Chapter 217: The Land Where the Legend Begins

Search parties set foot on the ruins.

Under everyone's feet, there is a sticky texture, a burnt smell, mixed with various peculiar smells, and many people have disgusted expressions on their faces.

Under the surveillance of tiramisu, Gu Tianqing searched for something in the messy ruins very hard.

Yi Lin laughed.

If there is no wrong guess, the result is bound to disappoint tiramisu.

At this time.

Yi Lin stared.

He glanced down without a trace, then quickly raised his head, releasing the power of thought, sensing everything under his feet and behind him.

There was an unnatural trail that continued from the pile of corpses to the shore.

It seems that there is an object similar to a "person", dragging its body and dragging it to the shore.

Then the trace terminates.

Yi Lin remained silent, and did not tell what she had discovered.

half an hour later.

With an apologetic face, Gu Tianqing said to the tiramisu: "I'm sorry, it seems that my divination has gone a little bit wrong."

Click.

Hearing the tiramisu, two teeth suddenly collapsed on the cigarette stick.

Yi Lin heard the teeth-stinging crackling sound, and seriously doubted whether the tiramisu's teeth would be chipped due to extreme anger.

Faced with Tiramisu's eyes that seemed to be bursting into flames, Gu Tianqing still apologized, and said in a serious tone: "I'm really sorry. However, because of this incident, I am more sure that our course is not Wrong, because, according to the results of the divination, this direction will lead to 'bad luck', oh, it seems that it also brings bad luck to the damned pirates by the way."

The implication.

The blame was thrown directly on Elizabeth Lin's head.

Yi Lin: "..."

Tiramisu deep V one after another, smoking a cigarette vigorously.

five minutes later.

Tiramisu finally calmed down, took a deep breath, and commanded with a sullen face: "Close the team! Keep going!"

After one hour.

After finishing the reorganization of the nine warships, they set out again following the course guided by Yi Lin and Gu Tianqing in a colder direction.

After firing the guns, the other nine warships quietly distanced themselves from "Lucky 2" after hearing some rumors, as if they were afraid of getting something that shouldn't get on them. .

Tiramisu: "..."

...

ten days later.

somewhere in the sea.

It was sunny and sunny.

Don't ask who is "Fenghe" and who is "Li".

The Unsinkable finally arrived at an isolated island in the vast sea.

This isolated island is small in size, and the whole picture can be seen clearly at a glance from a distance. The white and delicate sandy beach reflects dazzling light in the sun.

ding ding ding——

On the deck, many sailors were exhausted, repairing and filling various potholes on the deck.

Who the hell knows how they survived the continuous storm!

God knows what they went through not long ago?

The sad Charlie's forehead was covered with a thick layer of gauze, and the gauze was still stained with blood.

He didn't join in the work of repairing the deck at the moment. Instead, with a dog-licking smile on his face, he combed the dog's hair for Wang Tiandi, who was basking in the sun with his eyes closed.

Taking advantage of Xiao Sa's inattention, Ruth quietly took out the compass in the corner, took a few steps back and forth, left and right, and changed several postures.

Before setting off on the voyage, Yi Lin told Ruth that she must not let Xiao Sa find out that the compass was on Ruth.

Otherwise... you will die.

Ruth was still taken aback by Yi Lin's heavy tone.

But Yi Lin's explanation afterwards made Ruth dumbfounded, so she gave a thumbs up by the way.

"Xiao Sa will die. If he dares to grab it, he will be shot to death by the dog. Therefore, you should never show it. After all, Xiao Sa is not easy."

After moving a few positions, the pointer on the compass swayed with Ruth's changing position.

But there is no doubt that the compass points to the deserted island in front of him.

finally reached!

Oh yeah! Arrive in the land of longing!

Ruth squeezed her small fists and silently put away the compass.

on deck.

The drunken old Gibbs suddenly seemed to have a convulsion, and sat up from the pile of rum bottles.

Now the Unsinkable has gone through this period of suffering, and has formed rules for each to perform their duties.

Charlie specializes in serving Lord Dog.

Lord Dog was launched specifically as a "dog cannon".

