Pirates' Max Level System

Finally, at the suggestion of Zhan Guo, Marshal Gang Gukong ordered all majors, lieutenant colonels and colonels in the navy fleet to cooperate with the investigators and must catch any clues of the crime.

Sengoku had considered that Colonel Firi might have been deliberately spared by the criminals to disrupt the naval investigation. But then he considered that the commodore's sword had narrowly missed the colonel's heart. At that distance, even the slightest movement in drawing the sword would have killed her instantly.

Thinking of this, Zhan Guo denied it on his own. Who could have expected that the heart of the female leader Zuo Feili was smaller than that of an ordinary person? If the murderer really had such ability, the navy would have accepted it if they couldn't find it. At least Zhan Guo thought so, but he didn't know that it was actually quite easy for Qin Luo, who had white eyes, to do such a thing.

Zhan Guo arranged a special investigation team to investigate many generals from major to colonel, especially those who disappeared between 3:30 and 4:00 in the morning.

Qin Luo was no exception and was questioned by the investigation team. However, as an "eyewitness", he was even passed over once.

Qin Luo's guard, as Qin Luo's "eyewitness", between 3:30 and 4:00 in the morning, confessed all the facts of last night under hypnosis by the investigation team.

Aren't these all facts? In the eyes of Qin Luo's guards, "Major Sato" or Qin Luo did not leave between 3:30 and 4:00 in the morning, and only went to the toilet for a few minutes after 4:00 in the morning.

The suspicion of "Major Sato" soon disappeared, and he became one of the first group of trusted "navy insiders".

After labeling "Major Sato" as "good father, poor strength, and weird personality", the investigation team went on to investigate other generals.

The investigation reached a stalemate. At the time, most officers were either on patrol or asleep, making it difficult to find "eyewitnesses." Consequently, the list of suspects contained a significant number of majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels, filling several pages.

After an entire afternoon of investigation, Marshal Gang Gukong was naturally dissatisfied with the result. After a burst of angry scolding, Gang Gukong once again strengthened the navy's nighttime alert team, mobilizing more major generals and lieutenant generals to join the patrol.

In addition, patrolling officers were arranged to take turns frequently, leaving no loopholes for criminals to exploit.

In response, Qin Luo said it didn't matter. The groundwork had been laid enough, and it was time for the navy to face the butcher knife of the army of sea monsters he had summoned.

That night, Qin Luo stayed in his room. The siren's song began to sound again at six o'clock in the evening...

The mournful song further demoralized the already uneasy navy. The admirals, summoned by Kong Gu Kong, ultimately succeeded in suppressing the negative rumors within the navy, but they were powerless to address the hesitation within the navy.

When most people thought that the disaster tonight would still happen in the early morning, Qin Luo chose to take action before twelve o'clock.

Using the power of the Water Overlord, Qin Luo randomly teleported within the naval fleet, and whichever general he encountered was considered unlucky. The disappearance of each patrolling general was reported to Zhan Guo and Gang Gu Kong.

"This is the third major general tonight. Gang Gu Kong is really willing to let him go. Is it me, Qin Luo, who can't hold the knife anymore, or is it Gang Gu Kong who is floating? The major generals are coming out one by one to die."

As Qin Luo slashed the major general's throat, he swung a brand-new navy long sword, which he had found from nowhere. The blood on the sword and the major general's body sank into the sea. The sound was quickly drowned out by the sound of the waves caused by the advancing navy fleet, and no one noticed it at all.

"No, there is a spatial fluctuation, someone is coming." Suddenly, Qin Luo, who possessed the powerful ability of the Mangekyo Sharingan, felt a familiar spatial fluctuation.

Qin Luo instantly melted into a pool of sea water that splashed onto the deck, transforming into a water spirit to secretly observe the visitor.

A space door opened and Deadpool walked out from it3.4.

"You escaped. It seems you have played a trick. But the mouse has been caught by the cat. Let's see how you can run away later." The newly appeared Deadpool was unhappy to see that Qin Luo disappeared again, and then returned from the space gate.

"My worries were right. The remaining Five Elders were afraid of death and didn't come when the navy called for a mobilization, but they still sent Deadpool. Luckily, I was more cautious and didn't use my spatial abilities much. But now that even Deadpool has been forced out, Cyborg Kong must be getting anxious."

Qin Luo's eyes turned, as if he had thought of another bad idea, and his figure disappeared. Tonight's hunting and chaos were far from over.

The sea surface was a little more turbulent than before, and a black shadow as wide as half the naval fleet was looming in the sea area below the tail of the naval fleet.

