Ita Era

Chapter 110 Pirate Ship

The two had only walked 20 meters when Tie Zhenzhen pointed and a white figure with a blood-red inverted cross inside walked past them. It was clear that the white figure was facing them and looking at them intently.

Ding Shi charged forward, but the white-clad figure immediately turned and disappeared into the crowd, with Tie Zhenzhen emerging from behind. Ding Shi braked, grabbed Tie Zhenzhen by the back of her collar, and pulled her back, saying, "Deliberately luring someone in; either a villain or a thief, Grass Carp."

Tie Zhenzhen couldn't help but remove the clips and ask, "Carp, is the inverted cross on his body fake?"

Ding Shi said, "It's not an inverted cross. The Catholic cross has an image of Jesus' crucifixion, while the Protestant cross, which is what we commonly call Christianity, does not. Satanism targets Protestants, so their inverted cross does not have an image of Jesus' crucifixion. The cross we just saw has an image of Jesus' crucifixion."

Ding Shi said, “Carp, they had no choice. Satanism acknowledges the existence of God and Jesus, just as Christianity acknowledges the existence of the devil and hell. They can only use a smooth cross to make an inverted cross, not an image of a person. Because even upside down, it's still Jesus. Therefore, we can conclude that the cross we just saw is not the inverted cross we are looking for.”

Tie Zhenzhen: "Pomfret, what is his purpose?"

Ding Shi: "Pike, separate us and give the thugs a chance to make their move."

Tie Zhenzhen asked doubtfully, "Sardine, are the thugs so insecure? Don't they dare to attack us?"

Ding raised his right hand, which was holding a revolver. Where did this thug get his confidence? It was just a revolver; if he had a Gatling gun, he could have wiped out all the white figures.

Tie Zhenzhen suddenly realized and asked again, "Little dog, why did you choose the drop tower?"

Ding Shi was taken aback for a moment, then retorted, "Ugly cat, of course it's because the drop tower offers a better view."

Tie Zhenzhen was surprised and asked, "Big Bear, did you lie to the Red-Clothed ones?"

Ding Shi replied, “Monkey, we are both partners and competitors. I only agreed to let you play because you said you wouldn’t distinguish between east and west or use the cross. Look at them, they are all searching separately. There’s no reason for them to team up to find an item.”

As they talked, the two arrived at the drop tower. There were ten seats and five white-clad figures. Ding Shi and Tie Zhenzhen sat down. One of the white-clad figures, presumably a safety officer, checked everyone's seatbelts and then stepped back a few paces.

After the impact, the seat slowly rose to its highest point. Tie Zhenzhen pointed to a figure near the service center, a white figure with an inverted cross above its head walking through the crowd. Clearly, it was an inverted cross. Unless the system needed to create several or countless inverted crosses to confuse the system, this one was their target.

Tie Zhenzhen saw the red-clad figure for the last time. The red-clad figure appeared fifteen meters away from the inverted cross. She pushed through the crowd and ran towards the inverted cross.

A feeling of weightlessness washed over her, and she plummeted downwards. Tie Zhenzhen cried out, "Ah... penguin, Mommy, ah..."

After landing safely, Ding Shi turned around and saw that Tie Zhenzhen was actually crying. Was the wind really that strong?

According to the management rules, the two waited in place, and the safety officer stamped their left forearms. Tie Zhenzhen was still wiping away tears: Couldn't they at least say something nice to comfort her?

At the same time, the woman in red tackled the white figure with an inverted cross above his head. The woman in red flipped up the inverted cross and was immediately stunned. It turned out to be a three-sided inverted cross.

A regular cross has two sides, but this inverted triangle cross has three sides. It's clearly a fake.

Ita World is relatively simple; it doesn't make things difficult for players with extremely minor details. For example, Ita World won't create a very realistic counterfeit bill for players to identify, but it might create a 7-yuan banknote.

The player who gets the 7-yuan bill will definitely be more upset than the player who gets a very realistic counterfeit bill. This is someone naked saying to you: Idiot!

