The enormous pirate ship sits atop a circular platform, its dark blue supports painted with underwater creatures. A sculpture of a mermaid holding a pearl stands at the bow, and the ship has eight rows of seats.
There were not many people queuing under the platform, perhaps because they left the hotel early. Seven people lined up at the end of the first round of tourists to enter.
The tourists who boarded the boat first unanimously chose seats near the middle, leaving them only the bow and stern.
"A maximum of four people on each side," the staff member reminded them, meaning the seven of them were destined to be separated.
"Let Sun Bufei sit in the middle." Considering Sun Bufei's situation, Qiu Yue said, "The two of you sit on his left and right, and the remaining one comes to our side."
"Little girls, hurry up." A tourist on the boat urged, and everyone was looking at them, including those queuing below.
Liu Yingying clasped her hands together and bowed slightly: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
In the end, Yu Waiwai followed Qiu Yue and the other three girls and sat at the stern of the boat, while Li Xing and Zheng Yi sat at the bow with Sun Bufei between them.
Woo——
A dull horn sounded, and a voice came from the nearby radio: "Set sail——"
The huge creature began to sway slowly back and forth.
The amplitude is very low at the beginning, but anyone who has played on a pirate ship knows that the boat will slowly swing higher and higher, even almost perpendicular to the ground. That's when it's really exciting.
Sure enough, the boat swung higher and higher, until it almost looked like it was about to capsize.
“Ahhhhh!!!!”
Some tourists started screaming, but the other seven people on the pirate ship were unable to shout out.
Because at the moment when the pirate ship reached the highest point and swung back down, they seemed to be thrown directly into the bottom of the sea. There was no water around them, but they were full of water. Only when the ship swung to the highest point could they have a few seconds of air on land.
Holding her breath, Qiu Yue couldn't even open her eyes. The invisible sea water was extremely salty and it would sting her eyes if she opened them, but she had to see the current situation clearly.
"Alas--"
"Yeah hey——"
The cheers of other tourists were endless. Qiu Yue felt that her eardrums were hurt by the water pressure, and the cheers also irritated her fragile ears.
Enduring the discomfort and forcing her eyes open a little, she could see Sun Bufei's face as pale as paper at the opposite bow.
He had thought he was feeling better, but when the pirate ship began to shake, the familiar feeling of fatigue and heaviness returned, and even a severe dizziness was added. If Li Xing and Zheng Yi hadn't been holding him tightly on both sides, Sun Bufei would have fallen directly off.
"Gurgle... Gurgle... Cough cough cough..." His mind was not clear, and he could not find the right time to breathe or hold his breath like other people. So it felt like someone was constantly pushing his head into the water, which was extremely painful.
When the bow of the boat he was on reached its highest point again, Sun Bufei opened his eyes a little, and his sight passed through the tourists who were shouting with excitement and fell accurately on Qiu Yue who was looking terrified.
The distance was a bit far, and he couldn't see what was in Qiu Yue's eyes.
Qiu Yue wanted to open her mouth and yell at them to be careful, but the stern of the ship where she was was now at the "bottom of the sea", giving her no chance to speak.
What appeared behind the bow made her even forget the pain in her eyes, and she just stared with her eyes wide open.
"Gurgle!"
Yan Bei, who was sitting next to her, also saw it and almost screamed out. She drank a big mouthful of sea water and her throat hurt.
Liu Yingying still had her eyes tightly closed. She was already afraid of pirate ships, not to mention this abnormal pirate ship! Holding her breath and breathing was the only thing she could do.
Fortunately, there was Yu Waiwai, who was good at swimming and did not feel as uncomfortable as the others. He was able to loosen one hand and signal Li Xing opposite them to look behind them.
Behind the bow, several creatures climbed up the hull.
Their faces were swollen, their black hair spread out like seaweed, their eyeballs bulged, their lips turned outward, their tongues protruding, their chests and abdomens bulged, their limbs were unusually thick, their skin was a dirty green, and every inch of it seemed to be filled with air.
The timing of these things climbing up was perfect, and when they were fully exposed, the bow of the pirate ship swung down and into the water.
Once they enter the water, they start to move, using their hands and feet to grab people from behind and try to drag them out.
Putting aside Sun Bufei who had lost the ability to resist, although Li Xing and Zheng Yi saw Yu Waiwai's reminder, their movements were restricted after the boat entered the water, and they could not react quickly, so they were caught red-handed.
It felt extremely soft, like the skin of rotten grapes that had been soaked in water for too long. It had lost its last bit of toughness and emitted an extremely unpleasant smell.
They were clearly holding their breath, so they shouldn't be able to smell it.
But the smell still penetrated into their bodies, causing an intense feeling of nausea.
Sun Bufei, who was in a semi-comatose state, was already exhausted by the drowning. Now when he smelled this smell, he couldn't bear it anymore and opened his mouth.
As soon as he opened his mouth, the thing holding him from behind, with its hair floating in the water, tried to slip into his mouth.
Li Xing and Zheng Yi looked at each other and made a decision at the same time - let go.
The bow of the ship was about to rise to a high place again. Instead of letting those black hairs with unknown objects stuck to them get into Sun Bufei's body, it would be better to let him fall down and leave the game directly. At least it wouldn't be disgusting.
The thing behind them was clamping them tightly, but fortunately, their hands holding Sun Bufei could still move, so the two of them slowly loosened their fingers.
Qiu Yue and others on the opposite side roughly guessed what the two were thinking. Giving up Sun Bufei was indeed the only way out, because he now had no ability to be independent at all.
Everyone closed their eyes. Without his friend's clinging grasp, Sun Bufei quickly slid out of the pirate ship. Unlike Chen Fang's fall from a height, they heard a splash as he fell into the water.
The expressions of the tourists remained the same. Some of the tourists queuing outside had smiley face balloons in their hands floating slightly in the wind, and the smiles seemed to be mocking the scene.
In the distance, the bunny next to the fountain suddenly stopped distributing balloons.
It stamped its feet and shouted in dissatisfaction: "How disgusting! How disgusting! I hate it so much!"
The tourists didn't notice anything was wrong with it, and some even went up to it to ask for balloons, only to be swept away by one of its hands, breaking their ribs and piercing their skin.
But he himself was unaware of his situation. He stretched out his hands, opened his mouth, vomited blood, and fell down.
None of the tourists passing by paid any attention to him, and many of them just stepped right over him.
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