Wen Qi dragged the living dead over here and asked, "Do you know anyone else?"

Chang Ba took a step forward, "Dongzi, Chunmei!" As he shouted, Chang Ba's eyes turned red, "What on earth happened to you? Why did you all get into trouble?"

Of course the zombie had no way to respond to him and could only instinctively stretch its neck to bite him.

Wen Qi asked, "How many people are there on the fishing boat that went out to sea from your village?"

Chang Ba wiped his tears and said, "Five, all dead." Four are here, plus the sixth one found on the beach before, making exactly five.

Wen Qi sighed, "Okay."

Chang Ba: "What happened to them?"

"They've turned into zombies." Wen Qi said, and then asked, "Have you searched the second floor?"

Chang Ba was shocked. Aren't zombies just from movies? At this moment, Feng Ce came over from the depths of the corridor, followed by three crew members. One of them looked very familiar. He was the second mate on the ship.

Wen Qi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, at least he didn't have to worry about how to get back to the island.

"We've got quite a lot of stuff." Feng Ce said, "We've probably searched the entire ship. Are there any other people on board?"

Wen Qi: "Take them all to our room." She looked at the second mate and said, "Can you bring me a few ice buckets? Preferably with lids."

The second mate didn't understand, but the thing the second floor had the most was ice buckets. He took two crew members back to the restaurant and soon came back with two ice buckets, two for each person.

Wen Qi thanked him and asked Chang Ba to empty the ice in the bucket. She tore off a piece of clothing from several villagers as a mark and tied it to the handle of the ice bucket.

"Let me help you." Feng Ce took the wet ice bucket and dried all the remaining water in the bucket.

Wen Qi pursed her lips and smiled, "Thank you." She really liked this kind of tacit understanding that did not require words.

The first bucket was Chunmei's. After sealing and drying it, Wen Qi lit a fire and burned Chunmei into ashes in a breath, and then put her properly into the human bucket.

The second one is Dongzi, the third one is Chengzi, and the last one is Lao Yu.

After covering the buckets, Wen Qi said, "Take them back to our room. No matter what they hear, don't come out."

The second mate looked at the captain and the crew, "What about them?"

Wen Qi blinked, "Can it be tied in an empty room, or is there an ice bucket?"

The second mate immediately said, "Yes! Wait a moment!"

After everything was done, Wen Qi and Feng Ce sent them back to the guest room, checked the doors and windows, and then they set up a layer of defensive barrier outside before slowly returning to the deck.

Wen Qi looked at the ghost ship in the distance and asked in confusion: "Why hasn't the monster hidden in the dark come out yet? Doesn't it realize that we have cleaned up everything on the ship?"

Feng Ce groaned and said, "Maybe it has already eaten its fill and went back. The living dead should not have been with it. The birth of the living dead was probably just an accident."

Wen Qi nodded when he heard this. It was indeed very likely, "But the fog around us hasn't dissipated yet." Doesn't this prove that the danger is not far away?

Feng Ce: "Let's go to that boat and take a look."

Wen Qi looked down along the railing. There was deep sea water below. The fishing boat was not far away from them, but it was still more than ten meters away. How could they get across?

Without waiting for any questions, Feng Ce raised his hands to hug her and whispered, "Close your eyes."

Wen Qi obediently closed his eyes and nervously grabbed Feng Ce's clothes with both hands.

The next second, her feet flew into the air and Feng Ce held her horizontally. After a few seconds, Feng Ce put her down again and said, "We're here."

Wen Qi opened her eyes and found that she was indeed standing on the fishing boat.

A fishing boat is much smaller than a cruise ship. Apart from the deck, it only has a small cabin. If there really is a monster there, it could only be... Wen Qi paused for a moment, looking at the large tangled mass of fishing nets beside the boat.

Just now...the fishing net seemed to move.

Wen Qi looked at Feng Ce uncertainly. As expected, the latter was also paying attention to the fishing net. She was certain in her heart and almost whispered, "It has become a ghost ship. The fish on the ship should not be able to survive, right?"

Feng Ce didn't say anything. He raised his hand and created a gust of wind. The piled up fishing nets were immediately blown away, revealing the contents of the nets: a black fish tail, a white human body, gills and sharp teeth on the face, and fins on the elbows.

Wen Qi gasped, "There really are mermaids in the sea!"

Feng Ce was obviously also confused. The underworld had not received the souls of any species other than humans, animals and plants for a very long time.

The mermaid in front of him was alive. He might have lived for a very long time, or he might have just been born. But no matter which one it was, it proved one thing: the spiritual energy of this world was beginning to revive.

Various things may happen in the next period of time.

There was a male mermaid in the fishing net. He was very good-looking, but his eyes were filled with animalistic intent, making him look more like a wild beast.

Wen Qi asked tentatively: "Hello? Can you understand me?"