Sachs shifts as lookout.

But old Gibbs has become the mascot of the ship. When bored and lonely, many crew members like to listen to old Gibbs bragging about his adventure stories over and over again.

Hey, let’s not talk about it, drinking rum, it sounds awesome, it seems very exciting!

Oh, poor old Gibbs, he wouldn't be so drunk if he ate more.

Those adventure stories sounded more legendary than the stories of the Pirate King.

so.

When old Gibbs suddenly sat up, the pirates carrying mallets and nails around him couldn't help laughing: "Oh, my legendary pirate old Gibbs, have you finally woken up from your dream?"

"Hahaha--"

Everyone else burst into laughter.

Old Gibbs narrowed his eyes, stepped forward suddenly, and looked towards the isolated island.

"Here, here, here...here?"

Old Gibbs' eyes widened, full of surprise.

And the other end.

Without hesitation, Ruth gave the order to land on the island.

"hehe……"

Old Gibbs popped, bit off the cork of the rum bottle with his mouth, and took a big gulp into his mouth.

The hot taste, on the contrary, stimulated old Gibbs to wake up a little more.

Leaving enough people to work on the deck, Ruth thought about it, and ordered Sachs, who was about to move, to stay on the deck and not allowed to come down.

So, Ruth, old Gibbs, Gouzi, and several rowboat cannon fodder boarded the island in a lifeboat.

The island is not big, and obviously there is no overly dense jungle, it is almost a small piece of barren forest and a beach surrounded by four sides, that's all.

Ruth was also a little puzzled.

She originally thought that what Elizabeth Lin was looking for should be hidden in a more authentic place.

For example, ancient tombs with disorderly institutions, temples of the gods, ancient ruins, temples under the sea... and so on.

But if so, a woman exploring these ancient mysteries is a very different story.

When he set foot on the island, old Gibbs' eyes were full of nostalgia.

Ruth avoided the eyes of others, and took out the compass again.

Then something weird happened.

The compass, which has always been effective, seemed to have a sudden convulsion. It turned three times to the left and three times to the right, paused, and then turned three times to the right and three times to the left, full of rhythm.

Ruth was confused by the way the compass rotated.

what is this?

Some kind of cryptic code?

This is too complicated ah?

The damn captain didn't say that this kind of thing would happen at first!

Or... the compass got flooded? broken?

Can it be cured by smashing it?

Vigorously miracle?

Many strange thoughts flashed through Ruth's mind, and she was also a little anxious.

She came to this island with an important mission. If she can't get that thing back, what should she do if that damned woman won't let her take advantage of it in the future.

"Search, search, search!"

Ruth stared at the dangling pointer for a long time until she was dazzled and couldn't figure it out. Then, she had no choice but to put away the compass and let the only manpower search the entire island.

"Er, my venerable great captain, what the hell should we... search for?"

A dog-licking pirate rubbed his palms and asked flatteringly.

Ruth was silent for a moment.

She couldn't tell that what she was looking for was the legendary Poseidon's trident that could break all curses.

After all, things are too important, and legends are too vague. When she first sailed, she lied that they were sailing to the legendary "Golden Stone", which was an attractive golden town.

By the way.

Ruth found out not long ago that there are rumors about the "Golden Stone" in the circle of pirates. I don't know where the treasure map of the "Golden Stone" spread, which lured countless pirates to set sail to find the treasure. Including many guys who have already washed their hands in the golden basin, and picked up their old profession again.

Therefore, Ruth's reason for sailing is also reasonable. There are skeleton gentlemen, dogs, and gold stones. Whether it is temptation or threat of force, it is enough to make these nasty pirates who were under other captains not long ago squat obediently on this ship. On board, follow Ruth's command.

After all, in their eyes, Ruth, who is accompanied by a dog, is the "skeleton gentleman" himself.

The legend of "spreading terror with dogs" is too realistic and terrifying. They have also witnessed the terrifying power of "dog cannons". Wherever the dogs land, almost no grass grows, screaming incessantly, it is so terrifying.

One shot of a "dog cannon" can solve a ship, who else can do it except the skeleton gentleman?

nobody else!

