Chapter 12 Warm Blood

When this light first appeared, it was silent, but as it accelerated, it produced an extremely shrill whistle in the air, then curved in an elliptical trajectory. The target was none other than the pirate Sigma. Wherever it passed, it swept the dust in the air into a hollow. Sigma slashed out with his knife, but to no effect. The end result was that his throat was pierced by the light, leaving a gaping hole!

At the instant the light burst through his throat, Fang Senyan could even see the scenery behind him clearly through the hole before the blood gushed out!

Despite having taken a life, the momentum of this throat-piercing strike not only didn't diminish but increased. As Sigma's eyes bulged out in disbelief and blood gurgled from the wound in his throat, the light shot through the chest of the pirate behind him with a *poof*, sending him flying backwards. He slammed into the stone wall of the castle behind him with a *thud*. The bloody corpse then slid down slowly, as if splattering a streak of tragic ochre onto the wall of this ancient castle!

Perhaps because the excruciating pain in his head had intensified, Scarface Henry's reactions had been slow. His burly frame also meant that he was more likely to be hit by the arrows. However, while these arrows were fatal to the other pirates, to a monster like Scarface Henry, who had at least 1300 health points and 15 defense, the arrows only inflicted serious injuries, not fatal ones. He was stuck with five or six arrows all over his body, the shafts buried more than a foot deep, the exposed fletchings still trembling eerily!

Only then did Scarface Henry seem to wake up from a dream. He panted and raised his head. The blood spurting from Sigma's throat splattered directly onto the face of the Viking giant.

Warm blood...

Icy blood!

Why is there blood? Why won't this damned headache leave me alone... Why does this person's... face look so familiar?

Wait, damn it, why is there a hole in Sigma's throat?

Another old comrade fell in front of him, the last old comrade also fell in front of him!

In that instant, Scarface Henry's eyes turned a violent red, as if they were filled with blood. The linen shirt on his upper body was instantly torn apart by his bulging muscles, shattering into pieces like butterflies. Even the arrows that had pierced his body were squeezed out a good length. Fang Senyan, hiding in a safe area in the distance, felt the hairs on his arms stand on end. In that instant, he felt as if a huge black hole had formed with Scarface Henry as the center, drawing all the air towards it!

Fang Senyan's pupils contracted in that instant. He had realized something: he had missed a good show half an hour ago, but now, Mr. Henry seemed to be preparing for a sequel—although he looked like he would pay a considerable price for it!

Scarface Henry took a deep breath. This action caused the veins on his neck and head to swell up like blue snakes, and his bloodshot eyes bulged out of their sockets by nearly two centimeters! As he inhaled, first his mouth, then his throat, swelled up terrifyingly, as if a basketball had been forcibly stuffed into his mouth! This feeling made Fang Senyan inexplicably think of toads. Then, the swelling began to move down rapidly, wandering all over Scarface Henry's body before finally arriving at his right hand—which caused Scarface Henry's right hand to swell into a deformity disproportionate to the rest of his body.

Then Scarface Henry heavily raised his right fist and struck the floor in front of him!

At the same time, all the arrowheads that had been shot into his body flew out in reverse, falling to the ground with bits of flesh and blood.

Only the faint silver glow on the surface of his body remained.

At the instant the fist made contact with the hard floor, it could be clearly seen that his huge right arm instantly returned to normal, and the ground in front of him strangely bulged out a large piece, and quickly extended into the distant darkness! It looked as if the breath that Scarface Henry had deeply inhaled was injected into the earth after swirling around in his body!

Muscle explosion!

The entire castle shook violently again. It could be clearly felt that its main structure was trembling indescribably. At the same time, several streams of blood spurted out of the holes in the right-hand stone wall where the arrows had been shot. The blood was sprayed out as if it had been forcefully squeezed out, splashing onto the ground with a hissing sound. Muscular tissue could still be faintly distinguished inside. Obviously, the enemies controlling the mechanisms in the dark had been crushed to death by the huge force of the punch.

But at the same time, Scarface Henry's whole body made a strange sound, which sounded like wet bedsheets being twisted hard, then tearing completely under the strain. Then he crashed down face first, as if a huge mountain had completely collapsed. Scarface Henry's body, lying on the ground, was still convulsing irregularly. Large patches of cyanosis appeared on his body. If Fang Senyan had some medical knowledge, he could come to the following accurate diagnosis:

Condition: Severe generalized muscle rupture.

