Chapter 62: Many Ghost Ship Stories

"Fix the rope, you all wait here. Lin Yue, Sun Yan, you come on board with me."

"I'll go too." Hongyue called.

"You should still wait here, and you will be responsible for the command."

"Okay then!" Hongyue retreated timidly like a wronged daughter-in-law, which surprised me very much. This doesn't seem to be her character!

Anyway, I only took two players and a few NPCs on the broken ghost ship. This guy is really big. The front deck can almost be used as a golf course, but the degree of tatters is indeed exaggerated.

I pointed to a cabin entrance at the stern of the ship. "Sun Yan, take four sailors down there and turn on the guild channel. If anything happens, report it immediately. Don't take risks."

"Okay. The four of you follow me." Sun Yan led four sailors and walked towards the entrance of the cabin.

I pointed to the cabin entrance at the bow of the ship. "Lin Yue, take four sailors and go down there. Be careful. If you encounter any dangerous situation, call us immediately. Don't take risks alone."

"Don't worry! It's just a broken ship, you can't do anything to me! Okay, you four, come with me!" Lin Yue ran towards the bow of the ship with four sailors.

Although there are many undead creatures in the game, people's habits cannot be changed simply by changing them. Sun Yan and Lin Yue took away the four original pirate sailors, leaving me with the four undead sailors who were later expanded into the sailor camp. Anyway, I'm very nervous and I'm used to the undead. It's no big deal to bring four undead.

The two of them were sent to the bow and stern of the boat respectively, and I had to do it by myself in the middle. As soon as she walked to the cabin door, she heard Lin Yue complaining on the channel: "There has been no one here for at least hundreds of years, and the door is gone!"

Sun Yan's voice also popped out: "Then what are you complaining about?"

"What happened if I didn't even complain?" Lin Yue used her unreasonable skills to make Sun Yan unable to do anything. "Hey, what are you doing over there? Banging and banging?"

Sun Yan said: "I have many doors here, but the handles are all rusty and I can't open them. I'm breaking down the doors!"

I laughed and said: "This kind of rag is probably not that strong. Breaking down the door is not a big deal...ah...boom...ah...boom...ping-pong...dong...ping-pong-pong-rang...ah... ...Ouch...ah...boom...ba...I...oh...boom...ouch, hey...cough cough cough cough, bah bah!"

"What's wrong with you? What happened?" Both of them heard a strange voice suddenly coming from me mid-sentence, thinking I had encountered some enemy.

"I'm at the bottom of the boat!"

"Ah? So fast? How did you get down? Why was it so noisy just now? What was the noise?"

"This damn broken ship has been floating here for I don't know how long. The planks are all rotten. When I just got off the cabin, the stairs collapsed, and I fell all the way to the bottom of the ship. You'd better be careful. The floor here could collapse at any time.”

"Haha! But your method is faster!" Sun Yan actually laughed at me.

I said angrily: "If you can, just jump on the spot twice. I guarantee you will fall down too."

"Haha! I can't stop! I can't get used to riding in that dumb elevator of yours. Now that you're at the end, we won't go down to the bottom cabin anymore. It's all up to you."

"Schadenfreude, may you fall too."

"I don't... ah... oops... ping ping bang bang bang... bang... boom!"

Sun Yan was hit before he could finish his words and fell from the top. From a distance, the sound of wood breaking and heavy objects falling could be heard echoing in the cabin. When the sound stopped, I heard Sun Yan's half-dead voice: "You are such a crow's mouth, good but not good and bad!"

"Haha! This is called retribution! So, since you're down too, how about we share half of the bottom cabin?"

"I'm not as bad as you! I just stepped down three floors. It's still some distance from the bottom cabin, right?"

"Then just pray that you don't step on it again." I cursed badly.

"I'm not as unlucky as you. You should just check the bottom cabin honestly. Xiaoyue, would you like to check the upper floors? I'll look at the middle floors. The deepest hell will be reserved for our unluckiest president!"

"Haha! I agree." Lin Yue is also a person who does not take things too seriously. "By the way, all the sailors you brought should also follow me. You don't have to take them with you anyway."

"Okay. But you have to summon them yourself."

