Chapter 93: Communication Room

A body was hanging from the ceiling, suspended from the toes. They were wearing clothes that belonged to human beings and were supposed to be human beings, but their appearance was not that of human beings.

The corpses' faces were green and white, their brains were bulging, veins crawled from their necks to their faces, and their eyes were about to burst out of their sockets like fish. What's more terrible is that their bodies were covered with mucus, which dripped down from their toes to the ground, sticking their legs together, as if they had become fish tails.

The nose and the eyes on the face gradually merged together, resembling a human being, but at the same time transforming into a fish. Their bellies were raised, and both men and women looked as if they were in their eighth month of pregnancy.

The strong smell of fish hit me.

Such a shocking scene shook the crowd in place and left them speechless for a long time.

There was no wind in the bilge, but the hanged bodies were suspended by the ropes in slight circles. Lu Youyi suddenly pointed at a man not far away and said, "This is ...... this is Li Wei!"

Li Wei's hands hung down by his side and he looked down at the ground, his belly bulging as if he were carrying two basketballs, so large that it even ripped open the buttons of his shirt.

Lu Youyi's face was white, "Are they already dead?"

But after this question was asked, Lu Youyi had an answer in his heart. How could he survive in this state?

The bilge was filled with the sound of dripping slime, and Jiang Luo slowed his breathing to take in as little air as possible. He looked at the slime on the floor, which was reflecting in the light of the flashlight, and whispered, "Come on, let's go find Kuang Zheng first."

Kuang Zheng has only been taken away for an hour, he's definitely not in this shape yet.

The group carefully made their way through the corpses. The deeper they went, the stronger the fishy odor became, an odor that was as if they were in a piece of stagnant water that hadn't been changed in years, stagnant water that hid rotting fish and shrimp carcasses and aquatic plants, and every breath was a kind of torture for their noses.

As he walked, a pair of greenish-white toes brushed past Jiang Luo's hand, and Jiang Luo suddenly gave a start.

He turned and raised his head, staring at the body that had touched his arm.

The eyes of the corpse were bulging out, and his head was strangled by the rope. Jiang Luo looked at him steadily for a while, and Ye Xun 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."

Crowd behind me: "?!"

Zhuo Zhongqiu felt a chill run down her spine at the thought of the possibility that they weren't dead, and she whimpered, "How is this possible! I just looked closely, they're not breathing."

Jiang Luo turned his head to look at them and suddenly asked, "What do fish breathe with?"

Without waiting for an answer from the bystanders, he said to himself, "It is with the gills; the nose is only a mere olfactory organ of the fish."

Ye Xun followed by looking up at the bodies, a thin layer of sweat was already seething on his forehead in just a few moments, "Get them down and take a look?"

They lowered a body from the ceiling. The body was unconscious, its eyes wide and eerie as if it were staring at each of them.

Jiang Luo touched the end of his nose, and indeed he was not breathing. He touched his hands to the sides of his cheeks, but he didn't feel anything. As the flashlight went down, Jiang Luo suddenly saw that there was something wrong with the sides of the body's throat.

Reaching carefully, he found a crevice, he lifted the surface skin, and beneath it was indeed a gill that was permeated with heat.

Jiang Luo looked up at the others.

They stared at the gills at Jiang Luo's fingertips, their faces complicated, no one had thought they were still alive.

Being alive after being in this shape is anyone's guess whether it's a good thing or a bad thing for these people.

"Though alive, he's dying," Jiang Luo whispered, "Breathing weakly, heartbeat failing, lasts an hour at most."

He withdrew his hand and wiped the slime off his hand on his shirt, "When the crew inspects you, do they only check for heat or no heat?"

Ye Xun put away the difficult thoughts, "And the eyes."

Jiang Luo took the lamp and shone it into the victim's eyes, the victim's eyeballs were not covered with a foggy white color, he couldn't figure out what it meant, and was about to move his hand away when Jiang Luo suddenly had a flash of insight and muttered, "Fish in the deep sea, their eyes degenerate, right? "

There are even some fish that don't have eyes at all, and if they do have eyes, they don't play a role in sight.

Jiang Luo seemed to have caught a hint of what was going on. He handed the flashlight to Lu Youyi and asked him to hold the light for him. Jiang Luo scrutinized the victim, his nose was unchanged. Beyond the nose, Jiang Luo broke the victim's lips.

A fishy smell hits his face, and Jiang Luo holds his breath, realizing that the victim's teeth have changed a bit. The teeth gradually changed to sharp teeth, like sharks, like fish.

Jiang Luo It's basically confirmed that the blood eel is a deep-sea fish.

