Lu Ban looked at the plate.

A roasted chicken with several chicken legs.

That’s not all.

Those roasted suckling pigs also have several eyes.

The fish's fins have grown a lot of tentacles. If they hadn't been solidified, they would probably be wriggling constantly at this moment, trying to grab other things.

The colors of the vegetables also appear strange, as if they were growing on the internal organs of animals.

"vomit--"

Nagamasa immediately vomited out what he had just eaten. On the deck, the vomit was dark purple in color and seemed to be trembling slightly.

"You all right?"

Nagamasa looked at the three people and asked in surprise.

“It’s not a big problem.”

Lu Ban felt something in his mouth rubbing against his teeth. He thought it was meat scraps, so he reached out to touch it, but pulled out a slippery, black tentacle. The tentacle was constantly twisting, and when it touched Lu Ban's skin, the smooth surface of the tentacle suddenly became rough and turned into sharp teeth, biting Lu Ban's skin and sucking the flesh and blood underneath.

He was suddenly startled, then he bit off the tentacle with one bite, chewed it for many times, and then swallowed it.

"Is it really okay?"

Nagamasa looked at Shia again.

Xia patted her stomach. No tentacles came out of her mouth, and her abdomen did not rise and fall strangely.

He looked at Leopard one last time.

"Leopard is about to die, you have to save him!"

The girl in white clothes and red hakama covered her throat and foamed at the mouth, looking like she was about to die.

With a thud, the petite girl fell to the ground, twitched, and then there was no movement.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Nagamasa hurried to check the situation, but was quickly stopped by Xia.

"How long do you want to play?"

Shia asked.

After a moment, the motionless, breathless girl twitched slightly, and then she got up again, as if nothing had happened.

"Aren't you two worried about me at all?"

Baobao looked at Lu Ban.

"Rather than worrying about you, we should worry about the chicken drumstick you ate."

Lu Ban reached out and touched the tentacles of the fish on the plate. It didn't move. He pulled it off, and the wriggling tentacles soon began to wrap around Lu Ban's fingers.

"It seems that because of our arrival, time here has moved."

Shia said.

She cast a spell on every sailor on board that would allow them to resist the supernatural forces here. This influence might gradually spread, causing things that were originally solidified to begin returning to their original time.

"These things can remain in their original state during the frozen time, but if time resumes flowing, they will appear to be contaminated... These people should be the same."

Shia confirmed it, and she immediately looked at Nagamasa.

"Tell all the sailors to go back and not touch anything here."

As soon as the words fell, several people heard a scream.

Nagamasa looked in the direction of the voice, only to find that the sailor who had been standing there checking the situation was nowhere to be seen.

"Where did they go?"

Nagamasa asked the other sailors suspiciously, but they looked confused and didn't know what was going on.

Without doing anything rash, Nagamasa asked them to leave immediately.

The two sailors just nodded, turned around and were about to go to the rope ladder on the side of the ship, but suddenly disappeared.

"ah--"

With a cry that gradually became deeper, they disappeared out of thin air.

"What happened?"

Nagamasa felt a personal fear. He dared not move and could only stand next to the three people, as if this was the safest place in the world.

"Did you see that?"

Xia asked Lu Ban in a low voice.

“I only saw the outline.”

Lu Ban said, he placed his hand near the shoulder of one of the diners, and instantly, an illusory book emerged from the diner's body. Lu Ban held a silver pen [Last Words] and opened the book.

【An honest businessman never deceives his own desires】

[I plan to return to my hometown to retire after completing this business. This flag is really well established.]

[After many years of hardships, it has not aged and even developed some unique organs. How amazing! ]

[Just a light touch will bring you unparalleled enjoyment. Don't you want to give it a try? ]

There is similar text written on it.

From the outside, this diner has not changed at all and looks like an ordinary middle-aged man. But in fact, he has been corroded by pollution and transformed into a monster.

The humans and food on this ship are probably similar.

There must be pollution in the doldrums, but due to the extraordinary power that causes time to freeze, the polluted creatures cannot be alienated. However, once their time begins to pass, the alienation will immediately become apparent.

Just like when Lu Ban touched the roasted chicken just now, the roasted chicken began to mutate rapidly, growing several legs, and those chicken legs quickly mutated and turned into a twisted monster.

Lu Ban didn’t know.

But why did those sailors disappear?

Lu Ban was a little curious.

He could see that when the sailors disappeared, there seemed to be some dark shadow covering them.

But how come this black shadow cannot be captured under Lu Ban's [True Vision]?

He scanned the ship and found nothing unusual.

Nothing unusual happened to the sailors on their original ship and they were still waiting for the landing to bring them back.

Although with Bao Bao here, there shouldn't be any major problems, but Lu Ban speculated that based on Bao Bao's personality, Lu Ban estimated that even if she discovered something, she would not tell him. Rather than directly giving Lu Ban and Xia a strategy to quickly pass the level, Bao Bao would probably want to see how they deal with it.

Just like Lu Ban watching live broadcasts, there is nothing interesting about the host doing speedruns according to the guide. The fun lies in watching the various random program effects.

Just as Lu Ban looked around, Xia Ya suddenly disappeared from his side.

As if she had never existed in the first place, the girl in armor disappeared without a trace.

There wasn't even a scream.

"W-What's going on?"

Nagamasa's voice trembled. He came to Lu Ban's side, looked around, trying to catch Lu Ban.

"Don't be nervous."

As Lu Ban said this, he grabbed Nagamasa and threw him back to the rope ladder, and he rolled back to his boat.

He glanced at the ship and saw that the sailors were still operating as usual.

It seems that Xia is still alive, otherwise her spell would be ineffective, and these sailors would gradually be captured by the doldrums, and time would be frozen.

So, where did Sia go?

Lu Ban looked at Baobao.

"Do you know something?"

"I only know what I know."

Leopard said with a grin, not seeming to be frightened by the current environment.

"If you're willing to give me a little fun, I can give you some off-field help."

"What fun?"

Lu Ban asked.

"That's what I want: the throbbing of youth, the trembling ambiguity, the sweet love, the troubles of quarrels, the painful determination, the hatred deep in the bone marrow. Which of these chaotic emotions can you provide me?"

Baobao smiled, as if he was looking at a dish he had always wanted to eat.

"…I'd better look for it myself first."

Lu Ban didn't think that accepting Bao Bao's proposal would be easier than finding one on his own. After thinking about it, he directly put his hand on the diner.

Suddenly, the middle-aged man's flesh and blood swelled, and something emerged from under his skin.