Chapter 123 The Second Offering

What happened last night, no one knows except Jian Qianyuan and her unfortunate companion who has died.

Lin Qiushi remembered that during the day yesterday, Jian Qianyuan used to be one of those who disliked the taste of lunch, but in the face of today's equally disgusting and tasteless lunch of dead fish, her strange behavior gave Lin Qiushi a bad guess. Is Jian Qianyuan also affected by that monster...

Jian Qianyuan didn't care about other people's thoughts at all. She was full, and left the restaurant with her slightly bulging belly. When she walked out of the restaurant, she seemed to notice that all the people on the deck were looking at her with frightened eyes. He smiled indifferently, and said to himself: "Actually, it tastes good. If you like it, you can also try it."

No one should answer Jian Qianyuan's words, she shrugged self-indulgently, and turned to leave.

Lin Qiushi saw her enter a room casually, and then the room changed, and Jian Qianyuan disappeared in front of everyone's eyes.

The room changes all the time, and every few minutes, new rooms appear in front of the deck.

Some people were lucky and the things in the room were taken out by others, while some people were unlucky and could never find the original house again.

However, Lin Qiushi made a new discovery. When they were walking in the corridor, they were lucky to see the locked room they found yesterday. It's just that this time is slightly different from yesterday. The door of that room was wide open at this time. The chain that had locked the door from the room fell to the ground in a mess and broke into several pieces. It looked like it had been destroyed by violence. .

"I remember this one." Lin Qiushi said, "It's 201." He looked at the house number, and the house number he saw yesterday came to his mind, "Is there anything in it now?"

Ruan Nanzhu stood at the door and didn't move, and looked into the dark door and said, "Is there any movement inside?"

"No." Lin Qiushi shook his head after listening for a while, he was sure that he didn't hear anything.

"That thing should have gone." Ruan Nanzhu stepped forward, stepped in, and lit the kerosene lamp on the table next to him.

The dim light illuminated the small room, allowing them to see the interior clearly.

This is an ordinary and unusual room. The ordinary is its furnishings, which is no different from the place where Lin Qiushi and the others live. What is unusual is the extra things in the room-some fish scales.

These scales are almost all over the house, and even the house is filled with a disgusting fishy smell. Lin Qiushi also noticed that there was a layer of liquid that was somewhat like water but more viscous than water on the floor of this room, which made people feel very uncomfortable.

The marks drawn by sharp claws on the surrounding walls and furniture also told them that this room used to be the room where the monster was imprisoned.

Lin Qiushi inspected these scratches and saw that these scratches were very deep. This is true for a solid solid wood floor. I am afraid that the fragile human body is even more vulnerable in front of it.

Gu Longming was disgusted by what was inside, but Ruan Nanzhu took out a tissue from his arms and collected some scales from it.

Although it is not known what the use of these fish scales is at the moment, but be prepared, just in case.

Lin Qiushi looked for other traces in the house. Soon, he found a man's shoe in the corner of the house. This shoe reminded Lin Qiushi of the man who was eaten yesterday. Did the monster drag the prey back to the room? While Lin Qiushi was thinking about it, Gu Longming said, "It's almost time." He started timing the moment he came in, and there were dozens of seconds before five minutes.

"Let's go, go out first." Ruan Nanzhu said, "This place should have no other use."

Lin Qiushi hummed.

Not long after the three left the room, the location of the room changed to another room, and Lin Qiushi's expression was slightly silent.

Ruan Nanzhu asked what he was thinking.

Lin Qiushi said: "I think things may be a little worse than we thought."

"How do you say?" Gu Longming wondered.

"Is the monster's position really fixed?" Lin Qiushi said, "Or can it be moved?" Before seeing the room, he always thought the monster's position was fixed. But when he saw the broken chain, he had a bad guess. The monster can move. He can walk through this maze. Although he can't find the exit like a human being, he is lost in the maze. In his eyes, human beings are like food.

"Your guess should be correct." Ruan Nanzhu looked at his watch, "There are thirteen people, enough for him to eat for ten days."

Gu Longming smiled dryly: "Are you kidding me?"

Ruan Nanzhu shrugged: "If you like this joke."

At dinner time, Lin Qiushi originally thought he would see the NPC covered in bugs, but found that the NPC did not appear. It seems that he will only appear in the restaurant during lunch. It is a regular refresh NPC...

