Chapter 215: Undersea Corpses

The blood-red conch, which was the size of a baby's fist, was placed upside down on the cabin. Even though the snail meat was squirming frantically, it was unable to turn its body over and had completely lost the ability to move.

The fisherman took out a folding knife from somewhere, and after obtaining Qi Gu's consent, he fixed the conch with one foot, and then slid the blade smoothly around the transparent nut, and finally stabbed into the snail meat, picking out the entire piece of snail meat.

The nut cap fell off and dropped to the ground. The black and white snail meat looked exactly like a human being, except that it did not have the more delicate facial features. It looked more like a half-finished human sculpture.

The snail meat twisted wildly on the blade, with a hideous expression, just like any other reaction a human being in pain could have. Pink liquid was flowing out from the cut, making it look like the conch was bleeding.

「No…I’m eating.」

[I mentioned before that you should bring your own airbrush mustard and minced garlic? Let me see your hands]

[Who understands, my family members? In order to enjoy watching the show today, I specially ordered some seafood sashimi, which included conch slices... I won’t say anything else, I’ll vomit for a while, ugh! 】

[Help, this is too scary, it really looks like a human face, is the existence of this thing really scientific? Any marine biologists out to take a look? 】

After a few minutes, the head finally stopped struggling and died with its mouth wide open.

The originally transparent nut turned into a turbid light gray after it died completely.

And in just these few short minutes, the human-faced conches climbed up several centimeters. If no solution was found, they would crawl into the cabin.

Miao Yue pressed her fingertips on the hilt of the knife: "I can try to use the poisonous insects to control them back to the sea."

There was some doubt in his tone.

To be honest, she had never let the insects come into contact with sea water, so she didn't know if they could adapt well.

Pubugesang: "I can temporarily immobilize them. Then we can poke them down one by one and leave this sea area as soon as possible."

Mu Xingchen looked at Qi Gu, his eyes showing an expression of wanting to say something but afraid of saying it wrong, and he hesitated several times.

Qi Gu said: "Speak."

Mu Xingchen said, "I have seen this kind of human-faced snail in the book you gave me, Master. It is said that this kind of snail is formed when ordinary sea snails and field snails eat human flesh under special conditions. They have negative energy and resentment in their bodies. Because they have eaten human flesh, they will attack passing ships, hoping to have another full meal."

Qi Gu chuckled and said in an appreciative tone: "You are not mistaken, it is indeed true."

He waited for a few seconds, expecting Mu Xingchen to be able to draw inferences from what he had learned and come up with a solution, but Mu Xingchen obviously had not yet learned to that level. He could only smile and look at Qi Gu, like a mediocre student who was asked a difficult math problem.

Seeing that Mu Xingchen had nothing more to say, he continued, "When I was still at the dock, I noticed that the snails on the shore were not the common ones, so I paid special attention to those light pink snails, and then I found that they contained a weak amount of Yin energy... but not much, as long as you don't eat two tons a day, it shouldn't be a problem."

"The above should be considered good news, but I have some bad news. The conches on the shore should be the result of the reproduction of the human-faced snails and other snails here." Qi Gu paused and said, "Most conches reproduce through cross-fertilization, and a small number reproduce through self-fertilization. As for those that reproduce with other conches, the characteristics of the human-faced snails are weakened a lot, and they continue to move in the sea for generations, and finally appear at the dock."

[Oh my god, I went to this pier not long ago and picked up a lot of conchs. I'm not sure if I've ever picked up this kind of snail before]

[Hey, how did Gugu know what kind of snails there are on the beach?]

[I know this question. I bet Gugu must have watched the video of catching seafood]

[You understand Gugu]

[Hiss... What about the other boat people entering this sea area...]

【fear】

Just when netizens were terrified, the fisherman said: "This area is not rich in resources, and few people come here to fish. Also, because there is no special scenery, tourists will not choose this route... Now I think about it, the lack of resources should be because there are a group of human-faced conches living here."

Qi Gu nodded slightly and said, "Can you record the specific location of this piece?"

The fisherman made an OK gesture, entered the control room and completed the operation after a few simple operations.

Since there is a large number of human-faced snails breeding, that means there must be a huge community of corpses under this sea area. We cannot go down to investigate the situation now, and marking the location will make it easier to explore the underwater situation after the problem is solved.

[I am from Mindi. In ancient times, many soldiers in our area died in naval battles with foreign enemies.]

[Not only that, I also heard from the elders that in ancient times, if someone in a coastal village got the plague and couldn't be treated, the villagers would drive all the sick people onto the ship and let them fend for themselves on the ocean. Of course, there were also normal isolation treatments, but everyone knows the conditions in ancient times. It was really difficult to cure them. They just had to wait out their days and burn their bodies after they died.]

[It seems that not to mention the bodies in the sea, there are a few dead bodies in any pond or lake every year]

[Wait... why are you still so lively starting the question-and-answer session? The Little Sunflower Class has started. Do you still remember that the human-faced conch is still climbing up! 】

[The drone guy is filming us all the time. Switch the lens to see a close-up.]

Twisted human faces were clinging to the wall of the ship and crawling upwards. Although they were slow, their huge size made them much faster than ordinary snails.

Qi Gu said: "They are in a hurry to come up just to eat human flesh. As long as we are no longer human, they will naturally leave."

After saying this calmly, Qi Gu poured out a talisman that concealed the breath of living people from the gourd and handed it to Lin Hanzhi, who was closest to him. After all, he had severe mysophobia and probably couldn't accept such a slimy mollusk crawling in front of him.

Then it will be the turn of others.

Soon, everyone followed Qi Gu's instructions and stuck the talismans on their noses and lips.

As there was no response, the fisherman looked at Qi Gu to ask if his method was starting to work.

Qi Gu gave him a relaxing look, walked back to his seat which was only a few dozen centimeters away from the human-faced snails, and sat down steadily.

The fisherman gave him a thumbs-up and returned to the control room.

The other three stood by the swaying boat, observing the movements of the snails. After a while, they saw that the snails seemed to have lost their suction cups and fell from the boat, falling back into the deep blue sea, causing only a few ripples.

"We can set sail now! They all jumped in by themselves, faster than dropping dumplings into the water." Pubugesang shouted.

Just when everyone was completely relaxed, in the corner of the cabin hidden by debris—