Chapter 111: On the island

The corner of the dim hexagonal magic array lit up as the largest bats in the sky were shot down by the umbrella, and the silhouette of a black bat jumped on it.

At the same time, the quest prompt has also been changed, from the original:

Task?? Completion: 2000 points, changed to:

Kill Mutant Creature: Bat (Quest Progress: 19%).

Mission Complete: 2000 points.

This subconscious hint made Song Qingxiao feel a little surprised.

Her act of killing bats was just a casual act, and the rain was so heavy that most of the whirling bats in the sky were knocked into the sea, but only a few were still struggling to hold on.

The remaining bats were much larger and more muscular than before, so they could barely hold on to such a storm, and she was only temporary, but she didn't expect such a gain.

From this time to the mission scene of entering the trial space to the present, the task prompt has not been triggered, she thought that this time she was afraid that she would have to go to the island, and the death of the trialist would start this official mission, but she was about to go to the island at this time, but she was given such a surprise.

The other trialists couldn't hide their joy, and it was obvious that everyone had already noticed the task prompt at the first time.

Everyone glanced at each other, and everyone was relieved a lot.

With the clarity of the mission prompts, no matter what the possible choices of the previous mission were, it is certain that everyone only needs to kill other mutated creatures that meet the requirements of the trial space according to the clues, so that the hexagonal magic array will be lit up, and then the gate to leave this place will be opened.

On the boat, Mr. Zhou didn't know what the trialists were thinking at this moment, and he was still shouting hoarsely to turn the rudder, trying to lower the speed of the ship.

The wind blew stronger and stronger, and the waves came in waves, and in the 'booming' thunder, it seemed as if the ship was about to be swallowed by the sea.

The wave was so high that the boat was bouncing on the crest.

The sea carried the bats floating on the surface of the sea, and some of them hit the edge of the ship directly, making a sound that was no less than thunder.

At this time, the people on the ship have to face not only the harm of those animals that have been genetically mutated under human intervention, but also the natural disasters in front of them.

The rain fell heavier, making a 'crackling' sound on people's bodies, causing a dull pain in the skin.

Everyone grabbed the handrails fixed on the ship to avoid falling and injuring themselves in such an environment.

In the sound of the bats, except for the people inside the cabin who were still trembling and shouting 'help', no one on the deck dared to speak, and everyone looked for a fixed place to live in, praying that the storm would stop.

I don't know if the seafarers hired by Mr. Zhou to pilot the ship were very skilled, or because everyone was lucky, the ship was still holding strong after the waves were bumpy for about ten minutes, although there were several dangers.

The thunder gradually became quieter, and the storm came and went quickly.

Song Qingxiao's hand was still holding on to a fixed pure steel handrail outside the cabin, and he didn't dare to let go at all, after the boat was thrown high by the waves, it fell down with a 'boom'.

Her body was also vacated in this ups and downs, and then fell down with a 'snap', and after several times, if it wasn't for her good physical fitness, I'm afraid that her bones would fall apart at this time.

The performance of Mr. Zhou and the others next to him was similar, and there was the sound of 'clanging bells' items falling to the ground and the sound of everyone falling and being thrown high in the cabin, but no one dared to get up rashly to check at this time.

Perhaps because of a torrential rain, the dark clouds dispersed a little, and everyone's eyes were accustomed to the dark sky in front of them, and they could vaguely see some distant shadows.

What made everyone uneasy was that after this toss, the faintly visible shadow of the island in everyone's sight before had become closer and closer.

No matter how much Mr. Zhou tried to keep the ship from coming to shore so quickly, he still failed in the face of the threat of nature.

"If it goes on like this, I'm afraid it will be ...... at most"

A crew member with a hand clutching the handrail squinted into the distance and was about to speak, when suddenly a strange voice rang out.

The sound was strange, like something splitting the sea, accompanied by a sound similar to breathing and the rolling of the sea.

"Shh

Zhou Xueli's expression was full, compared to a silent gesture, the crew instinctively closed their mouths, and quieted down, except for the sound of rain and cries for help that was still falling, and the crawling sound of the remnants of bats, the strange sound became clearer, as if it was getting closer and closer to the direction of the ship.

The voice felt bad, as if it was a sign of a new crisis.

For the past two days, the people on the boat have been physically and mentally exhausted, and yesterday they first caught strange fish, then they encountered a flock of seabirds, then they were attacked by a swarm of bats, and then this storm.

It didn't take long for me to feel like something was coming.

At this time, no one was willing to stand up and find out what it was, and many did not even have the courage to look up.

Many people sat by the boat, bent their knees, buried their heads in their knees, and muttered words in their mouths.

Under the sound of the large sea current, Song Qingxiao endured the hairy feeling in her heart and instinctively looked at the sea.

