Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 90 The Death Song in the Fog (4)
Third, the leader finally asked the young master to pay attention to the weather, and especially to the signs that the fog was getting thicker.This sentence made Xu Mizi realize that they poisoned these unfortunate innocent passengers in order to wait for a heavy fog.Why?Why is there fog?

Suddenly, a long-standing legend flashed in Xumizi's mind, which he had overheard when traveling to and from this strait.It is said that in the waters of the Huoling Strait, there has always been a ghost ship, which always appears in foggy weather, kidnaps fishermen and sailors trapped in the fog, and leaves an empty ship.It is also said that people taken captive by the ghost ship will sign a contract with the devil, and become the devil's lifelong slaves from then on, immortal and driven forever.

Xu Mizi, a villain who treats ghosts and gods as nothing, will naturally not believe in such absurd and foolish legends, but right now, he has a flash of inspiration, faintly thinking of some truths that may be hidden behind this legend.Of course, there are still many details that are unclear for the time being, and he has to continue pretending to be a dead body until the truth slowly emerges bit by bit from under the sea of ​​fog.

He continued to close his eyes and pretended to be dead. Of course, no one actually came to check the corpse for a second time, so even if he stood up and moved around, it didn't matter.But he waited patiently.About half a time later, he heard the young master say: "The fog has obviously deepened, and now the visibility is much lower than before, and it is almost impossible to see anything clearly."

"Very well, listen carefully, when you hear certain noises, the person we were waiting for will appear." The leader replied.

Abnormal sound?Xu Mizi was pondering over this word, suddenly, his ears keenly caught a strange sound, a piercing sound as if something was trembling.At that moment, he understood what it was, because he couldn't be more familiar with this sound. Whenever a corpse dancer encountered a strong enemy and needed to exert the greatest strength to defeat the enemy, their throat would make a sound. Such a voice.

Death song!This is the death song that corpse dancers use to boost their power!The mysterious visitor in the thick fog that the group was waiting for turned out to be a corpse dancer.

This is so funny, Sumiko thought, a corpse dancer is playing dead, waiting for another corpse dancer to call.Just when he was excitedly thinking about pretending to be dead and going to find out, he suddenly felt a burst of unbelievable spiritual power.

It was that the other party was using the corpse dance technique, but in Xu Mizi's life, he had never encountered such a powerful corpse dance technique. This power surpassed him, which made him, who had always been proud, unbelievable.But what happened next proved that his feeling was not an illusion: the two newly captured corpses he brought with him climbed up from the floor and began to walk towards the door. At the same time, he could hear the whole There was the sound of doors opening and footsteps of the dead in a boat.These people who had just been poisoned to death heard some kind of silent call at this moment, and came to gather on the deck one after another.

"His boat appeared!" Although the Eldest Young Master had been calm until now, he couldn't help but tremble a little at this moment. He didn't know whether it was because of the boat or those terrifying walking corpses.

"After a while, he will throw a heavy rope over, you don't need to worry about it, those walking corpses will pull the rope by themselves to make the two boats close together, and then the walking corpses will also do the work of building the board." The leader said.

Naturally, all these conversations fell into Xu Mizi's ears.Judging from the dialogue, these corpses have begun to act in unison, and will soon be divided into different categories to complete different tasks in order to make the two ships close together and get on the board.What is the purpose of building a board?Xu Mizi has already obtained the answer from the past legends: these walking corpses will walk to the ghost ship in the fog through the board, and complete a big transfer.As for the people of that family, it is estimated that there will be other ways to escape, and in the end there will be an empty ship on the sea.

So, here's the truth about that ghost ship legend.The owner of the ghost ship is a corpse dancer. He uses the cover of dense fog to kill all the boat passengers trapped in the fog, and then uses corpse dance to take them away.As for the ways in which these people were killed, there may be many ways, but now Sumizi has at least known one of them, that is to use the power of that family to poison the passengers of a passenger ship at sea.

As for the thick fog that must be accompanied by the appearance of the ghost ship, it may be specially created by secret techniques. Under the cover of the thick fog, they couldn't see clearly what happened in the fog.

Of course, this is only to uncover the appearance of the ghost ship, and there are many deeper questions hidden behind the appearance: who is this corpse dancer?Why are so many corpses taken from the sea?What is he doing with these walking corpses?Who is the family that cooperates with him?Why are they doing this?
But now Sumizi can't take care of these problems anymore, there is another thing that makes him more difficult to let go.He roughly estimated that, excluding the people from that family, there were still about a hundred passengers on this boat. After all of them were poisoned to death, that would be about a hundred corpses. Now, the corpse dancer who appeared in the fog used The corpse dance technique manipulated these hundred walking corpses at once.

