal Shark "Akubaru" changes in size: 100m → 102m. 】
"One common-grade fragment will add two meters to its size. It will be just a matter of time before it surpasses the legendary whale." The shark's eyes lit up.
At this moment, Cesar turned over in bed, lay on the pillow, and murmured in a daze:
"What's going on...it's so noisy."
The shark quickly shrank its size, changing into the appearance of a Nobel shark, and then was caught in the water flow, flying into the gap at the top of the crystal ball, then controlling the water flow to lift up the lid of the crystal ball and cover the gap.
Xizel slowly opened his eyes, stared at the shark in the crystal ball for a while, and then asked softly:
"Agubaru...was it you who made that sound just now?"
"Cesare..." Yagubaru said softly, "Someone wants to kill you."
"What are you talking about, who will kill me?" Cesar yawned.
"It was your two brothers," Yagubaru whispered. "They tampered with the barrier protecting the floating city from the inside, and then released assassins to kill you. If this happens once, it will happen again."
"Don't talk nonsense... Yagubaru." Xizel hugged the crystal ball and closed his eyes. "Good night."
His white eyelids drooped, and his sleeping face looked more like a girl than a boy.
Yagubaru stared at Xizel's sleeping face in silence, thinking that what a poor child he was. If he knew that his two brothers were trying every means to kill him, his innocence would collapse in an instant, right?
Thinking about the worse case scenario, perhaps the eldest prince and the second prince had been colluding with the holder of the "Black Death" fragments - "Bernardo Edward" from the very beginning.
It was they who made the king bedridden, so that they could find an opportunity to get rid of Cesare, who had the best chance of inheriting the throne.
"What did you, a pig like you, protect, Li Qingping? If I wasn't here, wouldn't the Third Prince have died tonight?"
Yagubaru complained in his heart.
Although Xizel has a generation-level wonder, his psychological quality does not seem like he can handle the battle calmly.
It's like a little boy who goes into the forest to hunt for the first time. Even if he has a hunting rifle in his hand, he will be frightened by the porcupine rushing towards him and will not even have the courage to pull the trigger.
"Forget it, let's go to sleep... Su Zimai has already gone home. The most urgent thing is to think about how to torture her together with big brother." Thinking of this, the shark lay at the bottom of the crystal ball, closed his eyes, and soon fell asleep in the warm sea water.
(End of this chapter)
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