Chapter 252: Weeping Pine Naval Battle – Part 11

“Poisonous woman…” Bei Xiang was dismal.

Lady Sea Snake had stated her plan; she wanted to use the Applaud Pirates’ frogmen as cannon fodder!

But Lady Sea Snake would destroy Bei Xiang, and after thinking on it, he had no choice but to submit.

When meeting with Yang Cong Tou, Lady Sea Snake changed her tone to a more moderate one, “Commander Yang Cong Tou, it is now the best opportunity to attack!”

“You want the Sun Halo; it must be on the target.”

“Will you give up, are you willing to?”

“The other side’s main force has been probed by my magic pet, and the target fleeing reveals they are weak.”

“With a bit more effort now, we can win!”

Yang Cong Tou hesitated.

On the one hand, he feared the undead troops that poured in like flies, on the other hand he really was unwilling to give up on the Sun Halo.

He wanted to attack the Iron Lump.

But the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps was a step ahead and had done so already.

Yang Cong Tou had seen Long Fu and Shi Qi fight, and didn’t want to run into such resolute individuals.

Lady Sea Snake acutely sensed Yang Cong Tou’s hesitation, she increased her offer at once, promising that if they won this battle, she would pay Yang Cong Tou a handsome reward and also give Yang Cong Tou a chance to join the Fire Beard Pirates.

When Yang Cong Tou heard what Lady Sea Snake said, he led his underlings onto shore behind the frogmen. 

Of course, he also left something behind.

He arranged for his flagship Stinky Tofu to lie at anchor and not come close to shore, so that if something unexpected happened, he could quickly climb abord and escape the battlefield.

The White Bandage.

“Commander, the Iron Lump can sail, what will we do next?” Men Shi followed behind the dragonman youngster, his fighting spirit high.

His clansmen had been rescued, and his heart’s burdens had been relinquished, now his heart was set on dedicating his strength to the dragonman youngster. 

The dragonman youngster saw Cang Xu go to the island, the gold sea snake fighting fiercely, as well as the pirates moving in too, and muttered to himself, “We will retreat first.”

Although he was very worried about Cang Xu, Lady Sea Snake was hiding somewhere, and although Jian Gui had acted, her true body hadn’t been revealed.

Nothing had reached the final juncture just yet.

Therefore, the dragonman youngster ordered that they withdraw so both sides could fight without worry.

But the survivors still had some control over the battlefield.

Because Zi Di was sailing the Deep Sesa Monster Fish, still hidden on the seafloor and could act at any time.

Of course, if they could avoid using the Deep Sea Monster Fish, they would.

If it was exposed, the survivors would have to deal with many follow-up troubles.

The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ fleet slowly withdrew from the battlefield.

Almost all of the pirates had come onto Weeping Pine Island.

They moved around the gold sea snake and the undead and charged towards where Cang Xu and Qing Xin were.

Qing Xin seemed to sink like water, “We must have a magic mark on us for them to find where were are hiding.”

“Their target should be me.” Cang Xu thought about the time they had gone around that hill, how the gold sea snake chased after him and not Qing Xin.

This action had revealed many things.

Qing Xin deeply sighed, “The Iron Lump has fallen into the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ hands, some luck in misfortune.”

Just as she said that they heard a sharp warbling coming from above them.

Cang Xu and Qing Xin unconsciously looked up and followed the noise, seeing an artillery shell shooting from some distant place.

The metal artillery shell had steel wings on both sides, and it was the steel wings vibrating in the air that produced that warbling noise.

After it cut through the sky in a full parabola, it landed onto Weeping Pine Island.

A second later.

Bang!

With a loud sound, the earth and mountains shook.

A six meter tall white mushroom cloud slowly rose.

Mountainous rocks splashed.

“Not good, that place is?!” Qing Xin and Cang Xu both changed color at the same time; they no longer cared about escaping as they quickly rose into the air to survey the impact zone.

What they saw made both of them ashen.

The artillery shell had bombarded the hidden cave where they had gathered.

“A gold level artillery shell! Why did it so precisely hit the meeting cave?” Cang Xu’s eyes coldly flashed, he felt things were going south and that the sudden and startling change to the war situation had broken it away from Cang Xu’s control.

From where the artillery shell shot from, a fleet gradually appeared.

The lead flagship was a tower ship that was being pulled by two gigantic sea snakes.

Around the three story high ship was a metal cannon that twisted like a python.

The metal cannon wound around the center of the ship at least three times, and the cannon mouth at the peak created the bloody wide mouth of a python.

“That is Lady Sea Snake’s fleet!” Qing Xin’s voice was ice-cold.

Lady Sea Snake was one of the Fire Beard Pirates’ captains, thus, she naturally had her own flagship and fleet.

“Our support is finally here! Accelerate the pace, overtake the enemy, advance and attack!” Yang Cang Tou precisely grabbed hold of this chance to encourage morale.

Bei Xiang also let out a breath, and the frogmen’s morale climbed back up.

In the Deep Sea Monster Fish, Zi Di was closely following these pirate reinforcements, and was feeding this information to the dragonman youngster and the others, “Lady Sea Snake’s fleet has 9 ships, and the flagship is an iron level flower snake tower ship. The ship has one modified curved anti-arial gun. The shell it just shot was a Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell; its explosion power is extremely high!”

