In a daze, Xia Qi felt himself being constantly carried into the air.
Not long after, he was gently picked up again and placed on a clean ground.
Consciousness gradually began to return. Xia Qi could already feel the dazzling light in his eyes and could vaguely hear voices coming from nearby.
"There really is a monster in the sea, luckily I ran fast!"
"These damn NPCs must have done this on purpose. They want to kill us!"
"What did the monster you saw look like..."
The two men walked away while talking. Suddenly, one of the men yelled, "How dare you! You didn't get the mission item yourself, but you still want to steal mine?!"
The ear-shattering roar woke Xia Qi up instantly. He opened his eyes abruptly and sat up.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he raised his head, it hit another person's forehead with a "bang".
"hiss-"
Xia Qi fell down with stars in his eyes. He covered his forehead which was hurt by the collision and gasped softly: "You..."
The girl was lying on top of his head just now, and she didn't expect Xia Qi to wake up suddenly. After the two heads came into close contact, Xia Qi's forehead immediately swelled up.
The girl treated him as if he were a piece of broken glass and carefully helped him up, her eyes revealing heartache.
"Are you okay?" Xia Qi asked him back.
The girl shook her head to indicate that she was fine.
Xia Qi frowned. This guy's head was as hard as iron. Could it be that he practiced Iron Head Kung Fu
After the pain in his temple gradually subsided and Xia Qi sat firmly, he discovered another place that was causing him pain.
That is, his lips.
He raised his hand and touched his mouth and found that his lips were broken. The wound on his mouth had been soaked in water for a long time, causing his mouth to be a little swollen.
What was even more outrageous was that the tip of his tongue was both painful and numb. He tried to take a breath, but the pain made even his toes curl up.
Xia Qi covered his mouth and frowned unnaturally.
The girl was stunned for a moment, then looked at him with concern, asking if he was injured.
Xia Qi gritted his teeth and turned his head away.
He just thought it was bitten by a dog.
Just as he was about to get up, the girl stuffed a bunch of things into his arms as if offering treasures.
Xia Qi looked down and found a bag of pearl reefs and a bag of pearl fish. He had thrown both bags into the sea.
"You actually got the pearl fish?" Xia Qi asked in surprise.
The girl patted her chest, indicating that catching the pearl fish was easy and effortless.
Xia Qi glanced at him and took the task item suspiciously.
In addition, Xia Qi discovered that he was holding a pink conch in his hand.
"Did you pick it up?" Xia Qi asked puzzledly.
The girl shook her head, indicating that this was what Xia Qi had been holding and he didn't pick it up.
Xia Qi frowned and held up the conch that looked too girly.
He had a hunch that this was not a good thing.
Reward item: Pink Memory Conch (bound).
Level: No grade
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Xia Qi: “…”
As expected, he knew that in this game, he couldn't pick up normal items at all!
In addition to the magic wand of true love obtained at the beginning of the game, things like Queen Mary's wedding dress, red diamond wedding ring, and the passionate rose perfume given by Margaret are a bunch of things that are hard to describe in words. They are not as practical as the silver table knife given by the old man.
Although Xia Qi was full of disgust towards the Pink Memory Conch, the girl looked at him curiously, wanting to know whether he was satisfied with the prop.
"It's okay." Xia Qi frowned. What's the use of this useless prop
The girl pointed at the conch, motioning him to give it a try, then looked at him meaningfully.
"Then I'll try." Xia Qi pursed his lips, raised the conch to his mouth, and whispered a few words.
He was made so miserable by fishing underwater, and you still want him to say good things
Xia Qi sneered secretly in his heart.
After putting away the conch, the girl still stared at him curiously.
Xia Qi didn't explain. He stared at his face for a while and stood up first.
The two were walking forward with the bags, but unexpectedly they were stopped by someone.
The one who stopped them was the man with the gold chain and his teammates. The man with the gold chain whistled at Xia Qi: "You caught a lot of fish? Come and give me two. Anyway, you have enough to complete the task. I promise to let you play in the future."
Xia Qi glared coldly at the man with the gold chain. He was the one who sent this man to prison more than two years ago. He didn't expect that this man would appear in front of him again, and he didn't even recognize him.
"What do you want so many fish for?" Xia Qi asked. The two of them obviously had enough to complete the task, so why would they need the fish to make soup
"Hmph, you have to give it to me anyway." The man with the gold chain did not explain too much. This pearl fish is of great use, so the more you can have, the better.
Xia Qi sneered and took a step forward, ready to teach the man with the gold chain a lesson, when the girl suddenly stood in front of him and looked down at the man with the gold chain.
"Hey, have you figured out what you want to do?" The man with the gold chain laughed.
The girl looked at him coldly with murderous intent in her eyes. Just as he was about to take action, a scream suddenly came from the direction of the bow, attracting everyone's attention.
