"How do we leave here?"
Xia De asked the question while holding the photo.
"No one can escape. Once you're on our ship, no one can escape! Servants of the Spiral, followers of Scarlet, the fishbone pirate ship that gallops through the eye of the storm, pay tribute to the great Lord of the Scarlet Spiral! Praise you! Sing praises to you!"
The hoarse voice screamed hysterically, and the photo suddenly tried to break free from Shade's hand, but this time he held it firmly:
"I'll just ask once, how do I get out of here?"
"It's impossible to leave! No one can leave! Oh!"
The sword blade stabbed again, this time as if to cut the entire photo in two. The voice in the photo immediately changed its tone:
"Go find the captain! Go find the captain! Only he knows how to leave! Over the past few thousand years, everyone who has left here has gone to find the captain!"
It tried to fly out of Shade's hand again, but Shade refused to let go. The light from the sword in his hand illuminated his face, and he squinted at the increasingly embarrassed man in the photo:
"Are you a member of this ship's crew? What's going on with this ship?"
"They're all crazy! They're all crazy! The captain sought power from a great being, wanting to become the strongest pirate king. That power devoured us, giving us immortality and making it impossible for us to escape. The only purpose of this ship's existence is to hunt for our Lord. No one can escape! Not even the captain!"
It laughed crazily inside the photo. The woman's voice beside him reminded him quietly, and Shade immediately let go of the photo. But this time it didn't fly away, but stayed suspended in the air with laughter. A cold green flame rose up for no apparent reason, and instantly engulfed the photo.
When the photo was completely reduced to ashes, Xia De looked at the location of the photo frame. The shattered glass was intact, and the burned photo was still there. The man in the photo closed his eyes as if he was sleeping, but Xia De had no doubt that if he stared at him for a while longer, he would open his eyes like before and repeat all the actions again and again.
"This ship was spotted by the evil god, the Lord of the Scarlet Spiral, in the Fifth Epoch. The entire crew was transformed into immortal and bizarre beings, hunting on the sea for the evil god. After passing the intersection of the epoch, it was transformed into a powerful relic. Is this the truth of this place... I still don't understand why we ran into this thing."
Shade's eyes left the photo. The photo itself also had a strong whispering element. If Shade could take the photo out, it could also be considered a relic. However, this ship was really weird, and Shade would not go deeper with such a thing.
But it also goes to show that almost everything on this ship is valuable.
What are you going to do now
When the voice came out of his ears, Xia De had already started walking towards the interior of the cabin.
"Go find the captain. That madman doesn't look like he has the sanity to lie. Besides, since the gods allow this kind of thing to exist in the material world, it means there are rules here, and there is a way out."
The boots carefully avoided the dry bones on the ground, and with every step, the floor under his feet made a sound that seemed to spread throughout the entire ship.
Do you know where the captain is
"Of course I don't know, but it's definitely right to go inside. That's what Miss Princess said... Although there were more than a dozen ring sorcerers in distress on the cruise ship, now everyone else is gone. I can't expect others to find the exit. And even if others find the exit, it doesn't mean I can escape."
Are you worried about your companions
Her sweet laughter is really more effective than any potion in getting rid of headaches.
The further inward you go, the more alienated the cabin corridor becomes. The fungal carpet on the wall continues to thicken, and the shape of a human body appears on the surface of the fungal carpet, as if the wall has absorbed and swallowed human skeletons. The stench is getting stronger and stronger, and even if you block your nose with your hand, you can't get rid of the smell.
Xia De couldn't think of what could emit such a smell, but when he left the photo frame and walked 30 steps inside and heard the gurgling sound of water and crackling of burning, he immediately realized that someone was cooking on this floor of the cabin.
Holding a sword in his right hand and lighting with his left hand, he walked quickly forward. The skeletons under his feet and on the wall slowly stretched out their hands to the living people. As the moonlight flew out along the wall, the arms of the skeletons fell all over the floor like cut leeks, but they were still wriggling.
The ship was still shaking violently, and the planks could not block out the sound of the storm in the dark sea.
More and more filth appeared around, and even small particles visible to the naked eye appeared in the air. In the creepy darkness ahead, a faint green light appeared on the right wall, and the gurgling sound of water and the sound similar to burning wood came from there.
The sword in his hand split the skeleton that tried to grab his arm, and Shade came to the door of the cabin room that was not blocked. This was also the only room he saw that could be entered after entering the cabin.
Looking inside, the narrow room was about the size of Shade's bathroom. On both sides of the room were piled not with bones, but with bloody red corpses. On the floor in the middle of the room, skeletons were piled up in a fire, burning with green flames. Four iron chains hung from the ceiling, connected to an iron pot like the one used by witches in fairy tales, and suspended above the skeleton fire.
The foul-smelling liquid in the pot was boiling, but surprisingly there was no blood, corpse or bones in the pot. The pot was clear and you could see the water at the bottom.
On one side of the iron pot, a thing with a human head, the upper body of a fish, the lower body of a skeleton, and the limbs of a pig, was holding a rusty brass spoon and looking at Shade. The moment the pair of turbid yellow eyes met Shade's, the intense discomfort made him dizzy for a moment, and he almost lost his balance.
But the monster did not attack Shade, instead it grunted twice like a pig:
"Someone else is on board."
The language he used was the same as that used by the madman in the photo just now, both of which are the common language of Draerion.
"Are you the captain?"
Shade asked, the green flames brighter than the silver light at his fingertips, casting his shadow from the door to the other side of the cabin corridor, swaying like a monster.
Shad noticed that his voice had become unusually hoarse for some reason.
"Of course not, can't you see? I'm a chef."
The monster snorted. Although it was a human head, it had the features of fish gills on both sides of its cheeks. It put the brass spoon in its hand into the iron pot to stir it, and the stench became stronger.
"Want to know how to leave? Want to know the secret of this ship?"
it asked, the human head's small eyes narrowing towards Shade.