There were also a large number of bats floating on the surface of the sea, and there were so many of them that they were blown away by the previous violent storms, giving the illusion that the entire sea was covered with bats.

The sea was not calm after the storm, Song Qingxiao endured the feeling of anxiety, and his eyes turned around the sea level, but he didn't find anything unusual.

But the feeling of oppression in her heart did not disappear, and she could feel something under the sea stirring up an undercurrent.

She stared at the sea with wide eyes, and even tried to stand up with the handrail in order to see more clearly.

The other trialists had similar thoughts to hers, but they couldn't see much around them, except for the dim lights on the ship, they could only see a vague approximation everywhere they looked.

When everyone was feeling creepy, suddenly Seven spoke loudly:

"Look over there!"

Her bloodline is strange and she has the ability to transform, so she should have a certain advantage over other trialists in terms of eyesight, she reached out and pointed as she spoke.

Maybe she saw something terrible, at this time the voice changed a little, everyone subconsciously followed her gesture to look, and saw that in the darkness, a mountain-like behemoth emerged from the sea, opened a large mouth full of jagged blood, the whistling sea water flowed into its mouth, and the bat corpse floating on the sea surface was swallowed by it in one gulp.

Even if it is not very real, just looking at it is enough to make people unforgettable.

The true face of this thing is not very clear, but from the movement it causes and the shadow, it is definitely not a good thing.

The sound that everyone heard before should be the sound it made in the process of swallowing.

Song Qingxiao's previous worst concern finally happened.

A large number of bats attacked ships and people, and the blood that flowed out after the casualties and the carcasses of bats that fell into the sea finally attracted the predators of the sea.

It came quickly, diving out of the water every ten seconds, forming a small whirlpool every time it opened its mouth, devouring the bats on the sea, and each time it appeared, it was closer to the boat.

"Open the boat, open the boat!"

No. 7's face changed drastically, and he suddenly shouted loudly:

"Turn the rudder, go to the island!"

Although there are many bats in the ocean, I am afraid that for this thing, it can only be regarded as an appetizer, and its real target is probably towards the ship.

Mr. Zhou, who had been dazed by the previous storm, had ordered the seafarers operating the ship to sail against the current in order to delay the arrival on the island, and the ship had been in a confrontation with the direction of the wind, but this confrontation had not had much effect, and was still in the process of being pushed towards the coast.

No. 7 suddenly spoke, leaving Mr. Zhou and the others confused, and she didn't have time to explain, the strange voice came closer.

When the hill-like predator resurfaced, it was no more than a hundred meters away from the ship, and at most a few ups and downs, it was about to catch up with the ship.

"Turn the rudder, go to the island, something is coming."

Seven's jaw tightened as she spoke, and many of her words broke down a bit.

At this time, everyone is like a frightened bird, the slightest movement is enough to make people frightened, and when they hear that something is coming, many people are dispossessed.

"Pack up what you need to prepare, it's time to go ashore."

Song Qingxiao also moved his hands and feet, everyone was actually quite worried in their hearts, No. 7 stared at the water, Mr. Zhou and the others were already panicking:

"Instruments, Medicines, Maps, ......"

"Firearms, explosives, ......"

He gave some slurred orders, and the others hurried into the cabin.

The ship turned its rudder in a hurry, which made Song Qingxiao feel strange that in such a panicked situation, Mr. Zhou also entered the cabin with the support of Zhou Xueli.

After the blow of the previous storm, the ship heard that many things had been broken, and Mr. Zhou, as the organizer of this operation, was protected by everyone, and it stands to reason that there was nothing he did not need to go into the cabin to get it himself.

No. 7 made it very clear that there was already danger coming to this side of the ship, in order to escape, the ship was trying to get to the shore, at this time Mr. Zhou should only need to tell others to bring what should be brought, what is the need for him to go into the cabin to get it in person under such circumstances?

She was still thinking about this thought, and Seven, who had been staring at the sea, suddenly leaned over, with a somewhat serious expression:

"Here we are."

Song Qing was cautious, threw out the superfluous thoughts in his mind, and followed the gaze of No. 7, and sure enough, he saw the creature that was still a hundred and ten meters away before, and it was already very close to the ship at this time.

Thanks to the wind, the ship turned halfway, but the speed was no match for the speed of the monster.

It should have sensed that it was getting closer and closer to the ship, and the behemoth didn't even eat the bats on the surface of the sea, and dived directly into the water, this time for nearly twenty or thirty seconds without surfacing the surface.

This situation made everyone unhappy and worried, everyone's mood plummeted, Mr. Zhou and others were still in the cabin and did not come out, and No. 7 was so nervous that he was even a little disturbed in breathing.

Regardless of whether they are trialists with magical abilities or not, but everyone's little ability, in front of such a behemoth, there is not much room for resistance.

