Raj is not a brave man, but he is very smart. He asked in surprise: "Why haven't you gotten on the lifeboat yet?"

"Lifeboat? Oh my God, what happened?" The screenwriter was carrying a suitcase and had a bruise on his forehead. He was even more surprised than him. "When I woke up, I heard that the ship was going to sink and we were asked to gather. When I went upstairs, something hit me for no reason and I sprained my foot. Why do I have to go to the lifeboat now? Is the ship going to capsize?"

He didn't know what was going on in his mind and was suddenly terrified: "Titanic? Are there icebergs here too?"

Raj was about to explain when he suddenly felt a vibration above his head and debris from the floor fell.

Turning his head, a thick and strong tentacle pierced through his head and stuck to his face accurately.

Raji was so scared that his legs went weak and he could hardly stand.

Andre had a strong psychological quality. He picked up the oil in his hand and splashed it over, then lit a lighter and threw it over.

The burning force of oil is not comparable to that of wood and cloth. The tentacle was frightened and retracted, hiding behind the fire wall and looking around. After a while, it seemed to have found a way. Its tail drilled through the floor, bypassed the burning ground, and broke out from the other side. It

was a step too late.

Andre grabbed the screenwriter like a chicken, and ran down the stairs with the panicked Raji.

"I'm so scared, so scared." Raj was still in shock. "I'm not going to do it anymore. Why should I take such a risk? I'm not going to do it anymore. Let's go to the stern. There's a lifeboat there."

He looked for support: "Are you going?"

The screenwriter nodded quickly.

Raj looked at Andre, but he shook his head: "I'll go help Jane."

The two said goodbye.

The screenwriter grabbed Raj, his face pale: "What's going on? What is that monster? Oh my God, is there really a giant squid?"

"Ask me, I don't know!" Raj was angry, "Let's get out of here quickly."

The two rushed to the stern.

Fortunately, they didn't encounter any monsters along the way.

But the lifeboat was gone.

The cruise ship's lifeboats can carry 30 people, with a total of 8, and 5 life rafts, which should be enough for the people on the ship.

But now looking around, there is only 1 life raft left.

The two of them hurriedly put down the life raft and floated on the sea with the waves.

The heavy rain hit their bodies, cold and painful.

An orange-red life raft tried to approach. It was Jiang Baiyan and others sitting on it. They asked in a flurry: "Where are the others? Should we stay away?"

Raj hesitated, but still said: "No, they are still on it."

"Where is the monster?" Zhang Xueer asked, "Is it still on the boat?"

"This life raft is left for you guys..." Jin Lan'er hesitated to speak.

Kojima was more direct: "You guys come down, what about the others?"

There is no room for politeness at a life-and-death moment. Raj said mercilessly: "If you are worried, you should stay. I helped after all. What qualifications do you have to blame me?"

The others were choked.

Jiang Baiyan said: "Without the life raft we grabbed, you can't get down now."

Raj looked at him and said nothing.

The wind was carrying the big raindrops, hitting the small life raft violently.

"You are only two people sitting, it's too easy to be pushed away by the waves." Jiang Baiyan seemed to forget the contradiction and worried about them, "Let's divide you up and make it more even." Kojima Wataru

said: "I'll go over." He did it as soon as he said it. Without waiting for Raj and the others to react, he grabbed the life raft and flipped over.

Liu Xiuzhi hesitated and went over.

Ishikawa Keito was the third one.

Zhang Xueer, Jin Laner and Valeria looked at each other and saw vigilance in each other's eyes.

None of them spoke.

After a few minutes, Zhang Xueer couldn't help but speak, her voice trembling slightly: "Is the ship going to capsize?"

On the dark sea, the cruise ship was obviously tilted to the left, and the seawater had already poured into the third floor and continued to spread to the upper floors.

On the upper floor on the left side, the glass windows were pierced, and thick tentacles stretched out from the windows, like an octopus stretching its waist, firmly grasping the top of the cruise ship.

It was incredibly heavy, and it happened to grow on the upper floors. The cruise ship was inevitably overturned by its weight and fell further into the sea.

