Translated by: La0o9
Edited by: Dr.Lock
Proofreader: Arya
Gu Qing Shan looked around.
No sound could be heard from any part of the s.h.i.+p, not even a bit of chatter or footsteps.
It was like the entire crew vanished from the face of the world.
Even the corpses of the first mate and the others disappeared from the public area.
Through the window of the s.h.i.+p, some small-sized void monsters could be seen pa.s.sing by occasionally.
But not a single sign of life could be found inside of the s.h.i.+p.
It had fallen into complete silence.
Gu Qing Shan put his golden mask on and headed for the captain’s room with a sword in hand.
He kicked the door open.
There wasn’t anyone inside either.
Gu Qing Shan paused briefly before heading to the control room.
No matter what kind of strange or fearful thing that happened here, he did not care.
The only thing he was concerned with was to quickly arrive at the black market to rescue an ally!
The door of the control room was tightly shut.
Gu Qing Shan didn’t bother to check and just kept moving forward.
The Chao Yin sword appeared from the void of s.p.a.ce, flew ahead and pointed itself at the door of the control room.
It thrust forward slightly.
——–Secret Art, [Water Flow Severance]!
Boom!
The heavy metallic door was destroyed.
Gu Qing Shan walked in and took a glance at the mult.i.tudes of b.u.t.tons on the dashboard.
w.a.n.g Cheng had quite a bit of experience living on this s.h.i.+p, but he didn’t have the skills to pilot it.
Gu Qing Shan didn’t hesitate for long.
He lightly touched the surface of the dashboard and walked from one side to the other.
Various notifications popped up on the War G.o.d UI one after another.
[You’ve touched the old-styled medium-sized tow and transport s.h.i.+p main control unit]
[You’ve touched the navigation globe]
[You’ve touched the speedometer]
[You’ve touched the stealth function switch]
[You’ve touched the thruster controls system]
[You’ve touched the void radar]
[You’ve touched the central processing power core controller]
…
[The above s.h.i.+p piloting devices has used the following skills:]
[Old-style medium-sized tow and transport s.h.i.+p piloting technique, stealth flying technique, stealth function control technique, speed control technique, radar reading technique, thruster control technique…]
[Comprehending the above skills will require 1376 Soul Points, do you want to expend the required Soul Points?]
“Yes” Gu Qing Shan answered.
[Soul Points deducted, comprehension begun] the War G.o.d System replied.
One breath.
Two breaths.
Three breaths.
Gu Qing Shan let go of the sword in his hand, walked up to the dashboard and quickly operated it.
He first discarded all the s.h.i.+pwrecks in tow behind the s.h.i.+p, then put the s.h.i.+p to top speed as well as adjusting the stealth function to its maximum level.
—–this way, the s.h.i.+p’s weight would decrease, but due to the increase in speed, the overall energy consumption would be greater.
Under normal circ.u.mstances, the captain would definitely not agree to let the s.h.i.+p proceed like this.
But Gu Qing Shan couldn’t care less about such expenditures.
The s.h.i.+p jerked slightly as its speed was greatly increased with a ‘bang’, speeding through the s.p.a.ce vortex.
Suddenly, a voice came from behind Gu Qing Shan:
“I didn’t know you also knew how to fly a s.h.i.+p”
It was the captain’s voice.
At some point, he had been standing at the door to the control room.
Gu Qing Shan didn’t turn around and simply said: “I’m in a hurry”
The captain’s voice became lower as he spoke again: “But you’re using my s.h.i.+p”
“Hm, I know that; that’s why I’m paying for it”
Gu Qing Shan took out w.a.n.g Cheng’s chest of money and tossed it behind himself.
Clunk!
The chest fell on the ground between the two of them, spilling some of its green coins outwards.
As the captain stared at the scattered money on the ground, his eyes slightly glittered.
—-first, he suddenly knew how to fly the s.h.i.+p, then he casually tossed a whole chest of coins away just like that, w.a.n.g Cheng’s actions up to this point had been completely out of his expectations.
“What are you using my s.h.i.+p for?” the captain tried probing him.
“To get to the black market quickly”
“And then what? Where are you heading after that?”
“That’s my personal business, it’s nothing worth talking about”
Gu Qing Shan still didn’t turn back and spoke as he kept piloting the s.h.i.+p.
