Devil's Thumbwheel

By Nikki Greenley

Alcatraz, an unknowable place connecting endless worlds and parallel dimensions, where all your dreams and desires can be fulfilled. dna Crisis, Hell Invasion, Demon City.

Golden Book of Red Death, Legend of Wonderland, Heroes Invincible 3, Fighting God City, Golden Roulette, Age of Empires, Dragon Knights Gun, One Thousand and One Nights,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hunter Seibert
• Release date: Feb 9, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869318152

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Chapter 1: Hope

    Neat and beautiful eyelashes fluttered for a while, the young man slowly opened his eyes after retrieving his body's sensation, at the same time, the noisy and loud cacophony came from his ears, he got up from his seat and twisted his head to look at it, and what came into his eyes was a spacious classroom of nearly four hundred square meters, with rows and rows of clean and brand-new desks and chairs.

    White-collar workers, gangsters, young women, students, workers, policemen, hawkers, all these people in different strata of the society are nevertheless gathering together to discuss in whispers, or to argue, or to sob, or to shout angrily.

    A hundred and forty people?

    With just one glance he had the number of people in the classroom straightened out with his extraordinary mental arithmetic and information processing skills, the young man lowered his head and stared at the black ring on his ring finger as he resumed his seat in the chair and closed his eyes for a rest, no matter if what the demon had said was true or not, there was no way that he could give up on this only chance to heal her for good.

    For the sake of that timid little figure, he had no choice.

    No one cares about the young man who has just woken up, at first they may even go up to the young man with good intentions, but then they have seen more and more and gradually become numb to the fact that they only want to get out of this closed classroom, anxiety, fear, suspicion and so on are spreading in the crowd.

    Some of those with active minds were secretly wary looking at those around them.

    Were you lured in by it too?

    The cool and pleasant voice sounded behind him, letting the young man instantly sweat hairs, arm muscles like a drawn bowstring tensed up, in addition to his own sister, there are actually people of the same age can be noiselessly close to his side within the range of four meters, which makes the young man more or less a little shocked, in the past, he is quite confident in his own perceptual ability.

    Seemingly unaware of the young man's wary reaction, the owner of the voice sat down on the seat behind him as if nothing had happened and continued, I have no malice, I just thought that as kindred spirits, you and I would have more intelligence topics to exchange.

    Ink Redfish, nice to meet you.

    Sophie. Without letting his guard down, the young man answered with customary politeness, twisting his head sideways to look cautiously at his visitor.

    It was a girl whose age was two or three years older than his, her appearance was extremely beautiful, her skin was like warm white jade, her waist-length black hair was simply tied by a purple ribbon, her figure was even taller and outstanding, even the loose sportswear couldn't hide the pair of high breasts, and her beautiful narrow ink-colored eyes were overflowing with pride.

    The thin pink lips looked moist and glossy, and the faint scent of a young girl's body instantly filled the tip of his nose.

    She was like a cool beauty coming out of an ink painting.

    You want to form an alliance with me for the time being? Sophie asked directly after a little thought.

    As the same newcomer chosen one, it was impossible for Ink Red Fish to know more than him, the biggest possibility was that she looked at her own strength, that female demon had also said that chosen ones in the same classroom were not allowed to attack each other, or else a portion of the murderer's merit points would be deducted.

    Sophie didn't know exactly what Merit Points did, but knew that it was the only precious currency circulating on Alcatraz.

    That's right. Ink Red Fish inclined her head, a few strands of long ink-colored hair hanging down from her ear temples, a few more points of flirtation added to her cold and haughty delicate features, she said pleasantly, Talking to a smart person is just no trouble, so would you like to.

    Yes. Sophie simply replied back and stopped talking, her breathing tapered off as she began to adjust her physical state.

    There was no curiosity about which school of skill she practiced, just as the ink red fish did not ask him about his practice, which is a rule that all practitioners in the world have learned from each other.

    The cultivation method referred to here is not the cultivation in fairy novels, but a method of exercising oneself and tapping into the potential of the spirit, mind, and body, the method of breathing and exhaling, as well as the dan dao of Chinese Taoism, the yoga techniques of various schools of ancient Indian civilization, the six armors of the tantric sects, the psychic mediums of the witches in the East, the precepts of the knights of the Middle Ages in Europe, the zen meditation of the Buddhists that cleanses the mind, and the ancient combat techniques of various countries are all considered to be are all considered to be spiritual practices.

    It's just a matter of roughness and depth.

    Similarly, more than ten years of persistent practice makes the cultivator's essence too much stronger than the average person, over time it will even form a unique aura, this is also the reason why when Sophie just woke up, Ink Red Fish found out that he was the same cultivator as himself, that aura was as bright and eye-catching as the bright moon in the group of stars.

    The ink red fish raised his eyebrows, not really caring about Sophie's coldness, as long as he reached a verbal agreement with him it was a good start.

    Unlike those lucky people who were forced to enter Alcatraz for a variety of reasons, both she and Sophie entered of their own accord after being invited, because there were hopes and wishes here that both of them craved for.

    The duo didn't do anything to hide it, and that titanic stance drew the attention of some of the more attentive.

    No one dares to touch the door of the classroom again, just now there was a young strong man who was impatient to continue to wait for a chair to lift up and knock on the door lock, the result was immediately electrocuted foaming at the mouth, and has not recovered to this day, some people witnessed this scene even dared not sit on the chair, but had to stand in embarrassment.

    After a few more minutes, there was a sudden clatter, and the door that hadn't been able to be opened was actually pulled open.

