Pirates' Max Level System

Many tourists and citizens who plan to participate in the subsequent parade ceremony have already boarded the cruise ship and will set off together as soon as the priests finish the worship ceremony.

Apart from being approached by "Big News" Morgans, the first half of the ceremony went smoothly. No one from the newspaper, the Doomsday Cult, or other organizations came out to cause trouble.

Until many ships sailed near the lighthouse, that is, the sea in front of the lighthouse bell tower abandoned by the city.

The long-silent lighthouse tower suddenly shone with an incandescent light from its top. Many people, who had lived in South Hilllove their entire lives, had never seen such a bright light.

This light existed only in stories passed down by the older generation. Like a streak of white light, it pierced the sky, tearing through the fog and illuminating the path ahead. Almost everyone thought the light in the lighthouse's clock tower was broken.

"The guiding light has been turned on, and it's time for me to leave." A figure on the lighthouse muttered and ran quickly downwards. In just a short period of time, several ships had already broken away from the fleet and were heading straight for the lighthouse.

Once the changes occurred, they continued to occur one after another. The priests' ship, which had been at the forefront of the fleet, suddenly turned and headed towards the Lost Sea. If you looked closely, you could see that the direction the lighthouse was pointing was the same.

"What's going on? Why did the priests' boat turn? This is different from the cruising rituals of previous festivals."

"Yeah, should we follow them or do it as usual."

From the moment the lights appeared, all the ships became agitated.

Chapter 556: Sorry for disturbing you

On the bridge of the luxury cruise ship South Hilllove, a large group of people crowded into the small room. Most of the senior management of the Chamber of Commerce were here.

"Should we follow them?" the captain of the cruise ship asked in embarrassment. Although he was the captain, none of the people around him were people he could afford to offend.

"Of course I have to chase."

"No, there are too many tourists on the ship. Do you want to face the siege of all the families?"

"Then are you going to watch the clues to the Guardian family being cut off?"

For a moment, the bridge couldn't make a firm decision. The captain, with a wry smile, slowed the ship down and steered it between the two roads. That way, no matter what the decision was, he could be there immediately.

The Chamber of Commerce might still hesitate, but the people at the newspaper and the Church of Doom wouldn't have to. Anyone could clearly see that the events at the Maritime Festival were inextricably linked to the descendants of the Guardian family. In just a short while, over a dozen ships had already left the fleet and were heading towards the priests' ships.

However, the fastest ones were the Red Hair Pirates. During the festival, they contacted the companion guarding the ship and mixed in with the fleet by disguising their pirate ship as a merchant ship. When the incident occurred, they were well prepared and rushed over immediately.

The mystery on the map will finally be revealed to them.

The South Hill Love finally sailed along its usual route, and the Chamber of Commerce sent several speedboats to follow it.

"It seems that this luxury cruise ship will not participate in the party later." Qin Luo waved his hand and said.

Hey, what's with that regretful look on your face? Do you want to take everyone on the ship on this adventure with you?

Seeing Qin Luo looking like he deserved a beating, Olivia quickly slapped him.

After the show was over, Qin Luo said to the store manager: "Manager, do you want to come with me? Who else wants to go with me?"

As expected, the store manager refused. Olivia and Miss Nakano both said they wanted to go, but Taotu also refused. Taotu's reason was that if the people the store manager invited disappeared, the store manager might be suspected, so she simply stayed to cover for the store manager.

What a kind child! It would have been better if she hadn't been holding the beauty coupons and excitedly discussing with the store manager which beauty package to choose.

Can anyone tell Qin Luo why this cruise ship provides free beauty services?

After finding a secluded place, Qin Luo sent Olivia and female reporter Nai into the Kamui space, and he used the power of the Overlord of the Sea to arrive at the ship of the Red Hair Pirates.

Speaking of the Overlord of the Sea's ability to teleport instantly with the help of water, Qin Luo is no longer as cautious as he was at the beginning. He will first transform into a water phantom to observe the situation around the landing point and whether he has teleported to the wrong place.

It must be because he has been using this ability too smoothly recently, Qin Luo directly skipped the middle step and appeared directly after selecting the target.

