In the end, everyone left Du Ge's ship with a satisfactory answer.
The pirates who chased from Herd Island received the same treatment as their predecessors.
Du Ge enthusiastically divined for everyone and tried to make them believe in the rumors of Selma's heavy money-seeking and the fish era as much as possible.
More and more fish were caught by him, including at least four candidates from the Simulation Field, most of whom came with the purpose of assassinating Paul and reclaiming the witch, but none of them made a move in the end.
Everyone classified Du Ge as a plot character and willingly became fish in Du Ge's net.
After these fish were released back into the sea, they would further stir up trouble...
In the end, the whole world would be thrown into chaos.
As for the pirates who fell into the water during the chaos, they were recruited by Du Ge into the Sea Fish Pirate Group.
In just one day, Du Ge's pirate group expanded rapidly, with a total of three hundred and fifty people, with more than seventy people on each ship.
...
As for the pirates returning to Herd Island, they immediately changed their pirate flags, hired workers to repair the ships, and changed the names of the pirate ships.
Within a day.
The traditional skull and crossbones pirate flag seemed to be outdated, and one after another, they were taken down and replaced with flags depicting sharks, whales, octopuses, or batfish.
The captains also immediately forced the sailors on the ships to add a fish suffix to their names...
With so many people, there were always some who couldn't keep a secret.
When a drunken captain let slip that adding a sea fish suffix to their names would make them luckier, the trend quietly spread throughout Herd Island.
When a few people do this, they might be laughed at.
But when everyone does it, it becomes a fact, it becomes popular...
Like a gust of wind blowing through, from the old to the young, from the bartender to the prostitute, everyone eagerly added a sea fish suffix to their names.
The busiest people on Herd Island became the painters, who not only had to change the names of the pirate ships, but also had to help the island's shops change their names...
...
At dusk.
The moon rose, and the night gradually enveloped the sea.
The witch Du Ge, who had been busy all day, finally had a rare moment of rest.
After catching fish all day and creating future trends, Du Ge opened his personal interface to check his ranking, and he had jumped from fifteenth place to fifth place.
What's going on?
He had two keywords, and yet he still had four people ranked above him, causing such a stir...
Was this the elite field?
Whose influence was greater than his?
The notorious Black Magic Hand's reputation from five days ago had already spread to the port of Mardock, so he should be one, but who were the other three?
It definitely wasn't Sheldon Geese.
Why was someone with no reputation ranked above him?
Could it be that someone had possessed the King of the Four Seas?
Du Ge suddenly thought of this possibility. The people in the elite field generally had high spiritual power, and in this world, there were no special spells targeting the soul that he had heard of.
So, the possibility of directly possessing the King of the Four Seas was not impossible.
The King of the Four Seas naturally had a reputation bonus, and with another matching keyword, making one or two world-changing decisions at will would push his ranking up.
Now, Antonio had blocked the shipping routes, so his reputation was limited to Herd Island and had not spread further, which was normal.
Unless the pirates of Herd Island broke through Antonio's defenses and spread the news of Selma's heavy money-seeking and the fish era, his reputation and influence might be able to rival that of the King of the Four Seas.
If a candidate really possessed the King of the Four Seas, then he would be in big trouble!
This was going to be difficult!
...
"Paul, why do you have such high magic power?" Marsha came to Du Ge's side and leaned against the ship's side, looking back at Du Ge with curiosity in her eyes. "Even my mother couldn't divine for dozens of people in one day."
"Maybe it was exchanged from Selma!" Du Ge smiled, "After I returned from Selma, I lost part of my memory. I don't even know how much I traded with her."
"You can deceive others, but not me. Selma wouldn't exploit the situation." Marsha blinked a few times, "And if a person loses too much, they become abnormal. But you, apart from losing part of your memory, are almost the same as an ordinary person, with no visible deficiencies."
"Sadness, I lost sadness," Du Ge said, "and probably many negative emotions as well. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been pursuing happiness all this time."
"I clearly saw you pick up the Trident of the Sea God in the crystal ball. Why did you lie to Sheldon, saying that he would eventually get the Trident of the Sea God?" Marsha asked.
"..." Du Ge was stunned, "You heard my conversation with him?""Of course," Martha said with a smile, flicking her ear with her hand, "Don't forget, I am a witch. Nothing can be hidden from me if I wish it so. Magic enhances our senses. My mother can even hear sounds from a hundred meters away. Don't tell me, with such powerful magic, you can't hear anything..."
"I might be a fake witch, possessing great magic power but..." Du Ge was speaking when suddenly his expression changed. He swiftly drew his curved blade and slashed towards something behind Martha, "Watch out."
The blade flashed by.
Martha seemed petrified, not daring to move an inch.
Whoosh!
The curved blade grazed Martha's arm and struck the ship's side.
Martha couldn't help but cry out in pain, clutching her bleeding arm, "Paul, what happened?"
"Nothing, I was mistaken. Just now, I saw a shadow behind you, but after I slashed, there was nothing there," Du Ge said apologetically, observing the wound he had inflicted on Martha, "Perhaps I'm just exhausted from using too much magic, and my eyes played tricks on me. I'm really sorry for cutting you. Let me find something to bandage that up..."
The wound showed no signs of healing on its own, and her reflexive dodging was not as agile as Vito's used to be...
Du Ge breathed a sigh of relief, temporarily ruling out the possibility that she was an examinee.
"It might be a ghost. Sometimes they appear at night, but generally, they don't harm people," Martha said, not suspecting anything amiss. Enduring the pain, she took a small bottle out of her robe, tore off her sleeve, pulled out the cork, and sprinkled the powder inside onto the wound, saying, "Lucky you took so much of my potion from the closet, otherwise, with such a big cut, I wouldn't be able to do anything for days. Ouch, Paul, cut off my sleeve and help me bandage it..."
Du Ge nodded, cut off her sleeve, and skillfully wrapped her wound, now dusted with powder, tightly.
However, the powder seemed to have little effect.
In a short while, blood had soaked through the sleeve. Du Ge said with remorse, "Martha, I'm really sorry! I didn't mean to..."
"Paul, is what you told Sheldon true?" Martha interrupted him softly as she watched Du Ge bandage her, asking.
"What?" Du Ge asked.
"You told him to kill Mahamadou in the future because you don't want us to live in fear of being hunted by him," Martha said, gazing intently at Du Ge, her voice soft.
"Of course it's true," Du Ge smiled and took a step back, "Martha, you're my partner, and it's my responsibility to protect my partner."
"Just a partner?" Martha took a step forward, her cheeks slightly flushed, her breath fragrant, "Paul, I want to have a child with you, the natural way, without any potions. You possess such powerful magic. And in the future, you will wield the Trident of Poseidon and become the Pirate King. Our child will surely become the most formidable witch in the world..."
Alright!
She probably wasn't an examinee.
Du Ge watched the emotionally stirred Martha, listened to her quickening heartbeat, and sensed fresh blood seeping from her wound, once again confirming her identity.
No examinee would get emotional in the Simulation Field, right?
Du Ge took a step back, shaking his head, "Martha, a witch can't have children with another witch. Besides, Selma must have stripped me of my emotions; I can't feel love for anyone. If you wish, we can be sisters..."