The flashlight continued down and stopped at the victim's abdomen.

The belly bulged abnormally, and most frighteningly, a bulge suddenly appeared in the belly as if it had sensed the light.

It was like a signal; after one bump, a second and a third one sprang up one after the other, and in an instant it became twenty or thirty uneven undulations.

The image was a sight to behold, and Sai Liaoer, who was crouching by the side, was startled, his voice shaking as he said, "Inside his stomach, there's something."

"Scratch it and see." A few moments later, Wenren Lian took the dagger from his body and asked Ge Zhu to light a match for him.

With a quick sweep of the blade over a match and a whispered "I'm sorry," he plunged the tip of the knife into the victim's abdomen, slashing it open.

A large, slimy, fishy, blood-colored slime gushed out frantically from his stomach, and twenty to thirty small, palm-sized fry slid down the slime to the ground, where they were alive and kicking.

Zhu Ge covered his mouth and let out a dry retch, "What's all this?!"

Jiang Luo sidesteps his head to avoid the splash of slime as the fish's tail slaps the ground, and takes the opportunity with his knife to stick in a fry, holding it up to the light for a closer look.

The fry was black and had no scales on its body, as smooth as a loach. But while the loach did not have a fish tail, it did. The eyes of the fry protruded on both sides of the head, and they were blood red.

Obviously, these are blood eel fry.

Blood eel fry are surprisingly raised from the bodies of civilians.

The blood eel didn't have a head so massive that it was about to burst through its cerebrum, and was so fragile that it was all but dead within half a minute of contact with the air.

Jiang Luo throws away the fry on the tip of the knife and shines a light on the inside of the victim's stomach, where there are still a few transparent round objects stuck on the stomach, which should be eggs that failed to hatch.

Wenren Lian's face deepened, "Kuang Zheng should have such fish eggs in his body as well."

"...... And the hatching took only a day and a night, " Zhuo Zhongqiu squatted next to him, "Li Wei was only taken away last night, and this evening his stomach has risen to that size. "

Ge Zhu took out two balls of paper from somewhere and plugged them into his nose, and tentatively lit a match to tease the transparent fish eggs that were stuck to his stomach. When the eggs were heated, they quickly fell off the stomach wall.

"Fear of fire." He said thoughtfully.

They sewed the victim's stomach back together, and after the loss of the fry, the victim's stomach loosened up like a balloon that had been inflated into an unsightly shape.

Smeller even said, "Go well."

With a swipe of his knife, he put the half-fish, half-human victim out of his misery ahead of schedule.

Jiang Luo They continued to walk deeper, and soon realized that the further back they went, the more slight the changes in the people hanging in the back became.

"Kuang Zheng?"

The group spread out, whispering Kuang Zheng's name.

In the corner, there was a sudden, weak knock.

A few people quickly approached towards the voice, "Kuang Zheng?"

The light from the flashlight was cluttered and finally hit the place where the sound came from. Kuang Zheng was lying on the ground with a rope wrapped around his neck, which had snapped, presumably as a result of his struggle to free himself.

The moment they saw that it was Kuang Zheng, everyone quickly gathered around.

Kuang Zheng's face is flushed and he's breathing heavily; he's sweating profusely and is doing his best to fight off the effects of the sleeping pills as he struggles to open his eyes.

Jiang Luo patted Kuang Zheng's face, "Kuang Zheng, Kuang Zheng?Can you hear my voice?"

Kuang Zheng nodded with difficulty.

The crowd breathed a sigh of relief, and Jiang Luo's hand rested on Kuang Zheng's abdomen, the slight bulge making his face grave.

At that moment, Wen Renlian stiffly withdrew his hand from behind Kuang Zheng's back, "Jiang Luo ......"

Jiang Luo looks at his hand, a patch of mucus above it.

Kuang Zheng also has eggs inside him, and he's even starting to mutate.

Lu Youyi said, "What should we do?"

Jiang Luo asked Wen Ren Lian to turn Kuang Zheng over and lift up Kuang Zheng's clothes to look at his backside, "Let Sai Liaoer invite the God to come to him and ask that 'God' if there is any way to get rid of the eggs in Kuang Zheng's body, and if there is no way, then we can only cut open his stomach to take out the eggs. If there is no way, then we can only cut open his stomach and remove those eggs."

Sai Liaoer shows a look worse than tears, "I, I'll try."

Ye Xun snapped, "Call the police."

He pursed his lips, "It doesn't matter if you pass the test or not, human life is more important."

Jiang Luo calmly said, "Ye Xun is right. There was a police ship following the Angonese from afar when we set out from the Triangle Mouth, so we can head to the communications room to connect to the police ship's signal when the crew isn't looking and send them a distress message."