"Are they hiding? Think you can hide? ”

Probably to ease the somewhat tense atmosphere of the scene, Number Seven suddenly opened his mouth to say something as if he was joking.

Song Qingxiao didn't make a sound, and the next second he heard a loud 'bang', as if something had hit the bottom of the cabin, and with great force, he almost pushed the boat out of the water!

'Ah......h

The screams came and went, and the workers were almost panicked by this time.

After the boat was jacked up, it fell into the water again with a 'bang', which made Song Qingxiao's hands and feet cold, and it was difficult to speak at all.

Seven even had his arms in the form of animals, holding the handrails firmly, and his long nails had even scratched a mark on the cabin.

Thanks to this gift, the boat, which was still slowly spinning in circles, turned around after falling into the water.

With the bonus of wind speed, coupled with the fact that the speed of the ship has been driven to the maximum, it is like flying, and it suddenly widens some distance from the behemoth.

The ship got closer and closer to the island, but the monster did not relax, but increased its speed, and after a second time, a loud 'bell' sounded from the stern of the ship again.

If it was damaged by a meteorite, the hull of the ship shook heavily.

There were heavily armed bodyguards and shipwrights coming out of the cabin one after another, and it was no longer wise to stay on board at this time.

Then there was a series of thumps, and the tail of the second half of the ship was lifted up by something invisible at the bottom of the sea, which seemed to be about to flip the top of the ship and shake the people on board into the sea.

"Hurry up, hurry up ......"

Young man number six kept muttering, even if it didn't work.

Under such a dense attack, the ship could not support for long, and the island was getting closer and closer, and no one thought that the island, which was to be avoided at this time, would become a place of escape for everyone who wanted to reach quickly.

The sound of 'banging' was endless, some people had already begun to read prayers, and someone in the boat dragged out boxes of supplies, which Mr. Zhou had expected to be carried into the island one after another in an orderly manner after arriving at the island.

"Let's take some of them."

Zhou Xueli, who had been following Mr. Zhou, came out alone for some reason, her expression was a little embarrassed, obviously the impact of the submarine monster earlier had made her suffer enough when she walked around the cabin.

"Bring everything you can."

Because of the proximity to the island, the supplies and dry food have been prepared for a long time, and the boxes are filled with neatly arranged weapons, and the ammunition clips are all prepared and placed on one side.

Song Qingxiao didn't say a word, she first carried a backpack with food, water and medical supplies on her body, although she didn't know how to shoot, she still held a gun in her hand, these things were not only to deal with the crisis on the island, but also to deter fellow trialists.

The sound of 'bang, bang, bang' sounded at the same time, and the ship was already making a 'creak' sound of imminent disintegration under such a dense impact.

Zhou Xueli's expression was a little solemn, with an anxious look in her eyes, looking at the island that was getting closer and closer, and in a few seconds, her pale face was soaked with sweat, she licked her lips several times, only to hear a 'bang' in the sound of a bang, and a place at the back of the boat 'clanged' and sunken in.

Some glass shards fell into the sea, and the sea water was stirred by the monsters in the sea, and large splashes splashed into the ship.

I don't know if I noticed that the effect of slapping the ship like this was not obvious, but I heard the sound of breaking the water, and the monster seemed to have burrowed out of the sea, and a sharp sound sounded.

It seemed like the screeching sound of a blade slashing across the surface of a hard object, as if the monster was trying to open its mouth to bite the ship, but it must have failed.

But this sound made many people subconsciously shrink their shoulders and try to cover their ears.

"Mr. Zhou......"

Zhou Xueli's face turned whiter, everyone was ready, except for some people in the cabin who couldn't come out because of the previous fire, the hatch door was welded, everyone who should have come out came out, but Mr. Zhou still didn't see his whereabouts.

The monster didn't know what it was doing, but it pushed the ship forward for nearly a dozen meters.

The island is much closer, only about 100 meters away.

"Mr. Zhou......"

Zhou Xueli shouted loudly into the cabin, but Mr. Zhou did not answer her.

And the second creepy sound of a creepy scraping across the hull sounded again, and with a 'click' sound, the ship moved forward like an arrow from a string.

"What the hell is it doing?"

The man in the suit also learned from Mr. Zhou's bodyguard, fully armed, and he was afraid that he couldn't bear this invisible sense of fear and pressure in his heart, so he couldn't help but ask.

But for a moment no one spoke, and the man in the suit tried to vent this panic with a foul mouth:

"Damn, is this monster trying to send us to the island?"

"It's not trying to get us on the island."

Song Qingxiao opened her mouth with a pale face, when she spoke, the voice sounded again, after careful distinction, it sounded like the hull of the ship had been scraped out of the dent marks, because everyone could feel that the inside of the ship seemed to be flooding, and the lower part was already beginning to sink, although it advanced a distance of more than ten meters under the blessing of the monster's power, but once this momentum stopped, the speed of the ship slowed down a lot.

