Many years ago, Idi Ni was also a pirate captain.

He was cold, taciturn, cruel, and merciless; he killed, looted, and committed all sorts of evil.

The pirate ship he commanded, the "Ice Axe," was also one of the "eleven," and it was famous on the chaotic seas.

But now, Idi Ni has become Blackbeard's first mate, and he is the latter's most loyal subordinate... without exception. His warship of that year has long been placed in a glass bottle, quietly sleeping on the shelf in the captain's cabin of the Queen Anne's Revenge.

What exactly happened during this period will not be赘述 (explained in detail) here.

Even if I use very serious, even tragic, rhetoric, coupled with an epic plot, to tell you how Idi Ni submitted to Blackbeard's power and kingly aura... it would be useless.

Because... no matter what, you will eventually think that there is some kind of shady deal behind this.

Therefore, I decided to abandon this insignificant and certainly futile attempt... to accommodate you readers whose minds are hopelessly dirty and not ashamed of it.

Let's continue with the story...

Just as Blackbeard was talking to Mad-Eye in the dungeon, the three players had already returned to the deck.

Not long ago, Feng Bujue had reached a consensus with Blackbeard in the captain's cabin.

In short—cooperation.

Blackbeard would cooperate with the players as much as possible to complete the task without harming his own interests, and the players would also give Blackbeard some help to the best of their ability.

This is obviously a win-win agreement...

At least so far, the tasks the players have received have not shown any conflict with Blackbeard, and since they were going to act with the pirate group anyway, it was only natural to put in some effort.

"Heh... it seems that the water in this script is very deep..." At this time, Feng Bujue and Snow had just finished listening to Honghu's narrative, and Brother Jue stroked his chin and muttered, "According to what you said, that mysterious person 'Ken'... discovered our identities even earlier than Blackbeard, and his position and purpose are very suspicious..."

"I say... you're pretending again, aren't you..." Hearing this, Snow glanced at Brother Jue and said in a strange tone, "If there is that kind of special NPC on the ship, you should be able to detect it, right?"

Although Snow didn't say it explicitly, these words were enough to show... that he had inferred the fact that Brother Jue could "see through the data" to a certain extent through various studies of Feng Bujue.

"I can detect it." Feng Bujue didn't expose the matter, but replied in a weak tone, "The problem is... almost all the NPCs on this ship are the kind of 'special NPCs' you mentioned. In my opinion... none of them are ordinary people; if there is one, or even several, particularly strong guys deliberately hiding their strength and mixing in with this group of people... then even I will find it difficult to distinguish."

"Hmm..." Snow couldn't find any flaws in these words, and could only respond, "Okay... I have to admit... the NPCs in this script are indeed a bit abnormally strong. The strength of some cannon fodder is even comparable to some script Bosses I've encountered before."

Before he finished speaking, Feng Bujue and Honghu both turned their heads and looked at each other, and then Brother Jue chose to shrug.

Honghu cleared his throat and said to Snow, "Snow, I don't know if I should say this..." He paused and said, "Your character should have been leveled up quickly in a very short time, right?"

"Yeah." Snow didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with saying this, and he frankly said, "I created this character on December 1st. From the beginning... I turned on the double experience card and hired the studio's leveling team to play dungeons together the whole time, and I made good use of every day's game time in a planned way. Fortunately, I caught up with the opening of the new version and there were various activities and experience rewards, so... in just over twenty days, I rushed to level forty."

"Alas... that's the problem..." After listening, Honghu adjusted his glasses and sighed, "In Thriller Paradise, level is not particularly important... Your leveling method like this will lead to a series of negative chain reactions... First of all, your skill value must be insufficient, so you can't buy equipment and skills in the scare box; secondly, even if you can spend money to buy expensive items in the auction house, or rely on the leveling players in the script to get equipment for you, you still have to face the problem of 'insufficient specialization level' and unable to meet the item's usage requirements..."

Before he could finish speaking, Snow interrupted, "Ah... Brother Honghu, I know all this." He smiled awkwardly, "Heh... it's just that I seem to know it a little late."

Snow pursed his lips, and then said, "The day before yesterday morning, I reached level forty, and then I started queuing for dungeons alone... because the studio only does leveling up to level forty." He paused, and then said, "And my feeling from solo queueing these past two days is—in terms of combat, the surrounding passerby players are one or two levels stronger than me, and don't even mention the professional ones; fortunately... I can be considered a brainy player, so I can still play a role in the team. As for the specialization problem you mentioned... at this stage, I think I can only spend some time slowly honing it."

At this point, he changed the subject, "But... when I said that the NPCs in this script are ridiculously strong, I didn't say it from the perspective of my own weakness. I think the combat power of the cannon fodder in this script is already far higher than the average level of ordinary player teams, so I said that."

"Is that so..." Brother Jue, who was looking around at this time, interjected, "I think it's okay."

"Me too..." Honghu was about to agree with Brother Jue's words, but suddenly swallowed the thought back, "Wait... thinking about it carefully, what Snow said is right..." He looked back at Feng Bujue, "Actually, our views are not objective enough."

"Hehe... in other words, we are 'too strong' now, right?" Brother Jue immediately put on that owe-beating look again and said a line that sounded very arrogant but was true.

Unfortunately, his good mood of smugness... didn't last long.

Just two seconds later, a sudden change occurred on the sea!

*Peng*—

Only to hear... a sound of water breaking, suddenly bursting.

Along with this loud noise, a figure窜 (darted) out from under the sea, flying straight into the air, and then... he crashed towards the deck of the Queen Anne's Revenge.

At this time, the Queen Anne's Revenge was in a semi-moored state... because Idi Ni had not returned to the ship, Blackbeard ordered the sailors to furl the sails after the battle and keep the ship in this sea area to wait.

However, no one expected that the captain's order to stop the ship this time was exactly the opposite of Idi Ni's own wishes...