"Ha..." Mu Chen sat up suddenly, and the pain dissipated in an instant. He sat on the cold floor, his mind filled with those brilliant golden eyes.
Above the galaxy...where is that...
The cold wind whizzed by, and the cold liquid hit the man's face. Only then did Mu Chen realize that he seemed to have left the warship.
When I looked up, I could only see the night as thick as ink. The thick moisture around my body made me feel as if I was sinking into the cold seabed, and the suffocating feeling that made me unable to breathe came over my face.
‘Where is this?’ Mu Chen did not dare to act rashly, but he was sure that he was alone.
"Guji." A strange friction sound came from nowhere and was blown away in the biting cold wind.
‘There is a living creature here, but it is far away from me. ’ Mu Chen closed his eyes and tried to find that sound again, but there was no sound. Only the howling of the wind filled his ears.
It's really dark in here.
The man took out a box of matches. Fortunately, the long-burning matches inside were not as wet as the matchbox.
"Trick" After countless times of friction, a weak flame finally poked its head out, and weakly struggled to survive in the push of the wind.
Mu Chen finally let go of his worries. He raised the match, hoping to use the faint light to understand the situation nearby.
But this movement pulled his whole body, and dense tingling sensations came from his calves. He could even clearly feel a painful hand slowly holding his ankle.
Mu Chen didn't dare to move. He carefully lowered the match, wanting to see what it was.
'Sure enough...' As he expected, the huge skeletal shark swung its tail and raised a sinister smile at him.
The mermaid was lying on the ground, holding his ankles with one hand and supporting his upper body with the other, staring straight at him with his dark eye sockets.
The huge fish tail swept back and forth, and countless sharp bone spurs were ready to attack. The strange thing was that it didn't make even the slightest sound.
"Hehe..." The discovered skeleton mermaid suddenly let out a hoarse laugh. It released its skeletal hand from holding Mu Chen's ankle and turned to reach for the only source of light.
"Hehe." The pale bones of the skeleton actually looked a bit soft under the shadow of the fire. It moved the bones, and the fangs collided with each other, making a rattling sound.
'It wants the match. ’ Mu Chen understood what the skeleton shark meant.
"Here you go." The man obediently lowered his hand and brought the light source closer to the skeleton mermaid.
"Click, click, click" the shark shook all the bones in his body, and the erect bone spurs opened and closed. Suddenly, it suddenly propped up its body and slapped the match away. The small flame swirled several times in the air and landed accurately on the tip of its tail.
'Not good' Mu Chen quickly took two steps back, and the flames instantly ignited the skeleton shark's tail. The fire spread quickly, and the shark continued to struggle and roll.
"Click, click, click..." Seeing that the skeleton shark man could not put out the fire, he turned around and climbed up. Under the burning firelight, Mu Chen finally saw the true face of this place.
It's a cave, a huge cave.
Huge pits were carved out of the rugged stone walls of the cave. The skeleton mermaids crawled through them with the light of fire, reflecting the white bones in the pits.
‘There is a skeleton mermaid hidden in every pothole. ’ Cold sweat broke out on Mu Chen’s forehead, as if he had been taken to the shark’s lair.
"Gah..." The burning skeleton seemed to be unable to hold on any longer and fell heavily from the top of the cave. The fiercely burning fireball rolled to Mu Chen's feet again.
"Click...click..." Another skeleton mermaid jumped down from the pit. It swam in front of Mu Chen, but did not attack him.
"Hiss..." The shark made a strange sound. After staring at Mu Chen for a few seconds, it plunged into the fire without looking back.
"What are they doing?" Mu Chen looked at the two skeleton mermaids struggling in the fire with some confusion.
But soon, more and more skeleton sharks rushed out of the pit, and each one of them jumped into the sea of fire after making a strange roar in front of Mu Chen.
The flames came without hesitation, greedily devouring every piece of white bone. Huge fireballs soared into the sky, and the burnt smell became stronger and stronger.
"The shark is an illusion, and what you see may not be what you see..." The content of the note flashed through my mind.
"The sharks are hallucinating." Mu Chen repeated softly, "This may be an illusion, including the clouds and rivers I saw..."
"You brought me here." He walked towards the burning shark "Why do you want to set yourself on fire?"
"Click..." The sharks who were still struggling fiercely in the flames stopped at the same moment, hundreds of pairs of black eye sockets staring straight at Mu Chen.
"Save us..." Whispers from ancient times sounded from all directions.
"Lan Ming...Sacrifice..."
"Save them..."
The sharks stepped away one by one, revealing a small figure in the center of the flames. It was a small shark, a small shark with a intact body.
"This is..." Mu Chen could tell at a glance that the distinctive mermaid was the child in his hallucination when he boarded the ship.
"Are you...Lan Ming?" Mu Chen called tentatively.
"Woo..." As if he heard the call, the little figure gradually stretched, and the little shark stretched out his arms towards Mu Chen.