    Without waiting for most of them to show their surprise, a dignified beauty in a lady's suit walked in lightly, then closed the doorway with her backhand.

    She came to the podium to indifferently scan the classroom that seemed to be as chaotic as a food market, her beautiful mature face showed some dissatisfaction, and she flung the black whip on her hand, bringing up a cracking sound that made people's scalp numb, and indifferently said:

    First of all, you're dead, or dying.

    Fortunately, you have been chosen again by Alcatraz, and as long as you fulfill the tasks it gives you, you will live, and on Alcatraz, you will have the chance to have all your s**t and wishes fulfilled.

    Everyone looked at each other, but no one dared to question, only because the body of the beautiful suit on the podium flickered and jumped with a wisp of blue-white arcs of electricity, this unimaginable, the past can only be seen in the movies and comics of the scene completely subdued them, even the usual staunch atheists are full of suspicion.

    A very few had a complexion on their faces, obviously having read the comics and movies of Kill City or related subjects.

    She looked around the classroom, her eyes lingered on Sophie and Ink Redfish as well as a few other men and women, I'm surprised by the quality of a few of you in this group of people, ah, a small piece of advice, it's best to abandon your so-called pride and small-mindedness in Alcatraz, only by being sincere and united can you survive.

    Those who cheat are the exception to the rule, the suited li'l man added mentally.

    The black ring you wear on your fingers is the only medium all the Chosen use to check quests, leaderboards and character attributes, dimensional teleportation, access the Demon Trading Market, open storage spaces, communicate, and collect soul fragments. She raised her white palm to show everyone the pitch-black finger ring on her index finger.

    Trust me, you never want to know the consequences of losing your medium.

    Until you get through the first mission world, you can only use the two functions of querying missions and sub-dimensional teleportation. As she said this, she looked pityingly at a number of people below who looked terrified, this group of newcomers were also unlucky to have been chosen by Alcatraz Island to join the recently established Hundred Squad, which didn't even have a single senior in the team.

    Almost the same as the earliest batch of pioneers is not much different, no wonder the administrators will put these people together, Liren thought and couldn't help but look at Sophie and Ink Red Fish, if these two people fell into their own team that would be so good, without much effort to cultivate can become the main teammates.

    There are three types of newcomers that are most popular on Alcatraz, the first being the extremely well educated newcomers like Ink Redfish and Sophie.

    The second type was the aborigines in various mission worlds who had inadvertently been recognized by the Devil's Finger Wheel, such as the group of monsters in the fourth place of the team rankings, 'Team Orochi', where the most common team members were the likes of Dongfang Bubu, Isayama Huangquan, Wang Yuanji, and I heard that a terrifying existence nicknamed Three Years Old was recently added to the team.

    They were originally the pride of the original world, and after they were lucky enough to enter Alcatraz, their strength increased countless times faster than ordinary people.

    The last type of newcomer is extremely special and rare, and the name given to them on Alcatraz is Cheaters (Diviners).

    Everyone, repeat after me silently and inquire about the mission.

    Inquiring about the mission, Sophie immediately chanted silently in his heart, and the ring on his ring finger glowed with a dull light, and then a line of neat and beautiful silver writing emerged within his vision.

    mission room

    1: dna crisis (level b, 0/100)

    2: Gold Digger's Dare (d-rated, 0/60)

    3: KOF 97 (b-rank, 0/40)

    4: Tian Long Bao (c-rank, 0/40)

    5: Battle for the continent of Azbeinren (c-rank, 0/100)

    There sparsely gathered together the newcomers immediately issued an extremely suppressed exclamation of surprise, apparently by this unimaginable projection technology to stimulate, after all, to the current technology on earth can not be done to such a degree of precision, a part of the young people have been baptized by a variety of Hollywood movie special effects is very calm, their acceptance of new things are very good.

    One more word of advice to you all, there is no free lunch in the world, and it's the same on Alcatraz, if you want to get more, you need to pay the corresponding price and risk. Suit Li Man held up his arms, biting eyes watching all the people solemnly said, Next you will have to make a choice.

    Choose one of the quests, you must complete the main quest to return to Alcatraz, each quest can only be opened if you get a full group of participants together, you have ten minutes to deliberate and prepare, those who are undecided after that time will be wiped out, and the administrators will re-select new people to join.

    With that said, I hope to see you all again on Alcatraz in the future.

    With that said, the suited beauty stepped off the podium and opened the door to leave.

    Can't say more, can't say less, that's the rule set by the administrators, even if she wanted to reveal more information to these newcomers, she couldn't.

    A line of constantly pulsing bright red numbers floated below everyone's retinas.

    00:09:59

    Sophie turned her head to gaze at the inked red fish and said, I want to hear what you think.

    It's also a C-rank mission, 5 is half the number of people than 4. I suspect that the 5th mission might involve a small-scale war, I don't recommend picking it. Ink Red Fish replied with a clear and crisp voice, those of them who grew up practicing cultivation might be quite a bit stronger than ordinary people, but they were still within the range of human beings, they definitely wouldn't be able to hold out for long when they went into battle, a stray bullet might kill the two of them.

    A B-ranked mission, let's not go and get killed. She made a playful remark towards Sophie.

    That leaves 2 and 4, which one do you think we should pick.

    Precisely because there is a wish in his heart that he wants to fulfill no matter what, the ink red fish is more cautious and more afraid of dying a meaningless death than ordinary people.