The area where the Angonese is now docked is the high seas and not under the jurisdiction of any one country, but the country has the right to board the ship and arrest the suspects as long as the victims are from their country.

The communications room was in a work area frequented by the crew, and there was little possibility of sneaking into it. However, the most important thing is to save Kuang Zheng's life, and as this is obviously not a good place to do so, several people once again used the Five Ghosts Carrying Technique to leave the bilge.

They neither set up an altar to insert incense nor placed tribute, and the five ghosts, with their ugly faces, didn't even bother to give them an extra ride, throwing them out the door and disappearing.

They carried Kuang Zheng back to Jiang Luo's room with great difficulty and fear, but fortunately they were not discovered by others.

Back in his room, Kuang Zheng was having more difficulty breathing. Jiang Luo had Lu Youyi drag Kuang Zheng to the bathroom and turn on the faucet to run water into the bathtub.

Kuang Zheng was placed in the bathtub, and after being immersed in the water, the speed of his transformation seemed to have slowed down a bit. His breathing slowly calmed down, but he was completely unconscious.

Knives at the ready, high purity alcohol at the ready, the rich man's room was full of things that could be used. After the bathroom was cleaned up, only Sai Liaoer and Jiang Luo were left in.

Jiang Luo puts on his gloves and nods towards Sai Liaoer.

Sai Liaoer clenches his fists, takes a deep breath, and begins to sing an invocation.

Jiang Luo watched him sing and dance with the gods, several times by Sai Liaoer running tune of the song stirred scalp numbness, Sai Liaoer enough to sing and dance for fifteen minutes, or not a little bit of success of the omen, Jiang Luo thought he was going to fail, Sai Liaoer suddenly closed his eyes, the body stood straight and froze.

After a few seconds, Sai Liaoer opens his eyes.

The blue-colored eyes steeply became steady and mature, and a copy of Three Hundred Words to Learn English appeared in his hand as well. He looked at Jiang Luo and was slightly stunned, then he said, "Mr. Jiang."

Jiang Luo said tentatively, "Brother Black?"

Hei Wuchang waved his hand and the books in his hand disappeared as he said, "It's me."

It's really worthy of the White Impermanence, inviting the God to come up and bring Hei Wuchang here.

But will Hei Wuchang be useful?

After Jiang Luo greeted Hei Wuchang, he told him about Kuang Zheng. Hei Wuchang pondered for a moment and asked, "Mr. Jiang, have you ever heard of bone scraping?"

Jiang Luo looked to Kuang Zheng, "You're going to scrape his flesh open?"

Hei Wuchang shook his head, "Nonetheless."

"Although I have never done any healing, but listening to what you said, if it is just to drive away the fish eggs in his body, it is quite simple. It is only necessary to drill into his hands and feet with Underworld Flame, causing the fire qi to enter his organs and bowels from his limbs, and then scrape across his abdomen from the bottom to the top, forcing the fish eggs to escape from his mouth."

Jiang Luo didn't quite understand, he asked directly, "What should I do?"

Hei Wuchang said, "Please also help me hold his hands and feet down, Mr. Jiang."

Jiang Luo and Hei Wuchang tied Kuang Zheng's hands and feet to the sides of the pool, keeping him afloat. Jiang Luo palms Kuang Zheng's head so that he can both breathe and his lips are submerged underwater, "Hei, I'm done."

Hei Wuchang said seriously, "OK."

Jiang Luo: "......"

Hei Wuchang using a Sai Liaoer shell to speak English to him is really magical.

Hei Wuchang waved his hand and four blue flames appeared in his hand. The flames ran into Kuang Zheng's body from each of his limbs, and Kuang Zheng's face changed abruptly, and he grunted in pain.

Jiang Luo held him down, Hei Wuchang took a knife from the side and pushed Kuang Zheng's abdomen with the back of the wider knife from the bottom to the top, forcing the unseen things under the abdomen out of the spleen and stomach.

Kuang Zheng's mouth began to overflow with blood-colored mucus and yellow stomach juice. His face became more and more distorted, and he suddenly struggled violently, spitting out a large amount of mucus and fish eggs in one gulp.

Transparent round eggs were drilled into the cold water, and Jiang Luo saw tiny tadpole-like fry hatching from them.

If it had been a few hours later, I'm afraid the fry would have emerged from the eggs and taken up residence in Kuang Zheng's body.

Hei Wuchang forced Kuang Zheng to vomit for three waves, and only after the last of the vomit was free of mucus did he say, "There."

