Pirates of the Skeleton Scepter

In the vast and boundless azure ocean, one wave after another keeps coming in, magnificently connecting with the distant sky, and it is completely one color... The brimming sea water shines under the sun, and the golden light is like surging pieces of gold.

The white sails are raised and come with the wind, like a few snow-white feathers, floating lightly in the vast sea──

"Sailors in the distance, raise your sails home; the sun has set, and the night is coming; death's scythe is waving, why don't you ring the death knell in the sky..."

The vicissitudes of life sang strange songs, echoing on the sea along with the sailing of the ship.

The bald-headed old sailor with a rosy nose burped, and his cloudy eyes lit up instantly when he saw the "object" floating in the sea!

"There is a situation~ there is a situation!"

The broken gong-like voice caught the attention of the other crew members, who all put down their work and gathered around the edge of the boat where the old man was.

From the beginning to the end, only the young swordsman leaning against the railing holding his sword remained motionless.A head of dazzling silver short hair is very conspicuous, and a bright red gemstone earring hangs on the left ear.

The young swordsman exudes an icy aura that is thousands of miles away from others.Even to watch the excitement, no one dared to approach him easily.

"There is a person in the sea!"

"It's a woman, it's a pussy~haha!" Someone laughed wretchedly.

"It's just your eyes, you are obviously a man!"

The person who laughed before was despised by his companions, and soon the two had a big quarrel, which eventually turned into a fight.The other companions did not stop them, and even fanned the flames, booing while watching the excitement.

Plop, plop--

The two people who were entangled were kicked into the sea in the blink of an eye. Before everyone could see what was going on, they heard a magnetic voice lazily shouting: "Catch it~"

It's the boss!

The crew looked at each other in blank dismay, not daring to mess around anymore, and skillfully salvaged the unknown object from the sea.A certain boy saw the "object" clearly and couldn't help shouting excitedly──

"He's from Tang Dynasty, he can sell thousands of gold coins!" He has black hair and an oriental face.

The man smiled slightly, but the scalp of the talkative crew members felt numb.

"Wake him up~" The man's voice was lazy from beginning to end, but revealed a strange majesty.

After a while, the "Tang Ren" who was rescued on board spat a few mouthfuls of water and slowly opened his eyes.

──Where is this?

The moment Jiang Liu woke up, he was immediately alert, and surrounded him with hostile eyes, and then he was stunned—high nose and deep eyes, he was a stranger!

Yiren is tall, with hair color and appearance different from Han people, and has lived in the Western Regions outside the Great Wall for many years.But Jiang Liu clearly remembered that he jumped into the sea. Could it be that there were strange people in the sea?That's fine, as long as it's not "those people".

Jiang Liu let out a long breath. He was from Yuanhe County in the Tang Dynasty. When he was ten years old, his family was punished for unwarranted crimes. Only he, who was far away in the Western Regions, escaped.

Jiang Liu has been weak since he was a child, and was taken back to the Western Regions by his father's friend and a genius doctor to recuperate since he was five years old.When the news of the genocide came, he seemed to have grown up overnight, and he was no longer that innocent boy... Knowing that his body was not suitable for martial arts, Jiang Liu diligently studied medicine and poison, and finally avenged his blood after eight years.In the name of alchemy, he approached and poisoned the culprit of the bloody feud—Li Rui, the king of Guang.

It feels so good to take revenge with my own hands, the burden that has been on my heart for a long time is finally unloaded...

Jiang Liu couldn't help laughing, feeling very happy with the sea breeze blowing.The sea breeze is refreshing and humid, with a faint fishy smell, blowing every part of the body, and seems to blow away all the hustle and bustle and troubles.

"Is this kid an idiot?"

"He's laughing ass..."

"Are Tang people so strange?"

The silver-haired swordsman closed his eyes and raised his eyelids, and glanced at Jiang Liu, his face still cold.

The lazy man raised the corners of his mouth, waved his hand to signal the chattering crew to get out of the way, and approached the river with a smile.

"You have a nice expression~"

The man lowered his head, a few strands of golden hair scattered on Jiang Liu's face.Jiang Liu stared blankly at the man in front of him, with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, long golden hair shining, and shining ice-blue eyes, like the sea, which makes one unable to help but indulge in it.

Seeing the man's bright smile, Jiang Liu subconsciously smiled back.

"This is my ship, a pirate ship." The man still said with a smile.

Jiang Liu blinked in surprise. He raised his head to look at the main pole, and saw a large black flag flaring up. A huge white skull was crossed by a golden sword.

He had heard of pirates, and they did all sorts of crimes in the sea; however, he himself was not a good person.In order to take revenge, he had long ago abandoned humanity, and many "creatures" died at his hands.

