I'm not just human!

"Why did the door suddenly open?"

"We...we can leave now?!"

"Never mind that, let's run!"

Xia Fa didn't linger. Under the watchful eyes of the group of university students, he walked out of the steel ship's cabin.

It was still that same sightseeing boat. He stepped onto the steel deck, basking in the sunlight, letting the fresh, salty sea breeze envelop him. For the first time, he felt so safe.

Immediately afterward, Xia Fa saw that many pirates also rushed out. Some were full of relief, some were overjoyed at escaping death, some were on the verge of collapse, and some were completely trapped in the math problems they needed to solve, as if they couldn't get out.

Xiafa glanced around and spotted two familiar figures among the pirates: Prince Justinian and Avalon.

These two angelic overlords, both with their heads bowed, seemed to be deep in thought, and were entirely pushed out by the university student entities inside the steel ship's hold.

Xia Fa breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, the sightseeing ship, which had no way to escape, extended a steel gangplank again and boarded the Red Porcupine not far away.

Many pirates rushed aboard, running frantically towards the Red Porcupine as if fleeing for their lives.

Xia Fa didn't rush to leave, because he was almost certain that he was safe.

The moment he solved the math problem, it was like eating a gourmet's meal or answering a storyteller's question correctly. Because he had fulfilled the entities' "rules," he no longer needed to fear that these entities would attack him.

Therefore, Shafa walked over to Prince Justinian and Avalon and began to observe these two angelic overlords.

Prince Justinian was frowning in thought, muttering to himself:

“5+6到底等于多少？5+6……5+6……”

Avalon's gaze was blank, clearly in a state of high-speed thinking, his fingers moving in the air on his thigh as if performing some kind of calculation.

After a while, Xia Fa recognized that He was writing the numbers and symbols “10”, “X”, and “21”.

Why are the questions posed to Avalon so difficult?

Xia Fa was somewhat surprised. Although 10x21 was nothing, it was terrifying when one's intelligence was significantly reduced.

In that situation, I couldn't even figure out what 1+2 equals. It felt like climbing to the sky, let alone a math problem like 10+21.

This involves multiplication!

Seeing the pirates return to the Red Porcupine one by one via the steel gangplank, Shafa also pulled Prince Justinian and Avalon, who were lost in thought, onto the steel gangplank and returned to the ship.

As soon as they boarded the ship, a strange scene unfolded.

As soon as he turned around, he immediately discovered that the sightseeing boat, which he couldn't escape from, had mysteriously vanished!

Even the steel springboard has disappeared!

Immediately afterwards, pirates kept returning to the deck of the Red Porcupine, seemingly from an unseen "bridge".

It's as if, as long as you're on the Red Porcupinefish, you can't see that inescapable sightseeing boat at all.

"Xia Fa, you...you escaped? What happened? That sightseeing boat just sank to the bottom of the sea!"

When the captain of the Red Pufferfish saw Xia Fa, he immediately ran towards him, asking questions with a look of relief and eagerness.

Xia Fa answered truthfully:

"As soon as I boarded the ship, I was invited into a steel cabin. There were lots of snacks in the cabin, including chocolate cake, preserved plums, candied fruit, chicken feet, chicken wings, and so on."

“Those guys who looked like college students forced me to eat their snacks, and I did as they asked.”

"Then, they made me do a math problem. It was incredibly difficult, unbelievably difficult. I tried and tried, but I couldn't figure it out."

"Fortunately, I had a flash of inspiration and finally solved the problem, and they let me out."

"but……"

He changed the subject, looking at Captain Red Pufferfish and Dagney and the others who had just arrived.

"Can you guess what that math problem is?"

Daigney seemed to know a bit about this, and hesitated before saying:

"Could it be one of the world's top ten mathematical problems related to the equations of motion in machinery?"

Xia Fa shook his head:

"No, that question is... what is 1 + 2?"

Dagney was startled:

"That simple?"

The captain of the red porcupine boat was also surprised:

"Then... then why did you find it difficult just now?"

No sooner had the two finished speaking than the last pirate who had boarded the sightseeing ship from which there was no escape returned to the Red Porcupine via the invisible bridge.

At that moment, Prince Justinian, Avalon, and everyone else trembled.

Xia Fa clearly saw that the mist that had been faintly covering their eyes seemed to disappear rapidly.

Then, everyone regained consciousness.

However, the pirates seemed to recall their experience in the steel ship's hold, and many of them froze in place, while others looked on incredulously, as if they were surprised that they couldn't even solve such a simple math problem.

Prince Justinian was the first to react:

"Wait, I just..."

Avalon realized something as well, and this mechanical genius, the greatest in the Kingdom of Augu in a century, actually showed a wry smile on his face:

"10x21, such a simple problem, and I actually..."

He shook his head, but then, as if suddenly realizing something, turned to look at the crowd:

"Since we couldn't solve this math problem, why did these entities that look like college students let us out?"

