Book of the Otherworld

Chapter 165 Mathematical Paradox
Captain Jack turned the steering wheel suddenly, and the hull of the Ghost immediately began to turn, and the 24 cannons on the double deck on the port side were all aimed at the giant squid that was attacking.

"Listen to my order, aim all muzzles at the target - fire!"

Boom boom boom!The sound of artillery firing sounded one after another, shaking the entire battleship trembling.

Although the cannon on this ship looked ancient, its range and accuracy were astonishing. A series of shells landed on the dream-eating squid as if it had eyes, and the flames of the explosion instantly engulfed the monster.

"Haha, it's so cool, keep giving me a blast!"

Under the command of Captain Jack, the Ghost walked a zigzag route to avoid the pursuit of the Dream Eater Squid, and at the same time poured firepower on the giant squid with the cannons on the left and right sides in turn.

The shells kept falling on the monster, not only causing its body to flicker continuously, but also slowing down its speed so that it could not quickly catch up with the Ghost.

Deathwing was riding a black dragon, and Tao Lesi was driving a Phoenix fighter and also attacked from both sides of the giant squid, but the attack power of the two of them was not that strong. The cannons of the No. [-] are about the same power, but the two ion cannons of Tao Lesi's Phoenix fighter didn't even make a sound when they bombarded the dream-eating squid, just like scratching an itch.

There is no way, although on the surface it seems that the technology of the Phoenix fighter is very advanced and has surpassed the Ghost for hundreds of years, but in essence, both are creations made of spiritual power, and the power depends on the strength of the spiritual power.

Although the three long-range firepower is fully activated, and the Ghost's artillery is full of power, it seems a bit unrealistic to kill the giant squid with such an attack. While under constant firepower, the dream-eating squid slowly approached the ghost the stern of the ship.

"Everyone get ready! It's time to board!" With Captain Jack's roar, dozens of pirates rushed onto the deck, armed with swords and guns.

However, Captain Jack naturally knew how scumbag the pirates he had transformed into were. He glanced at Xing Tianyu and Gabriel next to him, "Both, this time I have to count on you! This is a life-and-death business, you two can Don't screw me up!" Captain Jack shouted at Xing Tianyu and Gabriel.

"Don't worry!" Xing Tianyu patted him on the shoulder and flew straight up.

In the time it took to speak, the giant squid had already chased to the tail of the Ghost.

Just like the huge sea monsters in those myths and stories hunted and killed sea ships, the giant squid stretched out several huge tentacles, which instantly entangled the mast and stern rudder of the Ghost, and slowly opened the huge tentacles under the tentacles. The mouth seemed to want to stuff the whole Ghost in it.

Although the Ghost is huge, it is still a bit worse than the giant squid with a length of hundreds of meters.

The pirates immediately swarmed up, some shot with muskets, some slashed at the tentacles with swords, a heroic red-haired female pirate rushed up from below the deck.

"Captain, our boat can't move."

Jack abruptly handed the steering wheel to the female pirate, "First officer, you are in charge of sailing the ship, the others, kill me!" Then he drew out his saber and musket and rushed forward.

Gabriel also rushed forward, firing light bullets with the spear in his hand, smashing open the tentacles stretching out to the deck. With her joining, the battle situation was finally stabilized for the time being.

But Xing Tianyu had already flown into the air at this time.

At this time, the tentacles of the dream-eating squid were all extended and scattered, grabbing the mast, stern and sides of the Ghost, so that these tentacles were completely fixed and scattered, Xing Tianyu Seeing the opportunity, he swooped down from the sky.

The finger giant sword slashed towards the root of a huge tentacle.

A stern white light flashed, and the blade transformed by highly concentrated spiritual power easily cut through the dream-eating squid's skin, and the huge tentacles snapped off at the sound.

The dream-eating squid let out a sharp roar, and stretched out a tentacle to grab the broken tentacle back into its body. At this moment, a tractor beam locked onto the tentacle suddenly, and it was launched by Tao Lesi's Phoenix Fighter.

As soon as the tractor beam was locked, Tao Lesi immediately flew the fighter towards the distance.

The giant squid seemed to be hesitant to pursue or stay and continue to deal with the Ghost, but Xing Tianyu had already launched a second attack from under it. The giant sword swept across, and another tentacle was cut off. This time Deathwing Rushing over, the two dragon claws grabbed the tentacles that were still twisting, and quickly flew towards the other side.

"Haha, good job! Little ones, work harder, the monster will die soon!" Captain Jack shouted, while directing the pirates to push several cannons from the sides of the ship to the rear deck, aiming at the Meng squid's huge mouth is a bombardment.

Seeing that there were only two tentacles left to hold the Ghost, the Dream Eater had to extend a few new tentacles from its body, but this undoubtedly weakened the strength of its body. The damage seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, but the recovery speed of the Dream Eater Squid was getting slower and slower.

Xing Tianyu kept hovering around the giant squid, swooping down from time to time and chopping off a tentacle with his sword. When the sixth tentacle was cut off, the light blue fluorescent light on the dream-eating squid had become very dim. It almost became transparent. At this time, it finally couldn't catch the Ghost anymore, and several tentacles were cut off by Gabriel on the deck.The Ghost got rid of the shackles and immediately turned quickly, firing a round of fierce close-range salvos from the starboard side. Finally, the Dream Eater completely disappeared into the Nightmare Universe.

