Pirate's Bizarre Adventure

Fragrant!
crisp!
Shadow Tail felt a little sour.

But this sourness just neutralizes the greasiness of the oil.

Laos said with satisfaction: "I never thought that I could eat deep-fried food in the underground labyrinth."

After a pause, he added: "I really want to let Falin have a taste if there is a chance."

"Falin..." A trace of sadness flashed in Malushel's eyes, but she quickly regained her spirits: "There will be a chance, there will definitely be a chance!"

"Haha, you're right!" Laos grinned and continued to bite into the fried cakes made from man-eating plants and tree juice.

Chirchak also took a bite and nodded, "Delicious! So the oil in the trap is so delicious."

"This is a maze. It takes people's lives all the time, but it also gives everything equally and inclusively." Senxi said as he put the second portion of ingredients into the boiling oil pan.

This time, he chose air-dried slime.

It must be said that slime, the lowest level monster, is actually a versatile food ingredient. It can be soaked in drinks to add a special taste, or it can be fried in a frying pan into golden slime crisps.

Click click click.

They ate with great enthusiasm, and Laos and the others kept chewing.

"These are next." Sensi took out a giant scorpion and a mushroom monster from his bag.

There's nothing much to say about the mushroom monsters; they taste almost the same as normal mushrooms.

But the giant scorpion...

Laos felt that this monster inexplicably looked like a crab when it was cooked.

After being fried once, even the shell is crispy.

Putting the shell and the meat together into your mouth has a unique flavor.

"tasty."

“It’s really delicious.”

"Monsters and such are so delicious after being fried."

Praise continues.

This meal, everyone is very satisfied
——Including the difficult Malushiel.

After eating and drinking, the group continued to move underground.

Even if you take a shortcut, you still have to walk up a lot of stairs.

Malushel's physical strength was a big problem. Leaning on her staff, she couldn't help but ask Chirchak, "I say, are there no new roads around here? The kind that are easier to walk on and less strenuous."

Chilcak shrugged.

Although he didn't say anything, the meaning was very clear: just go ahead and do it honestly, there is no shortcut.

At this time, Laos said helplessly: "Hold on, stairs are like this, they always make people feel twice as tired."

"That's true, but a moderate sense of fatigue can make the food more delicious." Senxi naturally added: "When you are hungry, you will eat, and after eating, you will still be hungry. This is the truth of life."

What the hell?

Such unconventional thinking made Malushiel a little unable to keep up.

She sighed.

Look up, then look down at the darkness below.

It takes four or five hours to walk up the stairs of the tower.

When will it end?

"Come on, Marusil, we'll have dinner when we get to the end, okay?" Seeing that Marusil was in a bad mood, Laos spoke in a tones of coaxing a child.

Malushel: ...

Even if it's time to eat, I have to eat monsters.

Hey~
Why on earth did she have to suffer like this?

Nothing said.

Let's go!

Malushel's expression gradually fell, and she was almost turning into a slime.

The emperor does not bear the painstaking people.

Just as they had used up the energy provided by the fried tempura, they finally reached the bottom of the tower.

Malushiel leaned against the wall and said, "I'm so tired. Let's take a rest."

"Then, Malusil, you rest here." Laos gave her a bright smile.

Then he turned around and said to Chilchak, "There is no way out."

"I really can't get through..." Senxi stroked his beard and knocked his fist on the solid brick wall in front of him: "It's sealed very firmly. It will take a lot of effort to break it open with brute force."

Laos's brain was working rapidly, and he asked, "Chilchak, there should be some secret passage nearby, right?"

Chilchak looked around and, as before, borrowed the sword from Laos and knocked on the wall again and again with his sword.

His ears moved slightly, and he pointed to a certain place: "There is a hidden mechanism there."

"Oh! It's just like you, Chilchak!" Laos did not hesitate to exaggerate.

As he spoke, he followed the instructions and pressed the mechanism.

wow-

The wall flips.

What appeared before everyone was a spacious foyer.

There are carpets on the floor and some oil paintings around.

Further in, there seems to be a wider space.