But now, Ruth looked at the licking dogs in front of her... Oh no, a few powerful cannon fodders, after thinking for a while, said: "You find all the suspicious things, it should not be too small, maybe a box , Maybe it's a tombstone, or a cloth bag or something, if you find anything, find it...Be careful, things may be easily broken."

Ruth remembered that the trident was broken and glued together again, so she quickly reminded her.

In the end, Ruth imitated Elizabeth Lin's pretentious tone in public, knelt down and touched Wang Tiandi's dog's head with a smile, and said indifferently: "Hehe, don't try to hide anything, its eyes, from the abyss, are watching you, no matter what Where are you, watch your backs."

(Elizabeth Rin: Who pretends to be???)

hiss--

In an instant, all the pirates scattered and searched hard.

"Hi~"

Old Gibbs hiccupped: "Hey, this is a great place for a vacation. Sure enough, Captain Jack always has a soft spot for this place."

"Huh?" Ruth couldn't help being taken aback when she heard that, "Old Gibbs, do you know this place?"

"I know, why don't you know?" Old Gibbs glanced at the skeleton gentleman and said with a smile, "This island is where the legend of Captain Jack began."

"???"

Old Gibbs had wine and didn't need to be urged, so he happily told little stories.

"Many years ago, the legendary Captain Jack was brutally betrayed by his first mate and exiled to an island, ah, it is this beautiful island."

Ruth froze.

Miserable?

Isn't it a normal operation in pirates?

Old Gibbs showed a mysterious expression: "At that time, Captain Jack only left a flintlock gun and the last bullet, which is said to be left for Captain Jack to end his life... Oh, old Gibbs, I guess you must be wondering how the legendary Captain Jack escaped from this island?"

Ruth: "..., no, I'm not curious at all! Where is that thing hidden?"

Old Gibbs: "..."

Old Gibbs, no bird Ruth, said slowly in a tone of nostalgia for the glorious years while swaying drunkenly from side to side on the beach seemingly aimlessly.

"Legends say that Captain Jack wove a rope out of his hair, tied up two big turtles, and kept swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming..."

Ruth: "..."

"There is also a legend that Captain Jack caught two miraculous parrots and used them to fly across the Caribbean..."

Ruth was momentarily stunned.

Wang Tiandi... was dumbfounded.

One person and one dog looked at each other tacitly at this moment.

Ah... does anyone believe this?

Ruth looked away helplessly from Gouzi's face.

No wonder the Captain Jack that Gibbs spoke of became a legendary pirate, so it all depends on his peers.

Boom boom boom.

suddenly.

Old Gibbs stopped somewhere, stomped his feet a few times, and there was a dull sound from under Old Gibbs' feet.

Ruth heard the strange sound under the old Gibbs' feet, her eyes lit up, and she trot all the way to the old Gibbs' side, and also stomped a few times.

Under the sand, there's something.

Ruth hesitated for a moment, and had no other tools at hand, so she could only plan in the sand with her hands.

While digging, he asked, "How do you know the thing is in this position?"

Old Gibbs said leisurely: "Hey, Captain Jack's habit of hiding things has not changed."

After digging for a while, Ruth began to feel a little hard, after all, she was doing it with bare hands.

Wang Tiandi smiled coldly, and walked slowly with awe-inspiring and inviolable power.

The dog twisted its buttocks, and in front of Ruth, the front legs were fixed, and the hind legs seemed to be equipped with small electric motors, frantically planing the beach in front of the two of them.

While old Gibbs and Ruth were stunned, the dog's hind legs danced like the wind, spinning like a dragon, getting faster and faster, and turned into an afterimage.

in a minute.

done.

Gouzi retracted his legs proudly, shook the sand from his hair, and then squatted aside, wheezing and sticking out his tongue with an unpredictable expression.

Like a dog and not like a dog.

At this time, Ruth had no time to give praise to the diligent Wang Tiandi. In the small hole dug out by Wang Tiandi, a piece of wood that was almost decayed appeared in front of Ruth.

yay——

As the board was lifted, a musty smell rose into the sky, causing the dog squatting aside to roll his eyes subconsciously.

