President Shen Always Top Up Money

Win without fighting*1

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After communicating with the crew member named Schmidt, Wu Fei and the others finally figured out what's going on now—

The port they are in is called Silvermoon Port, which is one of the most prosperous ports in the area, and there is a well-loved old captain in the area named Laoke.

?A month ago, he took his own fleet out to sea as usual, but never came back—but this is also normal in the sea, and people don't pay much attention to it.

However, three days ago, on a foggy morning, through the heavy fog, people saw a black figure approaching the pier. After getting closer, some people recognized that it was the "Archer" belonging to Captain Laoke. ", but at this moment it seems to be lost in the fog.

People sent signals to the Archer, but got no response. Three or four people volunteered to take two small boats to lead the way for the Archer, but when they got near the Archer, they found that there was no one on board.

So a small boat came back to ask for help, but because of the heavy fog that day, many people did not go to sea. They only brought a medium-sized boat and two other small boats back to help from the pier.

Those people failed to bring the Archer back in the end. They boarded the ship to check and confirmed that there was no one on it, and brought back to the captain's cabin, Captain Lauker's diary and his gold pocket watch.

And after they disembarked, under the action of wind and current, the Archer disappeared again in the thick fog at a speed that they had no time to stop.

According to eyewitnesses who boarded the ship that day, everything on the ship was intact, and valuables were there, as if they had encountered pirates; even the water in the kettle was still hot, as if the water had just been boiled. People disappeared in an instant, and ships suddenly appeared in the port and disappeared suddenly.

Wu Fei understood that this was a typical ghost ship incident, and the only clues were the gold watch and diary taken off the ship by witnesses.

He and Yuan Sanpang are the captain and deputy captain of the "Xinghuo". When they came to the "Treasure Land", they were all determined to find this place before everyone else, to solve the mystery of the ghost ship, to rescue Captain Lauk, and to get the treasure.

This is the identity automatically assigned to them on this floor, and the crew member Schmidt is similar to the guide NPC assigned to them.

Wu Fei asked for the carbon copy of Schmidt's Captain Lauker's diary. Just as he was about to read it, he heard Schmidt say: "Captain, let's set off quickly, or we will fall behind!" The 'Archer' set off on the day it disappeared again, and the '555' is also ready to set sail, we must not fall behind them!"

"Is there anyone else competing with us?" Yuan Sanpang said.

"Yes." Schmidt said, "There are currently three fleets participating in the competition. I don't know if there will be other fleets joining in the future."

At this moment, Wu Fei heard the system prompt:

"Attention, on this floor, you have encountered other challenger teams. The identities you play on this floor and the tasks you face are the same, but only the team that completes the task first can choose to stay or continue to move forward."

"Other teams will be judged as failed, and will be randomly dropped to the floors below, and will be temporarily ineligible for customs clearance rewards before reaching this floor or a higher floor again."

"You can also choose to give up now. After you give up, you will be directly judged as a failure."

Wu Fei said to Yuan Sanpang: "There are 30,000 floors in the ancient tomb. According to the previous rising law, we should be around 10,000 floors now. From here, it is not surprising to meet other teams."

As soon as he finished speaking, another team, the ship "555" appeared in their field of vision.

There are seven crew members on board Wu Fei and the others, except for the crew members, they are all members of the team, so the people of the two teams just looked at each other on the sea like this—

Over there at No. 555: Challenger A, Challenger B, Challenger C, partner Xiaoluxian, partner two fish, partner three boys, partner four beautiful women, partner five middle-aged men.

On Wu Fei's side: Wu Fei, Yuan Sanpang, Assassin Yuan Lao, Fox Demon Xiaohong, Shen Economist, the looming Shen Lich, Shen Jianxiu who is invisible, with a layer of golden light all over his body, on the boat The thousand-year-old tortoise treading on the water next to it, the sunken pilot resting on the mast of the ship revealed its original form, and the Shen Cansaurus, who was originally submerged in the water, revealed a head half the size of the boat.

The front is still normal, but the more you look at the back, it's a bit outrageous in terms of shape.

The mosasaur moved slightly, revealing its huge body hidden under the water, its tail slapped the water, and the boat next door almost capsized.

The captain of No. 555 couldn't help shouting to them: "Brothers over there, how can you have so many partners?"

Wu Fei said, "Just upgrade."

The captain of No. 555: "...This must be at least level 8 or 9, right?"

Wu Fei: "Yes."

Captain No. 555 was shocked: "Where did you get so many points?"

Wu Fei: "Why can't there be so many points?"

Captain No. 555: "There is only a basic reward of 50 points for clearing each of the first two levels. Even if you perform well in the level and get some extra rewards, the average team has the most 150 points, right? We used 52 points to upgrade to level 5, I see that you need 40 points to upgrade to level 6, so I'm not willing to continue to upgrade, so I have to save some points for backup. Are you using all the points?"

Wu Fei said modestly, "Almost."

In fact, they only have 125 points left now, and he really feels stretched.

