The cruise ship stopped at sea, and more than 40 young people and ten witches and mediums boarded another smaller ship. In addition to them, there was also a captain who had been hired at a high price, experienced sailors and bodyguards on the ship.
The situation at sea is complicated, and there are often undercurrents. There are also many special sea areas that can cause instruments to malfunction. Cruise ships that often visit this area know that there are places that cannot be visited, and the legendary Kirishima is one of them. Several ships that lost their way and accidentally approached Kirishima were unable to find their way back in the end.
After all, there was no news of any exciting treasure on the island, and it was so dangerous that gradually no one went there. This time, it was also because the employer paid a lot of money, not only brought various advanced navigation instruments, but also brought many wizards, that some people were willing to board the ship as crew members and carry them out to sea to find the fog island.
A group of people stood on the deck and looked into the distance. The sea ahead was calm and there was no trace of Kirishima. Slowly, the sun set over the sea, and an orange light appeared on the horizon, melting into the azure sky and dispersing in the deep blue sea.
The humming sound of a machine suddenly sounded, and the harsh sound made everyone who were immersed in the sunset on the sea suddenly look up at the captain's room above.
"The instrument suddenly malfunctioned!"
Wizard Rhodes, who had been silent and resting with his eyes closed, stood up. He walked to the bow, stretched out his hands and waved them in the air, muttering something. After a while, he said, "There is a shipwreck at the bottom of the water... The ghost trapped below disturbed the magnetic field."
He was a famous wizard, and Leon had finally managed to get him to come to his aid. He then stepped forward and asked carefully, "Wizard Ross, is this difficult?"
Wizard Ross shook his head: "This is just the most common ghost resentment. The instruments on the ship are affected. As long as we have experience, we can still leave this sea area. But I can feel that the closer we are to the foggy island, the heavier the resentment will be. At that time, it will be the most difficult to leave."
Just as he said, their ship moved forward, and by the time they saw the vague white fog, all the instruments on the ship had completely malfunctioned.
There was no wind on the sea, and the sun was setting in the sea. The brilliant yellow light had turned into orange. Against this red background, the outline of the fog island was looming, and the people standing on the deck saw the large ships stranded around the island.
Those dark, blurry shapes, the high-rising masts, intertwined with each other, seemed like dry black fingers reaching out from the ground.
Not only Wizard Rhodes, but several other wizards and mediums have already begun to sense the situation nearby. They all have heavy faces of doubt and suspicion. Before they even got to the island, they have already discovered that there is a huge darkness hidden here.
Among the few people, Lonsou's psychic grandmother was the worst. She was trembling all over, looking at the island getting closer and closer, her face full of fear and regret.
When she got here, she realized how weak the curse she had felt on Lonzo's wrist was. If she had known earlier that the curse was from this place, she would never have dared to touch it!
But now, it's too late to say anything.
She thought desperately that once she came to a place like this, she might never be able to leave!
"If I had known this was such a great place, I would not have come. I'm at a big loss this time." The youngest psychic turned his head with a bitter face and said, "It's too dangerous ahead. Let's turn back now. Maybe we can still survive."
Mei Shan, who invited him here, said gloomily, "You took so much money from me, and you want to leave without doing anything. Do you think I'm easy to cheat?"
The young psychic was embarrassed. He thought that the little girl was just going to a haunted house with her friends, and there were only a dozen ghosts haunting her, which was easy to deal with, so he agreed. He had exaggerated his ability, but who knew they would come to such a dangerous place. Let alone a dozen ghosts, there were so many ghosts here that he couldn't count them. He was scared to death just by feeling them.
As they were talking, fog suddenly rose on the sea and enveloped their boat. The world around them changed in an instant. The sky was filled with gloomy clouds and waves rose on the previously calm sea, hitting the hull.
"Everyone get into the cabin!" the captain shouted.
Several psychics and wizards followed the panicked young people and hid in the cabin, no longer showing their previous pretentious demeanor.
Wizard Roz and several other wizards were still standing on the deck. Wizard Roz took out something and threw it into the sea, chanting a spell loudly. An elderly female wizard took out a small lamp, which ignited without wind and lit up slowly. She held it high up, illuminating this gray world.
The darkness and thick fog were dispelled, the shaking of the ship also subsided a lot, and another wizard took out a hand drum and gently tapped the drum.
The dull sound of drums, accompanied by the chanting of the medium, calmed the waves completely.
In just a few minutes, the huge waves suddenly appeared and disappeared, and everyone was in awe. A group of young people rekindled their confidence that these wizards were not all liars, they had their own abilities, and maybe they could really break their curse after landing on the island.
In such calm, the boat approached the shore.
Qin Feichang grabbed the railing on the deck and looked at the stranded ship nearby. The ship was very close to them. The dark and shabby hull and the pitch-black windows were like the eyes of a monster, staring at them as they passed by.
Getting off the boat and landing on the island, everything went much more smoothly than Qin had imagined. Except for the sudden waves and storms when they were close to Kirishima, they encountered almost no other problems.
The crew stayed on the boat, and the young man and the wizard medium went to the island under the escort of bodyguards.
The light was hazy, and the sky was gloomy when they looked up, making it hard to tell whether it was day or night. The fog that enveloped the island became sparse after they actually landed on the island, and they could see the outlines of the buildings in the fog.
It was an ancient castle building exactly the same as the ruins they had seen in the virtual world. The only difference was the plants on the island. Those lush roses and vines were all dry branches and leaves in reality, drooping lifelessly on the ground.
