Chapter 105 The Pirate Ship

Just as Ruoyu was about to unleash a massacre, on the other side… beneath Xiazhong Village, in a certain tunnel.

"Brother Jue, is it really okay for us to split up? Will Sister Yu and Xiaoling be alright?" Wang Tanzhi asked with a worried expression as he followed Feng Bujue's footsteps.

"You might as well worry about the guys from Corpse Blades," Feng Bujue replied casually, without turning his head. "Ruoyu and Xiaoling are already very strong, and with the trump card of the Blood Corpse God…" He shook his head, letting out a sigh of pity. "Alas… I only hope… that Corpse Blades won't be wiped out before we finish exploring this place."

"Hmm…" Xiaotan pondered for a few seconds. "Brother Jue… are they really that strong? Corpse Blades is a top-tier professional team, after all."

"Heh… are you kidding?" As Feng Bujue spoke, he kicked aside a piece of rubble blocking the path and switched hands to hold the launcher. "After so many matches and scripts… don't you have a definite idea of your partners' strength?"

"Uh…" Xiaotan continued, "Honestly… I know Xiaoling pretty well, but Sister Yu… I really don't know her limits." He paused. "It feels like… no matter what kind of opponent she faces, she always handles them with ease."

"Exactly," Feng Bujue replied, "Doesn't that sentence sum up her strength?"

"Huh?" Xiaotan was taken aback. "Which sentence?"

"Ruoyu," Feng Bujue replied, "is at the level of 'handling any opponent with ease'."

"Hey, hey…" Xiaotan squinted. "Is it really okay to say that… it's a live broadcast right now…"

"Whatever," Feng Bujue replied indifferently. "I can say what I want, but people may not believe it." He tilted his head, giving Xiaotan a meaningful look. "The second half of S2, in addition to the matches on the surface, is also a war of information and psychological warfare in the dark… Every team knows that their performance in the matches will be studied by their opponents, so… every team may consciously spread some false information during the matches to disrupt the opponent's analysis, or as a kind of trap…"

When Brother Jue said this, he didn't deliberately lower his voice. Every word he uttered was clearly recorded by the video's audio system and heard by all the viewers watching the live broadcast.

"So…" Xiaotan immediately squinted and shouted in a complaining tone, raising his voice, "Is it really okay for you to remind everyone like this during the live broadcast!"

"You don't understand…" Feng Bujue replied in a triumphant tone. "Precisely because I've made this clear, all our words and actions before and after this match… have become difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood."

Indeed, the subtext of his words was—"Even if there are some fools among you, I won't take any chances and treat any of you as fools. So, I hope some of you who think you're smart… don't think of us as too simple."

If the S2 rematch was placed on the level of psychological game, then Feng Bujue was now announcing the level of the Hell Frontline team to the world.

"Okay… anyway, you're good at this kind of psychological tactics…" Since Brother Jue had said so, Xiaotan stopped arguing with him about this topic.

The two of them refocused and continued on their way, advancing along the tunnel…

…

Here, it should be explained… The entrance to this tunnel is located deep within the Xiazhong Village tomb; and the Xiazhong Village tomb is the "cave where they once dug up a stone tablet" that Elder Bi Bian mentioned.

Because this cave's terrain was low, sloping, and steep, and it was located in a relatively remote area, everyone planned to convert it into an emergency shelter when the village was first built. However, during the actual excavation process, people discovered that the stone walls in this cave were very hard, making it difficult to rebuild with manpower. The existing size and shape of the cave were unsuitable for use as either a warehouse or a shelter, so… they simply used it as a tomb. Anyway, there weren't many people (rabbits) in the village, and the dead (rabbits) took up very little space (the Tutu Star people mostly cremate their dead, and they use special methods to turn the remaining ashes into a kind of 'corpse soil', which is then placed in the tomb), so this cave was enough.

