Dead bodies were hung from the ceiling, with their toes hanging in the air. They wear clothes that belong to people, and they should be human, but their appearance is not human.
The corpse's face was blue and white, the brain was bulging, the blue veins crawled from the neck to the face, and the eyes were about to burst out like fish. What's more terrifying is that their bodies were covered with mucus, and the mucus dripped from the toes to the ground, sticking their legs together, as if they became fish tails.
The nose and eyes on the face are gradually blending together, both like a human being and like they are turning towards a fish. And their belly is high and bulging, whether it is a man or a woman, it seems that they are already pregnant in August.
A strong fishy smell came to me.
Such a terrifying scene shook everyone in place, speechless for a while.
There was no wind in the bilge, but the corpse that was hung up was swaying slightly by the rope. Lu Yi suddenly pointed at a man not far away and said, "This is... This is Li Wei!"
Li Wei folded his hands beside him, looked down at the ground, his abdomen bulged like two basketballs, so big that he even broke the buttons of his clothes.
Lu Yi's face turned pale, "Are they dead?"
But after this sentence was asked, Lu Yichen had the answer in his heart. How could it be possible to live like this
There was the sound of mucus dripping everywhere in the bilge. Jiang Luo slowed down his breathing and took in as little air as possible. He looked at the slime on the ground that reflected light under the light of the flashlight, and said in a low voice, "Let's go, let's go to the correction first."
Kuangzheng had only been taken away for an hour, and he definitely couldn't change his appearance.
A group of people carefully shuttled among the corpses. The deeper they go, the stronger the fishy smell. This fishy smell is like putting them in a piece of stagnant water that has not been changed for several years. The stagnant water hides rotting fish and shrimp corpses and aquatic plants. Every breath is a breath of fresh air. Kind of torture on the nose.
While walking, a pair of blue and white toes brushed past Jiang Luo's hand, and Jiang Luo suddenly stopped.
He turned and looked up, staring at the corpse that touched his arm.
The corpse's eyeballs bulged, its head drooping from the rope. Jiang Luo stared at him for a while, and Ye Xun, who was behind him, asked strangely, "Jiang Luo, what's wrong?"
"Ye Xun, they don't seem to be corpses," Jiang Luo pursed his lips, "They should still be alive."
People behind: "?!"
Zhuo Zhongqiu felt a chill in her spine when she thought about the possibility that they were not dead. She whispered, "How is this possible! I just observed it carefully, and they are no longer breathing."
Jiang Luo turned his head to look at them, and suddenly asked, "What do fish breathe?"
Without waiting for others to answer, he muttered to himself: "It's with the gills, and the nose is just a simple olfactory organ of the fish."
Ye Xun followed and looked up at the corpse. In just a short while, a thin layer of sweat had already dripped on his forehead. "Take them down and see?"
They lowered a corpse from the ceiling. The corpse was unconscious, its eyes widened, as if staring at each of them.
Jiang Luo touched the end of his nose, but he really didn't breathe. He stroked the sides of his cheeks with both hands, but felt nothing. With the flashlight down, Jiang Luo suddenly saw that something was wrong on both sides of the corpse's throat.
He reached out carefully and found a gap. He lifted the surface of the skin, and there was indeed a gill of hot fish below.
Jiang Luo looked up at the others.
They stared at the gills of Jiang Luo's fingertips with complicated expressions, and no one thought that they were still alive.
After becoming like this and still alive, no one can tell whether it is a good thing or a bad thing for these people.
"Although he is alive, he is about to die," Jiang Luo said in a low voice, "breathing is weak, heartbeat is weakened, and it can last for an hour at most."
He withdrew his hands and wiped the mucus from his hands on his clothes, "When the crew checked you, did they only check for fever and not fever?"
Ye Xun put away his unspeakable thoughts, "And eyes."
Jiang Luo held the lamp and pointed it at the victim's eyes. The victim's eyeballs had no other symptoms except that they were covered with a layer of white fog. He couldn't think of what it meant. Luo suddenly had a flash of inspiration and muttered to himself, "Fish in the deep sea, their eyes will degenerate, right?"
Even some fish have no eyes at all, and even if they have eyes, they cannot see objects.
Jiang Luo seemed to have caught something, so he handed the flashlight to Lu You and let Lu You help him light it. Jiang Luo carefully inspected the victim, the nose did not change, crossing the nose, Jiang Luo opened the victim's lips.