Chapter 397: Prelude to the Undead

Besides that massive black shadow, many others of varying sizes darted beneath the surface. Skeletal demon fish, their crimson eyes obscured, pinned themselves to the bottom of the boat. Their excited roars echoed through the surging waters.

However, for the naval fleet in the fog, all this happened so quietly that no one noticed it.

The two armies faced each other. One side had already set up its position while the other side was still making a fire and cooking. The balance of victory was tilted in this battle from the very beginning.

At this time, the restless Zhan Guo had already stopped reviewing the documents. When he heard the news that another general was missing, the uneasiness in his heart began to "beep".

"Guards, is there still no news about the criminal who caused the general's disappearance?" Zhan Guo asked the guards outside the door.

"No news has been received yet, General Xianshi." The summoned guard saluted and reported to Zhan Guo.

Lord Deadpool has taken action but there is still no news? Zhan Guo thought silently in his heart.

Zhan Guo is one of the only two generals in the navy who knows about Deadpool's existence. In fact, when Liu Yun was fighting against the Five Elders, Zhan Guo had already noticed Deadpool, a subordinate of the Five Elders with spatial abilities.

Before the strongest assembly set out to attack Liuyun, Cyborg asked the Five Elders if they would go with him. The Five Elders, fearing death, naturally refused to go, so they sent two Deadpools to help secretly.

At least if the strongest assembly order was defeated, the Five Elders could work with Deadpool to teleport the Marine Bone back. Using teleportation to save Marines was not the first time, so they were extremely skilled.

Just now, after hearing that a general was missing, Cyborg left the meeting directly, which was abnormal. He must have gone to ask the two Deadpools for help.

The upset Zhan Guo walked onto the deck, thinking that maybe looking at the sea and the stars would ease his nerves, but he couldn't see the sea in the fog, and he couldn't even see the monster with its fangs and claws bared under his feet.

The recent events kept churning in Zhan Guo's mind. These things must be connected, but he just couldn't find it.

"Look, what's that, in the fog?"

"It looks like a ship from its outline."

The increasingly loud noise of the navy soldiers interrupted Zhan Guo's thoughts. Following the voices of many soldiers, Zhan Guo looked towards the front of the navy fleet.

After leaving the lights of the navy fleet, a faint blue light emanated from the dark fog. The faint blue light made people feel cold.

The outline of the faint blue light looked like a ship, but the style of the ship was a bit retro and dilapidated.

A good performance starts with a good opera. Twelve o'clock is coming, and tonight is the special performance of the Siren Queen who has been hidden by Qin Luo for a long time.

So it's essential to give the Siren Queen a better show. Nothing could be more fitting than a queen who declares doom, driving a ship of the undead to spread death to her enemies.

A single spark can start a prairie fire. At first, a cluster of faint blue light seemed to be contagious, instantly igniting the entire sea area in front of the naval fleet, and even spreading to less than fifty meters in front of the navy.

Soon, a mysterious, dark blue light emerged from the mist. It was a dilapidated wooden vessel, its hull riddled with holes. Much of the wood had rotted away, while the rest was covered in lichen or some kind of aquatic weed. A dark blue light burned through the wounds.

"Hmm." This was the sound of a large number of naval soldiers swallowing their saliva collectively.

"Ghost... ghost... spirit ship." The guard standing behind Zhan Guo stammered and said something that even he himself did not believe, but the facts were right in front of him.

The ghost ship didn't collide directly with the navy warships, but instead dodged them and sailed into the middle of the navy fleet. Oh, maybe "floating" would be a more appropriate word.

After the first ghost ship, a second and a third soon emerged from the fog. One ghost ship after another appeared in front of the navy fleet.

"What are you standing there for? Sound the first-level combat alert, guards. Our guests are here." Zhan Guo roared, waking up all the dazed navy.

"Order a song of Liang Liang for the navy." Qin Luo looked at his watch. The appointed time of twelve o'clock was about to arrive.

Qin Luo dressed neatly and left his room. The entire naval fleet was in chaos. The first-level combat readiness alarm sounded on all naval warships. The sleeping sailors were awakened by the alarm and hurriedly got up to put on their equipment. Although they didn't know what was going on, it was definitely not a good thing.

What the navy lacks most now is time, and Qin Luo will not give them a chance.

The Siren Queen's song sounded precisely on time, a sleep-inducing elegy softly carried to the sailors' minds. The blaring alarm had no effect on the song at all. The sailors, newly awakened, felt a deep sense of sleepiness rising, their eyelids heavy as they tried to slump back into bed.

Even the sailors who didn't feel sleepy felt their spirits grow dispirited and low. On the contrary, the blue flames burned even more fiercely amidst the singing.

Awakening the dead and sending the living to sleep. This is the Siren Queen's "Deep Sea Overture of the Dead."

