Lost Temple Chapter 69

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Early in the next morning, the two people who had preserved and nurtured their spirit*, took off the nuisance cloak, dressed themselves up from head to toe in skillfully, and walked out of the tent, each person poured a bottle of mermaid potion first, and then jumped into the sea.

(T/n: 养精蓄锐 to preserve and nurture one's spirit (idiom); honing one's strength for the big push)

The position of the shipwreck was farther than they thought, plus the speed of movement in the water was half of the speed of movement on the land, although there was the underwater speed increase effect of the potion, both of them still felt that their movements were slow like turtles. Or even it was not as good as turtles, at least the turtles move at a very fast speed in the water.

On top of it, it was boring ah! Looking around, it was all about the sea, at the beginning they could use swimming as a pastime exercise, they could swim for three or four hours, but the pastime has become a torture.

Manticore crouched motionlessly on Falling To The Silence's head on the surface of the water, from the distance it looked like he had a certain style of weird big hat. The big monster upgraded at this time, the level of the little Sting Tail Lion also reached 50, the attack power has improved a lot, but unfortunately it has always been in this kind of infancy form, has not evolved.

Seeing that he had swam out half the distance, Black Scorpion Scarred Mark stop and let his body floated in the sea water —— fortunately, the effect of the potion was maintained, so he didn't drown in the sea: “Silence, it's so boring.”

Falling To The Silence looked up, the mast of the shipwreck in the distance also stopped the movement, imitating Black Mark who floated on the sea water. “Not far away, take a break.”

“Silence, do you think it's more than just a mission?” Black Scorpion Scarred Mark squinted his eyes and look into the distance, the underwater world was rich and colorful, not only seaweed, but also all kind of fish, the swaying water plants, the beautiful corals, the reefs that sink under the water —— It was no different from the real oceans.

The game developers wouldn't waste a lot of resources to make such a large area of ​​the sea, just for a mission, right?

Falling To The Silence had just wanted to talk, Manticore which stayed on his head suddenly uttered a warning roar, showing its fang to the water in the front.

Black Scorpion Scarred Mark and Falling To The Silence take out their weapons at the same time vigilantly, keep an eye on the movements of the water —— their perception in the water has dropped greatly, knowing that on the land it was impossible to have something so close to them that they were not noticed.

When something in the distance got closer, Black Scorpion Scarred Mark was relieved, the comer turned out to be a mermaid. The big fish tail flashing the blue light wearing a revealing bikini on the upper body, and her forehead was decorated with a circle of water-drop-shaped forehead ornament, the ears were slightly shorter than the elves, like the fins opened on the side of the face.

Mermaids were kind and friendly creatures, sometimes it will take the initiative to rescue the sailors and ships that have fallen in the sea, Black Scorpion Scarred Mark guessed that the other party should be an NPC, so he generously subjected the Taomari and waited for the other to swim closer.

Unexpectedly, as the mermaid swam closer, she suddenly waved her arms and drew a circle on her chest, then a water arrow rushed straight into the chest of Black Scorpion Scarred Mark. Falling To The Silence haven't let his guard down, he reached out his hand and pulled Black Mark to his side to avoid the water arrow.

“We are not malicious!” Black Scorpion Scarred Mark hurriedly shouted to the other, Mermaids are the kindest people, what the h.e.l.l did they do to even provoked the other party to come and directly attack without saying anything?

The mermaid didn't say anything, raising her hand and another water arrow flew over. Black Scorpion Scarred Mark to be at a loss, an identification technique threw at the other party, only to see the information displayed on the other party's head. “The Soulless Marine Race, humanoid monster, level 200, skills; water arrow, ice arrow.”

This mermaid turned out to be a monster! And level 200! Higher level than the level of the monsters in the Abyss of h.e.l.l and the Poisonous Jungle! Black Mark and Silence glanced speechlessly at the same time —— this Endless Sea was indeed more than meets the eye!

Fortunately they have trained on their way, their level has been improved a lot, the skills had been unblocked for most of the time, so it was not too difficult to deal with the level 200 ordinary monster, under the double attack of the feather arrow and the sharp blade, the beautiful mermaid shouted, and then she turned into a bubble and disappeared, in the place where the body disappeared, a sh.e.l.l floated in the water.

Black Scorpion Scarred Mark swam over and caught the sh.e.l.l in his hands, he took a look at the “marine credential.” Didn't know what the use of this thing would be, so it was thrown into the void bracelet. He turned back to Silence and made a gesture: “Let's continue!”

Even if they were baffled, it was better than a boring swim, the mission here was somewhat worth seeing, didn't know what secrets were there in the shipwreck.

There were two more attacks along the way, all of which were about level 200 marine race nearby, after being killed, they left a sh.e.l.l without exception, then turned into a bubble disappearing.

It was easy to swim to the location of the shipwreck, Black Scorpion Scarred Mark dive in first, his agility was higher than Silence, if there was any danger, he might even escape from the high dodge.