Everyone still ate listlessly for dinner, except for Jian Qianyuan.

She appeared in the restaurant again and continued to feast on the fish in front of her, but because of Jian Qianyuan's bold attitude, everyone lost their appetite and left the restaurant after eating some noodles.

Lin Qiushi and the others did the same, but before leaving, Lin Qiushi carefully observed Jian Qianyuan to see if there was any change in Jian Qianyuan.

But what he was puzzled was that Jian Qianyuan was still a simple human being, and there was no other abnormality except that she suddenly became fond of eating fish.

"I'm really afraid that when I come over tomorrow, I'll see that she has become that kind of thing." Gu Longming's feelings about Jian Qianyuan are very complicated now, he and Lin Qiushi are thinking the same thing.

Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu didn't speak.

That night, Lin Qiushi didn't slept much, and he kept thinking about Jian Qianyuan, the changes in her, and the connection between the clues.

And Ruan Nanzhu took out the scales of the fish from his pocket and placed them on the table, observing them carefully.

There was no rain this evening, and the bright moon hung in the sky, casting a tint of silver on both the cabin and the sea. The sea breeze poured in through the window with saltiness and heat, and the bed under him was shaking slightly. If it wasn't for the door, the atmosphere would have been a bit like a leisurely journey.

Lin Qiushi looked sideways, and the scenery outside the window changed every five minutes.

Sometimes he could see the deck, sometimes the side of the ship, and sometimes a dark wall, and the two people lying behind him seemed to have fallen asleep, breathing evenly. However, just when Lin Qiushi was about to fall asleep, he heard a very subtle sound-something was walking on the wooden board. You can hear the sticky sound of skin and wood touching.

And the sound got closer and closer, and finally stopped near their window.

Lin Qiushi held his breath. He half-squinted his eyes and saw a tall shadow blocking the light from his window. Lin Qiushi ... smelled a familiar fishy smell - he knew what was standing in front of him against the light.

It was the huge monster with the fish head and the human body that they saw last night.

It was standing in front of Lin Qiushi's window at this time, and it seemed to twitch its nose to find some breath. Lin Qiushi held his breath and didn't dare to move.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, Lin Qiushi saw that the thing slowly stretched out his hand to the window, and began to shake the window with his webbed hand.

The window was not strong, and a loud noise was pushed out. Ruan Nanzhu and Gu Longming, who were still sleeping, also woke up instantly. As soon as they woke up, they saw the huge figure standing outside the window, and also heard the low, like The roar of a beast.

Lin Qiushi originally thought that Gu Longming, who was sleeping, would scream in horror when he saw this scene, but he didn't expect that he just shivered, so he lowered his voice and said, "Damn, am I having a nightmare? Why is this thing in our hands? door-"

Ruan Nanzhu was also very calm. He had already taken out a knife from the restaurant from his pocket and said, "Maybe he found that we look delicious?"

Gu Longming touched his face and dared not say anything: "...do I look delicious?"

Ruan Nanzhu looked at him sympathetically: "There are always monsters who like heavy taste."

Lin Qiushi almost admired the nerves of these two people.

The monster stretched out his hand and pushed out a big hole in the window. All the glass above was shattered and shattered. Then it tried to get in through the window, but after finding that the window was too small, it moved the double protrusion. He raised his white eyes and put his eyes on the wooden door next to him.

"Fuck." Gu Longming scolded a swear word, "This thing doesn't really intend to come in!"

"It seems so." Ruan Nanzhu frowned, "Is death random? No...it's impossible! We missed something!"

Just as they were talking, the murlocs began to slam the wooden door in front of them hard. The wooden door, which was originally weak, quickly became shaky under its impact, and Lin Qiushi could even hear the sound of the wooden planks shattering.

"It rushes in later, I will stop it and you can escape from the window." Ruan Nanzhu's voice sounded, still very calm, he said, "Did you hear it, Lin Lin?"

"No." Lin Qiushi said, "I won't leave you alone, don't make the same mistake." He frowned, his expression very unpleasant.

Ruan Nanzhu was silent for a moment, and sighed as if giving up something, "Okay, as you wish." He handed Lin Qiushi a table knife.

"I'm not leaving either." Gu Longming said nervously beside him.

