Contrary to expectations, this old-looking fishing boat has an exceptionally large interior.
The inner warehouse is divided into two layers. The middle layer seems to be used as a cover to store some fish.
The overpowering stench choked Hero's breath.
This smell is even worse than the mucus secreted by the fishmen. Who knows how long they have kept these fishes.
After the aunt used her mutated right arm to chew up the wooden board, the passage to the lower level was exposed.
A narrow wooden staircase appeared in front of Hero.
"Hero, you go ahead!"
Compared to Holo who was cautious and tiptoeing, Auntie was obviously much bolder after she came here.
Hero was driven off, followed by the silly big fishman who carried him all the way. Auntie made a noise at the end as she was about to go down, as if she had made some small move.
But Hero was nowhere to be seen.
Walking at the front was also to control him. Because there was no obstruction from the fishmen in front, he could carefully observe the situation on this level.
hiss!
Even though it was pitch black, the eyes after being blessed with soul energy could still see clearly. The entire floor was filled with wooden square cages, and most of the cages were filled with children about the same size as him, and what was locked on their feet was
The chains he wore before.
Damn Green! I still want him to work on the ship. The ship where he can work is probably here!
Without waiting for Holo to react, the fishman pushed him and got out of the way. After his aunt came down, he blocked the entrance to the stairs with his broad body.
Holo took two steps back and asked, "Why did aunt bring me here?"
"Don't worry, the deep-sea sacrifice will not stop if it does not get enough sacrifices. The greedy soul will devour everything in the port until it is satisfied. We have enough time to satisfy it, and wait until those imperial magicians come again
By that time, it’s already too late.”
Auntie seemed to have thought of something good, and she smiled very happily, and patiently explained to Holo.
Laughing while groping for the darkness in the cabin.
After a while, the cabin suddenly became brighter. Hero took a closer look and saw dozens of oil lamps inlaid along the wall of the cabin, and what was lit on the lamps was a green fire.
Seeing Holo's horrified expression, her aunt continued:
"Whenever a fishman in the port dies, we will make the oil into an oil lamp. Not only will the lighting effect be better, but it can also isolate the internal and external smell with the smell of the deep sea."
"What about these kids?"
Hero took the opportunity to ask. He had observed that all the children in the cabin were still breathing and there were no wounds on their bodies. They should have taken drugs that caused coma.
"They are just like you, they are all children raised in the port. We have waited too long for this sacrifice."
"Aren't you afraid that the empire's magicians will purify you?"
The aunt slowly walked towards Hero. On the way, she picked up a cage, opened the cage mouth, walked up to Hero, and hit him in the chest with her right hand that turned into a fish. She had no time to defend, and her body couldn't stop flying backwards.
.
"Ahem..."
The severe pain in his heart made him speechless. He coughed out a mouthful of blood clots and breathed calmly: "Aren't you afraid that Mena will be found back? Aren't you afraid of the empire's magicians?"
Damn it, this old woman is going to take action!
Already frantically pouring soul energy into the rune nails, there is no reason why he could sense Mena's presence. Mena, the caster, didn't react.
"It seems that you already know what will happen next. You have been smarter than other children since you were a child. Auntie likes you very much, but she doesn't like the tone of your voice just now."
The aunt's intact left hand picked up the immobile Holo and threw him into the cage. Then she squatted in front of the cage and said to Holo crazily:
"Stay here well and watch auntie perform the great sacrifice."
After saying that, her aunt took Hero aside, turned around and called the fishman blocking the door to start clearing the cages piled randomly in the cabin.
In the center of the cabin, as the cage was removed, Hero saw a huge and mysterious formation.
The formation made of white powder has become extremely pale, not only due to the intrusion of time but also the excessive humidity on the seaside, so that some locations are disconnected.
I saw my aunt take out a package from somewhere, and along the boundaries of the formation, she kept taking out white powder from the bag, and began to make up for the defects of the formation.
"If I can't wait, I will only end up being slaughtered by the old woman."
A sacrifice that required human sacrifices, Hero knew it would be extremely bloody.
Fortunately, the injury just now made the old woman relax her vigilance towards him. Not only did she not restrain him, she also did not send fishmen to watch over him.
Although the space for movement in the small cage is relatively small, it can still accommodate his operations.
While Auntie was busy dealing with the formation, the opportunity was not to be missed.
"Right now!"
Hero took out all the rune nails he had collected previously.
Inject soul energy, [Steel Charge] amplitude.
The rune at the end gradually turned red. Taking advantage of the sharpening effect of the iron nail, Hero quickly inserted it into the gap in the floor.
One by one, Hero estimated the distance. Each time he inserted an iron nail, he would push the cage to let the rune iron nails occupy as many gaps between the wooden boards as possible.
The hull of the ship had been scrapped due to long use. The wooden planks themselves had already swollen to the extreme due to the baptism of time. Now, after being squeezed by the rune nails, they began to make a slight creaking sound under the load.
At the same time, my aunt also finished redrawing the magic circle.
Right in front of Hero, the fishmen opened each cage and dragged the sleeping children inside into the magic circle.
No other tools are needed at all, just the sharp scales on the body play a role in bleeding.
One hand pulled the person out of the cage, and the other hand cut the scales to bleed.
Very efficient.
And the aunt also strolled over to Holo's side.
"When facing death, you should feel fear. The more you fear the undead in the deep sea, the more satisfied you will be, and the more rewards you will give us...what?"
In her impression, the timid Holo should be frightened when he saw children being slaughtered and bloodied one after another, but there was no trace of fear on Holo's face, only a smile that stretched from ear to ear!
At this moment, Hero kicked off one leg without hesitation.
Crunch~
not enough!
Holo grabbed the cage rod above his head with both hands, pulled his body up, and with the weight of his body, he stomped hard towards the wooden board with his feet.
"No!"
The aunt didn't react when Holo took action for the first time. It wasn't until the second time that she noticed the row of nails in the cracks of the wooden boards.
boom!
The wooden board under Holo's feet suddenly collapsed, and the chain reaction of the feedback was that the entire wooden board on this layer began to fall into pieces.
The embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the ant nest, and each runic iron nail pried the abandoned fishing boat.
The hull began to tilt abnormally.
The aunt who was originally furious and ready to kill Holo slipped.
Horrified, Hero pushed up the cage and started running to the side.