The Cursed Ship

"Is it done?"

Zheng Yang stood beside the boat in a daze for a long time before realizing that he really succeeded.

According to the description in that travel book, the difficulty of building a spirit ship is not to mention how to obtain extremely rare scrolls, but the success rate is less than 10% when all the materials are ready.

It is difficult in the final transformation, and 90% of the failures are due to the collapse of the final magic circle activation and integration into the hull. The simpler the hull, the higher the success rate. Of course, no matter how simple it is, no one will dare to start the ceremony like Zheng Yang who puts together a few old ship planks to make a boat shape...

At this time, Zheng Yang could feel the connection between himself and the boat in front of him, as if the boat was an extension of his body, and he could clearly perceive everything about the boat.

Moreover, a transparent interface appeared in front of Zheng Yang's eyes, displaying the information of the spirit ship and a thumbnail model diagram, which could show the structure of any part according to Zheng Yang's thoughts.

System, is that you?

All kinds of signs prove that the boat has been successfully transformed into a spirit boat.

The most difficult transformation has been completed, and the hull is activated by the magic circle. Zheng Yang only needs to gradually transform it in the future to make it the big ship he wants.

"Xiao Zhengyang's father and mother didn't build the spirit ship by themselves, or maybe they were afraid of failure. After all, there is only one scroll! But it is used by me now, and I hope they will not blame me when we meet again in the future."

Zheng Yang exhaled a long breath and looked at the wound on his left palm, which had miraculously healed.

At this time, Zheng Yang didn't feel sleepy, so he lay down in the boat and began to study the information interface of the spirit boat.

"Basic Information:

Hull: first class spirit ship

Ship Spirit: Scaled Beetle (Larva)

Psionic Core: Moonlight Shell

Psionic Reserve: 30/100

Base speed: 2 knots

Attack Bonus: 5%

Defense Bonus: 5%

Power bonus: 5%

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Equipment information:

Main drive: manual paddle

Auxiliary drive: no

Figure of a ship: Scaled Demonic Beetle

Head skills: none

Remarks: Since the spirit ship uses rituals such as sacrifice, summoning, and bloody spirit sealing during transformation, it is tainted with ominousness and has a certain attraction to some evil things. When the spirit ship or the owner of the spirit ship gets close to these evil spirits, it will attract the covetousness of the evil spirits, even if the ship is destroyed, it cannot be avoided, so the spirit ship is also called the ship of curse. Suppress with relics. At the same time, the spirit ship will subtly affect and transform the owner's bloodline, so that it can obtain the bloodline of the witch. The higher the evolution level of the spirit ship, the stronger the power of the bloodline. The owner of the spirit ship can improve the ability to deal with evil by evolving the spirit ship, so the spirit ship is also called the evolution ship! "

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What the hell?

Zheng Yang was dumbfounded.

Ominous, evil, cursed...

Even if the spirit ship is smashed now, it cannot escape Xie Yi's thoughts!

Why are these not recorded in the travel notes?

Xiao Zhengyang's parents didn't build the spirit boat themselves, do they know this secret?

With the existence of the curse, Zheng Yang felt that the blood of the witch mentioned later was not so fragrant, although he still didn't know what the blood of the witch represented.

"Congratulations on the complete success of my first death attempt after time travel!"

After being in a daze for a long time, Zheng Yang finally choked out such a sentence.

Reluctantly, he couldn't help but shudder, got up and looked, and found a wooden statue of a black flying insect erected on the bow of the ship, with its wings spread, looking like it was struggling to fly.

This is the head portrait.

Originally, it was just a complete model made of old ship planks and wood, but it was also automatically perfected and optimized by the ceremony and magic circle. The joints of the planks were completely closed, the bow of the ship was slightly raised, the side of the ship was increased, and the body shape was smooth.

The self-optimization of the spirit boat has turned what was barely a boat-type but 100% flooded into a real boat.

Naturally.

In the center of the original magic circle, there is a fist-sized shell inlaid, which seems to grow naturally in the ship plank. Its color is bright white, echoing the moonlight.

It's a beautiful boat. In fact, if it wasn't for the information about the curse in the remarks that made Zheng Yang feel as if he had eaten a fly, he would still be very satisfied.

"Also, how do I recharge this psionic energy reserve? And I feel that this psionic energy can be called out, and it wasn't mentioned in the travel notes!"