Ruan Nanzhu showed helplessness, but he did not persuade him any more. He looked at his watch and said, "Thirty seconds, hold on for another thirty seconds, and keep it outside—"

Lin Qiushi and Gu Longming understood instantly - after 30 seconds, the room will change again, and the changed room can leave here and throw the monsters outside.

But these thirty seconds were not so easy to win, because the murloc had already split half of the door with its sharp claws, and was about to squeeze the scaled body through the gap.

Gu Longming turned around and moved the table against the door, while Ruan Nanzhu planned to pull the bed over and block the door.

Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nanzhu's movements, but suddenly remembered something. He remembered that when the murloc walked to their window, the first action he made was to sniff his nose——

"Give me the scales you collected during the day!" Lin Qiushi shouted.

"What?" Ruan Nanzhu was slightly taken aback.

"The scale you found in the monster's room—" Lin Qiushi repeated loudly again.

Fortunately, Ruan Nanzhu responded very quickly. After understanding what Lin Qiushi meant, he took out a small paper bag from his pocket and threw it out through the gap in the window.

The scales wrapped in the paper bag were all scattered on the corridor outside, and the murloc who had been concentrating on hitting the door also stopped, walked towards the position of the paper bag, bent down and seemed to want to pick up those scales.

Seeing this scene, Lin Qiushi felt relieved, but the next moment, after discovering that the paper bag was nothing but scales, the murloc let out an angry roar, turned around and rushed towards their location.

But these actions were enough to survive the long 30 seconds. Just before the murlocs rushed towards them and were about to smash the door, their room changed positions and the murlocs disappeared in front of them. .

Lin Qiushi quickly opened the wooden door that had been broken into several pieces. After confirming that there was no murloc figure outside, he and Ruan Nanzhu and the others changed to the next room.

And his worries soon became a reality, because about two or three minutes later, the murloc actually found the room they were in again, and completely destroyed the door panel and jumped into the room.

At this time, Lin Qiushi and the others hid in another small room not far from that room, and saw what was happening outside through the window.

The sound of smashing things kept coming. After confirming that his prey had escaped, the murloc left with a heavy gasp, but judging from its appearance, it seemed that it had a new target, and that huge mouth opened slightly. open, revealing white and fine fangs, and saliva flowing down the corner of his mouth.

The three of them hid in the room and didn't dare to make a sound, until the murlocs were far away, Gu Longming breathed a sigh of relief: "Damn, it came after the smell of fish, I thought we were dead. !"

They didn't expect fish to play such a role here. If Lin Qiushi didn't react fast enough, at least one of the three of them would have been damaged here.

Although the murloc was gone, Ruan Nanzhu's expression still did not relax. His solemn expression made Gu Longming a little uneasy. He said, "What's wrong? Zhu Meng?"

"I think Jian Qianyuan is going to die." Ruan Nanzhu said.

Just as Gu Longming wanted to ask why, he remembered what happened to Jian Qianyuan during the day. She seemed to eat a lot of fish, and even when they left the restaurant, they could smell the strong fishy smell on Jian Qianyuan's body. And since they can smell the smell, there is no doubt that the monster can also be easily smelled.

Sure enough, not long after the murloc monster left, Lin Qiushi's keen hearing picked up a woman's scream, which seemed to be a little far away from them, and Lin Qiushi could only hear a rough outline, while Gu Longming and Ruan Nanzhu, Can't seem to hear it.

The screams continued, accompanied by weeping and wailing, and finally faded away, leaving only numb roars and chewing sounds.

The sound came from the deck, and Lin Qiushi didn't want to know what they would see on the deck the next day.

Thinking about it, it was another hollowed-out corpse, with its internal organs gnawed away, leaving only an empty skeleton.

Ruan Nanzhu seemed to notice that Lin Qiushi couldn't sleep. He sat beside Lin Qiushi's bed, lay with Lin Qiushi, rested his chin on Lin Qiushi's head, and kissed his hair gently.

The warmth of the body coming from behind gave Lin Qiushi's icy voice a little comfort, but the terrifying voice seemed to continue to echo in Lin Qiushi's ears, and he seemed to be able to continue hearing Jian Qianyuan's cries...

"She is dead." Lin Qiushi said.

"Well." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Go to sleep, this is normal."

Lin Qiushi sighed: "Maybe I have some way to save her."

"But you have to save yourself first." Ruan Nanzhu's fingers ran through Lin Qiushi's hair, "We are still short of a long sword that can kill it."

