Chapter 143 Mermaid Cruise
"roll."
"If you look at me again, I'll dig out your eyes."
After hearing Bai Jin's words, Xu Zhiyan felt relieved a little, thinking that since he couldn't stand steadily anyway, he might as well fall back, at least there would be someone to catch him.
Falling into the arms of the expected.
But this embrace was not as comfortable as imagined.
In his semi-conscious state, he could feel that the air was very dry.
Not only was there severe pain inside his body, he discovered that the even more unbearable pain was coming from his skin.
The turbid air seemed to be tearing at his skin.
For the first time, Xu Zhiyan discovered that he could actually sense the moisture in the air.
If the part of your skin that comes into contact with the air feels dry, then sticking tightly to fabric on your body is a disaster, as the little moisture you have will be absorbed by the fabric, leaving you in a state of extreme dehydration.
He felt himself being carried horizontally, and his half-closed eyes scanned the surroundings. From the speed at which the scenery was receding, he could sense that Bai Jin was also nervous.
Xu Zhiyan wanted to say something, but when he opened his mouth, only a "hehe" panting sound came out.
Hey, hey, you’re not going to turn into a zombie, are you?
As his mind was filled with strange thoughts, he focused a little.
Bai Jin rushed over as soon as he received the news that Xu Zhiyan had arrived at the casino.
Just as he shouted to send everyone away, he saw the person in front of him falling backwards. He subconsciously caught the person, only to find that something seemed to be wrong.
"Damn it, why is it now...it's obviously not the time yet."
The person in his arms kept twisting because of the pain of the mutation, and he was a little at a loss, but the gamblers who had just lowered their heads at the scolding, all raised their heads and cast their eyes again on the young man who was experiencing the pain of the mutation.
Seeing this, Bai Jin took a few steps back while holding the person.
The inferior people who had little remaining rationality gradually surrounded him. Even though they knew they could not harm the guest, the huge delicious food he was holding was too tempting.
No, there are too many people.
This place is too far from the gate, and it is unlikely to break out from the encirclement.
Suddenly, Bai Jin heard the dry voice of the person in his arms.
"…Warehouse, in the back."
After Xu Zhiyan shouted these four words, he felt as if his throat had swallowed ten thousand knives and he almost coughed up blood.
When we purchased the whole human being before, the person in charge said that the empty warehouse had no one to use.
This place was very close to the warehouse, and Bai Jin rushed in a few steps carrying the person. He first put Xu Zhiyan gently on the ground, then turned around to lock the door and moved two tables to block the door.
After doing all this, he leaned on the table, a little flustered.
Lacking complete memories, which would even be modified at the annual party, Bai Jin only had some impressions of the changes in the people on the ship. Only then did he realize that he seemed to have paid no attention to these things at all.
A familiar voice sounded from the bottom of my heart.
It's another him.
[Hey, are you just going to leave him alone?]
[If you can't handle it, you can return your body to me.]
[The black fog will cause human mutations, and the ship will soon sail to the Poseidon realm.]
[Do you intend to watch him continue to suffer like this? If he falls into the hands of those inferior people, he will be torn into pieces and eaten. After all, eating newly mutated humans can increase their degree of mutation.]
The secondary personality's voice chatters on and on.
This time, the innocent boy did not tell the other party to get out as usual.
The hand that fell on the table was clenched into a fist, and the veins on the wrist were clearly visible.
"Why is he changing now? Shouldn't these changes happen at the party?"
In his few memories, the party would select the luckiest humans on the ship every year, then use the properties of the black fog to mutate these humans, complete the mermaid ritual, and offer the most dazzling monster to the sea god.
Yes, monster.
In Bai Jin's impression, all humans will eventually turn into monsters.
Among them, the monsters that have undergone minor changes will restore their human appearance after the party and remain on the ship to serve forever. Until the Leviathan sails towards the Poseidon realm again and is surrounded by black fog, those mutated characteristics will appear.
[Should I say you are naive or an idiot?]
[Speaking of which, we rarely have the opportunity to have a good conversation like this. I really want to know whether they told you the purpose of the mermaid ritual when they modified your memory.]
[Forget it, now is not the time to talk about this.]
[I... ahem, I mean, the mutation caused by Poseidon's wrath will make humans immersed in pain. His mutation is a little unusual. He needs water, a lot of water. If he is dehydrated, he will really die.]
[But you are a weakling and can't do anything. Why don't you return the body to me and I will save him.]
