Ivan followed Ding Baiqing all the way to the gallery area. As soon as the door was opened, he saw dozens of headless corpses with their backs to the door, kneeling on the ground, and in front of them was a life-size oil painting, bright red and rather strange.
He was so frightened that his legs went weak, he grabbed the wall and barely stabilized his body, and said tremblingly: "A lot of people are dead, dead... Report, call the police! No, no signal, no, no, no, the brightly lit cruise ship is not a ghost ship—here It's the gallery area, it's rumored that 38 headless corpses died 20 years ago, 1, 2, 3... 38?"
Ivan was completely terrified, dripping yellow liquid, trying to grab Ding Baiqing's hand for a sense of security.
Ding Baiqing turned around to avoid Ivan, said 'stay here, don't move' and entered the gallery area, passed through thirty-eight fresh headless corpses, tore off the white cloth and quickly packed the magic paintings, took them out and let Ivan carry them on his back .
Ivan refused at first, Ding Baiqing said, 'Help me take you back to the ghost ship 20 years later, let you go back alive', and immediately picked up the magic painting and followed him honestly.
"Where are we going next?"
Ding Taiqing did not answer.
Ivan was anxious, "I can't let me carry this magic painting until dawn, what if it kills me? It has 38 lives on its back, of course it's not afraid of one more, but I'm afraid. "
Ding Yiqing: "Go to the engine room."
Ivan: "No." He looked horrified: "Brother, didn't you listen to what we just said? There are monsters in the engine compartment!"
Ding Baiqing: "Not now."
Ivan: "Are you sure?"
Ding Yiqing strode forward: "You can refuse."
Seeing Ding Baiqing go further and further, it seems that he really doesn't care whether he follows or not. Of course Ivan refuses. On second thought, there is no option to refuse at all. There is a life-saving straw by Ding Baiqing's side. What about his head
He also can't throw away the magic painting, otherwise Ding Taiqing won't take him back 20 years later... Wait, so now is 20 years ago? The ghost ship that hasn't disappeared in 1999? Is tonight the night of the massacre
Ivan swallowed his saliva in horror, and quickly followed Ding Baiqing.
The two came to the power cabin, and Ivan stayed outside, not going in. Ding Baiqing entered the power compartment, passed the diesel reserve area, went straight to the steam boiler room, pushed open the rather heavy door and slipped in.
This cruise ship is powered by a diesel direct-fired engine, and a steam boiler room is obviously not used for driving, and Ding Baqing is temporarily unclear about what it is used for.
The steam boiler room is about a hundred square meters, with a huge coal-fired steam boiler in the middle, and a large amount of coal is stacked behind it. At this time, the steam boiler is burning red coal, and the pipeline for conveying high-pressure hot steam is connected to a funnel-shaped cauldron. There are stairs next to it that can climb to a five-meter-high platform. Standing on the platform, you can see the inside of the cauldron. structure.
Ding Baiqing visited the steam boiler once in the 2020 timeline. At that time, he didn't have time to climb on the platform to watch it. He only knew that the steam boiler was still burning at that time, and the tall monsters hovering in the power compartment would come back every so often to fill the coal .
He took two steps forward and saw that the cauldron was covered with a huge transparent glass lid, with a white viscous liquid boiling inside, which looked familiar.
After thinking for a few seconds, Ding Baiqing remembered that the ghost ship 20 years later was covered with white liquid, with a strange aroma, which could easily arouse the appetite of human beings. It turned out that the strange white liquid came from here
Ding Baiqing approached the cauldron and inserted the Tang knife into the gap between the lid and the body of the pot, trying to pry it open, but the high-pressure water vapor firmly sucked the lid, and it was not easy to pry it open.
Ding Baiqing finally pried open the lid of the pot, only to see a soft, wet head rolled out of the boiling viscous liquid, which was almost melted by steaming.
'Boom, boom' a few times, dozens of heads appeared one after another, and their facial features were basically melted away, becoming bloody and bloody, and just when Ding Baiqing pried open the lid of the pot, a strange aroma filled the entire steam boiler, crazy appetite.
Ding Baiqing immediately retracted the Tang knife, the lid of the pot fell back with a bang, and it was tightly covered. Only then did the terrible appetite recede like a tide. Before the lid was covered by water vapor, he quickly counted the number of heads floating.
Thirty-seven in total.
Missing heads from ships thrown into steam boilers? Who is the boiled human skull soup for
Ding Baiqing turned over and jumped off the high platform. Just as he held the door handle, he heard hasty footsteps from far to near. He stopped outside the door and slammed the door open. Before anyone outside walked in, Ding Baiqing had already dodged and hid.
Watching a group of people walk in, there are eight people, and there are two women in the middle, who happen to be familiar faces - Mrs. Liedman and her little black lover.
They bit their ears affectionately and spoke French in a small voice, but could be heard in the closed room, while Ding Bingqing knew French, heard Mrs. Liedman say that the steam oven room was her treasure, the black woman rocking expression A little cold but her eyes are already soft, ask her to come here often just to see a useless steam oven room
Mrs. Liedman chuckled. "It's by no means a useless steam oven room. Baby, it's my treasure of eternal youth and wealth."
