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Chapter 889: A penetrating narrative? A unique plot where there is no escape from death?

Since it's a protection mission, if the NPCs they're protecting can't help them in terms of strength, then they can definitely provide some assistance in other ways.

Shangri-La Frontier is a critically acclaimed masterpiece, not one of those terrible games that just frustrate players.

Therefore, game designers would not create an NPC that serves no purpose other than boasting.

"My father did leave some nautical logs, in which he mentioned that they had encountered ghost ships."

The log also stated that the ghost ship was a sacrifice offered to the Lord of the Abyss, and that the abyss's maw would mercilessly swallow the sacrifice…

Schuwood had only spoken halfway when everyone suddenly felt that the sea, which had just calmed down, was now suddenly churning up huge waves again.

A huge ocean current whirlpool appeared out of nowhere in the center of the sea and sucked in all the surrounding seawater and ships with astonishing force!
Upon seeing this sudden crisis, Sun and the others' first thought was not to run away, but to give that brat Skullwood a good beating!

It was clear that the enormous vortex of ocean currents that appeared before them was the so-called "Mouth of the Abyss".

The fact that Skullwood hadn't revealed the information about the Ghost Ship and the Maw of the Abyss to them before, and only told them now, was clearly a trap to kill them!

"No, the pulling force of this ocean current is too strong! And all the other pirate NPCs who came with us are dead. Without sailors, we can't sail the pirate ship at all."

"Even if the sailors didn't die, it's useless now. Faced with such a whirlpool that's comparable to a natural disaster, any ship caught in it has no chance of survival!"

They are currently at sea, facing a maritime disaster comparable to a natural calamity, with no chance of escape whatsoever.

When Sun saw the ocean currents and whirlpools growing larger and larger, even threatening to engulf the ghost ship they were on, he disregarded the fact that he had exposed the "Ether Reactor" to Panshirgon and directly took out the Relic Machine - Vermilion Bird from the Gravekeeper's storage.

With such a massive whirlpool, whether they stayed on the ship or chose to jump into the sea, they had virtually no chance of survival.

As gamers, if they die, they just die; they simply face some death penalties.

However, as NPCs, they cannot be resurrected like players, even though they are accompanied by Seiya, Sun, and Birac and Emul.

There was no chance of survival at sea, but there was still a way out in the air.

Given the size of the Relic Suit Suzaku, it would be impossible for it to escape with all of them, but taking only Birac and Emul should not be a big problem.

Just as Sun took out the Relic Machine - Suzaku and was about to let Birac and Emul sit on it, Seiya suddenly stopped him.

"Wait a minute, Sun Le, it's okay to do nothing right now."

The energy of the "Ether Reactor" has been largely depleted during our battle with Lycaon's night raid.

Even if it could carry Birac and Emre, with its remaining energy, it simply wouldn't be able to fly them back to the shore.

If they run out of energy midway, it would be even more dangerous for them if they fell into the sea.

Hearing Seiya's words, Sun Le was also stunned for a moment, but then continued, "Even if they fell into the sea halfway, their chances of survival would be higher than they are now!" Don't let Sun Le's usual carefree attitude fool you; in an emergency, he would even throw Emre out like a "rabbit cannonball."

But all of that is based on his ability to guarantee Emre's safety. Compared to those annoying NPCs in his previous games, Emre and Bilak have helped him a lot since he started playing Xiangkai, so he naturally wouldn't let them die here.

"Believe me! I care about Birac and Emul just as much as you do, but I've discovered that being sucked into the whirlpool in front of us is our only chance of survival right now!"
Have you forgotten what Skullwood just said? Those who board the ghost ship will become sacrifices to the Lord of the Abyss and be swallowed by the mouth of the abyss.

The so-called sacrifices will not die before they meet the Lord of the Abyss, because offering a dead sacrifice is disrespectful to the Lord of the Abyss.

If ocean currents and whirlpools are the mouths of abysses, where would we go if we were sucked into them?

That's right, we will enter the abyss, and this whirlpool is our path "through" the abyss!

Upon hearing Seiya's words, Sun and Panshirgon's eyes also lit up.

Because of the sudden crisis, they had just panicked, but now, thanks to Seiya's reminder, they suddenly realized that what Seiya said was right!
Even with a unique storyline involving the seven strongest races, it's impossible for Xiangkai's game designers to create a plot where there's no chance of survival.

During the attack on the ghost ship, they protected the important NPC Skullwood. Logically, having already completed the first part of the story, they shouldn't be heading straight to the inevitable end!

If they wanted to destroy them and Skowood, they could have simply created this whirlpool from the start instead of going through the trouble of arranging the ghost ship.

In other words, after they got through the first part of the story, Schowood had already given them hints and clues through his previous words.

If players fail to understand the information and clues provided by Scornwood and take other actions, then it's truly game over!

Just as Seiya and his companions were being pulled towards the bottomless black hole of the ocean current by the swirling current, several enormous octopus tentacles, each hundreds of feet long, suddenly emerged from the surface of the sea.

The giant octopus tentacles broke through the sea surface, not only stirring up the seawater, but also shattering the clouds in the sky above the sea.

Seeing such a shocking scene, Sun Le on the ghost ship couldn't help but feel a chill of fear.

It's obvious that, given the length of these tentacles extending above the sea, if he had actually let Suzaku take Emul and Birac into the air, they would definitely have been shot down by these enormous tentacles.

Once a person falls into the sea, they have absolutely no chance of survival against those enormous, churning tentacles.

As for the ghost ship they were currently on, although it looked dilapidated, it was surprisingly sturdy in the waves, and the huge tentacles that were churning the sea seemed not to see them at all, just brushing past them each time.

"Just as Seiya said, staying on the ghost ship is the safest place."

But is this really "Kukanid of the Abyss"? It's so much bigger than "Vezhaemon the Gravekeeper" and "Lycaon the Night Raid"!

Seiya and the others were unable to see the full appearance of "Kukanid of the Abyss", but just from its tentacles extending out of the sea, they could roughly tell that it was a truly enormous creature!

(End of this chapter)