Now that it had fallen, and having no other recourse, I was forced to begin inspecting the hold. But before that, you need to get yourself out of this pile of rotten wood. When it fell just now, it collapsed a lot of things, and it seemed to have hit a bed on the way, but it couldn't stop the falling trend and fell with me.

He grabbed a broken piece of wood with one hand and tried to push it away. When he exerted force on his hand, the piece of wood was crushed like a shortbread. Isn't that an exaggeration? He moved his legs, pushed off a crossbar, threw away the remaining rags, turned over and jumped up. Suddenly I discovered a strange problem. The wood on the bottom of the boat felt completely different from the floor above. In order to confirm whether it was an illusion, I squatted down and carefully knocked on the floor, for fear that if I knocked it through, it would leak and cause trouble.

The sound coming from the bottom wooden board is indeed different. The wood seems to be very strong and has no decay at all. No wonder the ship didn't sink even though the top was so broken. It turned out that the wood underneath was not damaged. But generally the bottom and top of a ship should be made of the same wood! The top part has turned into flour, how can the bottom part be the same as new?

I approached the bottom board again and asked Phantom to help me take a look. With his knowledge, he should be able to detect some minor problems. But after looking at Phantom for a long time, he couldn't find the reason. Instead, it raised more doubts. After Phantom confirmed, the material at the bottom of this ship is the same as the one above, and there is no special treatment at all. Ordinarily, the same materials should have the same durability! How could there be such a big difference?

I checked the entire bottom tank, and it was in exactly the same condition. The entire bottom looked like new, with no trace of time left at all. But the hull structure tells me that these timbers were installed together into the boat and this should not be the case at all.

After thinking about it for a long time, I really couldn't figure out the reason, so I simply summoned Ling and Xiaochun. Tell them these doubts and let them see if there are any clues.

Ling and Xiaochun studied the wooden boards together and compared them with those rotten boards. Xiaochun said: "I can only feel that these woods are surrounded by a special layer of energy. It feels like something dark. I don't know what it is."

I turned to Ling, and she replied: "It's an innocent soul. The entire bottom board is surrounded by the resentment of low-level innocent souls. The wood has become undead, just like the bones of a skeleton soldier. Without external force to break it, it will not last for many years." It will weather.”

"It's really a ghost ship!"

Ling continued: "The strange thing is that such strong resentment can only be caused by the collective death of a large number of living things, and the corpses must be nearby, otherwise the resentment should have dissipated long ago."

"You mean those undead are nearby?"

"No, not undead. These wronged souls are not undead, they are just simple wraiths without consciousness, and they are all concentrated on the wooden board. I am talking about corpses, and their corpses should be nearby!"

"But there's nothing here!" I looked around. This floor is the bottom compartment, which is an isolation passage for people to enter when repairing the bottom of the ship. There is nothing at all. Except for a few pillars, the cabin is clear. If there was a corpse, you would have seen it at a glance.

"Could it be down here?" Xiaochun pointed to the floor.

"This is the bottom of the boat. There is water under the planks. Don't you think the body is soaking in the water?"

Ling actually helped Xiao Chun and said: "Xiao Chun is right. This may be a disguise, maybe there is a mezzanine. Master, just drill a hole and try."

"But what if there is no mezzanine and water leaks?"

"The leak can be plugged! All you have to do is make a small hole. Such a big ship will not sink in a short time even if it leaks."

"Okay then! You two prepare the wood first, and be ready to stuff it up if it leaks."

Take eternity and turn it into an awl as thick as a finger, with the tip pointed down on the board. I didn't exert any force, and the sharp eternity began to sink downwards due to its own gravity. I didn't expect that this layer of board is quite thick. The awl that Eternity transformed into penetrated half a foot deep, but it still didn't penetrate. "This board is too thick!"

"Maybe the bottom level is like this." Ling explained.

We waited for a while, and the cone suddenly slid downwards, obviously losing resistance. As soon as I put my hand on the hole, the cone immediately rose again. Put the bead that will forever turn red back into the dragon's mouth on your arm. Looking at the hole again, it seems that it is indeed a mezzanine, because there is no water coming out.

