The cold night descended before long.

From Ruowang's room, only a portion of the ship's side was visible, making it impossible to assess the situation outside. He turned to Shang Jianyao and said:

"Let's open the door and take a look. I want to confirm if the current situation matches your description."

Although he had accepted the premise of a future person traveling through time to investigate the truth behind the incident and discover the cause of the Old World's destruction, he still wanted further confirmation. After all, it concerned the state he would be in for the next few days.

The future person had said that he wasn't incapable of altering history, but rather afraid to do so. If something went wrong and he, a survivor who was supposed to live, died unexpectedly, it would be too late for regrets.

At that point, all futures would be reset, and there might not be any scientists left to invent a time machine and send another investigator.

Moreover, subsequent investigators would inevitably maintain the altered history, without attempting to correct it, as that would lead to a new round of future resets, erasing the investigator's existence.

Based on this reasoning, Ruowang, who had spent nearly half an hour thinking but was still feeling dizzy, decided it was better to understand his current situation.

Shang Jianyao thought seriously for a few seconds, then nodded solemnly:

"Alright, but be careful."

Ruowang secretly breathed a sigh of relief and turned his body.

Behind him, Shang Jianyao's expression relaxed, gradually becoming excited, with a hint of eagerness to watch the fun.

Ruowang, wearing a black long t-shirt, approached the door. He didn't rush out, but instead tilted his head, pressed it against the wood, and carefully listened to the sounds outside.

There seemed to be some noise in the distance, but the immediate vicinity was silent.

Ruowang cautiously twisted the handle and looked outside.

The carpeted hallway was deserted.

"At this time, everyone's gone to the dining hall, right?" Shang Jianyao asked casually from behind Ruowang.

Ruowang shook his head subconsciously:

"It's impossible for it to be so uniform. There's always someone early, someone late."

As soon as he finished speaking, a person walked over from the direction of the elevator.

The person, wearing a crew uniform, was pushing a trolley and running towards them in a panic.

His face was filled with terror, and he looked back from time to time, as if being chased by some terrifying creature. However, Ruowang noticed that there was nothing behind him.

"What happened?" Ruowang took a step forward, trying to communicate.

The crew member completely ignored him, treating him and Shang Jianyao as if they were invisible, and ran towards the deck on that floor, pushing the trolley with a look of terror.

Ruowang was completely convinced by Shang Jianyao's description. Everyone on the cruise ship, except for a very few, had entered a state of chaos after nightfall.

Just then, the door of the room diagonally opposite theirs was pulled open, leaving a considerable gap.

A Red River man, naked from the waist up, poked his head out and happened to see the crew member from before, his face twisted and his expression terrified.

He then looked at Ruowang and Shang Jianyao, who seemed like normal people.

Ruowang saw that inside the man's room, a woman with revealing clothes was shaking her head, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing.

Bang!

The man closed the door.

"He's fine too." Ruowang said in a somewhat disappointed tone.

"Who is he?" Shang Jianyao asked curiously.

Ruowang took a breath and said:

"His name is Sali, also an Awakened, the kind who likes to play with women."

In this era, the terms for Awakened were not uniform. Some preferred to call them or refer to themselves as Ability Users.

"Are you jealous of him?" The honest Shang Jianyao blurted out.

Ruowang's face darkened:

"How could I be?

"What is there about him that's worth being jealous of?"

The honest Shang Jianyao said "Oh" and added:

"You're a little jealous, aren't you?"

As Ruowang's expression began to twist, Shang Jianyao, who had switched personalities, stroked his chin and said:

"But there really isn't anything about him to be jealous of. You're a child of the times, a child of the times who has survived after encountering two events related to the destruction of the Old World."

Ruowang's expression softened:

"Your joke just now wasn't funny at all.

"Accusing a teammate of lying is a very bad thing."

"Yeah, yeah." Shang Jianyao responded.

Ruowang composed himself, thought for a moment, and said in a low voice:

"Sali is an Ability User, and so am I, and neither of us has fallen into the chaotic, crazy state you described. Maybe, Ability Users aren't affected."

"You didn't use your abilities, I saw." Shang Jianyao pointed out.

Ruowang looked blank for a moment, and Shang Jianyao reminded him:

"Based on my experience, once an Ability User uses their abilities at night, they will also be infected, becoming chaotic or crazy."

"Experience?" Ruowang asked, puzzled.

However, he quickly understood.