A fishy smell came to his face, Jiang Luo held his breath, and found that the victim's teeth had also changed. The teeth gradually turned into sharp teeth, like sharks, like fish.
Jiang Luo is basically certain that the blood eel is a deep-sea fish.
The flashlight continued down, stopping on the victim's abdomen.
The abdomen was bulging abnormally. The most frightening thing was that something in the abdomen seemed to sense the light, and a bulge suddenly appeared on the abdomen.
This is like a signal. After one bump, the second and third bumps appear one after another, and they instantly turn into twenty or thirty uneven undulations.
This picture made one's scalp go numb, and Seriel, who was squatting on the side, was taken aback and said in a trembling voice, "There is something in his stomach."
"Cut it open and have a look." After a while, Wen Renlian took out the dagger and asked Ge Zhu to light a match for him.
He quickly swept the blade over the match, whispered "I'm sorry", and plunged the tip of the knife into the victim's abdomen, slashing the stomach.
A large piece of sticky and smelly blood-colored mucus gushed out from the stomach, and twenty or thirty small fry the size of a palm slid along the mucus to the ground, jumping alive on the ground.
Ge Zhu covered his mouth and retched, "What is this?!"
Jiang Luo avoided the mucus that splashed when the fish tail slapped the ground, took the opportunity to insert a fish fry, and held it under the lamp to observe carefully.
The fry are pitch black and have no scales, as smooth as a loach. But the loach does not have a tail, it does. The fry's eyes protruded from the sides of the head, and the eyes were blood red.
Obviously, this is the fry of the blood eel.
The fry of the blood eel were raised from the bodies of civilians.
This blood eel didn't have a head so large that it was about to burst its head, and it was very fragile. It took less than half a minute to touch the air and all died.
Jiang Luo threw away the fry on the tip of the knife, and took a photo of the inside of the victim's stomach. There were still several transparent round objects stuck to the stomach, which should be fish eggs that failed to hatch.
Wen Renlian's face was dark, "There should be such fish eggs in Kuangzheng's body."
"...And the incubation time only took one day and one night," Zhuo Zhongqiu squatted beside him, "Li Wei was only taken away last night, and his stomach has grown so big tonight."
Ge Zhu took out two balls of paper from somewhere and blocked it in his nose, and tentatively lit a match to lift the transparent fish eggs stuck to his stomach. When the eggs are heated, they quickly fall off the stomach wall.
"Afraid of fire," he said thoughtfully.
They sewed up the victim's stomach again, and after losing the fry, the victim's stomach slumped like an inflated balloon in an unsightly shape.
Wen Renlian said: "Go well."
With a swipe of his knife, the half-fish half-human victim was freed from pain in advance.
Jiang Luo and the others continued to walk deeper, and soon found that the further back they went, the smaller the change in the people who were hung behind.
"Correct?"
The group spread out and whispered Kuangzheng's name.
In the corner, there was suddenly a weak knocking sound.
Several people quickly approached the voice, "Correct?"
The light of the flashlight was messy, and finally hit the place where the sound came from. Kuangzheng was lying on the ground with a rope wrapped around his neck. The rope broke, which should be the result of his struggle to break free.
Seeing that it was a moment of rectification, everyone quickly gathered around.
Kuangzheng's face was flushed, his breathing was short of breath, his head was sweating profusely, and he was trying his best to resist the effect of sleeping pills, trying to open his eyes.
Jiang Luo patted Kuangzheng's face, "Quangzheng, Kuangzheng? Can you hear my voice?"
Kuangzheng nodded with difficulty.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Jiang Luo's hand was on Kuangzheng's abdomen, and the slight bulge made his face dignified.
At this moment, Wen Renlian stiffly withdrew his hand from behind Kuangzheng, "Jiang Luo..."
Jiang Luo looked at his hand, and there was a piece of mucus above it.
There are also eggs in Kuangzheng's body, and he even started to mutate.
Lu Yiliu said indifferently, "What should I do?"
Jiang Luo asked Wen Renlian to turn Kuangzheng over, lifted Kuangzheng's clothes and looked at his back, "Let Seriel ask God to go up and ask that 'god' if there is a way to remove the eggs from Kuangzheng's body, if not The only way is to cut open his stomach and take out those eggs."
Seriel showed a look that was uglier than crying, "I-I'll try."
Ye Xun suddenly said, "Call the police."
He pursed his lips, "It doesn't matter if you pass the assessment or not, human life is more important."
