447: A flying ship?

"Damn it!"

After Qi Chuanyu and the others heard how Shen Bei dealt with Mu Feiran, they were all stunned.

"So you were calling for backup? Then why were you bragging?" Du Ziteng instantly felt that his Gua Zi was no longer tasty.

Liao Zhongyang clicked his tongue and said critically, "Last time you said Zhuang Bifan was a rookie, but didn't he show his ID and save you from a beating?"

Shen Bei was a little annoyed to hear this: "Look at what you're saying. Even if Zhuang Bifan hadn't interfered, I could have handled Mu Feiran."

Niu Yanben grabbed a handful of peanuts and placed them in front of Shen Bei: "Don't just drink, eat something."

Shen Bei: ...

However, jokes aside, Qi Chuanyu's worries were almost nonexistent now.

Mu Feiran was a Seventh-grade, and Shen Bei was also a Seventh-grade now, putting them on the same starting line.

According to Qi Chuanyu's understanding and estimation, Shen Bei's Seventh-grade could single-handedly fight an Eighth-grade, and even had a chance to utterly crush him!

"Is there still anything to worry about?" Shen Bei asked Qi Chuanyu.

After all, he had just said "the first one."

There must be "the second one."

Qi Chuanyu stammered a few times, a chilling smile forming on his thin lips: "I heard that the current Capital City is a graveyard for Martial Artists!"

Du Ziteng and the others had never heard this saying before, and their curiosity was greatly piqued.

Niu Yanben immediately pushed the peanuts from in front of Shen Bei to Qi Chuanyu, signaling him to eat while talking.

Shen Bei: ...

Damn it, those are my peanuts!

"How so?" Liao Zhongyang asked with great curiosity.

Qi Chuanyu said mysteriously in a low voice: "According to rumors—"

Before Qi Chuanyu could finish, Shen Bei directly interrupted, interjecting: "The Apocalypse Cult is lurking in Capital City, assassinating Martial Artists everywhere to refine the Mind's Eye Potion."

Qi Chuanyu: !!!

Qi Chuanyu's eyes suddenly sharpened, wishing he could dismember Shen Bei on the spot with his gaze: "How did you know?"

Niu Yanben pushed the peanuts away from Qi Chuanyu again, placing them in front of Shen Bei.

Qi Chuanyu: ...

He glared at Niu Yanben and muttered, "Are you grinding flour here, you bastard?"

Niu Yanben scoffed, "My surname is Niu, not Donkey."

Shen Bei waved his hand and said, "Didn't you all go down to the Dungeon a while ago? I just came back from the Xing Sha Dungeon, found a courier job, and when I passed by your house, I wanted to find you, and that's when I heard it from Old Man Qi."

Qi Chuanyu said, "Oh, no wonder. Anyway, just be careful, you're already on the Apocalypse Cult's kill list."

Facing the subtle hint in his words, Shen Bei merely leaned back on the sofa nonchalantly, his expression calm as he said, "If I were afraid, would I still be called Shen Bei? I'm still worried about not being able to dig out these scoundrels. I'll kill every one that comes!"

"Awesome!" Du Ziteng gave a thumbs up: "Just one word: 'Strive'!"

Niu Yanben kindly reminded from the side: "That's four words, hey."

"Don't worry, Shen Bei can't count," Du Ziteng whispered.

Shen Bei: ...

Damn it, is this guy getting a bit too bold?

Shen Bei didn't dwell on this issue, instead asking, "I never asked, did you find anything in the Changtu Grotto?"

When it came to this, Qi Chuanyu and the others became excited.

"I'll tell it!"

Du Ziteng raised his hand, his tone revealing a sense of pride: "Let's not talk about the gains like herbs and Ore. Our biggest gain was that we obtained a ship!"

Shen Bei's mouth twitched, thinking he had hallucinated. After repeated confirmation, the others unanimously replied that they had indeed obtained a ship.

Shen Bei merely lifted his eyelids lazily, his tone cool: "What's the use of this broken thing? I really don't understand why you're so proud. You can't bring it back, and you can't cash it in."

"You don't understand this, do you?"

Qi Chuanyu raised his chin: "This isn't an ordinary wooden boat, but a flying ship!"

"Hmm?"

Upon hearing this, a type of transportation tool from web novels, the "flying shuttle," appeared in Shen Bei's mind.