"Ahhh—someone come!"
The man screamed so miserably that even the man with the gold chain didn't bother to rob him and ran straight to the bow of the ship.
When Xia Qi and the girl arrived at the bow, they found a female player covering her face and crying loudly. If he remembered correctly, this female player seemed to be a junior player.
"Wow, wow, he's dead. I shouldn't have let him catch pearl fish alone!" The female player sobbed softly, her expression very painful.
Who died
Xia Qi frowned and looked up in the direction the female player was heading.
I saw a bloody human head lying on the bow of the ship not far away.
The eyes of the head were dug out, leaving only two black bloody holes on the face. Blood flowed down the cheeks to the edge of his mouth. In the slightly opened mouth, his tongue and teeth seemed to be gone, and his mouth was a bloody mess. What was even more terrifying was that there was a lot of blood on the top of the head, and his hair seemed to have been roughly shaved off with a sharp weapon.
Xia Qi looked down along the wound on the head and clearly found that there was a bloody hole on the throat, as if it had been pierced by a sharp weapon.
Because the player's death was so tragic, everyone couldn't help but feel sad.
Xia Qi sighed and thought that this male player was most likely the one who was stabbed to death by the monster holding a trident in the seaweed forest.
"Ah, what should I do? What should I do alone?" The female player who lost her teammate cried very sadly. Another female player came to her and patted her shoulder silently to comfort her.
"Why are you making such a fuss? It's just that someone died."
Footsteps were heard, and the female deputy appeared behind everyone, loudly scolding them.
Seeing the NPC arrive, everyone quickly separated and made way for the female deputy.
The female deputy calmly looked at the terrifying head on the bow, with a strange smile on her lips. She said, "Did you see it? This is the result of carelessness."
Seeing the cold-blooded and ruthless look of the female deputy, everyone gnashed their teeth secretly, but dared not speak out their anger.
This group of NPCs don't even regard them as human beings. In the eyes of the NPCs, they are just cannon fodder going to die!
"Okay, hand over the pearl reefs and pearl fish in your hands." The female deputy whistled happily, preparing to collect their mission props.
Xia Qi secretly left behind half a pound of pearl reef and three pearl fish, and handed in all the remaining mission props.
After collecting the mission props from everyone present, the female deputy discovered that there were still two people who had not returned.
"Who else hasn't come back yet?" The female deputy glanced at everyone. In fact, she couldn't quite remember what these Oriental people looked like. In the eyes of Westerners, all Oriental people looked exactly the same.
"Lin Qing and Wang Dazhuang haven't come back." Teacher Tony said with disgust.
Wang Dazhuang was the name of the tough guy. He hated the gay couple so much that he wished they would die far away, and it would be best if they would never appear in front of him again!
"Wait for them for another half an hour. If they don't come back, move the boat." The female assistant said coldly, and then ordered the two female players, "You two, go clean up the garbage on the boat."
The female deputy's meaning was very clear, and she asked the two female players to throw away the heads.
When the female player heard that she had to deal with her teammate's head, she was so scared that she couldn't say a word. Another female player nodded and accepted the task with difficulty.
After the female deputy left, the female player looked at the girl begging for mercy, hoping that she could help throw away the head.
The girl agreed without hesitation.
The main reason why he was willing to do this was because the human head looked too disgusting and he was worried about polluting Xia Qi's eyes.
After throwing the head away, he wiped his hands and stood next to Xia Qi.
After half an hour, the young master and the strong man still did not show up, so the captain ordered the female mate to start the boat.
Tony was so happy that he started dancing with joy and shouted, "This couple must have been eaten by a monster, right? Not even their heads were left. Tsk tsk tsk tsk."
At this time, the sea near them had returned to calm, and the sky was a deep blue, as if someone had painted it with a layer of oversaturated sky blue paint.
The sailboat gradually sailed out of the vicinity of the black reef. Xia Qi stood by the boat and looked at the sea. After a while, he found a layer of grayish-white mist rising from the sea.
Something is wrong.
The grayish-white fog greatly reduced visibility, making Xia Qi unable to tell where he was. He borrowed a compass from an NPC sailor and found that the compass needle rotated faster than a handheld electric fan. Except for not being able to point the direction, it perfectly became a must-have small appliance for cooling off during summer travel.
After Xia Qi left the ship, he planned to go talk to the captain at the helm.
The captain was fiddling with the stern rudder in his hands and humming a strange tune. He didn't even notice that the ash from the cigar had fallen into his neck.
Xia Qi stood behind the captain and asked humbly, "Captain, which direction is this ship heading?"
"Hey, young man, we are heading south!" The captain raised his eyebrows proudly, and then said in a very confident voice, "You can't tell the direction? It seems you are not suitable to be a sailor."
Only a fool would want to be a headless sailor. Xia Qi twitched his lips, pointed at the layers of gray fog outside the ship, and said, "How do I identify the direction of the south?"
