Li Xiu dared not be careless. He directly summoned the Masked Emperor, mounted it, and took Chu Jun to the beach, observing the wrecked ship up close.
In case of any sudden movents, Li Xiu would imdiately unleash the full power of the Masked Emperor to rush back into Black Death City with them.
However, when they reached the seaside, the large ship remained unresponsive, quietly stranded there, about tens of ters away from the beach.
The two of them moved left and right along the beach, trying to observe the ship from different directions to see if there were any suspicious areas.
Upon close inspection, aside from an oil lamp, they did not find anything suspicious.
Suddenly, Chu Jun pointed at the wreck and shouted, "Li Xiu, look over there, is there sothing there?"
"What is it?" Li Xiu followed Chu Jun’s finger and saw the area he was pointing at was the side of the ship’s hull, which had many cracks. It was unclear which crack he was referring to.
"The largest and thickest crack in the middle. Look, is there sothing inside that crack?" Chu Jun continued.
Following Chu Jun’s guidance, Li Xiu looked over. It was a crack thicker than an adult’s arm and several ters long. The inside of the crack was dark, and from such a distance, an average person couldn’t see what was inside.
Li Xiu used the Dark Mirror’s ability to carefully inspect it, scanning along the crack from left to right.
When he reached around the middle of the crack, his heart skipped a beat because it seed like he saw a pair of eyes, staring directly at him from within the shadows of the crack.
Instinctively, Li Xiu twisted the throttle, wanting to flee with Chu Jun, shouting, "Didn’t you say there were no magical beings inside the wreck?"
"You saw those eyes too, right? I saw them too, but I still didn’t sense any magical presence inside," Chu Jun’s words caused Li Xiu to pause.
He turned to look at Chu Jun seated behind him, "Without sensing magical beings, could it be that the owner of those eyes is not a magical being?"
"In such a place, if not a magical being, what else could it be? Could it possibly be a human?" Chu Jun joked.
But upon hearing that, Li Xiu was slightly taken aback.
Earlier, those eyes had startled him, but recalling carefully, they seed less like the eyes of a magical being and more like human eyes.
Li Xiu turned the vehicle around, twisted the throttle, and returned to the seaside, once again inspecting that crack, but he couldn’t find the eyes anymore.
"Strange, they’re gone again. Could it be that I was seeing things?" Chu Jun muttered while scrutinizing the crack for a while.
"If it was just a hallucination, how could both of us see it at the sa ti?" Li Xiu said coldly as he stared at the wreck.
"But if it wasn’t a hallucination, and my Inspiration Skill detected no magical beings, then how could there be those eyes, which have now disappeared?" Chu Jun pointed at the wreck and said, "The ship is covered in dust. If there were truly living beings, why does it look like there’s no sign of activity at all...?"
"Your Inspiration Skill has never been wrong. Since you didn’t sense magical beings, then there must be none on the ship. If not magical beings, then the most likely possibility is..."
Li Xiu’s words were cut off by Chu Jun, "Humans? Could there really be humans on that wreck? You must be dreaming."
"Whether it’s a fantasy or not, we can test it," Li Xiu suddenly shouted at the wreck, "Anyone on the ship, listen up, we an no harm. Do you need assistance?"
Li Xiu shouted thrice, but there was no response from the wreck, just a death-like silence apart from his own voice.
"See, I told you there couldn’t be humans aboard," Chu Jun said after thinking, "In my opinion, the eyes we saw might belong to so humanoid magical being. However, it’s not a living one but rather the corpse of a magical being, which is why I couldn’t sense it. We saw them initially, but they disappeared, possibly because the ship settled and shook the body down. That explanation is far more plausible than yours."
Hearing this, Chu Jun suddenly grew excited, "Magical beings that can navigate the sea aren’t ordinary. If there’s truly a magical being corpse on board, we could strike it rich."
"Even if there really is a magical being corpse, you have to be able to board the ship first. It’s at least fifty or sixty ters from the shore, possibly even farther. Can you jump over there? If you fall into the sea, I can’t pull you ashore," Li Xiu stated.
Looking at the black sea water and recalling the consequences of minor contact with it earlier, Chu Jun shivered involuntarily.
"It’s a pity we can’t bring anything from outside. Otherwise, tossing a grappling hook onto the ship would solve the problem," Chu Jun said, frustrated.
As the two were discussing, they suddenly heard creaking noises from the wreck, which began to move again, as if a force was pushing it forward.
Due to trendous pressure, the ship’s wooden planks creaked as the stranded wreck moved towards the beach.
"Run!" Chu Jun, seeing what was happening, shouted imdiately.
Behind the wreck, the black seawater was surging, with a large luminous object rising from below, causing the black waters to swell alongside it.
Judging by the color of the glow, it seed to be the terrifying magical being they had seen previously.
Li Xiu also noticed it. Without needing Chu Jun’s reminder, he had already activated the Masked Emperor. Golden flas erupted, and the wheels coated in Light Fla scattered the sand as they sped towards the city gate.
The black seawater rose higher and higher, and the wreck was also lifted by tsunami-like black water, rushing towards Black Death City.
The Masked Emperor’s speed was noticeably faster than before, and the tsunami-like black water couldn’t keep up with its pace.
After rushing through the city gate, the two jumped off and quickly turned the winch, rapidly lowering the gate.
Boom!
Just as they completely lowered the gate, a huge crash resounded, shaking the entirety of Black Death City, and the gate trembled incessantly.
Li Xiu suspected that the wreck had crashed into the gate, causing such a massive disturbance. re seawater wouldn’t have been so terrifying, as they had experienced such an impact before and knew how seawater affected the gate.
Moreover, after the loud crash, Li Xiu also heard the sound of wood splintering.
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