Chapter 88 Ghost Ship on the Atlantic Ocean (3) “Si Ling, something happened…
Si Ling nodded silently, and Li Qi felt as if he had a body again, with goose bumps and tingling sensation spreading all over his body.
She hugged her arms: "What do you mean..."
Ah Zhui explained, "Ghosts usually exist in normal human form. It's rare to find one like Fredis remaining charred, and skeletons are even more abstract. And if it were a physical monster...then after being killed by Xuan Chi, they should at least leave a pile of bones here."
"Well, well, well... that means..." Li Qi felt the goosebumps growing stronger. "These guys are neither human nor ghost?"
"...Not really." Ah Zhui laughed, "It's a ghost after all."
Si Ling stared intently at the cabin on the left side at the end and asked Bai Ma: "How did you lure them out?"
"I don't know..." Bai Ma shook his head and swallowed. "We just entered and were applying talismans to the walls. Before we finished, we heard movement behind us."
Li Qi: "Looking back, wow, a few skeletons were looking at us with their heads tilted... I was so scared."
Si Ling felt something was amiss, but from the perspective of combat power, the probability of her suffering a loss at the hands of this kind of monster was very low, and Xuan Chi's fatal blow just now also confirmed this.
She then sighed and said, "Go and have a look."
After she finished speaking, she floated towards the corridor first. Xuan Chi and A Zhu followed without objection. Although Bai Ma and the others were still in shock, it was obviously more terrifying to stay in the corridor alone, so they immediately followed them.
A group of six people passed through the wooden bulkhead, and when they saw the scene in front of them clearly, they immediately felt uncomfortable.
This cabin, located at the bottom of the ship's hull, had absolutely no ventilation or lighting. The entire cabin was about 20 to 30 square meters, but on the wall opposite the cabin door were only two small circular windows. Most of the windows were submerged in the seawater, with only a small portion above the water, letting in a dim light that flickered in.
In the dim light, they saw that the entire cabin was filled with...
A pile of white bones.
Due to their age, most of these skeletons had fallen apart during the night-after-night tossing of the Mockingbird. Si Ling could discern a few skulls, leg bones, and ribs. Only a few skeletons in the corners remained intact. They slumped limply on the ground, their heads drooping. The outlines of their eye sockets had long since become two black holes, seemingly endless in the dim light.
"Strange..." Si Ling muttered to himself, "If they really died in a shipwreck... they shouldn't have left behind such bones."
It's not like she hasn't seen ghosts who died in shipwrecks before - when ships are torn to pieces by storms and people drown in the sea, their souls may drift on the sea for a long time, or perhaps due to some coincidence, a "ghost ship" like the Mockingbird will be created, but those are all things of the underworld, made up of yin energy and spiritual energy.
Parts of the human body that are unique to them, such as the white bones, should have sunk into the sea in the storm long ago, and disappeared completely under the efforts of fish and microorganisms.
She couldn't figure out how the scene before her was formed, and then in a flash...
Si Ling shuddered, blinked hard and looked carefully again, but the scene in front of him remained unchanged.
Bai Ma's voice trembled weakly: "Did you...see it? Or did I vomit and feel dizzy and hallucinate?"
Xuan Chi's eyes were slightly stern, and he clenched the long spear in his hand: "I see."
——In the last half second, the scene in the cabin suddenly changed. The white skeleton in front of them disappeared without a trace, and countless vengeful spirits stared at them quietly, with a dark green light and shadow all over their bodies, symbolizing deep resentment.
A bad premonition surged in Si Ling's heart. She changed her shape in an instant, pulled out the two swords from her bun with both hands, gripped the hilts tightly, and assumed a defensive posture.
At the same time, various physical species such as werewolves, vampires, zombies, and other ghosts in the same class boarded the deck and hid in an empty cabin, waiting for Si Ling's arrangements.
Waiting is always boring, so they simply sat down. Some took out the Tongming disk to play games, while others chatted quietly.
Suddenly, rumbling thunder rumbled directly above us, continuously.
The conversation in the cabin fell silent, and everyone looked towards the porthole at the same time, only to see that the sky, which had been calm just a moment ago, suddenly became windy, and huge waves of more than ten meters high were rising on the sea, with white waves pressing down one after another.
Most ghosts just glanced twice and then looked away - after all, things like storms couldn't hurt them, so they were indifferent.
A few vampires were sitting in a corner of the cabin playing cards. Aymeric stared out at the waves for a moment, feeling a strange uneasiness in his heart. After a moment's hesitation, he stood up and walked out: "I'll go out and take a look."
Willey was startled, put down the cards and went out with him.
The two walked out of the cabin one after the other and looked up. Thick dark clouds were swirling into a huge vortex right above the Mockingbird, and blue and white lightning flashed continuously.
Aymeric narrowed his eyes.
This natural phenomenon certainly exists, and it's normal to encounter it during sailing, but...
"Everyone, be alert." He stared at the cloud.
Willey immediately returned to the cabin and informed all his companions to be on high alert. For a moment, the cabin was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. The werewolves subconsciously pricked up their ears. Their wolf blood gave them a sense far superior to most ghosts, but only silence spread in the cabin, without any other sound.