Blue flames exploded, showering the ghost ship with rustling sounds. Skeletons began to crawl up one after another, and the mossy, weed-covered ground began to stir. They were monsters like coral reefs.

No weapon could withstand the erosion of time and seawater. The undead aboard Ghost 663 wielded sharp bone spurs as weapons. Long, white bones of unknown origin, one end sharpened into a blade, the bone fragments tinged with an inexplicable bloody color.

The ghost ship also seemed to come alive, its wrecked decks leaping up, biting the nearby naval vessels like a beast. The undead on the ghost ship dragged their weapons and engaged the navy in a boarding battle.

The navy, having regained consciousness, also took action. Many undead were swept into the sea as they walked across the wreckage of the navy's warships. Although the navy tried their best to sweep away the undead, their sheer numbers and fearlessness eventually overwhelmed the navy's defenses and landed on the navy's warships.

Most common marines were armed with muskets, but these were completely ineffective against the undead. The bullets would either fly through the gaps between the undead's bones or collide with the bone fragments, making a harsh sound that sounded like the undead's creepy mockery.

Marines skilled in physical combat could easily deal with the clumsy undead with just a sharp blade or blunt weapon, and they could rip an undead into pieces in just a few strikes.

But the trouble with the undead is that even though they are divided into many parts, each part is still able to move and struggle to gather together to be reborn.

Chapter 398: Undead Possession

The undead were so difficult to deal with that ordinary naval soldiers naturally could not handle them. Seeing that the naval positions were being continuously compressed, many middle-level generals also began to take action against the undead.

As naval lieutenant-level generals joined the battle, the undead attack was suppressed.

However, not long after the victory report arrived, the screams rang out again. While the navy was not paying attention, the undead that had been driven to the bottom of the sea had quietly climbed up from the other side of the navy fleet.

Amidst the fog and chaos, only a few naval warships were lucky enough to notice this, as most were blasted in the back by the undead. It was hard to imagine how these limbless undead managed to crawl onto the warships from beneath the sea.

The last thought of the men in the rear of the various naval warships was, "This is impossible." They stared blankly at the bone blades piercing their chests, only able to let out a shrill scream before their lives slipped away like flowing water.

The navy generals were very angry about the loss of their rear, and they turned their guns around, intending to crush the undead who attacked them from behind.

At this time, the navy's attention was attracted by the undead attacking from the rear, and they did not notice that among the undead that were boarding the navy ships, there were a few skeletons that suddenly sped up their movements and squeezed to the front silently.

That strange behavior and clever concealment methods are different from the clumsy and dull appearance of ordinary undead, making it more like a deadly assassin.

These undead suddenly attacked, and when the naval generals participating in the battle were planning to return to rescue, they rushed out sinisterly from the blind spot of their target's vision.

The speed of these undead is astonishing.

The targeted naval generals did not notice it immediately because of the blind spot. The surrounding naval soldiers saw it but were shocked by the speed of these undead. It was too late to remind them.

Is this still a ghost? Is my vision dazzled? This must be what countless navy soldiers were thinking at this moment.

Most of those attacked were lieutenant-level officers, with only a few majors and one lieutenant colonel being attacked. Furthermore, the officers attacked were either Devil Fruit users or strong individuals with physical abilities.

Even the lieutenant colonel wasn't spared. The undead spirit that approached him slashed with the bone blade in its hand, and without a trace of sword energy, the lieutenant colonel was split in half.

The flying blood splashed onto the naval soldiers nearby, frightening them so much that they collapsed to the ground.

These sneak attacking undead did not end after killing the naval generals. The following scene was something that many sailors would never forget for the rest of their lives.

After cutting the navy lieutenant colonel in half, he grabbed the left and right halves of the body that was about to fall, and the lieutenant colonel's internal organs fell to the ground.

Like putting on clothes, the undead leaned the two halves of the corpse against its skeleton. Black nematodes swarmed from the undead's bones, spreading over the corpse and the internal organs on the ground.

Soon the two parts of the body were put together. Under the skin of the body, a series of bulges rolled rapidly like static electricity, and finally broke through the skin and rushed out of the surface.

The entire undead, along with the corpse, was wrapped in a black substance. The black substance should be the countless black nematodes just now, but the black substance at this time was more like a flow-like substance, curling and turning there.

The Marines who witnessed this scene felt their scalps tingle, their hairs stood on end, and goose bumps spread all over their bodies. They had a premonition that if they didn't stop these undead's strange and terrifying behavior now, it would only get worse later.

But no one wants to be the fool who stands out and gets beaten.

