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Chapter 1402 - Chapter 1402 Chapter 1404 Ghost Ship

Chapter 1402: Chapter 1404 Ghost Ship Chapter 1402: Chapter 1404 Ghost Ship “The long-anticipated Doomsday Cruise Journey is about to commence, travelers, exert all your strength and survive!” Skeleton Captain Swo laughed as he drew the matchlock gun from his waist and pulled the trigger towards the sky.

“Bang!”

A burst of flame shot out from the muzzle, and the previously calm sea surface suddenly boiled over, as pale skeletal hands emerged, clutching fiercely onto the iron giant ship’s hull and slowly crawling towards the deck.

In no time at all, the giant ship’s hull was teeming with skeletons in tattered clothing, their eye sockets burning with a dark red flame, looking as if demons from Hell had been revived, returning to the human world.

Song Jian narrowed his eyes, staring at the skeletons that had climbed onto the deck, observing their rags, he thought to himself, “These must be the crew of this giant ship…”

“Hahaha, welcome back, my children, you can join your old man Swo again on a journey through time and space, embarking on a grand voyage!” Skeleton Captain Swo laughed heartily, sliding his matchlock gun back into his waist and opening his arms to welcome the skeleton crew members climbing onto the deck.

In a short while, three to four hundred skeleton crew members had climbed aboard, standing behind Captain Swo, patting each other’s shoulders, seemingly excited.

“Old man Swo, how come you’ve turned Hard Bone into this state, all cold and stiff, it’s simply in poor taste!” a skeleton crew member holding a scimitar, with bones significantly thicker than the others, complained from behind Captain Swo.

“Hahaha, this is just a simple disguise, otherwise, how could we have attracted so many travelers aboard!” Captain Swo laughed heartily and boasted, “Hard Bone might be our favorite, but I was afraid of scaring these lovely travelers! What if they saw Hard Bone and didn’t dare to come aboard?”

“Haha, Captain, you really are a sly devil. This time we have far many more travelers aboard than the last, and this time, we’ll have many more companions joining us…” A skeleton crew member waved his scimitar as he shouted loudly.

Captain Swo’s head violently twisted a hundred and eighty degrees, his eye sockets burning with a crimson flame as he glared intently at the skeleton crew member who had just spoken. He promptly drew his matchlock gun and pulled the trigger at its head.

“Bang!”

A shower of sparks burst from the muzzle, and the head of the talking skeleton crew member exploded, with bone fragments flying everywhere. Its body “clattered” to the deck in pieces.

However, quickly, the scattered bones, including the shattered pieces of the skull, were manipulated by some mysterious force to reassemble, reforming the former skeleton crew member. Yet, the newly rejuvenated skeleton crew member looked somewhat deflated, even the dark red flame in its eye sockets had shrunk in size!

“Shut your damned mouths and don’t frighten our lovely travelers!” Captain Swo roared at them.

Wuu wuu wuu~

At that moment, the giant steel ship’s steam whistle blared violently, and Captain Swo laughed heartily, drew his scimitar and swung it forward as he shouted, “Hard Bone, set sail for the distant seas, we are departing!”

With Captain Swo’s command, the entire steel giant ship began to slowly emit wisps of black smoke, growing larger and more intense, until it enveloped the entire ship.

Everyone was enveloped in the fog, unable to see their own hands in front of their faces, and some couldn’t help but let out a cry of alarm, which quickly faded into silence.

Song Jian could feel that the deck beneath him seemed to be slowly moving, as if he were standing on the back of a giant beast, registering the tremble of its muscles and the flow of blood in its veins–an eerily strange sensation that sent shivers down his spine.

But soon, the surrounding black fog dissipated, revealing that the once massive steel vessel had completely transformed into a ghost ship constructed of large and small white skeletons.

From the front, the whole ship resembled a supine skeleton, its jaw wide open with a sinister grin, and the previously smooth and orderly deck had become a rough lattice of interlocking bones, riddled with gaps as wide as the spaces between fingers. Through these gaps, Song Jian could even see the undulating seawater below.

Whoosh–

Five irregular masts of varying heights, each dozens of feet tall, suddenly unfurled black sails that, like black flames, flapped loudly in the sea breeze. The wind carried off black wisps from the sails toward the stern, where they slowly vanished from sight.

“Set sail! Hahaha, dear passengers, the Doomsday Cruise Journey is about to begin! Next up, I, Captain Swo, have specially prepared an appetizer for you–an endless hunt. I hope you enjoy it!” The Skeleton Captain Swo laughed heartily behind which hundreds of skeleton crewmembers joined in the laughter, spreading a sinister aura across the deck of the Ghost Ship.

Song Jian frowned slightly, sensing that something was off, but couldn’t put his finger on it. He watched as the Skeleton Captain and the crewmembers behind him slowly became ethereal, seemingly so fragile that a gust of wind could scatter them.

“An illusion?” Song Jian’s Breaking Illusion Divine Eye at the center of his forehead snapped open, only to find that on the vast deck, he was all alone–whether skeleton captain, crew, or the players and NPCs who had boarded the Ghost Ship with him, all had disappeared!

“What is going on here? When did they disappear? Or rather, when was I moved here?” Song Jian was shocked to the core. As someone who had advanced to third-tier combat power and could hold his own against someone of the Legendary Realm, he hadn’t noticed anything amiss until it was too late. It was as unbelievable as realizing an enemy’s weapon had already penetrated his body during battle!

Click-clack, click-clack–

At that moment, from the wide-open doors of the ship’s cabins came the sound of bones scraping together, and soon enough, skeleton soldiers wielding scimitars emerged.

These skeleton soldiers, like so many war machines, moved onto the deck and immediately swung their scimitars, charging at Song Jian.

“Skeleton crewmembers? No, they had no signs of intelligence, more like mere puppets than the previous crewmembers. Then what are they?” Song Jian’s mind raced with thoughts.

However, by then the first wave of skeleton soldiers had already reached him, their rusty scimitars flashing with a brilliant white light as they slashed.

“What in the world is going on?” Song Jian hastily retreated, dodging the strike, but more skeleton soldiers continued their assault. Suddenly, Song Jian found himself surrounded and under attack.

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