"It's probably trying to bite the boat and pull us back into the sea."

In this vast sea, there is no way back before and after, and once you are pulled back to the sea, what will happen, everyone knows.

As soon as the man in the suit heard this, the sweat on his face became even more urgent.

Everyone trembled like chaff, and some of the boatmen who dared to step forward to take their equipment couldn't even grasp the guns in their hands.

When everyone heard the terrible scraping sound again, it was probably because of the influence of Song Qingxiao's words, and the more they listened to it, the more they felt that the sound was indeed like something biting the tail of the cabin, but it was just because the ship was too big and it was difficult to swallow for a while, so it made that kind of sound.

The boat was closer to the island, and the No. 2 woman, who had always been steady, couldn't help but speak:

"There should be forty or fifty meters away."

As soon as her voice fell, the bite sounded again, and the boat sped forward more than ten meters under the impetus of this force.

There are more than 30 meters left......

More than 20 meters......

"Mr. Zhou......"

The anxious look on Zhou Xueli's face was almost irrepressible, and she was about to turn around and enter the cabin again to look for Mr. Zhou, when Mr. Zhou, who had been called by her, finally appeared.

Like his fellow scientists, he carried a small silver work lockbox, which he screwed himself, without pretending to be someone else's hand.

The sound of 'click' came again, the stern of the boat was raised about half a meter high this time, the whole boat has been tilted back and forth very seriously, everyone's heart is about to jump to their throats, thinking that this time has been bitten by the creatures in the sea, about three or four seconds later, the sliding 'squeak' sound sounded again, the boat 'bang' fell into the water, splashed a large splash, and also slid forward again more than ten meters away, only ten meters away from the shore.

When the bite sounded again, the stern of the ship was bitten shut, and the hull had been badly damaged by the previous bites, and it did not slip again.

The stern of the boat was lifted higher and higher, and it slid in the direction of the shore for a few meters or so, almost standing up, something on the deck began to slide down, Song Qingxiao grabbed the handle with one hand, his body was close to the deck, his feet were hanging in the air, and the island was below.

"Let's count one, two, three, and let it go!"

The ship was rocking, and after being bitten by the faceless monster at the bottom of the sea, there was a faint intention to drag it to the deep sea.

In this case, Song Qingxiao took the lead in speaking, and everyone nodded.

"One ......"

"Two ......"

"Three!"

When she counted to three, everyone let go at the same time, and Song Qingxiao kicked the boat board with her little feet, and dropped down with her backpack and the gun she was holding in her hand.

In the sound of 'plopping', everyone landed on the flooded beach one after another, and some of the slower ones landed in the slightly deeper water, and they were desperately swimming here with their things.

At the same time, the ship began to retreat in the direction of the ocean under the bite of the monster.

It was slow at first, probably because of the proximity to the beach, which made it impossible for the monster to be unleashed, and then it got faster and faster.

"Help......"

"Help......

The shouts of 'help' on the ship continued, and it was clear that the people who remained in the cabin in such a situation had already sensed that something was wrong, and cried out even more desolate and helpless.

But as the huge sea creatures struggled to drag the boat into the deeper waters, the sound gradually became inaudible.

Even if it was against the wind, but in about ten seconds, the boat had already left the coast seventy or eighty meters away, and a long wave was dragged out of the back of the boat, as if it was a road of no return to the underworld.

"Thankfully, I jumped fast."

Someone said in the tone of the aftermath of the catastrophe, and desperately tried to climb up the coast.

In the sound of the sea crashing on the shore, the sound of 'help' can no longer be heard, and in the gray light of the early morning, the ship is still lit up, like a lighthouse, so that everyone can clearly see that the ship is already half of the draft, and I am afraid that it will sink in a short time.

"Are they not alive?"

Someone gasped and asked timidly.

There were many people left on the ship, and the fear of the bats made them afraid to come out before, and when the fire broke out, they blocked their way out, and they must have been doomed.

There were quite a few of them, plus the seafarers and hired workers on board, and I am afraid there were more than a dozen of them.

Such a large number of lives, but may be buried in the sea at the next moment, died in the mouth of the beast, which makes many people who have just escaped feel a sense of kinship.

"I can't care so much!"

Mr. Zhou gritted his teeth, he had a lot of injuries on his body, which were scratched when he jumped ship earlier.

He was supposed to be a pampered man, but in this case, he held back the pain, and carried the silver lockbox he had brought out of the boat:

"Put away the things nearby, find what you can use, take it with you, find a safe place to stay first, and wait until dawn!"

Mr. Zhou's voice trembled a little, with fear, oppression, and a little excitement in it.

A few scientists answered, and the bodyguards began to collect some of the supplies that had fallen on the beach, some of which were washed into the sea when they fell, but the rest should be enough.