This ocean is not calm, with strong winds and high waves, bursts of thunder, and heavy rain.
The ghost ship sailed silently in the strong wind and waves. In the deep night, it was difficult to spot it without looking carefully.
This is a medieval-style Carrick sailing ship. The hull and deck are covered with seaweed and barnacles, and it is black and green, as if it had just been dug out of the bottom of the sea.
The reason why it is called a ghost ship is because there are many undead sailors on this sailing ship who are busy going back and forth and steering the ship.
Fang Cheng observed the situation for a while, then landed directly.
If you want to find the key in this area, this ghost ship is an obvious clue.
In fact, he still has the last key left on him. He can leave this sea area and go directly to the core area.
But Eve told him that the core area also needed keys to lead the way, otherwise he would just wander around like a headless fly.
So Fang Cheng still needs to find one more key.
Just hope the key to this area hasn't been taken yet.
He landed on the deck, and the ghost sailors around him immediately stopped moving and turned to stare at him, with green light shining in their eyes.
On this stormy sea, the night was deep, and there was heavy rain in the sky. Occasionally there were lightning flashes and thunder, which reflected the terrifying features of these undead sailors, which was quite penetrating.
Fang Cheng turned a blind eye to these undead sailors and walked directly into the ship.
The nearest undead sailor suddenly let out a roar, pulled out a scimitar from his waist, and aimed it at the back of Fang Cheng's head to chop.
Before it even touched it, it was bounced back by the terrifying force. The entire knife broke into several pieces, and its rotting body was also knocked to pieces.
boom!
The momentum bursting out from Fang Cheng's body formed a shock wave visible to the naked eye, sweeping across the ship in an instant.
The dozens of undead sailors who were staring directly at him on the deck were all smashed into pieces and blown into the sea like garbage.
The shock wave swept away the sailboat and knocked away the heavy rain that was pouring around it, creating a spherical vacuum hundreds of meters in diameter.
Fang Cheng stepped into the cabin, and undead sailors occasionally jumped out to attack him along the way.
After walking around, Fang Cheng came to the captain's room.
Just as he entered the door, a cold light suddenly lit up from the darkness.
clang!
A sharp stabbing sword came through the air, hitting Fang Cheng's chest, and then was violently bounced back by the vector control.
The sneak attacker was also knocked back by the rebounding force, smashing through the wooden wall of the captain's cabin with a bang, and fell into the cabin behind, with a crackling sound, and it was unknown how many things were crushed.
Fang Cheng could clearly see that the attacker was an undead captain wearing a pirate tricorn hat, a skull with a one-eyed patch on his face, a rapier in one hand, and an iron hook in the other.
boom!
The undead captain pushed aside the pieces of wood and debris on his body, rushed out of the cabin, and charged at Fang Cheng again.
With a flash of red light, the blood floating in the air instantly condensed into a dozen spikes, piercing the undead captain front and back and holding him in the air.
The undead captain struggled a few times, the green light in his eyes gradually extinguished, his head tilted, and he died.
This undead captain seems to be in the same group as the undead sailors outside, and his demonstrated strength is only A-level.
But Fang Cheng had a strange look on his face because he could see the data on this guy's head.
Name: Thomson Isaac
Level: 70
Sex: Male
Type: undead
Favorability: -10
He was clearly an undead at the level of a legendary demon, but he deliberately showed that he was only A-level and pretended to be dead.
This is either treating Fang Cheng as a blind man or treating him as a mentally retarded person.
"Get up and stop pretending to be dead."
Isaac remained motionless, as if he were truly a dead man.
Fang Cheng's eyes lit up red, and the sun's rays shot out suddenly, passing through Isaac's hat and piercing the wooden wall behind.
The scorching ray penetrated the entire capsized ship, shot out from the stern, and flew an unknown distance on the dark sea before disappearing.
"Um?"
In the night, a figure noticed the fleeting ray and flew towards this side quickly.
In the captain's room, although Isaac's body was already a skeleton without half of his flesh, he still seemed to feel the cold sweat falling from his forehead.
