Chapter 104 (1/2)

“Where is the legendary ship?” Xiao Tangqiu continued to ask.

The pirate hesitated, but he confessed honestly. He pointed to the sunken ship under the lake, and said tremblingly, “It’s just below…”

Tang Mianmian snorted and asked, “There are so many sunken ships below, how do you know which one it is?”

The pirate said tremblingly, “It’s the biggest one.”

Xiao Tangqiu soon saw which ship the pirate was talking about. In the cemetery of thousands of ships at the bottom of the lake was a giant shipwreck. The ship was bigger than any pirate ship and even bigger than any ship they had seen before, including the giant cruise ship from earlier. This ship’s hull was white, which was very unusual.

After a closer look, he realized that the ship seemed to be made up of human parts. The hull was made of human bones and human skin and the observation deck was made of piles of skulls. Although they sank to the deep bottom of the sea, they seemed to be staring at the people on the shore.

He only looked at the ship from a distance before feeling a hair-raising sensation.

Shen Yuan promptly said, “Let’s go down and take a look.”

“But what about these pirates? Tie them all up?” As soon as Tang Mianmian’s voice fell, the ground shook and an unusual movement happened around them..

“What’s going on?” Everyone wondered, but the group of pirates who were knocked to the ground by them began screaming.

“It’s the guardian of the treasure!”

“The guardian of the legendary treasure is the monster at the bottom of the sea!”

The guardian of the treasure? Monster at the bottom of the sea?

Something flashed in Xiao Tangqiu’s mind for an instant. The next moment, his vision went dark, and the Tiankeng’s opening where the light had been shining in was shrouded in darkness as if someone suddenly covered his eyes with a curtain.

“Ahhhh! It’s here! The sea monster guarding the treasure!”

The pirates screamed in horror. During this panic, some people stumbled and fell into the lake at the bottom of the sinkhole, while others turned and ran back.

Xiao Tangqiu looked closer and realized that there was a huge monster lying on the top of the Tiankeng. The size and shape of its huge body were so incredible that it completely blocked the opening so that the entire Tiankeng was shrouded and everything fell into darkness.

He had already guessed what this sea monster guarding the treasure was. Next to him, Shen Yuan’s eyes darkened and he said coldly, “Optes!”

Tang Mianmian’s face paled, “Fuck! That giant octopus? It didn’t die in the whirlpool? Did it follow us?”

Xue Junli explained, “Optus is an Arch Demon, the direct creation of the Abyss Demon. It won’t die so easily&#k2026; But why did it appear here?”

Tang Mianmian guessed, “If it’s the monster guardian of the treasure, then is the treasure it’s guarding related to the Abyss Demon?”

Xiao Tangqiu couldn’t help but ask, “No wait! Demons shouldn’t be able to come to the instance world so easily, right? Especially this kind of high-level demon… and it has obviously been in this instance for many years…” If the pirates hadn’t lied to them just now, this legendary treasure had existed for hundreds of years, so Optus should have been in this instance for hundreds of years.

Shen Yuan said coldly, “It means that someone summoned it here via sacrifice many years ago.”

Xiao Tangqiu subconsciously responded, “Who?”

“A demon worshipper,” Shen Yuan was obviously unwilling to explain, but faced with Xiao Tangqiu’s questioning, he elaborated, “Those who have a Demon Book… such as Lippinobert.”

Xiao Tangqiu instantly remembered the black-covered book that Shen Yuan had once read. However, before he could cautiously ask more, there was a blood-curdling scream behind them.

“Ahhhhhh!”

Everyone turned around and saw that the pirates who had turned tail and wanted to escape came back. While the one running ahead was more or less fine, the people behind were all covered in injuries. Some of them were even missing arms and legs, and they ran screaming while spraying blood everywhere.

The pirates tried their best to run back to the sinkhole. Those who moved fast could still save their small life, while those who moved slowly dropped dead due to excessive blood loss on the way.

After all the living pirates returned to this place, a huge tentacle stretched out from a hole in the ground. The tentacle suckers were filled with flesh and blood residue, and some even had heads with horrified faces.

Xiao Tangqiu suddenly saw a somewhat familiar head, “Look! It’s the chef!”

Tang Mianmian was the first to react, and he quickly yelled, “Fuck! It’s really the cook on the ghost ship! Isn’t he dead? Why did he die here again?”

Xiao Tangqiu suddenly remembered something. He quickly looked at the surviving pirates. Other than the group of pirates who captured him and Shen Yuan at the beginning, there was also the other group who captured Tang Mianmian’s group. Their clothes were distinctively similar to the dead bodies on the ghost ship. This group of pirates was clearly the sailors on the ghost ship!

What exactly was going on?

Shen Yuan also realized it. He frowned, “Could it be that the pirates on the ghost ship didn’t get the treasure at all?”

Xiao Tangqiu was taken aback, but he quickly understood what Shen Yuan meant. No wonder the chef’s diary was vague about how they got the treasure. Maybe they didn’t get the treasure at all, maybe they were already dead during the treasure hunt. Only the obsession to find the treasure was left behind, keeping them going…