"Why don't we open the box..." someone muttered. They couldn't wait to know what was in the box.
Everyone agreed and handed the box back to Xia Qi, asking him to open it.
Xia Qi looked at the different expressions of the people and felt slightly surprised.
Unexpectedly, everyone agreed to let him open the box so quickly without him having to waste any time talking.
Intermediate and advanced players are easy to deal with. They don’t like to cause trouble like newcomers and don’t need anyone to teach them.
However, after thinking about it, Xia Qi understood everyone's thinking.
Even if there are monsters in the box, it is better than sitting and waiting to die. Intermediate and advanced players already have experience in escape and know that sitting and waiting to die will not end well.
No one knows whose turn it will be tonight. Even if it is someone else, it does not mean that you will be fine tomorrow. The longer you delay, the greater the chance that you will be hit. If you don't fight early, you may not be able to survive in the end.
"Okay, then I'll open it." Xia Qi grabbed the box and started to pry open the lid.
Unexpectedly, the box was easier to open than he thought. He just applied a little force and there was a slight "bang" sound, and a crack appeared in the box.
Xia Qi put one hand on the top of the box, held the box with the other hand, and placed it on the table.
Everyone leaned forward, their eyes widened, holding their breath, and watched him slowly open the box.
When they saw the beautiful things inside the box, everyone gasped.
"It's so beautiful." The female player couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
I saw a beautiful shark fin placed in a curved shape in the box. The shark fin was translucent, dark blue all over, and as delicate as if it was made of crystal. However, it did not look like a dead object at all. When a breeze blew through the hall, the shark fin trembled slightly as if it had life.
Xia Qi picked up the shark fin, and as he shook it, a few star-like light spots appeared at the tail of the fin.
"What is this?"
Everyone tried to move forward to see the shark fin in Xia Qi's hand, but they didn't dare to touch it. They opened their eyes wide, as if they wanted to see every delicate texture on the shark fin clearly.
Xia Qi was also looking at the shark fin in his hand. What on earth was this long shark fin
He always felt that he had seen this shark fin somewhere.
After looking at it for a while, Xia Qi thought, this shark fin...could it be a part of a mermaid
"What on earth is this thing?"
After observing the shark fin, everyone started a heated discussion.
It wasn't until someone said it looked very similar to the mermaid skirts they had worn that everyone realized what was going on and guessed it might be something from a mermaid.
However, as to which specific part of the mermaid could be found, no one had ever seen a mermaid before and could come to a conclusion.
"What should we do with the shark fins?" someone asked.
Wang Ke was already scared silly when he saw this lifelike shark fin, fearing that it would bring him harm at night, so he waved his hand and said, "I don't want it, whoever wants it can take it."
"Then let me keep it first." Xia Qi said.
Seeing that no one objected, Xia Qi put the shark fin into the box.
After everyone checked the box of Wang Ke's teammate, it was the turn of the male player whose female teammate had died.
The male player has brought up the box of his female teammate. After Xia Qi opened the box, he found that the contents of the box were no longer shark fins, but a glowing fish fin.
Looking at the fish fins in the box, he had a bad feeling in his heart.
This looks so similar to the scale he picked up this morning.
Xia Qi decided to keep the box and asked the male player, "Do you still want this box?"
"I don't want it anymore. I'll give it to you." The male player didn't want to keep this depressing box.
Xia Qi put the box away carefully.
After looking at the contents of the two boxes, the players had different expressions, but no one expressed their conclusions. Several people suggested going back to their rooms first, probably to go downstairs and open their own boxes.
After everyone left the kitchen one after another, Xia Qi personally cooked a bowl of small shells and brought it to his room.
Unexpectedly, when he returned to the room, the girl was still sleeping on the wooden bed. Xia Qi shook his shoulders, and he opened his eyes in a daze.
"It's time to eat." Xia Qi said.
The girl could hardly lift her eyelids. Xia Qi called him several times, but he did not open his eyes.
Xia Qi had no choice but to peel small shells to feed him, but he didn't expect that he would not even open his mouth.
"What's going on? Why am I so sleepy today?"
The girl lay there and refused to get up. Xia Qi had no other choice but to put the little shell aside and said, "Go on sleeping. I'll call you later."
After settling the girl down, Xia Qi went to the deck to work.
Like yesterday, the weather today was still good. The sunlight penetrated the thin gray fog and shone on the deck. Xia Qi actually felt warm all over.
Although there is no threat of skeleton ships today, everyone's expressions are still as sad as if they have lost their parents when they think of the strange things happening at night where people were beheaded.