The woman in red now has a frozen expression after being called an idiot by the system.

At this moment, Tie Zhenzhen and Ding Shi are bravely venturing into a haunted house. Don't doubt it, it really is a haunted house. Haunted houses also have their rules: all the ghosts will not harm the visitors, but they will try their best to scare them.

After the first scene, Ding Shi grabbed Tie Zhenzhen's left foot and dragged her along. Tie Zhenzhen was in tears and her whole body went limp. In three minutes, she called for her mother a hundred times.

It's not entirely Tie Zhenzhen's fault; in those three minutes, they experienced the hell of the millstone. At first, watching the little demons being crushed and drained of flesh by the millstone was barely tolerable for Tie Zhenzhen. Suddenly, they were taken to the millstone itself and subjected to nine rounds of crushing. Although there was no pain, Tie Zhenzhen was already broken.

The second scene is the boiling oil hell, where Tie Zhenzhen refuses to move forward, gripping the railing with both hands: "Eagle, I won't go, I won't go, I won't go."

Helpless, Ding Shi had no choice but to release Tie Zhenzhen, change into his swimming trunks in the locker, and jump into the 3-meter-high oil fryer. As soon as he entered the oil, various sound effects started playing, as if his body was being fried to a crisp. After Ding Shi swam two laps, Tie Zhenzhen finally appeared timidly, closed her eyes, and crashed into the oil fryer like a cannonball.

The third scene is the Tongue-Pulling Hell, with a gigantic dentist and tiny figures, a Cthulhu-esque atmosphere pervading the scene. They pry open the mouth, insert a dental splint to force it open, and slowly insert pliers into the oral cavity. Even Ding Shi couldn't help but hide his tongue. After clamping the tongue, they calmly and slowly pull it out little by little, and you can feel the pressure and pull on the tongue. Of course, that's all; there's no pain.

Emerging from the haunted house at the sixth level of hell, Tie Zhenzhen was unable to walk. After getting her stamped, to prevent Tie Zhenzhen from taking advantage of him, Ding Shi used his Force Hand to grab Tie Zhenzhen by the back of her clothes and lift her to the swing disco. Given Tie Zhenzhen's condition, she became a spectator this time.

So-called disco is a stage where you bounce and spin. After one round, let alone stand, anyone who can sit is considered a strong person.

Ding Shi was no exception; at the start of the enhanced disco, he was thrown two meters into the air from his seat.

"Damn system, this is utterly shameless!" Ding Shi cursed, then was thrown two meters into the air again, nearly flying over the railing. His body slammed against the railing, bounced off the seat, and was thrown up again. This time, he was thrown two and a half meters, headfirst, but Ding Shi used his Force Hand to brace himself and avert the danger.

A white figure materialized, and then all the dozen or so people inside the disco materialized as well. Among them was a girl in a red dress, not only beautiful and sexy, but even her screams were incredibly alluring. As she flew up, the view from under her skirt extended directly to her neck.

The red dress billowed up in front of Ding Shi, passing over his head. Ding Shi instinctively looked up and saw it clearly, feasting his eyes while simultaneously sounding alarm bells in his mind: Damn, this is a huge bonus! Knowing the system's nature, it only gives out last meals, never big windfalls!
Ding Shi turned around, and the woman in the red dress behind him, holding a dagger, lunged at him. Ding Shi firmly grabbed her wrist. Just as Ding Shi was about to forcefully break her slender hand, he was thrown high into the air, forced to separate from her.

To avoid injury, Ding Shi focused on landing. In that short time, the person in front of Ding Shi had changed.

Turning his head to search, a dagger came flying from the side. Ding Shi dodged it by falling to the ground, and kicked the woman in the red dress in the knee, causing her to kneel down. The two were simultaneously thrown into the air by the stage. The woman in the red dress pulled out another dagger, and after landing, she used her feet to push off and lunged at Ding Shi.