According to the description in the novels, this thing could travel thousands of miles a day.

It was a mode of transport favored by most Cultivators.

But then he thought, Shen Bei had been in the Dungeon for some time, and he had never seen such a thing flying in the sky.

Shen Bei thought, could it be that the flying shuttles fly too high or too fast to be seen?

That's impossible...

If there really were flying shuttles, would the Aberrants still launch ground attacks to assault human camps?

Airdrops would be much more impressive.

Moreover, when he went down to the Xing Sha Dungeon with Zhuang Bifan, after obtaining the Storage Ring, near the giant ape, the Aberrants had something similar to a bomb.

If they used flying shuttles to drop a wave of them, could human camps still hold up?

In fact, such a thing had never happened.

Therefore, Shen Bei thought that the flying ship they mentioned might be somewhat different from the flying shuttle he imagined.

Curious, Shen Bei asked, "Flying? How does it fly?"

Now it was the Four-person Group's turn to stammer.

Qi Chuanyu simply said, "That's not the point, the point is the ship."

Damn it, Shen Bei crossed his arms, a little displeased. Were they messing with him, or were they just bragging?

"Hurry up, don't dawdle, how does it fly? Tell me," Shen Bei's tone became heavier.

Liao Zhongyang stammered a few times: "We only found records from Aberrants on the ship saying that it could fly, but how it flies... we don't know."

Shen Bei's mouth twitched. He divided the peanuts into four portions and pushed them in front of them: "Eat, eat."

"It really can fly, couldn't the written records be false, hey?" Niu Yanben emphasized.

Shen Bei didn't want to get entangled in this question. He asked, "Regardless of whether it can fly or not, the ship you obtained is still in the Dungeon, right? Then it's ownerless property. Any Aberrant could just take it."

"You're wrong about that," Qi Chuanyu emphasized. "We hid the ship near One-Blade Gorge, in a very secluded spot. Besides us, no one can find it."

Shen Bei chuckled: "What, you can make the ship invisible, or bury it under One-Blade Gorge—"

Before Shen Bei could finish, his body suddenly trembled, as if he only belatedly realized a shocking word in Qi Chuanyu's statement.

"Wait a minute!"

Shen Bei suddenly stood up, desperately trying to calm himself down, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, then chugged the wine in his hand, and asked, "What place, what place did you just say?"

Qi Chuanyu was startled and repeated, "One-Blade Gorge, we hid the ship in One-Blade Gorge."

One-Blade Gorge...

Isn't that the place where Wu Bi'an mentioned the other two Glyphs, 'Battle' and 'Karma,' were hidden?

The complete set of four Glyphs. Shen Bei had already Cultivated two of them: the "Hidden" Word Skill, which could store Zang Hai, and the "Decay" Word Skill, which created a deceleration field around him.

Shen Bei gasped.

He never expected that the Changtu Grotto was connected to One-Blade Gorge, where Wu Bi'an's enemy, the Burial Sea Secret Lord, had fallen!

However... a problem arose. One-Blade Gorge was clearly a name for a landform. What did that have to do with a damn ship?

Shen Bei asked, "Why are there ships in a gorge? That doesn't make sense, does it?"

Du Ziteng said, "Who says there are no rivers in a gorge?"

"You're right..." Shen Bei admitted he had been prejudiced.

"In fact, I'd say it's actually an underground sea; it's just too vast," Qi Chuanyu added.

Shen Bei clicked his tongue and asked, "How far do you have to go from the Changtu Grotto to reach One-Blade Gorge?"

"About five hundred kilometers," Liao Zhongyang replied.

Shen Bei's eyes widened: "Has the safe zone expanded that far in the Changtu Grotto?"

Niu Yanben was a little displeased: "You're doubting our ability to explore on our own. There's no five-hundred-kilometer safe zone; we discovered it by infiltrating on our own."

Shen Bei said, "Oh," thinking for a moment that the Changtu Grotto was more impressive than other Dungeons in the country.

"Give me the map of where you hid the ship," Shen Bei demanded directly.

"Why should we!" Qi Chuanyu became assertive: "You didn't discover it."

Clang...

Shen Bei didn't waste words, directly drawing his long saber. The sound was sharp and hoarse, like metal scraping against a rough stone surface, and he said:

"Youngsters, bring out your weapons. Let's have a fight, and the bet is the hidden ship map."

The Four-person Group: ...