Marshal Gang Gukong had been reluctant to allow naval officers above the rank of colonel to join the battlefield, fearing that an accident would damage the high-end combat power. Seeing that ordinary naval officers and mid-level officers could handle these undead, he left them alone.

Even now, Kong and Zhan Guo felt something was amiss, and out of caution, they held back. The strongest of these undead could only sneak up on a lieutenant colonel, and most, besides being difficult and numerous, posed less of a threat than an ordinary marine.

Even if such an undead underwent a strange transformation, how much stronger could it be? Zhan Guo and Gang Gu Kong predicted that it would only increase by one level at most. The existence of such strength was not something Gang Gu Kong and Zhan Guo needed to consider at all. They were wary of the killer move that was coming.

Unfortunately, there are not so many things in the world that can be predicted, otherwise it would be unpredictable.

As the black substance surged, two objects seemed to be spit out. They were the bones of the lieutenant colonel, which had been severed in half.

The two pieces of bones fell to the ground and scattered all over the floor with a "ping pong" sound. The white bones were still stained with some blood, and the broken flesh and blood were stuck in the corners of the bones, emitting a fishy smell.

The black substance faded away, revealing the wrapped undead and the lieutenant colonel's body. The black substance flowed back from the wounds of the body.

Black matter crawled across the wound that bisected the body, and the flesh around the wound seemed to be sewn together by an invisible hand. Starting from the head, the wound gradually healed until all the wounds disappeared.

A brand new lieutenant colonel appeared before the navy, as if he had never been divided into two halves.

"An army? I wonder which country's troops they are from. I am Governor Ayi. I am honored to be with you all again. This must be the arrangement of Lady Death."

The resurrected lieutenant colonel, or rather the undead spirit in the guise of a lieutenant colonel, opened his eyes. His movements were graceful, as he bowed gently, one hand resting behind him and the other across his chest, a standard aristocratic etiquette. His voice was also soft and urgent, though a little hoarse.

Such elegance didn't win the Navy's favor, even despite its previous strange appearance. The Undead's eye sockets were now empty, its eyeballs missing, and it looked like countless black liquids were swirling inside. The Marines in front of the Undead took two steps back in fear.

After the undead named Ayi Du finished speaking, the undead who had attacked the navy first also walked out of the black substance one after another. Like Ayi Du, they all maintained the appearance of the attacked.

"This is a fateful encounter. The lady likes you very much. You are too polite." Seeing the navy soldiers take a few steps back, Ayi Du clasped his hands together and spoke to comfort them. When he spoke of the woman, his empty eye sockets almost spewed out fanatical flames.

After saying this, Ayi Du seemed to notice the bone blade under his feet. The black substance flowed out from Ayi Du's right hand again, wrapping the bone blade on the ground and the bones of the lieutenant colonel together.

After a moment, the black substance receded, and a bone scepter appeared in Ayi Du's hand.

The top of the scepter is a demon skull, and the bottom is a sharp sword blade.

Chapter 399 Governor Ayi

This bone scepter is as white as snow, unlike the previous bone blade that had a bad reputation.

The other undead spirits that had taken over flesh bodies followed suit, with black nematodes swarming out of their bodies and refining the bones of the corpses they had taken over into weapons.

Previously, Ayi Du had successfully taken over the body of a lieutenant colonel, and his strength and aura fluctuated, hovering between colonel and brigadier general.

This kind of strength was clearly not enough to stand in front of the navy's top brass, and Zhan Guo and Gang Gu Kong didn't completely focus their attention on the ghosts of these ghost ships. However, they did wonder why Ayi Du was so fearless. Could he be relying on his own immortality?

Until the bone scepter was held in Ayi Du's hand, everything was explained. Ayi Du's momentum broke through one after another.

Starting from a strength between that of a colonel and a brigadier general, he broke through to the rank of lieutenant general, finally stopping just before the threshold of general. Every time he broke through a certain level of strength, Ayi Du's body was like a shackle being released, and a dull cracking sound was heard.

At the same time, the demonic skull on Ayi Du's bone scepter let out a sharp scream from its mouth as it broke through. The scream formed a sound barrier that splashed in all directions, even shaking away the mist within ten meters around Ayi Du.

The final sound barrier was so powerful it seemed like a general's threshold, knocking the soldiers of Ayi Du's naval fleet unconscious or sending them flying. If the generals on the warships hadn't seen the danger and successfully rescued the soldiers who were flying out of the warships, many of them would have fallen into the sea and become "fish".

Sengoku and Konggu Kong looked at each other, realizing they had misjudged the enemy. Their overcautiousness had simply allowed the enemy to regain this level of strength. Konggu Kong glanced at Kizaru and gestured, who understood and vanished in a flash.