Dream No. 8
“Ahhhh!!”
The tentacles that suddenly stretched out tied her arms tightly, and the etiquette lady was thrown onto the railing. The front half of her body suddenly emitted burning and steaming black air, spreading a fishy smell mixed with a burnt smell of the sea.
Xu Wei refused to let go.
The red railing can hurt the tentacle man.
This should be the Xu family's backup plan to prevent Howard from destroying his bridges after making a sacrifice.
But Howard himself didn't seem afraid, and he once reached in with his tentacles to sacrifice a child.
The etiquette lady howled for a long time, the smoke gradually weakened, and finally she became a shriveled meat paste.
Xu Wei turned to Howard, but he didn't care. He shrugged and motioned Xu Wei to continue the sacrifice.
Xu Wei stroked the red-patterned dagger for a moment, then swung it easily to cut off the chains of Zhang Yuan and Li Xiangdong.
One knife, two knives, all the unconscious companions fell, until the last one, Fu Fenglou.
"Mrs. Xu," Howard finally couldn't sit still any longer, "Are you going to break the agreement?"
Xu Wei said firmly: "Take them back to my room to heal their wounds and stop chasing the other person."
Howard frowned: "Mrs. Xu, time is running out, you know what this means."
Xu Wei: "What does it mean?"
He was a little surprised: "You don't know that twenty years ago..."
Xu Wei recalled the broken picture in his mind just now.
Twenty years ago, when the Xu family offered sacrifices to the Howard family, she was also there, but it seemed that she was not at sea...
Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, Howard started talking to himself: "Twenty years ago, my grandfather's ship 'Siren' was sailing in this sea with hundreds of people on board. It successfully summoned the ship god to come. When it was about to return, a giant monster suddenly emerged from the calm sea and dragged the entire ship into the deep sea."
"The previous generation of spellcasters in your family believed that a terrifying ancient creature lived in this sea area, and it was awakened by the power leaked from the God of the Ship. Last time, it fell into a deep sleep after devouring part of the God of the Ship. This time, we must let the God of the Ship descend before we get close to it, and control the course to leave here."
Xu Wei sighed.
There is a bigger BOSS.
I thought the Dream, whose "existence is the entire ship itself", was difficult enough to deal with, but then this thing popped up halfway.
According to what Howard said, it is not difficult to guess that after the arrival of the ship god, the "fleshification" of the ship itself will reach its peak. In this desolate ocean, everyone will become nourishment for the Dream.
To offer sacrifice is death, and not to offer sacrifice is also death.
"Mrs. Xu, we can't wait any longer," Howard finally became anxious, walked towards the red railing and then stopped.
He was also afraid of the railing.
Xu Wei breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the copy was not complete. If Howard could only enter the red railing for a short time, it would give her a chance to catch her breath.
The complete arrival of the ship god requires Xu Wei, as a spellcaster, to sacrifice her "blood relative" Fu Fenglou. Howard still needs her help, so she must take advantage of the opportunity to save her teammates and come up with a way to deal with the sea monster.
"I want you to prepare three lifeboats, take the others to the safe place closest to the lifeboats, wake them up and treat their injuries. I must see the whole process."
There is no other way now.
Howard waved his hand to indicate to do as he was told, and a tentacle man hurried away: "Can we begin, ma'am?"
"I want my companions to be safe," Xu Wei said without moving, "and I want a sound amplification system that can be heard by the entire ship."
"Ma'am, a loudspeaker that can be heard by the entire ship - do you want me to move the broadcasting room here? That doesn't seem realistic."
As they were talking, a group of tentacle men came over carrying plugged-in display screens, which showed three yellow lifeboats piled up in a warehouse.
Xu Wei: “I want to see the surrounding environment.”
The screen immediately rotated 360 degrees, revealing the surroundings. After confirming that there was nothing obviously wrong, she lifted her teammate over the railing.
Howard didn't seem to be in a hurry anymore, and even shook his head to signal the tentacle man to be careful.
Teammates were sent out in all directions, but Xu Wei couldn't let his guard down - Fu Fenglou was still locked.
The bottom of the ship is the core of the Dream, and it will not be safe if the sea monster attacks. Xu Wei must send the injured teammates away first. Time is running out, so he can only resort to this last resort...
I don’t know where Lu Fanye went.
Howard: "You know the location of the lifeboat, so can we..."
"Bang!"
Xu Wei wanted to delay for a while longer, but an explosion shook the bottom of the ship three times.
She quickly looked at Howard, but saw him calmly spread his hands and said, "Ma'am, you know, Howard always has a plan B."
It's the bow.
Howard attacked the captain's cabin, fighting for control.
He said, "Madam Xu, once the ship god's descent ceremony begins, it will not stop. Your spell only speeds up the process. If I sacrifice the flesh and blood of all the passengers on the ship, it will still succeed."
Various fragments flashed through Xu Wei's mind and he made a quick judgment.
If the Dream had really arrived as he said, Howard would not have tolerated her making so many demands and would have raised his tentacles long ago.
This means that even if the method of sacrificing the lives of everyone on the ship is true, it must be slower than the speed of casting the sacrifice spell, and this speed is something Howard cannot wait for.
Otherwise, why would he go to so much trouble to seize the bow? He could just arrange for the omnipresent tentacle people to hunt down the passengers.
