Chapter 458 Death Stairs

"Is there a hidden ladder here?"

The pirates all looked at their captain, but Edwina didn't answer. She walked near the cliffs embedded with skulls, and her eyes fell on one of the skulls.

Xifa looked at the skull and found nothing unusual at first, but after looking at it for a while, he found that there were four faint indentations on the forehead of the skull, which seemed to fit four fingers just right.

Edwina stretched out her gloved hand, and tried to press it on the skull, and sure enough, the depression on the skull just placed four fingers.

"The skull must be touched frequently to leave marks. Since it is a sunken mark, it must be caused by force. That is to say."

Edwina suddenly exerted force, pressed the skull and pushed it in. At first, the skull was still motionless. After a while, it retracted a little, and then there was a sound of 'clicking' in the mountain, and there was a gray stone-colored step from the cliff in the void of the stone steps in front of it, stretching out from the mountain wall unsteadily. come out.

When Jodsen saw it, he immediately called out, "Find the dented skulls now and push them in, quick!"

After the pirates were busy for a while, more and more stone steps protruded from the cliff. Although there were gaps of about ten centimeters between these stone steps and a drop of about 30 centimeters, there was finally a staircase leading to the top of the mountain.

However, Edwina didn't let the pirates go up the mountain immediately: "I don't know how many years these steps have not been used. They may break in the middle of walking, and accidents will happen."

Xifa volunteered: "Captain, let me go find the way."

Admiral Bingshan knew that he could actually take flight and stay in the air with the help of the flames sprayed from his feet. The fact that he intercepted the "Big Stomach King" at sea was still vivid in his memory, so Edwina nodded in agreement: "Be careful."

Xifa made a gesture to reassure her, then, holding 'Devil May Cry' in his hand, he stepped on the first suspended stone steps.

He tried to step on it, but felt that the stone steps under his feet were not moving, so he stood up with his whole body.

Xifa went up one level after another like this, and after about a hundred levels, he reached the top of the mountain.

Seeing that Sifa was already standing on the top of the mountain and waving his arms to signal, Edwina made a gesture and climbed up the hanging steps first.

Behind her was a bearded pirate. He and Lieutenant General Bingshan separated three or four stone steps before stepping out.

The bearded man tried his feet hard, and only stepped on it when he felt that the hanging steps could bear his own weight.

But when he was about to take a step, he suddenly felt a burst of weakness, as if the fire of life in his body was quickly extinguished. He heard his companion's whisper from behind him, the vision in his eyes suddenly tilted, and he realized that he was about to fall into the void beyond the stone steps.

The bearded man quickly stretched out his hand, trying to grab something, but when he raised his hand and his arm came into view, he realized that his arm was almost a circle smaller.

And the surface is wrinkled, like bark, and there are a few brown spots, as if he has aged all of a sudden.

"what happened?"

He made a sound in surprise, his voice was low and hoarse, as if it came from the mouth of an old man in his seventies.

And he is only forty-two years old this year!

Then he lost all his strength and fell into the void beyond the stone steps. He saw the distant, suspended stone steps. At the bottom of those stone steps, densely packed symbols are engraved!

"Am I dazzled?"

Danitz rubbed his eyes: "Why did Sandro grow old all of a sudden?"

"No, you don't have dizziness, I can see it too." The bucket with a bloated waist was nervous, and his voice was sharper than usual, "Sandro just stood on that stone step, and he became old all of a sudden."

"His hair turned white in an instant, his body lost weight all of a sudden, his skin, everything on his body, aged in the blink of an eye!"

"Oh my god, I wanted to follow the captain just now, but Sandro took me one step ahead, or else."

Xifa who was on the edge of the mountain also saw this scene, he frowned and said, "But I'm fine, so is the captain, but why?"

"Sandro should have been attacked by the power of death. He is just an ordinary person and cannot resist this attack. We are different, we are extraordinary."

Edwina ordered decisively: "It's too dangerous to move on, except for the second officer, Jodsen, Danitz and other Extraordinary people, everyone else should return the same way."

"First officer, you escort everyone back, and return to the captain to wait for orders."

Due to the previous precedent, the pirates did not dare to insist, and the team returned the same way.

Ironhide patted Danis on the shoulder, looked at him solemnly, then sighed and walked back.

The bucket took off a wooden pendant necklace and hung it around Danitz's neck: "This is my amulet, I hope it can protect you."

"Shit, I'll be fine, okay, don't make it look like you're seeing me for the last time." Danis cursedly stuffed the amulet into his neckline, and jumped up the first hanging steps, "Be careful on your way back , don’t let the evil spirits possess you.”

Immediately, Bucket and Tin Qiqi turned their heads and cursed: "Shit!"

Soon, Edwina, Jodsen, Danitz and several other Beyonders on board all climbed to the top of the mountain.

But as they guessed before, this volcano is dead, there is no abyss under the crater, no crater, only the boiling magma comes to the 'ground' formed after cooling and solidifying nearby.

The 'Master of the Styx' was lying across the crater, and it was only when I got closer that I realized that this black sailboat was too big. If it wasn't for the damage to its tail, the complete length of the ship would probably be more than 100 meters!

This is as long as three 'Breaking Waves' put together!

It was like a sea giant. A sailing ship of this size was actually attacked and its tail was damaged. I really don't know what kind of ship it was that made the 'Master of the Styx' escape.

You know, at that time, the ironclad ship hadn't come out yet.

Xifa was looking at the 'Styx Master', and suddenly heard Danis shout: "Look over there, it's moving, those corpses are moving!"

He lowered his head, looked into the shallow pit under the crater, and saw a dried corpse lying near the 'Master of the Styx'. They seemed to sense the arrival of an uninvited guest, so they picked up their long knives, their long swords, and their weapons.

They got up stiffly, and turned to the position of Xifa and the others. Their faces had already dried up and were stained gray and black. Their bodies are shriveled, without the feeling of flesh and blood.

Their eyes were empty, and they rushed towards Xifa and the others like mad dogs. Halfway through the run, a fireball roared and hit the chest of a mummy, causing waves of flames to explode.