Chapter 893: Good Luck
Chapter 893: Good Luck
Zhang Yi’s first sense was extremely sensitive to fluctuations in the spatial field.
At this moment, he noticed something unusual appearing on the deck.
That sound resembled footsteps walking on the deck.
Without hesitation, he immediately teleported to the deck, and faint footsteps sounded close to his ears.
Zhang Yi looked at the deck and was met with a terrifying sight.
There was a trail of water stains on the deck, about ten to twenty centimeters long.
They looked exactly like human footprints.
“This damned broken place, how many strange things exist here?”
Zhang Yi drew his gun and fired in the direction the water stains were moving.A weird noise came from the air, like the sound of feet stepping into muddy sludge.
Suddenly, the floor exploded with a large splash of water stains, which quickly crawled toward the edge of the ship.
Zhang Yi’s eyes and hands were quick, firing several more shots that seemed to hit something.
He carefully approached and crouched down to observe.
Using the combat suit’s night vision and scanning analysis functions, Zhang Yi vaguely saw a long silhouette.
It looked like a long transparent sock.
“Is this thing the culprit behind the abnormal deaths on the ship?”
Zhang Yi picked up the creature that resembled a transparent sock.
However, it rapidly shrank, as if most of its body was water. After being hit, it lost fluid and quickly shrunk to less than the size of a palm.
“This kind of thing is really hard to defend against! If I hadn’t been prepared in advance, it might have killed the host and still couldn’t be dealt with.”
Zhang Yi sighed inwardly. Fortunately, he caught the main body early; otherwise, tomorrow’s efforts might have been in vain.
He hurriedly took the strange creature back to his room and asked Zhou Ke’er to examine it.
Based on Zhou Ke’er’s analysis and conclusions, he redrafted the plan for the next day’s operation.
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The next day, Zhang Yi ordered everyone to gather again in the upper-level dining hall, explaining that his family tradition was to hold birthday banquets for two consecutive days. Rά𐌽Ȱ𝐛ЁＳ
The people downstairs didn’t care much; as long as there was food, they were ecstatic.
So everyone gathered again at the dining hall.
Li Zongyu and Lu Dahai, along with several others, looked worried.
They knew what had happened on the ship, but no matter how carefully they patrolled yesterday, they found no signs of abnormalities.
What they didn’t know was that the greatest danger was among their own group.
When Zhang Yi saw everyone was present, he quietly ordered someone to lock the cabin doors, then commanded Xie Changming to serve the dishes.
As the food was placed on the table, everyone behaved much better than yesterday, but their chopsticks still flew wildly.
However, just as the food entered their mouths, the dining hall erupted with a chorus of sputtering sounds.
“Pfft! This food is way too salty!”
“Kill whoever sold the salt!”
Zhang Yi glanced at Zhu Yunque and Su Nuanxi not far away; the two women were also complaining non-stop.
Without expression, Zhang Yi pulled out his gun and aimed it at everyone in the dining hall.
Not only him, but the crew, who were already prepared, also drew submachine guns, loaded bullets, and pointed them at everyone in the dining hall.
“Ah! What are you doing?”
This sudden move scared everyone.
Zhang Yi said calmly, “Nothing. There’s a dirty thing mixed in with you all. So I had someone put a little something in the food. Keep eating! Whoever refuses to eat is the dirty thing!”
His words changed everyone’s expressions drastically.
“A dirty thing among us?”
Li Zongyu and Lu Dahai knew the dirty thing Zhang Yi spoke of truly existed, so they quickly spoke up to calm the crowd’s emotions.
Pointed at their heads with guns, though unwilling, people had no choice but to lower their heads and eat heartily.
Suddenly, the person sitting opposite Bai Jingyu heard a “glug” sound.
He looked up and saw an eyeball roll off the table and into his view.
He was stunned, the huge shock stiffening his body and leaving him unable to make a sound.
Bai Jingyu stiffly shoveled rice into her mouth with a spoon; one eye socket was empty, the other eye’s eyeball was trembling on the verge of falling out.
“What’s wrong? Why are you… not… eating…”
Her body grew stiffer and stiffer, until a wisp of white smoke rose from her pupil.
The man opposite her finally let out a heart-wrenching scream.
Immediately, two crew members rushed over, pulled out water gun–like devices from behind, and sprayed Bai Jingyu.
Bai Jingyu’s mouth opened wide, emitting a miserable howl.
Soon, her body collapsed to the ground, shriveled like a desiccated Trisolarian.
The abnormal creatures were soft-bodied animals, similar to jellyfish, that could survive by using human body fluids.
Therefore, those killed by them would also rapidly shrivel.
Killing just the host was not enough to completely eliminate them.
They had to be killed using a high-concentration organic solvent to dehydrate them.
After Bai Jingyu was dealt with, similar situations quickly occurred elsewhere in the dining hall.
These parasites could control human brains and even tried to disguise themselves, but their shriveled bodies lacked any credibility.
A woman, surrounded, tried to call her husband for help, but her terrified husband kicked her to the ground.
Soon, six parasite bodies among the crowd were thoroughly killed.
Zhang Yi looked at the shriveled corpses but did not feel relaxed.
These parasites were very weak; once discovered, they were easy to kill.
But with their strange abilities, they had already killed many on the ship.
If the ship continued sailing at sea, and they didn’t land soon, who knew what other dangers awaited them in the mysterious ocean.
“All right, it’s safe now. Everyone can continue eating!”
Zhang Yi said, then turned and left the dining hall.
Leaving everyone staring at each other, many not understanding what had just happened.
But thinking that those who died had been with them for several days, and that they might have almost died in their sleep, sent chills down their spines.
Zhang Yi assigned Old Tian to lead people spraying high-concentration organic solvent around the ship’s hull daily.
That was the thing soft-bodied animals hated most, to prevent these creatures from crawling onto the ship again.
“Old Tian, how much longer until we find land?”
Zhang Yi called Old Tian over and asked.
Old Tian hesitated, “Mr. Zhang, to be honest, I’m not sure either. For the most part, we have to pray for luck.”
Zhang Yi rubbed his forehead.
“Luck?”
If luck was bad, they might even encounter the Colombian Ocean Fleet searching for them.
If their luck was unbelievably terrible, they might run into an Epsilon-level superhuman. Even Zhang Yi could be at risk of death!
“If we don’t consider luck and analyze the worst-case scenario, what then?”
Old Tian thought for a moment and said, “Our course hasn’t gone too wrong. The ship has enough fuel. In the worst case, after sailing for another three months, we can reach the Starry Sea area of the southern seas.”
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Author's Note