Chapter 104 (2/2)
“No! They may not have the treasure, but they have at least seen the legendary treasure!” Xiao Tangqiu suddenly thought of something, and immediately shouted, “Otherwise they wouldn’t know that the legendary treasure is a ruby ring! No wonder when we arrived on the luxury cruise ship, the ruby ring disappeared. It’s because they only saw the ruby ring, but they didn’t have the life to take it away! Because they all died in the hands of the sea monster guarding the treasure!”
“It makes sense.” Shen Yuan’s eyes darkened, he reached out to touch the ruby ring in his pocket that he found on the cruise ship, and then he froze.
“What’s wrong?” Xiao Tangqiu asked.
Shen Yuan paused, “The ruby ring is gone.”
Xiao Tangqiu nodded, “Of course, since the pirates failed to take away the legendary treasure back then, the ruby ring would naturally not be passed on to other people. It should have been underwater from beginning to end in some treasure chest…”
Fei You couldn’t help but interject and ask, “Then what is our mission? To find that ruby ring?”
Shen Yuan glanced at Fei You and fell into contemplation.
Xiao Tangqiu was not too certain. Since Optus, who guarded the treasure, was a direct creation of the Abyss Demon and thus a very powerful high-level demon, the treasure it guarded was obviously nothing ordinary. In case it was something particularly dangerous, what should they do?
But if their mission goal was to get the ruby ring, then they must find the ruby ring. Otherwise, they would never be able to leave this instance.
Zhang Zuo also spoke, “Anyway, let’s find the ruby ring first and then talk.”
Tang Mianmian nodded, “It makes sense, at least this is an obvious and important clue.”
Shen Yuan was silent for a while, then nodded, “Let’s go down.”
As they were discussing things, Optus had already launched a massacre on the other side. It laid on the top of the sinkhole as if watching a killing show, and used its tentacles to pursue those pirates who screamed and ran away in amusement. It could kill all pirates at once, but it killed while playing cat and mouse instead. Then, it seemed to have become bored with this kind of game.
“Move!”
Shen Yuan pushed Xiao Tangqiu away just as and a thick tentacle shot in their direction.
Xiao Tangqiu dodged the tentacle’s attack and yelled, “Untie me, quick!”
Shen Yuan’s eyes darkened, “I’m coming…”
But as soon as his voice fell, he was blocked by the tentacle and he had to start fighting.
Xiao Tangqiu was extremely anxious. At this moment, Fei You rushed over, “I got you!”
Using the previously distributed weapon, he sliced the rope on Xiao Tangqiu a few times, and Xiao Tangqiu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, “Thank you.”
Fei You smiled, “Gotta help each other!”
“Captain, do you want help?”
Duan Hongzhen asked, but didn’t do anything. After all, among all of them here, the strongest person was Shen Yuan. If Shen Yuan couldn’t beat them, then it would be useless for them to go. Plus, they also had unconditional and unreasonable trust in Shen Yuan.
Shen Yuan said deeply, “You go down first, and I’ll follow soon!” Once all of them dived into the lake, the giant octopus would immediately catch up. They could not escape under the water, so they could only rely on him holding the monster back.
Xiao Tangqiu quickly understood Shen Yuan’s meaning. Although he was a little worried, it was the only way. The bottom of the lake might be the giant octopus’ home ground. They could only take advantage of Shen Yuan keeping it occupied to turn over the whole lake.
“Okay! Let’s go!” Xue Junli gave the order and everyone entered the water.
The moment he entered the water, the icy lake chilled him to his bones.
Xiao Tangqiu couldn’t help but shudder. He looked up at Shen Yuan who was still fighting Optus. He suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, but before he could say anything, he was suddenly shoved, “Be careful!”
Xiao Tangqiu was pushed into the water and choked. He turned his head back with effort to discover that it was a pirate lurking in the water. He probably had stumbled above and fell into the sinkhole. Fei You began to fight the pirate.
Xiao Tangqiu frowned. Was this pirate crazy? All of his group were dead, this guy actually wants to attack them?
The pirate had crimson eyes and desperately brandished the machete in his hand, “Treasure…The treasure is mine! No one else can have it”
Xiao Tangqiu instantly realized what was going on. This guy probably had fallen into some kind of delusion, just like the group of pirates who thought they had the treasure before!
But at least before, the group of pirates only went crazy after seeing the treasure with their own eyes. This guy just fell into the lake that held the treasure, before being controlled by the illusion!
That legendary treasure was too terrible!
With such a powerful thing, even if they were aiming to complete their mission task, wouldn’t people still be lured in?