However, just when everyone was worried about this, fearing that it would sink the ship, something unexpected happened. It felt the center of gravity shift, and the windows on the right were all broken. The flexible tentacles rushed out and stuck to the starboard side of the cruise ship.

The cruise ship's sinking momentum stopped.

"Huh..." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The rain curtains were dense.

More and more tentacles popped out, and they were entangled on the top of the cruise ship in a dark mass. From a distance, they looked like earthworms wrapped in a layer of grease, tangled in a mass, disgusting and terrifying.

"What on earth is this thing?" Jin Lan'er couldn't help asking, "A deep-sea monster?"

Kojima Wataru said, "More like an evil god."

"God?" Ishikawa Keito's face was full of disbelief, "Is this the god who controls the sea?"

"It's not Mitsumi, it refers to the fictional evil god in the Cthulhu mythology." Kojima Wataru explained, "It was created by the American novelist Lovecraft. The pronunciation of its name is similar to 'Cthulhu Fortan'. It is sleeping in the Pacific Ocean. Its prototype is an octopus and a bat, but it actually comes from outer space."

Jin Lan'er was dumbfounded: "So, the fictional evil god in the novel is real?"

Kojima Wataru shook his head slightly: "I don't believe there are gods in the world. It should be a new species that has not yet been discovered in the deep sea. As far as I know, deep-sea creatures have a terrifying appearance due to the environment. This is because they evolved to adapt to the pressure of the seabed."

"No, God exists." The screenwriter retorted, "You haven't seen it, so you can't deny that it doesn't exist."

Jiang Baiyan asked, "Have you seen it?"

The screenwriter answered reflexively, "A God that can be easily seen is not a God."

However, Jiang Baiyan did not play by the rules: "I have seen it."

The others looked at him in surprise.

"The gods in human mythology are humans, because humans cannot imagine things beyond cognition. Perhaps, the real gods are beyond imagination." He looked into the distance and suddenly asked, "The question is, who summoned the gods?"

The wind and rain roared, and no one answered.

Andre came back alone, and he was not too surprised by the simplicity and silence.

Their group of people who set the bait had completed the preparations and threw a lot of raw meat on the stairs, leading all the way to the oil warehouse below.

But at this moment, the ship sank sharply to the left, and after a while, it slowly fell to the right.

Kumiko Terauchi pressed against the corner of the wall: "What happened?"

"The monster is moving." Wu Lie said, "Is it coming down?"

It was raining heavily outside, and the sound of rain and wind and waves almost covered everything. Jian Jing put her hand on the wall and used the five senses card to carefully feel the vibration of the ship.

After a moment, she said, "No, it's still there and it's not moving."

The others also closed their eyes and listened. Sure enough, after the cruise ship slowly regained its balance, there was silence and only the sound of rain outside could be heard.

It was quiet, too quiet.

Everyone's nerves unconsciously tensed up, their hearts pounded and almost burst out of their chests. Park Min-chul took a deep breath and tried his best to stay calm: "What should we do now?"

"Is it full?" Wu Lie whispered, "Animals will become less aggressive after eating. For example, snakes will find a place to slowly digest."

Jian Jing nodded slowly, without much hesitation: "If Shan doesn't come over, I will go over. How much oil is left?"

"Quite a lot." Andre suggested, "Sprinkle the oil, I can find a suitable place to start a fire. There will be no problem within 70 meters. It's much safer than your adventure."

Although the red and white lighter can be controlled remotely, it is best to avoid exposing props. Jian Jing immediately agreed: "I remember there is flour in the kitchen, we can sprinkle some of this."

Because the monster was resting temporarily, the process went very smoothly. After a while, the sixth floor was filled with oil and a large amount of flour was sprinkled in the room.

But there was nothing they could do about the floors above, as the corridors and rooms were so crowded with newly grown tentacles that they could not get in.

However, when pouring the oil, Kumiko Terauchi discovered the drone that the crew had left behind.

"Good stuff." Jian Jing immediately started to operate it, tied it to the fuel barrel, and flew it up to pour the oil.

The wind was very strong, and the drone flew crookedly, as if it would be blown into the sea at any time.

