Chapter 190 Aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge

Just as Ruoyu was about to unleash a massacre, elsewhere… in the underground of Xiazhong Village, in a certain tunnel.

"Brother Jue, is it really okay for us to split up? Will Sister Yu and Xiaoling be alright?" Wang Tanzhi asked, his face filled with worry, as he followed Feng Bujue's steps forward.

"You should be more worried about Shidao's group." Feng Bujue seemed very relaxed, replying without turning his head, "Ruoyu and Xiaoling are already very strong, and with the trump card of the Blood Corpse God…" He shook his head and let out a sigh of sympathy. "Alas… I only hope… that Shidao isn't wiped out before we finish exploring this place."

"Hmm…" Xiao Tan pondered for a few seconds. "Brother Jue… are they really that strong? Shidao is a top-tier professional team, after all."

"Heh… are you kidding me?" As Feng Bujue spoke, he kicked aside a piece of rubble blocking the path and switched hands to hold the launcher. "After so many matches and scripts… don't you have a definite idea of your teammates' strength?"

"Uh…" Xiao Tan continued, "Honestly… I understand Xiaoling pretty well, but Sister Yu… I really don't know her limits." He paused. "It feels like… no matter what kind of opponent she faces, she always handles them with ease."

"Exactly." Feng Bujue replied, "Doesn't that sentence already sum up her strength?"

"Huh?" Xiao Tan was stunned. "Which sentence?"

"Ruoyu," Feng Bujue replied, "is at the level where 'no matter what kind of opponent she faces, she can handle them with ease.'"

"Hey, hey…" Xiao Tan squinted his eyes. "Is it really okay to say that out loud… we're live streaming, you know…"

"It doesn't matter." Feng Bujue said indifferently. "I can say what I want, but people might not believe it." He tilted his head and gave Xiao Tan a meaningful look. "The second half of S2, besides the matches on the surface, is also about intelligence warfare and psychological warfare behind the scenes… Every team knows that their performance in the matches will be studied by their opponents, so… every team may consciously spread some information that is both true and false during the matches, in order to disrupt the opponents' analysis, or as a kind of trap…"

When Brother Jue said this, he didn't deliberately lower his voice. Every word he uttered was clearly recorded by the video's audio system and heard by all the viewers watching the live stream.

"So…" Xiao Tan immediately squinted his eyes, and in a complaining tone, raised his voice and shouted, "Is it really okay for you to remind everyone like this during the live stream!"

"You don't get it…" Feng Bujue retorted in a smug tone, "Precisely because I've clearly stated this, everything we say and do before and after this match… has become difficult to distinguish as true or false."

Indeed, the subtext of his words was—"Even if there are some fools among you, I won't take any chances and treat any of you as fools, so… I hope some of you who think you're clever… don't think of us as too simple."

If the S2 rematch was placed on the level of psychological game, then Feng Bujue was now announcing the level of the Infernal Frontline team to the world.

"Okay… anyway, you're good at this kind of psychological warfare…" Since Brother Jue had said so, Xiao Tan stopped arguing with him on this topic.

The two of them lowered their heads and hurried on, advancing along the tunnel…

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Here, it must be explained… the entrance to this tunnel is located deep within the Xiazhong Village tomb; and the Xiazhong Village tomb is the "cave where the stone tablet was once dug up" that Elder Pi Pian mentioned.

Because the cave's terrain was low, inclined, and steep, and the location was relatively remote, everyone planned to transform it into an emergency shelter when the village was first built. However, during the actual excavation process, people discovered that the stone walls in this cave were very hard, making it difficult to remodel using manpower. With the existing scale and shape of the cave, it was not suitable as a warehouse or a shelter, so… they simply used it as a tomb. Anyway, there weren't many people (rabbits) in the village, and the dead (rabbits) took up very little space (the Rabbit Planet people mostly adopt cremation, and they use special methods to turn the remaining ashes into a kind of 'corpse soil,' and then place it). This cave was enough.

