Oh my, what a coincidence!
Oh no.
Caught red-handed, Zheng He swallowed his saliva and quickly came up with countless excuses in his mind.
He said that he was sleepwalking, or else he could have pretended to be in control and mentioned that there was a murderous maniac in the cockpit.
Or blame some sort of evil spirit?
She hadn't figured out what to do yet, when the monkey coughed, and Old Wen immediately snapped back to his senses. However, his tongue was stiff, and he had no idea how to react.
In fact, the monkey's acting was even better. He seemed to have missed the severed head in Zheng He's hand and the decapitated corpse on his shoulder, and his eyes immediately became blurry. He reached out and grabbed the air, making it seem like he was in a daze, and asked, "Wengu, what sound just now?"
He naturally grabbed hold of Old Wen's arm, "Just now, the smoke was too thick and my eyes were blinded by it. Uncle Wen, you said that your eyes were a bit blurry as well, right?"
"Uncle Wen?"
In contrast, Old Wen's acting was clearly not as good as him. He stiffened his body and lowered his head, allowing the monkey to pull him forward a few steps, "Yes...yes, it was me!"
Monkey's hand fell on Old Wen's shoulder and he laughed, his eyes feebly landing on the empty space, "Walking the sea too much, that's what happens. Captain isn't it said that there's a kind of silver fish in this area? If we eat its eyes, our eyes will be better? Uncle Wen, I remember your fishing rod is in the cabinet of the cockpit. Can you see the road?"
Old Wen remained silent.
Monkey pulled at Old Wen's arm, "W... Uncle Wen?"
Old Wen shut his eyes heavily, "I can't see."
Monkey barely whispered, "The door just suddenly opened? Haha... maybe it wasn't closed properly before."
"We are like this, it's not going to work. Let's let someone else help us find the fishing rod."
Monkey pulled along with Old Wen, feeling for the way as they turned around, stumbled and looked clumsy.
Zheng He tiptoed forward and stretched out one hand in front of the monkey, with a hint of wind entering his eyes. However, the monkey's eyelashes remained still, and there was no change in his expression.
Can't you see at all?
Yeah, if they could see, their reactions wouldn't be so calm.
His appearance was indeed quite shoddy at the moment, with a headless corpse on his shoulder and two severed heads in his hand.
I don't know what kind of illness it is that suddenly made these two go blind.
Could it be a lack of vitamin?
As the two were preparing to leave hand in hand, Zheng He took a fishing rod out of the cockpit and moved forward two steps to put it next to the monkey who was feeling his way to leave.
The monkey's body went rigid. "Ha! Uncle Wen... Uncle Wen, ha, I think I found the fishing rod... You see, this whole thing must have been because you didn't tidy it up properly before, right!"
He handed the fishing rod to Old Wen, his face showing no signs of unease. However, Old Wen's eyes were tightly closed, and his face looked somewhat unwell.
"Yes."
The monkey laughed heartily, squeezing Old Wen's sleeve tightly, "Today... Today has been really lucky. Let's go, Uncle Wen, let's go fishing."
Behind the two casting shadows, Zheng He threw the bodies and heads into the sea.
Zheng He let out a sigh of relief.
This time, at least it's clean.
"Ah, Uncle Wen? Monkey!"
"Coincidence! You're fishing here! Ah, you don't have any bait, how are you going to fish?"
Zheng He made a detour and walked behind the two, unable to help but remind them.
The monkey had a confused expression, looking around, his staring eyes sliding over Zheng He's face as if searching for the source of the sound.
"Here it is!"
Zheng He patted his shoulder.
The monkey's face revealed an excited expression, "Big sister! It's you!"
"It's perfect timing that you've come!"
"The captain wants to see you!"
"Captain?"
Zheng He nodded, glancing down at the ship, "Ah, hurry up! There's a fish biting the rod. Quick, reel it in!"
The monkey smiled, "I don't dare to trouble Big Sister with my affairs. Big Sister should go see the captain quickly!"
Zheng He nodded, and walked away with his hands behind his back.
Monkey took a deep breath, his grip loosening, and he barely managed to grasp the wooden railing of the boat to steady himself, "I was scared!"
"Fortunately, Uncle Wen reacted quickly!"
"Uncle Wen?"
The monkey confusedly turned to look at Old Wen.
Old Wen palely trembled the fishing rod.
The monkey followed the direction of his frightened gaze and looked down.
But in that moment, his face also turned pale like Old Wen's.
The hook, in the constantly floating and sinking seawater, accurately pierced through the cloudy eye, deeply embedding into the eye socket, and hauled up a bloated and pale head from the sea.
The evil spirit just said that there was a fish biting the rod.
Is that the kind of fish they're talking about?
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【Affliction Bonus +2】
【Current Affliction Resistance: 86%】
What's happening now?
Zheng He stopped in his footsteps and walked to an empty corner.
The original owner was the second-in-command of the boat driven by Jiao Mukui. In Zheng He's dim memories, that the captain didn't pay much attention to the affairs on board, all major and minor matters on Jiao Mukui's boat were handled by Old Wen and the original owner.
There aren't many people who would dare to lay hands on the original owner aboard the ship, and considering Old Wen's startled reactions earlier, it seems even less likely.
Zheng He glanced at the countdown in the lower right corner, and her mind stirred, a row of pale blue subtitles appeared in front of her:
【Please enter the three murderers who killed you:】
Mind stirred, she filled in a name without hesitation:
Old Wen.
Ding-ding-ding-ding—
Just as the two characters "Old Wen" appeared on the pale blue subtitles, Zheng He's ear suddenly played an energetic music.
The sudden music scared Zheng He a lot.
Several lines of white small characters appeared on the wooden deck in front of her.
'Answer correct! Congratulations to you!'
'The task is detected to be one-third, and now the corresponding reward will be released!'
"You have earned the right to a draw!"
Zheng He's gaze swept over these words, and before she could react, all the white text disappeared, replaced by a colorful Yue mask embedded with precious stones and pearls. The facial features were rendered lifelike, and a pair of eyes seemed to penetrate through all the good and evil in the world.
The mouth of the Nuo mask slowly opened.
Zheng He recalled a game statue called 'The True Words' that she had seen at the entrance of a amusement park a long time ago. The stone carving mask had a wide open mouth. After inserting coins and putting her hand inside, if she waited patiently for a few seconds, it would spit out a piece of paper. It was said that this paper could detect your love, health, and career based on your palm lines.
It cost five yuan to play, and Zheng He thought it was expensive, so she never played it.
Who would have thought that after crossing over, I could actually play it?
Zheng He tried to put her hand into the open mouth of the Nuo mask. The mask suddenly closed, gently biting at Zheng He's wrist, and the entire mask began to flash in five colors.
They were sea green, bright red, earth yellow, bright gold, and dark black.
A few seconds later, the entire Nuo mask turned into bright red, and a hard little spherical object landed in Zheng He's palm.
The Nuo mask disappeared like ripples on water, leaving a row of twisted text:
【Jie Knife: Consumed the pearl, it has randomly chosen a weapon stained with your blood for you. Obtain it, and it will become your treasure, capable of wielding the spirit of the great sea and breaking away the dirtiness of the earth's evil.】
A weapon stained with her blood.
A thin gold thread seemed to be spreading out from the pearl, seemingly indicating the direction of the weapon.
Zheng He picked up the pearl and walked past Old Wen without looking away, following the gold thread out of the cockpit.
At the end of the gold thread, there was a crewman who was sweating profusely and trembling while holding an axe.
"Big... Sister!"