Bai Jin pursed his lips and did not answer the secondary personality.
There was a noisy sound coming from outside the door, and from time to time there was the sound of someone banging on the door.
He had a lot of questions he wanted to ask his secondary personality, but now was obviously not a good time.
Xu Zhiyan needs water.
Without water he would die.
After listening to it over and over again, Bai Jin only remembered this sentence.
But this is an empty warehouse with nothing in it. Where can he find water?
Loosening his clenched fists, Bai Jin pulled out a decorative dagger from his waist and looked down at his wrist.
Anyway, he won't die, so blood should be able to replace water to some extent, right?
Just as the young boy Bai Jin was about to use his blood to nourish the inferior people who were undergoing mutation, he heard a strange sound coming from behind him.
“Tons, tons, tons…”
“Crash…bang!”
The sound of drinking water in big gulps and a strange banging sound?
Bai Jin turned his head and saw that Xu Zhiyan seemed to have regained consciousness. He was sitting on the ground, holding a transparent bottle and drinking water. His other hand was not idle either, pouring the water in the bottle on his body. There were many plastic bottles beside the young man.
"call--"
After drinking two bottles of water, Xu Zhiyan breathed a sigh of relief and felt like he was alive again.
There was still some pain in my body, but the skin wetted by mineral water didn't hurt as much as before, so it finally eased a little.
He threw the empty bottle away, grabbed another bottle of water, unscrewed it and poured it on himself.
Seeing Bai Jin's confused face, Xu Zhiyan pointed to the unopened mineral water bottle beside him and urged: "Why are you standing there like an idiot? Come and help me unscrew the bottle cap!"
"Ah? Ok...ok."
Bai Jin walked over in a daze and looked at the pile of bottles in front of him. Before his brain could react, his hands had already reached out to help.
Xu Zhiyan poured water on himself while feeling grief-stricken, muttering, "Damn it, taking a bath with water from the system mall is no different from throwing money away."
Water is different from other things. Except for purchasing water in the safe house within the dungeon, water in the real world must be packed in special bottles before being brought into the dungeon. The reserve quantity is very limited and cannot be processed. Therefore, although most players think that the price of water in the dungeon mall is unreasonably high, they will still stock up some.
With the same mentality as most people, Xu Zhiyan also stockpiled some. Although before this, he always thought that the water might rot in the bag, he did not expect to use it so soon.
Perhaps the water was too expensive. The pain in his heart was greater than the physical pain.
In the live broadcast room, the audience also began to feel sorry for him.
[Ah, this trademark is the water of the system mall! ]
[Fuck, the legendary mineral water that costs fifty points a bottle! ! I can’t take it anymore, I’m going to suffocate! ]
[I also... Come to think of it, Xiao Baiwan is really rich. A box has twenty bottles. He must have spent at least three boxes. I only bought a few bottles to store in case I encounter a desert copy.]
[To be honest, apart from the desert dungeon, I really didn’t think there would be other dungeons where you would need to spend money to buy water.]
Bai Jin mechanically twisted the bottle cap and looked at Xu Zhiyan, who was soaked all over. He was speechless and felt that something was wrong. After a while, he finally remembered and asked, "You, your transformation is over?"
"No." Xu Zhiyan shook his head.
He could feel that his body was still undergoing changes, but with enough water, the pain had eased a lot. However, his legs were itchy, and scratching through his pants didn't work at all.
He wanted to take off his pants and scratch himself now, but because Bai Jin was in front of him, he could only hold on.
After taking a look at the door that was being hit, Xu Zhiyan was in a dilemma.
Three hours...
Damn, what kind of stupid system is this? It doesn't even tell the player where the party is held, and it actually requires the player to go find it with a mutated body? He couldn't help but curse the main system in his mind for eight hundred times.
Suddenly, Xu Zhiyan felt a sharp pain in his legs, his eyes went dark, and he almost fainted.
“Shh——”
It was the sound of fabric being torn.
He rolled on the floor like a fish, his body hunched over, and he looked a little unwell.
The pain made every second seem long. Xu Zhiyan was almost drenched in cold sweat, and his mind was filled with the thought that he must bring painkillers next time he entered the dungeon.
I don’t know how much time passed.
It could be a day, it could be ten minutes.
When he regained consciousness, Xu Zhiyan felt that his body was no longer in pain.
