Players are coming, fortunately I have a time travel simulator

Zhou Ning thought for a moment and decided to wait until Cotton Benson woke up before interrogating him, to see if he could get more information from General Thunder's boatswain. He had a feeling that this matter wasn't that simple.

He searched Cotton Benson's body and found a wad of banknotes, several weather sticks, and a small, irregularly shaped stone with a rope on the other end. This must be the unknown strange object that Cotton Benson used to resist attacks.

Mutated Wolf Heart

Level: Unknown Strange Item

Item Type: Accessories

It can make part of your body hard according to your will. The hardness is related to your physical strength. The cooling time is 30 seconds.

Negative effects: Wearing it will gradually cause your personality to shift to another extreme, and it is easy for the holder to collapse and lose control.

It was not bad, Zhou Ning confiscated it decisively.

As for the other two people... According to what I heard about their crimes before, they deserve to die a hundred times, but they are still being kept for the New Year?

An exquisite crossbow jumped out of his hand. He aimed at "One-Eyed" Martin on the ground and pulled the trigger.

You killed Super Meteorologist Martin (lv74), and gained 179600 experience points.

[Hunting thirty-six extremely sinful souls: 3/36. ]

Zhou Ning stretched out his hand and grabbed the wailing soul that appeared on the crossbow surface, stuffed it into a test tube, and then aimed the [Archer God Boudica's Hand Crossbow] at the walrus man Tai Qing.

You killed the Super Shaman Taiqing (lv71), and gained 153000 experience points.

[Hunting thirty-six extremely sinful souls: 4/36. ]

The alley returned to silence.

Gas resources are scarce in the Kingdom of Sifalik, and the surrounding street lights are quite dim. There is no moon in the sky, making the surroundings even darker.

After an unknown amount of time, Cotton Benson woke up. Feeling the severe pain in his body, he couldn't help but groan.

"You..." At this time, he saw the two bodies of his companions nearby, and then saw Zhou Ning. He was stunned at first, then opened his mouth wide, ready to call for help.

But suddenly, his heartbeat quickened, and he felt a strong instinctive fear, unable to respond effectively. He couldn't help but recall the scene when he saw the Pirate Emperor Valentine at the Pirate Conference.

The suffocating feeling is exactly the same.

"Are you... Wayne Stewell?"

"Yes, now I ask, you answer." Zhou Ning smiled politely and asked casually, "I heard that you sneaked into Nathaniel to look for people for a treasure?"

"No, that's a rumor..." "Cotton" Benson denied it subconsciously.

He immediately felt a terrifying aura again and felt the fear from the bottom of his heart.

Zhou Ning retracted his domineering aura and smiled, "I can tell lies. No one can lie to me. Now you have two choices."

"One is to answer honestly, the other is to be killed by me and exchanged for the bounty."

Distinguishing lies? "Cotton" Benson didn't dare to gamble. His throat moved and he said in a hoarse voice:

"Yes, we did find a treasure, but the cause wasn't the treasure, but an oil lamp. A few months ago, while salvaging a shipwreck, we found an oil lamp on board. Inside the lamp resides a giant werewolf. If you rub the surface, it will appear and grant you three wishes."

Is this... the "Apocalyptic" version of Aladdin's lamp? Zhou Ning's eyes widened in surprise. He had never heard of such a thing in his previous life. But his intuition told him that "Cotton" Benson wasn't lying!

"The first wish was naturally the captain's. He was a little wary at first, so he only wished for great wealth. We didn't take it seriously at first, but just a few hours later, the Ashram came to our door and reached an agreement with the Bryston and Ruines royal families to engage in human trafficking and combat hostile forces. This agreement continues to this day, and we finally got our wish and obtained a great deal of wealth!"

"But we also paid a price. After the wish was fulfilled, we discovered that this oil lamp has a terrible negative effect. If he grants you a wish, you must also grant him a wish, otherwise you will be punished. His first wish is to bring him the finest silk from Ruins, the golden wolffish from Temple Port, and 48 grams of mithril within 76 hours."

"This might be difficult for ordinary people, but it was easy for us, the Thunder General Pirates. We fulfilled His wish, completed the deal, and gradually began to trust Him. We immediately made a second wish, to become stronger. However, this wish was rejected by Him, on the grounds that the wish was too broad and could not be fulfilled. He could only help a few of us become stronger. So, including me, the captain, first mate Mason, and second mate Lawrence, each obtained a powerful unknown artifact and became stronger as we wished."

"But his second wish was for us to collect 48 grams of tung wood, 230 grams of mermaid tears, and 320 kilogram of krypton silver within 1 hours! What the hell! We tried everything but still came up short. In the end, we paid a terrible price. The four of us were cursed with the werewolf curse. We would occasionally turn into werewolves at night, and sometimes even lose our minds for long periods of time. This past month, it was especially so. I would lose consciousness in the early hours of the morning, and it would often be after a.m. when I woke up."

"After these two wishes, no one dared to touch the lamp again for a while. But surprisingly, it would continue to induce the owner to rub the lamp through illusions. So one night, the captain, in werewolf form, rubbed the lamp for the third time and made a wish - to become the most powerful person on the sea and rule the sea."

"It was then that we learned that this oil lamp had a second negative effect: once a wish was made, it could not be undone, or it would bring unforeseen disaster to everyone on board. Then, He gave us a treasure map and disappeared, leading us to an isolated island in the Motley Archipelago called Hood Island. Surprisingly, it happened to be right on our route."

"And then?" Zhou Ning was secretly surprised and asked calmly. This oil lamp was indeed an unknown wonder, and it was probably the most deceptive one. It was forced upon a pirate general at a small price, leading him into the abyss.

"The treasure map led us into a weather tide. There is indeed a huge elven relic inside, but it is full of traps and puzzles, and the violent breath of gods is everywhere. In the absence of historians and treasure hunters, we can't move forward at all. We only brought out a few pages from a room. After entering it once, the weather tide disappeared, and we can never enter it a second time." "Cotton" Benson said a little frustrated.

"Wait, if it's filled with the aura of the gods, why are you unaffected?" Zhou Ning interrupted him and asked curiously. He still remembered that when he faced Nyastra, ordinary people couldn't withstand his pressure at all.

"The divine aura seems to be weakening, and the genie in the magic lamp reminded us to bring some supernatural items that can protect us from it." He looked up and made eye contact with Zhou Ning before continuing, "After identification, these pages are found to be fragments from the Book of Gleipnir, a legendary artifact crafted by the legendary world-destroying wolf Gleipnir. Each page has the power to cause natural disasters."

"The following is what you know. In order to find a way to reopen the ruins, our entire pirate group temporarily disbanded and each of us sought out others to join the exploration."

"So you were the one who posted the bounty in Nathaniel's Adventurer Organization?"

"No? What bounty?" Cotton Benson asked, a little bewildered. "I was looking for someone in the Northern Pirate Alliance, but I only found two partners: Odu the "Viper," who claims to serve the King of Lavidus, and Eddie Nel from the Poseidon."

"Poseidon? The Northern Pirate Emperor? Could it be that Valentine's previous appearance in the waters near the Motley Islands wasn't a coincidence?"

Zhou Ning was about to continue asking questions when a breeze blew away the dark clouds, and a bright moon appeared in the sky.

He was a little surprised to see that Cotton Benson's eyes were wide open, his mouth was bulging, and wisps of long black hair appeared all over his body, completely blending into the night.

In just a short period of time, he turned into a giant wolf covered in black hair!