Sacrifice to you first
Why was the spirit beast using its abilities so unnecessarily? With its size and strength, it could have attacked everyone and the ghost ship directly, so why was it continuously using abilities? Wasn't it worried about wasting energy at all?
Moreover, it was the smell of blood that attracted it, but it had never tasted blood, nor did it show any bloodthirsty and brutal habits... Even when it was so close to the ghost ship, it was just using its skills there.
Is it necessary?
Jiang Jingyuan didn't understand, Jiang Jingyuan found it unbelievable, and Jiang Jingyuan felt strange.
Amidst the crackling downpour, the crowd, resembling ghostly figures in the rainy night, cursed and swore angrily while frantically exerting their powers to pull the ghost ship, preventing it from completely tipping into the massive whirlpool. But no matter how hard they tried, they could only barely stabilize the situation, unable to completely extricate the ghost ship from the whirlpool.
Watching this scene, Jiang Jingyuan's mind raced with thoughts, and he actually thought faster: "Couldn't it be attracted by the smell of blood? Why then? Is there something special in this sea? A ghost ship? Is it... that newly-born high-level magical weapon?!"
Was it attracted by a high-level magical weapon? Jiang Jingyuan felt a flicker of surprise.
But then, she felt something was wrong—a strange and weird feeling that was hard to describe.
After thinking about it for a long time, she still couldn't grasp the source of the strange feeling in her heart.
The roaring and crackling storm drowned out the heavy breathing. Everyone's faces were pale and they were finally exhausted. The ghost ship under their feet immediately tilted towards the whirlpool at a rapid speed!
Everyone cursed softly, but there was nothing they could do. They grabbed the boat's side and looked out at the dark sea, their faces filled with anxiety and confusion. They wanted to leave but didn't dare to go alone.
"How about we abandon the boat and leave! If we escape on our own, we might still have a chance to survive. But if we stay on this boat, we will definitely die!" One person couldn't help but speak.
The others also echoed: "Yes, yes, it's no problem for us to stay at sea for a few days! Let's go!"
"This ship is too big a target, and we don't have the ability to defend it!"
"Make a decision quickly! If you don't leave now, we'll all be thrown into the whirlpool together!!"
"If you want to leave, go ahead!" someone shouted decisively, "Who knows what dimension we're in right now? If we leave the ghost ship now, we can't go anywhere!!"
Another person also shouted: "If you want to leave, just leave! If you are not going to help, stay out of the way!"
"What do you mean we're in the way?!"
Someone was dissatisfied and shouted angrily, "You're talking as if you're of any use! If you have the ability, just deal with this spirit beast and the whirlpool! All you bastards know is that you can't leave, you can't leave. What do you say we should do?! Are you waiting to die?!"
"Who told you not to leave?" someone yelled, "If you want to leave, just leave! What are you doing here whining for so long?!"
"Fuck! Didn't you say we can't leave the ghost ship?! Otherwise, how could we have waited until now??!"
Amidst the violent storm and tsunami, there were faint sounds of cursing.
"What on earth is wrong..." Jiang Jingyuan frowned, thinking over and over again, "Why does it feel wrong when it is attracted by the magic weapon...?"
"Huh?" She suddenly had a flash of inspiration, as if she had grasped some extremely crucial clue, and began to analyze it more carefully and seriously, "Magic weapon, high-level magic weapon... Since I think that the high-level magic weapon that appeared is a trap and is fake, then why must this spirit beast that suddenly appeared and didn't directly attack the ghost ship be real?
Of course, there is a possibility that there is something special about the ghost ship itself that prevents the spirit beast from directly attacking the ship, or that the spirit beast is actually a peerless beast and uses skills without attacking just to make the ghost ship leave.
But Jiang Jingyuan felt that the analysis of the relationship between magic weapons and spirit beasts was more coherent and reasonable.
"Let's just assume it's fake. The purpose of the high-level magical instruments and spirit beasts seems to be... to get the people on board off the ghost ship?" Jiang Jingyuan listened to Hua Simiao's sobbing "Woo-woo-pah... Woo-woo-pah..." and gradually calmed down. He thought, "If this guess is correct, then the ghost ship is actually a relatively safe place?"
Amidst the howling of ghosts and wolves, someone began to cry—
"It's a sea festival!! We didn't have a sea festival before we went out to sea!! Hurry! There aren't enough people attending the sea festival--!!"
The people on the ghost ship suddenly felt like they had found a lifeline. Regardless of whether it was true or not, they cried out incoherently, "Go, go! Go to the sea festival! Go to the sea festival!!"
"I'll sacrifice you first, you bastard!!!" One person was instantly furious. "Get off the boat right now! Stop spreading rumors and misleading people!"
The heavy rain poured down.
Her dark hair danced wildly in the darkness, whipped by the wind and rain. With a "snap," the wet hair smacked the girl's face, only to be blown away by the strong wind, leaving a stinging sensation. But Jiang Jingyuan didn't have the heart to care about the mess and discomfort right now. Her dark eyes almost melted into the darkness, only her blinking eyelashes were occasionally outlined by the faint moonlight.