    Sophie thought for a moment and shook her head at the ink red fish, Tianlong Bajie is too dangerous, when I was a child, my grandfather once told me that I should think more before deciding to do something, and not to make a move if I am not one hundred percent sure.

    Not to mention that there are no things in the world of Tianlong Bajie that are worth risking his life for, he may be able to choose to die once and for all, but what to do with that little girl who is always lying in the hospital bed, he decided to enter the Alcatraz Island isn't it to retrieve the power and medication that can heal her body well.

    Heroes see the same thing.

    Ink Redfish returned with a shallow smile.

    Both of them simultaneously reached out and tapped Task 2 with their fingers.

    Gold Digger's Big Adventure (d-rated, 2/60)

    Sophie and Ink Red Fish were not the least bit worried about the problem of insufficient numbers, unless someone could convince two thirds of the newcomers in the classroom to all choose either mission 1 or mission 5, there would be no shortage of people to participate in missions 2, 3, and 4, and there was no shortage of newcomers who chose King of Fighters and Tianlong Bajie with the fluky hope of knowing the plot.

    Those older men and women may not have played King of Fighters, but they must have read the novels or TV series of Tian Long Bao.

    One's own familiar world is always safer than those of the strange and unknown.

    That's what most ordinary people think.

Chapter II. Choices

    The short-haired youth looked at the line of information floating static in his line of sight and said in an excited tone, Sister Qiutang, let's choose Tianlong Bajie, when the time comes, we can go to Mount Infinite to get the North Underworld Divine Skill and the Ling Bo Wei Bu first, these two are both quick-fix martial arts yet.

    The woman he called Qiu Tang was a beautiful young woman around 28 years old, wearing an ol professional outfit, with thin black silk wrapped around her curvy and beautiful calves under the sheath skirt, she frowned her nice eyebrows and asked softly, Xiao Tang ah, do you have the protagonist's aura of Duan Yu that falls off the cliff and doesn't die.

    The youth's expression stuttered at his words.

    He wouldn't have to work under someone if he had a protagonist aura.

    Are you sure we must have been near the Infinite Mountain after we were teleported?

    No identity, no silver, and I don't know how many bandits and robbers are waiting on the road for us to come to our door.

    Suppose, even if you are allowed to get the North Underworld Divine Power and Ling Bo Wei Bu, but how many of these people are clear about the acupoints and meridians on their bodies, and how many of them are familiar with the Zhouyi Bagua ......

    Mu Qiutang's series of questioning made the short-haired youth's face redden, but he had no way to retort.

    Although the original DuanYu do not like martial arts, but at least since childhood, familiar with reading the four books, poetry and song, on the ZhouYi gossip is not strange, and also the family learning, learning the North Underworld and LingBoWeiBu natural progress is very fast, you change a even their own meridian acupuncture points do not understand the modern people up, probably can only hold the two volumes of martial arts obsessed.

    Sister Qiutang, then what do we do. The young man surnamed Tang asked somewhat at a loss, he was just a college student who had just graduated and was working, he had not experienced any storms under the loving protection of his parents, and his mental endurance was naturally not high.

    Mu Qiutang did not answer, gently inhaled a breath, suppressing the negative emotions of anxiety and restlessness in her heart, she could not fall down here, there is still a pair of lovely daughters at home waiting for her to go back to take care of them, she shifted her gaze to the corner of the classroom on the two slightly lonely figures.

    It was a very young man and woman.

    The girl is not more than twenty years old, with a head of beautifully smooth waist-length black hair, tied with a ribbon, the appearance of even more knowledgeable she also felt stunning, the boy's age is even younger, looks like a high school student, the face is very delicate and quiet, both the three-dimensional sense of the Europeans, but also the Oriental's soft delicate beauty, may be mixed with part of the foreign ancestry.

    If he could grow his hair long, he'd be absolutely gorgeous.

    Mu Qiutang attention to these two for a long time, she and he, whether it is appearance or temperament is the best choice, can afford to say a golden girl and boy, from waking up after the two showed extraordinarily calm and cool, there is no other people as more or less show palpitations and fear of emotion, but instead of their own a calm self-confidence.

    The young woman was hesitant to go up and strike up a conversation, those two were obviously forming a small team, if she did not show any value, the other party was afraid that they would not take care of her, years of workplace career made her understand that the precondition for cooperation was based on both parties' equal strength or profitable situation.

    Suddenly, she noticed that the silver quest list in her field of vision jumped a bit.

    Gold Digger's Big Adventure (d-rated, 2/60)

    Mu Qiutang's willow-like eyebrows slightly raised, subconsciously glanced at the pair of young men and women, closed her eyes to think, also quickly understood, biting her lower lip and resolutely chose the second task, and quietly instructed a few words to the short-haired youth beside her.

    Young woman accompanied her twin daughters to play the kof series of games, leisure time also read the novel of Tianlong Bafu, more than anyone knows the degree of danger of these two worlds, familiar with the plot and so on, beautiful woman into the Tianlong Bafu after the unfortunate encounter with the four great evils in the clouds in the crane of the end of the self needless to say, kof the world in 97 years of the will of the earth the great serpent descended, by then the great serpent a move of the sun shines down, I don't know if you can not carry it.

    Time slipped by amidst the heated bickering of the newcomers.

    But no one can convince anyone, especially when their lives are at stake, after all, people only trust themselves most of the time, unless someone with a high degree of authority steps forward.

    It was clear that the newcomers, who had only crossed paths a few hours ago, could not yet find a leader sufficiently convincing.