Jiang Luo said calmly, "Ye Xun is right. When we set off from the triangle entrance, a police boat followed the Angonese from a distance. We can go to the communication room to connect to the police boat when the crew is not paying attention. signal to send them a distress message."
The area where the Angonise is now docked is on the high seas and does not belong to the jurisdiction of any country, but as long as the victims have people from their country, the country has the right to board the ship to arrest criminal suspects.
The communication room is in the work area where the crew frequently enters and exits, and there is almost no possibility of sneaking into it. But the most urgent thing is to treat Kuangzheng. This is obviously not a good place for treatment. Several people used the five ghost removal technique to leave the bottom cabin again.
They did not set up an altar to put incense, nor did they place tributes. The five ghosts looked ugly to them, and they were too lazy to give them a ride. They threw them out of the door and disappeared.
They worked hard and carried Kuangzheng back to Jiang Luo's room, trembling with fear along the way, but fortunately they were not discovered by others.
After returning to the room, it was more difficult for him to breathe properly. Jiang Luo asked Lu You to drag him to the bathroom, turn on the faucet and put water in the bathtub.
After Kuangzheng was placed in the bathtub and soaked in water, his mutation rate seemed to slow down. His breathing gradually calmed down, but he had completely lost consciousness.
The knives are ready, the high-purity alcohol is ready, and there are many things that can be used in the rich man's room. After the bathroom was cleaned, only Serel and Jiang Luo were left.
Jiang Luo put on his gloves and nodded towards Seriel.
Seriel clenched his fists, took a deep breath, and began to sing a song of God.
Jiang Luo watched him dance and sing, his scalp was numb several times because of Seryol's out-of-tune singing. Seryol sang and danced for fifteen minutes, but there was still no sign of success. When he thought he was going to fail, Seryol suddenly closed his eyes and stood up in a daze.
After a few seconds, Seriel opened his eyes.
The azure blue eyes suddenly became stable and mature, and a book of "300 Sentences for Learning English" appeared in his hand. He looked at Jiang Luo, stunned slightly, and then said, "Young Master Jiang."
Jiang Luo tentatively said, "Brother Hei?"
Hei Wuchang waved his hand, the book in his hand disappeared, he said, "It's me."
It really deserves to be Bai Wuchang, please God's upper body actually invited Hei Wuchang.
But is impermanence useful
After Jiang Luo and Hei Wuchang said hello, they told him about the correction. Hei Wuchang pondered for a moment and asked, "Young Master Jiang, have you ever heard of scraping bones for healing?"
Jiang Luo looked at Kuang Zheng, "You want to scrape his flesh off?"
Hei Wuchang shook his head, "No."
"Although I haven't done any healing work, but according to what you said, if it's just to drive out the fish eggs in his body, it's quite simple. Just use the fire to drill into his hands and feet, let the fire enter the internal organs from the limbs, and then Scrape his stomach from bottom to top and force the eggs to escape from his mouth."
Jiang Luo didn't quite understand it, so he asked directly, "What should I do?"
Hei Impermanence said: "I also ask Young Master Jiang to help me hold down his hands and feet."
Jiang Luo and Hei Wuchang tied their hands and feet to the sides of the pool, letting him float on the water. Jiang Luo held Kuangzheng's head in his palm, allowing him to breathe while his lips soaked underwater, "Brother Hei, I'm fine."
Black Impermanence said solemnly: "OK."
Jiang Luo: "…"
Hei Wutong speaks English with Seriel's shell, which is really magical.
Hei Wuchang waved his hand, and four faint blue flames appeared in his hand. The flames rushed into the body from Kuangzheng's limbs, Kuangzheng's face suddenly changed, and he groaned in pain.
Jiang Luo pressed him, Hei Wuchang took the knife on the side, and pushed the straightened abdomen from bottom to top with the wider back of the knife, forcing the invisible things under the abdomen out of the spleen and stomach.
The blood-colored mucus and yellow stomach juices began to overflow from Kuangzheng's mouth. His complexion became more and more distorted, and he suddenly struggled violently, spitting out a large amount of mucus and fish eggs.
The transparent round fish eggs burrowed into the icy water, and Jiang Luo saw that even tiny tadpole-like fry hatched from these fish eggs and escaped.
If it is a few hours later, I am afraid that these fry will come out of the eggs and live in the body of the correction.
Hei Wuchang forced Kuang Zheng to vomit three waves, and only after the last thing vomited out of mucus did he say, "Okay."