However, to be cautious, the group did not rush in rashly.

"By the way, where is this?" After a short rest, Malushel finally had the strength to stand up. She looked around and frowned as she asked, "We haven't been here before, have we?"

"Yeah." Laos nodded: "I have indeed never been here...but I have some impression of this place."

"By going through this hallway, we can reach the fourth floor faster. If you do the math, it really saves a lot of time." Chirchak held up a map and looked at it again and again, saying with absolute certainty.

Laos blinked.

Then, he discovered something and made a loud noise: "Wait a minute! The decoration on my sword hilt is gone."

Decorate?

"Is it my fault?" Chirchak scratched his head: "I didn't lose it just now."

Malushel said in reproach, "You are too rough. Really, you should take good care of other people's weapons."

Chilchak: "Sorry, sorry. When we get back to the surface, I'll buy you a new sword. Is that okay?"

"You did it for our team..." Laos shook his head, "Besides, that thing could have been taken down a long time ago, so I usually tie it up with ropes or glue it together, barely extending its life."

Malushel: ...

Chilcak: ...

Don't be so foolish about your weapons!

Chirchak pinched his brows and said, "So, that decoration is completely useless?"

"It's not completely useless. To me, that thing is quite memorable." Laos looked reminiscent. "That happened three years ago. At that time, Falin and I had just arrived on this island. We knew nothing and no one was willing to team up with us, so we could only follow the gold stripping group to the underground floor to practice."

"Wait a minute." Malushel was confused: "What is the Gold Stripping Group?"

"The Gold Stripping Group, the Gold Stripping Group is... a team that doesn't focus on fighting, but on making money." Laos gestured and said, "Rather than weapons, those people prefer to carry pickaxes and pliers with them."

Malushel: ???
Has such a strange team ever appeared in the underground maze?
Chirchak explained, "Malushil, you came to this island too late, so you may not know some things very clearly. In the past, the tower on the second underground floor was completely covered with gold. You didn't have to fight monsters at all. You could make a lot of money by peeling off the gold. Gold peeling groups were born. At that time, most people liked to participate in gold peeling activities. Those who were determined to go deep underground and look for clues about the crazy magician were the outliers."

Laos nodded, and his thoughts went back to that time.

"The gold here has been basically stripped away. Why don't we go deeper underground to see what we can find?" suggested the leading dwarf.

"Okay!"

"Let's go!" "After doing manual labor for so long, I've long wanted to see what valuable treasures are buried deeper underground."

The rest of the team had no objection at all.

Instead, Falin said to Ryans with concern: "Brother, with our abilities, isn't it a bit dangerous to go underground now?"

Laos looked embarrassed: "It is dangerous, but we are just two people with little influence. We can't go back even if we want to."

Since I can't resist.

Then we can only follow the main force...

The brother and sister stayed close to each other cautiously, always on guard against monsters that might appear in the underground maze.

But fate seemed to favor this gold-stripping team.

Come down from the second floor.

Not to mention any tough monsters, I didn't even encounter a living creature.

Following the main road down, everyone came to a hall.

The hall was filled with armor, with people holding swords or guns. Even after hundreds of years, they were still shining and looked extraordinary.

The leading dwarf was delighted.

I was just trying my luck, but I didn't expect to get such an unexpected reward.

He stepped forward to take a look, stroked his beard and exclaimed: "What a nice piece of equipment. I wonder how much it is worth?"

The halfling companion knocked on the armor a few times and made his own judgment: "It's too thin. It seems that it can't be worn on the body. It has no practical value. But I think this thing is similar to decoration. If it is melted into materials and sold separately..."

As he was speaking, the motionless armor suddenly stabbed out the sword in his hand!
In one fell swoop, he stabbed the nearest dwarf leader to death on the spot.

"careful!"

"Enemy attack!"

"Run!"

The sudden change threw the gold-stripping team into chaos.

Most of them were holding pickaxes and pliers in their hands. They didn't have any decent weapons and had no power to resist at all.

At the back, Laos and Falin's faces turned pale with fright.

