Mystery: Lucky One

Alice's straightforward and decisive act of asking for help stunned Leo Master next to her. Only the footsteps of the "Black Saint" outside were still clear, as if they were not affected at all.

But all this had nothing to do with Alice. Leomaster, the giant white snake, along with the entire storage room, shattered amid Alice's screams.

——She “woke up”.

After being stunned for a few seconds, Alice tried to observe her surroundings and determine where she was.

Alice found her curled up under the huge rock upon which she had leaned when she fell asleep.

Alice climbed to the top of the boulder. The familiar city still stood in the distant dusk like a landmark.

Just now...what happened?
Alice could only think about whether to sleep again and try to figure out the situation when the light of day suddenly illuminated her dreams and the night ended.

Alice opened her eyes and found that it was noon again. She sighed inexplicably and murmured softly:
"This place really looks like an abandoned game copy. There are only two times: noon and night..."

Alice walked out of the room and onto the deck. After looking around, she discovered that Klein was not on the deck.

Eh……?
Wasn't he afraid of missing the mermaid, so he ran out as soon as he woke up...

Alice frowned and was about to turn around to see what Klein was doing, but she accidentally glanced at Frank Lee out of the corner of her eye.

Frank Lee was squatting on the deck, his expression shocked and confused. Alice looked back in the direction of the cabin and decided without hesitation to look for Klein later.

"What happened?" Alice walked over and squatted in front of Frank, trying her best to suppress the curiosity in her tone and make herself look a little worried.

Alice wasn't sure how well she was hiding it, because Frank Lee obviously didn't care about it. He shook his head with a dull look in his eyes.
“Didn’t I tell you about those little things?

"They originally needed to rest for a while before they could grow and reproduce, but..."

"What's the result?" Alice asked curiously.

Anderson, the "strongest hunter" who was bragging to the pirates around him about how many pirates he had hunted, slowly stopped talking and moved a little closer to Alice.

Frank, who was squatting, looked up and said:
“They just completed a large-scale reproduction and also mutated.

"This, this is simply a miracle!"

This finally made Alice realize that Frank was not sad. He was even a little excited, as if he was stunned by the huge surprise.

After a brief moment of daze, Alice remembered Klein's reaction every time she was happy, and gradually began to understand Klein's feelings.

"Ah?" Alice looked around blankly, and after making sure that no one had white spots on their clothes, she turned back and asked, "What... have they transformed into?"

Frank took two seconds to process the question and rolled up his sleeves, revealing his hairy arms.

Alice looked at him knocking on the deck in front of him and said with a puzzled smile:

"They got in here, and they seem to be transforming the 'Future'..."

...?
Alice showed a slightly frightened expression.

Before she had time to imagine the horrifying scene of milk spilling out of the Future, this scene appeared in reality. Amidst dull knocking sounds, a milky white fountain resembling milk suddenly gushed out on the deck, splashing all over Frank Lee's head and face.

Alice's eyes widened.

Frank Lee was unaware of this. He licked the liquid at the corner of his mouth and said in surprise:
"'Future', 'Future' is producing milk!"

This, this isn't something I should be happy about, right...?
Alice made a judgment based on her weak common sense. She looked hesitantly at the milk stains on Frank's face. The tempting milk scent drifted into her nose. She licked her lips and forced herself to turn her head to see the rest of the ship.

The pirates on the side of the ship were pointing at the artillery positions below in horror:

"The muzzle, the muzzle is spitting out milk!"

This, this is not scientific, but it is very... This is not mysticism, right? !
This matter was completely beyond Alice's understanding. She stared at the scene with dull eyes. At this time, Klein rushed out of the cabin holding a few pages of paper, and his face was splashed with milk from the muzzle.

Alice noticed with her sharp eyes that he licked his lips with a dull expression, and a circle of milky white liquid entered his mouth.