"Haha, we won the battle!" Captain Jack shouted excitedly from the bow, and the pirate sailors cheered accordingly.

Xing Tianyu looked at the disappearing dream-eating squid, but he was a little surprised. He originally thought that something should be left behind after this thing died. After all, the spiritual substance has an entity in the nightmare universe, but this thing has completely disappeared and dissolved. There's something wrong with it.

"Hey, come down, brother Viking, we are going back!" On the deck, Captain Jack suddenly shouted.

Xing Tianyu landed in a hurry, Deathwing and Taozi also gathered together, several people gathered on the Ghost again,

"It's time to return to the voyage? Don't you want to kill the two dream-eating squids?" Tao Lesi said with some unfinished thoughts.

Captain Jack glanced at the Ghost but shook his head, "I'm afraid it can't be done. I almost shot out the shells just now, and the hull was seriously damaged, and many of my men died. I have to recover well after returning. Only a few days."

Xing Tianyu glanced at the deck. Indeed, the Ghost was in a mess. In the battle just now, the mast, artillery, deck, and side of the ship suffered great damage, and the number of pirate sailors was obviously reduced.

"Hey, why didn't you see the crew's body?" Tao Zi was suddenly surprised.

Captain Jack shook his head, "I don't know this, you must be a newcomer, right? These sailors are all illusioned life forms, and they will naturally disappear and decompose after death."

Xing Tianyu was stunned for a moment when he heard this. Could it be that the dream-eating squids, like these disappearing sailors, were all transformed by illusion?But thinking about it, I think it's impossible. The dream-eating squid's combat power is so strong. If so many dream-eating squids can be transformed, how powerful the illusionist's mental strength will be.

Successfully hunting a dream-eating squid made everyone excited. Except for Xing Tianyu who was meditating, everyone started chatting.

But Tao Lesi scratched her head in embarrassment, "Well, I'm indeed a newcomer, and I've only been the Nightmare Lord for more than a month."

Deathwing said, "Dare to come to the Nightmare Kingdom to do missions in just one month? As a rookie, you are already very good. It took me more than a year to come here after becoming the Nightmare Lord."

"Oh, how long did it take you to upgrade from a junior lord to an intermediate lord?"

Deathwing said a little proudly, "Hehe, I improved relatively quickly, not counting the year that was delayed, it only took two years in total, Gabriel was relatively unlucky, and it took just over a year. Promoted to the middle lord."

"Wow, senior, you are so amazing."

Gabriel shook his head, "My speed is not the fastest, as far as I know, the fastest lord should be the high-ranking lord Jim Raynor, he only took two years to rise from the junior lord to the high-ranking lord. rank lord."

"Wow, this is too exaggerated." Deathwing obviously heard this information for the first time, "I feel so strenuous to improve my mental power now, how did he do it? I know, that Jim Raynor must have Just like the two of you, do you have any special skills, right? By the way, what is your special skill for obtaining spiritual power, why don't you make a price and I'll pay for it?"

But Captain Jack shook his head violently, "It's not as exaggerated as you imagined. After three years of use, my mental strength is only in the early thousand, which is not much faster than yours."

Xing Tianyu has been thinking by the side, listening to the conversation of several people while thinking, the more he listens, the more he feels that something is not right, there seems to be something wrong in the conversation of several people.

"By the way, Brother Viking, your strength is very strong. By the way, how long have you been the Nightmare Lord?"

At this time, Captain Jack suddenly brought the topic to Xing Tianyu.

"Three years."

"Three years? No way, I haven't seen you in these three years."

Xing Tianyu explained, "I have never been to the Nightmare Kingdom before, until recently."

"Damn, no way, doesn't it mean that you have been promoted from elementary to intermediate in just a few months?" Captain Jack looked surprised, "And your intention is so high, I don't think it will take two years for you to become The fifth high-ranking lord is here, and I'm afraid he will be ahead of me."

As soon as these words were uttered, Xing Tianyu suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He was promoted to a high-ranking lord in two years?He finally realized that the problem was locked in.

According to several people, it takes about two or three years for a nightmare lord to upgrade from a junior lord to a mid-level lord. The time is right.

But even so, according to this rate of improvement, it stands to reason that middle-level lords should be the mainstream of nightmare lords.If there are a thousand nightmare lords in the entire nightmare space, most of them should be able to rise to mid-level lords in five years, even if some people don't like to benefit themselves at the expense of others, and don't use the dream killing technique to improve their mental power , but Xing Tianyu believes that the proportion of such people should not exceed half, and there will be hundreds of middle-level lords after five years.

But why are most of the nightmare lords in the entire nightmare space only junior lords?There are only a few dozen mid-level lords, and only four high-level lords?

This ratio makes no sense from a mathematical point of view.

Just when Xing Tianyu was unable to understand this strange phenomenon that suddenly appeared——

"Look, there seems to be someone hunting over there!" A lookout suddenly shouted, this shout also interrupted Xing Tianyu's train of thought, everyone looked in that direction, and sure enough, there was a huge dream-eating squid around. , A battle is raging fiercely.

(End of this chapter)