The black girl rocker sneered: "Don't use this trick to coax me, Mary."
Mrs. Liedman's maiden name was Mary.
Mrs. Liedman looked at her little lover tenderly: "I have revealed my secrets, my treasures, to you, and you should not doubt me."
The black-skinned girl rock was silent for a moment and asked, "Is this ship yours?"
Mrs. Liedman: "The cruise ship that Noren and I co-founded, they also have their own little secrets on this ship, which they hide from each other, and you are the only living person who knows this secret apart from my partner. ."
The black-skinned rock girl looked suspiciously at the other six present, and Mrs. Liedman laughed heartily: "A dog who does errands with money is not even a human being."
The black-skinned rock girl didn't like to hear that, saying she couldn't see the value of a steam boiler room and couldn't believe what Mrs. Liedman said.
"It's okay, I'll let you witness the magic of it with your own eyes." Mrs. Liedman applauded, and someone went to the high platform and scooped up a large bowl of sticky human skull soup and handed it to her.
"Have a taste, Liz."
Liz swallowed her saliva, unable to move her eyes from the bowl of human skull soup with a strong aroma, her stomach felt like a convulsive pain, and she uncontrollably snatched the big wrist from Mrs. Liedman's hand. Into the stomach, and then crashed to the ground, his eyes blurred, and his body twitched.
Mrs. Liedman's smile did not change, and she still looked at her little lover tenderly: "Sleep obediently, and when you wake up, be my most obedient dog." She used her toes to pick out the hair on Liz's face. , said with some regret: "You are very good, but unfortunately I have a more favorite prey."
The prey in her mouth was Wu Yujie. Ding Baiqing guessed calmly and watched them come and go.
When the door closed, Ding Baiqing jumped down, grabbed Liz's back collar, and pushed the handle of the Tang knife against Liz's stomach with his backhand, who vomited out most of the human skull soup that he didn't have time to digest.
Liz was dying, looked up at Ding Baiqing, recognized that he and his rival in love were companions, his eyes were erratic, and he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the reflection in Ding Baiqing's eyes, and quickly fixed his eyes. Mirror of steel pipes looking.
The chin to the cheeks were covered with black fibrous lumps, and the texture was very similar to tree bark. Liz broke off a piece, and the pain of the belt made her scream.
She asked in panic, "What is this? What's wrong with me?"
Ding Baiqing: "Most of the lovers who followed Mrs. Liedman disappeared, probably destroyed in this way."
Liz lost his soul: "Bloody Mary?"
Ding Baiqing: "She has such a nickname, obviously she is not for your blood."
Liz sneered: "What did she drink for me?"
Ding Taiqing did not answer.
Liz: "I know it's not a good thing... She's a witch? Forget it, she can't change the fact that she wants to kill me, I just want to know if I can be saved? Can my face be recovered from surgery?"
Ding Baiqing: "I will do my best to save you."
Liz touched his face and looked back at Ding Baiqing deeply: "Thank you. Mary told me that there is a small submarine under the center of the stage in the performance hall, and there is a direct channel to the deep sea, you can go as you can. Most of them have no background. People get on this cruise ship and can't get out of it."
Ding Baiqing: "It seems that you know a lot."
Liz smiled bitterly: "I thought she told me that she loved me and trusted me, but it turned out to be because I was also on the damn list with no background. She won't make me feel better, and I won't make her feel better!"
Ding Baiqing: "If Liedman and others are successfully resolved and landed safely, I will help you contact someone who can heal you."
Liz didn't speak, and she didn't respond until Ding Baiqing left. The two doors of the steam boiler room and the power compartment were closed one after another and she didn't see her come out, as if she had been locked in forever from this moment on.
Before leaving the engine room, Ding Yiqing carved the words 'Go to the gallery area, 10:30 to the window of the opera hall·dzq' somewhere.
When Ivan saw Ding Baiqing, he hurried over and asked, "I heard the movement just now, so I hid and waited until they entered the boiler room. I didn't mean to remind you, but it was too late... Uh, what's in there? Who are they? I Remember that eight people went in, how come seven people came out? How do you know there is no monster inside?"
Ding Baiqing: "Have you seen that monster head-on?"
The unexpected question made Ivan unable to react, and Nane nodded.
"Do you remember what it looked like? Not to mention the characteristics of dragging an axe and being tall."
Ivan scratched his head and recalled the monster he encountered in the power cabin. It dragged a corpse in, cut off its head, grabbed its head, and walked towards the steam boiler room, passing by the red moonlight, which happened to be photographed by him. face.
The face is covered with thick black skin, the texture is a bit like tree bark, ugly and terrifying.
He described the memory and got Ding Baiqing's response with little response.
"Then... where are we going now?"
Ding Baiqing: "The difference between the present time and the future time is two hours."
"… so?"
Ding Baiqing: "Go to the opera hall and prepare to solve everything."