Jian Jing did not dare to let it fly for too long, and almost released the switch, letting the fuel barrel fall freely. And this little movement unexpectedly attracted an attack from the tentacles.

A tentacle shot out like an arrow, and the tip instantly pierced the plastic barrel.

Fuel was spilled all over her.

Jian Jing cheered secretly, but saw that the monster seemed to be aware of the power of fuel. Another tentacle chopped down, cut off the tentacle that was stained with oil, and threw it into the sea.

She took a breath and said, "We have to act quickly. Its wisdom is increasing rapidly. It has already known that oil is not a good thing."

Several people sped up.

Jian Jing tried to identify the pictures sent by the drone.

The monster was mainly entrenched in the bow part, which corresponds to the location of the cinema on the ninth floor. There were obviously not so many tentacles at the stern. Moreover, although there were a large number of tentacles on the top floor, there was no part similar to the main body.

She wanted to control the drone to fly to the front and take a closer look, but the tentacles had already been alerted to the moving drone, and raised another tentacle and directly penetrated the machine.

The screen paused.

Jian Jing threw away the drone and sped up to clear the way: "Let's go to the stern." After playing the game for a few days, she had already figured out the terrain of the cruise ship. "There are fewer tentacles there, and there are stairs to walk on."

The others nodded.

In order not to alarm the monsters, they moved as lightly as possible, climbing the stairs from the side of the ship on the sixth floor to the seventh floor.

The deck could not be reached because it was blocked by tentacles.

Jian Jing climbed up one floor to look and confirmed that there were no lifeboats.

"They are there." Kumiko Terauchi was sharp-eyed and saw the flashing white light on the sea. Someone must have turned on the flashlight on a mobile phone and was signaling to them.

Wu Lie: "Ignite it?"

"No, we have to stay away." Andre said, "The monster will make a big move, and the ship will probably sink. Then the suction will suck us all to the bottom of the sea."

Jian Jing: "That's easy, let's make a fuse."

She tore down the curtains and condensed them into a rope, then said: "You go down first, I'll go up and release it, and Andre will ignite it remotely after everyone retreats."

Terauchi Kumiko: "OK."

Jian Jing tied the long strip of cloth around herself and continued to climb around the hull. This must be done very carefully so as not to alarm the dormant tentacles.

She carefully chose for a long time before finding the right place, tied a knot at the front end of the cloth, turned on the aiming card, and threw it into the room. It

hit a pool of fuel.

Perfect.

"Retreat!" She jumped down.

The others used ropes to quickly descend to the sea surface.

The first was Terauchi Kumiko, the second was Park Min-cheol, the third was Mu Yeol, and the fourth was Andre.

When he went down, Jian Jing lit the arrow before handing it to him: "Be careful."

Andre thought she was afraid that it would be difficult to light the arrow in the rain, so he carefully held the flame before going down. Mu Yeol and Park Min-cheol helped adjust the position of the life raft and caught him safely.

The flame was weak, but it did not go out.

Andre breathed a sigh of relief, took out the bow he carried with him, put on the lit arrow, and his face was covered with sweat. He didn't know whether it was rain or sweat: "Too bad, the environment is worse than I thought."

"What's wrong?" The others asked nervously.

"The wind and rain will seriously affect my hit rate, and the bow and arrow are damp." He gritted his teeth, "Jane, come down quickly, we can't wait any longer."

Jian Jing didn't hear it, but she felt that there was nothing she could do, so she fell into the sea along the rope.

Jiang Baiyan pulled her up.

At the same time, Andre shot a burning arrow.

The arrow swayed in the wind and rain, and everyone's heart was hanging high.

"Swoosh", the flame of the arrow accurately burned the cloth strip.

The cloth soaked in strong liquor immediately caught fire, and the red light was extremely dazzling in the dark night.

"Yeah." Andre couldn't help but cheer and rowed the boat quickly, "Get out of here."

Without him saying anything, everyone had already worked together to row the life raft. Those who had oars used oars, and those who didn't used their hands. At the critical moment of life and death, no one would spare any effort.

But at this moment, Kumiko Terauchi screamed, "It's on fire!"