Just after nightfall, the sky was a bottomless dark blue, dotted with a few wisps of dark clouds, and a waning moon was hidden behind the dark clouds, revealing a fang-like corner. There were two gunshots not far away. I don't know if it was an empty gun fired by a drunk man, or if there was a real fight.

Tangke returned to the hotel exhausted. He sweated a lot at Haozhan Kendo Hall this afternoon. At this time, he just wanted to take a good dip in the warm bath water. He walked through the noisy front room, greeted his staff, and told the people in the store to prepare hot water, and then went straight to the most comfortable room upstairs.

He pushed open the door, the room was full of faint moonlight, the clock on the wall was ticking, and the room smelled of perfume, which made him feel that the hotel's service was quite attentive. He closed the door blankly, and when he turned back, he caught a glimpse of a figure, which startled him.

"Who are you?" Tang Ke asked with eyebrows raised. The Xingyue Scimitar around his waist was also unsheathed, breaking the silence in the room. There was about ten steps between him and the figure in front of the window.

"I'm the person you're looking for, the fortune-teller Ivy." The figure in front of the window made a magnetic female voice, and the moonlight shone on her thin shoulders, "I don't like noise, so I choose to visit at night, Hope you don't mind."

Tangke was both surprised and delighted. He had been struggling to find someone who knew the Devil's language, but he never thought that this woman would be delivered to the door by himself. Although this was a good thing, this woman was so strange that he had to be vigilant and start looking at Ivy.

Ivy was wearing a long black robe with a hood. She was rather thin, but her chest was quite decent, with two round bumps arched. Her face was buried in the shadows under the hood, and no matter how hard Donk tried, he couldn't see it clearly. On her shoulder, lay a very unlucky black crow. Her whole person is like a black crow, full of mystery and ominous. She blocked the moonlight from the window and cast an elongated shadow on the ground, like a dark hand, reaching out to Tangke.

Out of curiosity, Tangke used the investigation technique on the woman who claimed to be Ivy. In fact, the investigation technique was a part of the system's own power, and it did not belong to this world at all. As soon as his thoughts moved, the investigation technique was used naturally. He felt the power of the investigation technique stretched out, but it seemed to hit a wall and was blocked.

On the opposite side, Ivy trembled all over, and let out a light whimper, as if feeling something.

"Ding! The system has been severely interfered, the skill release failed, and this person's information cannot be obtained!"

Tang Ke was horrified, his eyes widened more than two times, and even his chin was about to fall off! He has always trusted the power of the system, and the system has never made a mistake, but this time, the investigation technique has failed! He felt in a trance that Ivy seemed to have a defense that could resist the power of the system!

A gleam of light flashed in the shadow under Ivy's hood, and she looked back at Tangke.

Tang Ke's defeat this time was subversive. He always believed that the power of the system was infinite, even an existence close to divine power, and he never thought that something would go wrong one day. This subversion scared him, and a chill emerged in his heart. He tried his best to calm down and used the investigation technique again, but this time, just like before, he only got a failure prompt, and even the prompt box in his mind showed unstable ripples.

"Who the **** are you!?" As if facing the enemy, Tangke completely pulled out the scimitar from its sheath and blocked it in front of him. It's no wonder that when he faced the enemy before, he could know the details of the enemy, but this time, the opponent was like a fog, making him unable to understand the depth. He is not used to facing unknown people. What frightened him even more was that even a ninth-order powerhouse like Golden Beard couldn't counteract the investigation technique. Could this thin woman in front of him be stronger than Golden Beard?

"Poor man, I'm afraid because of confusion." Facing the bright scimitar, Ivy was as calm as ever, "I am Ivy, that's all. What else do you want to know from me?"

Tangke's chest was ups and downs, and he couldn't calm down, but it would be too reckless to list the opponent as an enemy because he didn't know the details of the opponent. He and Ivy looked at each other for a while, and he didn't see the slightest bit of hostility, so he took the scimitar back.

"I'm sorry for what I did just now." Tangke asked with a sullen face, "Your identity must be extraordinary, right?"

Ivy was silent.

"Are you a tenth-order powerhouse? Or... a higher being?" Tangke swallowed a mouthful of saliva to moisten his burning throat. Shouldn't the other party be a god? But it doesn't look like it.

"It's not yet time for you to know the answer. It's like a three-year-old doesn't have to learn to cook on a fire, aristocratic manners, or archery on horseback, which are too early for a three-year-old. The same is true for you, some It's not good to know the answer you desire too early." Ivy tactfully and calmly expressed her desire to conceal her identity.

Being compared to a three-year-old child, this made Tangke very popular. He saw that the other party didn't want to answer, so he asked instead, "Are you an enemy or a friend?"

