Chapter 2: Falling into the Sea
Bow deck.
Several plastic baskets were scattered on the ground.
The sailor in the light yellow raincoat fell, his face full of panic, and he fled backwards with his hands and feet, shouting,
"There are ghosts, there are water ghosts on board!"
On the side of the ship in front of him, large swaths of dark green seaweed seemed to be brought to life and climbed up the fence, and in a short time a net of seaweed was formed, followed by several short figures in bamboo armor.
They're not so much crawling up the nets as they're being carried up to the deck by the seaweed.
In the light of the searchlight on the roof of the captain's cabin, these strange corpses that should have completely disappeared decades ago fell directly to the deck as soon as they crossed the fence, lying on the ground.
Woo~Woo~
In a trance, a strange cry was heard from the storm.
A gray-white fog rises between the rough waves.
After circling in the darkness for a few laps, he made a beeline for the corpse on the deck as if he had found his target.
The gray-white mist submerged through the cracks in the bamboo armor of the corpses, and it didn't take long for the corpses to suddenly tremble violently, and the joints of their limbs bent back in a strange posture, crawling up in a creepy sound of displacement of flesh and bones.
in the light.
The drooping head was raised, the face under the helmet was riddled with holes, and the gray-white mist was like worms weaving between the flesh pits.
These drowned bodies have been silent in the sea for decades.
Now awakened, some are only desperate for life, and plundering the vitality of others is the only way to fill their desires!
Even without weapons, the drowned bodies raised their arms and rushed towards the nearest sailor in the moment they could move, who had already been frightened by the horrific scene in front of them, and their legs went limp, and they could only watch the drowned attack.
Just as he closed his eyes in fright and waited for death, a hand suddenly reached out from behind him, grabbed the collar at the back of his neck and threw it away.
Turn your head to look over.
Yan Jing held a steel fork in his hand and wore a straight knife at his waist that he usually used to go to the sea to fish, and stepped forward.
Like a soldier on the battlefield, there is no advance or retreat!
His eyes were fixed on the drowned corpse in front of him, and there was no fear in his black and white eyes.
Since it is a novice event, then the strength of the enemy is absolutely limited, and there is no way to avoid it, so it will rise to the challenge.
In a few years, he stood out from a group of rough men who had been fighting at sea for many years and became the first mate of the fishing boat, Yan Jing did not cower in case of trouble, but must face difficulties first!
As the drowned ran in front of him, Yan Jing took a sharp step forward, and the steel fork plunged into the drowned's abdomen.
Drink~
Yan Jing shouted angrily, the muscles of his arms tensed, and the brute force that he had trained over the years of rough work and heavy work suddenly exploded, which actually made him take advantage of the momentum of the drowned charge to pick him up, turn around and throw it directly off the deck.
As soon as he turned around, he saw a drowning corpse in front of him being slashed in the neck by Zheng Sanshan, and he raised his foot and kicked it away.
The shipowner, who was over half a hundred years old, also showed remarkable courage at this time, and shouted loudly with a knife,
"What's the panic, there are eight water ghosts in total, there are more than 30 people on our boat, one person and one knife can cut them into sticks, this boat is where we stand, look around, there is no way to retreat, all give Lao Tzu to get weapons!"
"These corpses have no weapons, they are all gnawed, and there are many steel forks and iron rods on the boat, and a few of them will break their limbs with me, and then a few people will come up with two barrels of gasoline, and prepare to burn the seaweed."
The captain boosted morale, and Yan Jing quickly followed up and proposed a battle plan.
The two highest-ranking men on the ship took the lead, and the fear that should have permeated the many crew members was suppressed for a while, and people took harpoons and steel rods to join the battle.
The chaotic situation was barely stable, and Yan Jing took this opportunity to observe his enemies as well.
When he threw the corpse for the first time before, a prompt sound appeared in his mind, although it was only a few words, but to some extent, it also provided Yan Jing with some information, so that he could prepare mentally in advance.
It's just that in the course of this battle, the voice in my head did not reappear.
He thought he would gain some combat experience and upgrade something......
The most important thing is the ghost face fish that I had glimpsed earlier.
Yan Jing realized that the drowned corpses in front of him were probably just minions controlled by it, and the real key should be the former, otherwise this regular event would not be named after it.
Either way, burn the seaweed nets first, and the quest prompt says that if you hold out until dawn, you'll be successful, at least you'll have to make sure the boat is safe first!' ’
With his mind racing quickly, Yan Jing put down the fish for the time being and threw himself into the battle.
The development of things is just as Yan Jing said, these drowned corpses look extremely terrifying, but in fact, except for some strength, both movement speed and attack strength are just ordinary.
If you have to say it, it's similar to the zombies in some horror movies.
Relying on the advantage of numbers and long weapons, Yan Jing quickly led people to stab these corpses, and the second mate even found a fishing net with ingenuity and tied up these drowned corpses directly.
After all, they can still move even if they are stabbed in the head, and restricting their mobility is the easiest and most effective way.
