Worlds’ Apocalypse Online

The captain pressed the button on the table again and ordered: "The first mate went against my rules and has been killed, get two men in here to sew his head back on and put his corpse on the deck, make sure that everyone sees it"

Two of his subordinates quickly arrived.

They bowed to the captain, then one took the first mate's head away while the other dragged his body outside.

The captain glanced at Wang Cheng, smiling again.

"How was that?"

"Thank you captain, for upholding justice for me"

"Are you assured now?"

"Very much, sir" Wang Cheng sincerely said.

"Hm, then go, remember, no one will ever break my rules"

"Understood, captain, sir"

Wang Cheng and the devil both left.

The captain silently stared at their backs.

"Oi, brat" he suddenly called out.

"Captain?"

"Dismiss your devil already, the crew is going to feel threatened"

Wang Cheng didn't answer, but the devil answered: "I need to escort him to his room for the contract to be considered complete"

Hearing that, the captain loosened his expression.

He nodded: "Fine, then go already, I don't want you scaring my men"

"After Wang Cheng is safe, then of course, I will" the devil answered.

Bam!

The door was closed.

They left.

The captain sat in silence for a few moments.

His fist unconsciously clenched tight, as if killing the first mate couldn't make his fury subside at all.

"Bastard…" the captain muttered in a low voice.

He suddenly took out a small box from underneath the table and searched for a coin inside.

This seemed to be a unique coin as the surface of it was completely flat and smooth without any carvings on it.

The captain blew a breath at the coin, waited until the border of the coin begin to vibrate slightly before calling to it: "Sorceress, I summon you"

Following his voice, a female figure appeared on the coin.

"What is it?" the figure asked.

"Sorceress, I need you to tell me a fortune"

"You know of my fee?"

"Of course"

"Very well, wait a moment, I will prepare the ritual"

The female on the coin disappeared.

A few moments later.

The sorceress' voice came from the coin again: "State the matter in your heart that you long to know"

The captain spoke: "It's strange, I was clearly able to feel that my opponent was much weaker than I was, but my instinct was telling me not to fight him"

"Ah? That seems like quite a unique opponent"

The sorceress' voice now seemed a bit interested.

As a pursuer of the origin of the mystic, she was always interested in anything that didn't make sense.

The captain continued: "I now want to know if we were to really fight, would I be able to defeat the Devil King that Wang Cheng summoned"

"Wait a moment"

The other side went silent for a while.

As the captain felt more and more anxious, the sorceress' voice came again.

"Now, toss the coin"

"And then?"

"If the coin lands on the side with your portrait, then you would have been the winner"

"Then what if it is the Devil King's portrait?"

"Then you will have died"

"Only those two possibilities?"

"Do as I say first, I will be here to observe your results" the sorceress spoke.

The captain clenched his teeth and took the coin in his hand.

The sorceress' face on the coin suddenly disappeared, leaving a smooth coin without any carvings once again.

The captain tossed it up.

The coin flew up high, flipping around itself again and again.

Ting!

It fell on the table and bounced a few times.

--------and stood up straight!

The coin squarely stood up on the table without any signs of falling to a particular side.

The captain opened his eyes wide, temporarily speechless.

"Ahahahaha!"

The sorceress couldn't help but laughed.

"What is this?" the captain couldn't wait to ask.

"How interesting, that Devil King was much weaker than you are, but if you had fought, the situation would have been a stalemate where neither sides could do anything against the other"

The sorceress then continued: "Hah, such a rare telling result would bring me good luck from the mystic beyond, so I won't charge you this time"

"I look forward to your next visit"

After that, her voice went away.

She had left.

The only one left in the room was the captain, stunned in his seat.

A few moments of silence.

He suddenly roared: "Despicable bastard!"

He pounded his fist on the table.

Everything on it was sent flying upwards before dropping down again on both the table and ground.

But the coin was still standing straight up without moving.

"No! I definitely won't allow--------"

The captain muttered in anger.

He stood up, quickly came to the wall and placed his hand on it.

All of a sudden, his expression turned strange.

"What the hell, did that Devil King notice something?"

"…Not good, I have to prepare a bit more"

He quickly mumbled to himself and quickly left the room.

He slammed the door behind himself.

The room returned to silence.

A few moments later.

Suddenly, the smooth coin on the table slowly fell to one side.

On the other side.

Gu Qing Shan and Shannu once again entered the wreck of the shuttle.

"Gongzi, why did we come here again?" Shannu asked.

"Because no one on the outside knew that when Bai Yu and Zhang Yi attempted to kill Wang Cheng here, they had succeeded and already told him about the first and second mate helping them"

Gu Qing Shan continued: "How ridiculous of that captain to pretend to use the Funeral Bell to prove the truth"

Shannu carefully thought about that: "Then that's too strange, the ones who helped Bai Yu ambush Wang Cheng were surely the first mate and second mate, but the bell didn't ring at all. Could there be something wrong with that Funeral Bell?"

"No, there was something wrong with the second mate" Gu Qing Shan told her.

Shannu was slightly shocked and asked: "How did gongzi conclude that?"

Gu Qing Shan asked her in return: "Do you still remember what he declared to the Funeral Bell?"

Shannu carefully thought about it and repeated: "He said------ I want to prove myself to everyone here; for the second mate of the ship have never taken any bribes, nor scheme to harm or kill any shipmates"

"Notice anything?" Gu Qing Shan asked.

"…I didn't" Shannu answered.

Gu Qing Shan helplessly explained to her: "He only said that the second mate didn't do any of those things, but carefully made sure to avoid referring to himself"

Shannu suddenly realized and exclaimed: "It's true! He only said that the second mate didn't do those things, he never said he didn't do them"

"Which means he definitely wasn't the second mate" Gu Qing Shan muttered.

"Then who was he?"

"I don't know yet, but I'm guessing he isn't a person"

"Why so?"

"Because he managed to stop my [Life Seeker Severance]------ although the Earth Element can indeed counter my Lightning Element, but when my sword struck him, I felt a strange, indescribable feeling"

Gu Qing Shan sighed: "For now, the situation is too eerie and strange, the only remaining place that's safe to hide is inside this wreckage"

"-----so we're going to switch our identities here"

As Gu Qing Shan said so, he took off his Shen Wei armor.

"Gongzi, it's been a long time since you've acted this cautious" Shannu was in awe.

"There are an uncountable amount of living beings and Professions within the Strife Zones, as well as all sorts of void monsters. In such an unpredictable circumstance, not exercising caution wouldn't get you very far"

As if she remembered something, Shannu scowled: "Right, gongzi still have at least two karmic adversities to go through, caution really is necessary"

Gu Qing Shan nodded.

He didn't want to underestimate anything that could be related to an adversity.

He activated the [Mystery of All Beings Equal] and turned into Wang Cheng's appearance.

Inside the wreckage of the ship, two Wang Cheng that looked exactly the same were standing across one another.

"Gongzi is… so I don't need to impersonate Wang Cheng anymore?"

One of the two asked.

"Hm, I have a feeling that some sort of unimaginable change might occur very soon, so from this moment on, I'll do it" the other Wang Cheng answered.

"That's great!"

The first Wang Cheng sighed in relief and quickly transformed back into the graceful but aloof blue-dress girl.