Chapter 916: Chapter 914: Sinister Mutation
"Wow! So satisfying... this food is really delicious! I used to only cook for myself at home and never ate outside, much less seen food like this."
Liu Xinzhi started eating cautiously but gradually became more indulgent. As a potential Fu Jiang, her appetite was immense, as if the ’sisters’ she had absorbed before all needed her feeding.
"Didn’t you say you used to run a roadside stall?" Mu’s voice came from under the umbrella.
"Ah~ did I... That’s right, so I did have some roadside fried rice, hehe."
Through this time spent with Liu Xinzhi, Mu vaguely discovered some issues. This seemingly naive woman was actually somewhat abnormal,
not just mentally unstable, but she also seemed to have some unspeakable secret, unlike all the women she had killed before.
Mu didn’t gobble down like this, but instead slowly brought food to her mouth with a fork while also feeding the umbrella in her hand.
During their meal, an anomaly suddenly emerged at the next table.
A short-haired woman in sportswear failed to notice the ’foreign object’ hidden among the food, a finger-sized piece of octopus.
As she swallowed the octopus, her whole body instantly froze where she sat.
Water continually gushed from her facial orifices as she collapsed to the floor, convulsing madly.
The banquet hall lights flickered as if interfered by something,
her abdomen gradually swelled, as if something was gestating within her and quickly developing from an embryo to a mature form, about to break out.
Pop!
The woman’s abdomen burst completely, spreading eight black, sticky octopus tentacles like petals; each tentacle resembled a petal, with suckers shaped like skulls.
As the ’petals’ unfurled, the ’stamen’ was about to appear.
A humanoid figure with an engorged head resembling that of an octopus climbed out, its face adorned with the woman’s skull, exposed as a ’face’, while its eight tentacles served as its ’hands’.
The Deep Sea Alien sprayed ink mist as soon as its skeletal face emerged, dispersing like fog in the air, making anyone who inhaled it up close dizzy and overwhelmingly drowsy.
Rumble rumble~ Suddenly, it started raining throughout the banquet hall.
The rainwater surprisingly suppressed the newly expanded mist,
Liu Xinzhi was just about to grasp Mu’s wrist but found that Mu, who had been nearby, vanished; in the next second, an umbrella pierced through the Deep Sea Alien’s head.
Aghh!
A miserable scream erupted from the creature’s mouth, as its tentacles wildly flailed around!
Just then, a woman over three meters tall approached in high heels, looking somehow even taller and more imposing than before, nearing a terrifying height of five meters.
Her massive hand directly grabbed the freshly hatched alien and made a pitching motion.
Smack!
The alien, smashed against the side wall, burst open like a balloon, the sprayed black ink forming graffiti of a skull on the wall.
The banquet hall, with unstable voltage, returned to normal.
The short-haired athlete girl, whose abdomen had ruptured, was thoroughly dead, her energy drained completely by the gestation of the alien, not even a potential Fu Jiang could recover from this.
This sudden change left many in shock and fear,
while some, like Mu and the towering woman, showed smiles, both enjoying the monster’s slaughter and happy to reduce a competitor.
However, there was one person’s reaction that was different from the others.
While everyone remained vigilant that the monster might not be completely dead, or its body might still regenerate, a female figure had already approached and began devouring the corpse pieces.
With no regard for potential risks.
When Mu, under the umbrella, saw the woman gnawing at the alien’s corpse, she almost screamed.
Indeed, it was Liu Xinzhi, fearlessly consuming the Deep Sea Alien, seemingly uncaring as she ate the alien flesh, feeling her body subtly transforming in the process.
"Liu Xinzhi... What are you doing?"
Mu immediately approached, right hand gripping the umbrella handle tightly, ready to pierce her skull if anything unusual occurred.
Mouth stained black, Liu Xinzhi turned with a cheerful grin, "Sister Mu, I’m eating, can’t you tell?"
"Aren’t you afraid of ending up like that person just now?"
"What’s there to be afraid of? Dying instantly is far more comfortable than dying slowly! Look at her, she had a smile on her face, indicating she was happy during labor... so it’s okay if I eat a bit.
The main thing is, you all are so powerful, if I do nothing, I definitely can’t win the championship in the end, nor can I stay with Mr. Yi for long."
For some reason, Mu sensed danger in Liu Xinzhi, not because of her strength, but a potential danger.
In the darkest corner of the banquet hall, a humanoid shadow silently observed everything.
...
The banquet on the cruise ship would continue until docking, with various entertainment areas available, including saunas, hot springs, massage rooms, and movie theaters.
There were 18 hours left until they reached the shore,
Liu Xinzhi, staying in the banquet hall, was already feeling bored, yawning repeatedly.
"Sister Mu, why don’t we return to the cabin and get Mr. Yi out to enjoy the hot springs or something together~ I can’t eat anymore, so boring! I feel like if I don’t see Mr. Yi soon, I might fall asleep."
"Let’s go."
"Hooray!"
On the way back, Liu Xinzhi stayed entirely under the umbrella, as if to escape.
With strange rules and the prohibition against sleeping, not many people returned to their rooms, making the passage quite deserted, with even a frigid sea breeze flowing through the corridor, chilling Liu Xinzhi to the bone.
Liu Xinzhi was trying to recall the room number and door structure to avoid opening the wrong door later.
However, before they could reach the room, something strange occurred.
Walking down the corridor, they unexpectedly found one of the cabins unlocked, its slightly ajar door allowing a glimpse of the inside.
Mu, as a murderer, instinctively pushed the cabin door open.
Two women, resembling twins with tear-shaped moles at the corners of their eyes, were hung by a peculiar rope, already completely dead inside the room.
Everyone on the ship was an exceptional individual, capable of infinite resurrection even after multiple dismemberments, yet here they died just from hanging.
This aura of death reminded Mu of someone, feeling the same deathly presence as when she was decapitated on the bus.
"Is Mr. Yi killing? Could it be he’s not a participant and doesn’t follow the rules?"
Seeing the hanging scene, Liu Xinzhi smiled, "Is it truly Mr. Yi’s masterpiece? So beautiful! If my ultimate fate is also to be hanged by Mr. Yi, perhaps that wouldn’t be so bad."
Mu didn’t comment further, nor did she rush inside.
The two women continued down the corridor, hoping to clarify the situation by seeing Mr. Yi in their room.
However, after turning a corner, they found another cabin with its door open, a corpse hanging from the ceiling fan also dead inside.
Then in the next three rooms, one or two hanged dead were found.
Mu, seeing so much of this scene, couldn’t help but touch her neck, feeling as if she were also strangled and unable to breathe.
Meanwhile, the cruise ship’s broadcast sounded:
"Ladies, I’m sorry to inform you! Due to the ship’s survival number dropping below 80%, the monster lurking in the deep sea has begun to surface.
With over ten hours left until reaching the coast, you likely won’t survive until then.
I, as the host, also regret this and offer you two suggestions:
1. Unite and try to fend off the sea monster, though the chances are slim.
2. Forget everything and enjoy this apocalypse party to its fullest! After all, the entire ship will accompany you to the grave."