"Brother Yan, look, seaweed is climbing up again!"
After a long time, the drowned bodies were finally disposed of, and soon someone noticed that there was another place in the bow of the ship where seaweed had climbed up.
It was just the first wave of the offensive.
Yan Jing's face sank, and he was about to say something, when two people carrying oil drums came running on the right,
"Brother Yan, gasoline!"
"Second mate, you are on the left and I are on the right, one person is responsible for one side, pour the gasoline on it, pay attention to the lower part."
Yan Jing took the oil drum and lighter, explained, turned around and went straight to the seaweed net just now, and then said,
"Here's a few people, help me look around!"
At present, several drowned bodies on board the ship have been subdued, and it is a critical moment to solve the crisis, and the others do not dare to slack off, and three people immediately follow Yan Jing's pace.
One person was carrying a bright searchlight for lighting, and the other two were standing on the left and right with steel forks.
Yan Jing opened the lid of the oil drum and poured the seaweed net towards the side of the boat, and the gasoline flowed down the seaweed net, and Yan Jing also saw the drowned corpses moving in the sea around the fishing boat by the searchlight.
A second offensive is brewing.
When most of the barrels of oil were poured down, and there were already new drowned bodies rising at the bottom under the entanglement of seaweed, Yan Jing knew that the situation was critical, and quickly covered the wind and rain with his hands after putting down the oil barrels, and lit the seaweed net with a lighter.
Suddenly, the fire rose with the gasoline in the wind, and soon the entire seaweed net was ignited, and the situation on the other side was similar.
Yan Jing didn't retreat too far.
He took a steel fork from the crew and swept it back and forth on the side of the ship, directly picking off the seaweed that had been dried by the flames, and soon heard the sound of heavy objects falling into the sea from the side of the ship.
"This method works, Brother Yan, you are still powerful!"
Seeing that the situation was finally under control, the three people who came over immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Yan Jing with a little more reverence.
"Don't be careless, keep an eye on the surroundings, there's still some gasoline, and if there's seaweed sticking up somewhere...... Big fly, be careful! ”
Yan Jing looked around as he spoke, and suddenly noticed that something seemed to be squirming in the darkness in front of him, and the next second he saw two tentacles flying out, heading straight for a crew member who had come with him earlier.
By the time the latter noticed the anomaly, the two tentacles were already binding his upper body.
"Hold him back!"
Yan Jing let out a loud shout, changed the steel fork to his left hand, and pulled out the straight knife at his waist with his right hand, slashing towards the tentacles.
This straight knife was built by Yan Jing after spending more than a thousand times to invite a friend, and although it didn't look good, it was sharp enough to easily cut through the thick fat of a large sea fish with a single knife.
Now in the face of this monster's tentacles, its performance is still good, and it cuts out obvious gaps when it slashes down.
The man who was tied up was still two meters from the side of the ship, and several crew members running from behind barely dragged him.
While these people were tug-of-war with the monsters in the sea, Yan Jing swung his knife non-stop, and finally cut off two tentacles a second before he was about to be taken out of the deck, and successfully rescued him.
The crew fell to the ground, and Yan Jing breathed a sigh of relief, but just as he was about to turn around and go back to continue processing the seaweed net, the abnormal sound of wind coming from the back of his head made his face change greatly.
!
Yan Jing raced against time to raise his arms.
Not to surrender, but to prevent the monster from wrapping itself directly around his arms as before.
Now the closest crew member to him was lying a few meters away, and there was no time to help, and he knew that he would have to rely on himself next!
In the exclamations of the crew, Yan Jing, who had no one to help, was directly taken out of the deck by his tentacles.
Turning around in mid-air, Yan Jing's eyes widened against the wind and rain, and he swung his knife to slash the tentacles on his side, and out of the corner of his eye, he looked at the whirlpool that had been formed at some point between the turbulent waves below and the gradually expanding shadows in it.
Death seems imminent.
No!
It's not desperate yet!
Taking a deep breath, Yan Jing raised the knife again after cutting off the tentacles, opened his mouth to bite the back of the knife, held the steel fork with both hands, and fell towards the whirlpool in the sea.
The next second.
As if sensing the arrival of prey.
Monsters lurking in the sea water leap out!
It was a large monster fish with a body length of more than five meters, covered in grayish-white, skeletal scales, and a disgusting pustule on the top of its head, and the central part of the body was pieced together with a strange face that looked like a human face.
At the same time as it flew towards Yan Jing, the strange fish opened its fangs, with the intention of swallowing the former.
Thundered~
Between lightning and thunder, the pale thunder filled the sky.
Suppressing the fear in his heart, Yan Jing raised his steel fork and plunged straight into the monster fish's head a second before the collision, causing its bloody mouth to close again.
Immediately, the whole person flipped over with force like a pole vault and fell to the back of the strange fish.
His right hand grasped the handle of the straight knife in his mouth, and his left hand didn't care much, grasping the scale armor of the strange fish.
Even if the flesh is cracked, the blood will never be released.
Grit your teeth and swing your knife to slash down!