The two men realized belatedly that these armors were not dead objects, but living monsters!

Swah——

At this moment, a movable armor slashed out with the sword in its hand.

A strong wind blew in his face, and Laos' hair stood up.

Fortunately, he had prepared himself mentally, and after a brief moment of surprise, he finally pulled out the iron sword from his waist that was on sale at a special price.

"Falin, don't stay too far away from me." Laos shouted.

Then he started fighting with the active armor.

If combat power is visualized.

Then the level of the active armor should be around level ten.

And Laos...

Novice adventurer, level one.

Ding-ding-ding-ding.

In just a blink of an eye, the man and the monster fought for several rounds.

The sword that Leos bought at a special price was cut off by the sword of the movable armor.

At the critical moment, it was Falin who risked her life to knock him down and saved his life.

"Didn't I tell you to hide when it's dangerous?"

"But brother...be careful!"

The movable armor did not give the brother and sister much time to communicate, and they seemed to be in a state of fighting to the death.

With his relatives right behind him, Laos became furious.

With a stern look in his eyes, he seized the opportunity to snatch the sword from one of the movable armors and slashed it with his backhand.

Decapitated the active armor that had been fighting for a long time.

boom!
The helmet of the active armor fell to the ground.

A look of surprise appeared on Laos' face: "It worked, I agreed!"

Hearing this, Falin seemed to want to remind someone of something.

However, the next second, a sharp sword pierced Laos' heart.

Laos turned his head stupidly, and happened to meet the eyes of the headless animated armor.

“Can it move without a head?”

As Laos thought this, his eyes went dark.

All I could hear was Falin's crying and screaming.

Time returns to the present——

"Yes, something like this happened before." Laos closed his eyes and said to Malusil, "This sword is the spoils of war... and it was also exchanged for my life. In the past few years, I have been carrying it with me to remind myself of the horror of monsters."

"Horrible?" Chilchak rolled his eyes. "Horrible, you've eaten a lot too."

Laos blushed and coughed lightly, saying, "I had no choice but to do this. I actually have no interest in eating monsters or anything like that."

This is a lie——

However, others are too lazy to expose it.

"So that's how it is." Malushel nodded perfunctorily: "It was really hard for Falin to follow you in the past."

Laos: ???

Forget it.

There is nothing much to say to this long-eared man who has never seen the horror of active armor.

She doesn't understand my heart.
Laos looked at the sword without decorations and said with lingering fear: "After dying once, I feel terrified just by looking at the armor. To be honest, this should be considered a psychological trauma."

After a pause, he continued, "Since that accidental death, I went back to research a lot about active armor and read various documents. I found that all the books only recorded the habits of active armor, but not their smell."

Wait a moment.

These memories were clearly filled with sadness and tears before, how come they suddenly turned to taste?

You have a very strange psychological shadow.

Laos completely ignored the looks from Chilchak and Marusil, and asked curiously, "By the way, if it was Sensi, how would he deal with those armors?"

Senxi was stunned for a moment, then said as a matter of course: "You can't eat armor, it's made of iron."

Laos: ...

He thought that if it was the experienced (cooking monster) Senxi, he would give him a different answer.

Malushiel interjected, "Senxi is right. It is written in my magic academy textbook that the movable armor can move freely because of magic control. It is not a living thing, but a simple metal and magic creation."

Laos did not give up, and continued: "But as for the leather buttons..."

His expression was quite serious, and he gave a very unappetizing example: "I heard that leather shoes can be eaten after some preparation. Look, there are also some leather decorations on the movable armor, right? How about eating that?"

Senxi blinked his eyes and said, "Leather can be eaten, but the preparation process is difficult. Rather than slowly preparing the leather, it would be easier for us to eat the salt-baked meat in reserve or capture other monsters."

"Ah, that's true." Laos hung his head listlessly, the word "regret" almost overflowing from his body.

"About this..." Suddenly, Jon, who had been silent, seemed to have thought of something: "By chance, I did eat a movable armor once."

"what?"

For a moment, all eyes fell on Mr. Qiao. (End of this chapter)