Set Sail! Storm in the Caribbean! Chapter 34: Hidden Trap
Chapter 34 Hidden Trap
Facing the strange vision at this time, Sheyan calmed down. Following Kerry's previous prompts, he threw an apple, a portion of fried bacon, and two dozen rye bread into the water in front of him. At this time, a very strange sound sounded in the air, like the sound of a Greek harp playing gently, mixed with the sound of a Greek harp, and then black shadows began to appear under the water. These black shadows were extremely fast, like a A wide black belt traveled through the water at high speed. Fang Senyan looked at the black shadow, but a feeling of extreme danger surged in his heart, as if even being contaminated by it would have extremely serious consequences. He knew that this was a warning brought by high perception, and couldn't help but retreat back. Take one step so that you can jump behind the nearby rocks to hide at any time.
Fortunately, these shadows never had the intention of coming ashore. After eating the food thrown by Fang Senyan, they dissipated one after another. The silver light on the sea began to slowly fade, and at this time, one could see that a drifting bottle covered with moss and algae floated to the sea in the distance at a very fast speed. Fang Senyan picked up the bottle. , the silver light immediately dissipated and returned to its previous violent storm state.
Sheyan was not willing to stay on the coast any longer at this time, because walking alone in such a late night was too conspicuous. He came to a bar, threw two pounds in and asked the bartender for one. The room, the bar at this time was serving as a supermarket, a hotel, and even a brothel, so the bartender was not surprised at all, so he led Fang Sheyan around the corner door at the back and entered a room.
Probably because most of the customers we receive are pirates and sailors, this room is also built in a style similar to the cabin. There is a decoration that looks like a steering wheel hanging on the wall, and the window is also a typical small oval window, and next to it There are also some hand-thrown darts that are very popular at the moment. There were very clear scorch marks on the wooden bench next to it, which seemed to have been caused by the pipe of a previous careless tenant. What is commendable is that the gray striped sheets made of linen look old, but they are quite clean, and they also exude a fresh smell of being washed and sunbaked.
Sheyan sat down on the bed and began to look at the bottle he picked up carefully. This is a dark brown bottle with a narrow neck and a round belly. The bottle mouth is sealed with a thick layer of wax, which keeps the cork blocking the bottle mouth dry. The surface of the bottle is no longer smooth and has growths such as vines. Things like pots and seaweed have an unintentional raw roughness when touched by the palm of your hand. What surprised Sheyan even more was that the bottle felt extremely cold to the touch, as if it had just been taken out of the cold storage. It even felt like the heat in the bone marrow had been sucked out of the bottle when held in his hand.
According to Kerry, if the bottle is opened, the mission will be interrupted and an evil spirit will emerge from it. This evil spirit is in an illusory state, and no attack can harm it at all. This thing will curse people, causing the health of the person who opens it to drop by a total of 100 points within five minutes before disappearing. At that time, there was an unlucky guy in their team who opened the bottle in a hurry. As a result, he was haunted by evil spirits and cursed.
It turns out that this unlucky guy was a pickpocket before entering the nightmare space. He is said to be an expert who can fish out ten one-yuan coins from a deep-fried fried dough stick pot without getting hurt. His agility exceeds 20 points even under deliberate stacking, but right now Because of this, his physical strength is only the same as that of a normal person. As a result, this guy was really blind after being hit by this curse. He tried every means, but he could only watch helplessly as he walked toward death bit by bit within five minutes... He was so close before his death. The devastation can be imagined.
After encountering this kind of thing, of course no one would dare to open the bottle rashly. After a series of explorations, Kerry's team finally discovered that an old man named Russell in Tutuga Castle was very interested in this thing. This old man has a high status in the castle. He is similar to the kind of housekeeper who is trusted by the owner. He will go out to buy vegetables and other things at nine o'clock every morning. As long as you give this bottle to him, you can get a reward of up to twenty pounds (the currency of this world, which cannot be taken out), and you can also gain his friendship. From then on, you can freely travel in and out of Turtuga under the pretext of visiting Mr. Russell. The outskirts of the castle. This permission is not without its benefits. According to Kerry, using a whetstone in Turtuga Port can permanently increase your weapon attack power by 11, and there is a chance to accept other deep-level tasks.