"It hurts so much..." Jiang Jingyuan felt the burning pain on his cheek and thought calmly, "It seems to have nothing to do with the pain, but that doesn't mean that everything I feel now is real."
And now he is definitely not in the killing range of magic weapons.
"Eyes, nose, mouth, and ears... Most methods of obscuring human perception involve tampering with them..."
Did so many people see something together and were dragged into the illusion?
Did they smell something in common?
Did they eat something together?
Ears... what did they hear at the same time... Jiang Jingyuan's thoughts suddenly stopped, and a ethereal voice flashed through his mind quickly -
It was the roar of the huge spirit beast just now. Now that I think about it, why does that roar sound so much like... the whale song I heard at sea before?
“So it was a sound…?”
Jiang Jingyuan blocked his hearing.
Her ears were quiet, but what she saw before her eyes and the heavy rain with a strong chill that was beating down on her remained unchanged.
Isn’t it?
"Could it be unrelated to these perceptions?" Just as she was about to overturn her previous analysis and speculation, Jiang Jingyuan's thoughts suddenly stopped. "No. The sound that can cause hallucinations is a spiritual attack. Even if I block my hearing now, the remaining spiritual attack is still not resolved. At most, it can slowly fade away with time."
Too slow… Jiang Jingyuan thought of this and decisively gave up blocking his hearing. He turned his head and shouted at the aqua-blue figure beside him, "Can you create a sound-based spiritual attack?!"
"What did you say--?" Hua Simiao, who was holding tightly onto the boat's side, turned her head with a distorted expression on her face. She leaned her head towards her and shouted with her eyes closed.
Jiang Jingyuan took a deep breath and repeated in a louder voice, "Can you create a sound-based spiritual attack?!"
"Ah, oh! Sure!!" Hua Simiao understood what she meant instantly and became cheerful immediately.
In the dark rainy night, countless yellow and black talismans instantly floated around Hua Simiao. As she moved her mind, the densely packed talismans with yellow backgrounds and black patterns shot straight up into the sky with a "whoosh" sound.
"boom!!!"
Countless yellow and black talismans exploded simultaneously, making a deafening noise.
As the world spun, Jiang Jingyuan's vision flickered. Blinking hard, she opened her eyes and saw the dark, stormy night scene begin to flicker...
However, after a few moments, the stormy night was firmly in front of her eyes again.
Jiang Jingyuan looked around at the surroundings. She didn't doubt that her guess was wrong. After all...
A bulging sachet won't grow legs and run away, an apple won't use a kettle to water boots, and dried meat won't break off a piece of itself and then use it to slap an apple in the face...
Not enough... Jiang Jingyuan instantly understood the problem.
"The talisman won't last long, and I don't know how long it will take to block my hearing and wait for the hallucination to disappear..." Jiang Jingyuan pondered, "What if I can use a calming sound-based spiritual attack to dispel and cover the original spiritual attack, and then block my hearing?"
Just when she was thinking of asking Hua Simiao, the ancient copper bell hanging from the longevity lock necklace around her neck suddenly began to shake slowly.
Jiang Jingyuan was startled and hurriedly asked Tong Ling, "Are you there?"
The bell didn't respond to her, but just swung slowly. The clear, crisp sound that existed only in her mind gradually spread outward from the bell...
“Huh?! Huh?!!”
The panicked crowd suddenly screamed.
The storm in the field of vision stopped, the huge black shadow in the sea disappeared, and the gray and dilapidated ship was straightened in an instant, and was now sailing steadily on the sparkling sea.
"Is it, is it... an illusion?" Everyone was stunned.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, laughing softly as they tried to calm the remaining panic in their hearts. "So it was all fake! Fortunately, we didn't leave the ghost ship! I was wondering, how could a high-level magical weapon appear out of nowhere in the ocean? We don't have the luck to do that, haha!"
The shaking copper bell stopped, and Jiang Jingyuan breathed a sigh of relief. He leaned sideways on the boat's side with a little fatigue, and subconsciously raised his hand to sort something out.
But the moment she raised her hand, she was stunned.
The storm was fake, and she wasn't getting wet, but why... was her sleeve wet?
Jiang Jingyuan looked up blankly, her eyes unconsciously looking at Hua Si Miao beside her. Her mind was in a mess, but she saw Hua Si Miao staring at the sea outside the ship's side with her eyes wide open in surprise... ?
ah?
Perhaps once his thoughts stopped, they would not start again so quickly. Jiang Jingyuan looked blankly at the aqua-blue figure in front of him, dazed and unable to react immediately.
Suddenly, Jiang Jingyuan's heart tightened.
In the deep blue night, the bright moonlight illuminated its edge. It held the bowstring with both hands, and cold water dripped down its arms and onto the bowstring...
Jiang Jingyuan raised his head slightly, and his sight followed its smooth body upwards, slowly, speeding up little by little, until he suddenly met its pair of ruthless silver eyes that turned towards him.
Its body stretched into the ship's side, blocking Jiang Jingyuan and Hua Simiao, looking down upon the girl in white beside it with ruthless contempt.
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