Zheng Yang pondered blankly.

The travel notes focus on the construction method of the spirit ship, which can be described as extremely detailed. But there was very little other information, and Zheng Yang felt at a loss at this moment.

"Forget it, let's go to sleep first, and tomorrow we will continue to transform the spirit ship, and slowly explore if we don't know!"

Zheng Yang stepped out of the boat, meditated silently, and felt the boat pattern on the back of his hand become hot, and the spirit boat in front of him suddenly disappeared and was taken into a subspace. He didn't take a bath either. After tidying up and returning to the bedroom, he lay down on the bed and thought about it for a while, then fell into a deep sleep...

Outside the window, at an unknown time, a piece of darkness slowly blocked the moonlight, like a giant beast approaching quietly, engulfing Zheng Yang's yard.

Zheng Yang had a dream. In the dream, he was driving a huge spiritual ship across the sea, dominating one side...Suddenly the dream changed, and he appeared in an unfamiliar environment. His vision was hazy, shrouded in fog, and his visibility was poor to two meters.

This is... a dream?

Zheng Yang stood there silently, motionless. He began to believe that this was a dream, even though the dream was so real that he couldn't tell the real from the fake.

The surroundings are dead and silent, and there is a corrupt, eerie, and weird atmosphere lingering in the mist, which makes people subconsciously think of haunted houses, tombs, and other ominous places.

The feet shook slightly, and suddenly there was a sound of splashing water. Zheng Yang looked down and saw that he was standing on the ground paved with planks... No, this is the deck, and Zheng Yang realized that he was on the boat.

Is the transformation of the spirit ship successfully leading me into this ship-related dream? What is the significance and is there any danger?

Zheng Yang tried to walk around, but couldn't tell the direction for a while, he could only stare at his feet, and moved forward after taking a steady step.

After walking seven or eight steps, I still didn't see anything except the deck under my feet. However, there were footsteps coming from the front left.

Zheng Yang immediately stopped moving forward and stared at the front left. A strong rotten smell came first, like a stinky salted fish, and the next moment, I saw a strange fish with limbs, walking upright with a broken bone knife.

The image of this strange fish made Zheng Yang lose any desire to eat fish.

He had imagined a monster with a fish head and a human body, and he had also imagined a monster with a human head and a fish body, but he never imagined a complete fish, with hands growing from the two gills, legs growing from both sides of the fish tail, dragging the rotten fish. With a fish body, staring at two pale dead fish eyes, he walked like a human.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like a person is stuffed in the belly of a dead fish, and the body of the fish is exposed by the limbs.

But obviously not like that.

When the strange fish saw Zheng Yang, he raised his bone knife and slashed with a strange cry. His movements were quick, a bit faster than ordinary adults.

Zheng Yang's reaction was a bit slow, and he shifted his body after barely avoiding it, so that the bone knife that was originally slashing at the neck fell on his left shoulder.

"Fuck..."

The real severe pain made Zheng Yang furious. Regardless of his carelessness, he threw the dead fish monster to the ground, suppressed the fish monster's right hand holding the bone knife with his left arm, and swung his fist to hit the fish monster's head with all his might.

The fish's head was slippery, and Zheng Yang punched it a few times. Seeing that the fish monster didn't know how to attack with his hands, he just wanted to break free from his restraint. With a thought in his heart, he grabbed the bone knife and got up quickly, chopping at the place under the fish's head that he thought belonged to the neck with one knife after another.

The bone knife is too blunt, and each knife can only split an inch or so deep. The fish monster roared and tried to get up, but every time it was cut down by Zheng Yang again. After hacking dozens of knives desperately, Zheng Yang felt exhausted, the fish monster finally stopped moving.

The next moment, the body of the fish monster suddenly disappeared into ashes, and a little white light escaped from it and shot into Zheng Yang's body. Zheng Yang was startled, and then he found that there was a sudden memory in his mind, which was the experience of countless battles wielding bone knives.

When Zheng Yang's consciousness came into contact with these memories, it was like playing a movie, playing it over and over again. I don't know how many times it was played, and finally it turned into a straight knife style that was imprinted in Zheng Yang's mind, as if he had practiced countless times and formed an instinct.

I don't know how long the whole process has passed. When Zheng Yang regained his senses from the saber technique, he was still on the deck, surrounded by thick fog.