I don’t know what it tastes like…

Anderson was also stunned. He completely forgot to ask questions and even stomped his feet, causing another stream of milk to gushed out from the deck of the "Future" like a fountain.

Alice stared at the fountain for a moment, then stamped her feet in imitation of the fountain, and a fountain of water splashed up beside her.

Having successfully achieved her goal, Alice reached out to catch a handful of milk, lowered her head and took a tentative lick.

As freshly-baked "ship milk", this milk is of course different from the milk that has gone through a series of processes before being drunk, and it has a fishy smell that is unfamiliar to Alice.

But in any case, the rich milky flavor confirms the ability of the "Future", it really makes real "ship milk"!
Alice raised her head with a dull look and looked at Frank Lee beside her. Just as she was about to say something, she saw a figure jumped out from somewhere and kicked Frank Lee on the butt.

Frank Lee was kicked and fell several times, creating puddles of milk on the "Future". Alice couldn't bear it and looked away at the owner of the kick.

That was Nina in a linen shirt and a dark blue jacket.

She glared at Frank Lee, who was lying on the deck, and cursed with rapid breathing:
"Hurry up and get rid of those damn little things of yours!
"You think my breasts aren't big enough?"

Alice's hesitant eyes fell on Nina's chest.

"Okay, alright." Frank Lee patted his butt and said quickly.

At the same time, Alice saw Klein take out a spell and whispered in ancient Hermetic:

"storm!"

The blue-green flame enveloped the tin talisman, and a strong wind instantly arose, swirling around Klein's feet and around him, carrying him off the deck and flying to a height of four or five meters.

Although she didn't understand the current situation, Alice decided to trust this experienced adventurer and she came into the air silently.

Anderson was stunned at first, then he stretched out his hand to grab someone and lift him into the air, but German Sparrow was too far away from him. Anderson glanced at Alice and withdrew his hand.

This ordinary handsome Mr. Hunter looked at Frank Lee with a smile on his face, and seemed to be very friendly to the first mate of the "Future".

At this time, Frank had taken out a bottle of dark green powder, grabbed a handful, and sprinkled them around while reciting a giant language spell.

As soon as the powder touched the deck, green vines immediately grew out of it. The vines grew wildly, quickly absorbing the milk and those "little things", and entwined the entire deck and the entire cabin.

In just ten seconds, the "Future" turned into a forest of vines. "Huh, solved." Frank smiled at Nina, then his face suddenly changed and said, "They, they have also changed!"

what?
Alice vaguely sensed that something was wrong. She looked at Klein sharply, then remembered that Klein knew no more about this place than she did. She tried to search for Cattleya's figure below.

At this time, a pirate staggered over and shouted in fear:

"I, I have a watermelon growing on my head!"

Alice looked in the direction of the sound and discovered that green vines were growing out of the pirate's head, one of which had a watermelon that seemed to be almost ripe.

Is this... edible?

Alice looked at the watermelon hesitantly and began to wonder whether she should pick it and give it a try.

"Is this what they call a mutation? This is crazy, damn crazy!" Anderson exclaimed.

Yeah, compared to the mild and harmless fate, the extraordinary ability of the "cultivator" path is really crazy...

Alice nodded in agreement.

Anderson didn't know Alice's comments on the "Destiny" path. He seemed to have realized something, his eyes turned slightly, and he spoke in a deep voice:
"There's something wrong with the ocean around here!"

Alice turned to Klein, and Klein nodded at her seriously.

Oh, so that watermelon may not be edible... Alice looked at the pirate with the watermelon on his head with pity.

It's sizzling!

Vines were torn apart one by one, and the windows of the captain's cabin opened.

"Admiral of the Stars" Cattleya appeared there and shouted with a voice amplified by witchcraft:
“Frank, stop trying.

"Perhaps the breath of Mother Earth remains here."

Mother Earth? Alice was slightly stunned and looked at the land.