Putting one eye over the hole and looking down, my night vision allowed me to see things in the dark. Although the mezzanine was extremely dark, it did not affect my observation. Sure enough, I found a lot of things at this glance. I waved my hand and said, "There are really corpses."

Xiaochun came over and leaned over the hole, took one look at it, then screamed and jumped up. Ling came over and looked at it and said nonchalantly: "It's just a corpse, it's just a bit badly decomposed."

"Get out of the way and I'll make the hole bigger."

Xiaochun said: "Is it okay if I don't participate?"

"Then you go back and rest first!" I waved her back to Fenglong Space. It's really rare to hear the system prompt that the loyalty will increase by 2 points!

After taking Xiaochun back, I used Eternity to make a large irregular hole in the floor. It was just a temporary passage anyway. I didn’t have the tools, so I couldn’t make it into a standard shape! Ling used the tail of her staff to 'insert' it into the board. After I cut off the last connection, she lifted it up, and we pulled up the cut part.

As the hole opened, an unspeakable smell immediately rushed up. It's no longer a bad smell. After such a long time, the smell has long since disappeared, but the smell is sour and not very pleasant!

"Look at this." Ling showed me the cut piece of wood. It turns out that the board is double-layered and looks like a sandwich cookie. The upper and lower layers are made of three-inch-thick wooden boards, with a two-inch-thick layer of white wax in the middle. It seems that the body underneath is probably suffocated, and this layer of wax is simply used to seal it.

Now that the cave is open, the situation below is much clearer. There is a whole cabin below, but it's sealed. Now there was a layer of corpses piled up on the floor of the cabin, and the floor could not be seen at all.

I held on to the entrance of the hole and jumped down. There were corpses underneath and I couldn't stand at all. I fell over as soon as I landed. Fortunately, they were all soft. The bottom here is exactly the same as the top. There is nothing but pillars, and a large number of corpses are piled up. I found some gilded magical symbols on a nearby pillar, which is probably why the bodies remained soft after so long. But what pervert is it that wants to preserve the body? Wouldn't it be better to simply kill people and silence them and throw them into the sea?

Think about clearing a floor by tossing the corpses at your feet aside. He raised his head and stretched out his hands to Ling: "You can come down now."

Ling jumped down and I caught her steadily. After putting her down on the ground, he said, "Can you calculate the number?"

"Looking at the thickness of the pile of corpses and the area here, it is estimated that there are no less than 20,000 people."

"Hey guys, there are mass graves!" I looked around, and Ling's estimated number should be about the same. Reaching out, he grabbed a corpse and turned it around. This one is still a child, 12 years old at most. The corpse next to him was probably his mother, hugging him tightly. I rummaged through the corpses nearby. They were men, women, old and young, of all kinds, but I couldn't find anything in common.

Ling took the hand of a young female corpse and moved her fingers. "The flexibility is pretty good and it's well preserved."

I pointed to the one next to me with a belly full of fire and said, "But some of them are very rotten!"

Ling leaned over and looked at the symbols on the pillar. "This is a low-level undead storage array, which is used by necromancers to preserve corpses. At the same time, it will be very difficult for necromancers to 'manipulate' too many corpses, but corpses cannot be found at any time, so necromancers invented This thing. I usually collect the corpses I find and take them out when needed."

"You mean these people were not massacred here, but materials collected by the Necromancer?"

"No, these people were killed here. And this circle was painted long after these people died, so some bodies are rotten and some are not. These people did not die together, those who rotted The corpses died first, and one of the last people to die might be a necromancer. He didn't want his corpse to rot, so he painted something like this."

"Really, what do we need corpses for when people are dead?"

"Normally, necromancers are undead creatures. But some creatures also learn necromancy and want to become necromancers. As long as they reach the level of advanced necromancers, they can transform themselves into undead creatures, and they can retain their independent consciousness and become immortal. But if If they die unexpectedly before reaching the level of a senior necromancer, they cannot become immortal, but really die. However, as long as the body of this type of necromancer is not damaged after death, the soul will not leave the body. As long as they continue to practice like this, sooner or later, You can become a high-level necromancer and then get up. The guy who drew the formation is this kind of necromancer. He wants to keep his body and get up sooner or later."

"Can you find which one it is?"

