Who wants to become a god? Aren't you all forcing me?

#200 - Chapter 200 Ghost Ship

Time slowly passed, and only one bag of crispy noodles remained in the bag.

Xiang Nanzhi stood up and stretched. "The last bag is for you. I'm going back to sleep."

Just as Li Chenqiu was about to say something, a series of footsteps came from not far away.

A burly middle-aged man walked towards Li Chenqiu's location.

"Who's that? Looking for trouble?" Xiang Nanzhi asked curiously.

"I don't know either," Li Chenqiu shook his head.

Soon, the man arrived in front of them and nodded respectfully, "Hello, both of you."

Li Chenqiu stood up and asked politely, "Hello, is there anything I can help you with?"

"I am Yuan Ping, the leader of the 'Sea Hunter Squad' in this prison," Yuan Ping revealed a friendly smile.

"Sea Hunter Squad?" Li Chenqiu repeated with some confusion.

Over the next while, Yuan Ping explained things in detail, and Li Chenqiu finally understood what the Hunter Squad was.

Simply put, it is a small group composed of prisoners, who cooperate to hunt down the revived beasts outside with greater efficiency, thereby earning contribution points.

The Sea Hunter Squad is one of them, and also the most special Hunter Squad.

Unlike other Hunter Squads, the Sea Hunter Squad is entirely composed of ordinary-fate individuals, without a single Heaven-fate individual.

"No Heaven-fate individuals?" Xiang Nanzhi and Li Chenqiu said in unison.

"Yes," Yuan Ping nodded and smiled helplessly, "All ordinary-fate individuals."

Li Chenqiu looked at Yuan Ping in confusion, "Why are they all ordinary-fate individuals?"

Yuan Ping asked in return, "Do you know Ji Mu?"

Li Chenqiu raised an eyebrow, "I know him, what does this have to do with him?"

Yuan Ping slowly said, "He is a member of our Sea Hunter Squad. Let me tell you about him, and you will understand."

"Okay, let's sit down and talk!" Li Chenqiu responded and took the lead in sitting down.

Xiang Nanzhi followed closely behind, obviously not planning to leave.

"Okay," Yuan Ping sat down and, after a moment of silence, said, "Ji Mu is a poor child. When he was less than one year old, his family abandoned him at the entrance of an orphanage.

Because of his appearance, Ji Mu was never adopted, and he also suffered a lot of exclusion and bullying. In order to protect himself and not scare others, he started wearing a mask from a young age, and he has been wearing it ever since.

After turning 18 and becoming an adult, he left the orphanage and started working in City 45.

During this time, Ji Mu would donate money to the orphanage every month, and life went on peacefully.

But later, for some reason, the orphanage closed down. Some of the children in better condition were arranged by the Federation to go to other orphanages, but no one cared about those who were weak, sick, or had congenital defects…"

Speaking of this, Yuan Ping sighed deeply and continued, "Ji Mu rented an abandoned warehouse and took those children in, spending his own money to support them."

"Is he very rich?" Xiang Nanzhi tilted her head and asked.

Yuan Ping shook his head, "He has no money. In order to support those children, Ji Mu only sleeps three hours a day, and spends the rest of his time earning money, which is just enough to feed them.

But how can raising children only require enough food? Ji Mu's money was not enough at all, so he found a way to become a first-forbidden ordinary-fate individual, committed some minor offenses, and came to this prison."

Li Chenqiu nodded thoughtfully, "Are you saying that Ji Mu came here to earn money?"

"That's right. Hunting the revived beasts in the mountains can be exchanged for contribution points. The contribution points in the prison will be converted into federal currency after being released from prison. If you manage it well and don't spend extravagantly, a first-forbidden individual can earn at least hundreds of thousands, or even over a million, in a year!"

Yuan Ping clenched his fists excitedly.

"Oh-" Xiang Nanzhi drawled out her tone, "So your Sea Hunter Squad is mostly made up of ordinary-fate individuals who lack money outside and come to prison to earn money?"

Yuan Ping said in a deep voice, "Most people are, only a small number came to prison to become stronger."

"I see." Li Chenqiu stroked his chin, looked Yuan Ping up and down, and asked with a somewhat unfriendly tone, "Are you telling me all this… don't tell me you want to ask me for contribution points?"

Yuan Ping: －_－b

"Of course not, we want to discuss a cooperation with you," Yuan Ping smiled awkwardly.

Li Chenqiu asked, "What kind of cooperation?"

Yuan Ping turned his head to look around, then lowered his voice and said, "Last month, when our Sea Hunter Squad went out to hunt revived beasts, we found a boat!"

"A boat?" Xiang Nanzhi laughed speechlessly, "So what if you found a boat? There are lakes in the mountains, it's normal for someone to have a boat, isn't it?"

"That… that's not an ordinary boat…" Yuan Ping opened his hands, wanting to say something, but he stammered for a long time without being able to speak.

"Don't worry, I won't run away, organize your words and speak slowly," Li Chenqiu patted Yuan Ping's shoulder.

Yuan Ping rubbed his head, spent a few seconds organizing his words, and then said, "A month ago, our Sea Hunter Squad went out hunting at night.

It was raining that day, the air was very humid, and after hunting a third-forbidden revived beast, we found a cave to stay in, planning to go back during the day.

In the second half of the night, a series of cries suddenly came from outside the cave, waking us up from our sleep. In order to find out the source of the sound, we walked out of the cave together, and then…"

Yuan Ping's face showed a look of lingering fear, "Then we saw a boat, a ghost ship sailing in the mountains!"

"A ghost ship?" Li Chenqiu opened his mouth in surprise, "What do you mean by ghost ship?"

Yuan Ping rubbed his eyebrows, "That ship was transparent, with a ghostly blue glow in the moonlight. Clusters of deep blue mist supported it, ignoring the terrain and sailing in the mountains, just like a ghost."

Li Chenqiu half-covered his mouth, his eyes narrowed slightly, "Like a ghost, is it a Mystic Artifact?"

"That's the only explanation," Yuan Ping spread his hands.

Li Chenqiu asked further, "What happened next?"

"Later, out of curiosity, we followed it and found that the keel at the bottom of the ship was solid. It's called a keel but it doesn't look like one, it's more accurately a piece of wood running from the bow to the stern.

At the end of that piece of wood, at the stern of the ship, roots of vines grew out, hanging down behind the ghost ship, with fist-sized fruits hanging on the vines."

"Corpse-hanging vines, blood vine fruit," Xiang Nanzhi tapped her temple with her fingertip.

Yuan Ping looked at Xiang Nanzhi in surprise, "Yes, it's corpse-hanging vines."

Li Chenqiu looked at the two of them in confusion, "What does that mean?"

Xiang Nanzhi shook her head smugly, "If you soak a piece of wood in the blood of revived beasts for a long time, after the blood dries up, there is a 0.01 percent chance of growing corpse-hanging vines.

If a revived beast passes by the corpse-hanging vines, it will be ruthlessly pierced and devoured, used to nourish itself. If it eats enough, blood vine fruits will grow on the corpse-hanging vines, which is where all the essence of the corpse-hanging vines lies."