605: prison

Shen Bei looked at the Burning Life Enchantress, developing a tiny bit of interest, but not much.

This thing was simply the bane of men.

If he couldn't control himself and actually rolled in the sheets with her, he would truly be squeezed dry, not a single drop left.

Shen Bei turned to Jiu Gui and asked, "Did Zhen Li choose her as a crew member?"

Although Shen Bei wanted to pick his own crew.

Zhen Li was an old hand after all, so his choices held some reference value.

After all, this prison contained species from across the sea.

Naturally, they were things he had never seen before.

They couldn't be compared.

Jiu Gui thought for a moment and said, "She should be a backup."

Backup...

That indicated the Burning Life Enchantress still had some value.

"Besides Charm, do you have any other abilities?" Shen Bei took out a small notebook and calmly glanced at the Burning Life Enchantress.

"Does being good in bed count?" The Burning Life Enchantress's eyes held anticipation, as she struck a seductive pose, feigning resistance.

"Looking at you, your Lifespan shouldn't be much, right? If you don't want to be locked up until you die, you'd best put away that act and honestly answer my questions." Shen Bei sneered, and seeing that she still didn't rein it in, he added, "I'll only say this once."

"I can see enemies." The Burning Life Enchantress was frightened by Shen Bei's gaze and answered honestly.

"En, how far can you see enemies? Also, what's your name?"

"My name is Ran Xiaoran, and I can see any living creature within thirty li."

Shen Bei nodded, wrote Ran Xiaoran's name in the small notebook, and silently continued to walk away.

Weak in strength, easy to control, plus having special eyes, she should be able to detect all living creatures within tens of li. This was undoubtedly a mobile radar. She could serve as a watchtower, and with some training, she could barely act as half a navigator.

"One more question, can you see invisible creatures?" Shen Bei continued to ask.

The Burning Life Enchantress nodded, then shook her head: "It depends. If an invisible creature remains perfectly still... then I can't see it."

So, she could detect them if they moved?

A decent ability.

Finding a potential crew member so soon, Shen Bei wasn't overly pleased.

Because the further down he went, the stronger and harder to control the prisoners would be. Or rather, he wouldn't dare release them at all. If he couldn't control them and took this group of people, each with their own schemes and hidden agendas, to One-Blade Gorge, he might be killed halfway there.

Of course, with Shen Bei's strength and Martial Skill, he wasn't afraid of his crew causing trouble.

He was just afraid of delaying the voyage.

According to King Wei, there was more than just his ship heading to One-Blade Gorge.

Other qualified Families would also be going.

After all, during the founding period of this country, Great Ancestor didn't conquer the world alone; many other noble families helped and assisted him.

According to Great Ancestor's last wishes, these noble families, besides not being able to control the country, had almost the same privileges as the imperial Family.

Regarding the changes in One-Blade Gorge, these great Families certainly wouldn't stand by idly. They would naturally send people to explore and stabilize the barrier of One-Blade Gorge.

This was the official explanation.

In truth, everyone knew in their Ming Mirror that they were coveting the treasures of the Burial Sea Secret Lord.

Therefore, given the already united situation of the various great Families, the difficulty for Shen Bei to temporarily assemble a team was imaginable.

Thus, the uppermost level was the best choice for selecting crew members.

But Shen Bei still continued to walk further down...

Ran Xiaoran stared at Shen Bei's retreating figure, her eyes glowing green. From her perspective, the vitality within Shen Bei's body was like a pitch-black scorching sun. This indicated that Shen Bei's Lifespan was far, far greater than what his Realm suggested.

This was another ability she had not revealed: she could see the Lifespan of living creatures!

"Why is his Lifespan so long...?" Ran Xiaoran was a bit bewildered.

At this point, Shen Bei had walked a bit further, excluding those Stranger who had lost their minds and looked no different from beasts.

He then saw a young man, dressed in rags, leaning motionless against the wall of a cage.

Seeing someone appear outside the cage, the man struggled to stand up, rushed to the edge of the cage, and stared at Shen Bei with bloodshot eyes.

