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Chapter 29… Hide and Seek (6)

The pale and squishy water ghost had already leaned in front of him.

Shen Yu’s eyes sank, and his fingers already pressed the black book on his side.

If the water ghost rushes up in the next second, he can immediately activate his skills to bind the opponent with bloodshot threads to gain time for himself to escape.

Or use chainsaw skills to confront the water ghost head-on.

Whether it is fighting or fleeing, he always has some leeway.

But the water ghost moved its nostrils, looking back and forth around him, its pale and swollen face looked at him, but he didn’t make the slightest response.

It’s as if he doesn’t exist at all.

Almost instantly, Shen Yu seemed to understand something, his eyes turned, looking at his feet.

He was standing at the bottom of the ship’s light, and under the bright lights around him, his shadow was shrunk under his feet, almost invisible.

At the feet of the water ghost, there is also no shadow that should exist.

There was a strange light in Shen Yu’s eyes, and he recalled the second half of Chrissy’s humming song again.

“Hide and seek with me! Be careful not to let me catch you.”

“Stay with me! Start from this moment.” “Don’t move, don’t breathe, hide your shadow.”

“Hush! I’m here to find you now…”

Don’t move, don’t breathe, hide your shadow…

This water ghost in front of you can not only smell the breath of the living, but also feel the shadow of the living!

The first officer Jack just turned on all the boat lights, and under the light, as long as Shen Yu stayed still, he could hide his shadow.

He held his breath for an instant, the nerves of his whole body were tense, his fingers were white on the black book, and he stared at the monster in front of him, almost like a gamble, motionless.

If he makes a wrong bet, he will lose his life.

“Why doesn’t this kid run? Was he scared stupid? Really a waste!”

The Ao Long hiding in the barrier couldn’t help whispering when he saw the scene in front of him.

Goodnight gave him a vicious look.

He glanced at the other’s eyes, full of disgust, and under constant thinking, goodnight turned his mind and quietly withdrew his barrier skills.

Ao Long, at this time, still didn’t feel anything.

The water ghost stopped in front of Shen Yu, and it’s heavy stench almost fell on his face.

After a short pause, the water ghost moved his heavy body and bypassed Shen Yu.

It raised its head, twitched the tip of its nose, and moved straight to the corner where Goodnight and Ao Long were hiding.

Goodnight hurriedly held his breath, learning Shen Yu’s appearance, pressing his body tightly on the cabin, motionless.

Ao Long discovered that the other party had already removed the hidden barrier.

“Fuck! You basta-”

Ao Long was furious in an instant, trying to force the opponent to use the skill again.

But at this time, the water ghost suddenly quickened its pace, getting closer to the two of them.

Even if he didn’t look back, Ao Long had clearly smelled the unpleasant smell of the sea from the water ghost.

His face suddenly changed, and he ignored the lesson of the young man, and suddenly jumped out of the hiding place and fled in the opposite direction.

He used his life-saving skills, his two legs were like rabbits, and his escape speed was much faster than ordinary people.

But just after he started running, under the bright boat lights, the shadow behind him was like a tail, moving closely behind him.

The shadow moved.

The water ghost knew that he was a living person, not of the same kind with it.

It was like getting a clear signal. The water ghost, who was originally cumbersome and slow, suddenly raised its head high, its weak limbs fluttering, and chased the other at a lightning speed that no one could think of.

It bypassed the same motionless goodnight, just staring at the running Ao Long, and it chased behind him in a blink of an eye.

Unexpectedly, the opponent chased at such a fast speed, Ao Long suddenly panicked, using his skills again, took out a translucent shield from the book, and slammed it back behind him.

The shield smashed on the slippery skin without any effect. The water ghost raised its sharp claws and easily tore through the opponent’s last defense.

Ao Long, who was still invincible before, had no life-saving skills at this time, and his brain was blank, he instinctively wanted to scream.

The moment he opened his mouth, the water ghost suddenly put the tip of its claws into his mouth, slowly tearing the other’s scalp apart.

Under the shocked eyes of the other three people, the water ghost squeezed its head in from Ao Long’s torn mouth.

Immediately afterwards, those swollen and festered flesh squirmed, and the huge water ghost seemed to have turned into a worm, swallowing Ao Long’s flesh and blood, and got into his skin. [E/N: I suck at explaining but, please imagine a big ass worm entering an onesie through the face hole…get it? Now replace the onesie with a human skin.]

The drooping human skin trembles a few times, and slowly rises up.

Then, under the bright light, an intact “Ao Long” stood in front of everyone again.

A water ghost in human skin!

“Ao Long” stood up again, squinted his eyes uncomfortably, and smiled grimly at the others, revealing his pale teeth, his torn mouth was still twisted.

However, he didn’t do much, just swayed his two legs and disappeared before everyone’s eyes.

After the shaking figure of the other party disappeared, the remaining few people let out a sigh of relief.

Starscream, who had just evaded ahead of time, landed back on the cabin and said to Shen Yu in an admiring tone, “Fortunately, you didn’t run away directly.” “If you run away, I’m afraid that the person chased by the water ghost is you now. That’s it!” But Shen Yu looked complicated and asked, “How many of the people dancing in the past two days are still real people?” And how many people, like Ao Long, have been quietly worn by water ghosts as human vessels?

He finally understood why the dancers were always asking, do you want to stay? Do you want to join us?

This is the truth about “joining”!

