"Sir, dear Mr. Pirate, please let me go. I can give you all my savings. Just let me live."
Traveling through the mysterious island covered with coconut trees, Wang Xu and Blackbeard walked in front, followed by two human sacrifices hung on bamboo poles and carried by pirates.
Blackbeard's sacrifice was a young pastor who boarded the Queen Anne's Revenge in an attempt to convert Blackbeard to the glory of the Lord.
Obviously, this priest failed. Blackbeard did not kill him not because of mercy, but because the Fountain of Youth needed a living sacrifice.
Compared with the priest who boarded the ship with great righteousness and cried bitterly for his life, Wang Xu's sacrifice was much better.
Zacro just closed his eyes and muttered something, praying that his family would have a good ending.
As for himself, Zacro has given up hope. He knows that his only value is to be consumed on the altar as a sacrifice and become an unlucky ghost who is sacrificed.
Moving forward, after walking on the island for more than 20 minutes, the ruins of Poseidon came into view.
This is a large cave with statues of sea beasts standing outside and murals about the legend of Poseidon carved inside.
The group of people held torches and walked in the cave. They quickly reached the end of the cave, but did not see the so-called Fountain of Youth.
"Where is the Fountain of Youth?" Blackbeard turned his head slightly, with doubt on his face.
Wang Xu did not answer his words, but walked up and raised the golden cup, looked at the inscription on the cup, and read: "Water of life, guide the way forward!"
Wow!
On the two gold cups, one says "Water of Life" and the other says "Guide the Way Ahead".
After reciting the words together, spring water suddenly gushes out from the dry ground. These spring water seem to be alive, gathering upward along the stone wall, and finally forming a water curtain.
"It's amazing!" Looking at the water curtain above, Blackbeard smiled.
Wang Xu also smiled, put away the two golden cups, and said, "Let's go, it's time to move towards eternal life!"
Whoosh!!!
He reached out and touched the spring water. The moment he touched the spring water, there was a suction force coming from above.
The next second, Wang Xu disappeared from the spot, and his whole person seemed to turn into a ray of light and plunged into the world of spring water. When he looked back, it was already another world.
Stone pillars, statues, altars, streams, white mist.
Wang Xu glanced around and saw a vast expanse of white, as if he was in a myth.
He retracted his gaze and looked ahead. Ten steps away, there was a strange arched rock.
It stands there like an arch, with little drops of water flowing out from the cracks in the stones, dripping onto the ground and turning into a stream.
"Fountain of Youth!" The person who spoke was not Wang Xu, but Blackbeard and others who appeared.
Wang Xu nodded lightly and took a step forward. The next second, there was a crisp click sound under his feet.
Lowering his head slightly, he saw that everyone's feet were covered with white bones, as if the passage leading to the Fountain of Youth was paved with these bones.
"There are at least dozens of bones. Are these explorers who found the Fountain of Youth?" Angelica glanced around and was shocked by the scene here.
Jack followed her with Will. After hearing the sound, he tapped his feet and whispered: "I am more inclined to believe that this corpse is a poor sacrifice."
"If it's like you said, wouldn't there be hundreds of people before us who have immortalized themselves?" Angelica couldn't believe it, with a questioning tone in her tone.
Wang Xu turned back and glanced at Blackbeard, with a slightly ferocious smile on his face, and whispered: "Seriously, immortality and immortality are actually two concepts. There must be people who drink the fountain of youth, but there are absolutely no immortals.
Not as much as you think."
Being immortal is just not getting old, and you will still die if you are seriously injured.
There is a record of drinking the Fountain of Youth. The person who still exists today is Calypso. After drinking the Fountain of Youth, she served Poseidon wholeheartedly, and finally received Poseidon's favor and became the goddess of the sea.
Apart from her, no one has ever heard of anyone drinking from the Fountain of Youth and gaining the ability to live forever.
There may be such people, living somewhere anonymously, enjoying the beauty of immortality.
However, Wang Xu prefers these immortals, most of whom died in disasters and swordsmanship, rather than truly living the same life as heaven. After all, this is the Age of Discovery, where pirates, navy, and artillery battles are all.
In such troubled times, there are a few immortal ordinary people who can stay out of the trouble and ensure that they will stay away from disasters.
"Okay, let's stop talking nonsense and let us enjoy the feast of immortality!"
Wang Xu held two golden cups high, with a cruel look in his eyes, and said loudly: "Sailor, bring my sacrifice!"
Blackbeard's zombie steward carried Zacro up and placed him at Wang Xu's feet.
Wang Xu lowered his head slightly and said softly: "Do you have any last words?"
"I pray that after my death, you can give my family a sum of money, not too much, just enough to raise my children." Zacro's face turned pale and he looked at Wang Xu tremblingly.
Hearing such words, before Wang Xu could speak, Blackbeard's sacrificial priest spoke: "You devils and pagans, only God can give people eternal life, you are blasphemous! Let us go, God will forgive us.
You, lost lambs, wipe your eyes, you can't make any mistakes anymore."
"God?" Wang Xu glanced at the priest, then at the statue of Poseidon, and whispered: "In my eyes, God is no better than Poseidon, let him go to hell."
Wang Xu walked to the spring, filled two golden cups, and poured the mermaid's tears into one cup.
After doing all this, he ignored the priest's curse, handed a gold cup to Zakro, and said: "Drink it, I will fulfill your last wish, and your family will have peace of mind."
"Thank you for your generosity." Zacro picked up the gold cup, took a deep breath, and drank all the spring water.
After finishing the drink, he panted heavily, looked into Wang Xu's eyes, and asked: "Captain, can you forgive me for my betrayal?"
Wang Xu's eyes were scrutinizing. After thinking for a moment, he replied: "I'm sorry, a last wish is a last wish, a betrayal is a betrayal, and the betrayer is unpardonable!"
After saying this, Wang Xu drank another glass of spring water in one gulp under Zac Luo's disappointed eyes.
The next second, the entire ruins began to shake, and the spring water seemed to be alive, flying around Wang Xu and Wang Xu.
Against the background of the spring water, Wang and Xu rose from the ground and suspended in mid-air.
In his eyes, Zacro aged little by little, and soon turned into white bones.
And under a strange power, he felt better than ever before, and there was a faint cheer from the depths of his soul, as if he was celebrating something.
"I, Poseidon, give you the power of immortality, and to hell with God!"
Wang Xu floated in mid-air, and there was a faint whisper in his ears. The sound seemed to come from above the nine heavens.
He wanted to find the source of the sound, but in the end he found nothing, only the sound of dancing spring water and the gasping of people.
"Did you hear the sound?"
Back on the ground, all the visions disappeared, as if nothing had happened.
The Black Beards looked at each other and shook their heads in unison.
Wang Xu stretched out his hands, with a trace of doubt on his face, and said softly: "I seemed to hear the voice of Poseidon, and he told me to go to hell with God."