He glanced at Bai Jin who was already stunned, and stretched out his hand weakly, asking him to help him.
"What are you waiting for? Give me a hand. We need to leave here quickly."
“…”
After a while, Xu Zhiyan turned over with a frown without waiting for the little cutter to lend a hand, and saw Bai Jin standing there in a daze with a dull look in his eyes.
Following the other person's gaze, he saw a dazzling golden color.
That's a fish tail.
Starting from its waistline and extending outward, it is roughly estimated that if the fin at the tip of the tail is included, it is at least two meters long.
Xu Zhiyan was stunned.
He looked down at his tail, and along the tip of his tail he saw his wet shirt. He tried to move his legs, and the golden fish tail slapped the floor twice, knocking over several empty water bottles.
His breath was choked, and only then did he realize that his legs were gone.
Damn it! How can I run now?
“Bang! Bang!”
The banging on the door became louder and louder.
The gamblers outside the door were making a lot of noise, and it seemed that everyone wanted to take a bite of the mutated flesh and blood.
"Can eating mermaid flesh make you immortal?"
Xu Zhiyan lay on the ground, expressionless, like a dead fish.
Bai Jin subconsciously shook his head and replied: "No."
"The humans who have just mutated are a supplement for other inferior humans who have already mutated, which can increase the degree of their own mutation."
These were said by the secondary personality. Although he didn't understand the principle, he was sure that Xu Zhiyan was in great danger.
"Mutation..."
Xu Zhiyan chewed on these two words and realized that not everyone would become a mermaid?
Seeing that the door was almost cracked by the mad gamblers, Bai Jin looked at the human with a golden fish tail.
He had never seen such a change.
As far as I can remember, all the inferior people on the ship turned into strange, bizarre and ugly things after their mutation. Most of them were shellfish and ugly deep-sea creatures. Even those that mutated into mermaids had unsatisfactory results in the end. They were all weird creatures with the upper body of fish and the lower body of human.
The young man in front of him didn't have much changes in his upper body, only his ears and eyes had changed.
Cartilage supports the thin golden fins, and a few glittering scales can be seen next to the beautiful eyes. The wet shirt sticks tightly to the body, outlining a beautiful curve, and below the narrow waist is the pure golden fish tail.
Golden scales as big as half a palm are densely covered on the entire tail, reflecting bright colorful light under the light.
The beautiful mermaid sighed, stood up, reached her hand to her waist, and twisted it hard... twisted it?
"What are you doing!" Bai Jin didn't expect that Xu Zhiyan stood up to pinch him, and he walked over in panic, his mind still a little unclear.
Xu Zhiyan twisted himself really hard this time, and the soft flesh on his waist instantly became bruised.
Bai Jin looked at the tears accumulated in the other person's eyes and fell to the floor. He felt his heart throbbing with pain. He couldn't help but comfort her: "This is true, but it doesn't matter. I will find a way. The window is over there. We can leave from there..."
He thought the other party couldn't accept that he had turned into a mermaid.
After hearing the explanation, Bai Jin fell silent.
"No, I just want to try whether the mermaid's tears can turn into pearls when she cries. Damn, what a bullshit rumor, it's nonsense." Xu Zhiyan wiped his tears with an angry look on his face.
After cursing, he took out a small knife and started cutting at the golden scales on the tail.
"What material is this? Is it worth anything if I scrape it off? Tsk, it doesn't look like gold. Could it be the raw material for making props?"
“…”
Bai Jin opened his mouth, not knowing how to persuade him.
How can there be such greedy humans?
Even your own scales are not spared?
Fearing that Xu Zhiyan would really scratch himself to become a bald-tailed fish in order to sell the fish scales for money, Bai Jin sulked and snatched the other party's weapon, covered the fish tail with his coat, picked him up and walked towards the window.
How abominable!
What would the other party do without me?
Holding the heavy mermaid in his arms, Bai Jin's face couldn't help but feel a little hot.
In the live broadcast room, the audience who had just been cursing the censoring of Xu Zhiyan's transformation into a mermaid, after heatedly discussing the golden fish tail, looked at each other's actions and fell silent.
[…Xiao Baiwan is really cruel. ]
[Hiss——When he pinched me, my waist turned blue. Holy shit!]
[Being cruel to others and to yourself, you are not hypocritical at all! ? ]
[I am dying of laughter. Help me. Should I say that he is worthy of being a small millionaire? He even spared his own fish scales. ]
【Hahahahahahahahaha, drop a pearl.】
【Xiao Baiwan: Lost! 】
[Haha, he really felt that he was at a disadvantage. I couldn't help laughing. His expression was not very good.]
