Navigator: I have a double six-story house

The blue light dissipated.

Su Qing's gun was still emitting white smoke, and the lead bullet had already pierced Wu Ming's forehead.

Wu Ming's body fell straight backward, his head hitting the deck with a dull thud.

His eyes were still open, but there was no pain or resentment in his pupils; instead, there was a strange sense of relief.

It's as if they've finally let go of something.

Su Qing did not put away the musket, but continued to load it, his eyes fixed on Wu Mingdi's body lying on the ground.

I haven't reached level 10 yet, so I can't see the health bar; I can only stare at the rise and fall of the opponent's chest.

After a while, seeing that the bald man's chest was not rising and falling, he put the musket back into his waistband.

The blue light he just saw made him frown.

The opponent must have activated some kind of item, but the specific effect is unknown.

Lethality-type items?

Impossible. If the other side had any offensive items, they would have used them already.

Is it a survival or escape game?

But now the other person is just lying here stiffly, long since dead.

It looks like the launch has most likely failed.

After confirming the other person's death, Su Qing searched the body but found nothing.

Just as he was pondering, a voice interrupted him.

"Is it resolved?" Wang Yao's voice came from the bow of the ship, muffled behind his mask, with a hint of lingering satisfaction.

"Resolved."

Su Qing turned and walked back to the bow of the ship, her gaze sweeping over the sinking two-masted ship opposite.

The gap in the bow of the opposite ship was like a ripped abyss, mercilessly swallowing the lives of the crew.

The seawater was pouring in faster and faster, and the front half of the entire ship was already submerged.

Those crew members who were previously charging in vain were now frozen in place.

They have received the system message that the captain has been killed.

There are ten people left on the deck.

Their captain is dead, their strongest fighting force is gone, and the ship is sinking.

Meanwhile, the Sunny was blocking their way, its ram embedded in their hull.

Su Qing saw the expressions on those people change from bewilderment to fear, and from fear to despair.

"Please! Let us up!"

The first to speak was a young crew member, in his early twenties, with blood still on his face.

That was drawn out by Wang Yao using his shield.

He rushed to the junction of the two ships, his hands raised high and his voice trembling, separated by Wang Yao's shield.

"I surrender! I'll do whatever you say!"

"I am a Level 5 Guard, I am combat-ready!"

Please invite me aboard! I beg you!

He was talking about me, not us.

The others were not angry; instead, more people rushed over, chattering amongst themselves. Some knelt down, and some cried out.

They wanted to live.

Like those people scrambling for jobs at the early morning job fair, desperately trying to sell themselves.

Wang Yao turned around and glanced at Su Qing.

Su Qing leaned against the ship's railing, arms crossed, her expression as calm as if she were watching a play that had nothing to do with her.

"Su-zai?" Wang Yao asked.

There was no sympathy in Wang Yao's eyes; he asked the question only because he was considering the Sunshine's combat capabilities.

"I won't answer."

Two words: crisp and clean.

Wang Yao didn't ask any more questions. He turned around, and the shield stood motionless in its place, like a city wall, blocking these people's last chance to survive.

The cries from the other side grew louder.

After the cries and screams came angry curses.

"Why! We've already surrendered!"

"You can't do this! This is murder!"

"We are all human beings, why must we be so ruthless?"

Su Qing did not respond; he didn't even look at them. Instead, he walked over to Selena and inspected the condition of the Sunshine.

The impact caused some surface damage, but the structure remained intact, did not affect navigation, and there was no indication in the system that repairs were needed.

Selena stood beside the helm, carefully wiping her serrated blade with a cloth, as if she were polishing a beloved collectible.

"The captain isn't planning to save them?" She didn't even look up, her tone devoid of any emotion.

"When they caught up with me, did they ever consider giving me a way out?"

Selena wiped her knife without pausing, taking the captain's words as a matter of course.

"Too."

Time passed second by second.

The two-masted ship was sinking at an accelerating rate.

The deck had begun to tilt, making it difficult to stand. Seawater overflowed the ship's sides, surging in from all directions.

After their pleas for mercy proved useless, their emotions began to shift.

"You'll get your comeuppance!"

A burly crewman grabbed a scimitar and charged madly toward the junction of the two ships.

Wang Yao didn't even need to block; he simply took a step forward and pushed his shield forward.

The deck beneath the man's feet was soaked with seawater, making it impossible for him to get any leverage. He was pushed backward and landed on his backside in water that was above his knees.

More people tried to board the Sun.

However, as the two-masted ship sank, the height difference between the two ships became increasingly greater.

From initially being level, to half a meter, to one meter, to two meters.

They couldn't jump up.

Someone tried to climb the ship's side of the Sunshine, but as soon as his fingers touched the edge, Wang Yao's shield struck his knuckles with pinpoint accuracy.

Amidst screams, the man fell into the sea.

Su Qing stood at the bow of the ship, looking down at everything.

The seawater had already submerged the opposite deck. Those people stood in waist-deep water; some were still struggling, while others had given up, sitting on the mast crossbar, silently awaiting death.

Curses, cries, and pleas mingled together, carried away by the sea breeze.

Su Qing's expression remained unchanged.

It's not cold-bloodedness, it's the rule.

The moment you choose to be the hunter, you should be prepared to become the prey.

In this sea, there are no laws, no morals, only the strong and the weak.

Their destruction was not due to their hunting of Su Qing.

Rather, it was because they were weak that they died.

It's that simple.

When the last person's head was submerged, Su Qing heard the notification sound.

【Ding! 】

[Battle Results: You have successfully sunk the enemy ship "Bone Eater"]

[The Bone Eater has sunk, the ship is destroyed and all crew members have perished, the rule has been triggered, and the elimination of all personnel has been completed.]

[Confirmed death toll: 11 (including Captain Wu Ming)]

[Rewards for defeating enemies are being drawn...]

Su Qing looked at the system panel in front of her and raised her eyebrows slightly.

Rewards for defeating enemies?

This was the first time he'd triggered this mechanism. Killing monsters drops loot, killing players drops loot, sinking ships… and even that?

This news didn't exist in the original world, so it seems they didn't want their own people to kill each other for profit after entering the Age of Exploration.

Su Qing felt this was a futile effort; even without any benefit, people would still kill each other.

The light spots on the panel began to rotate, like a spinning wheel.

Wang Yao leaned closer, lifted his mask, and looked on expectantly.

"Su-zai, what's the reward? Can I see it?"

Selena also put down the cloth in her hand and her gaze fell on the panel in front of Su Qing that only he could see.

The rotating spot of light is slowing down.

It's getting slower and slower.

Then, it stopped.