But according to the captain in front of him, in his opinion, it is considered as much for an ordinary team to get 150 points. There is a high probability that they don't have 150 points in total, so they are not willing to spend another 40 points to upgrade to level 6.

However, in fact, even if all 150 points are used, it is only enough to be promoted to level 7.

The captain on the opposite side obviously thought of this too, and he scanned all the people on and off Wu Fei's boat and non-human beings. He didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly waved his hand and said, "Let's not waste time, let's fight for it." Call back sooner and say goodbye."

Immediately their ship disappeared in the sea.

The system prompts: "The challenger team '555' voluntarily gave up the challenge of this floor, and the challenge failed."

Yuan Sanpang: "So this is what it feels like to be defeated without fighting!"

Whether it was the non-human companions on or off the ship, or the ship that suddenly disappeared in front of them, the crew members on the Starfire didn't show any surprise, as if they didn't see it.

Only Schmidt excitedly said to them: "Captain, No. 555 has withdrawn from the competition, let's hurry up and go after the Flying Fish! The treasure must belong to us."

"Do you know where that place is?" Yuan Sanpang asked.

"I don't know." Schmidt said, "But Captain Lauke's diary mentioned that they arrived at the Golden Islands on the tenth day of sailing, so we must be heading in the direction of the Golden Islands. We can study there."

Yuan Sanpang nodded: "Okay, let's go like this."

The Starfire sets sail.

When the mosasaur was in the water, it would make sailing inconvenient, so the mosasaur jumped out of the water, turned into a black dragon, and flew high above the sailboat.

In order to save space, Yinlong turned into a human and stood on the deck.

Wu Fei somewhat understood the meaning expressed in the description of the dinosaur's identity - among all Shen Xing's identities, only the two identities of cat and dinosaur had no human form at all. He found that if his Xingshen appeared in the form of a cursed black cat Sometimes, the behavior will be more human-like, but at the beginning of this level, when he appeared as a real "cat", sometimes he would even lick his paws, but he stopped licking immediately after he found out, as if he couldn't control himself so much nature.

The sailboat sailed quietly in the sea, and the waves heaved silently. Both Wu Fei and Yuan Sanpang were a little seasick. Yuan Sanpang quickly replaced him with the genius doctor Yuan Lao. Both of them felt slightly better after taking the seasickness medicine prepared by Yuan Lao.

Wu Fei opened the diary of Captain Laoke. Everything was normal for the first ten days. The diary only recorded where they arrived, what the weather was like, what happened on the ship, etc. On the tenth day they arrived at the Golden Islands and the crew Get off the boat and go to the island to pick some fruits.

However, on the night of the tenth day, they encountered a hurricane. In order to avoid the hurricane in the dark night, the "Archer" deviated from the course.

After dawn on the eleventh day, they found themselves in a sea they had never set foot in. The sea water here is extremely clear, like transparent stained glass.

However, Captain Cook did not order the Archer to return to the correct route, but wrote in his diary:

"...I decided to go down this new route. I believe this is a gift from God to me, and I can't bear to let me return without success again. This may be an opportunity for me to complete the task."

Wu Fei noticed a word that hadn't appeared before, "task".

Yuan Sanpang, who was bored on the boat, was chatting with Schmidt—

Yuan Sanpang: "You said that I grew up listening to the sailing stories of Captain Laoke. How old is Captain Laoke?"

Schmidt: "The captain is almost sixty-seven years old this year."

Yuan Sanpang: "Aren't you going to retire at this age?"

Schmidt: "Well...Actually, Captain Laoke hasn't gone to sea since seven or eight years ago. This time, I don't know why he suddenly formed a fleet to go to sea. But some people said that they saw that some time ago, there were often kings coming to sea. people go to his house to visit."

"Someone from the capital?"

"Well, that's normal. After all, Captain Laoke worked for the king when he was young. Now that the king is old, it makes sense to send someone to visit his old friend."

Wu Fei noticed their conversation and silently remembered the information in his heart.

He then tugged on the Lich's sleeve—because the Lich was closest to him. Wu Fei gradually discovered a pattern, the identity closest to him is the identity that he is controlling by Xingshen.

It is normal for Shen Xing to choose the Lich as the master control now, after all the Lich has the ability to master water magic and can sense the potential danger in the sea in real time.

The Lich turned his face away, and the hood on his robe slipped down slightly, revealing his pale and handsome face.

"What's wrong?" His voice sounded a little hoarse, which seemed to be the reason why he didn't speak for a long time.

"Brother Xing, I'm thinking that we are walking too slowly. I'm afraid we will waste too much time in this level. Is there any way to make us go faster?"

"Yes." The lich said lightly.

Wu Fei looked at him expectantly: "What should I do?"

But at this moment, the dark magister bent down, stretched out a pale hand from the black sleeve of his robe, and pressed Wu Fei's lips with his left thumb:

"Then what do you exchange for?"

"...Exchanging with me, a monster who has been resurrected from the dead, the method of sailing fast."

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