Ding Shi landed unsteadily, barely managing to swat away the red-skirted woman's left hand with his right. Facing the unavoidable dagger in her right hand, Ding Shi gathered his primal force to block the next strike. The dagger pierced through flesh, its momentum exhausted, unable to go any further.

Ding Shi snapped his fingers, grabbed a crossbow bolt in his right hand, and pierced through the red-skirted woman's right forearm. The red-skirted woman screamed in agony. Taking advantage of the moment he was thrown into the air, Ding Shi swiftly pulled out the crossbow bolt with its triangular, barbed arrowhead. The sharp arrowhead severed the artery in the red-skirted woman's wrist, and blood gushed out. Taking advantage of the red-skirted woman's distraction, Ding Shi landed, tripped her, rolled to her side, and thrust the crossbow bolt into her chest. The red-skirted woman flailed her dagger wildly, but couldn't harm Ding Shi in the slightest, and quickly lost her life. Ding Shi seized the opportunity to approach, grabbed the red-skirted woman's dagger, and stabbed her five times in the chest, confirming that she was beyond dead.

When the woman in the red dress died, everyone turned into white figures, including the woman in the red dress. She stood up again, indistinguishable from the other white figures, and all the bloodstains disappeared without a trace.

After getting off the disco, Ding Shi felt back pain for the first time in his life. Tie Zhenzhen had regained some of her senses and flipped open Ding Shi's clothes to look at his back. There were many bruises, which were either from when he landed, from when he fell on the chair, or from when he hit the railing.

"Whales, and thugs?" Tie Zhenzhen, standing outside, only saw white shadows, and even Ding Shi had turned into a white shadow.

Next facility: Pirate Ship.

Ding Shi first grabbed Tie Zhenzhen by the back of her collar to stop her from moving forward, and looked around to ask, "Leopard, why is no one getting on the boat?"

There were quite a few white figures, but they were all just watching, creating the illusion that the pirate ship was very lively, but none of them boarded the ship.

Ding Shi: "Elephant, there's a rule in the world of Ita: everything progresses gradually, including dungeons. The difficulty increases step by step. The first facility is safe. The second facility tests your mentality. The third facility introduces villains. This is the fourth facility. Wait for me."

Ding Shi walked to the side, pulled up the sign about protecting the grass, and waved it a couple of times on a stick. It worked. He tried injecting Force; the closer the Force was to his hand, the better the effect, and the farther away, the worse. A sign one meter away from his hand only had 10% of the Force's effect.

The two boarded the pirate ship, and the safety officer didn't wait any longer. He immediately closed the door and blew his whistle, confirming that they were the only ones there.

The pirate ship began to rock. Ding Shi saw a girl in a red dress climb onto a four-meter-high signboard, which was 25 meters away from the pirate ship at the bow. The girl in the red dress held a bow and arrow. Ding Shi suddenly remembered that there was an advertising board 25 meters behind the ship. He looked back and, sure enough, there was another girl in a red dress standing on the iron frame behind the advertising board, holding a bow and arrow.

"Take care of your own life, Jellyfish." Ding Shi pulled out his Wildcat Crossbow; he had seven bolts left. He cocked the crossbow, and an arrow flew straight at him. Ding Shi ducked under his seat, but the arrow pierced through the seat. Ding Shi stood up to retaliate, but the swaying of the pirate ship blocked his path.

A vision of a pincer attack from both sides flashed through Ding Shi's mind, along with the swaying position of the pirate ship. Terrified, he lunged to the left, nearly knocking over Tie Zhenzhen, who was lying on the ground. At the same time, an arrow flashed past behind him, almost hitting Ding Shi.

"Seal, use the sign to block the arrow." Ding Shi scrambled out of his seat and onto the aisle. An arrow flew towards him, and Ding Shi spread his legs, the arrow landing only 8 centimeters from his second brother in the ground.

Ding Shi ignored the red dress in front of him, raised his crossbow, turned around, and aimed at her back.