    As Sophie and Ink Red Fish were certain, all the newcomers chose missions 2, 3 and 4, most of the young people chose the King of Fighters world, and the middle-aged group was in the Tianlong Bajie world, and there were quite a number of people who didn't have the time to click on missions 3 and 4 because of their slow reaction, and could only choose the second mission with a face of chagrin, they didn't want to be wiped out without a good reason.

    When the ten minutes expired, a new line of silver letters surfaced within everyone's retinas.

    Mission World: Gold Digger's Big Adventure

    Genre: Fantasy

    Difficulty: d

    Status: Wuthering Islands in the southern waters of the Vornze continent are buried with countless treasures left behind by pirate kings hundreds of years ago, and every year a large number of adventurers come to the islands to pan for gold, there is no law, no morality, no mercy here, it's the cemetery for the greedy and the paradise for the exiles, so please be careful of any strangers you meet ......

    Main Quest: All Chosen are asked to survive for four months within the confines of the Wuthering Isles.

    Side mission: Not triggered

    Elected: 60/60, joined

    World erosivity: --

    Before Sophie could finish reading the quest information, her body was pulled in by the portal that suddenly surfaced.

    This sudden change made the whole classroom instantly become chaotic, some timid female newcomers let out shrill cries, and then came to an abrupt end, just a few breaths, just a moment ago as noisy as a food market in the classroom will be completely quiet.

    The Wuthering Archipelago is made up of countless islands of all sizes, the largest of which even exceeds 400,000 square kilometers.

    Because of the complexity of the distribution of the sea and islands, this is the pirates' favorite place to hide their treasure, and every year, there are wanted criminals on the continent of Vaughan Zee escaped into the Wuthering Heights, and the southern countries do not have the will to clean up this impossible area, the empire's history has had four times to jointly rectify the situation, but they all failed.

    Those cunning pirates and exiles met the purge to hide, never and the imperial navy head-on hard fight.

    Several siege down, the naval department consumed a lot of money and manpower and material resources, but not even a little war results, so in part of the imperial nobility under the pressure of a variety of interests entangled, and finally can only be settled.

    Ten years ago, a group of pirates in a small island rest, inadvertently found a few hundred years ago, the pirate king left a very small part of the treasure, due to the many mouths, the leader can not subdue the underlings of the pirates, the news is still leaking out. This group of pirates in those peers and treasure hunters, adventurers of the joint frantic pursuit, even half a month did not last past the clean death.

    From this event, the Wuthering Heights became a paradise for all gold prospectors within the South.

    Today a group of outsiders came to an island in the center of the Wuthering Heights.

    A portal opened on the beach, dropping dozens of people before dissolving back into the air as particles of light.

    Sophie light and soundless landing on the ground, leaving two shallow footprints in the sand, quickly browse through the main mission after the heart silently read a shutdown, all the data within the retina will slowly disappear, his high and straight nose twitching a little, cautiously looking around the environment around the situation, his eyes suddenly in the far side of the beach somewhere to stay for a few seconds, crouched down and grabbed a few handfuls of fine sand into the pockets, and then move some hands and feet before he He came to the side of the red fish.

    The gravity is a little higher than Earth, but it doesn't affect combat.

    The ink red fish raised its head to look at Sophie in surprise, what a terrifying perception.

    So let's talk openly next, I know some family assassination techniques and ancient yoga techniques, what skills do you specialize in. Sophie still underestimated the danger of a level D mission, surviving alone for four months on a group of islands filled with pirates and criminals, and facing the problem of food and fresh water, there was no way to ensure enough sleep time and safety with just her current strength.

    His sister was fine with it, but not him.

    That's why Sophie needs a trustworthy teammate.

    Is it a foreign assassin family, looking at Sophie's exquisite face that combines the advantages of the East and the West, the ink red fish thought thoughtfully, after the modern era, China knows the assassination skills and inherits the assassin's beliefs of the practitioners are almost dead, but also on the European side there are still some active people left.

    As she pondered, she returned, I started practicing my family's spitting technique at the age of six, and I practiced the killing fist technique at the age of eight, so it's been exactly twelve years now.

    Cultivator circles in various countries around the world do not have a clear and unified division of the realm of strength, especially the invention of gunpowder and the rapid development of science and technology has made these cultivators more and more covert in their activities, and almost disappeared in the modern world.

    Sophie's eyes lit up when she heard the killing fist technique, in the world of practitioners boxing and killing fist techniques are two concepts, you practice the health of the health spitting method and soothing and revitalizing the body of the boxing is a practitioner, you practice to put people to death combat skills are also practitioners, only the former combat effectiveness is a concern, the latter a shot of non-death that is crippled.

    Don't look at me like that. Ink Redfish noticed Sophie's expectant gaze and sighed, You know that modern society is not suitable for our kind of activities, I haven't dipped in human blood since I was a child to, I practiced in the countryside with wooden stakes and big trees.

    Yes, this is one of the reasons why there are fewer and fewer practitioners in recent times.

    Today's modern society and how many ordinary people are willing to spend decades to carry out boring breathing, meditation practice, even if you will be a skill to a certain realm, in the face of lethal and easy to operate modern thermal weapons, in addition to that group of inhuman level of practitioners and mysterious family, ordinary practitioners can only close their eyes and wait for death.

    All you and I lack is experience. Sophie, however, simply replied back.

    Ink Redfish was dumbfounded at his words, then pursed his lips and smiled confidently.

    Yeah, what she and Sophie lacked was combat experience, not killing skill.

    Mu Qiutang fell down on the beach, after getting up, first silently took off the high heels on his feet, glanced at the task and then sighed with relief, he had finally made the right bet.