"Let me out! Tell your captain that I am Shui Mianchong, truly the legitimate son of the Shui Family! Let me go back, and the ransom will be three times... no, ten times what you ask!"

"Shui Family?" Shen Bei was a bit confused. While he had gained an overall impression of the underground world during his time in the Night Watcher library, he wasn't clear about specific Families...

"The Jiumu Shui Family!" The young man growled with red eyes.

"Oh, I don't know them."

"You'd best let me go. I am the legitimate son of the Shui Family. You imperial Family vermin, just wait to be..."

Shen Bei lifted an eyelid, a thought flashed, and the black stone in the cage dropped, instantly crushing the young man into a meat patty.

Jiu Gui snorted, "A rebel with an unrepentant heart!"

"It's better to just deal with him."

Good heavens!

So, his ancestors were specifically involved in rebellion and usurpation?

No wonder he was killed so decisively.

Shen Bei shrugged and continued to walk inside. After circling the first floor of cells, he only found Ran Xiaoran, a barely suitable crew member.

Continuing downwards, he reached the second floor, where the gravity suddenly increased several times, and the cage's defenses also became much stronger.

The first cage he saw upon descending contained only a layer of dried mud, spread on the cage floor, and the cage ceiling was stained with a lot of dried flesh and blood.

One of the cage's pillars was also broken, clearly indicating that the prisoner inside had attempted to escape, but triggered a mechanism and was directly crushed to death.

Shen Bei walked directly towards the Little Brat who looked like he had been thrown into a coal mine, suspected of having Kunlun Slave Bloodline.

The Little Brat, missing one arm, was gnawing on one of his own small legs. Upon seeing Shen Bei, he bared a set of white teeth, grinned, his eyes glowing green, as if he saw a fragrant, human-shaped pork hock approaching...

Shen Bei stared at the Little Brat's left arm. His missing left arm had actually grown back three inches long, complete from arm to palm, just much smaller.

Good heavens!

This truly stunned Shen Bei.

Self-sufficient?

Eating himself, and then it could grow back?

This was more of a bug than enoki mushrooms!

The Little Brat dropped the half-gnawed small leg, clung to the cage, staring eagerly at Shen Bei, saliva drooling from his mouth.

Shen Bei felt a chill. He was too familiar with that look.

Stranger always had that expression when they saw humans.

The Little Brat wanted to eat him.

"Are you the new captain?" A hoarse, weak voice came from behind Shen Bei.

Shen Bei turned to look. In a cage diagonally opposite, a man with a scar running across his face and a ' crime' character tattoo in Stranger script on his forehead.

The Stranger character ' crime' and the human character ' crime' were similar in structure.

It was just that the upper and lower structure of the Stranger character ' crime' had an extra pictograph similar to ' knife' in the middle.

Regardless of how strange the characters were, they couldn't be described.

The man sat leaning against the wall, breathing with difficulty, his eyes bright as he looked at Shen Bei.

"I heard someone caused a bloody storm in the Imperial City. Has it finally returned to normal? Was it an internal conflict? Are they all dead?"

"How do you know I'm the new captain?" Shen Bei narrowed his eyes, not denying it.

"This prison isn't unattended. That fool next to me broke out of his cage and was crushed to death so long ago, yet no one came. Something big must have happened. Zhen Li is gone, and you've arrived, which can only mean Zhen Li is dead. So, the first one to enter here can only be the new captain."

"Do you know this Little Brat?"

"Heh, a Kunlun Slave from across the sea, possessing such strong flesh and Bloodline Rebirth talent, and exceptionally gluttonous, even eating himself. He might possess a special Bloodline. The foolish officials were blind and dared to put him with other people; now they've all been eaten..."

Shen Bei scrutinized the dark-skinned Little Brat, thinking that what this person said was likely true.

But what Bloodline was, he had never heard of it before.

Shen Bei tried to guess, perhaps in the concepts across the sea, Bloodline was more important than strength?

Shen Bei shrugged, unable to guess.

It seemed the other side of the sea was more brutal than he imagined.

Turning around, Shen Bei stared into the other person's eyes and grinned.

"Alright, now I have a question for you. What are you good at?"