Jiang Luo immediately pulled Kuang Zheng to his feet and went to wash his hands, sweating profusely. Hei Wuchang looked around, hesitated for a long time, and asked, "Mr. Jiang, where are you guys? I couldn't find Duke Sei these past few nights."

"We're out to sea," Jiang Luo said, "I don't suppose this is your work area?"

Hei Wuchang showed a look of so, "Indeed it is not our area of responsibility."

Jiang Luo remembered Sai Liaoer's sleepy appearance the other day as if he had been sucked out of his essence, and kindly advised, "Brother Black, you can't let Sai Liaoer work all night every night, he can't take it."

Hei Wuchang listened quietly, his expression growing more and more guilty, and when Jiang Luo had finished speaking, he pondered for a moment and nodded, "I will think about this matter. Mr. Jiang, invoking the god to take on the body does not last too long, otherwise it will cause a heavy burden on the host, I will leave first."

Jiang Luo finished thanking him, Hei Wuchang withdrew the four Underworld Flames that had burrowed into Kuang Zheng's body and closed his eyes, and in the next instant, Sai Liaoer reopened his eyes, unable to stand sleepily, and asked with difficulty, "How is it, Kuang?"

Jiang Luo laughed, "You made it."

The next moment he got the answer, Sai Liaoer fell to the ground with his head in his hands.

Jiang Luo held him up in time, called the people in, and moved them both to the bedroom bed. Ye Xun and Wen Renlian changed Kuang Zheng's clothes and set them up, then the group squatted by the bathtub, looking at the fish eggs in the pool.

The fish eggs died quickly in the cold water, and it looked like this water was not suitable for the eggs.

Or maybe only a warm, enclosed space like the human body is optimal for nourishing fry.

The waters where deep sea fish live are both deep and incredibly cold, and as deep sea fish, the eggs of the blood eel are incredibly delicate. I'm afraid that it was because the crew of the Angonese knew this secret that they allowed the rich to lure civilians onto the ship to use as vessels to artificially raise blood eel fry.

This is not man eating fish, this is clearly man eating man.

Jiang Luo looked to Wen Renlian, "Do you remember the day Wilton jumped overboard? We met the crew at the stern of the ship, and they said they were keeping a constant watch on the seabed for the presence of fish eggs."

"We've been tricked," Wenren Lian sneered, "They should have been putting out bait to attract the blood eels to take the bait that day."

And the bait, most likely the four civilians missing from the ship.

They had been traveling at sea for four days and were missing exactly four civilians; the blood eel caught weighed over five hundred pounds, and it had most likely swallowed all four men into its stomach.

The civilians certainly didn't know about it, the crew did, so did the rich?

Ge Zhu whispered from the side, "Actually, since I was in the bilge, I've been thinking about a question. The captain said that the blood eel could be eaten after three days, is this blood eel, in the end, a big fish that was caught in the first place, or is it a civilian that is gradually ichthyized in the bilge, or is it a fry that hatched out?"

Jiang Luo felt that the odds were that it was a hatched minnow, but he didn't voice his guesses out, instead shrugging his shoulders and saying, "Who knows."

*

After a night of little sleep, Kuang Zheng finally opened his eyes at dawn.

He was weak, but was fine. Wenren even fed him some porridge, and the group discussed how to blend into the communication room.

There was a constant presence of people in the communications room and crew members all around. The final result of the discussion was to have Jiang Luo and Ge Zhu, two people with the status of rich people, to go and find out for themselves.

They didn't have to be careful, they could just use the excuse of visiting the crew's work location and enter the comm room with a straight face.

Jiang Luo and Ge Zhu both think this plan is feasible.

The Angonese was a huge and beautifully crafted luxury cruise ship with a crew numbering in the hundreds and thousands, and if they were accidentally exposed to the crew, they would only be killed and fed to the fishes without anyone realizing it.

It's better to be careful.

They did what they said they would do, and after lunch, Jiang Luo took Ge Zhu to the captain of the ship and asked for a tour of the crew's workspace.

The captain smiled, "Then let the first mate show you around."

The first mate standing on the side stepped forward with a pleasing smile on his handsome face, "Mr. Zhong, Mr. Lu, please follow me."

Along the way, the first mate tries to show his humor, but every time he meets Jiang Luo's eyes, he dodges and quickly avoids them. It's as if he's afraid of Jiang Luo's coaching, but he's also a little bit excited about it.

Jiang Luo has no interest in him; he wears sunglasses, the standard tourist fare of a floral shirt and white shorts, a sardonic smile, and the occasional wink at pretty boys and girls with his sunglasses off.

Ge Zhu looked at him like this and couldn't help but relax as well. The two visited many places along the way and were about to head to the reserve warehouse when they saw two crew members feasting at a rest table around the corner of the corridor.

