A strange world

Chapter 666 Chapter 63. The bird in the cage

The shadow following Annan seemed harmless, like the tree elves in the forest surrounding him.

The Burnt Girl and Shadow obviously would not answer Annan's question, so he had to continue looking for the ship in the bottle... The Skeleton King and the others were watching this scene on the shore, and they would take action if they encountered trouble.

Annan let go of his hand holding the edge of the boat and swam towards the sunken ship again with two shadows.

There was no ship in a bottle in the captain's cabin, so Annan had to expand the scope to include the entire ship. No one knows where everything was washed away when the Sphinx sank, and the rich may have been crowded into the first class cabin in order to escape.

Let’s start with first class.

The debris floating at the bottom of the lake was brought into the suite by Annan. The mottled and muddy oil paintings and the broken sofa seemed like this place had been forgotten for several years.

If Annan's remake of "The Fall of the Master's Tower" had used the shipwreck setting, he might have been deeply moved here.

Speaking of which, the Sphink is still the property of the Sphink family, and the Sphink family is the family that stole Lao Fei's jade essence.

Lao Fei has been sent back to the cemetery by the Skeleton King, and he doesn't know if he has seen his ancestors.

After a simple circle in the first suite, Annan swam into the second suite when the lake became turbid, speeded up in the third suite, and finally swam back to the lake for air after coming out of the fourth suite.

Wow——

Annan emerged from the water and lay beside the boat to recover his strength.

He envied the warriors again... Don't mention the elite warriors being tired, it would be fine even if he dismantled the ship.

This won't work... Continuing to search like this is like shouting "I'm looking for your body" to the lake monster... and underwater breathing can last for up to ten minutes.

Either wait for another day and ask the evil spirit chess tomorrow which room of the sunken ship "Ship in a Bottle" is in, or...

Annan's eyes fell on the strange shadow that was still lingering around him.

It's a local monster...what should you know?

Annan took out the ink bottle in the magic ring, opened it, and traced the outline of the ship in the bottle on the ship wall with his hand.

"Have you seen it?" Annan asked the shadow elf.

The haunting of shadow spirits became much more active.

"Can you take us there?" Annan asked again.

The shadow elf circled around him and suddenly swam into the depths of the lake.

"We follow!"

Annan plunged into the water, and the outline of the sunken ship loomed in the darkness, as if he was sleeping. He followed the shadow elf who looked like a black ribbon and approached the sunken ship, but instead of entering the cabin from the deck, he entered through the hole in the side of the ship.

This hole used to be the location of the first-class cabin. After it was torn apart by the shadow tentacles, it was half buried in the mud like a low mound.

The shadow elves that got in were floating on a patch of sand that looked nothing special.

Annan guessed what the shadow elf meant, approached it, and used his hands to remove the sand.

As the sand was touched, an unsettling coldness suddenly approached rapidly from the distant water.

"Block it!"

Realizing that the monster in the lake was coming back, Annan Gulu burst out a string of bubbles.

The Scorched Girl and the Shadow Elf couldn't hold on for long... Annan accelerated to peel away the sand, and at a certain moment, his fingertips touched a smooth and hard object.

A strong coldness suddenly broke out outside the hole. Annan ignored the incoming undercurrent and took out the boat in a bottle buried in the sand.

The dust fell from the bottle like a waterfall, and Annan's eyes suddenly changed as he was shrouded in dust.

"Annan, are you back?"

Seagulls circled the sunny Freeport, and Olmedo stood at the port to welcome Annan's return.

"Give it to me..." She stretched out her hand to Annan.

The sunshine on his body drove away the coldness at the bottom of the lake, but Annan just looked at him: "Do you think I will believe it?"

"I don't know what you mean..." Olmedo said innocently.

"I mean..." Annan lowered his head, and the ship in the bottle in his arms turned into the shape of Lily, "One second I was at the bottom of Swan Lake, but now I'm home... How is that possible?"

The scenery in front of me is like a freshly painted oil painting immersed in the lake water, melting and twisting, intertwined...

"you're awake?"

A new vision emerged, Annan was lying on the hospital bed, surrounded by everyone in Liberty City.

Before Annan could say anything, Ingrid couldn't wait to say: "You were injured and fell into a coma during our war with Mad Dog Archduke. Dean Blehim said that you would have many strange dreams. Just wake up now... …”

"I said so." Dean Blehim, standing aside, agreed.

Annan smiled because of the lame illusion. It seemed that the ship in the bottle was really in a hurry.

"give up."

Annan shook his head and prepared to smash the ship in a bottle in his arms. When he raised his fist——

"Why……"

A childish whisper sounded.

Spider-web-like cracks spread across the solidified space, revealing a dark space and a crying little boy.

"Why do you want to kill me..."

A bedroom appears next to a sad and crying little boy.

That was the scene where he was treated as a captive by the nobles and locked in a cage in the bedroom for torture and fun.

Annan's smile gradually disappeared.

The scene changed, and the streets outside were full of screams. The nobles fled to the Sphinx with the birdcage in which the little boy was imprisoned. Then when an accident happened, the nobles ran away. The little boy trapped in the birdcage stretched out his thin arms with the bird Cage, clinging to the boat in the bottle floating by, drowning in pain.

"If I hadn't watched Pumi and Old Dar die in front of me, maybe I could have shown you some mercy...but that's not why you, as a victim, harmed other people."

Annan knelt down and gently stroked the boy's head: "All evil people must pay a price, so I can only promise you... I will find the person who hurt you."

The boy's sadness gradually disappeared and he stared at Annan quietly.

Annan raised his hand and smashed it against the ship in the bottle in his arms.

"Stop being a bad person in the next life."

Snapped--

With a dull cracking sound, the illusion and the little boy disappeared, and Annan returned to the dusty cabin.

The lake water poured into the boat in a bottle with one corner broken, and the buoyancy caused the old boat to stretch out from the hole, like an outstretched hand...

The Scorched Maiden and Shadow Elf seemed fine. Annan continued to dig through the sand and discovered the buried birdcage and the young skeleton in the cage.

Annan temporarily returned to the lake for a breather, then returned to the cabin, dug out the "caged bird" from the sand, and returned to the lake with less than two or three minutes left to breathe underwater.

He held the boat in the bottle that was poured out of the lake, and a strange shadow was cast on the lake. With the "caged bird" in front of him, he returned to the shore accompanied by the shadow elves in the lake.

"That's a sad story... Leave its bones to me." Skeleton King, who saw everything through the drawing board, said.

"Um."

Annan looked away from the boat being dragged ashore by Candlehead.

Now all that's left is to bring the ship in the bottle to the princess.