[But, why is Xiao Baiwan's painting style different from others? 】
[Yes, look at what we have become, each one more disgusting than the other.]
[I originally thought that if Xiao Baiwan turned into a monster, this young master would definitely be scared away. Wow, this beauty is super doubled! This young master is already confused by the fragrance! ]
[Let me correct you, the young master has already fainted from the fragrance. ]
[Is Xiao Baiwan the only fish? Has anyone watched it in other live broadcast rooms? ]
[I saw it, it is really ugly, but any of them is better than Xiao Baiwan's restrictive action. ]
All players received a three-hour survival mission at the same time.
Among them, Enli and Shen Zhen changed the fastest.
Chen Zhen's two legs turned into two huge octopus tentacles, surrounded by a circle of small tentacles. They looked underdeveloped. She was very frustrated by this lame look, but after trying it, she found that these two tentacles were very useful.
Not only can it walk, but it also has a high attack power. If you encounter a monster while hiding on the road, you can easily knock it out.
Enli's appearance changed slightly. A thick fin grew on his back, and the teeth in his mouth turned into five rows of sharp shark teeth.
It took less than ten minutes from the time the pain started to the time the changes ended for both of them.
As the only three people in the casino who did not lose money, the reduction in mutation losses allowed the two to quickly get into the state after the survival time began.
But other players were not so lucky.
[It seems that except for the mathematician and Shen Zhen, the mutation of others took a long time. I think there are people like Xiao Baiwan, who are unlucky and mutated in the crowd.]
[Ah, that player seems to be gone. I just saw that the number of people in the dungeon has decreased.]
[Yes, the mutation seemed to only give them ten minutes. After ten minutes, the crew started chasing them. From this point of view, it is better to win money. ]
[But we have to win...]
[SRDS, why did Xiao Baiwan take so long to mutate? ]
[…Is it because they won too much money? I think Enli’s previous analysis makes sense. Winning is not a good thing, so the unluckiest person must be the one who won the most.]
[Damn, this is too hard to grasp.]
[Oh wow! Recommend the male mother's live broadcast room! He has already started killing monsters! My new weapon is so cool! ]
In the dim corridor of the steam turbine.
Jiang Huai Que, with a head full of coral reefs, was holding a sickle in his hand. There were several corpses piled under his feet, all of whom were steam turbine workers.
These guys, who had just been chatting and laughing with him, taking money, receiving things and making promises, pounced on him almost the moment corals grew on his scalp, their faces full of desire, wanting to tear him apart and eat him.
He endured the headache, took out his weapon, and killed these not-so-strong guys with two swords, but he became nervous.
There are few people in the steam turbine, so it is relatively safe for him to hide here, but he doesn't know how his teammates are doing.
Just as he was wondering whether to go to the deck to look for his teammates, he heard disordered footsteps.
"Brother Jiang! Help!!!"
Jin Sheng held the dog in his left hand and the money in his right hand. A row of kelp suddenly appeared behind him, fluttering in the wind driven by the running air current. Behind him was a group of crew members who had chased down from the deck and rushed here.
"Fuck! Where the hell did you get so many monsters?"
Jiang Huaique widened his eyes and looked at the crowd of people behind Jin Sheng. His hand slipped and he almost dropped his weapon to the ground.
"I don't know either! There were only a few of them at the beginning, and I was thinking of finding a deserted place to kill them, but in a blink of an eye, there were so many of them! Why don't we run away together!" Jin Sheng felt bitter.
“Woof woof!”
Xiaoyi also agreed with his master's words. After only a few steps, there were nearly a hundred crew members following them.
"Run away like a duck!" Jiang Huaique was very disappointed with his friend.
He took a half step back with one foot, weighed the sickle in his hand, dodged Jin Sheng who was rushing towards him, and faced the hundreds of crew members with their mouths open and in strange shapes behind him.
Beads of sweat slid down the sides of his face, his expression was nervous and excited. He was wearing only ordinary coal burner's clothes, and his whole body was as gray as could be, but his meticulously groomed slicked back hair and the sharp blade of the Shadow of Death in his hand made him feel full of contradictions.