On the table were two large plates of red meat, I don't know if it was beef or fish, sprinkled with seasoning and tossed raw. There was a small dish of ketchup and chili oil next to it, and the two crewmen ate it with their mouths so full of flavor that a bit of blood and water stuck to the edges of their mouths in a general red color.

After the crew saw them coming, they even warmly invited, "Would the first mate and the two gentlemen like to come and use some?"

They were still chewing on something in their mouths as they spoke. Jiang Luo looked at the mass of meat and thought of the bodies hanging up in the middle of the bilge last night, he smiled and refused, "Thank you, no need."

Ge Zhu also politely declined.

The first mate poured on the cravings and took two bites before leading them on down the street.

After all that needed to be seen, the first officer finally led them to the communications room.

As soon as Ge Zhu entered the room, he excused himself for having a stomach ache, his face distorted with pain and his expression exaggerated. Jiang Luo pretended to be panicked beside him and said, "It's not the appendix that's in trouble, is it? Quickly come to help, send Mr. Lu to the infirmary."

The first mate and one of the crew members in the communications room rushed over to help Ge Zhu and take him out to find a doctor.

There was another crew member in the communications room, Jiang Luo went over to talk to him, and when the crew member wasn't paying attention, he knocked him out with a slap.

The force he used was light enough that the crew would only be unconscious for a few minutes at most, and Jiang Luo took the opportunity to turn on his communicator and try to connect to the police signal.

But before he could succeed, the crewman woke up early, propped up against the table.

Jiang Luo immediately turned off his communicator and walked over to the crew member as if he had been watching him and whispered, "Are you alright? Why did you suddenly fall asleep?"

The young crewman was a bit bewildered, he rubbed his forehead and wondered why he had fallen asleep, he was a bit flattered by Jiang Luo's concern, "Thank you sir, I guess I'm just a bit tired."

Underneath his sunglasses, Jiang Luo surveyed the crewman's tall frame and youthful face and narrowed his eyes.

A better idea came to mind.

Jiang Luo leaned against the table, his long legs intertwined, his posture relaxed as he stood face to face with the crew. He took off his sunglasses, revealing beautifully open phoenix eyes with a smile in them, "What's your name?"

The crewman looked at him, his eyes frozen with worry for a moment, and said shyly, "My name is Daniel."

"Daniel," the dark-haired youth nodded, his long, bony fingers playing with his sunglasses, "do you have a girlfriend?"

Daniel stammered, unable to speak, and the pretty guest with the reckless air of a man came to a sudden realization and teased, "Boyfriend perhaps?"

The boy blushed, "Neither."

"That's right," Jiang Luo nodded understandingly, but did not continue to talk about this issue, but chatted about other topics, "How often do you usually take a break after sailing?"

From life issues to hobbies, the words seem to hide hints that make people itch, but also like a breeze blowing through the reeds, so fast that people can not help but wonder if they are too self-absorbed to produce the illusion.

Jiang Luo carried his flirtatious persona to the bottom and waited until the end, then suddenly shifted back to the original question, "Do you like boys or girls?"

Daniel As if hungry, he gulped and nervously picked up his glass of water and took a sip, "I, I don't know."

Jiang Luo lifted Daniel's chin with the rim of his sunglasses and said with a smile, "So are you free tonight?"

The meaning in those words was obvious, and Daniel subconsciously tried to nod, but a lost look passed over his face, "Sir, I'm sorry. I'm on duty tonight."

Jiang Luo of course knew he was on duty, after all it was seeing him on the duty roster that made him play so much. His smile turned regretful as he put away his sunglasses and said, "Pity."

Jiang Luo got up and took two steps outside. Daniel's eyes went after him, and a pang of disappointment ran through his heart. However, the dark-haired youth stopped abruptly when he reached the door, turned his head and smiled, "Then how about I come here to find you at night?"

The evening sunlight poured over his body, making even his features seem to be gilded with a clear, shimmering golden light.

Daniel's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stood up, unable to hide his excitement, "I'll be right here on duty, sir, so feel free to come over."

Jiang Luo picked his lips and smiled, dashingly waving goodbye to him.

As he walked out the door, he put away his smile. As he passed the trash can around the corner, Jiang Luo absently tossed in the sunglasses that had touched the crew's chin.

In the communications room.

Daniel looked at Jiang Luo, who had disappeared, and he swallowed hard again.

But more drool seethed out of his mouth and trickled down the sides of his mouth as Daniel wiped the drool away and slowly sat back in his seat, muttering to himself, "So hungry, I'm so hungry ......"