In mythology, Theseus killed the tauren with a long sword, but now they don't see any weapons on the boat that appear to be able to damage the murlocs - a table knife is definitely not acceptable.

"The thread has been found." Lin Qiushi said, "The aperitif has also been found." After Jian Qianyuan died, he understood the meaning of the aperitif.

Ruan Nanzhu kissed the tip of Lin Qiushi's ear and said, "Go to sleep, we'll talk about it tomorrow."

Lin Qiushi hummed and closed his eyes.

Said to be sleeping, but he still hadn't been able to sleep too much, just stayed up until dawn in a daze.

The weather was bad today, and the thick clouds covered the sky again, and the light was scary.

Lin Qiushi got up early and went to the deck with Ruan Nanzhu and the others. Unsurprisingly, he saw a corpse on the deck. Although his face could not be seen clearly, from the perspective of clothes, it was indeed Jian Qianyuan's.

Her stomach was cut open, and all the fish she ate yesterday was gone, along with her internal organs.

"Ouch-" Shen Juexin, who was already seasick, vomited again, and also vomited with him, along with a few girls with weaker tolerance.

Lin Qiushi also saw Xiao Mo who reminded him that day. She lost some of the jerkyness of a newcomer, and her expression became much numb, as if she had accepted the terrifying picture in front of her.

Two days later, Jian Qianyuan was the second sacrifice to be eaten.

Everyone simply disposed of Jian Qianyuan's body, saying that it was disposed of, but they just threw it into the sea to watch the rest of her be eaten by fish.

"I also saw that monster yesterday." The number of people who saw the monster was more, and someone was describing what happened yesterday in a trembling voice, "It walked past my door, walked to Jian Qianyuan's house, then split the door and opened the door. Jian Qianyuan was dragged out of the house..."

"That thing is terrible," said the man. "I can't save her. I'm no match for the monster."

No one can beat a two-meter-tall monster, and if there is a hot weapon, he might be able to struggle, but when there is only a knife, no one dares to joke about his life.

Lin Qiushi looked a little tired. He found a seat in the restaurant and sat down, fiddling with the plate with the beans.

The NPC who gave them food also appeared. He was exactly the same as when Lin Qiushi saw it on the first day, and his expression did not change.

Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu looked at each other, Ruan Nanzhu got up first and walked towards the NPC.

"Hello sir." Ruan Nanzhu greeted him.

The NPC didn't speak, but looked at Ruan Nanzhu indifferently, as if he was just a robot, and the fact that others greeted him was not within the program he wrote.

"Hello sir." Ruan Nanzhu told him a second time.

The man remained silent.

Ruan Nanzhu tilted his head, stretched out his hand and pushed the dinner plate in front of him directly to the ground.

"What are you doing?" The man finally spoke, his tone very unpleasant.

"I want to ask you." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Do you have so many bugs on your body when you make food?"

The man said, "I don't understand what you're talking about."

Ruan Nanzhu grabbed it casually, grabbed a human-faced mosquito that circled around the man, and said, "Don't understand?"

When the man saw this scene, he put down the spoon he used to prepare food, turned around and was about to leave, but was grabbed by the shoulders of Ruan Nanzhu: "Where are you going?"

The man started shaking violently.

Lin Qiushi watched from a distance. At first he thought the man was afraid or angry, but soon he realized that it was neither fear nor anger, but the man was melting.

His body began to shrink rapidly, from head to toe, it turned into a dark mass, which hummed and scattered directly in the restaurant - it turned out to be densely packed with mosquitoes.

Everyone else in the restaurant was stunned by this scene and began to slap like crazy.

But the mosquitoes came and went quickly, and disappeared in the restaurant just like that, and the NPC who stood in front of them just now was left with only a set of empty clothes.

"Damn it." Gu Longming didn't expect this at all, so he said blankly, "This brother is actually a mosquito sperm?"

Lin Qiushi: "..." He didn't know what to say for a while.

Ruan Nanzhu scratched his head and turned to look at Lin Qiushi: "Will no one give us fish in the future?"

Lin Qiushi: "...It seems to be."

Ruan Nanzhu spread out his hands and made an innocent expression, but the expressions of the others in the restaurant became complicated, and they didn't know what to think.

Ruan Nanzhu: "That's a pity."

Everyone: "..." It's not a pity, okay, thank you.

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