As Avalon spoke, his gaze seemed to sense something, and he hesitated before looking at Shafa.

Because He remembered the scene when He was still on that sightseeing ship from which there was no escape, when Shaphat pulled Him and Prince Justinian, who was also deep in thought, onto the steel gangplank and back onto the Red Porcupine.

Clearly, of everyone present, only Xia Fa was conscious at the time.

A look of surprise suddenly appeared in Avalonna's clear, blue eyes:

"Xia Fa, you didn't solve the math problem and then ask those entities to let us go, did you?"

Xia Fa had to admit that Avalon truly deserved to be called a genius; his logical reasoning ability was simply perfect!

"Yeah, more or less. They promised that as long as I solved that math problem and helped them deal with the professor, they would grant me any request. So, I went along with it and asked them to release everyone."

After saying that, Xia Fa sighed:

"Unfortunately, several of our brothers still died on that ship."

The captain of the red pufferfish patted him on the shoulder and comforted him:

"It's alright, you've already saved enough people. Originally, none of us would have been able to escape."

Prince Justinian also exclaimed:

“Yes, Xia Fa, if it weren’t for you, we would probably have disappeared completely on that sightseeing ship from which we couldn’t escape, just like those people before us.”

Avalon opened his mouth silently, as if about to say something.

But just then, the shadow of a colossal super-ship, comparable to a floating city at sea, loomed over them.

Everyone involuntarily looked up and saw only the towering ship, reaching tens of thousands of meters in height, and its hull stretching to the left and right.

On the hull of the ship, however, there is an ancient relief.

It was a scene of a masked girl, barefoot, standing on a group of sharks, swimming leisurely in the ocean.

In that instant, everyone, including the captain of the Red Pufferfish, was completely stunned.

"The... Princess Shark Swarm?"

Xia Fa was also stunned.

One of the five pirate emperors of the sea, the most mysterious in legend, whose true face has never been seen by anyone, the Shark Princess.

How did she suddenly appear in the Father of Ten Thousand Stars' territory?

Chapter 188 The Shark Princess... is actually Orph? The perplexing truth!

Princess Shark, a name that has resonated throughout the entire Kingdom of Augu for hundreds of years.

Not only in the Kingdom of Augu, but also in the Boyue Empire and the Budai Dynasty, almost everyone had heard the legend of the Shark Princess.

Although Princess Shark is not a transcendent monarch, as a ruler, she possesses the strength to rival the two transcendent monarchs, Father of Ten Thousand Stars and Roaring Emperor.

This is not because she, like Marshal Gaius, could sign an exaggerated fifteen secret contracts; in fact, she seems to have only signed nine.

Because, as a pirate, although she was the emperor among pirates, she had too few "anchor points" to support her signing as many as fifteen secret contracts.

It is said that the reason why Princess Shark was able to fight against the Father of Ten Thousand Stars and the Roaring Emperor was because she possessed an incredible treasure that was at the top level in the world.

It was thanks to this treasure that she was able to stand firm at sea, occupying and possessing a territorial sea area that was in no way inferior to the other four sea emperors.

And now, Princess Shark's "Shark Swarm" has appeared before everyone!

This extraordinary behemoth, which is practically a mobile city, gives the impression that if it loses control of its power even slightly, it could completely smash the Red Porcupine to pieces!

From a distance, the Red Porcupinefish, which is a full kilometer long, looks like a tiny soybean next to a domineering tank in front of the Shark!

"Princess Shark suddenly appeared in the Father of All Stars' territorial waters, especially in the Worm Islands. Could it be that she wanted to discuss with the Father of All Stars how to join forces to deal with that Mysterious Emperor?"

Xia Fa pondered to himself. The five emperors on the sea were not united; in fact, one could say they each harbored their own ulterior motives.

Among them, the Father of Ten Thousand Stars and Princess Shark both restrained their pirates from harming civilians. Therefore, these two pirate emperors, who always adhered to morality and bottom lines, did not have much friction with each other, perhaps because they shared the same ideals.

On the other hand, although both the Roaring Emperor and the Thousand-Faced Prophet allowed their pirates to burn, kill, and plunder at will, these two pirate emperors were extremely at odds with each other and wished they could kill each other.

As for the most mysterious pirate emperor—the Silent Queen—she almost never allies with any side, and her territorial waters are the smallest.

It is said that the Silent Queen and her pirates, aside from occasionally hunting traveling whales, hardly engage in any pirate activities.

Whether it's naval battles with other pirates, raiding merchant ships, or smuggling contraband, they won't participate in any of these activities.

On the contrary, the pirates under the Silent Queen's command prefer to frequent various underwater ruins, extraordinary relics, and high-risk eerie realms, seemingly searching for something.

"Don't panic, everyone. Princess Shark and her pirates won't kill innocent people indiscriminately unless we provoke or challenge them. So let's do nothing and just wait for the Shark to pass by."