Manipulating the number of walking corpses has always been an important part of the competition among corpse dancers.An average corpse dancer can control a dozen or so corpse servants in a battle, which is pretty good. A few master corpse dancers in this era can only control more than 20.But Xumizi is very talented, and he has developed a unique trick by himself. He can control more than fifty corpse servants at the same time, leaving other companions far behind.He estimated that if he did his best, with the improvement of Death Song, he could drive more than 60 to [-] walking corpses, but if there were more, I'm afraid it would not be enough.

But right now, the owner of the ghost ship in the dense fog can actually manipulate hundreds of walking corpses at the same time, Xu Mizi felt that he was being slapped in the face with a slap, and it was slapping.He has always regarded himself as "the greatest corpse dancer in history", but at this moment he is unwilling to believe the facts around him, but he seems to have to believe it.

He also had another guess, that is, the hundreds of walking corpses were not manipulated by the same person, but several people cooperated, which can also be explained theoretically.But the death song he heard was clearly only one person, not to mention, the average corpse dancer does not like to cooperate with two or more people.

Regardless of whether it is one person or two people, Xu Mizi can draw a conclusion that if he fights against such an enemy, the outcome is really unpredictable.And if you add those helpers on the ship, it will be difficult to please, not to mention that you don't have the most powerful corpse servant with you, which can be said to be a great loss of strength.Although Xumizi was arrogant, he was never confused, and he never made fun of his own life. When he judged the situation, he immediately made a decision: the two walking corpses just snatched from Ningzhou were not wanted, and the enemy used the dead bodies to use them. Dance away, and he quickly hid in the corner of the cabin, and restrained his mental power to ensure that he would not be discovered.

The owner of the ghost ship and his helpers obviously didn't expect that there would be a person on board who hadn't been poisoned, so they didn't check again.The ghost ship quickly carried away all the walking corpses, and after the fog cleared, another ship came here to pick up the family members, and the sea returned to calm, as if nothing had happened, only This passenger ship and the only survivor on the passenger ship - Xu Mizi.

"That is to say, it is very likely that it is a corpse dancer stronger than you?" Feng Yiming was a little excited.

"That's just a possibility... What are you doing so happily?" Xu Mizi snorted.

"I'm very happy to see your old man's eyes growing in the sky all day long, and occasionally to see you stumble." Feng Yiming said honestly.

Xumizi snorted again, but Feng Yiming seemed to have endless questions: "Then did you find out what happened to that family and that corpse dancer afterward?"

Xu Mizi shook his head: "No. There are as many aristocratic families in the world, and such an event can only be encountered by chance. If you search for it deliberately, it may not be useful to swim in that sea area for a lifetime."

"That's true," Feng Yiming regretted, "I really want to find out what's going on. I'm especially interested in that young master. I always feel...he looks a bit like me."

"So you can also understand why I accepted you as an apprentice so readily," Xumizi said, "because I see the shadow of that young master in you. I want to cultivate a talent not inferior to him. If he lived to this day, he should be in his 30s, and he should be a person who can stand on his own."

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"Young Master Yuwen killed the entire ship and gave them to the corpse dancer who sang the death song as corpse servants."

"The death song we heard was the sound of the corpse dancer's own corpse dance when he manipulated the people on the ship."

After Xue Huaiqing said these words, An Xingmian began to realize the seriousness of the matter.He and Xue Huaiqing knew about Mr. Yuwen's ambitions and methods long ago, but it was difficult for others to know, because this is a person who is very good at hiding his true colors.But now, Mr. Yuwen came to the sea in person to give gifts to this corpse dancer in person, which undoubtedly took a very big risk.The reason why he was willing to take the risk to do this is that on the one hand, he met An Xue and the two in person, and on the other hand, it also shows that the identity of this corpse dancer, or the things behind him are very important. It's important, it's so important that Mr. Yuwen can't rest assured that others will do it for him, instead of doing it himself.

"Have you ever heard of such a famous corpse dancer?" An Xingmian asked Xue Huaiqing.

Xue Huaiqing shook her head: "I told you about the famous corpse dancers I know at the last corpse dancer meeting. After all, I have very little contact with these fellows, so it's normal not to know. We can ask Brother pirates, they have been in this sea area for many years...what's the matter with you?"

An Xingmian followed her gaze to Boss Feng beside her, and found that Boss Feng's face was pale, his teeth were clenched, and his hands were trembling slightly.Although he spent a short time with Boss Feng, he also knew that this pirate was brave and bold, and he was fearless, but now, he showed a frightened expression, which was quite unusual.When he was subdued by Xue Huaiqing's corpse servant before, he did not show the slightest fear.

"What's the matter with you?" An Xingmian couldn't help asking.

"I know what that ship is," Boss Feng's voice trembled a little, "that legend is actually true!"

"What legend?" An Xingmian and Xue Huaiqing asked in unison.

(End of this chapter)