"Don't be afraid~ I'm a good person." The man's words elicited bursts of laughter from the crew.

"You can understand us." The man was very sure, and Jiang Liu nodded.His master is a foreigner, so he can naturally speak the language of a foreigner. D_A

"Would you like to join us? It's very exciting~"

Jiang Liu slowly glanced at all kinds of people on board, some were tall and vicious, some were wretched, and some had dark skin like a piece of charcoal...Looking at the cold eyes of the silver-haired swordsman, Jiang Liu paused slightly Second.

"Okay." He twitched the corner of his mouth and said slowly.

After just getting along for a few days, Jiang Liu had a general understanding of the crew on the ship.They are cruel, greedy, fond of money and wine, and very lustful.The crew members are all bullying, especially a young and handsome young man like Jiang Liu, staying on the boat is like a sheep falling into the mouth of a tiger.

At night, more than a dozen men who stink of sweat are crowded into a large cabin, and only the captain and first mate level crew members have their own cabins.

Looking at his "companions" who surrounded him all around and squinting, Jiang Liu calmly showed a silver needle... On that night, there were strange wails and begging for mercy constantly floating on the sea. ...

On the second day, all the crew members who lived in the same cabin as Jiang Liu looked at Jiang Liu with horror and fear, and all of them had tired looks and extremely haggard dark circles on their faces.

Jiang Liu naturally became the ship's doctor, and no one dared to provoke him, unless he was impatient.The captain also considerately arranged a private cabin for him, which happened to be next door to the silver-haired swordsman.

"Where is this going?" Jiang Liu leaned against the railing, blowing the sea breeze, and quickly adapted to life on the boat.

"Go home." The red-skinned old man Exon with a rosy nose smiled "hehe" and steered the helm skillfully.

Jiang Liu looked at each other suspiciously.Several crew members have said that they are currently returning to the "Pirates' World" and will stay in "Another World" purely to deal with a traitor who is hiding.

Jiang Liu didn't understand what a "different world" was, so he asked Exxon.

The old man took a sip of his wine, smiled and said nothing, but the two twin brothers, one tall and one short, were vying to answer Jiang Liu's doubts.Pirates are carefree characters. After that incident, they completely regarded Jiang Liu as a brother. After all, they like plump and enchanting women more than men.

"The 'new world' we want to return to is the world of pirates," said the elder brother, tall Hans.

"The world here is called "different world" by us, and the people who live here are called "foreigners"." Shorter brother Hank added.

"So I'm a 'foreigner'?" Jiang Liu asked, tilting his head.

The two brothers nodded in unison.

"People with oriental faces are called "Tangren". There are also people in the New World, but they are rare."

"What kind of place is the new world...?"

"It's very exciting, it's the territory of our pirates!" Brother Hans yelled loudly, his face could not hide his excitement.

"Every year at the beginning and end of July, the "passage" will be opened, and with the red ruby ​​leading the way, you can freely travel between the two worlds." The younger brother added not to be outdone, "But this place is too boring, no pirates want to stay in another world."

Jiang Liu raised his eyebrows and didn't say anything, but a familiar lazy laughter came to his ears.

"I'll be able to rush back to the "passage" tomorrow, I won't let you down~"

The captain Irean had a signature smile on his face, leaning lazily on the bow of the ship.Beside him stood a silver-haired swordsman named Leo, exuding a cold aura of "don't mess with me" all over his body.Although the cabins of the two were very close, Jiang Liu didn't even say a word to each other, and when they met, Leo didn't even raise his eyes.

"By the way, stop eating from now on."

Yi Lie'an kindly reminded, but Jiang Liu was at a loss: don't eat, what do you mean?

The last day of July finally arrived, and Jiang Liu was a little excited, curious, and looking forward to it.

The ship came to a halt in the middle of a vast sea area. Irean smiled and gracefully drew out the golden sword that he carried with him. The golden sword body shone dazzlingly in the sun.

Jiang Liu noticed that there was a red gem the size of a pigeon egg embedded in the hilt of the sword. It happened to be noon when Irean pulled out the sword, and the scorching sun was hanging in the sky.A strange ray shot out from the gemstone, blurred, and immediately wrapped the entire ship in a strange blood-like red light...

Jiang Liu's eyes widened, and a huge red whirlwind appeared right in front of the ship.The strong wind swept the boat into the air, and the hull shook violently. Jiang Liu, like the other crew members, clung to the railing tightly. The wind blew him so hard that he couldn't even open his eyes. Overwhelmed, I feel like vomiting...

