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Trip after trip, each chosen breach in the hull led to dead-ends that couldn't connect to the interior of the ship; Song Chi's mood naturally wasn't great.
Nevertheless, even so, every time he was about to enter the ship, he still maintained good patience and sufficient expectation.
There was no helping it, his very first boarding had yielded a red epic-quality strange object, accompanied by a Silver Apple Mother Tree of immense value among the plants of the Starry Sea, plus two living fourth-rank Void Demons.
All of this, any single item, would probably count as a grand harvest that a Second Rank Torch Ship Captain might encounter only once in a hundred years, or even a lifetime—yet it was merely the loot from his first boarding.
In addition, not long ago he had learned that the master of this ancient flagship was a member of the Tri-Eye Race's royal family, which further increased Song Chi's anticipation and interest in this old warship.