"vomit!!!"
The man with the gold chain and his teammates were still vomiting, and as they kept vomiting, a disgusting hill of rotten fish and shrimp appeared in front of them.
There were various kinds of rotten fish meat and various soft tentacle creatures in the hill. The degree of decay of each kind of meat was different. Some were green, some were brown, and they were covered with mucus of different colors and the saliva of the two people. It looked extremely disgusting.
After a while, the man with the gold chain and his teammates began to spit out black seaweed.
The long seaweed was like a woman's hair. When the man with the gold chain pulled the seaweed out of his mouth, he almost fainted. However, he had no choice because it was too disgusting. He had to keep pulling the seaweed, trying to pull out all the seaweed. However, he didn't expect that the seaweed became longer and longer, and the more he pulled, the more it became, until it became a ball of wool on the ground.
"I... I can't stand it anymore." The man with the gold chain said while vomiting and puffing his cheeks.
Since he kept vomiting, he developed symptoms of dehydration. Of course, his teammates were not much better and they fainted from vomiting.
After he fainted, everyone was horrified to find that a living shrimp crawled out of his mouth. The shrimp was covered with some kind of greasy, black paint. When it walked past everyone's feet, everyone even smelled the stench of a dead body.
The girl seemed to be in a very good mood as she watched the two men vomiting.
Xia Qi no longer wanted to see them. It was so disgusting that he had no appetite at all.
"Yes, so we can't eat things from the sea?" someone asked.
"I just ate it, I'm fine, it tastes good, and I don't want to vomit." Someone else replied, "Did they offend something in the sea?"
Although everyone was sitting aside discussing, no one went to help. Who knows if they would be in trouble if they bumped into the two of them.
"may be… "
Listening to the discussions of the players around him, Xia Qi frowned slightly. Why did the man with the gold chain and his teammates suddenly encounter such a thing
Just now when the two of them were standing under the boat blocking the way, they were fine. There was no chance of them encountering any death or bad luck.
Xia Qi thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out. However, now he was faced with another question:
Does he continue to eat, or does he not eat
The girl happily admired the miserable condition of the man with the gold chain and his teammates, then turned around and looked straight at Xia Qi.
He pushed the plate forward, signaling Xia Qi that he could eat.
Xia Qi looked at him in confusion. He was indeed hungry. He had just eaten anyway, so it wouldn't hurt to eat a few more bites.
"You eat too." Xia Qi pushed the salmon sashimi in front of him.
The girl was stunned for a moment and didn't move.
Xia Qi raised his eyebrows and looked at him. Don’t you like eating fish
Why doesn't he like to eat salmon
"It was still alive and kicking when I cut it. We are very lucky to be able to eat such fresh salmon sashimi." Xia Qi rarely spoke to him for such a long time.
The girl pursed her lips.
Xia Qi didn't force him, and continued to pick up a spoon and started drinking the fish soup.
Just after watching Xia Qi finish his fish slowly, the girl stood up uncomfortably. He picked up the plate and prepared to go out, saying that eating in the sun would be healthier both physically and mentally.
Xia Qi turned his head and said to him, "Are you going to the deck? I want to eat more. You go up first."
The girl paused as she stepped over the threshold and almost fell forward again.
The girl had just reached the deck with the salmon and was about to throw the plate away when she unexpectedly ran into the male player who was smoking.
Fearing that the male player might tell on him, he carefully hid the plate behind his back.
The male player blew out a smoke ring and said gossipingly, "Wow, you guys are eating salmon fillets in the shape of roses. You young lovers are really interesting, wow."
Girl: “…”
After cleaning up the kitchen, Xia Qi went to the deck to get some fresh air.
He originally planned to look for the girl, but unexpectedly found the female player who had lost her teammate in the corner of the stern.
At this time, the female player was squatting beside a rum barrel, covering her face and sobbing softly.
Xia Qi stood near her and watched her for a while, then suddenly walked to her side.
Xia Qi slowly squatted down and asked in a low voice: "Why does he go to the seaweed forest to catch pearl fish?"
He was talking about the male player with a bloody head, the one whose throat was pierced by a trident at the bottom of the sea.