Not long ago, after the four members of the Infernal Frontline team came here, Feng Bujue immediately discovered useful information on the stone wall in the corner of the cave. After interpreting it slightly, he opened the entrance to this tunnel.

Afterward, Brother Jue launched another [Prophecy], estimating the current movements of the enemy team, and then arranged a strategy of splitting up—he and Xiao Tan would go underground to explore the tunnel, while Ruoyu and Xiaoling would be responsible for "protecting the village."

Of course, this "protecting the village" had to be put in quotation marks. Because Feng Bujue's original intention was actually to use the strength of the Xiazhong Village npcs to contend with the "momentum" that the Shidao Second Team had borrowed. The saying "protecting the village" was undoubtedly to make it sound better, and also to win over the hearts of Tu Aotian and his people (rabbits).

But… when it came to actual execution, Ruoyu and Xiaoling, these two team members with more upright values, genuinely stood on the side of the villagers…

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"Hmph… looks like we've arrived." After walking for several more minutes, Feng Bujue suddenly stopped and smiled.

"Eh? Arrived where?" Xiao Tan peered over Brother Jue's shoulder and looked ahead, doubting. "Isn't this a dead end?"

He was right. At this moment, in front of Feng Bujue was a bare stone wall, with no visible cracks or mechanisms.

"Take a closer look." Feng Bujue replied.

"What's the point of looking closely…" Xiao Tan was about to reply in a matter-of-course tone, but he suddenly remembered something, so he didn't say it.

The next second, Xiao Tan silently activated [Eagle Eye Vision], and golden streams of light lit up in his eyes.

With the help of this Grade A reconnaissance skill, he quickly saw many complex patterns and texts on the stone wall in front of him…

"Hmm… I see…" Xiao Tan stroked his chin, striking a thoughtful pose.

"Heh…" Feng Bujue chuckled, turning his head to look at Xiao Tan with malicious intent, "Although you said 'I see,' and you have an 'I see' expression on your face, you probably didn't understand anything, did you?"

"Yeah, I can't understand it at all." Xiao Tan honestly admitted, and then turned off [Eagle Eye Vision].

"Haha…" Feng Bujue laughed, "Actually, I can't understand it either."

"Look at your cheap look…" Xiao Tan squinted at Brother Jue, uttering this line without any sense of incongruity.

And… the system didn't even block this sentence.

"Hehe…" Brother Jue naturally didn't care about this level of abuse. First, his skin was thick enough; second, his skin was so thick that he could admit that the other party was right. Anyway… after a dismissive smile, he took something out of his knapsack.

"Eh? Isn't that…" As soon as Xiao Tan saw the item in Brother Jue's hand, he exclaimed loudly.

"That's right!" Feng Bujue interrupted him before he could finish speaking. "To be honest… I didn't expect that we would use it here."

At this moment, what Brother Jue was holding was none other than [Blackbeard's Skull].

This item, classified as "Other" and of "Legendary" quality, had a very brief effect description—"Open Blackbeard's treasure."

"Hey, hey… didn't you say you couldn't understand it?" Xiao Tan immediately asked.

"I can't understand the information conveyed by these patterns and texts…" When Feng Bujue said this, he lowered his voice and leaned close to Xiao Tan's ear. "But I can understand code."

"Oh~" Xiao Tan nodded.

Once Brother Jue said that, he understood. Even if he couldn't use "knowledge" to decipher this information, he could still know the answer by interpreting it with a "data perspective."

"Alright, no time to lose." Two seconds later, Feng Bujue turned around, holding the skull and saying, "This is a legendary-level deal, so let's hurry up… in case Ruoyu and the others kill off Shidao's group in a few moves, and we haven't finished looting here, then the loss would be huge."

Before he finished speaking, he had already raised the skull high and extended it towards the stone wall.

Immediately afterward, a buzzing sound of runes surging came from within the stone wall. At the same moment, a layer of stone dust sealed on the surface of the stone wall suddenly dispersed, covering Brother Jue and Xiao Tan's faces and bodies.

