Lily stood on the deck of the exploration ship, with corpses lying all over the place in front of her.
They all died, all died from their own gunshot wounds, and everyone had a happy smile on their face.
Maybe they were really happy at the moment they fired the gun.
Lily thought she would be surprised, but unfortunately she wouldn't be, she would never be again, she just watched everything in front of her in silence.
She had watched scenes like this on repeat countless times. In order to relieve endless loneliness, those who had abandoned all human bottom lines would do anything.
Although Lily managed to hold on to the end and did not become a monster like them, the endless years had tempered her and made her no longer innocent and simple.
She still looks like a cute and slender girl, but Lily has been forced to mature on the inside.
Lily was floating in the air in silence, and before the snowflakes fell again, she came to the cockpit.
She looked at the nautical chart on the wall with a complicated expression, then looked at the snowflakes dancing under the searchlight in the distance.
Lily's heart began to waver. She was a little scared. Just a few snowflakes made her suffer so much. No one knew what would happen if she continued walking.
Things that humans could never imagine always happen on this sea, and no one knows whether what they experience next will be even more despairing.
What is even more desperate than the cycle is her feelings for Charles, which are constantly weighed in her heart.
Just as Lily was hesitating, the cockpit door opened and the chief engineer, first engineer, and second engineer, who had heard the gunshots, walked in against the heavy snow.
"Miss Lily! This! What is going on?" They looked at everything outside the glass window with shock on their faces.
For Lily and the others, this happened decades later, but for them who had been hiding in the turbine compartment, only three seconds had passed.
But now Lily was more shocked than them. She pointed her slender white fingers at the snowflakes on their heads with a little trembling. "Are you okay?"
The circulating snowflakes that made everyone's heart completely perverted lay on them, but there was no reaction at all.
"What? What are you talking about? What happened to the captain and the others?" The chief engineer continued to question.
At this moment, he looked at Lily with a hint of vigilance and suspicion.
"Bang, bang, bang!" Three gunshots were heard, and three people fell to the ground after being shot in the back.
A hunched man walked in. He was a wrench. He opened his mouth to reveal his teeth that were yellowed from smoking and his blood-red gums.
"Because the duration of the cycle is different, the first time I experienced it was much longer than the second time." Wrench explained to Lily with a grin.
"I don't know why these icebergs and snowflakes have this extremely special recycling ability, but I am sure there must be some kind of law, but it has nothing to do with us now."
After saying that, Wrench walked to the steering wheel. He used both hands to pull the rudder to the left and began to turn the bow of the boat.
"What are you doing?" Lily asked him.
"Haha, what else can we do? Of course we go back to the island. Do you still want to stay in this damn place?" Wrench's conversation was so normal, so normal that it gave people goose bumps.
"What are you going to do when you get back?"
Hearing Lily's question, Wrench didn't say anything. His eyes became brighter and brighter, and the veins on his hands that were tightly gripping the steering wheel began to bulge, and his yellow teeth were creaking.
A terrifying, trembling laugh, like that of a hungry ghost from hell, came out from the depths of his throat.
No one knows what has happened to Wrench's heart after being twisted by the cycle, but now he has become even more terrifying than the crew members outside.
"Swish, swish, swish!" Several golden spears shot out from the side in an instant, nailing the wrench directly to the wall, and blood slowly dripped from the wall behind his back.
It was Lily who did it, and this time she acted so decisively.
Lily walked up to him and looked up at him. "I'm sorry, you can't go back. If you go back, you will hurt more people. This place has turned you into a complete monster."
Wrench spat out foamy blood. Now he no longer had any fear of death. He looked at Lily with sarcasm on his face.
"Stop pretending. I turned into a monster, but what about you? Are you really not affected at all? I'm a monster, so what are you?! Huh?"
"Stomp!" A sharp spear instantly pierced Wrench's forehead, causing him to shut his mouth completely.
After silently looking at the wrench hanging on the wall for a while, Lily returned to the nautical chart and then took down the compass on the dashboard with her hand.
Her silent expression became firm, and she began to speak as if to herself or to the dead wrench.
"I'm Lily! I'm not a monster, and I'm not a mouse, I'm a human!"
Lily began to throw all the bodies on the boat into the sea and anchored the empty ship.
After filling some large bags with fresh water and food, she set out without hesitation towards the destination she had decided on decades ago.
Lily was very fast and soon left the exploration ship behind. The snow was still falling in the sky, but it was all melted by the sunlight bursting out from Lily's body.
Regardless of whether or not coming into contact with these snowflakes would cause her to enter the cycle again, Lily didn't want to try it at all.
After flying for about 50 miles, the ice surface froze again, and a white frozen continent formed below again.
The temperature got lower and lower as they went forward. Lily didn't know how low the temperature was, she only knew that even she was starting to feel the cold.
Gradually, the frozen sea began to rise, getting closer and closer to Lily. They didn't move, but Lily flew faster and faster.
Finally, Lily stopped, not because she had reached her destination, but because the accumulated ice had completely formed an ice wall that blocked her way.
The white ice wall was connected to the rock layer and the sea surface. Looking left and right, it seemed endless. Lily didn't expect that this sea would have an end.
Panting, Lily reopened the map and after comparing it with the map, she found that her destination was about 70 miles behind the ice wall. She would be there soon.
Lily approached the ice carefully and found some signs of movement on the upright ice surface.
But no matter how weird something was that could live in this place, Lily didn't care.
She gently stretched out her glowing right hand and touched Bing Zeng.
Just as she was about to touch the ice, the ice began to gradually melt under the sunlight, forming a large pit.
Lily floated in, and the pit continued to deepen.
(End of this chapter)