After stretching his arms, Jiang Huaiqie felt that his shirt was a bit of a hindrance, so he simply reached out and tore the already tattered fabric apart and threw it aside: "Tsk, this shirt is really hard to wear."
Looking at the group of monsters getting closer, he tightened his grip on the sickle handle.
Jin Sheng stopped and gasped. He thought that the skin of these monsters became very thick after the mutation, and ordinary weapons could not break through the defense, but the next second, as the blade of the Shadow of Death fell, the first monster that rushed up was cut in half.
“Shua——”
Blood splattered on the walls, on the ground, and on the scalding pipes, stirring up a puff of white steam.
Jin Sheng, whose face was splashed with blood, put down his hand. Only then did he remember that Jiang Huaique's new weapon doubled the attack against living creatures, and these monsters were all alive!
The insane crew seemed unable to feel pain.
They came one after another, completely controlled by their appetite, and completely unaware of their dead companions, or they saw them but didn't want to pay attention to them.
The sickle flew up and down, and Jiang Huai Que's nimble figure shuttled among the crowd.
The corridor was obviously not very spacious, but due to his precise control of the weapon, he seemed to be able to maneuver in it with ease.
The blade cut through flesh and blood, and cries of pain rang out.
Apart from the occasional clanging and sharp collisions caused by the crew members chopping off mutated shells and sending up a few sparks, there was no other sound.
With the smell of blood becoming increasingly heavier, these nearly one hundred mutated monsters became a pile of corpses.
Jiang Huaique was almost completely soaked in blood. He stood in the middle of a sea of blood and corpses, his chest rising and falling slightly.
"Not bad."
He glanced at the sickle that was still dripping with blood and suppressed the excitement in his heart.
The bonus of Shadow of Death doubling the attack power against living creatures is really useful in actual combat. After changing to new weapons, his personal combat power has at least tripled.
Behind him, Jin Sheng was holding the dog and stroking its head, with a sympathetic expression on his face.
It's not that he sympathizes with monsters.
But there were so many dead monsters that the blood in the corridor almost covered the tops of my shoes.
Compared to humans, Xiaoyi has a super strong sense of smell and was almost vomiting from the strong smell of blood.
"Woof... Ugh..."
"Just bear with it."
“Woof woof, woof, woof…”
In Jiang Huaique's live broadcast room, audiences kept shouting and screaming.
[Ah! I want a male mother, I want a male mother! ]
[Pectoral muscles! prprpr! ]
[What the hell is this opening scene with clothes being torn off! Okay, I admit that his little trick successfully attracted me! ]
[…The reason why the clothes were torn was because they couldn’t lift up the arms.]
[Is this the aesthetic of violence? Damn! Although there are no special skills, it is really fucking fun to watch! ]
[Alas, who would have thought that a man who is so brave in killing monsters can actually sew in private! ]
[Hehe, isn’t it good to be a male mother? ]
[Is that weapon drawn from a blind box machine? Damn, it’s so powerful! I won’t say more. I’ll go and draw a blind box later! 】
Different from the bloody scenes of Jiang Huai and Que Jinsheng, Xu Zhiyan's side actually seemed to be quite peaceful.
He was carried by Bai Jin and left the casino, taking a shortcut back to the room.
Because he was worried about the lack of water, Bai Jin went straight to the swimming pool after returning to the room.
He carefully placed the person at the edge of the pool and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that no one was chasing him.
This pool that had been idle for a long time finally came in handy.
He squatted by the pool, watching Xu Zhiyan move himself underwater little by little, hesitated for a moment and said, "I'll put you in the sea after the people on the deck leave. When you swim out of the black fog area, the changes in your body will disappear. Go to the dock and wait for me..."
Before he could finish his explanation, Xu Zhiyan moved around underwater for a few times, clung to the edge of the swimming pool, and said with a wry smile, "I'm afraid that won't work."
"Why? What else are you going to do on this ship..." Bai Jin looked confused, and the words he hadn't finished were stuck in his throat.
Because he watched Xu Zhiyan push the shore, lean back, twist his dazzling golden fish tail a few times, then give up struggling, and sink into the water with a peaceful look on his face.
Xu Zhiyan really wants to curse now.
It's fine if she can't walk, but this damn big tail is hard to control. What's a mermaid who can't swim! Second-level disability?
Bai Jin also discovered that Xu Zhiyan seemed unable to swim.
He was silent for a moment, unbuttoned and took off his shirt, then red-facedly went into the water to fish for the fish he had been eyeing.
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