    Heh heh heh heh, do those fools really think that we haven't played King of Fighters or read Tian Long Ba Bei? How could this whatever Alcatraz quest publisher let them drill plot holes. A young man not far from her patted his butt and stood up, laughing with a face full of mockery, Just a d-rank quest is that difficult, how much more difficult will c-rank and b-rank be.

    Surviving for four months on a deserted island without any wilderness survival tools at hand, and perhaps being threatened by pirates during that time, is just a level D mission.

    Upon hearing this, some people wore bitter and smug smiles.

    The bet is right!

    The few newcomers who lacked the heart and didn't have the time to choose the other two quests hurriedly looked at the main quest when they heard the words, and were instantly filled with complicated faces, some people were glad, some people were afraid, and some people were gloating.

    We should unite, just like that woman said. Mu Qiutang thought long and hard and also stood out, she needed to gain the power of speech to fight not to be discarded as a liability, the young woman looked around at the newcomers around her, took a deep breath and spoke in a solemn tone:

    I remembered that myself and Tang should have been in a car accident before coming to Alcatraz, but I can breathe and move around now, no matter what Alcatraz is, all I know is that it gave me a second life, and I still want to go home and take care of my two young daughters, and I believe that you all have your own parents, relatives, and close friends waiting for you to go back safely.

    That's why I'm hoping to work with everyone to get home alive.

Chapter III. The Wuthering Heights

    Mu Qiutang is very pretty and gentle and charming, people with decent looks usually give others a good first impression, not to mention that the young woman's words were very sincere and honest.

    She quickly pulled in some younger boys and a small number of intelligent women.

    Beautiful looks may be a kind of capital in modern civilized society, but in a pirate infested lawless zone is a calamity, as a vulnerable group of them keenly aware of this, turn to embrace the same female Mu Qiutang is undoubtedly a good choice.

    Mu Qiutang was not as optimistic as she appeared to be, she likewise thought of the problem of water and food, after all, the fresh water and food that sixty people needed to consume every day was a staggering amount, perhaps the small beasts on the island could be a solution to the urgent need, but the problem was that how many of these newcomers knew how to hunt?

    That's a skilled job.

    She unintentionally glanced out of the corner of her eye and saw Sophie and Ink Redfish heading towards the jungle, so she hurriedly ran forward and asked, Wait, where are you guys going? Since the young woman didn't suppress her voice, it caused many newcomers to look this way, and when they realized that the young couple was actually leaving, they all projected puzzled, mocking, curious, and thoughtful looks.

    The two of them stopped in their tracks, and Ink Redfish didn't even bother to turn his body around, lifting his round and delicate chin towards Sophie, signaling for him to go ahead and explain.

    Sophie turned back to look at Mu Qiutang and those newcomers not far away, shaking her head, she said, Lack of water and food, I'm afraid we won't be able to make it through even two days, this island isn't small, there should be quite a lot of living critters on it, I'm going to try my luck together with her, there won't be any food falling from sitting here.

    Also I suggest that you'd better clear out a temporary camp on the outskirts of the jungle, dozens of people gathered on the beach is a conspicuous target, pirates not only like to plunder, but are also good at selling slaves, you don't want to be kept like pigs and dogs in the future.

    Remember to sweep the sandy surface before you evacuate.

    It's not too cold right now, but I'd still like you to build some simple shelter from the rain with those palm-leaf-like leaves and branches, and considering we don't have any quick-acting medicines on hand, I don't need to tell you what will happen to anyone who is unfortunate enough to catch a cold or fever or contract some sudden illness.

    There may be people among you who enjoy watching wilderness survival programs and books, so please calm down and use what you've learned to help.

    We have to survive on the Wuthering Isles for four months in the future, there are no soft and clean beds here, not to mention that you can't call for gourmet food with a single phone call, so please throw away your old peaceful and comfortable habits, don't go complaining about others who know more than you do, you're not crippled or retarded, because the greatest advantage of human beings is that they know how to imitate and learn.

    Sophie finished her sentence in one breath and left with Ink Red Fish, leaving behind the newcomers with stunned faces.

    Mu Qiutang this admonition silently in mind, usually she has to work hard to earn money, the rest of the time is also all invested in the two daughters, which have the leisure to read books and programs on wilderness survival, or that many people here are the same, life and learning and work take up most of the time of life, unless it is really interested or involved in a wide range of knowledge, or who will be quiet to learn some of the knowledge of the skills that can not be used in the day, the free time would be better to play a few games to have a good time. There is this free time is not as good as playing a few more games to enjoy.

    Kids these days are really something, get to know them, Zhou Bingcheng.

    A bald and strong man whose age was probably in his thirties came to Mu Qiutang's side, looking at the smaller and smaller backs of Sophie and Ink Red Fish, he sighed as if it was a pity, those two could be too much more powerful than these tired teammates around them, if it wasn't for some concerns, even he would want to follow them away.

    Dozens of people gathered together certainly feel safe, but without fresh water and food to support them, this makeshift team that doesn't even manage to trust each other will probably fall apart soon.

    Do you have any ideas. Mu Qiutang glanced at the man beside her, her eyebrows slightly knitted.

    The other party must have a purpose for choosing this time to come up and talk.

    Just like what those two kids said just now, we should quickly learn about integrating everyone's occupations and abilities, and assign each person's duties, or else if we let them continue to argue aimlessly like this, I'm afraid we'll have to spend the night starving on the beach tonight. Zhou Bingcheng collected the expression on his face and said in a deep voice.

