Chapter 2914: Clues

At this time, the pirate ship was already in chaos. The main sail had been furled. It wasn't that the pirates wanted to wait for death; just a moment ago, their ship had gradually stopped on the sea, as if something had grabbed the entire ship from under the hull. The fully-winded main sail pushed the mast until it creaked. If they didn't furl the sail, the main sail would be torn off by the sea breeze.

The pirates gathered on the deck, holding sailor knives in their hands, looking around nervously.

*BANG! *

The door to the captain's cabin was kicked open, and two figures tumbled out. One of them fell to the ground, while the other held his knees with both hands, coughing loudly, black seawater spraying from his nose and mouth.

A large amount of black seawater surged out from the captain's cabin. Upon contact with the outside air, this seawater evaporated rapidly.

"Cap... Captain, what happened?"

The ship's helmsman rushed forward. Although he had a heart for rebellion, at this critical juncture, letting the captain stand in front was the better choice.

"Doom, *cough, cough, cough*, Doom..."

Captain Burke coughed loudly, tears and snot flowing together. It wasn't that he was scared; he was choked by the seawater that had just poured out.

*BOOM! *

A loud noise came from under the feet of the pirates. They all felt as if the ship under their feet had jumped up from the sea.

*Crunch, crunch... *

After the crisp sound of wooden planks breaking, the pirate ship barely stabilized. A black ram pierced in from the side below the hull and poked out from the deck above. That pitch-black ram looked as if it were made from the bones of some huge creature.

Because the pirate ship was severely tilted, all the pirates could only grab the ship's rail or sail cables to avoid falling into the sea.

*Creak~*

With the friction of wooden planks, the ram that had almost pierced through the pirate ship retreated. After a tilt, the pirate ship stabilized on the sea.

The pirates looked at each other. They had encountered many dangers on the sea, but the current situation was the first time they had encountered it. For a while, they didn't know how to deal with it.

*Click, click. *

The sound of hard objects piercing into the hull came from the side below the pirate ship. Winnie Wanda hid behind the group of pirates and swallowed her saliva. It wasn't that she didn't want to escape; there was simply nowhere to escape on the sea.

Under the gaze of the pirates, a dead-white hand grabbed onto the ship's rail. This arm was covered with barnacles and seaweed, and seawater flowed down along the seaweed.

A Cursed One climbed onto the ship. It stood on the rail, pulled out the rusty sailor knife at its waist, and with a *bang*, the rail under the Cursed One's feet shattered. It broke through a residual image and stood in front of a pirate.

The rusty sailor knife pierced through the pirate's skull. A silver slash flashed and disappeared; it was Captain Burke who had made a move. As a pirate captain, his strength was a cut above the elite pirates.

With a *thud*, the Cursed One's head fell onto the deck. This Cursed One stood still on the spot.

"Is that... all the skill you have?"

Captain Burke glanced at the broad-bladed scimitar in his hand, disbelief in his eyes. A sense of pride from the inside out surged in his heart. He, Burke, had actually beheaded the legendary Cursed One with one slash?!

Looking at the headless corpse standing not far away, Captain Burke's body gradually relaxed. An illusion that he could win appeared in his heart.

The Cursed One stood still on the spot. It lifted its right foot slightly and stepped on the deck with a *bang*, shaking the whole ship. The head that had fallen on the deck flew up. The Cursed One grabbed its own head, pressed it onto its broken neck, and after moving its neck left and right, nothing happened.

In fact, Cursed Ones were not immortal. They were between life and death and had the characteristics of living things. Being beheaded would cause them significant damage. To kill a Cursed One, one could satisfy one of the following three points:

1. Behead the Cursed One and then crush its head, or cause massive damage to it, letting the power of the curse within its body dissipate.

2. Burn it with ultra-high-temperature flames, but these flames must have a certain holy characteristic.

3. Let the Cursed One board land, which would cause the Cursed One to die instantly.

In conventional battles, the survival ability of Cursed Ones could actually be understood as a kind of ability that surpassed regeneration. They were by no means immortal, but they were particularly difficult to kill. In layman's terms, while Cursed Ones were extremely tanky, their output was also very high.

