[Congratulations, you triggered the hidden mission 'Captain Willy's Hatred'. 】
[Mission content: Enter the underground river, find the parking place of the Ghost, and kill all the crew members. 】
[Mission time limit: before Willy’s soul completely dissipates. 】
[Task reward: Ownership of the Ghost pirate ship and recognition by the ship’s spirit. 】
【Whether to accept? 】
"oh?"
Mu You was stunned for a moment. It actually triggered a side mission, and it seemed to be a large mission. It required killing a bunch of crew members of unknown levels. The final reward was also very impressive, and it was given directly to a ship!
"accept!"
Mu You took a quick look and directly chose to accept it. Since there was no failure penalty for this thing, he just continued.
If he really found this ship, he would probably not be able to defeat the crew members, but wouldn't there be shadow ghosts? In short, it depends on the situation at that time.
Compared with this, what interested Mu You more about this mission was a sentence in the text: 'The underground waterways of the Star Spirit World extend in all directions'!
This reminds Mu You, yes, why does he have to compete with those imperial knights on land? He has a fish-man mask and can go underground!
He didn't believe that those knights in heavy armor could chase them to the bottom of the water!
[You agreed to Willy's request, pulled out the lamppost from the wormwood, and put it into your backpack. 】
[Note that Willy's remnant soul can only survive for a month at most. You'd better complete the task within a month, otherwise the task will disappear early. 】
[You walked to the edge of the lake and stepped one foot into the lake. Feeling the temperature of the lake, it seemed to be within the acceptable range for you. Do you want to jump into the lake? 】
"yes."
Mu You clicked on the panel and put a fish-man mask on the character, then clicked OK.
[You jumped into the lake. 】
[The moment the soft lake water submerges your head, a biting chill hits you from all around. 】
[You continue to sink, and all that surrounds you is the boundless darkness at the bottom of the lake and the hazy starry sky above your head. Unable to land for a long time, you once suspected that you had fallen not into a lake, but into a bottomless dark abyss. 】
[Fortunately, you finally sank to the bottom. 】
[The feeling of the soles of your feet touching the ground came, and you fell into the mud of the river bed. The buoyancy of the water ensures that you are not harmed when you land, but it also makes your movements slower. The current height is 13 meters below the water level. 】
[You turned on the jack-o-lantern. The cyan light from the lantern shines down, illuminating the scene at the bottom of the lake for you. 】
[What appears before your eyes is a magnificent world under the lake. There are rocks, vegetation, and many colorful coral bushes. The surrounding tall marine plants and strips of water plants all extend straight from the bottom of the lake to the surface of the lake. A large number of aquatic species are scattered throughout, and the water flows against the nearby reefs, such as The chimes are made of copper, and the sound is endless. 】
[You notice that the water at the bottom of the lake seems to be flowing. This is not a static lake. Under the rock layer at the bottom of the water, there are several tunnels leading in all directions. Through these tunnels, you can lead to a wider area outside the bottom of the lake. of space. Fool, which direction do you choose to set off? 】
"west!"
Don't hesitate about this. You can reach Sunset City by heading west on land, and it's the same direction underwater.
[You choose to go to the west tunnel. 】
[The fishman mask ensures that you can breathe smoothly underwater, and the mud boots allow you to walk on flat ground in the soft sand at the bottom of the lake. However, the resistance of the water flow still prevents you from moving too fast. Your speed has dropped by about 10% compared to usual. 34%. 】
[You walk to the west tunnel and are about to enter it. Suddenly, you hear a babbling sound coming from inside the dark tunnel, and it is approaching you at a very fast speed. 】
[You sensed danger and retreated quickly. A small red fish jumped out of the tunnel. The omniscient crystal helps you analyze the species of the small fish immediately. This is a self-destructing fish. 】
[Self-explosion fish: Injures eight hundred to the enemy, damages one thousand to itself. It is a creature that grew up eating sulfur from the seabed. It has a strong sense of territory and a hot temper, and believes in the principle that "the essence of life is explosion." When encountering a creature approaching the territory they identify, they will take the initiative to attack. When an adult self-destructing fish approaches the target, it will explode directly, causing extremely high physical damage, and scattering the eggs to the depths of the ocean through the power of the explosion, waiting to produce more self-destructing fish. It is a very difficult species on the bottom of the Celestial Realm. Tangled creature. 】
[The self-destructing fish sees you, its belly instantly swells into a ball, and it rushes towards you quickly. 】
[You want to escape, but unfortunately the self-destructing fish is much faster than you in the water. It rushes in front of you in the blink of an eye and activates its self-destruction! 】
[You suffered close-range explosion damage from the self-destructing fish, with a health value of -600. Due to the damage to the heart, your vampire skin's ability to automatically restore health has failed. 】
"What the hell is Deidara, he's going to blow himself up when we meet!"
Mu You's eyelids twitched when he saw it, and he hurriedly retraced the time and tried other operations.