    Let's unite a few more people and convince them together.

    Modern people's small minds are especially many, but also very confident and proud, especially those impulsive and like to show off young people, did not experience setbacks before it is difficult to accept a stranger's command, Zhou Bingcheng has a self-awareness, with him alone is unable to persuade dozens of newcomers who have their own minds.

    Mu Qiutang nodded her head after she thought about it, her mature and charmingly beautiful face was grave.

    It is a medium-sized island with an overall area of over 40,000 square kilometers, with an environment similar to Earth's tropical jungles.

    The deeper you go into the forest the more dangerous it becomes, not only from the threat of poisonous snakes, spiders, wild animals, man-eating plants, swamps and other deadly species terrain, but also face the sense of disorientation, the ordinary people do not have the specialized knowledge equipment and experience can easily get lost in the jungle.

    The two traveled silently through the rugged and complex jungle terrain, leaving imperceptible tracks on the ground.

    Even after maintaining such a physical exertion drastic movement running away, the ink red fish still had some energy left towards Sophie who was scouting in front of her and asked curiously, I thought that you would just casually perfunctory a couple of sentences.

    Those pampered newcomers were just tired wastes in her eyes, not even remotely useful.

    My mother warned me from a young age that one cannot be too selfless, that would make oneself and the loved ones around one very tired, and one cannot be too selfish, otherwise one would slowly become cold-blooded and heartless. Sophie stopped and was silent for a few seconds, considering that she had to work with Ink Redfish all the time for the next four months, as a companion she couldn't afford to be too distant, and thought about an explanation.

    I've said what I need to say, it's up to them to listen or not, I'll just try to help them as much as I can.

    In the leafy tree, a viper watched the two humans below with cold, cruel pupils, its body tensing like a bow as it suddenly shot toward the young human male.

    This is not like the education an assassin receives. Ink Red Fish suddenly crossed a few steps to Sophie's side, unhurriedly raised his white and tender slender hand, accurately grabbed the emerald green viper that was only ten centimeters away from his neck, and pinched it with dexterous force on the seven inches, and the viper that was about to struggle and bite back instantly went limp.

    It looks as if it's more aggressive than the snakes on Earth.

    Ink Redfish threw away the corpse of the viper in his hand and whispered to himself.

    It can't bite me. Sophie turned back to gaze attentively at the beautiful girl with black hair to her waist, he only had to flick his body sideways to make the viper pounce, it was just that this behavior of the ink red fish seemed to be indicating that she didn't trust him.

    I know you can dodge it, but I'd rather see you angry. Ink Red Fish's body leaned forward slightly, the pair of perky giant . Breasts outlined an amazing arc, ink-colored eyes looked at Sophie's showy and stunning face, moist pink lips raised upwards.

    An aunt who could say that shouldn't have taught you to be this way.

    Obviously younger than her by two or three years, but his personality was dull beyond words, if it was said that he was educated as an assassin from a young age it would still be excusable, but Mo Hongyu was keenly aware that the other party hadn't been subjected to that kind of brutal cultivation.

    She's curious.

    Put away your curiosity, I'm only in a temporary alliance with you. Sophie slightly inclined her head back, somewhat unable to stand Ink Redfish's eyes, that kind of invisible oppressive force was simply like his sister's, leaving no way to reject it.

    Okay. Ink Redfish looked sideways at Sophie, who seemed a bit mortified, and arched her eyebrows upwards, withdrawing her gaze to stop pushing him, and anyway, unsurprisingly, there would be plenty of time in the future to slowly get to know him.

    It's not good to rush things.

    So where are we going to get food next, you and I should have no problem catching some beasts to fill our bellies.

    Sophie returned to that cool look, he pointed to a piece of fern that collapsed under the bushes not far in front of him, his voice was bitter, This is not left by wild beasts, there are no footprints or smells of them on the surrounding soil, there should be a pirate's stronghold or refuge hiding point on the island, the time to go to the island is not more than three days, they are very experienced, and they didn't leave any obvious footprints.

    I'm leaning more toward the latter, though; they don't have to be so careful if it's a resting stronghold for replenishing supplies.

    The reasoning of the cunning rabbit has three holes is common in any world, in the Wuthering Heights within the scope of any one of the pirate group will be prepared to at least one material storage site, usually may not be used, but in times of emergency will be able to come in handy.

    You picked up their trail while you were on the beach? Yes, if it had rained two days ago, there would have been no traces left on the beach or in the jungle. Involved in the main matter, the ink red fish's complexion also gradually turned cold, by the hot and humid environment between the jungle can be deduced that the Wuthering Isles is a high temperature and rainy area, it is impossible to have a rain every ten days and half a month.

    Any idea exactly how many people are on the other side.

    I'm not sure of the exact number, I haven't learned specialized scouting skills.

    Sophie cast her gaze into the depths of the jungle where an occasional ray of sunlight passed through, narrowing her eyes, But I'm certain that there are no more than five of them. The more people there were, the more difficult it would be to clean up the traces they left behind, especially in the primitive forest that was filled with dense vegetation, occasionally accidentally stepping on a fern or snapping off a tiny branch or leaf was a normal thing.

    Kill them. Ink Redfish said in a cold voice.

    Sophie nodded gently and chased after the traces left behind by the pirates with Ink Red Fish.

    Both of them are not the kind of pretentious character, since the choice to enter the Alcatraz, that means voluntarily embarked on a path of iron and blood, there is nothing to regret, the only word is just kill.

    Just as Sophie had guessed.