In the cabin on the lowest level, the Dongfang Group also felt the change in the weather. Amidst the rumbling thunder, the light outside the two small windows suddenly dimmed, making the already dim cabin even darker.
Then the rain came down suddenly, and the small half of the window that was originally exposed above the sea was quickly covered by raindrops, washed away by the surging waves, and then quickly covered with raindrops again.
Si Ling's eyes were slightly cold, and he turned his head and said softly: "A Zhui, the four of you go out first."
A Zhu nodded nervously and tiptoed out with Bai Ma, Li Qi and Zhu Mengwei.
"Boom--" The thunder exploded again, and lightning suddenly illuminated the dim cabin.
In the blink of an eye, countless shadows appeared again, but this time they were not ghosts, but skeletons.
The four people who had not yet left the cabin were startled. Bai Ma was about to shout "Be careful" when he saw Si Ling and Xuan Chi look at each other, and at the same time they waved their weapons and fought in different directions.
"!!!" Ah Zhui wanted to shout that they couldn't start a massacre, because although the appearance of these skeletons could not be seen, their physique and the simple clothing of coarse cloth wrapped around their waists were obviously the skeletons of slaves, and they were the targets they wanted to rescue.
The extreme tension prevented her from shouting out these words. In a moment, Si Ling's sword and Xuan Chi's halberd slashed towards the skeleton at the same time. A strong wind swept out, and the skeleton that was close at hand was forced back several steps!
"..." Ah Zhui immediately breathed a sigh of relief, took another step back, and left the cargo hold through the wall.
The other three came out shortly after. Li Qi said with a bit of a complicated tone, "Did they not discuss this just now? They're quite in sync."
Inside the cabin, after three consecutive moves, Si Ling and Xuan Chi had carved out a clean circular area for themselves. Some skeletons were blown to pieces by the strong wind, while others stood outside the area, not daring to get close but eager to try. The two sides were in a tense confrontation.
Si Ling and Xuan Chi leaned back against each other, staring closely at the ghosts' movements while tilting their heads and asking softly, "Did you figure it out? Is it a physical body or a spirit?"
"No." Xuan Chi sighed.
"This is so weird." Si Ling took a deep breath. "I've been a ghost for 30,000 years, and I've never seen anything like this."
She paused after she finished speaking, trying to slow down her tone and communicate with them: "Calm down, we are here to save you."
"Calm down. We're here to rescue you."
"Du calme, s'il vous plat. Nous sommes là pour vous secourir."
“Mantengan la calma, por favor. Vinimos a rescatarlos.”
She tried to say the same sentence in different languages, but the skeletons in front of her did not respond and the tension in the atmosphere did not ease.
Si Ling was silent, pursed his lips, and asked Xuan Chi: "Do you know African languages?"
"I've been isolated from the world for over 20,000 years, and have only been released for a few months..." Xuan Chi twitched the corner of his mouth and tilted his head helplessly, "I will definitely learn it when I go back this time."
"Tsk..." Si Ling smacked his lips with a headache, "Okay, then let's think about how to get back."
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"ah--!!!"
The cabin on deck was in chaos.
Before entering the cabin, they carefully checked it. Not only did they confirm with their naked eyes that the cabin was empty, they also searched around with the props provided by Mammon to confirm that there were no ghosts here before they dared to hide.
But after the flash of lightning and thunder just now, there were suddenly many more "people" in the room.
Some of them were dressed in suits, some in 17th-century sailor uniforms, each one glowing with a dim green light, attacking with fangs and claws bared.
The defenseless physical ghosts screamed in fear, some started fighting with each other, and some subconsciously fled in all directions.
This chaos lasted for about half a minute, and everyone finally got into the state and started to fight, but the entity had no advantage against the spirit. The students watched the ghosts appear and disappear at will, and although none of them were injured for the time being, they were all fooled around, which was very annoying.
"Call Si Ling!!!" Orrick shouted to his elder brother.
However, Fenric had no time to care at this moment - he turned into a wolf to improve his combat power, but a nasty ghost grabbed his tail. He turned around and bit the opponent twice, but disappeared accurately, causing him to almost bite the wolf's tail.
Seeing this, Orrick reacted quickly. Without waiting for his elder brother's consent, he took out the sound transmission note and asked Si Ling for help.
Si Ling only heard Orric's shouting through the sound transmission note: "Si Ling, something happened! There are so many ghosts here! It's the crew members! Everyone is in chaos!!"
When Si Ling heard that the crew members had appeared, he and Xuan Chi looked at each other, and they jumped up at the same time, passing through two layers of planks and reaching the deck.
"Waaaaaaaaaaaa--!!!" The skeletons in the cabin noticed their movements, broke out of the door, and rushed towards the stairs screaming.
"Don't come over here--" Bai Ma and the other two were running in front in panic. When they were about to reach the stairs, Zhu Mengwei finally realized that the three of them were spirits. She grabbed Bai Ma and Li Qi with both hands at the same time, rushed upwards, and took them away from the chaotic chase.
"The Tiangang establishes the boundary, and the earth veins suppress evil!" Si Ling jumped above the deck and immediately cast a protective spell, covering the group of skeletons that had not yet caught up.
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