This future person who had traveled through time to the current world might not have traveled for the first time. He might have been forcibly sent back to the future before because he rashly used his abilities and became infected with the chaotic state.

"Do you want to go see other places? The situation in the dining hall should be very exciting." Shang Jianyao, always seeking novelty and curiosity, asked in a somewhat encouraging tone.

Ruowang shook his head without hesitation:

"I've confirmed your statement. There's no need to verify anything else.

"For the next few days, we'll hide in the cabin at night and not go out. We'll try to do the same during the day, and we'll have to change hiding places from time to time.

"If we're hungry, we'll sneak into the kitchen to find food. Don't go to the dining hall."

"Alright." Shang Jianyao was a little disappointed.

He then clapped his hands:

"You're so cautious!"

Ruowang's expression became more normal after receiving the praise.

In this way, after Shang Jianyao logged out and back in several times, he and Ruowang arrived at the last night.

Listening to the chaotic and noisy sounds outside, the two of them, huddled in a corner of the dark kitchen, tried to remain as quiet as possible.

After a while, Ruowang, who seemed to have been thinking for a long time, opened his mouth and said slowly:

"I feel like staying like this all the time might not work.

"Can we really survive to the end and safely reach our destination by simply hiding from this terrifying and strange event?"

"I don't know." Shang Jianyao replied truthfully.

Ruowang was surprised:

"Don't you know me in the future? Didn't you ask me how I eventually escaped this disaster?"

"You wouldn't say." Shang Jianyao righteously pushed all the blame onto the other party.

"I wouldn't say?" Ruowang fell into thought, muttering to himself.

He seemed to want to deduce the strategy they should adopt now from the fact that he wouldn't tell Shang Jianyao the process of escaping.

It was easy to come to a conclusion:

If they were simply hiding until the last day and survived until the cruise ship docked, there was nothing they couldn't say!

Ruowang stood up and turned his gaze to the kitchen door.

He deliberated for a moment and said to Shang Jianyao:

"You said that only a few people survived in the end.

"Now, those outside, although they're all in a chaotic and crazy state, they will inevitably return to normal by dawn, and the cruise ship will dock tomorrow.

"What terrible things did they eventually encounter that caused no one to survive?

"Could such a thing happen to us?"

Shang Jianyao thought for a moment and replied sincerely:

"Don't know."

Ruowang paced back and forth a few steps and said:

"I want to go to the captain's room and see. He's the owner of this cruise ship. If this abnormality existed before, he should know something about it."

"You decide." Shang Jianyao controlled the change in his expression, and then added, "I can't interfere with history."

Ruowang made up his mind, tightened his clothes, and walked towards the kitchen exit.

Perhaps because it was winter, although this sea area was more southerly, the night was still freezing.

Shang Jianyao followed behind Ruowang, casually tearing off a piece of cloth and wrapping it around himself to fight the cold of the night.

Relying on their ability to sense human consciousness, the two bypassed one passenger and crew member after another who were in a chaotic and crazy state, especially those with aggressive tendencies.

Finally, they arrived at the captain's cabin.

The door here was tightly closed, and loud shouts could be heard from inside from time to time.

"The captain has also become chaotic and crazy?" Ruowang muttered to himself in considerable disappointment.

This meant that he might not be able to ask anything, and might even be attacked.

He didn't hesitate for too long and tried to twist the handle.

The door didn't budge.

"I'll do it!" Shang Jianyao eagerly tried to raise his foot to kick the door.

"Aren't you not allowed to interfere with history?" Ruowang turned his head to look at him in surprise.

Shang Jianyao replied with full confidence:

"If I don't open the door, will you give up?"

"True." Ruowang accepted the explanation.

History had not been changed.

Bang!

Shang Jianyao raised his right foot and kicked the door open directly.

Ruowang then saw the situation inside.

A man in his forties, relatively plump, who seemed to still be able to secure basic food intake in this chaotic era, was draped in a white sheet, kneeling on one knee.

He was oblivious to the door being kicked open, only looking at the ceiling and shouting in a lyrical tone:

"Oh, my goddess!

"Please accept my love!"

Another one has gone mad... Ruowang turned his head to look at Shang Jianyao and said cautiously:

"Let's look around ourselves. Maybe there are some hidden clues in this room."

Shang Jianyao didn't respond to his suggestion, but looked at the captain and kindly reminded him:

"Your goddess isn't here."

The captain's body suddenly turned around, his face full of infatuation and fanaticism.

He replied loudly:

"She's in my body!"

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