"No, he was no different from the dead before he was resurrected. I can only be sure that his body must be intact, but there are so many intact bodies here, I don't know which one is!"

"That's troublesome! It seems like these people are going to become incomprehensible 'mysteries'."

"That's not necessarily true." Ling stretched out a finger and pointed at the forehead of a corpse. Then as her finger moved up, the corpse actually stood up. "Have you forgotten who I am? Can I not do this little trick of controlling corpses?"

"Ah! I forgot that the boss of the Necromancer is here! Quick, ask him what happened."

"Corpse control can't answer questions. I can only read out a rough memory. It depends on whether his soul is still nearby!" Ling closed his eyes and stood for a while, and the corpse suddenly fell softly. Ling opened his eyes again: "Unfortunately, there are only small fragments of his memory left. He probably knows that they are the families of some pirates, but I don't know anything else."

"Try the one next to you. There should be some that are in good condition, right?"

Ling lit a corpse again and stood up, but there were still only fragments. After experimenting on more than a dozen corpses in succession, Ling stopped. "These people were attacked by mental magic before they died. Their thinking was in chaos and they had nothing useful left!"

"It seems there is no hope!" I grabbed the neck of a female corpse next to me and picked her up for a closer look. "Pirate? Could this little girl be a pirate with her delicate skin? The sea breeze can create wrinkles more than time, right?"

"The memory fragments are like this. Maybe she is born with good skin! Look at this, she is only thirty years old at most, and she is almost like tree bark!"

I turned my head and glanced at the one Ling was holding. Sure enough, it looked like tree bark. When I turned my head back, the eyes of the female corpse I was holding by the neck suddenly opened, and those cold eyes stared at me. I was stunned for a moment, then took off my helmet and pulled her closer. I almost looked at her face for a long time, especially her eyes, to make sure that her eyes could focus and track objects. It was not a reflex action caused by me touching some nerve, but that she really opened her eyes. . "Haha! One woke up."

When I did this, the female corpse's eyes changed from cold and cold to confused, and later even a little bit of fear. I put her down to stand still, patted her shoulder and asked, "Can you talk?"

She glanced at my hand patting her with complicated eyes, and then looked at me again. "Why don't you run away?"

"Escape?" I looked around: "Why should I run? Is there any danger here?"

"I'm already dead. Shouldn't a normal person suddenly open his eyes when he sees a corpse and scream and faint or run away quickly?"

I scratched my hair and looked at Ling, and she actually pointed at me and laughed. I turned back and smiled awkwardly: "It seems like I'm a little abnormal!"

Ling came over and patted me and said, "Master, you are becoming less and less human now!"

"What do you mean?"

"People are scared to run away when they see dead bodies, but you actually look very excited!"

"I have a straightforward personality. Besides, I'm very excited! Don't you know that curiosity is a very strong passion? Suddenly there is someone who can answer my questions..." I looked at this undead spirit. girl. "The undead of.... Can I not be excited?"

"Okay, okay, you are reasonable!" Ling came over and said to the girl, "Who are you?"

"Why should I tell you?" The undead girl's surprising answer made us all stunned.

I held out three fingers: "I really want to know the cause and process of the matter now. You have three choices. First, negotiate business with us. We will meet some of your requirements and in exchange you tell me what I want to know. Chapter 2 Second, you refused to answer first, and then you answered when we tortured you until you couldn't bear it. Third, you were strong-willed, and you were tortured by us until your bones were gone and your soul disappeared. Choose one?" Really! You actually pretend to be a big deal in front of me. I am not a good person. I don't know about preferential treatment of prisoners. I am very familiar with torture to extract confessions.

The undead girl laughed and said: "I don't choose either. First, you may not be able to deal with me. Second, even if I am not your opponent and you control me, I am an undead and I don't feel pain. How are you going to torture me?"

Ling and I were stunned again. The undead have an instinctive fear of Ling Qi, and even if they are not necessarily obedient, they try not to conflict with Ling Qi. The person in front of him didn't seem to care about Ling's strength at all. Is she very powerful? But there is no feeling! How powerful can an undead be? The newly awakened low-level undead should be easy to deal with! I think what she said is probably because calves are not afraid of tigers at birth, because they don't know Ling's identity and strength, so they are so brave.