Not long ago, after the four members of the Hell Frontline team arrived here, Feng Bujue immediately discovered useful information on the stone walls in the corner of the cave. After interpreting it briefly, he opened the entrance to this tunnel.

Subsequently, Brother Jue activated [Prophet] again to calculate the movements of the enemy team at this time, and then arranged a strategy of splitting up—he and Xiaotan would go underground to explore the tunnel; while Ruoyu and Xiaoling would be responsible for "protecting the village."

Of course, this "protecting the village" had to be put in quotation marks. Because Feng Bujue's original intention was actually to use the power of the Xiazhong Village NPCs to counter the "momentum" that Corpse Blades Second Team had borrowed. The saying "protecting the village" was undoubtedly to make it sound better, and also to win over the hearts of Tu Aotian and his people (rabbits).

But… when it came to actual execution, Ruoyu and Xiaoling, the two team members with more upright values, genuinely stood on the side of the villagers…

…

"Hmph… it seems we've arrived," Feng Bujue suddenly stopped after walking for several more minutes and revealed a smile.

"Eh? Arrived where?" Xiaotan looked over Brother Jue's shoulder and asked doubtfully, "Isn't this a dead end?"

He was right. At this time, in front of Feng Bujue was a bare stone wall, and there were no visible gaps or mechanisms.

"Take a closer look," Feng Bujue replied.

"What can I see even if I look closel—" Xiaotan was about to reply in a matter-of-fact tone, but he suddenly remembered something and didn't finish his sentence.

The next second, Xiaotan silently activated [Eagle Eye View], and golden streams of light lit up in his eyes.

With the help of this Grade A detection skill, he quickly saw many complex patterns and texts on the stone wall in front of him…

"Hmm… I see…" Xiaotan stroked his chin, putting on a thoughtful look.

"Heh…" Feng Bujue chuckled, maliciously turning his head to look at Xiaotan. "Although you said 'I see' and have an 'I see' expression on your face, you probably didn't understand anything, did you?"

"That's right, I don't understand at all," Xiaotan admitted honestly and closed [Eagle Eye View]顺势.

"Haha…" Feng Bujue laughed. "Actually, I don't understand either."

"Look at your cheap look…" Xiaotan glared at Brother Jue, delivering this line without any sense of incongruity.

And… the system didn't even censor this sentence.

"Hehe…" Brother Jue naturally didn't care about this level of abuse. First, his skin was thick enough; second, his skin was thick enough to admit that the other party was right. Anyway… he smiled nonchalantly and took something out of his bag.

"Eh? Isn't this…" As soon as Xiaotan saw the prop in Brother Jue's hand, he exclaimed loudly.

"That's right!" Feng Bujue interrupted him before he could finish speaking. "To be honest… I didn't expect to use it here."

At this moment, what Brother Jue was holding in his hand was none other than [Blackbeard's Skull].

This item, classified as "Other" and of "Legendary" quality, had a very brief effect description—"Open Blackbeard's treasure."

"Hey, hey… didn't you say you didn't understand?" Xiaotan immediately asked.

"I don't understand the information conveyed by these patterns and texts…" When Feng Bujue said this, he lowered his voice and leaned close to Xiaotan's ear. "But I can understand code."

"Oh~" Xiaotan nodded.

Once Brother Jue said that, he understood. Even if he couldn't decipher this information with "knowledge," he could still find the answer by interpreting it from a "data perspective."

"Alright, no time to delay." Two seconds later, Feng Bujue turned around, holding the skull. "This is a legendary deal, so let's hurry up… If Ruoyu and the others kill off the Corpse Blades guys in a few moves, causing us to not finish searching here, then the loss would be huge."

Before he finished speaking, he had already raised the skull and extended it a few inches toward the stone wall.

Immediately afterward, a buzzing sound of runes surging came from within the stone wall. In the same second, a layer of stone dust sealed on the surface of the stone wall suddenly dispersed, covering Brother Jue and Xiaotan's faces and bodies.

