"Now that we've won, the next step is..."
As he was talking, he heard footsteps on the stairs behind him. A third person had successfully arrived here.
Shade and Miss Princess were greatly surprised, and the evil spirits and the captain were even more surprised. All the people and monsters who were originally hostile to each other now looked towards the stairs, and the first one to see that person was Miss Princess, who was closest to the stairs, and her eyes widened.
The third ring wizard who broke in had taken off his mask, just like Shade and Miss Princess, and they actually knew that face. This was Mr. Darkness, who had played cards with Shade in the tavern this afternoon and cheated with despicable means.
Although he didn't know how he got here, the left half of his body seemed to be covered by creeping darkness and shadows. The man's face looked very bad, and there were traces of dirty blood on the normal half of his body.
Miss Princess was about to ask him to come and help, but the middle-aged man just glanced at the situation and immediately retreated. The sound of footsteps moving away meant that Mr. Darkness had actually escaped.
"The last time three people in a group walked here was 1,500 years ago."
The captain's hoarse and low voice made Shad realize that the danger was not over yet. Amid the restless whispers of the evil spirits, he turned around, took Miss Princess's hand, gave her a look to relax, and then walked to the table together.
Shad sat down in an empty chair at one end of the long table, facing the extremely ugly captain, while Miss Princess stood behind Shad, resting her hands on the back of the chair, bathing in the golden light on him.
The next gambling fight was conducted by Xia De. She really did not have the mental strength to sit at the same table with the sailors and the captain without any harm.
The wooden table in front of me looked quite old, with its legs covered in dirt and the tabletop, which was filled with all kinds of delicacies, was a mixture of black and brown. Although the wood had not yet rotted and looked very solid, the smell of decay could be smelled as soon as I got close.
The smell made Shad even hungrier, and at one point he even thought about tasting the wood to see if it tasted good.
No one stopped him from sitting down. Having won the duel, he had the right to sit down.
“I want to get out of here.”
Shade said, clasping his hands together on the tabletop, not wanting to look at the Captain's face.
"Make a bet with me. If you win, you leave. If you lose, you sit here forever."
The captain put his hands on the table, and the whispers of the evil spirits around him became more frequent. The skull chandelier above his head was shaking, and a sinister laugh came into his ears from somewhere.
"Sitting here forever" probably means getting on the ship. If Shad loses, he will also become a part of this ship.
"Wait, I also want to take my companion away. We came here together."
He pointed behind him again.
"Then let her bet with me too."
"I'll bet with you on her behalf. We can bet bigger."
Xia De continued, in front of him was a golden bowl filled with milky fish soup. Although he didn't know why the food had no smell, he couldn't help himself just by looking at it.
His stomach was rumbling with hunger, and he could even feel his intestines and stomach moving in dissatisfaction. Although the food in front of him had no taste, seeing it inevitably reminded him of the last time he and Miss Louisa went to a high-end restaurant with their own ingredients, and the taste of the delicious fish soup.
"Faced with this situation, you still want to take others away with you?"
The captain in the cocked hat laughed, and the strange sailor ghosts around the table also laughed. Their laughter made the ship shake. The captain, the ghosts and the ship were one, and everyone was part of the relic.
"Okay, since you want to bet bigger, why not make it bigger? If you win, I'll let everyone on your ship leave."
The captain said amid that annoying laughter, but Shad immediately shook his head.
The bigger the stakes, the less likely he was to win. Although he sympathized with the others involved in the accident, he didn't want to prevent himself and Miss Princess from leaving.
He will naturally help others when he can, but this time it's not like the probability of rolling the dice is just around 10, but the probability of rolling the dice is less than five.
"No, I'm only betting on myself and my companion behind me."
Shade stressed.
"That's not up to you."
He unbuttoned his shirt, but what was revealed was not a body covered with scars, but a thin body like a mummy. The surface of the mummy was covered with fish scales, and on the shriveled gray chest, there was a black mermaid tattoo the size of a forearm. The mermaid on the tattoo had her eyes closed, but the next moment her eyes suddenly opened. The originally beautiful face became evil, and then the mermaid broke away from the captain's body covered with fish scales, jumped onto the table, and then suddenly disappeared.
"I'll bet three games. If you win two, I'll let all of you go. If you don't want to bet, let the woman behind you bet with me for her freedom. In the first game, you guess which plate the mermaid is hiding in."
The captain pointed at the table with his chest exposed:
"In the first round, if you win, I will give you a way to relieve your hunger. If you guess wrong, you have to eat what you guessed."
The restless evil spirits were laughing, and the cold wind made Shade, who was shaking from hunger, feel even more uncomfortable. Miss Princess's hand was on his shoulder at this time. He turned his head and looked up, and her emerald green eyes met his.
Once upon a time, the black-haired maid Miss Tifa Servet and Shade had looked at each other like this. It had to be admitted that the maid was the person with the best figure Shade had ever known in this world.
Miss Princess said nothing, but her eyes made Shad feel at ease. This time he was not alone.
He knew that he could not refuse the captain's malicious increase in the stakes. He turned his head and looked at the captain with fish-like features on his face across the table. The golden light traces were like sparks, drifting around with his movements:
"I'll bet with you, but you have to swear to your God that once I win two rounds, everyone on the cruise ship will leave."
"No problem, I swear to my Lord, the Lord of the Scarlet Spiral, that if you win, you can all leave!"
"Okay then."
Xia De stared at the table and asked in his heart:
"Where?"
The traces of the elements are obvious, the silver basin on the left hand side, under the white bread.
"Under the white bread."
Shad said.
"You guessed wrong."
The captain laughed, and at the same time the voice in his heart reminded him again:
It had moved and was now underneath the plate of barbecue.
“Baking...”
"You only have one chance, you lose the first round!"
With a wave of his hand, the flat mermaid tattoo flew out of the barbecue and stuck back to the captain's chest.