But Sheyan did not intend to follow the process given by Kerry at this time.
First of all, Kerry is not a good person. He had cleverly exploited the loopholes in the contract before and deliberately ignored the elements of establishing a good relationship with the stingy Mogul, thus creating an uncomfortable situation for Sheyan. Big trouble. According to psychology, people are least on guard when they are closest to success, so if they continue to follow this process, they might run into the trap that Kerry has laid again.
More importantly, the reward for continuing was not attractive to Fang Senyan. With Ammand's generous sharing of the spoils, Fang Senyan now had more than three digits of pounds on him, so the mere twenty pounds seemed unimportant. As for entering the outskirts of Tortuga Castle, there seemed to be many opportunities, but for the boatswain of the Bell and the Wineglass/the direct murderer of the castle owner's wife, frequent entry and exit of that place was definitely not a good idea. Maybe the benefits he gained would not bring more trouble.
So Fang Senyan planned to try another branch route, which was the route where Kerry and his team hit a wall to open the bottle!
The curse of the vengeful spirit seemed very vicious, but unfortunately, this level of blood loss was not a threat to Fang Senyan. If he wore the title of pirate leader and was on the ship, his maximum health could even reach a full 190 points. Even now, he had 170 health points. Reducing 100 health points in five minutes was almost no pressure for him... This did not count the resistance and damage reduction ability brought by the high health value.
After carefully weighing the pros and cons, Fang Senyan calmly picked up the drifting bottle, letting the chill from it absorb his body temperature. Then he took the candlestick next to him and touched the candle flame with his fingers, as if to verify the temperature of the candle flame, and then placed the mouth of the drifting bottle on the candle flame to evenly bake it, so that the thick and solid wax seal would melt away.
As the flame heated up, the wax seal on the mouth of the drifting bottle began to melt, and dripped onto the table. A faint fragrance appeared in the air. Fang Senyan looked at this scene and suddenly thought of the story of the "haunted house" that his fourth uncle had told him when he was a child: it was probably about his father who was traveling with his friends when he was a merchant in his early years. He encountered a small house in the dark mountainous area. There was no one in the house. There was an evil statue without a head in the main room, but rice, firewood, and beds were all available. Although everything seemed very gloomy, they were hungry after walking in the mountains for a day, and it was raining heavily, so they decided to rest here for a night.
Naturally, these merchants planned to make a fire to cook and go to bed early after eating. As a result, there was no chimney in the house, and the smoke from cooking spread everywhere. Not long after, they found that many terrifying evil ghosts appeared around them and rushed towards them crazily before they even cooked the meal. In fear, they fled for their lives, and two of their companions fell off the cliff on the slippery road. Later, I heard from a fellow doujinshi with great experience that this hut should be a trap set by the robbers, and the problem was with the firewood they used to light the cooking.
The firewood should have been added with "ingredients" extracted from poisonous mushrooms on Mount Ailao, which can be translated into "hallucinogens" in a more "trendy" language. Of course, the smoke from the burning will cause hallucinations after inhalation. Coupled with the gloomy environment around and the psychological suggestion of the evil headless statue, it is natural that there are many horrible illusions in front of us.
When Fang Senyan saw the melted candle oil and the faint smell that suddenly appeared in the air, he couldn't help but have a vague ominous premonition in his heart. Because in this era, the most common way to open this drifting bottle is undoubtedly to use fire to open the wax seal, so it is difficult to say whether there will be any traps set in it. So he immediately moved the bottle away from the candle flame, opened the window and took a few deep breaths of fresh air. I don't know if it was a psychological effect or other reasons, Fang Senyan immediately felt a lot clear-headed.
Although he did not receive any reminder from the Nightmare Mark about being attacked, he still had a bad feeling in his heart and quickly checked his personal attributes. He immediately found the source of his uneasiness! Because there was a line of reminder below his personal attributes:
"When your attack hits the enemy, there is a 14% chance of it being invalidated."
But it was obvious that this abominable effect was fading quickly, because when Fang Senyan read this line and carefully observed his situation again, he found that there was nothing unusual except for this damn dbuff (harmful continuous effect). The probability of the attack being invalidated has dropped to 13. It seems that in less than a minute, this dbuff will quietly dissipate like it appeared, and will not alarm anyone.