Chapter 917: Chapter 915: ‘Sea Monster
The two passed through room after room where hanged corpses might appear at any moment, and finally returned to their own room.
Yi Chen was leaning against the windowsill, smoking a cigarette he had somehow obtained. He had already salvaged his true body from the Dead Sea and manifested it in physical form, no longer just a concept of a deceased person.
The smoke inhaled was exhaled after being filtered through the Purple Lung, perceiving everything around.
For Liu Xinzhi, not seeing Yi Chen for several hours felt like years, tears instantly welled up in her eyes as she dashed towards Yi Chen at the windowsill, shouting loudly:
“Yi!”
This time it was strange; Yi Chen did not stop her, letting her fall into his arms.
In contrast, Mu seemed much more normal, she just stood at the door with an umbrella, asking the most curious question,
“Mr. Yi, were all the women who returned to their rooms outside killed by you?”
“Yes.” Yi Chen directly admitted this.
“Killing so many contestants silently, you are even more formidable than I imagined.
Moreover, I can see the peculiarity of these deceased. Onboard and at the banquet, I noticed them; they were all unscrupulous and nasty people.
It seems Mr. Yi is not killing indiscriminately, but more like performing ‘justice’… How many people have you killed before?”
Mu’s eyes suddenly showed an inexplicable admiration.
Seeing Yi Chen not answering, Mu asked again, “Why did you suddenly start killing people? Did you decide to kill them when boarding, or was it a spontaneous decision? Or is there another reason?”
Yi Chen still did not answer.
Mu continued her reasoning, “Mr. Yi wants to reduce the number of people to below 80% and trigger the final rule so we all die here…”
This time, Yi Chen, after taking a deep drag of the cigarette, finally spoke, “You’re half right; I indeed want to trigger the last rule.
But if I wanted you all dead, I would do it myself, no need to go through this much trouble.”
“Why then? This rule seems the most dangerous; survival is nearly impossible… Eating small octopus pieces at the table can kill, let alone things from the deep sea.”
“To me, triggering the rule doesn’t mean certain death. If you have enough ability to survive, it will greatly increase your chances of winning… If you can’t survive, there’s no need to land, as you’ll die anyway.”
“Oh~ I see…” Mu is very clever and thought of more, “From the bus to boarding, Mr. Yi seemed passive, not willing to intervene, yet now suddenly started killing, disturbing the rhythm of the beauty contest.
Did something happen when Xinzhi and I went to the banquet hall? Does the organizer know Mr. Yi?”
Yi Chen glanced at Mu, who stood shielding herself under a black umbrella, scared to the point where the umbrella itself was still leaking, soaking Mu completely.
At this moment, Liu Xinzhi, after sniffing the scent enough and licking clothes and necks, lifted her head, “If the sea monster really comes, will Mr. Yi help?”
“For now, I will only observe you. As long as you survive, I will naturally assist a bit during the final beauty contest after landing.”
Liu Xinzhi showed no fear of the sea monster, instead became extremely excited because of Yi Chen’s words, “Great, then I must survive! That way, I can be recognized by Mr. Yi and always stay by your side.
Sister Mu, let’s go! Hurry to the banquet hall and team up with those perverted women.”
When Liu Xinzhi went to pull Mu at the door, she couldn’t move her at all.
“Sister Mu, what’s wrong?”
“The organizer predetermined the number of passengers for each cruise and knows our abilities. Just a piece of octopus meat can kill someone.
The so-called rule must have no loopholes, even if we all team up, it would only lead to collective slaughter by the ‘sea monster.’ We’d better hide here and secretly observe what the sea monster really is.”
“Oh~ You’re right! Then let’s listen to Sister Mu. Mr. Yi is here anyway…”
Before finishing the sentence, only a cigarette butt remained on the windowsill.
The two women sat on the bed together, pulling covers over, holding up umbrellas, quietly waiting for the so-called sea monster to arrive,
waiting for the ship to shake upon collision, waiting for the screams from the banquet hall.
But as time ticked by,
not a sound was heard,
the two sat on the bed for a whole three hours until Liu Xinzhi suddenly covered below with her hand, “Uh~ Ate too much earlier, especially that entire monster’s corpse, the water content was a bit too high~ I need to pee.
Sister Mu, will you accompany me? The entire cruise is eerily quiet, quite scary.”
“Let’s go.” Mu also felt something was off, too quiet.
The two walked to the bathroom,
and Liu Xinzhi on the toilet felt as if unrestricted drainage, the toilet flush was almost catching up, embarrassed she could only stick out her tongue.
Mu didn’t look twice, she just stood quietly by the door with her umbrella.
Suddenly, the sink beside her began to run water without warning, the faucet seemed turned on by someone.
Dripping~ The bathroom lights began to flicker due to unstable voltage,
with flashing lights, Mu saw long fingers crawling out from the deep of the faucet, even waving to her. Just when her pupils widened in defense,
the lights restored, under the faucet nothing was there, just an ordinary flow of water.
“Xinzhi, did you see just now?”
“Huh? See what?” Liu Xinzhi pulled up her pants, entirely unaware of what just happened.
“There was something in the faucet.”
“Really?” Liu Xinzhi buried her whole head into the sink, reverse turned to view the faucet mouth, but nothing existed inside the dark hole, “Sister Mu, were you too nervous?”
“I never get nervous, be careful. The so-called sea monster might be something else…”
Clearly, when the two walked out of the bathroom,
reflected in the mirror there appeared to be three, the last one didn’t have walking up and down movement, more like sliding.
“Sister Mu, don’t you feel the room is chilly… much colder than before. Hmm? When did the balcony door open?”
Vision emerged, combining with the strange sight seen earlier in the bathroom, Mu instantly made a decision.
“Let’s go! To the banquet hall, we can’t stay here any longer.”
Mu grabbed Liu Xinzhi’s arm and ran out of the room, the hallway unusually quiet, not a shadow seen, even those smiley mask-wearing staff were gone.
Finally reaching the brightly lit banquet hall, high and rhythmic music playing, yet no one was there, only some seawater remained on the ground.
“How could it be!!”
As Mu was stunned, she suddenly felt the arm she held was moist and cold.
Turning her head,
behind her wasn’t Liu Xinzhi at all, but a bloated floating woman she had been holding, like a human balloon.
Though the body was swollen, the fingers were very slender, identical to those climbing out of the faucet before, waving at her.
An immense fear Mu had never felt before swept over, causing her whole body to tremble, unable to move.
Just as the bloated corpse in front was about to bite—
“Sister Mu! Sister Mu!”
A series of shouts accompanied by head pain made the scene before her collapse instantly.
Mu awoke from the original guest room, she had unknowingly fallen asleep on Liu Xinzhi’s shoulder, unable to wake up until Liu Xinzhi poked into her temple with her fingers to barely wake her.
“Whew! You scared me to death, Sister Mu you finally woke up! I ate too much in the afternoon, want to go pee, will you come with me?”