It turned out to be useless. This fish was so fast that he didn't even have time to release his magic before he got close to him and then blew himself up without saying a word.
After confirming that the damage was unavoidable, Mu You stopped struggling. If he was blown up, just blow it up. He wouldn't die anyway.
[You search the place where the self-destructing fish disappeared and found 'Unstable Sulfur'*1. 】
[Unstable sulfur: The self-exploding fish has long swallowed the crystals of sulfur from the seabed that have condensed in the body. It is a special alchemical material that has the characteristics of some explosives. It will explode when it is stimulated to a certain extent. Be careful when saving it. 】
After being blown up in a daze, I obtained a kind of comforting material.
Mu You didn't have time to feel melancholy. In reality, he hurriedly switched to vampire skin and took off the ghost cloak on his skin.
The explosion of this self-destructing fish is physical damage, and the ghost form of the cloak can perfectly defend it. I didn't have time to operate it just now, so hurry up and send it in when you have time.
Since the tunnel is regarded as a 'territory' by the self-destructing fish, there might be other self-destructing fish inside.
After loading the 'Ghost Cloak' on the game character, Mu You clicked 'Life Drain' in the spell column of the panel.
[You walk to a nearby aquatic plant and activate Life Drain on the aquatic plant. The water plants wither quickly, and the life force in them is absorbed by you, repairing the damage to your heart. 】
[Under the influence of the Butcher Wolf talent, your injuries began to recover quickly, and your health returned to full value in the blink of an eye. 】
In order to avoid being wasted in the game, Mu You always stayed in reality.
At this moment, the self-destructing fish can damage his heart when it explodes, which will cause the recovery effect to be invalid. Mu You can only use this troublesome method to treat the injury.
However, the spell 'Life Drain' seems to be quite useful now. It can also be used on plants, so there is no need to worry about finding the target for the spell.
[You continue to move forward and enter the natural tunnel at the bottom of the lake to the west. 】
[This tunnel is an extremely long, narrow and dark trench, which becomes narrower as you go deeper. At this time, you suddenly hear a familiar babbling sound in front of you. Through the reflection of the pumpkin lantern, you see dozens of self-destructing fish in front of you, rushing toward you crazily...]
"Sure enough, there is still more!"
More than a dozen fish rushed in together, and Mu Youxin said that they probably broke into the nest of the self-destructing fish.
Without any time to think, he immediately opened the panel and used the ghost cloak.
[You entered the ghost form, and the self-exploding fish exploded around you like firecrackers, but they still failed to hurt you at all. 】
[After a while, all the self-destructing fish ended their self-destruction, and there were no more adult self-destructing fish in the tunnel. You search around with confidence and get 'Unstable Sulfur'*17. 】
In ghost form, he picked up seventeen dropped items for free, which was great. But what made Mu You even more fortunate was that the trench was strong enough to allow so many fish to explode together without collapsing. Otherwise, he would have been buried alive here.
[You continue to swim forward. After passing through the narrowest section of the trench, the passage gradually becomes wider. After tens of meters, the front suddenly becomes clear...]
[You have entered a brand new sea area. There are no more mountain walls around you, and the sea water in all directions can't be seen at a glance. You look down and see that on the seabed tens of meters below, countless luminous marine plants are connected together, like thousands of lights on land, illuminating the dark seabed. 】
After passing through the trench, it seems that we have entered a new world under the sea that is like a peach blossom garden.
The description in the text was quite beautiful, but it was a pity that Mu You couldn't see anything. He could only imagine the scene on the other side while controlling the character to continue on his way.
[You have arrived at the bottom of the sea. The current depth is 74 meters below the water surface. 】
[You see a fishman (level 7) passing in front of you, waving a blade made of scallops and rushing towards you. 】
[After a chaotic battle, you successfully killed the murloc, gained +1 lifespan, +7 experience points, and summoned a murloc zombie from its corpse. 】
…
[You see a two-headed and tailless salamander (level 9) lying in the sand in front of you. This creature has heads at both ends and is highly poisonous. 】
[With the help of the Murloc Zombie, you successfully killed the Salamander, gaining +1 lifespan, +9 experience points, and summoned a Salamander Zombie from its corpse. 】
…
[While passing an underwater rock, you were attacked by an amphibious night crawler (level 8). 】
[With the cooperation of the zombie beast, you successfully killed the amphibious night crawler, with a lifespan of +1, an experience value of +8, and a new zombie beast was summoned from its corpse...]
…
Mu You found that his strength under water was greatly limited. Not only his movement speed and attack speed were reduced by one-third, but his bow and arrow were also restricted in the water and could not shoot too far. In addition, fire magic such as fireballs and fire circles could not be used. Using it, the war eagle, the most powerful summoned beast at present, cannot enter the water.
Fortunately, the level of sea monsters near this sea area does not seem to be very high. He has not encountered any monsters above level ten so far. Even without the help of the war eagle, he can still deal with them with his vampire skin.
(End of chapter)