Under the wooden boards, there is a secret small cellar, in which piles of rum bottles are neatly placed. The rum bottles are covered with dust and fine sand, and I don't know if they have deteriorated.

"Why is it all rum?"

Under the mask, the corners of Ruth's mouth twitched slightly.

Old Gibbs cheerfully added from the side: "Captain Jack always has the habit of hiding rum, especially when Elizabeth is around... By the way, she married William first, and then gave birth to Captain Jack for some reason. Get off the saxophone, oh, the bloody love. Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow(

Ruth was not in the mood to listen to old Gibbs talking about Captain Jack's green love story at the moment. Her eyes fell on a certain corner of the cellar.

in the corner.

A mysterious bag wrapped in a tarpaulin, lying there quietly for an unknown number of years, finally sees the light.

And at this moment.

A trace of human doubt suddenly flashed across Wang Tiandi's expression, and he stretched out his dog's paw and lit something in front of him, as if he was chatting.

Beep beep.

Beep beep.

Beep beep.

After a while, Wang Tiandi reluctantly tugged on Ruth's trouser legs.

Ruth is holding her tarp bag and thinking about the future, looking forward to the scene after the curse is broken, ah, at that time...up and down, back and forth, left and right, and Elizabeth Rin...huh? Strange, why is the scene of women in my mind?

While fantasizing weirdly, Ruth felt that someone was pulling her hind legs. Looking down, she found that it was a dog grinning, as if trying to signal something.

Ruth was helpless: "I don't understand."

Gouzi thought for a while, and suddenly had an idea.

He quickly drew three letters on the sand, then squatted on the ground, and drew two exaggerated semi-arc shapes with his claws on his chest.

The exaggerated half-arc... Ruth understood in seconds, and then looked at the marks left by the dogs on the beach.

——"S·O·S"!

This is a general distress signal at sea!

"Save Our Ship" (Save Our Ship)!

Ruth knew that there was a strange connection between Gouzi and Elizabeth Lin through black magic, which was one of the reasons Ruth dared to follow Gouzi to the boundless sea.

After all, Yi Lin is remotely controlling the other end.

And from Gouzi's message... something happened to Elizabeth Lin!

"Go! Go! Go!"

Ruth hurried back to the boat.

She obeyed Yi Lin's instructions, and did not open the tarpaulin bag. It is said that breaking the curse requires a certain ritual, which must be done by a knowledgeable Yi Lin, and Ruth did not dare to be careless.

Ruth already knew exactly how to use the compass.

The trident has been found, and the mind is over.

The rest of the longing... Ruth closed her eyes and clutched the compass in her hands.

A few seconds later, Ruth's face was flushed, she breathed out, her legs clamped and twisted involuntarily.

Wang Tiandi: "?"

After a while.

The trembling pointer on the compass finally pointed in a certain direction.

"Oh, my dear captain, this time, it's my turn to save you!"

Ruth licked her lips and broke into a big smile.

...

Yi Lin looked at a large ship grave that appeared in the distance.

That's right.

It is indeed a ship grave.

Familiar ship tomb.

After all, Yi Lin saw a lot on the Queen, so she wasn't too surprised.

The only thing that surprised Yi Lin was that she followed the direction of her finger and actually led the nine warships to the direction of the legendary "devil king".

Is it fate?

Or is there a hand manipulating it somewhere?

Ever since Shipwreck Bay was completely destroyed by the navy with the help of Gu Tianqing, and after the release of mission three on the main line, Yi Lin noticed that the rhythm of the whole plot suddenly accelerated.

It's like what Gu Tianqing did, turning on a certain switch and pushing the plot to the end in a short time.

Erin bowed her head.

Silently sent a series of messages to Emperor Wang, and then closed the apostle panel.

Wang Tiandi's IQ is not low, and he is even a bit of a dog. Yi Lin is not worried about whether the dog can understand his intentions. The only thing he is worried about is that Ruth can't understand what the dog conveyed.

If you guessed correctly, according to the normal rhythm, it should be the apostles digging out various plots in this trial, and eventually they will go to two lines, the pirate line and the navy line.