As soon as he came out, Qin Luo found that the atmosphere was a little strange. He was surrounded by people wearing hoods and religious robes. They seemed to be members of a doomsday sect.

Not to mention Qin Luo was frightened, even these cultists were frightened by the sudden appearance of Qin Luo.

"Um, do you know where Shanks is?"

What answered Qin Luo was the dark muzzle of a gun. All the cultists drew their weapons and pointed them at the enemy who had somehow sneaked onto the boat.

There is nothing wrong with saying enemies. For cultists, there are two kinds of creatures in the world: their companions and enemies.

Feeling that these cultists might not be particularly friendly, Qin Luo said "Sorry for disturbing you" and activated the ability of the Overlord of the Sea again and disappeared on the spot.

Strange, isn't the ship that left all the ships behind the Red Hair Pirates the Red Hair Pirates' ship? Or did he click the wrong one? Qin Luo was full of doubts and chose the ship he thought belonged to the Red Hair Pirates again.

"Shanks, you don't know, I just got on the wrong ship, and the people there are not friendly at all." Because this time the landing point was the captain's room, Qin Luo said as he pushed open the door.

Embarrassing, extremely embarrassing. The people who appeared in front of Qin Luo were not Shanks, Hawkeye and others, but the cultists just now.

Yes, that's right. After Qin Luo teleported again, he still arrived on the same ship. These cultists were still holding their weapons. And Qin Luo seemed to have just said bad things about them in front of them. I don't know if it's too late to explain to them now.

"What a coincidence." Qin Luo waved at the cultists with an awkward but polite smile on his lips.

As expected, it was fate. This time, the cultists pulled the trigger without hesitation, just to eliminate Qin Luo, the elusive enemy.

Although Qin Luo felt very sorry for his behavior, he still had to reciprocate since the other party had taken action, especially since the other party was a cultist. During this period of time, Qin Luo didn't know how many cultists he had killed, and he showed no mercy at all.

Numerous bullets hit Qin Luo's body with a "ping pong" sound, but apart from causing some damage to his clothes, no other injuries were caused.

Then, Qin Luo held his right hand forward, and a vortex with devouring power emerged from the palm of his hand. The sudden vortex stretched and twisted the space into strips, and then curled around the center in circles.

This devouring force wasn't targeting space or objects. Even though space appeared to be distorted, nothing was happening. Instead, a red substance, indistinguishable from blood or flesh, continuously emerged from the bodies of the cultists and flowed toward the center of the devouring force.

Qin Luo was slowly draining the life force of all the cultists on the ship. In terms of attack methods, Qin Luo was more like a cultist.

Feeling their life force draining away, their bodies growing increasingly old and weak, the cultists hastily dropped their weapons and attempted to flee. Unfortunately, these were all delusions. Before they could even leap overboard, they were already dead, their bones and hair reduced to a wisp of ash.

Recently, Qin Luo has been improving the application of his devouring ability, from the previous requirement of short-range contact to the current ability to absorb an area the size of a ship.

Compared to gravitational repulsion, devouring seems to be even more unreasonable. It bypasses the defense and directly extracts the selected object, whether it is vitality, the power of the devil fruit or matter.

But the disadvantages are also obvious. This kind of devouring does not distinguish between friend and foe. With Qin Luo's current life force, the palm of his right hand has also aged due to the power of devouring.

This is not the swallowing at full strength. Qin Luo dare not imagine whether the swallowing at full strength will swallow him up.

Chapter 557: Trapped on an Island

Qin Luo has always been very cautious about unknown things. He cherishes his current life very much and is gradually mastering his abilities.

After putting away the ability to devour, the red bead representing vitality at the center of the devouring became larger. I wonder if it was Qin Luo's illusion, but this time the bead grew much larger than before. Does this mean that his efficiency in devouring vitality has increased?

No longer thinking about these questions that had no answers for the time being, Qin Luo began to look for the Red Hair Pirates' ship.

After Qin Luo left, the ship, without its crew, drifted alone on the sea. Anyone passing by at this moment would be frightened by the strange state of the ship. The surface of the hull was covered with a layer of white dust, and on top of it were weapons and clothes that had fallen to the ground. Judging from the appearance of the clothes, it seemed as if the people wearing them had disappeared out of thin air.