As the pirate ship reached the top, Ding Shi was forced to roll backward twice due to gravity, even crashing into a seat before coming to a stop, thus losing his chance to kill the woman in red behind him. The arrow fired in retaliation from the woman in red was deadly; although Ding Shi dodged it, the arrow struck his coat, pinning it to the ground.

Ding Shi hurriedly took off his clothes, dodged an arrow, and crawled under the seat. The arrow did not let him go, continuing its attack with a piercing motion.

For a moment, Ding Shi was in a terrible state, shot and running away with his head in his hands, on the verge of death.

Tie Zhenzhen: "Teddy, give me the crossbow bolt." She took the sign and stared blankly. No one attacked her, and she couldn't help Ding Shi. She could only watch Ding Shi crawl around, crawl around, and roll around.

Knowing he couldn't make a move, Ding Shi seized an opportunity to throw the Wildcat Crossbow to Tie Zhenzhen, who was three meters away. Tie Zhenzhen set up the Wildcat Crossbow on her seat and aimed it at the red-skirted woman at the bow of the ship.

"Watch out, you husky!"

Tie Zhenzhen instinctively turned to the side, and an arrow grazed past her, piercing through two seats.

Tie Zhenzhen's heart pounded with anger. She took a deep breath, sat up straight, aimed, and then realized the crossbow bolt was gone. Clearly, she had pulled the trigger while dodging. Tie Zhenzhen shouted, "Bear, give me another bolt!"

As they were talking, Tie Zhenzhen saw a dark shadow fall from the sky. It wasn't fast, but it wasn't slow either. It was a crossbow bolt—the one she had lost. The bolt fell and pierced the left shoulder and neck of the woman in red at the bow of the boat. Half of the bolt was embedded in the neck, and blood spurted out.

Three seconds later, the woman in the red dress fell from the sign at the bow of the boat and crashed heavily to the ground.

Tie Zhenzhen exclaimed excitedly, "I hit it! I hit... the rabbit!" It was terrifying; she almost forgot the rules.

Ding Shi was still climbing and crawling, saying, "Nonsense, this is a Wildcat Crossbow."

Hearing this, it didn't seem so impressive. Tie Zhenzhen was shocked: "You didn't say an animal, a goldfish."

Ding Shi: "I said wild... dog crossbow. Don't talk, you almost killed me." (Frustrated)

Mentioning the same animal twice can also trigger the evil spirit's killing rule.

Ding Shi's tone was extremely annoyed; he was busy escaping for his life. Ding Shi rarely got angry, and Tie Zhenzhen, displeased, kept quiet, not wanting to ask Ding Shi for the crossbow bolt. She saw the bow and arrow stuck not far away, reached out, broke off an arrow, and put it into the crossbow's slot. Not quite right, a bit short. Will it work? Let's try.

Tie Zhenzhen tried firing a crossbow bolt at a 45-degree angle, and surprisingly, it actually flew out. However, not only was the flight speed somewhat slow, but the flight trajectory was also incredibly strange.

A bow and arrow is flexible and vibrates constantly in flight. A crossbow bolt is rigid. The difference between the two is not small.

After waiting for a while without seeing any arrows, Ding Shi crouched down and peeked out, only to find that both women in red dresses were gone. Had Tie Zhenzhen taken care of them?

Ding Shi looked at Tie Zhenzhen, who was holding an arrow and gesturing on a crossbow, seemingly searching for the perfect length. Seeing her foolish expression, he realized he must be overthinking things.

Sensing someone watching her, Tie Zhenzhen turned to Ding Shi excitedly and said, "Guiyu, I've discovered a shocking secret! Crossbows, crossbows, and crossbows combined with bows are the ultimate weapon!"

Ding Shi didn't understand. He reached out and took the wildcat crossbow. After a while, he still couldn't find the red skirt. He turned around and looked suspiciously at Tie Zhenzhen's sincere smile. Alarm bells rang in his heart again: This woman is pretending to be weak to deceive others. She must have something else on her mind.

(End of this chapter)