The sun's rays are extremely strong and are the great nemesis of undead creatures.
Isaac could feel the fatal threat from these two rays that passed through his hat.
"If you continue to pretend to be dead, then I will really send you to death."
Hearing this threatening voice, the green will-o'-the-wisp lighted up again in Isaac's two black eye sockets.
He stared at Fang Cheng's face carefully, and the will-o'-the-wisp in his eyes jumped suddenly.
Fang Cheng asked strangely: "Do you know me?"
If it were just a will-o'-the-wisp jumping, Fang Cheng wouldn't feel anything strange, but Isaac's negative opinion of him suddenly changed from -10 to -1.
This change was obviously due to recognition of his identity.
Isaac was silent for a moment and did not answer whether he recognized him or not. Instead, he said: "I have decided to quit the competition and hide in this ordinary ghost ship, pretending to be an ordinary undead. I don't really want to ambush you."
Listening to this careful explanation, you knew that he had recognized Fang Cheng's identity.
Fang Cheng did not embarrass him, but asked: "Has the key to this area been taken away?"
Isaac nodded: "It has been taken away. I hid because I failed in the fight and was injured."
"Taken away?"
Fang Cheng felt a little unhappy, stared at Isaac and said, "Are you lying to me?"
Isaac was startled. Fortunately, the undead's emotions rarely fluctuated, and no one could see his expression changing even if his entire face was gone.
"I have already decided to withdraw from the competition. There is no need to deliberately lie to you, and it will not be good for me."
"Then do you have the key with you?"
"If I had the key, why would I continue to hide here? I would have left this area long ago."
Listening to Isaac's calm voice, Fang Cheng half-smiled: "Really? I don't believe it."
Isaac: "..."
Fang Cheng continued: "If you really have the key, I won't steal it from you. You just need to let me pass when you open the door. How about that?"
Isaac felt a little moved in his heart, but still whispered: "I really don't have the key, you can search it as you like."
"That's what you said."
Fang Cheng walked up directly, stretched out his hand and pressed down on Isaac's head.
He had no time to continue talking nonsense with this skull head, and was going to use his dark consciousness to forcefully modify it.
Since he tasted the benefits of this ability, Fang Cheng no longer pursues the initiative to eliminate enemies, but chooses to utilize waste.
When Isaac saw Fang Cheng's extended hand, he suddenly felt strong vigilance in his heart.
How could a person of this level allow strangers to put their hands on his head at will?
Isaac subconsciously wanted to resist, but Fang Cheng's identity made him hesitate.
After just a moment of hesitation, Fang Cheng's hand was already on his skull.
boom!
A loud bang suddenly sounded, drowning out the sounds of rain and thunder.
A ball of water tens of meters high appeared from the water and lifted the entire ghost ship directly.
The ghost ship disintegrated in the air and turned into countless fragments falling to the sea.
Fang Cheng and Isaac jumped out of the ghost ship at the same time. Fang Cheng was suspended in the air, but Isaac couldn't fly and fell straight down.
But when he fell into the sea, he stepped on the water with his feet, rising and falling with the waves, without sinking at all.
Neither of them cared about the scrapped ghost ship, and both focused on the culprit.
It was a ghost floating in the air, wearing a black cloak, revealing the outline of its head, with eye sockets and the shape of a mouth, except that it was not straight.
A pair of long ghost claws protruded from under the cloak, and the skin looked like it had been soaked in water and rotted.
Further down is the hem of the flapping and broken cloak, with no legs visible at all.
This look is 70-80% similar to the Dementors in Harry Potter.
Through the thick fog, heavy rain and darkness, Fang Cheng could clearly see the data on the opponent's head.
Name: Ferdinand
Level: 75
Gender: None
Type: Soul-sucking ghost
Favorability: -20
The ghost named Ferdinand did not look at Fang Cheng. It circled in the air several times and flew above Isaac's head.
"Isaac, I finally found you."
Its voice was extremely hoarse and gloomy, as if metal was rubbing together, and it was impossible to tell its gender.