    There is a pirate's hideout or storage point of supplies on the island, sealed with enough food for seven or eight people to consume for two years, ten years ago a small leader to find apprentice sorcerer to enchant on the sealing spell, with his men cronies secretly transported to the island, this is the old habit of all pirate leaders, just in case, perhaps this life to the death of the war can not be used.

    Ivan has been having very mixed feelings lately.

    The other day he plundered a merchant ship and scavenged a lot of top quality goods, but he didn't realize that there were some solid goods inside.

    Recently the death row prisoner Igni has let out the wind to hang the pirates who have robbed this merchant ship with their own hands, and whoever can send them in front of themselves can make a request to themselves that is not too much, the whole Wuthering Heights Islands pirate groups and adventurers are boiling when they learn about the news, that is a pirate king's promise ah, besides, the death row prisoner Igni's credibility in the southern sea is a first class, and lately, the southern sea has also become more and more lively due to the This matter is once again lively.

    Ivan had just heard the wind and was so frightened that he hid on this island overnight with a few of his cronies.

    As for the rest of the men on board is dead or alive is not his business, if not these cronies were involved in the delivery of supplies together, clear supplies of the specific storage location, coupled with the time constraints, Ivan did not even abandon them (slaughtered), pirates have never been what a good man and woman.

    Those few cronies seemed to have sensed something as well, and secretly grew defensive of him.

Chapter V. Spells

    Ink red fish in the distance from Ivan more than ten meters away from the place to stop, closed his eyes and exhaled a breath, even the plump body is like a female leopard is trying to prey on the tense up, her body of that more and more austere aura even let the pirate leader had a kind of illusion, he will be facing is not a human being, but a horrifying beast is showing its fangs and claws.

    Ivan's heart throbbed with the realization that this might not be an illusion.

    Sev, go wake those two guys up.

    Pirates believe in the strongest for the honor, they are not knights, will talk about chivalry with you one-on-one one-on-one, pirate groups have a widely circulated saying called 'results are more important than the process', undoubtedly reflects the pirate's style of fighting, as long as they can survive, sneak attacks, fraud, smear poison, siege, they play all kinds of tricks.

    The lean, crony pirate had just turned around just in time to witness Sophie walking out of the tent with her dagger in her backhand, and with his excellent eyesight, he could vaguely see his companion inside, who was down on the ground, writhing in pain.

    As if he remembered something, Sevie shouted with an extremely poor color, Boss, this woman has an accomplice, an assassin. To be able to conceal a fourth-order warrior's fully unleashed perception and silently kill two pirates whose alertness was not low, who else but those assassins whose movements were secretive.

    Assassin in the world of Vornze is a very rare upper level profession.

    Compared to warriors who only need to practice hard for ten or twenty years and eventually enter a certain realm, assassins are very much focused on talent and aptitude, learning skills that seem unbelievable to the common man.

    They are more sensitive than cats when they walk, their speed can exceed that of a cheetah in a short period of time, they can hide in a pile of grass for several days without moving a bit, each of them is a master of sneaking and a master of tracking, and they know all the simple or complicated techniques of killing people, and they also know how to change voices, disguise themselves and dress up, as well as how to make all kinds of poisons. They can also change their voices, disguise themselves, dress up, and make all kinds of poisons.

    With the help of the complex terrain environment, there is also precedent for assassins to kill wizards of the same rank!

    Of course, this was not the same as the assassin cultivation method in Sophie's family, after all, it was a completely different assassin system in two worlds.

    Sevi you stall him first, assassins aren't good at head-on battles, I'll settle that woman and come to help you right away. Despite the fact that Ivan's face was also quite bad, he still maintained a calm heart, he first commanded, then gripped the sharp scimitar in his hand tightly and walked towards the ink red fish with a fierce smile.

    He had experienced countless storms and waves over the past twenty years, so would he lose his fighting spirit just because of a slight disadvantage.

    Ink Redfish opened her eyes and said indifferently, Come on.

    The clear voice filled with the youthful flavor of a young girl had just fallen, the ink red fish's body energy drum exploded, the tip of the foot force, like an arrow off the string towards Ivan Biaojie, in the blink of an eye across a distance of more than ten meters, ordinary people's dynamic vision can't even capture the trajectory of her movement.

    So fast!

    Ivan's pupils drastically narrowed to pinhole size, arm tendons tense, subconsciously raised the scimitar downward to make a fierce chop, the air at first resounded sharp and ear-piercing whistling sound, even if it is a hasty out of the knife, but that decades of life and death combat honed from the formidable aura is still letting people's hearts and guts are chilled.

    Not to mention that he was confident that within the range of the scimitar's chopping, even a black bear with thick skin and flesh would be chopped in half by himself.

    The figure reflected in the pupil is getting clearer and clearer, Ivan licked his lips excitedly, the little girl is a little girl, the combat experience is too little, there is no weapon in the hand also dared to launch a charge to a fourth-ranked warrior, it is simply asking for death, even if it is a knight of the same rank would not dare to do so, after all, human beings are still flesh and blood, and in the sharp curved sword and the thin paper is not very different.

    It was as if he foresaw the wonderful scene of the maiden's beautiful head flying up and blood splattering now.

    However, the ink red fish is still a few meters away from Ivan, sprinting speed is once again accelerated by nearly double, in the scimitar is still halfway to fall down in front of him bent over, no sound stops, a movement and a stillness between the fluent and free, only with a ribbon tied up by the waist of the green silk such as the wind like willow flakes fluttering.