Jiang Luo immediately pulled Kuangzheng up, sweating profusely to wash his hands. Hei Wuchang looked around, hesitated for a while, and asked, "Young Master Jiang, where are you? I haven't been able to find Master Sai these past few nights."
"We're going to sea," Jiang Luo said. "This shouldn't be your work area?"
Hei Wuchang showed his original expression, "It's really not our responsibility."
Jiang Luo remembered how Seryol was so sleepy a few days ago that he seemed to be sucked in blood, and persuaded him nicely: "Brother Hei, you can't let Seryol work all night every night, he can't stand it. living."
Hei Wuchang listened quietly, and his expression became more and more guilty. After Jiang Luo finished speaking, he pondered for a moment and nodded: "I will think about this. Young Master Jiang, please don't last too long, otherwise it will cause harm to the host. Heavy burden, I left first."
After Jiang Luo thanked him, Hei Wuchang withdrew the four fires that had penetrated into Kuangzheng's body, closed his eyes, and in the next instant, Seryol opened his eyes again. ,How about it?"
Jiang Luo smiled and said, "You succeeded."
The next second after getting the answer, Seriel fell to the ground.
Jiang Luo supported him in time, called someone in, and moved the two of them to the bedroom bed. Ye Xun and Wen Renlian changed clothes for Kuangzheng. After they were placed, a group of people squatted by the bathtub and looked at the fish eggs in the pool.
Fish eggs die quickly in cold water, and it seems that such water is not suitable for the growth of fish eggs.
Or only a warm, enclosed space like the human body is the best choice for nourishing fry.
The living area of deep-sea fish is deep and extremely cold. As a deep-sea fish, the eggs of blood eels are extremely delicate. I am afraid that the crew of the Angonesse knew this secret and let the rich lure civilians to board the ship as vessels for artificially raising blood eel fry.
Where is man eating fish, this is clearly man eating man.
Jiang Luo looked at Wen Renlian, "Do you remember the day Wilton jumped into the sea? We met the crew at the stern, and they said they were constantly monitoring the seabed for fish eggs."
"We were deceived," Wen Renlian sneered, "they were probably putting bait to attract blood eels that day."
And the bait was most likely the four missing civilians on board.
They traveled at sea for four days, and they lost just four civilians. The blood eel they caught weighed more than 500 kilograms. It is very likely that it has swallowed four people.
Of course the civilians didn't know about it, but the crew did, did the rich know
Ge Zhu whispered from the side: "Actually, since I was in the bottom cabin, I was thinking about a question. The captain said that the blood eel can be eaten after three days. Is this blood eel the big fish that was caught in the first place, or is it in the bottom cabin? Civilians who gradually turned into fish, or hatched fry?"
Jiang Luo felt that there was a high probability that it was a hatched small fish, but he didn't say his guess, but shrugged: "Who knows."
*
He hardly slept that night, and when the sky was getting brighter, Kuang Zheng finally opened his eyes.
He was weak, but he was fine. Wen Renlian fed him some porridge, and a group of people discussed how to sneak into the communication room.
There are always people in the communication room, and there are crew members around. In the end, the result of the discussion was to let Jiang Luo and Ge Zhu, two wealthy people, personally inquire about it.
They don't have to be careful, they can directly enter the communication room with the excuse of visiting the crew's working position.
Both Jiang Luo and Ge Zhu felt that the plan was feasible.
The Angonese is a huge and exquisite luxury cruise ship with hundreds of thousands of crew members. If they are accidentally exposed to the crew, no one will know if they are killed and fed to fish.
Still be careful.
They did what they said. After lunch at noon, Jiang Luo took Ge Zhu to find the captain and asked for a visit to the crew work area.
The captain smiled and said: "Then let the first officer take you around."
The first mate who was standing by the side stepped forward with a smile on his handsome face to please, "Mr. Zhong, Mr. Lu, please come with me."
Along the way, the first mate tried his best to show his humor, but every time he met Jiang Luo's eyes, he quickly avoided him. It seems that he is afraid of Jiang Luo's adjustment/teaching, but he is a little ready to move.
Jiang Luo was not interested in him. He wore sunglasses, a tourist-standard floral shirt and white shorts, with a romantic smile, and occasionally took off his sunglasses and winked at pretty boys and girls.
Seeing him like this, Ge Zhu couldn't help but relax. The two visited many places along the way, and when they were about to go to the storage warehouse, they saw two crew members who were feasting on the rest table at the corner of the corridor.