The staff on the ship will give you irresistible temptations. The people in the lower cabins can only endure insults, hunger and danger, but the people in the upper cabins can enjoy a safe, luxurious and noble life.

Under this kind of instigation, I am afraid that many “upper people” will not be able to resist the temptation, and have already agreed to “join” them.

And the water ghosts succeeded in replacing the living people live in the crowd in a magnificent manner.

At this moment, Starscream suddenly asked, “But what’s the matter with Jack, the first officer on this ship?”

“It stands to reason that the big copy should be on the same mind as the captain. But just now, he quietly switched on all boat lights by himself .”

It was also because of the boat lights that Shen Yu discovered the secret of the shadow.

“The upper class, the lower class, the captain, the first officer, the water ghost…the interpersonal relationship on this ship is really complicated!”

Shen Yu couldn’t help rubbing his brows, and said with a headache.

“We continue to look for the boat lights that are lit, and maybe we can find the trace of first officer, Jack.” Starscream suggested.

Goodnight also hurriedly jumped out, “Take me, Brother Mint! I want to follow you.”

After the previous experience, he seemed to be more convinced of Shen Yu.

Shen Yu, on the other hand, cast his gaze on the bottom of the cruise ship, “The lights on the bottom are gradually turning on.”

“The first officer, Jack should be in the lower cabin.”

…

“Head, have you found anything?”

At the same time , Yue Ze and Zhang Cuihua had already sneaked out of the bottom cabin, successfully opened the closed cabin door, and slipped into the cockpit.

It was supposed to be the most important cab, but it was quiet inside, and there was no one guarding it, only pitch black.

With the faint starlight, Zhang Cuihua fumbled for a bunch of tools in the cab.

“Uninflated lifeboat, folded lifeboat… why are these things piled up in the cockpit?” she asked with a frown.

However, Yue Ze found a thick book on the control console in the cab.

The captain’s voyage diary.

Ignoring the darkness around him, he turned the pages of the book and read in the dark.

[May 3, overcast.]

[Boat maggots, there are disgusting boat maggots everywhere!]

[These dirty, filthy inferior people, they will dirty the eyes of the noble passengers.] [It’s disgusting to have to stay on the same boat with people like these boat maggots!]

[May 6th, sunny.]

[After three days of hard work, all the inferior species were finally driven to the bottom cabin.][Good mood!]

[Let them take on the job of fishing boat maggots! Anyway, these inferior species are no different from boat maggots.]

[June 2nd, sunny.]

[The sailors reported that some ship maggots died while working.]

[What is there to report on such a trivial matter?]

[Just throw the corpse into the water.]

[June 5th, overcast.]

[We inexplicably deviated from the sailing route, which made people feel a little irritable. ]

[June 6th, overcast]

[Is there something in the water?]

[June 10th, overcast.]

[We are lost, damn it!]

[June 15th, sunny.]

[Don’t be discouraged, after all, we’re riding on the “White Angel”!] [White is always pure and always great!]

[Like our race.]

[June 20th, overcast.]

[The food on the boat is getting less and less, and some noble gentlemen and ladies have begun to express their dissatisfaction.] [Are those bottom boat maggots not cleaning, are they still wasting food?] [The current situation is a bit difficult, but fortunately, my sincere and capable deputy has been firmly supporting me. ]

[June 22, overcast.]

[Recently, my deputy Jack seems to be a little absent-minded, and seems to always run towards the bottom cabin?] [He is the chief officer of this ship and my most optimistic subordinate.]

[I should believe him.]

[June 25th, overcast.]

[The sailors reported that Jack was quietly delivering food to the bottom cabin.] [What is he doing?]

[In such difficult times, why waste food for those boat maggots? ] [I should stare at him personally.]

[June 30th, sunny.]

[I caught him! ]

[Unbelievable, if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I would not have imagined-a man! An inferior male!] [When I personally caught Jack, he was staying with that bad guy!] [The relationship between them is very close.]

[July 1st, overcast.]

[I figured out the reason for Jack’s abnormality during this period.]

[Disgusting! Disgusting! A feeling spurned by the Lord, like a devil’s curse! ] [The upper class and the lower class, the noble whites and the inferior, the men and the men…] [I am about to throw up!]

[July 2nd, overcast.]

[Jack is my most optimistic deputy. During this difficult time, I cannot do without his help for the time being.] [So I can’t let him go astray.]

[So I dealt with that inferior ship maggot.]

[July 3rd, sunny.]

[Jack was somewhat silent, but he did not object to it.]

[Haha, I knew he was just lost for a while, but he will return to the embrace of the Lord in the end. ] [He just became a little bit untalkative.]

[July 5th, overcast.]

[What’s the matter, the bottom cabin is leaking?]

[Did those inferior slackers not salvage the boat maggots that gnawed at the boat board?]

[July 6th, overcast.]

[The problem of water leakage is getting more and more serious, and those inferior species have begun to rebel.] [Where is my chief officer?]

[July 7th, overcast.]

[There are boat maggots everywhere, and disgusting boat maggots everywhere!]

[The end of “White Angel” is coming.]

[The life-saving tools are all locked in the cab. Don’t even think about saving those inferior things!]

Until the end of the voyage diary, Captain Hans was still on the soaked page, with trembling handwriting, viciously marked the last sentence: [These nauseating ship maggots…]

Yue Ze closed the diary. In the darkness, he silently looked towards the entrance of the cab.

There was a person standing at the door, watching them quietly.

Yue Ze greeted him gently:

“Officer Jack, good evening.”