With a loud "bang", the hull fell heavily, and there was another violent shaking.A few young crew members couldn't stand it anymore and ran to the side of the boat and vomited. Jiang Liu also weakly crawled over and joined the vomiting ranks.

"Damn, it's so shaking that I almost pee out." Rookie A sighed.

"It's been several times, but I still can't stand it." Rookie B couldn't help but nodded.

"Doctor, are you alright... I vomited so badly." Rookie B cast a sympathetic look at Jiang Liu. It was like this for the first time, and it took at least a few days to get over it.

"..." Jiang Liu's face turned pale again.

"Hehe~ I'll just get used to it in the future~" Irean still smiled lazily, as if he hadn't been affected in any way.Leo didn't even change the posture of holding the sword, he still looked at his nose and his heart, motionless like a statue.

Jiang Liu felt a little better after vomiting all the contents in his stomach.He took the needle and pricked himself a few times, feeling his strength slowly returning.

Looking at the blood-red sunset in the sky, Jiang Liu was a little confused, wasn't it still noon just now, why did it change all of a sudden?

"Hurry back to the port before sunset tomorrow." Irean told the helmsman Exxon, he glanced at Jiang Liu and the other crew members who were lying on the ground, and said pointedly: "Rest well tonight. "

After sleeping all night, Jiang Liu finally regained his spirit.He still has no concept of the so-called "new world", and feels that it is no different from before: the sea is still the sea, the blue sky and white clouds are still the same, and there is no more sun or anything...

So he sat leisurely by the boat to fish as usual.

"You'd better not sit there~" Irean reminded, looking at Jiang Liu with a smile on his eyes, while holding the saber in his right hand...

"Huh?" Jiang Liu didn't understand what the other party meant. He had been fishing like this to pass the time before. What's wrong?

A black shadow flashed across in an instant, Jiang Liu was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, he was pulled by a powerful force and fell to the ground.He looked at the magnified indifferent handsome face in front of him, and shivered involuntarily──

The speed is so fast... Also, the face is so cold...

Leo remained cold and expressionless, he pulled out the black sharp sword nailed to the pole of the boat, and inserted it back into the scabbard silently.A strange big black fish fell on the deck, obviously nailed to the pole by the sword that Leo just shot.

Jiang Liu's eyes widened. It was the first time he saw a... fish with bones growing outside?It should be a fish. Jiang Liu is not sure—this strange-shaped creature has fins and a tail, and its flat head is covered with teeth. It is really full of teeth, densely packed like a hedgehog, and its eyes cannot be seen.The body was slender and wrapped in black rib-like things, thick dark green blood flowed all over the ground, emitting bursts of fishy smell.

"This is a bone fish, a specialty of this sea area." Irean explained to Jiang Liu kindly, and let go of the hand holding the saber. "They are very fast, and they like to attack unsuspecting people like you near the sea~"

"If you are bitten, you will die~ They can drag you into the seabed at a depth of [-] meters in just ten seconds." Irean glanced at the indifferent swordsman beside him with a smile.

"You have to thank Leo, he saved you."

"Thank you..." After listening to the explanation, Jiang broke out in a cold sweat, and took a few more glances at the disgusting bone fish—this is the "New World"! ?

Of course, Leo definitely didn't respond to Jiang Liu's thanks, not even making eye contact.This can't help but disappoint Jiang Liu, does it mean that Leo hates him?

Irean patted Jiang Liu on the shoulder, gave him a sympathetic look, and began to slowly tell him about this strange and exciting world of pirate adventure──

The "New World" is divided into seven sea areas, and in each sea area are scattered large and small forces. The best of them are honored as "Sea Kings" and have high prestige among pirates. D_A

The most powerful king of the Seven Seas is the "Night King", and the sea area they are in now is the "Red Sea" among the seven seas, ruled by the fire king Zaruman.

Pirates have their own logos and titles. Irion is called the "Golden Eagle", and the pirate logo is a golden sword and skull.

In the "New World", the combined area of ​​land and islands is less than one-tenth of the ocean, so it can be said that this place is completely dominated by pirates.There are only three rulers of the land: the king of men, the king of beasts, and the king of demons.There are more than a dozen city-states divided on the land, and the city owners belong to the three kings, and they also swear allegiance to the "Sea King".

"Actually, there are rules in this world. The channel connecting the two worlds cannot be opened at will. It must be approved by the king of the sea~" Irean blinked and said lightly.

"Fortunately, I have the privilege~ Otherwise, it will be miserable if I get caught~"

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have met you. It seems that you are destined to be here~" Irean showed his signature smile, and looked at Jiang Liu lazily and provocatively, "You will like this place."

"..." In fact, I already regretted it, Jiang Liu couldn't help but slander.