The male player whose female teammate died and the male player holding the cooking artifact were worse off than the others. Their faces were as pale as ghosts and their expressions were solemn. They could even bump into the mast of the ship when walking on flat ground. I wonder what they saw after opening the box.
The male player whose female teammate died lived in the second room, and the male player who owned the cooking artifact and Tony lived in the fourth room.
The room they originally lived in was not too far forward, but their mental state was so bad that it must be because the thing in the box scared them.
"What's wrong with you two?" After the two of them knocked over another wine barrel, Xia Qi came over to them and asked.
The male player of the cooking artifact could no longer hold back, with deep fear in his eyes. He said to Xia Qi in a trembling voice: "I, I opened the box."
"What is it? Can you tell me?" Xia Qi asked intently.
"Inside... there is also a fish fin." The male player of the cooking artifact was about to cry. The box of the female player who died this morning contained a fish fin.
The male player in the second room also trembled and said in a hoarse voice: "You are the same as me, I am also a fish fin... Are we both going to die tonight?"
Three fish fins appeared in the box in succession, and Xia Qi felt something was wrong.
So he asked carefully, "Do your fins look exactly the same as they did this morning?"
The male player of the cooking tool thought for a while and said, "Not quite the same. My fin is bigger than that one."
The male player in the second room replied: "My fin is smaller than that one."
Because the two fish fins were someone else's private property, Xia Qi did not ask them to come and see them, but just asked them to give a brief description.
"Thank you. Don't worry. It may not be you tonight." After Xia Qi asked, he spoke out to comfort the two.
However, his comfort seemed to be of no use. As time passed, the two became more and more nervous. Even the tasks assigned to them by the captain and the female mate were messed up by them. Especially the male player with the cooking artifact, he directly burned through the pot in the kitchen.
Looking at the fear of others facing death, Xia Qi felt a chill in his heart. After all, they were all human beings, and he felt bad seeing his fellow human beings about to die.
"Hmph, you bunch of useless sailors! One day, I will feed you all to the monsters in the sea!" The captain did not hide his true colors at all as he sneered at the two miserable male players.
Hearing this, the two male players became even more desperate. They clung to the edge of the boat, trying to prop up their weak legs to prevent themselves from falling.
Looking at the captain who was cursing with a smug look on his face, Xia Qi pursed his lips and thought, this octopus has really done a lot of evil things, and one day, he will definitely get his retribution.
When the sun was about to set, Xia Qi quickly finished his dinner and returned to his room.
Unexpectedly, the girl was still sleeping.
Although the girl usually behaved strangely, Xia Qi didn't believe that she would suddenly become a sleepyhead.
"Wake up? It's time to eat." Xia Qi shook the girl's shoulders again, and this time, she woke up slowly.
The girl lay sleepily on the wooden bed. She grabbed Xia Qi's shoulder with one hand and struggled to support her body.
After Xia Qi helped him up, the girl tried hard to keep her eyes open and looked at Xia Qi with frowned brows, as if she could never see enough of him.
Xia Qi looked at his sleepy appearance and managed to squeeze out a trace of sympathy for him.
"Are you hungry? I brought you some small shells that I cooked myself." Xia Qi picked up the bowl and said to the girl, "Smell it. Do you think it smells good?"
Xia Qi knew that he didn't necessarily need to eat, but he still hoped that he could eat a little, just in case it could cure his narcolepsy.
Xia Qi's "gentleness and thoughtfulness" obviously worked. After the girl was stunned for a few seconds, she nodded vigorously in excitement.
Seeing that the girl suddenly became energetic, Xia Qi shook his head helplessly, peeled the shells for him himself, and then fed the shell meat into his mouth one by one.
The girl held a shell in her mouth, her eyes slightly narrowed, as if she had taken a bite of an elixir.
He is so easily satisfied.
Xia Qi sighed and put another shellfish into his mouth.
After eating about five shell meats, the girl slowly closed her eyes and slid toward the wooden bed. Seeing this, Xia Qi stretched out his hands to support her and then laid her steady.
While eating, I fell asleep again
Faced with the sleeping girl, Xia Qi felt helpless.
After covering the girl with a quilt, Xia Qi had to put her aside and began to arrange things in the room.
He first hung a large empty wine barrel on the beam, and then tied a rope to the barrel. After fiddling with the barrel, he held the rope, climbed back onto the wooden bed and lay down, holding the rope firmly in his hands.