After searching around in the form of a water phantom, Qin Luo finally found the Red Hair Pirates among the numerous ships. Excluding the ship of the One Day Sect that Qin Luo had just destroyed, the Red Hair Pirates' ship was not even in the first echelon, and could only be ranked at the front of the second echelon.

"What happened?" After confirming this, Qin Luo didn't rush to release Olivia and the others from the Divine Might Space. Judging from the situation, there would be another fight soon. The female reporter, Miss Nai, and the two descendants of the Guardian Clan clearly had no fighting power. He was also worried that they would be affected by the fighting.

Being familiar with Qin Luo's ability to appear and disappear at will, Shanks and the others were not too frightened. In response to Qin Luo's question, Shanks and Hawkeye looked at each other and smiled helplessly.

At the beginning, Shanks's ship, taking advantage of its early preparation, was indeed ahead of the others, about a hundred meters away from the priests' ship.

The ships behind were clearly unwilling to be dominated by a force that came from nowhere. They might not dare to attack the priests' ship for fear of sinking it, but they were not polite at all to the red-haired man.

Ships from the newspaper, the Doomsday Cult, and other factions unleashed a barrage of fire on Red Hair's ship. Under pressure, Red Hair had no choice but to slow down, especially after entering the Lost Sea, where he was gradually overtaken by the ships behind him.

The Lost Sea is undoubtedly one of the most treacherous areas in the South China Sea. It's perpetually shrouded in fog, making visibility extremely low. Furthermore, the magnetic field within the Lost Sea is chaotic, just like the Grand Line. Without specialized navigational aids, navigation is impossible.

There is more to it than that. The faster you drive, the faster you die. Because in the Lost Sea, reefs may appear at any time, and if you are not careful, the boat will be destroyed and people will die.

Whether before or after the Guardian Family became known to the public, countless people have attempted to explore the Lost Sea. However, few have ever returned alive, let alone successfully. The only recent example of this was when reporters witnessed the Guardian Family's battle against the Undead Fleet.

The current situation is like this. The most crazy and largest number of Doomsday Cult ships are in the first echelon. The more fearless they are, the higher they are, like the one Qin Luo encountered before.

Not only was their speed exceptional, but their recklessness was also unmatched within the Doomsday Church, which is why they successfully encountered the "God of Death" Qin Luo. This also meant they hadn't broken the law of the Lost Sea.

The second echelon was a large group of organizations, including the Red Hair Pirates, with most of them consisting of one ship per organization. The third echelon, trailing far behind, consisted of the ships of the Chamber of Commerce, which had lost the initiative, led by the two speedboats.

Didn't you feel like something was missing? The newspaper's ships had vanished from view after entering the Lost Sea. It wasn't some kind of invisibility or magic trick; they simply chose a different route.

All ships entering the Lost Sea are now relying on the incandescent light of the lighthouse that can penetrate the fog to determine their direction.

Whether it was the priests' ships or the ships chasing them, they simply continued to move in the direction of the light. Some ships might have changed direction to overtake others or avoid reefs, but these were only slight changes of course, and none had deviated from the route as the newspaper's fleet had done.

The newspaper's ship dared to do this because, in addition to having the pointer used when they witnessed the Guardian Family fighting against the Undead Fleet, it probably also had control of some of the routes to the Lost Sea.

The most likely possibility is that the person in the newspaper who is very knowledgeable about the Guardian Family besides Na has fallen into the hands of the newspaper.

The ship where the priests were located always maintained a distance of more than 100 meters from the one behind it. At this distance, its shadow could be seen in front of the ship behind it without being lost.

But it was impossible to catch up. The priests' ship seemed to be very familiar with this sea area. As long as a ship approached, it would immediately speed up. This was something the ships behind could not do.

At least three ships had tried this, and the best outcome for them was that the ship ran aground. If they were unlucky, the entire ship would have been fed to the fish.

The priest's ship sailed for half an hour before it stopped at an island, an island in the center of the Lost Sea. Many people speculated whether this was the holy land of the Guardian family.

As the fleet behind approached, the true appearance of the island was finally revealed to everyone.