Isaac's face became very ugly, even though he had no face anymore: "Ferdinand, I have decided to withdraw from the competition, and I am not going to pursue you for your sneak attack on me. Why are you still chasing me?"
"Withdraw from the competition? Quack!"
Ferdinand laughed like a crow, and then stretched out his paw to Isaac: "Hand over the key, and I will believe that you have really withdrawn from the competition."
If the skin was still there, Isaac must have been covered in cold sweat at this time.
Because he felt Fang Cheng's meaningful gaze looking over him.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
Isaac couldn't help but retort: "The key is not on me at all."
Ferdinand stared at him coldly: "Then you go and die."
Seeing that this difficult ghost was about to take action, Isaac hurriedly shouted: "Wait!"
He hurriedly reached into his eye socket and took out a key. He actually hid the key in his head.
"I have already agreed with others to give him the key, so please stop pestering me."
With that said, Isaac threw the key towards Fang Cheng, and then he sank into the water and disappeared.
Ferdinand ignored Isaac who had already escaped, turned around in the air, and rushed towards the key.
It was very fast, catching up with the thrown key in a blink of an eye, and stretched out its claws.
At the moment when it was about to be grasped, the key suddenly disappeared, leaving it empty.
The disappearing key appeared in Fang Cheng's hand like a teleportation.
He checked the authenticity, then put it away, and found Ferdinand staring at him with a fierce look.
At this moment, it took a serious look at Fang Cheng's appearance for the first time.
To be honest, apart from being handsome, I don’t see anything special about him.
But in this cruel competition, handsome people cannot be eaten as food.
"Give me the key."
It stretched out its claws towards Fang Cheng: "If you don't want to die."
Fang Cheng ignored it and turned around to leave.
Ferdinand was startled for a moment, then rushed over ferociously, shouting: "Hand over the key."
It spent so much time and energy to finally find the key, how could it just watch this stranger take it away.
As soon as Ferdinand moved, countless blood floating around him instantly swarmed up and directly surrounded it.
Ferdinand penetrated hard and was not affected at all.
It looks like a solid body, but in fact it is a spiritual body from beginning to end, and cannot be touched by matter.
Fang Cheng's blood-based ability combines offense and defense, and is almost omnipotent in physics. His only weakness is that he cannot deal with spiritual bodies.
Ferdinand quickly caught up with Fang Cheng and reached out to grab him from a distance of tens of meters.
The claws instantly crossed the distance between each other and penetrated Fang Cheng's body, dragging his soul out and pulling him back.
Ferdinand opened his mouth and sucked in suddenly, forming a strong wind, preparing to suck Fang Cheng's soul into his mouth.
"Haunted by evil spirits!"
Ferdinand felt his body tighten and looked down. Three chains locked its body tightly, making it unable to move.
Fang Cheng's soul flew over and punched Ferdinand in the head, causing him a concussion.
"ah!"
Ferdinand let out a roar of pain. The spirit body was immune to physical attacks, but the battle between the spirit body and the spirit body was really painful, and any flat A would cause real damage.
It struggled violently, but was unable to break away from the evil spirit. Fang Cheng punched it on the head again, almost blowing it all over.
brush!
Ferdinand split instantly, broke free from the evil ghost, and turned into three identical ones, surrounding Fang Cheng in the middle.
"Give me the key, or I'll chop you up and throw you into the sea to feed the fish."
The three Ferdinands spoke at the same time, their fingers spread out, their sharp claws like sickles.
Fang Cheng looked around, and then used his ghost form to surround them with more than a dozen clones.
Ferdinand: "..."
A few minutes later, Fang Cheng put his hand on the head of Ferdinand, who was beaten to death, and used dark consciousness to modify its thinking and read its memory.
It turns out that Ferdinand and Isaac teamed up to deal with a sea monster that held the key, but the sea monster ran away.
The two searched separately, and the injured sea monster fell into Isaac's hands. He wanted to take the key for himself, but was injured by Ferdinand's sneak attack and fled, and then accidentally ran into Fang Cheng.