*Click, click. *

The sound of sharp weapons piercing into the hull like before came from all directions of the pirate ship. The sound was very dense. In an instant, Cursed Ones were already standing on the surrounding rails, as many as dozens of them.

"Captain, what should we do?"

"It's over, everything is over."

"Captain, let's surrender. I don't want to die yet."

"Shut up, all of you."

Captain Burke gave a sharp shout. He knew one thing very clearly: surrendering was useless.

Among the pirates, Winnie Wanda was both guilty and fearful. In the dark, she felt that these Cursed Ones were here for her, or rather, they were lured by her. At this moment, she confirmed one thing: all the knowledge in her head was true! This world was broader, more mysterious, and more dangerous than she had imagined.

"Stinking bitch, these things were lured by you."

Captain Burke suddenly turned his gaze, his bloodshot eyes staring at Winnie Wanda.

"It wasn't me, really it wasn't."

Winnie Wanda stepped back slowly, staying as far away from the pirates as possible. After taking only a few steps, she felt herself bump into something—something damp and cold.

A moan escaped Winnie Wanda's mouth, and her legs felt a bit weak. She didn't turn her head, because she had already guessed what she had bumped into.

"Kill everyone except that woman."

A voice came from above the mast. Before the pirates could even check the source of the sound, Cursed Ones rushed over from all around.

The battle ended quickly. Captain Burke, with three knives stuck in his body, knelt on the deck, his head hanging down, blood flowing from his mouth and nose, gathering into a small pool in front of him.

Twenty-some corpses lay scattered on the deck, the scene extremely tragic. Some corpses had their intestines dragged out, still steaming. Nearby, a head was embedded in the main mast. Looking from afar, it was hard to find a relatively complete corpse. This was the Cursed Ones' way of killing enemies.

"*Ugh~*"

Winnie Wanda knelt among the corpses, retching. She had experienced many cruel scenes, but those were at most dead people. This scene, which looked like purgatory, was the first time she had seen it.

With a *boom*, a large four-masted ship broke out of the sea. After the world spun before Winnie's eyes, she was thrown onto the deck of the *Doom*. The last scene she saw was Captain Burke having his throat torn open by a Cursed One using a blackened hook blade.

The pirate ship gradually sank into the sea. On the deck of the *Doom*, Winnie sat up from the deck, and a large axe severely eroded by seawater was held horizontally beside her neck.

"Are you Winnie Wanda?"

Baja landed on the nearby rail, looking Winnie Wanda up and down.

"My name is Modesty, I'm a nun, look."

Winnie didn't know where she pulled out a small cross. Seeing this, Baja took out a small bottle of white sand and shook it a few times.

"Caught the wrong person? Damn it! Someone, slaughter her and throw her into the sea to feed the fish."

"I am Winnie Wanda!"

Winnie Wanda gave up her final struggle. The nun identity she had just thought of didn't have a soothing effect.

Just at this moment, the door to the captain's cabin opened by itself, cold fog drifted out, and a figure walked out from the captain's cabin, finally stopping in front of Winnie.

Just as Winnie was about to speak, she felt a hand wrapped in a metal armguard grab her chin, pry her mouth open, and two fingers reached into her mouth.

With a *crunch*, the rightmost tooth in Winnie's mouth was broken. She didn't feel pain; this tooth had been installed for her by the witch who taught her extraordinary knowledge when she was a teenager.

"I ask, you answer."

Su Xiao squatted in front of Winnie, his arms resting on his knees, a broken tooth emitting a faint light clamped between his fingers.

"O... okay."

"Have you researched how to let Cursed Ones board the island?"

"That's impossible. How can a fish live in sand? Unless..."

Winnie said this sentence almost as a slip of the tongue. She didn't even know why she said it like this. Fortunately, she reacted in time and stopped halfway through the sentence.

"Very good. Drifting on the sea for so long, you must be starving, right?"

Su Xiao looked at Winnie with a smile.

"I just had breakfast not long ago..."

Winnie's words were interrupted by Su Xiao halfway through.

"Baja, go prepare some food for her. She's starving. Prepare it according to Amu's meal portion." ===== CHAPTER 2915 =====