    Drink! Ink Red Fish lowly drank, beautiful white tender fists and palms seemingly gently pressed on the pirate leader's chest, all the body's strength blended in one point, rigid force launched!

    An unspeakable pain spread throughout his body in an instant, while the sound of his sternum shattering rang in his ears.

    Like being hit by a large truck traveling at high speed, Ivan's entire body instantly flew backwards a dozen meters away, and rolled on the ground a few more times before coming to a stop.

    From the time the Ink Red Fish launched its attack to the pirate leader's carelessness and injury, only two or three short seconds had passed.

    Cough cough cough, you, you actually know the technique of charging twice? Fearful of being attacked by the Ink Red Fish, Ivan hurriedly swallowed a few mouthfuls of blood that he wanted to spit out, forcibly endured the severe pain in his chest and stood up, erected his scimitar in a defensive posture, recalled that just now she had accelerated unnoticeably in the midst of her full-force sprint, and lost his voice as if he had seen a ghost with a face full of ghosts.

    That was a kind of advanced skill that the knights of Canaan Empire in the Northern Realm must practice, suddenly launching a second accelerated sprint when charging at full strength, the attack and killing power that erupted in that split second could not be defended against, due to this skill's requirement for physical quality and muscle control is very high, there are not many high-ranking knights in the Canaan Empire who can master the second charge.

    The pirate leader never thought that the woman in front of him, who was less than twenty years old, actually knew how to make a second charge.

    He had cunted people all his life, but he had just been cunted by someone else.

    The response to Ivan was wordless silence.

    Ink Red Fish's beautiful and touching cheeks flushed with a touch of red, gently gasping a few times, seeing that Ivan was still able to open his mouth to speak, arched eyebrows lightly knit. She is very clear about the destructive power of the full force of the blow she just made, even if it is a large tree that is hugged by two people who can't withstand it, the pirate leader in front of her looks surprisingly only seriously injured, the strength of the body has not been exaggerated.

    On the other side, Sevvy and Sophie's battle also came to an early end.

    A couple dozen seconds ago.

    Seeing Sophie sprinting towards herself, Sevi nervously gulped, remembering the companions in the tent who died without even sending out a cry for help, some horrifying legends about assassins floated to the surface of his mind, cold sweat seeped up in his hand gripping the scimitar, and in his head, he kept forcing himself to calm down, assassins weren't good at frontal battles, as long as he could delay until the boss came over, it would all be over.

    The still young pirate consoled himself in his mind.

    Four meters, three meters, two meters, Sevi had just taken a defensive stance ready to fend off the assassin's attack when he saw Sophie flick her wrist and shoot the military dagger in her hand towards his head.

    The pirate froze, reflexively took a few steps back, raised the sailor's scimitar in his hand to block, knocked the folding knife away with his years of rich combat experience, and before he had time to think about the other party's intentions, he saw Sophie again, expressionless, pulling out a large handful of fine sand from her pocket and flinging it at her face.

    At this time, Sophie was only half a meter away from him, Sevi didn't have time to dodge at all, subconsciously closing his eyes, but he was still muddled by the yellow sand that was coming at him, and quite a lot of tiny grains of sand fell into his eyes.

    The eyes are one of the most fragile parts of the human body, usually unintentionally blowing in a bit of wind and sand will be unbearable, let alone being directly shot in the face.

    Pirates are human beings no matter how cruel and cold-blooded they are.

    When Sevi cursed in pain and wiped his eyes vigorously while waving his scimitar randomly around his body in defense, Sophie indifferently drew the scimitar pinned to the back of her waist and circled around to his back without making a sound.

    The next second, blood splattered.

    Not even half of his own strength had a chance to be utilized, and the pirate who had lost his life breath fell softly to the ground.

    Before involving high dimensional power, the real life and death struggle on the mortal world is so cruel and rapid, the human body is not a mechanical or perpetual motion machine, after the super-intensity outbreak of the muscle will fall into the state of fatigue and soreness, this is even most of the practitioners can not be avoided, just like running, similar to the marathon jogging, after training you can run on dozens of kilometers, but in the full force of the outbreak of the sprint run, how long can you hold on?

    Unless you fully tap into the potential of the human body and achieve the inhuman realm (the body).

    Sophie calmed down his turbulent breathing, threw away the sailor's machete that was still dripping blood in his hand, and walked about ten steps and bent down to retrieve the sharp-edged military combat knife, even though it was only a small item given to him by Violet, he couldn't afford to lose it. Although it was only a small object given to him by Violet, he couldn't afford to lose it, that little ancestor was super troublesome when she got angry, especially after she broke through to the third chakra last year, even Grandfather shook his head and decided not to control her anymore.

    He shifted his gaze over to the inked redfish.

    It's up to her next.

    Out of the corner of his eye glimpsed the second-ranking Sevie so simple to die in the hands of that assassin, Ivan cursed a underhanded, he has never heard of anyone who will shamelessly hide a handful of sand in the body, even if it is a pirate is also the most like to smear some poison on the blade. Even pirates like to put some poison on the blade of their sword, as for the sand to paste the opponent's face and wipe the poison. As for which one is more underhanded, it is not in his consideration.

    Spinning heart a chill, this can be counted as a female tiger in front and a poisonous snake behind, no matter which one is not easy to deal with.

    He hesitated, or gritted his teeth and decided to use up that card to kill the most threatening assassin first, the pirate leader had no confidence in getting rid of an assassin in the jungle, later on, even if he couldn't beat the woman, he himself had the option to run away, Ivan didn't believe that the kind of physical exertion technique like the second charge