Chi—

While the two of them were still choking on dust, they heard a sharp sound, followed by a beam of golden light spraying out from the stone wall, blinding them.

"I'm going… uh cough… cough cough… did we trigger so…some…cough cough…trap?" Xiaotan coughed repeatedly from the dust, unable to speak properly.

And Feng Bujue didn't answer him, because… less than a second after Xiaotan asked that question, the two of them had already been "teleported."

At this moment, the figures of the two players, [Madness Doesn't Awaken] and [Wronged Sigh], disappeared from the live broadcast screen; viewers who chose to follow their actions from a third-person perspective were all forcibly switched to observing other people, and the subsequent match recordings did not record where these two went for the next period of time…

…

"This time… are they earthlings…"

When Brother Jue and Xiaotan reopened their eyes, they heard this line.

At this time, the two players were standing on the deck of a pirate ship…

This was a huge, complex, multi-masted sailing ship. She had a black hull and black sails. Human bones nailed to the hull were visible everywhere, and dark bloodstains faintly appeared on the sails.

She was magnificent, beautiful, like a giant beast galloping on the sea. She was a legend who roamed the seven seas, terrifying countless pirates.

"In any case… welcome to… the Queen Anne's Revenge," the voice quickly added.

Feng Bujue and the others turned their heads when they heard the sound and saw a Tutu Star person.

Judging by his appearance, he should be a middle-aged person (rabbit). He was wearing a sailor's shirt, work pants, and a red scarf around his neck.

"I thought Blackbeard raised parrots…" Feng Bujue said to the other party while observing the surrounding environment. "I didn't expect him to raise rabbits too…"

"Brother Jue… rather than that rabbit brother, don't you think the surrounding situation is more worthy of attention…" Xiaotan was also looking around at this time, but he was more curious…

In short, the two of them discovered almost simultaneously… that the ship under their feet wasn't in the water at all.

At this time, the place where the two players were located was a very large, complex cave. Hundreds of extra-large stalactites, shaped like inverted mountains, hung upside down from the top of the cave, each emitting a faint, moonlight-like glow. And the ground of the cave was piled with countless gold and silver treasures and rare and exotic objects…

Gold coins, pearls, diamonds, agates… these items were as common here as sand; life-size jade elephants, sofa-sized coral gems, natural amethysts larger than coffins, and a large number of minerals and treasures that were not even known to earthlings… filled this huge cave.

And the Queen Anne's Revenge was placed in the center of the treasure, "floating" in this sea of gold and silver.

"Edward Teach's pirate career was much longer than what is recorded in your human history…" The Tutu Star person also said while looking at the two players, "The skull in your hand… is just a souvenir he left for his kind before leaving Earth, or it can be said… an 'invitation letter'."

"In that case…" Feng Bujue picked up the skull in his hand and shook it, "This isn't his skull?"

"Physiologically speaking, definitely not," the Tutu Star person replied, "But he did use his own blood to put a curse on this skull, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to come here with it."

"Speaking of 'here'…" Xiaotan was still a little worried about Xiaoling and the others, so he asked eagerly, "We should still be on Tutu Star, right?"

"Yes…" The Tutu Star person replied, "…and no."

Feng Bujue instantly understood this nonsensical answer: "Heh… you guys are pretty good at spatial technology…"

"That's a must…" The Tutu Star person replied, "What's in front of you is the largest amount of ill-gotten wealth in the entire universe, no amount of precautions is too much." He raised his head and pointed to the walls of the cave, "This space can shield all external detection, the several entrances into this place are also scattered in the most hidden corners of the universe, and also… without Blackbeard's curse, it is impossible to enter this place."

"Alright," Feng Bujue replied and asked, "May I ask…"

"I am…" The Tutu Star person replied solemnly, "…Short-Haired Divine Fist Fist Sect, Tu Fa Ge."