Ling smiled and said: "What a cute little girl. No one has dared to talk to me like this for a long time. Although you are already a senior necromancer, the gap between you and me is still insurmountable. Besides." She paused. "Don't use such low-level boring skills as summoning zombies against me."

I saw the undead girl's surprised eyes and heard her scream. Looking back, there were more than twenty corpses behind us, surrounded by green flames, struggling in pain. Seeing those corpses slowly being burned into powder, the undead girl's mouth never closed in surprise.

After the zombies were burned, the little girl returned to normal. She sneered and said: "Don't think that you can use the fire of the undead. If you have the ability, try burning my guard knights." As she said this, two people stood up behind her. The knight in full armor looks like a newly evolved undead knight.

With her confident smile, two undead knights walked up to her, pressed her shoulders on the left and right, and actually grabbed her. Ling smiled and said: "I don't even bother to ask for an undead knight of this level, but you still treat me as a treasure. You dare to command and fight without writing a soul blood contract. How did your mentor teach you? I don't know that there is no blood contract. Can the summoned undead be deprived of control by a more powerful necromancer? It seems that you are a half-baked necromancer! You can also resurrect from the dead. You are so lucky! You just said that even if you are caught, There is no way to torture you, now let you see what it means to live but not to die."

Ling snapped his fingers as he spoke, and the two undead knights let go of the undead girl and stepped aside. But the freed girl held her head in pain and fell down. She screamed and rolled around on the floor covered with corpses.

Ling asked jokingly: "How's it going? Is this kind of torture considered intense? If you think it's not exciting enough, I have something more powerful. Do you want to try it? I guarantee you'll be satisfied."

I walked over and asked, "Are you willing to answer questions now?"

"Don't even think about it!" She was still so hard.

I looked at Ling helplessly, and Ling snapped his fingers again knowingly. The undead girl on the ground suddenly jumped up, then fell down again and rolled around on the ground. Suddenly she got up and hit her head against a pillar, but the body of the undead was so strong that the pillar was broken and her head was not even red. After breaking the pillar, she began to search frantically for something, and suddenly she seemed to have found it. It turned out to be a dagger. She stabbed the dagger into her heart, but there was no reaction. She was still rolling around.

Ling said: "I said, I will let you experience the feeling of not being able to survive but not die, and I won't let you commit suicide. I just used the undead compound strengthening technique on you - Furious Heart. Now all your feelings They all become very sensitive, the pain will become more intense, and no matter what kind of physical injury you suffer, you will not die. How about it? Enjoy it, don't you? Experience it! In another hour, your soul will collapse due to extreme pain. , from now on your soul and body will disappear together."

"Please...please...you...get around me!...I said...I said...!"

The super torture finally worked. Face is so boring. A little girl actually stood up for such a meaningless thing for so long. After Ling removed the magic, the little girl fell down as if she was exhausted. She seemed to be dying.

I knelt down next to her. "Remember next time, be more easy-going and don't pretend to be arrogant. You are not much better than anyone else, there will always be someone better than you. Don't act like you are the best in the world."

The little girl nodded with difficulty.

I continued to ask: "Now please explain who these people are and why you are locked up here?"

"We are the pirates of Hope Island. Because we have been harassing the maritime traffic of various countries for a long time, those countries bribed the sacrifices of the Temple of Light."

Ling continued: "Then the Temple of Light sent troops to suppress you. Those of you who were set to be rebellious were collectively caught and killed here. And you happened to have learned undead magic, so you thought of using this method to survive?"

The girl nodded. "That's about it, but we were supposed to be sent back to the temple for trial, but for some reason they suddenly stopped providing food and water midway."

"Then do you know what's going on with that wax seal?"

"I don't know. We didn't have that thing when we were alive, and there was a door here originally, but I don't know why it became sealed!"

"Are you the last to die?"

"No. There were several people who were still alive when I lost consciousness."

"Then go find those people. If what I think is correct, some of them should not be here."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't worry about what I mean, just go find it."

The undead girl reluctantly got up and started looking for the corpses of those people. Seeing so many corpses here, she probably would have to search for a while. I contacted Lin Yue and Sun Yan first. "Did you two discover anything?"