Hearing this, the captain suddenly turned his head and gave him a mysterious smile: "The place with the deepest fog is the south!"
Xia Qi felt frightened by the captain's look and kept backing away.
Xia Qi didn't believe it and went to talk to the female deputy again. When he got the same answer, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
It was 4pm, only a few hours until evening, and the sun was setting directly in front of them.
The sun clearly sets in the west, but the captain insisted that they were heading south.
Ding Dong! Route progress: +10%, total progress 10%!
What?!
Xia Qi was immediately shocked. How could he increase the progress by sailing recklessly like this? !
Xia Qi could no longer believe the fact.
Another half an hour later, the NPC sailor notified all players to go into the cabin to eat.
On the long dining table in the cabin, there were several loaves of black bread. This was a kind of bread made with a small amount of white flour mixed with bran and sawdust. It looked like a giant block of iron and had a very ferocious appearance.
Everyone looked at the disgusting black bread and didn't know what to do for a moment. It was the man with the gold chain who took the initiative to step forward, took out a knife and started to cut the bread.
He tried to cut the black bread for a long time but couldn't do it. Everyone discussed it for a while and said it was a lump of iron and couldn't be eaten.
Xia Qi saw an axe in the corner and said, "Try with the axe."
Sure enough, the man with the gold chain chopped the black bread a few times with the axe and chopped it into several pieces.
However, when a female player picked up one of the broken pieces of bread, she suddenly let out a scream.
"Ahh, there are maggots!" The female player threw the black bread onto the table and then vomited on the spot.
I saw a few white worms crawling out from the broken pieces of black bread. They moved slowly, leaving a wet line on the long table.
"vomit!!!"
"This is the malice of the captain and the female deputy!!!"
All the players retched on the spot, and even Xia Qi felt nauseous.
Hearing the screams of the people in the cabin, an NPC sailor passing by said, "Hey, you are so stupid. You should put a fish outside the bread before eating it to attract the maggots and weevils."
Hearing this, everyone fell silent. After the maggots and weevils were lured out, wasn't the bread still crawling with disgusting bugs
The NPC sailor shrugged his shoulders and said, "The black bread on our ship has been stored for many years. If you are not used to it, you will have to go hungry."
Everyone's faces turned pale. Even if they starved to death, they would never eat this black bread that "lived with maggots"!
The ship was resting on the sea while the sailors were having their meal.
Food has always been the most important thing for the Chinese people. Even in an escape game, no one can stand being hungry or eating maggots.
Someone suggested getting off the boat to catch fish for food, so everyone borrowed a fishing boat from the female assistant, jumped on board and scooped up and speared fish.
When Xia Qi saw someone borrow a fishing boat, he also got on board.
He held a harpoon in his hand and, following the example of the others, threw a few baits into the water and then waited quietly.
I originally thought it would be difficult to fork the fish, but Xia Qi caught two with just one fork.
It was as if the fish were heading straight for his harpoon.
But the others were not as lucky as him. After trying many times, they only got one piece here and there.
Xia Qi caught two fish in total, both of which were salmon that had bumped into him in the water before.
He had forked these two salmon with great difficulty. Just now, when they were underwater, he didn't know who gave the order, but these salmon bumped him and almost drowned him.
Xia Qi decided to eat salmon tonight.
“Swish, swish, swish…”
Xia Qi was in the kitchen, scraping fish scales with a kitchen knife. The girl just walked in with a rather unhappy look on her face.
He pointed at the fish in Xia Qi's hand, his eyes full of questions.
Xia Qi said, "I didn't get much, so let's just make do with what we have today. I didn't expect there would be a shortage of food in this instance."
The girl's eyes flashed, and then she nodded slowly.
After Xia Qi cut open the fish, he made a fish platter and sat at the table with the girl.
The girl stared at his thin face, her eyes full of heartache.
"Why are you looking at me? Eat." Xia Qi pushed the plate away.
Xia Qi had just taken two bites when the man with the gold chain near them suddenly retched and fell to the ground.
Xia Qi turned his head in confusion and looked at the man with the gold chain who suddenly had a seizure.
"Ah, ugh!!!"
The man with the gold chain still had half a fish tail in his mouth. He suddenly spat out the fish, but he didn't expect that the fish tail suddenly turned into a rotten piece of fish tail when it just fell to the ground.
"Ah, what is this—ooh!"
Looking at the disgusting fish tail that looked like it was fished out of a stinky ditch, the man with the gold chain felt even more disgusted. He couldn't help but vomit again. This time, he felt his throat was slippery, and then a long piece of smelly soft meat slowly came out of his mouth.
“Pah.”
A rotten squid tentacle fell to the ground. After landing on the ground, the still elastic squid tentacle even shook twice in the yellow mucus.