"Poor man, the answer in the world is not only yes or no. Why do we have to divide friends and enemies the first time we meet? You need me, so I am here to solve your immediate troubles. Fate is like a chessboard , the two of us intersected at this point, that's all." Ivy let out a bitter dry laugh and laughed at herself, "Also, knowing everything is not a pleasure, if you know everything, you will lose the joy of life. ."

Tangke felt that Ivy was an unfathomable woman. Since he couldn't ask any answers, he shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "Okay. Miss Mystery, I'll treat you as an ordinary fortune-teller for now. Now, I I need you to decipher this text for me. If you help me, do I need any payment?"

"Poor man," Ivy said the mantra for the third time, "you don't have anything I like about you for the time being. You've heard about me from Kylo, ​​I'm like a hermit crab, I like to live around people with great luck. Unfortunately, your luck is just average now, and you make enemies everywhere, far from meeting my requirements. If you want to repay me, you can promise me that when your luck is on the line, Allow me to stay with you."

"Deal." Tangke happily agreed, he didn't think it was a great thing, and the ghost knew when he would turn around.

"Okay. Show me the devil's treasure chest."

"You don't have to look at that thing, I have a copy here." Tangke reached into his arms, intending to take out a parchment scroll that was copied before.

"Don't take that replica out, it's useless, I have to see the real thing."

Tangke hesitated for a moment. He only told Kylo about his possession of the demon treasure chest, which was kept secret from the outside world. Ivy called out the name of the demon treasure chest, maybe it was revealed by Kylo, ​​maybe she overheard it herself, or divination?

He thinks that Ivy is like a mystery. If I bring it to the devil's treasure chest, will Ivy take it away? He just had this idea, and he immediately denied it. For a terrifying existence like Ivy, if he wants to harm himself, there is no need to be so circumspect.

"Okay. Then let's go?" Tangke asked tentatively.

"Otherwise how are you going to go?"

"I thought you were going to fly with me."

"Hehe, it's a pity that the sky doesn't belong to me." Ivy shook her head, paced to the door, passed Tangke, and went straight out.

Tangke followed him out with a question mark on his face. As he walked, he looked at Ivy's back at close range. The woman's black robe was close to her skin, and the shoulder blades on her back showed two smooth curves, which didn't look like anything. special place.

"Poor man, don't look at me with those rude eyes." Ivy suddenly said.

Tangke found that he began to admire Ivy. Could it be that this worldly expert has eyes on his back?

"You didn't look at me, how do you know I'm looking at you?" Tangke retorted unforgivingly.

"Unreasonable." Ivy snorted.

When Tangke walked to the middle of the stairs, he had a plan in his mind. In order to test Ivy's skills, he deliberately pretended that his feet were falling down, he let out a cry, leaned forward, and grabbed at Ivy's back. . With the strength at this time, his eyes are very fast, and he can even catch the movements of birds flapping their wings. He saw that he was about to touch Ivy's back, and his heart was overjoyed, but at this moment, a dark shadow flashed in front of his eyes, and then he looked closely, and Ivy had disappeared. He secretly said so fast that he wanted to stop his footsteps, but he suddenly stumbled under his feet, and a huge force came from his back to help fuel the flames. Ding-dang hit the seven meat and eight elements.

Ivy appeared in the position where Tangke was standing just now, chuckled a few times, shook his head and said, "Poor man."

"Oh, it hurts to death." Tang Ke rubbed his head this time and stood up.

There were many pirates sitting in the hall. Some people saw Tangke's embarrassing scene, sneered, and pointed at the people around him.

Seeing this scene, Tang Ke shouted angrily: "What are you laughing at! If anyone laughs again, I will chop him up!" He is now the boss of more than a thousand people, so how could he endure the ridicule of others. The person who laughed just now shrank his neck in fright and stopped talking.

"Okay, it's your own fault." Ivy came to Tangke's back at some point, and pressed Tangke's shoulder gently, "Let's go. Remember to be quiet when you're on the road, and don't let go. Do more funny little things."

Tang Ke glared at the man just now, and then walked out of the hotel angrily. After the test just now, he realized that Ivy's skills are also extraordinary, and it is better to keep friendly with this fortune-teller. He changed his previous style and followed Ivy's wishes along the way, quietly. Ivy seems to be very satisfied with this, her steps are brisk, step by step with a rather feminine elegance.

About ten minutes later, the two came to the beach and boarded the Sky. Tangke greeted the people on the boat and went straight to the storage room.

When the other pirates saw that the head of the regiment led a woman back, they were a little secretive, and they sullenly guessed that the head of the regiment was going to be on the boat. A few of them whispered behind their backs.

"Why did the head of the regiment want to play with women and return to the ship?"

"You have no taste, the terrain is different, and the feeling is different! Maybe the captain has a soft spot for the environment on the ship."

"Let's go! This kind of thing needs a fart taste!"

"Shh! Be quiet, don't let the head of the regiment hear you, I will throw you into the sea and feed the sharks."