The mermaid looked at her and opened her mouth to let out a series of melodious sounds.

Wen Qi looked confused. "Is he responding to me? What is he saying? Is it the language of the mermaids?"

Wen Qi frowned, "Can you understand?"

Feng Ce shook his head, "I've never come into contact with merpeople before."

Wen Qi sighed, "It's over. We can't communicate. How can we confirm whether it is a murderer?" After a pause, she asked, "Does the ancient books record what the temperament of mermaids is like? Will they attack humans?"

Feng Ce: "Mermaids are good at swimming. They can stir up huge waves and overturn passing ships. Mermaids are good at singing. Their singing can confuse the minds of humans."

"It doesn't sound like a good thing." Wen Qi hesitated and said, "What should I do? Kill him or not?"

"No... don't... kill me." A gentle and pleasant voice sounded.

Wen Qi looked over in surprise, "Can you speak?"

The mermaid nodded and looked at them pleadingly with her beautiful big eyes.

Feng Ce was completely unmoved and asked calmly, "Where did the souls of the people on the opposite boat go?"

The mermaid shook her head first, then nodded, "I... know, the seabed, the water monster."

Wen Qi frowned, "Water monster? What kind of water monster specializes in eating human souls?"

The mermaid shook her head again, "No, take it!"

Wen Qi understood for a moment, "The water monster extracted the soul of the man, but didn't eat it. So what did it do with it?"

The mermaid was unable to speak and wanted to gesture with his hands, but as soon as he moved, the densely packed small blades on the fishing net cut his body. He cried out in pain and blood flowed out of the wounds, turning into red gems on the ground.

Wen Qi then discovered that the mermaid's body was covered with these red beads. "Should we let it out first?" The fishing net somewhat hindered their communication.

Feng Ce naturally didn't believe in this mermaid. The records of mermaids in ancient books were all negative. Apart from their appearance, there was nothing good about them.

But it doesn't matter if he lets it go. It's just a mermaid, how can it cause such a big fuss? Feng Ce flicked his finger, and a wind blade went up from the fish's tail, sticking to the mermaid's body and scratching the top of its head before dissipating.

The whole process was very fast. Only when the wind blade dissipated did the fishing net smoothly separate to both sides, but the mermaid's skin was not even broken.

The merman looked at himself in shock, then looked at Feng Ce with a hint of fear in his eyes.

Feng Ce looked at it calmly and asked, "Go on."

I don’t know if it was frightened by Feng Ce’s move, but the mermaid had no intention of turning over and diving into the sea even though it was close to the side of the boat. Instead, it cooperated by gesturing with its hands.

It first made a circle, "Water monster, take, soul." It put its hands together, made a fusion gesture, and then made a bigger circle, "Powerful!"

Wen Qi understood that the water monster was a fusion of souls. The more souls merged, the stronger the water monster would become. She pondered and asked, "Then do you know what the water monster was originally?"

The mermaid was silent for two seconds and pointed at Feng Ce.

Wen Qi understood, "A man?"

The merman nodded and smiled at Wen Qi.

Wen Qi continued to ask: "How did the people on this ship encounter the water monster before?"

The mermaid spoke and gestured, and the general meaning was that the water monster was chasing him, wanting to extract his soul, but he ran too fast and accidentally bumped into a fishing net and was salvaged, and the water monster followed him up.

Wen Qi and Feng Ce both had a noncommittal attitude towards this statement. Compared with the water monster, the latter was more concerned about the current situation of the mermaids.

"Besides you, are there other mermaids?"

The mermaid paused, looked at Feng Ce expressionlessly, and climbed up the side of the boat with webbed hands, ready to flip over and jump off at any time.

Wen Qi smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, we have no ill intentions. It's just that the mermaids haven't appeared for a long time, and we want to learn more about them."

The mermaid hesitated for a moment and said, "Yes."

Feng Ce continued to ask: "According to ancient records, the mermaids have a long lifespan, and the longest-lived can live for a thousand years. How old are you this year?"

The mermaid thought for a long time, "Five or six hundred?" He himself was not sure, "I sleep for a long time."

Sure enough, he woke up from his sleep!

Feng Ce's eyes were deep, "Thank you, you can go now."

The mermaid breathed a sigh of relief, curved her eyes and smiled, then turned over and jumped into the sea. Then she surfaced, raised her hands and presented a huge pearl, "Thank you."

Wen Qi caught the fist-sized pearl and when she looked back into the sea, the mermaid had disappeared. She said, "This is too exaggerated."

Feng Ce: "Mermaids are good at cultivating water-repellent beads. This one should be it. Keep it well. Maybe it can be used in the future."

Wen Qi was surprised, and after thinking for a while, he put it in the zipper pocket of his clothes - the water monster has not been found yet, and maybe he will really have to go into the water later. (End of this chapter)