Chi—

While the two of them were choking on the dust, they heard a sharp sound, and then a golden beam of light sprayed out from the stone wall, blinding them.

"I'm going… uh cough… cough cough… Could this be… be a triggered t-trap?" Xiao Tan coughed repeatedly from the stone dust, unable to speak properly.

Feng Bujue did not answer him, because… less than a second after Xiao Tan asked that question, the two of them had been "teleported."

At this moment, the figures of the two players, [Madness Isn't Justice] and [Tragedy Lingers], disappeared from the live broadcast screen of the match. All viewers who chose to follow their actions in third-person perspective were forced to switch to observing others, and the subsequent match recording did not record where the two of them went in the following period of time…

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"This time… are they Earthlings…"

When Brother Jue and Xiao Tan opened their eyes again, they heard this line.

At this moment, the two players were standing on the deck of a pirate ship…

This was a massive, complex, multi-masted sailing ship. It had a black hull and black sails. Human bones were nailed everywhere on the hull, and dark bloodstains faintly showed on the sails.

It was magnificent, beautiful, like a giant beast galloping on the sea. It was a legend that roamed the seven seas and terrified countless pirates.

"In any case… welcome to… the Queen Anne's Revenge." That voice quickly added.

Feng Bujue and the others turned their heads upon hearing this and saw a Rabbit Planet person.

Judging by his appearance, the other party should be a middle-aged man (rabbit). He was wearing a sailor's short shirt, work pants, and a red scarf around his neck.

"I thought Blackbeard raised parrots…" While Feng Bujue was talking to the other party, he was also observing the surrounding environment. "I didn't expect him to raise rabbits too…"

"Brother Jue… rather than that rabbit brother, don't you think the surrounding situation is more worthy of attention…" Xiao Tan was also looking around at this time, but he was more out of curiosity…

In short, the two of them discovered almost at the same time… that the ship under their feet was not in the water at all.

At this moment, the place where the two players were located was a very large, complex cave. Hundreds of huge stalactites, shaped like upside-down mountains, hung upside down from the top of the cave, each stone emitting a faint, moonlight-like glow. The ground of the cave was piled with countless gold and silver treasures and exotic objects…

Gold coins, pearls, diamonds, agates… these objects were as common as sand and soil here; life-size white jade elephants, coral gems the size of sofas, natural amethysts larger than coffins, and a large number of minerals and treasures that were not even known to Earthlings… filled this huge cave.

And the Queen Anne's Revenge was placed in the center of the entire treasure, "floating" in this sea of gold and silver.

"Edward Teach's pirate career was much longer than what is recorded in your human history…" The Rabbit Planet person was also sizing up the two players while continuing, "The skull in your hand… is just a souvenir he left to his kind before he left Earth. You could also say… it's an 'invitation.'"

"So that means…" Feng Bujue picked up the skull in his hand and shook it. "This isn't his skull?"

"Physiologically speaking, definitely not." The Rabbit Planet person replied, "But he did use his own blood to place a curse on this skull, otherwise you wouldn't be able to come here with it."

"Speaking of 'here'…" Xiao Tan was still a little worried about Xiaoling and the others, so he eagerly asked, "We should still be on Rabbit Planet, right?"

"Yes…" The Rabbit Planet person replied, "…and no."

This answer, which was the same as saying nothing, was instantly understood by Feng Bujue: "Heh… you guys play with space technology very well…"

"That's a must…" The Rabbit Planet person continued, "What's in front of you is the largest sum of ill-gotten wealth in the entire universe, so no amount of preventive measures is too much." He raised his head and pointed to the walls of the cave. "This space can shield all external detection. The several entrances into this place are also scattered in the most hidden corners of the universe. And without Blackbeard's curse, it's absolutely impossible to enter this place."

"Alright." Feng Bujue replied, and then asked, "May I ask…"

"I am…" The Rabbit Planet person replied solemnly, "…Short-Haired Divine Fist Fist Sect, Tu Fake."