"You, you, how do you know that he went to the seaweed forest to catch pearl fish?" The female player raised her tearful face and looked at him in surprise.
"If you are willing to tell me what happened, I can tell you how he was killed." Xia Qi planned to make a deal with her.
The female player was immediately surprised.
In the sin game, she had seen many players using dirty tricks on each other and cheating each other, but it was very rare to find a player like Xia Qi who asked for a deal so directly.
"Okay, I'll tell you." The female player gritted her teeth, moved forward a little, and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "At the beginning, we only caught one pearl fish. There was nothing we could do. There were too few pearl fish in the sea. We put in a lot of effort."
"How did you catch the pearl fish?" Xia Qi looked confused. Before he fell asleep, he didn't even see the shadow of the pearl fish.
In fact, he was quite curious about where other players caught the pearl fish. After all, he was knocked unconscious for an hour because of someone.
The female player scratched her head and said, "My teammate has a 'fishing net' item. The net can be cast far into the water. There are also barbs in the net. Once a fish is caught, no fish can escape. However, we have been fishing for a long time and have only caught one pearl fish."
After the female player finished speaking, her expression became a little serious: "Later, we saw a player appear near the seaweed forest. He brought a lot of pearl fish. The teammates wanted to trade with him, so they followed him into the seaweed forest."
After her teammates left, the female player went back to dig the Pearl Reef, but she never expected that something like that would happen later.
Xia Qi frowned and thought for a moment, feeling something was wrong, so he asked doubtfully: "At that time... the player you saw, how did he bring the pearl fish?"
"He's really amazing. Wherever he goes, the pearl fish follow him. There's no need to use a fishing net to catch them..." As she spoke, the female player's expression turned extremely pale. Suddenly, she screamed, "No! Why are those pearl fish following him?"
Ever since she saw her teammate’s head, the female player’s mind has been in a mess and she has no time to sort out what happened on the seabed.
Now when I think about it, I find many problems.
Why does the pearl fish follow the "player"? Could it be that the player also used props
If it's not a prop, then what is it...
"The 'player' you saw may not be a human, nor a player on the ship." Xia Qi said coldly after figuring it out.
If it's not a human, then what is it?!
"It was the monster on the sea floor that killed him?" The female player tightened her collar, feeling the cold wind blowing from the boat. "No, why does that monster look so much like us? Could it be that they are..."
Mermaid
"That's right." Xia Qi still had lingering fears when he recalled the dark green and fierce eyes of the monster in the water, so he nodded and replied, "Your teammate was killed by the monster with a sharp weapon."
"Thank you... Thank you for telling me the cause of his death." After learning the truth about her teammate's death, the female player was shocked and frightened. She couldn't help but wipe away a tear. Finally, she sighed and said, "It's a pity that Lin Qing is missing. He was a high-level player who passed the high-level dungeon. If he comes back, we can follow him and find a way..."
Hearing this, Xia Qi was slightly surprised: "You seem to admire him very much?"
"Yeah, haven't you heard of the Lin Group?" The female player looked at Xia Qi in confusion. Anyone who has stayed in the central space for a period of time must know about the Lin Group.
Xia Qi naturally also knew about the Lin Group. In real life, the Lin Group was already one of the world's top chaebols and a leading company in the cutting-edge IT industry.
So Xia Qi asked: "Can the power of the Lin Group also be used in the game?"
"Of course, they have a huge network of relationships in the central space, but in this game, the helpers hired by the Lin Group did not appear." The female player said enviously, "The young master is a member of the Lin family. In addition to the people who protect him, he must have a lot of props on him. Having props means more support, so it will be easier for him to survive than us."
Xia Qi has witnessed this.
In the previous copy, the young master didn't even move a finger, waiting for others to help him complete the task. But in this copy, because there were no servants from the Lin family, the young master had to do it himself and even steal someone else's boyfriend.
"By the way, I think Lin Qing and you don't get along well. You'd better be careful with him and don't offend him." The female player showed some concern. "You can't afford to offend the Lin family. I heard that they can even kill people across games..."
"Okay, thank you for your reminder." Xia Qi said sincerely.
He has always regarded the young master as his greatest enemy and has never let his guard down.