Night fell again. In the gradually darkening room, Xia Qi closed his eyes, held the rope tightly in his hands, and began to calculate the time.
3, 2, 1…
The man's dreamy voice rang in his ears. In just a moment, Xia Qi once again fell into his lonely, depressed, and sad singing...
Xia Qi's mind began to empty, and his body gradually became lighter due to his deep sleep.
In his dream, Xia Qi once again came to the deep sea, which was the same seaweed forest as last night.
"Are you still there?" Xia Qi stepped on the soft soil and asked into the distance.
This time, there was a sudden movement in the seaweed forest. The hiding mermaid was no longer timid, but rushed out of the seaweed forest in surprise.
Not only that, unexpectedly, he threw himself into his arms!
This time, it was not a little mermaid that appeared, but an adult male mermaid. Moreover, this mermaid looked very similar to the mermaid who had given him air underwater.
"You're here?" Xia Qi quickly pulled him away from his arms. He didn't have much time left, so he had to hurry and see him.
The mermaid saw Xia Qi staring at him and seemed very interested in him, so the mermaid naturally cooperated with him and showed off her appearance.
I saw that the mermaid had silver-white hair, and every strand of hair was of beautiful silver-white texture, like a soft, glowing crystal silk. The smooth hair spread under his body, like a brocade woven by galaxies.
His skin was extremely white, and it felt like moonlight under the water. Under his collarbone, it was covered with a thin layer of transparent scales, which made his whole body sparkle.
However, the most beautiful part of his body is his fish tail. In the dark environment, his fish tail sparkles with a dreamy luster, like the most beautiful handicraft in the world, so beautiful that it is breathtaking.
Looking at the appearance of the mermaid, Xia Qi fell into a brief silence.
After a while, his right hand trembled as he touched the two boxes he had received this morning in his trouser pocket.
For some reason, this box also appeared in his dream.
"Can you show me your tail?" Xia Qi asked.
Hearing this, a faint blush appeared on the mermaid's face, as if she was a little embarrassed.
What does his Qi want to do? He actually wants to see his...
However, he still willingly lifted his tail to show him his proudest part, but he twisted his waist slightly and used a few scales to cover his cavity.
After his Qi had finished admiring his tail, he would show it to him...
No, he wanted more.
The mermaid stared at Xia Qi with an extremely deep look in her eyes.
Xia Qi didn't know what was wrong with him. Seeing the mermaid obediently lifted up his fish tail, he first took out the shark fin in the first box and compared it with the mermaid from top to bottom. When he put the shark fin on the end of the mermaid's fish tail, the shark fin inexplicably overlapped with the two wings of his tail, and the similarity was extremely high.
"So this is the fish tail." Xia Qi put away the shark fin, feeling quite uneasy.
Then he took out the fish fin from the morning and compared it with the mermaid.
This time, he compared it more slowly. After comparing for a long time, Xia Qi finally discovered that it was a tail fin.
"Both of these things are from the tail?" Xia Qi couldn't help but fall into deep thought. Then, he took out his box, prepared to open it, and once again compare it with the parts on the mermaid's body...
Just at this moment, a feeling of falling from a high altitude came, which woke Xia Qi up from his dream in an instant.
“Bang!”
As the rope in his hand gradually loosened, the wooden barrel tied to the top of the rope fell from the beam and hit his stomach accurately, then rolled onto the wooden bed. Immediately afterwards, there was another "bang" sound, and the wooden bed he was sleeping on collapsed!
Xia Qi was thrown to the ground suddenly and woke up from his dream.
Thanks to the day his wooden bed collapsed, he knew how to wake up at night.
After Xia Qi woke up, he quickly climbed out of a pile of wood chips.
He woke up.
Xia Qi touched his trouser pocket again and found that all four boxes were there.
After carefully checking everything on his body, Xia Qi slowly sat down. All he needed to do now was to wait quietly for the octopus to come.
Fortunately, the octopus didn't make him wait too long, and the familiar sound of a snake-like animal scraping across the floor was heard again in the corridor.
The octopus crawled slowly and rustled for a long time, and finally stopped at the door of the room next to his.
Next door to Xia Qi lived a young master and a tough guy.
"Let me see which little darling has it?"
As the octopus had not been beaten for two days, his voice was no longer hoarse, but rather he seemed unusually excited.
After a while, there was a loud bang of a bolt, and the door of the next room was directly broken through, and the octopus stretched its tentacles into it.
"I found my little baby again, it's you!" The octopus laughed obscenely.
Xia Qi raised his eyebrows. This time, the octopus was finally in place.