The wound on his left shoulder was still there, and waves of pain invaded Zheng Yang's consciousness like a tidal wave, making Zheng Yang feel a wave of fear in his heart. He shouldn't be touching that memory here, and he should be glad that no other monsters appeared during this time, otherwise he would definitely be cold this time, and he doesn't know what consequences it will bring to himself now.

Then Zheng Yang didn't move any more, and waited in the thick fog for more than ten minutes. The fog surged, and his consciousness sank. He opened his eyes and found that it was dawn, and his consciousness had returned to reality.

The first thing Zheng Yang did after waking up was to go to the courtyard and summon the spirit boat. I only felt that the boat pattern on the back of my left hand became hot, and the spirit boat reappeared in the yard.

"Psychic reserve is 10 points less?"

Seeing that the psionic energy reserve on the information interface had become 20/100, Zheng Yang checked it carefully, and found that the operation of putting the spirit ship into the subspace last night and summoning it just now had consumed the psionic energy.

This made Zheng Yang frowned. He hadn't figured out how to recharge, but instead consumed one-third of the reserve first.

After breakfast, Zheng Yang dug out the travel journal and searched carefully.

After searching for more than an hour, Zheng Yang suddenly jumped up. The travel notes did not clearly record how to recharge the spirit ship, but when describing a certain incident, it was written that the sails of the spirit ship were beating under the moonlight, as if the ship was breathing... Later, it was mentioned that the psionic energy reserve after dawn 20% recovered.

Isn't this just telling people indirectly that the moonlight can recharge your energy!

But why not solar energy?

Zheng Yang searched for a while until he finished all the pages, but he couldn't find any other useful information.

"Next, it's time for me to make the sails."

Making and installing the sails is what Zheng Yang plans to do in the next step, but the sails of this spiritual ship are quite special and cannot be simply replaced by ordinary sails. Zheng Yang needs to collect some materials and activate the sails with the magic circle of the spirit boat, so that the sails can be transformed into spirit sails, so as to play the role of charging.

Earlier, Zheng Yang thought that the spiritual sail was used to drive the spiritual boat, but now it seems that it has another magical function.

Originally, Zheng Yang was still a little brooding about the curse of the spirit boat, but now that things could not be changed, Zheng Yang's bachelor character also came out.

People who have died once, what else is there to be afraid of? He decided to continue perfecting the spirit ship. Besides, there is still the blood of the witch, maybe the situation will not be so bad.

It's really not possible, at worst, find some holy objects to suppress the curse in the future, he thought so.

"300 grams of mercury, 500 grams of fresh juice from the roots of the luminous vine, and 2 silk-spinning sacs of the starback tarantula...other materials are fine, but the most troublesome thing is the silk-spinning sac of the starback tarantula."

A large bottle of mercury was used as the material for transforming the spirit ship. Considering that this item is not easy to buy and it must be available in a port city, Zheng Yang deliberately bought more when he asked a client to help him buy it last time. But he almost spent all the money left by Xiao Zhengyang's parents before asking someone to buy it back.

As for the luminous vines, there are them on the small island.

The most troublesome thing is the starback tarantula. Zheng Yang has already inquired about it before, and he has to go to another small island more than 20 nautical miles away to find it.

Zheng Yang was skeptical about whether he could successfully manufacture the spirit ship, so he didn't prepare for it. Now that the hull has been successfully transformed into a spirit ship, the most difficult step has been completed, and it is necessary to go to sea.

"However, it is possible to install and activate the keel, scull and mast first, and get a spinnaker to install it. Even if it cannot be activated into a spirit sail temporarily, it can still provide regular power for the spirit ship! When you have money, you can also Install the engine."

As soon as he thought of it, Zheng Yang found a few strong pieces of wood, and simply added a dragon skeleton in the shape of "Feng" to the spirit boat. Install a scull to control the direction.

After completing these tasks, Zheng Yang activated the information interface of the spirit ship, and meditated to command the magic circle on the spirit ship to receive and cover the newly installed dragon skeleton and mast. In the next moment, the silver light of the magic circle spread, and the newly added structure slowly merged into the spirit ship, becoming a solid whole, inseparable.

"Psychic energy consumed again... 0/100!"

The spiritual energy reserve was exhausted, and the activation of the keel and mast was barely completed. A strong sense of hunger passed from the spirit boat to Zheng Yang, and he couldn't help but shivered violently.

Damn, this spirit boat wants to eat!

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