The two lines correspond to the two camps.

And this trial, faction warfare is not the main theme.

The final boss corresponding to the pirate line should be Calypso.

And the final boss corresponding to the navy line should be the "devil king".

The third main task on normal difficulty is most likely to be "Sealing Calypso", or it is related to the Demon King.

But now, after the Shipwreck Bay was destroyed, the second main task was completed in an almost free-for-all manner, which directly increased the difficulty of the entire trial and changed it to a nightmare-level trial.

Under the control of a certain mechanism and rules, the two lines that did not interfere too much, the navy line and the pirate line, were forcibly twisted together in the end.

This is the third main task of the nightmare level... to solve the final boss of both sides!

It deserves to be a nightmare level difficulty!

Whether it's Calypso, whom Yi Lin had met once, or the Demon King, whom Yi Lin had never met, they were definitely not existences that the apostles could insist on.

Leaving aside the Demon King, with Calypso alone, as long as there is enough fuel, Yilin has the confidence to drive Dire on the sea to ride the wind and waves and escape from Calypso's persecution.

But if you want to kill this illusory existence, there is no possibility with the current ability.

Therefore, after getting more information, Yi Lin asked Ruth and Gouzi to go out to sea together to find the legendary trident.

If it goes well, it will not be difficult for Calypso.

Now the problem is... the Demon King.

The appearance of the ship grave undoubtedly told everyone that they were sailing on the road to death.

deck.

Gu Tianqing smiled calmly, stood aside, silent.

And Tiramisu had already stepped onto the deck, stuck his head out by the fence, and carefully distinguished the traces on the wreckage around the warship.

From the traces of those wrecks, it can be roughly inferred that the type of beating the ship suffered before it died, and even the scene at that time can be roughly inferred.

"GOGOGO!"

Tiramisu once again confirmed the route to Gu Tianqing, and then simultaneously sent a signal to Admiral Cappuccino and Admiral Macchiato on another warship.

Different from the Queen's behavior of passing through the ship's tomb, the nine warships were not only meticulous, but also mustered their horsepower. They turned on the coal boilers one after another, and the whistling whistle resounded through the sea.

The nine warships that accelerated their speed set off waves on the calm sea.

The shipwreck floating in the sea area of ​​the ship tomb was rushed away by the aggressive nine warships, floating and sinking in the waves, very pitiful.

From Yi Lin's point of view, it was obvious that the nine warships were heading towards the Demon King, and they seemed to be fully sure of facing the Demon King, with excited expressions and no trace of fear on their faces.

"They know the identity of the Demon King? Even... is there a way to deal with the Demon King?"

Yi Lin didn't dig deep enough for the navy line, so he quietly looked towards Gu Tianqing, not sure if it was just right, but Gu Tianqing was looking over with a smile, and the two of them saw each other instantly.

Yi Lin: Old Yin beep.

Gu Tianqing: Pretentious.

Yi Lin: Acridine~ Wrong post. (dog head)

Gu Tianqing: Oh, I sent it wrong. (Smile)

Yi Lin: …….

Gu Tianqing: ....

The two sent messages almost at the same time, and received messages from the other party almost at the same time, all of them were speechless.

Yi Lin closed the communication panel with a blank expression, and then, under the watchful eyes of everyone, stepped gracefully into the cabin belonging to Elizabeth Lin, and ordered a pastry and black tea.

Before tearing your face, don't eat for nothing.

While enjoying the afternoon tea, Yi Lin shook her legs, thinking silently.

Regarding the next main mission... what should happen?

"No, it should be said... destined, definitely, definitely, it will happen."

Yi Lin pushed open the window and stared at the sea.

It seems that somewhere in the sea, there is also a pair of strange and indescribable eyes, looking at Yi Lin across the untouchable void.

"Hi, Calypso."

Yi Lin smiled: "I'm here."

While talking, Yi Lin took out an explosive pearl from the bottom of her skirt, and threw it into the sea, which smeared Calypso's face.

No one found out.

Below the buttocks of nine warships, in the depths of the sea.

A shadow of strange shape, fleeting.