He was monitoring the wind measurement device to catch an opportunity to speed up the s.h.i.+p further.
Yun Ji’s life is already like a candle in the wind, I have no time to waste here, I have to go as fast as I can!
The captain stared at the money on the ground for a while before glancing at w.a.n.g Cheng’s back.
“w.a.n.g Cheng, ah, w.a.n.g Cheng, I really can’t believe I’ve been underestimating you all this time”
While saying that, he raised his hand and pointed at Gu Qing Shan.
Gu Qing Shan scowled.
This fool still wants to cause a commotion at this crucial point in time!?
He released his inner sight, went past the walls of the s.h.i.+p and randomly locked onto a wooden branch flying through the s.p.a.ce vortex.
Divine Skill, [Shadow s.h.i.+ft]!
Gu Qing Shan switched places with the wooden branch.
He appeared where the branch was in the s.p.a.ce vortex while the wooden branch suddenly appeared in the air where he stood.
At the very next split second.
[Shadow s.h.i.+ft], again!
Gu Qing Shan switched places with the captain.
He appeared inside the c.o.c.kpit while the captain was thrown out into the void of s.p.a.ce.
Gu Qing Shan’s figure blinked and returned in front of the control dashboard.
Just in time for the branch to hit the ground.
In not even a breath’s worth of time, the strongest person on the s.h.i.+p – the captain – was thrown out of the s.h.i.+p just like that.
Gu Qing Shan continued to pilot the s.h.i.+p.
He didn’t move his focus away for a single second, completely focused on piloting the s.h.i.+p to reach the black market as soon as possible.
A few dozen seconds later.
A heavily breathing voice came from the door to the control room.
“w.a.n.g Cheng, who exactly are you!?” the captain furiously shouted.
“You don’t need to know that, stop prying and stop bothering me” Gu Qing Shan was still focused on the dashboard and casually answered.
The captain paused briefly before suddenly laughing in a frenzy.
“Ahahaha! You are definitely not w.a.n.g Cheng!”
“I knew it! There was no way w.a.n.g Cheng could summon a Devil King!”
He mumbled to himself: “With such a miraculous Spatial technique, you must’ve done quite a lot of things”
“For someone this strong to be so careful, you must be avoiding something”
“I’m guessing you must be similar to me”
“Either you’re an infamous wanted criminal on the run, or you must’ve done a big job and needed to hide away, so you stowed away on my s.h.i.+p”
As he said so, the captain’s eyes changed.
He appeared a bit excited and began to move his fingers: “You really are impressive, unfortunately, you came onto MY s.h.i.+p”
“And we’re currently moving through the s.p.a.ce vortex”
“So whatever YOU possess is going to be MINE!”
He placed his hand on the door frame and suddenly vanished.
The s.h.i.+p went completely out of Gu Qing Shan’s control.
The entire s.h.i.+p slowly grinds to a halt before slowly gliding along with the currents of the s.p.a.ce vortex.
At the same time, the crew members stepped out from the metallic walls one by one.
Their expressions were cold, their movement stiff and awkward, exactly like what you’d expect of zombies in the apocalypse.
“Why did you have to force my hands”
Gu Qing Shan sighed and shook his head.
The Chao Yin sword flew out and slashed each of the several dozen crew members here once each.
Clang clang clang clang clang!
Sparks of lightning flew everywhere.
The crew members were forced to take a step back with a slash mark each on their bodies, but they weren’t stunned by [Severance].
Their movements weren’t restricted at all.
If it was just the second mate alone like before then it would’ve been understandable.
But none of them were affected by [Severance]
This caused Gu Qing Shan to be a bit surprised.
The captain’s voice became excited and cruel: “If this was any other place, maybe I would’ve considered your offer, but this s.h.i.+p is my turf, my world, I’m definitely not losing to you!”
“Come, fake w.a.n.g Cheng, didn’t you have a really powerful devil!?”
“I know you Devil Summoners well, I know the exact process you need to go through for summoning a Devil, and I can guarantee you that you won’t have a chance to complete it!”
While he shouted, the crew members already charged forward.
They surrounded Gu Qing Shan and attacked.
Gu Qing Shan’s gaze became sharp.