Although the mutterings of several people were small, they could not escape Tangke's ears. He liked this little misunderstanding very much, and smiled, but held back his words. Ivy was probably angry. With a wave of her wide black sleeves, the crow on her shoulder flew out. After a while, she heard the screams of the pirates on the deck outside, and someone shot. When the crow flew again When he came back, there was some bright red blood on his pointed mouth.

"You dare to attack my subordinates!" Tangke was furious and stopped Ivy.

"Just a little punishment, don't worry, they were just injured, not fatal." Ivy said lightly.

Tangke listened carefully, and those people were still yelling and scolding, and it really wasn't a big deal. Only then did he restrain his temper and move on. The two came to the storage room, Tangke pretended to be a gentleman, and made a gesture of please after opening the door. Ivy walked in with her head held high, and her posture was arrogant.

As the glass lamp was lit, the demon treasure chest on the table presented a terrifying appearance. Ivy walked over without an introduction from Tangke.

Ivy stood in front of the demon treasure chest and silently studied the text on the treasure chest. The crow on her shoulder also stretched its neck and stared at the treasure chest. Tangke stood on the side without urging.

"Congratulations, my partner told me that there is no prank on this treasure chest, that is to say, it is indeed a treasure inside." Ivy asked to see the real thing before, just to verify whether the treasure chest is true or not. The crow turned his head spiritually and looked at Tangke.

Tangke could only believe what Ivy said, and eagerly asked, "What exactly is written on the treasure chest?"

Ivy began to solemnly read in the tone of reciting poetry: "I am the king of the night, and I leave this secret treasure to future generations to sing the glory of sin and evil. This treasure is called the heart of the magic ship, which can turn the ship into birth. A hotbed of monsters. If you want to obtain this treasure, you need to offer sacrifices to demons in the dark night of the year-end day, at the turn of two years. You need to enshrine a ship with 666 blood-splattered corpses on board. At that time, you need to hold the heart and press it into the hull to activate the heart of the magic ship. After that, you will get a killing ship with the power to make the world tremble. And your hand, also It will then degenerate and transform into the claws of the devil, otherwise it will not be enough to make the beast surrender."

Ivy's cadenced tone added a layer of mystery to this sentence. The lights in the room were jumping, and the shadows on the wall seemed to dance wildly, as if countless pairs of eyes were watching the actions of the two people in the room. One move.

Tangke chewed on the meaning of this sentence. This matter was no trivial matter. He couldn't just listen to it once, so he had to bite the bullet and begged Ivy to say it a few more times, and then copied it down word for word. He gradually understood the meaning of it. Just opening this treasure chest is not enough. To activate the heart of the magic ship, 666 people need to be sacrificed!

"666, this is the mark of the devil, which means evil and destruction. In the past, this number was a taboo. Even if the devil was wiped out, this number would also attract unknowns." Ivy explained that the worship of 666 corpses , is not a random request by the devil, but contains special intentions.

"What do you think of this treasure chest?" Tangke felt that a big stone had been pressed on his heart, making him unable to relax.

"I said, this is not a prank, the above record is true. For me, this treasure chest is just someone else's thing. What matters is how you treat this treasure chest yourself."

"To be honest, it's not difficult to get 666 corpses, but what I care about is that it says 'and your hand will also degenerate and transform into the claws of the devil'. In this way, I used After this thing, the hands will become claws? There is another point, after this treasure chest has passed for so long, the heart of the magic ship in it will not expire, right? Does this thing have an expiration date?" Tangke looked eagerly.

Ivy raised her hand, but her hand was still hidden in her sleeve. Judging from the raised point, it should have been her index finger. She shook her index finger and said word by word, "I, too, do not know."

"Aren't you a fortune teller who knows everything?" Tangke showed a suspicious expression.

"But I'm not interested in fortune-telling for a box."

"Then you can do the math for me! How much does it cost?"

"Your money is as useless as a stone in my eyes, and it doesn't interest me at all."

Tangke patted his chest with both hands and said, "Then you see what I have that makes you interested~lightnovelpub.net~ You can say whatever." His implication seemed to be that even his own body was counted. One of the rewards to choose from.

Ivy chuckled, shook her head and said, "I've said it all, there is nothing in you that attracts me, those things are of great use to you, but they are meaningless to me. Well, take Show your courage as a pirate, don't be timid. I'm not here to change you, but to do you a favor."

"In other words, you won't help me with divination?" Tangke said regretfully.

"Poor man, I can't say enough about this treasure chest. Any behavior of a fortune teller to guide fate will be punished by God. Some trivial things are not worth my sacrifice. This treasure chest is a trivial matter." Wei turned around, like a spinning black rose, she walked towards the door, "My mission is complete, it's time to leave."

"Hey! Don't go yet! Let's talk!" Tangke chased after him.

"Poor man, we will meet again. The tsunami is coming, and you are one of the important waves." Ivy's voice came gracefully.

Tangke chased out the door, but the corridor was empty.