Cause: Fatigue leading to decreased muscle elasticity.

Although Scarface Henry once again displayed his powerful abilities and killed the enemies controlling the mechanisms in the dark in one fell swoop, the pirates had already suffered heavy casualties. There were only twenty or so of them left, and in the previous round of terrible volley fire, a small half of them died immediately. The rest were all wounded. It is worth mentioning that although Pirate Charlie also followed Scarface Henry forward, he was fortunate enough to only take an arrow in the arm, probably because his strength was too weak and no one wanted to deliberately target him.

In this situation, Fang Senyan, who was the only one who could be considered intact, did not jump out to laugh at them and say things like "Serves you right for not listening to my advice." Instead, he silently walked out of the safe area and bandaged everyone's wounds, stopped the bleeding, and tidied up the corpses by the way.

Without a doubt, after Fang Senyan did these things, he won the unanimous support of the remaining seven or eight pirates without saying a word—of course, this should also be related to Scarface Henry's silence. Although they were only a few dozen meters away from the castle gate at this time, everyone's eyes were filled with fear when they looked at the gate. Until Fang Senyan took the lead in carrying a box and walked towards the exit.

"It should be safe now," Fang Senyan said in a firm tone. "The guys who were killed at the beginning were the last guard force in this castle—if those guys controlling the mechanisms had been able to bring out a few more, then none of you would have survived." Under Fang Senyan's leadership, the remaining pirates finally escaped with five boxes of heavy treasure. Scarface Henry was still being supported by two people, staggering away from the Tortuga castle. He looked at Fang Senyan with a rather complicated gaze, and finally sighed and followed behind Fang Senyan. Less than ten minutes after they left, another pirate team frantically rushed into the castle and began looting. If Fang Senyan and the others had been half a step late, then there would undoubtedly have been an extremely tragic conflict between the two sides.

At this time, the sea was also in chaos, and the raging flames dyed the entire night sky red. Obviously, with the richness of Tortuga Port as the fuse, a large number of pirates engaged in a melee during the looting. Perhaps a pirate's loot was robbed, or perhaps it was an ordinary quarrel that triggered a major melee and riot. When this group of pirates finally managed to reach the pre-arranged rendezvous point, panting heavily, they found that a fire had broken out in the excellent harbor at that location. The barges that were supposed to pick them up had been used as tools of venting by the out-of-control pirates, and although there were three pirates in the team who were carrying fireworks to signal for contact, none of them had survived.

Fortunately, Heaven never seals off all exits. Relying on their familiarity with the geography, the pirates searched the nearby harbors where ships could dock, and were pleasantly surprised to find a small, fast sailboat moored there. The pirates left on board were obviously only a dozen or so old, weak, sick, and disabled people, who seemed to be there to pick up their accomplices on shore. These guys on the Bell and Goblet were selected elite and vicious people. Although everyone was injured, they had regained some energy at this time. Under the leadership of Fang Senyan, the arrow-like figure, they swarmed up and hacked the pirates left on board to the ground, successfully seizing this fifteen-meter-long single-masted sailboat.

Although Fang Senyan and the others were temporarily safe at this time, the problems that followed were also imminent. The pirates who were still alive could barely operate this sailboat, but they could forget about fighting for self-defense. In other words, once they encountered an enemy ship at sea, they would almost certainly be waiting to die. Looking at the sea, which was now in a mess, although everyone knew that the Bell and Goblet was only ten nautical miles to the west, no one had the guts to say they wanted to sail in a straight line.

Someone suggested sending someone out to notify Armand to pick up this group of people, but when it came to choosing the messenger, everyone became tight-lipped. Everyone knew what the end would be for someone in their wounded and exhausted state to pass through the chaotic port of Tortuga at this time.

After some discussion, Fang Senyan proposed a route that detoured around the north side of the island. The consequence of doing so was that the return time was extended by more than half an hour, but the safety was increased by at least eighty percent. Because of the extremely tragic lesson learned from the castle exit, there were few voices opposing Fang Senyan's proposal, and it was quickly quelled.

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