After communicating with the female player, Xia Qi's legs were numb from squatting, so he stood up and prepared to leave the deck.
As he was walking around a rum barrel, he almost bumped into someone's arms.
"What are you doing hiding here?" Xia Qi pushed away the other's arms and looked at the tall and mighty girl in front of him with an unhappy face.
Seeing that his expression was not very good, the girl pursed her lips, quickly loosened her hands, and took a step back reluctantly.
He pointed behind Xia Qi and frowned at him, as if he was very bothered by his behavior just now.
"Are you asking me what I did just now?" Xia Qi asked tentatively.
The girl stared at him with her red eyes, her mouth curled up, seeming very unhappy.
Xia Qi paused for a moment, and saw jealousy, resentment, and displeasure in his expression...
At this time, the girl took another step forward, as if asking him what he was doing.
Xia Qi turned his head uncomfortably and looked in the direction of the female player, then clenched his fists. He always felt like he had been caught by him
No, there's nothing to catch about him!
Xia Qi reacted immediately and explained to him dryly: "I was just discussing something about the game with her, don't think too much about it."
After saying this, he suddenly felt that he was too impulsive. He had only said a few words to the female player. What was there to explain
After listening to his explanation, the girl suddenly curled her lips and even stretched out her hand to grab his sleeve.
Xia Qi dodged and changed the subject, "Let's go take a look at the fish drying racks."
Xia Qi shook his head helplessly and continued to wander towards the stern. When he came to a rack of wind-dried fish, he suddenly stopped.
Among the countless racks with dried fish hanging on them, the only thing missing was pearl fish.
Although pearl fish are very expensive, with the quantity the captain has now, it is enough for him to enjoy one or two.
Xia Qi carefully pondered the conversation he had just had with the female player, and suddenly came to his senses.
He guessed why the male player was killed!
That is - pearl fish.
When he was handing in the task before, he also confiscated 3 pearl fish, one of which he traded with a male player who had a cooking artifact. He originally wanted to kill one and eat it, but now he doesn't dare to do so.
"Wait here for me, I want to talk to the female player." After he gave the girl his instructions, he turned around and went behind the rum barrel to look for the female player.
The girl stared longingly in the direction he left, the corners of her eyes turned red again, and her hands unconsciously clenched into fists.
The female player was just about to go into the cabin to rest for a while, but unexpectedly Xia Qi came back again.
Xia Qi stopped the female player and asked anxiously, "Did you hurt the pearl fish when you used the fishing net prop?"
The female player nodded blankly and said, "Of course he would be hurt. His fishing net has barbs..."
"The problem should be here." Xia Qi frowned and pondered. Just now when the female player mentioned the fishing net with barbs, he felt that something was wrong.
If he guessed correctly, the underwater mermaid might be the protector of the pearl fish, and if anyone hurt the pearl fish, he would retaliate against the hurter.
"What? Is it because he hurt the pearl fish and accidentally triggered the death condition?" the female player said in disbelief.
Xia Qi frowned and nodded heavily: "However, this matter has not been concluded yet, so we can only be cautious."
"Okay. I understand, thank you." The female player clenched her fists nervously.
After learning about this, she would never dare to hurt a single scale of the pearl fish even if she was beaten to death.
After Xia Qi finished talking with the female player, he came out from behind the barrel, but was unexpectedly attacked by someone again.
This time, the girl pushed him directly into the corner, supported her hand on his head, and looked down at him with red eyes.
"Let me go." Stared at by his questioning eyes, Xia Qi's breathing stagnated, and he remembered the feeling of being force-fed air underwater.
The girl frowned and slowly took a step back.
Xia Qixian came back to his senses. He said dryly, "There's some movement over there. Let's go take a look."
In the evening, a breeze blew and the weather unexpectedly became clear. When the sun was about to sink into the sea, the captain suddenly stopped the ship and notified all the sailors to go on deck to play games.
"Brave sailors, let's play the dart game! Don't worry, each of you will get a reward!" The captain held the bottle of rum, his face flushed from drinking, looking like a crazy drunk.
"Captain, what reward will we get?" asked the man with the gold chain anxiously.