Lin Yuedao: "There is nothing of value, not even a ghost."

"Sun Yan, what about you?"

"I've made a discovery here."

"Oh? What did you find?"

"I don't know yet, but it seems to be a person. I just saw a figure from behind and disappeared in a flash. I'm chasing him."

"What floor are you on? I'll come to support you right away."

"Fifth floor below deck. I'm in the middle of the ship, and the target is heading toward the bow."

Lin Yue immediately said: "I'm going to seal the stairs."

I also said: "I'm here too." I turned around and said to Ling: "You look at her, I'll go up and come down later."

"rest assured."

I nodded, jumped up, and grabbed the edge of the hole with both hands. With a strong effort on the waist, his legs passed through the hole and his body climbed onto the upper deck. I ran to the stairs and ran all the way up, and soon reached the level Sun Yan said. "I'm here, where are you?"

Sun Yan's voice was breathy: "This guy went down to the sixth floor from the hole you made. Now he's heading to the stern of the ship."

""I jumped down the stairs in excitement, and stepped through the floor again. Fortunately, I only lost one floor this time. Climbing up to the sixth floor and running towards the stern of the ship, he soon caught up with Sun Yan.

"Are you so fast?" Sun Yan was surprised to see me.

I asked as I ran: "Where is that thing?"

"That it."

I looked in the direction Sun Yan was pointing and sure enough I saw a black shadow in front of me. I raised my right hand and aimed at the position in front of the black shadow, and a crossbow arrow flew over with a whoosh. But what surprised us was that the arrow actually passed through the chest and there was no reaction at all to the guy.

"***, it's a ghost!" I 'touched' out the talisman given by Mr. Polar Star from my body, and held a large handful in my hand, which startled Sun Yan next to me.

"Ziri, are you a Taoist priest?"

I looked at the talisman in my hand and said, "This is a part-time job."

He quickly rushed forward and could already see the ghost, and raised his right hand again. First take out an arrow, then pull out a talisman and wrap it around it before putting it back on the Avenger. Aim at the ghost and activate the trigger. The crossbow arrow hit accurately, but this time it didn't go through. The arrow stuck in the guy's body like it hit an entity. But when we rushed forward, we heard a bang and the black shadow disappeared. My arrow fell to the ground, and a small figure cut from yellow paper was slowly floating down.

"No! Puppetry?"

Sun Yan picked up the piece of paper and said, "We were cheated?"

I nodded: "I think so! There are a lot of tricks on this damn broken ship."

"What does this guy want to do by drawing us away?" Sun Yan asked.

"Either he is afraid that he will be discovered, or it is a plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain. If it is a plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain, his target should not be Lin Yue, she and we are not together in the first place. Could it be that the target is Ling? Impossible! A demon of Ling's level Chong is very powerful even without her master by her side, attacking her is not easy.”

"Then what does he mean?"

The voice from the telepathic contact suddenly sounded in my mind. "Master, come down quickly, there's a situation here!"

"No, I really rushed over to you."

I rushed to the hole I had punched through in the middle of the boat and jumped out. As my body fell, the cabins one by one flashed in my eyes one by one. When he was almost at the bottom, suddenly on the first floor, a scary-looking female ghost with a green face and fangs appeared near the entrance of the cave. Normally, most people would be frightened, but my reaction was quite special. I quickly reached out and hugged the female ghost, but she was frightened by me and fell down the bottom cabin together.

As soon as I landed on the ground, I immediately pushed the female ghost to the ground, turned over and straddled her and pinned her down. His hands quickly pressed down on hers to restrain her movements. "You actually pretended to be a ghost to scare me! You're in bad luck today. My nickname is Guijianchou, so you're on the receiving end of a gun." He held her hands down with one hand, and freed up one hand to 'touch' her face. I 'touched' and pulled to tear off the mask, but found that it didn't seem to be a mask, it seemed to be real. "Hey! What a ghost!" The female ghost's originally panicked expression immediately became excited when she heard my words, but she fainted again when she heard my next words. I said excitedly: "I'm so lucky today. First I met a necromancer pretending to be a corpse, and then I found a female ghost." I pinched her face and turned it left and right. "Yes, they have all been materialized! They are valuable for research!"