It seems a bit inappropriate to call it a small island. The entire island is only the size of the port of South Hillraf. It is basically a larger reef.

The land in the center of the island is slightly higher, and in the middle is a ruin. From its cracked appearance, one can vaguely guess that it was an altar before.

If Miss Na was present, she would tell Qin Luo that this was also the place where the Guardian Family fought against the Undead Fleet. The former appearance is no longer visible, but there are some new things on the island.

Tombstones, rows and rows of brand new tombstones, must have been erected recently.

There was no one on the boat where the priest was. The people from the Doomsday Sect who arrived earlier were gradually investigating the island.

Because they couldn't find anyone, these cultists impatiently began to prepare to dig the graves.

It is not a good decision to disturb the dead. As if in response to Qin Luo's thoughts, the incandescent light that had been used as a navigation disappeared the moment the tomb was destroyed.

Coincidence or trap? Unease began to loom over everyone except Qin Luo and his group.

Chapter 558: The Enchanting Fragrance of White Cherry Blossoms

Knowing that Qin Luo possessed some ability to teleport people, Red-Haired Shanks and his companions did not need to worry about being trapped and dying in the Lost Sea. In this situation, they were barely able to calm down and think about the problem.

If everything was planned, it is very likely that the priests had already prepared another boat on the island. They only saw the priests stop the boat here, but could not be sure whether the priests left on other boats.

But compared to hiding underground on the island, it is obviously more likely to leave on another boat.

"Could it be a conspiracy by the management of the Chamber of Commerce?"

Hawkeye offered a different idea. The reason was that the people guarding the lighthouse were undoubtedly from the management chamber of commerce, and the other was that the chamber of commerce ships in the third echelon had not reached the island.

"No." Hawkeye had just finished his consideration when Beckman rejected it.

It is undeniable that Hawkeye's two reasons are objectively true, but rather than saying that the Chamber of Commerce's ships failed to catch up, it is better to say that they were too far behind and did not have time to reach the island.

Moreover, the lights disappeared at the moment when these doomsday sect members attacked the tombstone, which directly ruled out the possibility that the Management Chamber of Commerce could remotely control the lights.

But Beckman didn't believe that the Chamber of Commerce had done no research on the Lost Sea for nearly a thousand years, so he put the Chamber of Commerce's ships aside for the time being.

Some desperate forces also started tinkering with the tombstones together with the people of the Doomsday Sect.

They might be disappointed, because not only are there no secret passages or basements, but even the graves under the tombstones are empty.

Don’t you see what kind of enemies the Guardian family is facing?

The Undead Fleet, isn't it mainly the Undead? The bodies of those defeated Guardian family members must have been packed up and taken away. Would they stay for you to bury in peace?

Get rid of it, the dead don't care about funerals.

These tombstones are just empty graves erected by the remaining members of the Guardian family for the deceased.

As the tombstones were destroyed one by one, a faint fragrance appeared in the air. Qin Luo seemed to have smelled this smell somewhere before.

Qin Luo frowned and thought, fragments of memory kept flashing through his mind.

"Qin Luo, look at this."

Olivia spread out the tree in her hand and waved to Qin Luo.

Qin Luo, who was grilling meat, heard the call and had to leave the grill as he was about to get a harvest.

"What new clues have you found?" Qin Luo looked down at the book in Olivia's hand and continued, "Isn't this a flower? You even dabbled in botany."

Qin Luo was really shocked by Olivia's "erudition". Are you trying to become a human encyclopedia?

"What? Don't you know what to say? Look at the description next to the picture. Nanhai White Cherry, the kind you see in coffee shops."

I always feel that Qin Luo's eyes looking at her are a little subtle, Olivia said quickly.

"Oh, isn't that the one the store manager wears on his head? I remember it was used to worship the dead. But why are you checking this?"

"Ah, it's not about worshipping the dead, it's about expressing our thoughts and feelings for our loved ones." Olivia looked at Qin Luo with a look that said, "I've lost to you."

"I just want to look up information about this flower to see if there are any more clues."

"And then?" Qin Luo was obviously planning to piss Olivia off to death, because it seemed like there really wasn't anything to gain.