Since every game of Sin is so brutal, everyone feels physically uncomfortable when the word "game" is mentioned.
"These rewards are all my treasures!" The captain took a sip from the bottle, then pointed to a table with 12 small black wooden boxes nearby. "These 12 treasures are the rewards I prepared for you. I have stored different rewards inside. Whoever throws the dart most accurately will have the right to choose the box first!"
When they heard that there would be a ranking competition, everyone's faces became even uglier.
There is a competition, and there is also a choice of the final reward. Why does it sound so much like a death condition
However, everyone thought about it and felt that this game was too closely related to luck. No one knew what was in the box when they randomly selected it, so there was actually no difference between selecting early and selecting late.
The only thing that worries me is the contents of the box. If it is bound to a level or an NPC, then it won't be a simple matter.
Of course, although everyone expressed no expectations for the random blind selection box, no one wanted to fall behind, and they lined up one by one to cooperate with the captain and start throwing darts.
It was not until he threw the dart that Xia Qi discovered that this was actually a dart game. However, professional dart boards had not yet been invented in this era, and the scales for aiming were carved on the cross-section of the wood.
Soon, it was Xia Qi and the girl's turn. Xia Qi shook the not-so-heavy dart spear in his hand and threw it at the cross-section.
"Full marks!" The captain whistled at him and said excitedly, "After you get off the ship, you can go to the palace to apply for a male servant and accompany the king to play with a dart gun. Anyway, you can't even tell the direction of the sea, you are not suitable to be a sailor anymore."
Xia Qi: “…”
In fact, he didn't know why he could throw the ball so accurately. Ever since he could remember, he seemed to have always had good accuracy.
After everyone had thrown their darts, the captain began to let everyone choose their reward boxes according to their ranking.
Xia Qi and the girl were the first to choose. When they arrived at the table, Xia Qi found that the girl's expression was very solemn and she was staring at the box anxiously.
Xia Qi put his right hand on a box and was about to pick it up, but unexpectedly the girl suddenly patted his shoulder.
"You want me not to take this box?" Xia Qi asked doubtfully.
The girl nodded.
Xia Qi thought, could it be that he has the same ability as the old man
Another box was changed, and the girl continued to shake her head. When it came to the third box, the girl finally nodded.
After everyone has chosen their boxes, there are only 3 boxes left on the table.
One of the boxes is for the male player who died, and the other two boxes belong to the young master and the tough guy.
"You can't open the box now. You can only open it after you get off the ship. Then you will get a surprise." The captain said mysteriously after he finished drinking the whole bottle of rum.
Everyone immediately stopped their hands from opening the box, fearing that the box was Pandora's box and that monsters would emerge from it once it was opened.
Xia Qi shook the box in his hand and felt like there was a spherical object rolling inside.
What is this
Holding the box in his hand, Xia Qi leaned on the edge of the boat and looked out at the sea.
The evening was very short, and the red sun finally set. The sky was covered with black fog, and not a single star could be seen.
Xia Qi felt helpless as he couldn't even see the North Star. He had completely become a "sailor who couldn't tell directions at sea."
At night, the female deputy took everyone to the guest rooms on the lower level of the cabin.
It seems that this is another sinister intention of the game, as there are only 6 townhouses on the bottom floor of the cabin.
However, there are 12 players in total, which means that every 2 people must share a room.
Since the teams had been formed as soon as they entered the game, everyone tacitly chose to live with their teammates and consciously formed a team to enter the room.
Seeing everyone leaving spontaneously, Xia Qi suddenly felt something was wrong, so he strode to the door and pushed it open.
As he expected, there was only a large wooden bed in the room. It looked very flimsy, the kind of bed that would sing a strange song like "hmm, ah, ah, woosh" when you turned over.
Xia Qi walked out of the room expressionlessly. He found that the girl was staring at the shattered bed in the room.
However, Xia Qi coughed awkwardly, raised his hand, pointed to the room that was supposed to belong to the young master and the tough guy, and said mercilessly: "You stay in this room tonight, and I will stay in the young master's room. After all, we shouldn't touch each other."
Since the young master and the tough guy are currently out of contact, the room they were staying in is empty.
Girl: “…”