At this time, Mu Chen clearly saw that the little shark's arms were covered with dense pinholes. Not only that, the scales on his body were incomplete, and traces of artificial damage could be clearly seen.
‘Human experiments. ’ Mu Chen instantly thought of a possibility.
No, that's not right... If he was experimented on, it would be impossible for this mermaid to open his arms to him as a human being.
But what if... Mu Chen tentatively took off his military uniform.
Sure enough, the little shark took his hand back and grinned at him.
Traitors and defeat.
In the past, some crazy victors would use prisoners of war for human experiments. ……
"Is this what you want to tell me? Lan Ming." Mu Chen walked into the fire, passing through the silent skeletal shark. He hugged the little shark into his arms, and the fire snake kept licking him. His whole body was not injured at all.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...Find the sacrifice, the priest will save us..." The whimpering voice of the little shark came from his shoulder, and a round hard object was stuffed into his hand.
"Let me out, I swear on my soul. I will send them home." Mu Chen said softly.
As soon as the words fell, the flames suddenly shot up, filling the entire cave.
……
"Uh..." Mu Chen opened his eyes again. This time he was lying on the ground, and the hard object that the little shark gave him was hurting him.
It was a golden pocket watch, with the hands pointing to eleven thirty-one minutes and twenty-eight seconds.
Mu Chen opened the pocket watch, and a mottled photo appeared in front of him.
A handsome man, holding a little baby with a hat, smiled brightly at the camera.
Behind the two, there were four or five people who were not fully photographed. Some showed half of their faces, some showed a hand, and some only showed half of their chin.
It's the captain and Lan Ming.
"Find the sacrifice..." Mu Chen repeated Lan Ming's words, "Sacrifice...sacrifice..."
Notes, he suddenly remembered the gilded card that suddenly appeared.
"When the storm comes, the priest will break free from the ice coffin, hold the crown, and crown the king. The age of God will eventually come."
"Ice coffin? The priest is locked in an ice coffin."
Mu Chen stood up, and then he realized that he was standing on the deck of Nan No. 1.
The sun was hanging high in the sky, and it was lunch time. Mu Chen didn't bother to look for other missing players. He ran to the cafeteria.
Sure enough, densely packed soldiers were holding plates numbly one by one, quietly waiting for today's lunch.
This is a room full of dead people, Mu Chen thought.
"I'm sorry." Mu Chen gathered up a soldier at the end of the team, blocked him in a corner and lifted up his clothes.
Sure enough, the large pinholes and traces of experiments were hidden under the fabric.
"Beast..." Mu Chen gritted his teeth and spit out two words, if that was really what he thought.
"You have suffered." He looked at the confused soldier. This man was only twenty years old.
"Auntie, give me more." Mu Chen stepped in forcefully. He grabbed Auntie's spoon and packed a whole box of green "lunch."
The sharks in the fantasy world will not attack him, but that does not mean that the sharks in reality will not attack him either.
"Lin Qing." As he was typing, Mu Chen suddenly stopped. He realized that he had missed an important question.
The growth rate of sharks may not be the same as that of humans.
According to what Lin Qing said before, he was present when the little shark was born. The captain raised Lan Ming for seven or eight years before letting him return to the sea. The little shark looked like he was only seven or eight years old. The time that can be seen clearly in the diary can also match.
But the problem lies in Lan Ming's pocket watch.
In that photo, the handsome captain looked no more than 20 years old.
The appearance of the dead will remain at the moment of death. Mu Chen turned around, and a man in his fifties or sixties stood numbly behind him holding a dinner plate.
It's the captain.
The captain was definitely over fifty years old before his death.
According to the diary, the captain only sent Lan Ming away a few months before the war, so how could he have only raised Lan Ming for seven or eight years.
Notes can be altered, memories can be forged. Is Lin Qing lying, or is the photo fake?
Mu Chen is more inclined to the former.
But no, Lin Qing looked to be in his twenties, and he was not necessarily older than Lan Ming.
All the young soldiers on the warship are ordinary soldiers, so why is Lin Qing the only one who is so valued by the captain?
Unless...he was a latecomer who had manipulated the captain's body in some way, and he didn't know the specific timeline, so he would randomly believe Lan Ming's apparent age.
So who is he? Is he a shark?
Skeleton sharks are formed after the death of sharks, so what if there are still sharks who are not dead? But the hallucination at that time was a shark with Lin Qing's appearance. No, he is not necessarily a shark. If he is a shark, then he cannot be unaware of the speed of shark growth.
Just like Ning Yu said, Lin Qing is too human. He was so alive among a bunch of cold walking corpses.
The sharks are hallucinating, and what they see is not necessarily what they believe.
What the players see may not be the real facts.
"There are too many mysteries. I have to find Lin Qing." Mu Chen held his swollen forehead, overturning all his ideas at once and giving him a headache.
He cheered up and rushed to the dormitory.
(End of chapter)