What is known is that there should be the realm of night, the realm of storm, the realm of the sun, and there is suspected to be the realm of destiny. Now there is also the Mother Earth...

Alice began to wonder if she could go back and ask the goddess.

"Oh, kind mother." Frank crossed his arms as if he was holding a baby, then he lay down and kissed the vines devoutly.

What is he doing... praying?

Alice looked at Frank Lee's actions in surprise, then turned her attention to Cattleya.

"Admiral of the Stars" Cattleya watched this scene silently, and bright starlight instantly surrounded her, making the entire "Future" glow.

Great...Alice resisted the urge to applaud.

Cattleya bent her fingers and flicked them lightly, causing a ball of colorless flame to fall on the vines beside the window of the captain's room.

The vines were immediately ignited and turned into ashes silently.

The colorless flames spread quietly and raged without harming a single sailor, and the bright light from the Future helped it successfully resist the burning.

Friendly mark...?
Alice glanced hesitantly at the bright light on the Future and thought she might need one of these.

It didn't take long before the entire vine forest disappeared, leaving only the watermelon growing on the pirate's head. Of course, the connecting vines had also burned out.

"Huh, this, this is simply the arrival of the devil!" The pirate took two steps forward and picked up the watermelon growing on his head.

Alice looked at the watermelon curiously, and the scene after the watermelon was opened appeared in front of her. Alice saw the milky white "brain" full of grooves inside, and the bright red liquid flowing out.

"Don't open it!" Alice's scream and Cattleya's reminder sounded together.

They were half a step too late. The pirate, half out of anger and half out of curiosity, used brute force to break the watermelon open. The watermelon split into two halves, and the scene in the prophecy appeared before Alice's eyes.

Is there still hope…?
This question was soon answered. With a thud, the pirate died instantly. There was no chance of rescue. His extraordinary characteristics began to condense at an extraordinary speed.

From this perspective, our "destiny" path is better. At least a watermelon won't grow on your head, and inside the watermelon there will be...wait, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Alice suddenly realized that although the power of the Destiny Realm could not directly make watermelons grow on people's heads, it could allow people to come into contact with the power that could make watermelons grow on their heads.

She lowered her head silently, feeling the pot calling the kettle black.

At this moment, Alice saw a huge hand suddenly emerge from below the sea level and slap the side of the "Future".

The five fingers of this hand are extremely long, nearly half a meter, and the whole hand is gray-black like the Huangqiang Plain.

A huge gray-black hand grabbed the side of the boat and climbed up quickly, pulling out the part below the sea surface inch by inch.

Alice blinked her eyes, and a silver-white river shadow suddenly appeared, spreading inch by inch, and finally connected end to end, encircling the monster that had just emerged from the sea.

Under the astonished gaze of everyone, it crawled back to the surface of the sea intact at an unimaginable speed.

The monster didn't seem to react to the current situation, or perhaps it didn't know what was happening. It stretched out its claws again to grab the "Future" and tried to climb up. Then when it reached the previous height, it retreated intact.

...?
Klein and Cattleya turned their heads to look at Alice. A few seconds later, Anderson and the other pirates also looked at Alice.

Alice looked at them doubtfully and couldn't help but remind them:

"If you don't want to see large-scale damage such as storms, pollution explosions, meteorites, etc. that don't distinguish between friend and foe, I probably don't have the ability to attack directly.

"Or, 'Admiral of Hell' Ludwig should be nearby... I saw the possibility of him coming over in the future scene."

Frank Lee was the first to react. He was about to take out the materials from the secret compartment of his belt without hesitation and use the corresponding extraordinary ability. Unexpectedly, the voice of "Admiral of the Stars" Cattleya sounded in his ears first:

“Frank, stop!
"Go help Nina command the sailors and help them adjust the sails!"

"Why?" Frank Lee asked subconsciously.

He was so slow to react, even I could see that... Ellie, who had overheard Anderson's guess, didn't feel guilty at all. (End of this chapter)