HLnovel Chapter 218 Flesh Buds
Chapter 218 Flesh Buds
The captain's head rolled several times on the ground.
Flesh buds appeared at the severed neck... These flesh buds wriggled rapidly, like some kind of strange worm, while the captain's head on the ground blinked, seemingly unable to believe that his head had been cut off like that.
He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but no sound came out. In the end, he could only stare angrily at Yan Xun.
“…Holy crap…” Gao Wen’s exclamation escaped his lips.
He stepped on the captain's corpse, then, suppressing his nausea, said, "What the hell is this?"
"Some kind of deep-sea creature?" Yan Xun asked uncertainly.
"No, brother!" Gawain really wanted to kneel down and call him brother now. "We're just going to kill the captain like that?"
"So what do we do next?"
As he spoke, he noticed that beneath the severed head, worm-like fleshy growths were protruding, supporting the head as it crawled back towards the body... Gawain was so disgusted that he couldn't help but shrink back.
Gu Jia walked over, grabbed the captain's head with one hand, and threw him to the other side.
“It’s not a big problem,” Yan Xun said. “The captain doesn’t usually eat with us, and the storm will take us to the ice wall.”
"By the fourth voyage, everyone on board should have fallen into the sea and died," Yan Xun said.
"The sea area that came after the storm not only had many whales, but also red dolphins. This place may be very close to the ice wall..." he said, explaining his analysis. "It can be judged that this sea area was probably polluted by something inside the ice wall."
"But this area of the sea is actually some distance from the ice wall. Last time, he did not completely destroy the Sun God's amulet, so although there was a storm, it did not capsize the Terror."
Gawain seemed a little confused. "What does that have to do with the storm leading us to the ice wall?"
"After entering the Sea of Evil Spirits, we all had all sorts of nightmares. Coren said it was because of the influence of the evil spirits in the Sea of Evil Spirits, but now that I think about it, the root cause is probably that thing in the ice wall."
"That thing attracts storms and brings ships from the Sea of Evil to its side."
"Everyone who gets close to the ice wall says they encountered a storm; this is probably not just a coincidence."
Yan Xun also had another guess: once the ship was no longer protected by the Sun God's amulet, not only would the storm carry the ship closer to the ice wall, but the crew members whose minds were controlled would also unconsciously steer the ship toward the ice wall.
He looked at the captain, whose head and body were separated, and said, "The captain must have realized this, or received a hint from someone, which is why he made the decision."
"It was just a little accident."
"In order to hunt special whales, the Terror threw many crew members overboard. These unlucky guys were assimilated by the Sea of Evil Spirits and turned into new monsters. In the end, they capsized the Terror, which was no longer protected by the Sun God."
The Terror capsized, and everyone fell into the water.
“I guess when they ‘awaken’ again, they should have already arrived near the ice wall.”
Gao Wen was about to nod when he heard this, but then he felt something was off.
“That’s not right,” he said to Yan Xun. “If they’ve already reached the vicinity of the ice wall, why don’t they just go directly to Lan Jin?”
As he spoke, he stepped on the captain's body again, "Isn't what he's been looking for blue gold all along?"
“After the Terror capsized…” Yan Xun looked at Gao Wen, “all the crew members fell into the water. The closer they were to the ice wall, the lower the temperature became. Putting aside the issue of hypothermia, there are also these things in the Evil Spirit Sea.” He glanced at the fleshy growth at the captain’s severed neck, “The red dolphins that the dead crew members turned into are also lurking nearby.”
Therefore, none of the crew members who fell into the water survived.
"The things inside the ice wall need to be awakened by humans," Yan Xun guessed. "A group of dead people can't get the blue gold."
He suspected that the old man who had been urging Wen Yuanzheng to approach the ice wall to search for the blue gold had the same purpose.
The human body of Wen Yuanzheng was used as a sacrifice.
In this case... Yan Xun suspected that the old man probably knew the truth about the Terror Ship, otherwise he could have easily made Wen Yuanzheng take the crew or captain hostage as a sacrifice.
"The crew members found themselves unable to obtain the blue gold and had no choice but to temporarily return to Cedar Harbor to find new crew members as sacrifices, and then bring them to the Ice Wall."
So even without Wen Yuanzheng's sabotage, the amulet that looked normal at first glance on the bow of the ship wouldn't have lasted long.
It's probably because the members of the Terror Ship are all devout believers.
Even after the amulet was mostly destroyed, the afterglow of the sun god allowed the crew of the Terror to barely maintain their human form when the sun appeared during the day.
The horrors of the night are the truth after the sun's afterglow has faded.
"So what do we do now?" Gu Jia asked.
"Should we wait for the storm to come, or..."
Yan Xun didn't answer Gu Jia's question. Instead, he brought up something unrelated: "The message still says that Mission 2 is not yet complete."
Just as he had predicted, reasoning was useless; he needed to find evidence that the old crew members on the Terror had become inhuman creatures in order to complete Mission 2.
"So?" Gao Wen didn't quite understand what Yan Xun meant.
"Therefore, we must make the crew of the Terror ship take off their disguises and reveal their true colors."
Yan Xun said softly.
He was carrying an axe.
"A storm is coming, and we don't have much time left."
……
After much hesitation, the bearded man and his henchman secretly went to the captain's cabin behind the backs of the other crew members.
The captain's cabin door was tightly shut. The bearded man quietly pressed his ear against it. "Nobody here?"
"No, it seems like there's some noise."
He suspected that Gu Jia and the others were inside, so he knocked on the door a few times. "It's me," he said to the person inside. "Can we come in too?"
The talking inside suddenly stopped, followed by footsteps and the sound of a door opening.
Just as the bearded man was about to thank him, his gaze fell on the corpse at Gawain's feet.
He almost doubted that he was seeing things.
But after looking a few more times, there was still a decapitated corpse at Gawain's feet.
The one-eyed man's head was thrown to the other side.
Yan Xun sat in the chair, one hand supporting himself on the back of the chair, and looked back at him.
Gu Jia gripped the doorknob. The man had very long bangs, so he couldn't tell what was going on in the captain's cabin. But what was happening inside the cabin was still a bit beyond the bearded man's expectations.
His henchmen behind him stared wide-eyed.
"you……"
"Crazy?!" The bearded man dared not speak loudly. "Is that the captain?"
"Come in and talk," Yan Xun said.
Upon hearing this, Gu Jia pushed the door open a little wider, tilted her head, and gestured for the bearded man and his henchman to come in.
The two walked in cautiously, only to find that Gu Jia had closed the door and was blocking it, making it clear that they wouldn't be allowed to leave.
Bearded man: ...Damn it! We're doomed!
He was about to say, "I didn't see anything, so why don't you just let me go?" when he noticed that the captain's head was inexplicably wriggling on the carpet, and even quickly crawling to his side.
The bearded man acted faster than he thought, kicking the other head away with one foot.
After the head rolled a few more times on the ground, the bearded man finally saw the wriggling flesh buds beneath the skull.
"This?" The bearded man was about to ask a question when he saw Yan Xun, who was sitting in the chair, stand up.
The other person was holding an axe.
“The crew members have all turned into monsters.” He cut to the chase, “So…”
"Cooperation?"