Chapter 65: The Players Negotiation Strategy is the Best in the World! (2/2)

For a while, the entire conch house was filled with an ominous silence.

The players and the frogmen looked at each other for a while, before the silence was broken by Gou Dan, unable to stifle his laughing anymore.

“Hah!”

Gou Dan’s reaction was quick, however, and he immediately acted as if nothing had happened, looking around at the scenery. Granted, there was nothing much to see in the room.

Croakatoa looked at Gou Dan with an appalled expression. This dry-skinned must have borrowed many salted fish from the one that died and was severely in debt, or else he wouldn’t laugh after his own comrade died!

He had guessed that these dry-skinned were acting dead to trick them, but Joe’s chest and throat had definitely been impaled thoroughly by the spear, and his heartbeat and breathing had all stopped. From every sign, it was clear to see that he was dead, but Croakatoa felt as if something was wrong…

“Fine, we accept your sincerity.”

Seeing that Gou Dan was trying his hardest to hold in his laugh, Vela quickly talked with the village elder, trying to seal the deal. “Let’s talk about how we should work together.”

“Uhm, shouldn’t you take care of your comrade’s corpse first?” The village elder asked, confused by the entire situation.

Seeing his reaction, he already seemed open to the idea of working together with the players. After all, Joe had already sacrificed himself to prove their honesty, so he was scared that if he hesitated any more, the party of humans would all kill themselves in a heartbeat.

Those enemies of the Society of the Secret Eye had already been a lot for the frogmen to handle, so if these humans that called themselves adventurers that could even kill themselves without any hesitation attacked them too, the frogman tribe would probably go instinct…

“Ah, that…” Vela didn’t know how to deal with Joe’s corpse either.

Was she supposed to tell them that the corpse of the players would naturally disappear after a day if no revival spell was cast on them?

“Why don’t you unbind us and let us drag him out?” Edward immediately spoke up, seeing this situation.

It was actually alright to let the frogmen drag him out, but first of all Edward wanted to test out how much they cooperated with them, and second of all….They all really wanted to laugh.

And so, Croakatoa took the conch spear that Joe had used to kill himself to cut the kelp around the players’ wrists, unbinding them.

Under the supervision of Croakatoa, the party dragged Joe’s corpse out of the conch house, while Vela stayed in the room to converse with the village elder about how they should work together.

Seeing that Croakatoa was there, the other frogmen didn’t think much of the players’ actions.

Once Croakatoa went back to the conch house, Edward and Gou Dan burst out in laughter.

“Bwahaha Joe is such a dumb*ss! I almost died holding in my laughter!”

“Don’t laugh, he used his own life to pave the way to a peaceful future…Hahaha, sorry, I can’t continue anymore, it’s too funny!”

The merry laughter coupled with the brutally killed corpse attracted all the attention of all the frogmen in earshot…