“What should we do now?” Qing Xin looked at Cang Xu, somewhat helplessly.

To her, the only chance to escape was the Eulogy Tombstone. But that teleportation device couldn’t have survived that sort of explosion.

Cang Xu pondered, then picked up the communication device and was about to ask the other necromancers for help.

At that time, Xiao Wang Zi transmitted, “Never mind that, newcomer. Weeping Pine Island doesn’t just have one Eulogy Tombstone, there is another.”

“Hehe, I also built the second Eulogy Tombstone just for emergencies such as this.”

“I will give you directions and join you at the tombstone.”

Qing Xin and Cang Xu were both shaken.

But at that time, another ear-piercing warble screeched through the sky.

The second Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell shot into the distance and hit a small hill on the northwest corner of Weeping Pine Island.

Bang,

Another intense explosion occurred.

But because it was further from Cang Xu and Qing Xin, they didn’t feel the ground vibrating.

The two saw another white mushroom cloud rising from the hill, then soon after, the winds the explosion created swept across the pine forest.

Xiao Wang Zi’s voice in the communication device paused, then was suddenly jammed in the wake of the shell. 

Cang Xu thought to himself, feeling things were anything but reassuring, then asked, “I say, the second tombstone you mentioned, was it on that hill?”

Xiao Wang Zi was incredulous, “Yes…yes. But how is that possible?!”

Yes, both shells had hit the Eulogy Tombstones with unparalleled accuracy.

What did this mean?

Qing Xin’s scalp tingled, and she growled, “A traitor!”

Xiao Wang Zi’s yelling also came through, “Newcomer, you twisted our trust in you! I didn’t expect you to be a traitor.”

Cang Xu shook his head, denying it, “It isn’t me, I didn’t know where the second tombstone was, how could I be the traitor?”

Just as he said that Qing Xin loudly warned, “Be careful, the enemy is attacking!”

A large group of water ghosts quietly appeared.

“Damn it!” Cang Xu rushed to battle while simultaneously saying to Xiao Wang Zi, “Water ghosts! Magician Qi Ling is attacking us!”

Xiao Wang Zi was dumbfounded.

Behind him, Ku Feng was grave, “I am not the traitor, nor are you. Qi Ling is the most suspicious!”

Xiao Wang Zi unconsciously refuted, “No, perhaps the newcomer is deceiving us.”

Compared to a newcomer like Cang Xu, Xiao Wang Zi naturally trusted Qi Ling more.

But Ku Feng shook his head, “The newcomer is more trustworthy! Because his situation is very easy to verify. If he needed to lie, he wouldn’t sprinkle lies like this.”

Xiao Wang Zi was stunned, but soon after, he used his communication device to contact Qi Ling and question her.

Magician Qi Ling was silent at first, then began to talk, “So sorry everyone. I really couldn’t do anything. My people were taken hostage, if I didn’t obey, they would have all been massacred by pirates.”

Magician Qi Ling’s tone was full of remorse, she actually admitted she was the traitor on the spot.

Xiao Wang Zi angrily tore open with curses, and Qi Ling didn’t answer back, keeping her silence after giving her words.

Ku Feng deeply sighed, “Don’t curse her, since she made her choice, we should look after ourselves now.”

Xiao Wang Zi’s fury was difficult to quell, “Why did she do this? She knows Lord Jian Gui summoned her soul back. It was Lord Jian Gui who gave her a second life, who gave her freedom! How could she do this? She actually betrayed Lord Jian Gui, betrayed us!” 

Upon saying that, Xiao Wang Zi recalled something, then rushed to contact Jian Gui with the communication device.

Jian Gui’s voice soon came through, “I heard what Qi Ling said.”

“I understand her, this is something she can do.”

“Xiao Wang Zi, remember that from now on, Qi Ling is our enemy.”

“Furthermore, you guys take care and think of a way to get out.”

“Don’t look for me!”

“Where I am…is far more dangerous.”

Jian Gui was hiding in a cave.

After saying that, he turned off the communication device.

The cave was dark, and Jian Gui’s aura was also dwindled to nothing.

The surrounding detection methods around him hadn’t triggered, but Jian Gui was feeling ever worse.

When his attack against Lady Sea Snake failed, attacking a mere water path clone, he had a premonition.

Now with two gold level artillery shells precisely destroying Weeping Pine Island’s Eulogy Tombstones and Magician Qi Ling simultaneously revealed to be a traitor, it proved that the other side was far more prepared than previously envisioned.

“Information leaking that undead gather here repeatedly is not at all strange.”

“Since the other side has forced Qi Ling to turn traitor, I will inevitably become a target.”

“It just that for now, there isn’t a method able to find me yet.”

“Has it not been used yet, or has it already…been used?”

Then abruptly, Jian Gui’s eyes shot out an ominous glint.

Necromancy spell – Soul Scream!

His body floated up and he raised his head to screech.

A tempestuous soul fluctuation, with him as its center, quickly spread out in all directions.

Shadows undulated, and someone was forced to reveal themselves, their brief outline revealing a sorry figure.