Sha!
The Six Paths Great Mountain sword was swung.
A faint blue sword phantom appeared, drawing a perfect crescent arc in the air.
All the crew members were sliced apart by the [Crescent Slash]!
Immense sword-infused wind lingered, blowing the severed limbs towards the wall with constant dull ‘thuds’.
The bodies fell to the ground, but no blood was spilt.
Soon enough, the bodies disappeared altogether.
Various defensive items and armors scattered all over the ground.
As Gu Qing Shan stared at the broken items on the ground, he suddenly realized.
No wonder [Severance] wasn’t able to restrain them.
Their main bodies were actually these controlled items!
The captain went silent briefly, but quickly chuckled again: “How impressive, but how long can you actually keep this up?”
The items slowly sunk into the ground of the s.h.i.+p and disappeared.
A short moment later.
More crew members appeared.
This time, their eyes were a lot more spirited and their movements were much more flexible.
“You can never kill all of my men! The more you kill, the stronger they become!”
The captain laughed.
Gu Qing Shan completely ignored the captain’s mocking laugh.
He simply put his hand on the s.h.i.+p’s dashboard and glanced at the text that appeared in front of his eyes.
Lines of glowing text quickly appeared.
[Discovered item, s.h.i.+p Puppet]
[This item has used the following skills: Metal Fusion (Advanced), Soul Puppet Manipulation (Intermediate)]
[Metal Fusion (Advanced): You can fuse yourself together with metallic objects, at the same time use your thoughts to control metal]
[Soul Puppet Manipulation (Intermediate): You can use your soul’s power to control your puppets to fight]
[Detected that your soul have been released, you may directly comprehend the aforementioned techniques]
[Through learning these techniques, you will gain the Profession of Metal Puppeteer]
Gu Qing Shan was slightly surprised.
Then he quickly understood, the captain was a Metal Puppeteer.
The second mate from before as well as all the crew members right here were all non-living objects and items that he made into puppets.
Not just that, even the s.h.i.+p itself was fused with him——– of course, this must’ve taken a lot of effort.
If I didn’t know that the captain had fused with the s.h.i.+p and stayed here to fight with those puppets, the situation will only become more and more dangerous.
No wonder the captain was so confident that he would be able to win against me
But now…
Gu Qing Shan grabbed the Six Paths Great Mountain sword and infused it with spirit energy.
White-blue arcs of lightning came from the Six Paths Great Mountain sword, manifesting as a bright sword phantom.
The captain laughed mockingly: “Ahahaha, what are you trying to do? You want to fight me? Unfortunately, you’re never going to find me!”
Without saying a word, Gu Qing Shan stabbed the Six Paths Great Mountain sword straight into the hull of the s.h.i.+p.
The entire s.h.i.+p shook.
Normally, due to the environment it needed to traverse, a s.h.i.+p like this was always st.u.r.dier than normal.
And since the s.h.i.+p had fused with the captain, both it and the captain’s defenses must have increased quite a bit.
Unfortunately…
This sword had the ability to break Laws.
No matter if it was [Metal Fusion] or [Puppet Manipulation], neither of them was any good against the Six Paths Great Mountain sword.
So this strike actually could actually hurt him.
Gu Qing Shan pulled his sword out.
The s.h.i.+p shook again.
The captain spoke with a lot more calm in his voice: “Hmph, to randomly attack the s.h.i.+p when you can’t find me, what a fool”
Gu Qing Shan kept silent and infused his spirit energy again.
This time, a more intense sword phantom manifested on the Six Paths Great Mountain sword.
The captain’s voice quickly came again.
This time, his tone was a lot more hurried: “Oi, I know we’re fighting here, but this s.h.i.+p is just a flying vehicle, you don’t need to——”
Before he could finish, Gu Qing Shan once again stabbed the hull of the s.h.i.+p with all his power.
This time, the s.h.i.+p shook considerably more, as if it was going to fall apart at any moment now.
The crew members all lost control of themselves and collapsed.
A faint scream could be heard coming somewhere else on the s.h.i.+p.
Gu Qing Shan casually grinned and spoke: “Your mouth says ‘no’, but your body is clearly telling me ‘yes’”
An even more intense sword phantom manifested on the sword.