noffsinger Chapter 198, First Dead Person
Chapter 198, First Dead Person
The bearded man lay in bed, still pondering the conversation at the dinner table earlier that day.
Especially the remarks of heretics... He decided not to sleep tonight and to see if his roommate was a heretic.
Similar thoughts occurred in the remaining cabins. A thin man clutched the sun god pendant he had received that day, watching his roommate who had gone to bed early.
Although it wasn't time to rest yet, their cabin was already quiet.
Soon, the familiar sound of a trombone urging everyone to go to sleep rang out. He hurriedly placed the pendant beside him and then closed his eyes.
He held the pendant in his hand, praying that his roommate wasn't a heretic, while also hoping to complete Task 1 as soon as possible.
Time passed slowly, and he could feel the room gradually getting colder... as if something had entered the cabin after nightfall.
He was a little nervous, especially after hearing the sound of the cabin door being squeezed.
He heard a tossing and turning sound coming from the bed above him, and he became more alert. The overwhelming fear made it difficult for him to control his breathing. Just as his breathing became rapid, he felt something standing beside his bed.
That thing was very, very close to me.
Even with your eyes closed, you can feel that gaze.
That thing was staring at me.
At this moment, he cursed the old crew members in his heart—he finally understood why all the new crew members slept on the lower bunks on this ship, because after entering the Sea of Evil Spirits, those evil spirits would really climb onto these whaling ships and stand on the lower bunks staring at you.
That gaze, that sudden drop in room temperature due to the arrival of the evil spirit—all of these things let you know that the evil spirit is right beside you.
He could even smell the strange stench and fishy odor.
He could only try his best to keep his breathing steady, pretending that he was really asleep, but had just had some nightmares and that was why he was suddenly breathing rapidly.
After an unknown amount of time, long enough that he felt his hands and feet were completely cold, the unpleasant gaze slowly disappeared. Soon, the room temperature returned to normal, and he knew that the evil spirit had temporarily left.
Although my hands and feet were still stiff in bed, thankfully, the evil spirit was gone.
The cabin was still swaying, and he soon felt movement from the upper bunk—this time it wasn't just a simple turning over; he could feel the person in the upper bunk actually sitting up.
He heard a soft sound, and the person on the upper bunk jumped down.
found it!
he thinks!
However, the task completion notification never appeared.
That's true. He didn't actually see the crew member, nor did he chase him away, so the system certainly wouldn't judge him as successful.
But opening my eyes now is indeed somewhat dangerous...
He was tormented, wanting to complete the mission on one hand, but also worried about encountering evil spirits on the other.
But in the end, the desire to complete the mission outweighed everything else, and before his roommate left the cabin, he opened his eyes.
But he saw his roommate standing at the hatch, looking at him.
The other person's body was swollen from being soaked, which for a moment reminded him of the sheepskin rafts he had seen when he traveled as a child.
...Why is his roommate dead...?
The thought had just flashed through his mind.
His mind kept switching between his rapidly approaching, swollen roommate and the roommate at the next table during dinner. He wanted to do something, but found that his hands and feet were already frozen stiff.
His thinking also became sluggish.
He knew he was possessed by an evil spirit... He tried his best to grab the pendant of the sun god, but found that the pendant was already beside him, turned into pieces.
……
Yan Xun was awakened by a series of urgent knocks on the door.
"Koren!"
He shouted from outside, "Wake up!"
Koren, who was on the upper bunk, rolled off the bed and opened the hatch in Yan Xun's sight. He saw several old crew members standing outside, as well as the bearded man that Yan Xun recognized and others.
Everyone looked very grim.
“The evil spirits have appeared,” they said.
Koren finished dressing. "Who is it?"
“He was a new crew member,” said Will, who had brown hair and a somber expression. “He was found dead in the cabin.”
Seeing this, Yan Xun also got dressed and followed.
Yan Xun spotted Gu Jia in the crowd, and Gu Jia waved to him.
“That person is in the cabin near me,” Gu Jia said.
"His roommate discovered it."
He pointed to a man with a scar on his forehead, "He said that when he woke up, he found the cabin extremely cold and there was frozen seawater on his ship, so he knew that the evil spirit had come."
"Then I found out that my roommate was dead in the lower bunk."
“I went to see that cabin. It was very cold inside, and the man’s sun god pendant had been reduced to pieces.”
But Koren had clearly said that people possessed by evil spirits would only be mentally confused and lose their appetite, not that they would be killed by the evil spirit in the cabin. Yan Xun thought to himself, and he followed the others to the cabin where the evil spirit had been.
Just standing at the door, Yan Xun felt a bone-chilling cold.
Coron entered the cabin, where the player's corpse lay on the lower bunk.
The other person had probably been dead for a while; their eyes were wide open, as if they had seen something extremely terrifying.
Koren looked down for a while, then finally shook his head.
The players looked at each other in bewilderment, and finally Yan Xun went inside.
Koren looked at him but didn't stop him... Yan Xun walked to the lower bunk and saw the other person's already stiff corpse.
“He must have been deceived by an evil spirit,” Corren said.
He looked down at the player's corpse, "Perhaps he felt he had discovered something, or perhaps he heard a danger signal and wanted to open his eyes to investigate..."
Koren sighed.
“Evil spirits like this kind of trick.”
Yan Xun guessed that this player probably remembered the fact that heretics would leave the cabin at night, and that he hadn't slept because he wanted to see if his roommate was a heretic.
He must have heard the noise from the upper bunk before he opened his eyes, but he never expected to be killed by the evil spirit.
Other players probably thought of this possibility as well and spoke up first.
The bearded man fired at the dead player's roommate, yelling, "Are you a heretic?"
"He heard you getting up at night to try and destroy the amulet on the bow of the ship, which is why he wanted to open his eyes."
Upon hearing this, Corren looked at the scarred man and said, "I had almost forgotten about that possibility..."
The scarred man immediately retorted, shouting that the bearded man was slandering him. In the end, it was Coron and the other veteran crew members who stopped him and held him down.
Then they sent the new crew to search the cabin.
Soon, they found the familiar silver moon coin in a crevice on the upper bunk.
Scar tried to argue, but Cora glanced at him and pronounced him dead.
—The crew tied Scar up and threw him into the winter sea of evil spirits.
As for the player's body, it was also thrown overboard, with Coron's reason being that there was no place on the ship to store such things.
Everyone stood on the deck, listening to the sound of falling into the water, feeling a chill run through their bodies. They could vaguely see the sun god symbol on the bow of the ship, but they couldn't understand why the sun god hadn't protected that player.
They also saw the broken sun god pendant on the lower bunk.
Yan Xun stood on the deck, and he could vaguely see a tiny bit of red on the sea... Corin walked up to him, "What are you looking at?"
“I think I saw a red dolphin,” Yan Xun said.
“That’s not good news.” Most of Corin’s face was covered, and Yan Xun could only see his green eyes. “That proves that the evil spirits have caught up with us.”
At the same time, at the moment the scarred man was thrown into the Sea of Evil Spirits.
All players also received a notification that Quest 1 was completed and a reminder that Quest 2 had been triggered.
[Mission 2: Discover the Secrets of the Terror Ship]