Xu Wei was just about to use this opportunity to deal with him, but before he could finish his words, several explosions were heard from various parts of the ship.
Howard's face suddenly changed. This was obviously not what he expected.
Xu Wei took the opportunity to activate his skills, a lullaby sounded, and the effect of falling out of control was released again.
During her first fight with Howard, the hypnosis was interrupted by an unknown force after she asked three questions. It must have been the work of the Dream. At that time, Howard also fell into a coma due to the sudden interruption of his skills. Only then did she have the opportunity to bring Dajiu and Xiaojiu back to the room.
If the hypnosis failed this time, the backlash would only be more serious. Fortunately, Howard was distracted by the sudden explosion and she succeeded.
*
Xu Wei was running on the corridor carrying Fu Fenglou. If there were people in the corridor at that time, they would be able to see the spectacle of the eighty-year-old tentacle woman carrying a person at great speed.
The impact of the waves was becoming more and more outrageous. The boat was thrown into the raging waves. She failed to catch the unconscious Fu Fenglou several times.
The pursuers were hot on his heels, and the sticky smell of the sea clung to him like a poisonous snake.
Xu Wei stopped in the corridor.
In front, dense tentacles filled the corridor, and the smell of the sea was approaching from behind. It was only a matter of time before Howard arrived.
She was no longer able to support the next skill to cover all the tentacle people.
"here!"
The door behind him suddenly opened, and Xu Wei was pulled away by a huge force. The tentacle people surrounding him were caught off guard and blocked outside the door, and began to bang on it.
Xu Wei turned around cautiously and breathed a sigh of relief after seeing who was coming.
Lu Fanye hurriedly dragged Fu Fenglou into the room: "Don't stay at the door, come over here."
As soon as Xu Wei entered the room, he locked the door. The shock wave from the explosion almost blew the door over.
Lu Fanye handed her a map: "This is the location of the broadcasting room. I have reached a cooperation with the authorities, and their intention is to prevent the Dream from coming."
"Is there a way?"
Time is running out.
Lu Fanye treated Fu Fenglou's wound: "Luring out the sea monster, the big fish eats the small fish."
Xu Wei frowned: "Can we survive if the sea monster comes out?"
"There will be a helicopter to pick us up, and the authorities will send troops to take over... There's nothing we can do," Lu Fanye stuffed Fu Fenglou into the ventilation duct and climbed up himself. "Zhang Yuan and the others have already moved to the helipad. Is there any news on the bracelet?"
Xu Wei pushed the sofa to block the shaking door: "Transfer station, no, there is a problem with the system. Mao Cheng is trying to contact me. I guess the task cannot be released."
If the system task cannot be released, the task cannot be completed. The only way to return to the transfer station is the last and most difficult way - destroy the copy.
The core points of the copy are probably the sea monster and the Dream Ship, and all other plots and characters serve these two.
Let the sea monster devour the Dream, and then the official kills the sea monster to achieve the goal of destroying the copy.
This plan is feasible, but Xu Wei still feels uneasy.
Can the authorities definitely kill the sea monster?
Official... can it be trusted?
"Their people modified the position and speed before the voyage. The Dream will arrive at the central area an hour earlier than Howard estimated, which means, ten minutes later."
As Lu Fanye explained, the two of them pushed Fu Fenglou to climb out of the ventilation duct to the other side. They finally escaped the pursuit and rushed to the helipad together.
Xu Wei: "I've memorized the location of the broadcasting room. If anything happens, I'll go there directly. Is the audio line unobstructed?"
Lu Fanye: "It's unobstructed. They will arrange people to protect the line."
"What do you need us to do?"
"After the sea monster devours the Dream, you'll be needed to help evacuate the plane. The plane also carries a sound amplification equipment."
“They believe me?”
"The captain's room can see the battle surveillance between you and Howard."
In just a few words, the two had arrived at the helipad on the top floor of the ship. The raging waves outside had strangely subsided in just a few minutes. The sky was clear and the sea was calm without a ripple. Only the wet hull and the fish and shrimps washed up by the huge waves showed the horrifying scene just now.
The roar of helicopters came from far away, from black dots to huge objects within reach. There were five helicopters in total, and the first one was about to land.
"boom!"
Xu Wei watched with his own eyes as the plane exploded into fireworks.
A huge tentacle pierced through the cabin of the Dream and inserted into the helicopter group from the bottom of the sea. Large amounts of blue blood gushed out from the broken hole in the Dream, and the top layer of the ship was suddenly filled with the smell of the sea.
The interior of the Dream had been completely "fleshed out". The original rooms, restaurants, and corridors had all become connected lumps of flesh. An angry roar erupted from the hole, and soon after, the hull began to tremble wildly.
This tentacle is larger than any animal humans have ever seen. Unlike the long limbs of ordinary squids, it has a knotty surface and contains dense spikes. It is dark black all over, as if it wants to absorb all the light.
Xu Wei just took a look and walked towards the security personnel with a normal expression.
They were official people, wearing uniform and using chainsaws to destroy the surface of the Dream.
She asked the security guard for a gun, lowered her head, and bit her wrist.
Blue blood flowed down his arm, soaking his body that was no longer in human form, and his mouth tasted very strange. Xu Wei felt the pain, and his spirit finally condensed a little, barely supporting his overloaded body.
She let out a long breath.
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