If Fang Cheng hadn't happened to land on Isaac's ghost ship, he might have escaped, because there were many ghost ships floating on the sea.
…
On the rough sea, Isaac suddenly emerged from the water.
He did not run away, but lurked nearby, preparing to wait for Fang Cheng to kill Ferdinand before quietly following him.
The door was open for a long time, and Isaac believed that he could get in after Fang Cheng opened the door.
However, there was no movement over there. Could it be that the battle was over so soon?
With doubts, Isaac was about to continue diving into the sea when he suddenly heard Ferdinand's familiar voice from behind, with a hint of gritted teeth: "Where are you going?"
Isaac secretly said something bad in his heart, and then turned around: "The key is no longer with me, and you still..."
The words stopped abruptly before he finished speaking, because behind him was not only Ferdinand, but also Fang Cheng, who was looking at him with a kind face.
If the skin was still there, Isaac would be sweating profusely by now.
He said awkwardly: "Mr. Fang, I have decided to withdraw from the competition. I am serious this time."
"It doesn't matter, I believe you this time too."
Fang Cheng smiled and said: "I quit, just come and help me."
Isaac: "..."
A few minutes later, Exa, whose mind had been modified by the dark consciousness, followed Fang Cheng and left the sea together with Ferdinand.
Along the way, Ferdinand stared at him with a sarcastic look: "You have worked so hard, but in the end you have to leave with me. Why didn't you agree when I proposed this in the first place?"
Isaac smiled apologetically. The reason why he planned to take the key to himself was to eliminate Ferdinand as a competitor.
It's a pity that in the end, he lost both his life and money, and had to sell himself to work for Fang Cheng.
Following the key's guidance, the three quickly found the door leading to the core area.
This door stands on the sea, swaying with the ups and downs of the waves. Behind the door is the edge of subspace, and the sea water keeps pouring into the darkness and disappears.
As time passes, maybe this sea area will be drained away.
Fang Cheng opened the door with the key, stepped in, and was greeted by hot, dry air.
On the other side of the door is the ocean with strong winds, high waves, heavy rain, and inside the door is the arid desert with undulating hills.
Two completely opposite environments, only separated by a door.
Fang Cheng walked in, followed closely by Ferdinand and Isaac, and closed the door smoothly, blocking out the sound of wind, rain and waves.
After the door disappeared, looking at the desert under the moonlight, Isaac couldn't help but said: "Is this the core area? It doesn't look like there is any danger, and the scenery is pretty good."
He and Ferdinand didn't have a map. They didn't know that this was the core area, but Fang Cheng took the initiative to tell them.
"Under the calm water there are often dangerous undercurrents."
Ferdinand's favorability towards Isaac was -100, and he couldn't help but mock him: "Only a fool like you would think there is no danger here."
"Hey, I just said it casually, why do you take it seriously?"
Isaac, who only had his skull head left, couldn't make a winking expression, and the will-o'-the-wisps danced in his eyes: "No wonder he was deceived by me several times. It turns out to be because of his low IQ."
If Fang Cheng hadn't been here, Ferdinand would have had to fight the skull on the spot.
Fang Cheng ignored the two sides who were mocking each other and took out his last key.
The core area is a huge maze, and you need to find the guide stone before you can embark on the road to the throne of the undead.
The three guide stones were guarded by three disaster-level monsters, moving erratically in the core area.
If you're lucky, you might encounter these three monsters while walking around. If you're not lucky, you'll have to rely on the key to lead the way.
Fang Cheng held the key in his hand, and a vague feeling emerged in his heart, pointing to a certain direction.
He flew in that direction, and the two dead ghosts who were still taunting each other quickly stopped talking.
"Hey, hey, give me a hand, brother."
Seeing Fang Cheng and Ferdinand flying away, Isaac, who was unable to fly, jumped anxiously.
Ferdinand looked back at him, intending to drop the skull's head, but in the end he stretched out his claws to pull him.
After passing through countless rolling hills and deserts, the three finally found the disaster-level monster guarding the guide stone in a deep and curved valley.