There were two large plates of red meat on the table, whether it was beef or fish, sprinkled with seasonings and mixed into a ball. There was also a small dish of ketchup and chili oil next to it, and the two crew members ate their mouths with blood and red blood.
After the crew saw them coming, they warmly invited: "Do you want the first officer and the two gentlemen to come and use it?"
While they were talking, they were still chewing something in their mouths. Jiang Luo looked at the mass of meat and remembered the corpses that hung in the bottom cabin last night. He smiled and refused, "Thank you, no need."
Ge Zhu also politely declined.
The first mate was so greedy that he took two bites before taking them down.
After reading everything that should be seen, the first mate finally brought them to the communication room.
As soon as Ge Zhu went in, he excused his stomach pain, his face distorted and his expression exaggerated. Jiang Luo pretended to be panicked and said, "It's not the appendix, right? Come and help me and send Mr. Lu to the infirmary."
The first officer and a crew member in the communication room hurried over to support Ge Zhu and took him out to find a doctor.
There was another crew member in the communication room. Jiang Luo walked over and chatted with him for a while, and while the crew was not paying attention, he was knocked unconscious with a palm.
The force he used was light, and the crew would only faint for a few minutes at most. Jiang Luo took the opportunity to turn on the communicator and try to connect to the police signal.
But he didn't succeed, and the crew woke up early on the table.
Jiang Luo immediately turned off the communicator and walked over to the crew, as if staring at him, and said softly, "Are you alright? Why did you suddenly fall asleep?"
The young crewman was a little dazed. He rubbed his forehead, not knowing why he fell asleep. He was a little flattered by Jiang Luo's concern, "Thank you sir, I think I'm just a little tired."
Under the sunglasses, Jiang Luo looked at the crew's tall body and green face, and narrowed his eyes.
A better idea came to mind.
Jiang Luo leaned against the table, his long legs intertwined, standing relaxed, facing the crew. He took off his sunglasses, revealing beautiful phoenix eyes, with a smile in his eyes, "What's your name?"
The crew member looked at him, stunned for a while, and said embarrassedly, "My name is Daniel."
"Daniel," the black-haired youth nodded, playing with his sunglasses with his long, skinny fingers, "do you have a girlfriend?"
Daniel was at a loss for words, and the beautiful guest with a wanton temperament suddenly realized, and teased: "Maybe it's a boyfriend?"
The young man blushed, "None."
"That's it," Jiang Luo nodded clearly, but stopped talking about this issue, and talked about other topics, "How often do you usually take a break after going out to sea?"
From talking about life issues to hobbies, there seem to be ticklish hints hidden inside and outside the words, but it is like a breeze blowing through the reeds, so fast that people can't help but wonder if it is an illusion caused by being too narcissistic.
Jiang Luo implemented his romantic personality to the end, and at the end, suddenly turned back to the original question, "Do you like boys or girls?"
Daniel seemed to be hungry, he swallowed, took a sip from the glass nervously, "I-I don't know."
Jiang Luo raised Daniel's chin with the frame of his sunglasses, and said with a smile, "So are you free at night?"
The meaning of these words is obvious. Daniel subconsciously wants to nod his head, but there is a look of loss on his face, "Sir, I'm sorry. I have to be on duty tonight."
Of course Jiang Luo knew that he was going to be on duty, after all, he only played so much when he was on the duty schedule. His smile turned regretful, and he put away his sunglasses and said, "It's a pity."
Jiang Luo got up and took two steps out. Daniel's eyes followed him, a burst of disappointment in his heart. But when the black-haired young man walked to the door, he suddenly stopped, turned his head and said with a smile, "How about I come here to find you at night?"
The noon sun shone on his body, making his face seem to be plated with a layer of clear and flickering golden light.
Daniel's eyes lit up suddenly, and he stood up "rubbing", unable to hide his excitement: "I'm on duty here, sir, you can come over at any time."
Jiang Luo raised his lips and smiled, and waved goodbye to him gracefully.
After walking out the door, he stopped laughing. When passing the trash can at the corner, Jiang Luo casually threw the sunglasses that touched the crew's chin.
in the communication room.
Daniel looked at Jiang Luo who had disappeared, and he swallowed hard again.
But more saliva came out of his mouth and flowed down from his mouth. Daniel wiped his saliva, sat down on the seat slowly, and said to himself, "I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry..."
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