"We are going to the rose garden." Qin Feichang unknowingly walked to the team leader's position. She led a group of people straight to the rose garden that they had visited once before.
None of the obstacles she had imagined appeared, and she arrived safely in front of the rose garden.
The rose branches that formed the maze had no flowers or leaves, only thick dark thorns intertwined together, forming a fence that prevented people from passing through easily.
"Is the center of the curse inside this?"
"yes."
"Indeed, I also felt that power, the power of the evil blood curse."
"There are curses all over the island, but the curse here is the strongest."
"What should I do next? Cut these thorns with a knife?"
The bodyguard stepped forward and tried to remove the thorns, but found that the black thorns were extremely hard and difficult to cut.
"Try burning them with fire." Following Qin Feichang's suggestion, the bodyguards tried to light the thorns again. This time, flames shot up into the sky. The thorns were surprisingly easy to burn and caught fire easily. After a while, the fire spread and burned a large area of thorns blocking their way.
The bodyguards and dozens of young men walked forward on the gray-black ashes, holding weapons.
Surrounding them were young people who were both terrified and excited, in front of them were wizards with serious expressions, and there were bodyguards who kept clearing the way. The further Qin Feichang walked, the more she felt that their actions were going very smoothly, so smoothly that she always felt something was wrong.
They went deeper and deeper into the rose garden and destroyed the maze.
When the fire reached the inner layer, it encountered a circle of water pools and the fire was extinguished. A group of people walked here and were surprised to find that the central area was completely different from the outside.
The roses here looked normal, with bright red flowers supported by emerald green leaves, but the most surprising thing was that a pure white unicorn was lying in the rose bushes. Its legs were tightly entangled by the rose branches and it couldn't break free. Every time it moved, blood beads rolled down.
The unicorn looked at them with human-like pleading in its eyes. Qin felt dazed for a moment and heard someone around her say, "Is this a unicorn? It's so pitiful. Let's save it."
Qin Feichang came to his senses instantly, grabbed Meishan who was about to move forward, and kicked down the confused Leon.
"Wizard Roz, he is the source of the curse."
This person is obviously a pervert, but he has a bad taste in pretending to be harmless. Who else could it be but Egbert
Wizard Ross and his companions were not fooled. They took out their own magic weapons to deal with the "unicorn" in the rose bush. With the joint efforts of several people, the "unicorn" soon revealed its true appearance.
It was a completely black horse, with smooth muscles, a strong body, a slender neck, long wavy mane hanging down from one side, dark and deep eyes and long eyelashes... full of elegance and beauty.
Qin Fei also goes horseback riding in her spare time. She owns several horses at Qin's stable, all of which are excellent horses with pure bloodlines. However, no horse she has ever seen can compare to the black horse in front of her.
She liked this black horse more than the unicorn just now. It was a pity that if she guessed correctly, this black horse should be related to Egbert, or it might be him.
Just as he thought of this, Egbert said with a smile: "Are you here to kill me? Ah, there are so many of you, I can't defeat you."
Qin Feichang felt something was wrong when she heard this. Egbert's attitude seemed to be teasing them.
The wizard Rhodes, who was standing in the front, suddenly stopped attacking and said in a daze: "This is... This is a nightmare ghost!"
He looked around and at his hands, looking panicked.
Before the others could react to why he suddenly panicked, Qin Feichang had already understood what he meant and accurately captured the key words.
"nightmare?"
Nightmare, nightmare—is this a dream
She also looked around, trying to find anything unusual, and began to recall everything that had happened since she got off the ship. If this was a dream, not reality, then when did they start to enter the dream
"Ha, hahaha... hahahaha!" Eggbert's chuckle turned into a loud laugh. Seeing everyone's expression change, he was very happy.
The black horse stood up from the thorn bush, no longer showing the weakness he had pretended to be. At his feet, black thorns grew and quickly became a cage, trapping everyone inside.
"It's amazing that you found this place, but unfortunately, you still failed."
Heima walked up to Qin Feichang and looked at her with his bright eyes. "This time, you are really going to die. Are you afraid?"
He seemed to be looking forward to seeing her crawling on the ground in fear.
Qin Feichen grabbed the long horse mane expressionlessly and pulled it hard—
"Why do you always pull my hair? It hurts." Egbert complained like a spoiled child, but his tone showed his pleasure at her loss of composure.
Qin Feichang opened his mouth to speak, but his vision suddenly went dark.
She suddenly opened her eyes and found that she was not in the rose garden, but at the edge of the fog island. Not far behind her was their ship, and in front of her was thick fog. Around her, others were kneeling on the ground, posing as if they were repenting. They closed their eyes and fell into nightmares, their bodies were entangled with thorny rose vines, and they could not be awakened no matter what.
It seems that they fell into a nightmare not long after arriving on the island.
Then why did she wake up suddenly
Qin Feichang was just feeling strange when she suddenly felt a weight on her shoulder. A black cat jumped off her shoulder. Her first reaction was Egbert, but then she saw a red line under the black cat's claws, and her pupils suddenly shrank.
She stared at the black cat for a while, and asked in an uncertain tone: "Is it... the ancestor of Ujigami?"
The thorns that had entangled her suddenly began to grow, climbed up her arms, and finally opened up a red rose before her eyes. The flower waved at her, and Qin Feichang heard Egbert's voice.
"I'll wait for you to come find me."
After saying that, the thorns let go of her and she fell to the ground. Qin Feichang stepped on the red rose and saw the black cat walking forward, as if to lead the way. She took out a gun and a knife from a bodyguard beside her and followed the black cat in front.