This is a huge double-decked sailing ship, from the structural decoration of the hull, it was faintly identifiable how luxurious it was before it sank. Following the s.p.a.cious, Black Scorpion Scarred Mark was walking along the cabin aisle filled with marine plants and animals, he deliberately slowed down, carefully moving forward, but not as he expected, there was unusual silence in the shipwreck, except for the small fishes swimming around with the background that was not different, he didn't see the shadow of a monster.

“Come here.” After confirming that there was nothing wrong with it, Black Mark said through the team chat channel.

In a short while, the figure of Silence appeared beside him, thinking that this guy always been cautious, he must be following him behind in stealth state.

There were no signs of monsters, nor the mission NPCs, Black Scorpion Scarred Mark concluded that this should be a mission triggered by an item, but this shipwreck was so big, and they didn't know where to start, they couldn't just look for it boundlessly, could they?

Turned a corner, down to the second floor, Falling To The Silence made a gesture toward Black Scorpion Scarred Mark, pointing to a closed door not far away, with the golden words “Captain's Room” on it.

The two people's eyes were bright, such a distinct signs, that thing most likely in this captain's room. Black Scorpion Scarred Mark had just wanted to open the door, but he was stopped by Falling To The Silence, the latter waved at him and his body gradually disappeared into the air. The heavy and decaying door was gradually opened, Falling To The Silence sneak in, although he was experienced nevertheless he was greatly stunned all of a sudden. The s.p.a.ce inside the captain's room was very large, beds, tables and chairs were all available, the main thing was it was like being separated from the enchantment outside, it was dull and familiar, and there was no single water drop.

Vigilantly inspected around for a while and confirmed that it was safe, it was only after then Falling To The Silence let Black Scorpion Scarred Mark entered the room, both of them began the big carpet search, and finally the attentive Black Mark found a chart and a logbook in the drawer of the captain's desk.

(T/n: Carpet search is a comprehensive search. Specifically, it is to put a square (range) on the ground, and search for these squares (ranges) in a certain order.

They opened the log and found a gray shadow that floated out of the diary. Translucent ghost, with a triangular hat, double b.u.t.toned coats, judging from the clothes, this ghost was certainly the captain.

The captain's ghost floated out first, and suddenly turned around in the room, then turned his eyes to Black Mark and Silence, staring at the them for a while, the ghost slowly said, “brave people, was it you who killed those despicable guys and open my logbook?”

“Killed who?” Black Scorpion Scarred Mark looked at the ghost inexplicably. Seeing the smile on the other's translucent face: “Those despicable marine race, the brave people, I saw their relics in you.”

“Do you mean this?” Took out the sh.e.l.l that the killed violent mermaid left and raised it in front of the ghost captain, the latter immediately gnashed his teeth seeing the things and grabbed it in his hand: “Yes! That's it! Haha! Our hatred will never disappear, even if we are already dead, we must let them pay their blood debts!”

“Hatred?”

“Not bad! Brave people! Our ship was sunk by those despicable marine race!” The ghost captain's eyes stared at the sh.e.l.ls in his hands and recalled: “Our ship is the most powerful in the sea, every sailor, they are proud to board our ship, it's all those despicable sea people! At first we thought they were friendly and kind, there are even some sailors would bring some land things to exchange with the deep-sea specialties with them, both sides live together in harmony, and slowly we relaxed our guard, until one day we sailed in this water, but suddenly we were attacked by the marine race, they sink our ship, slaughtered our sailors, and dragged the crew into the deep sea and drown!!!”

While speaking the ghost captain's eyes as if emitting sparks: “Nearly a thousand crew members, the best young men, buried in this sea! We must take revenge! Even if I become a ghost, I will not forget that hatred!”

“The brave people, help us get revenge! Kill those despicable marine race, I will give you a reward!”

The voice of the ghost captain landed, and the system prompt appeared on time, “Do you accept the mission, the revenge of the ghost captain?”

The two didn't hesitate to accept, immediately saw a new mission on the mission panel “accept the mission of the Ghost Captain's Revenge” to kill the marine race, get their credentials, handed over to the ghost captain, mission progress (3 / 9999).”

When the two people saw the number at the end of the mission, their eyes suddenly rounded up —— 9999? The system was not playing with people, was it? Every time a sea man killed, a sh.e.l.l was dropped, in that case, wouldn't they kill 9999? This killing was the time that will never come ah!
“Let's go, it's time to level up…” Black Scorpion Scarred Mark calculated in his heart, they've got a lot of supplies on them, red and blue potion and food were plentiful, even though the tent was left on the beach, this captain's room could also be used as a place to rest. Although there were not many mermaid potion, but the materials were ready-made, if they didn't have it they could make it now, it should not be a problem for them to be here for ten days or a half month. Although the marine race here were not losing their treasures, but the numerous experience they gained could scared the people, it could be regarded as a little compensation.

First i imagining the Nemo when the novel describing the underwater world, then switch to Pirates of the Carribean haha….. it's like a movie journey.