Isolated Island (23)

[The corpse is hidden in the belly of the fish, and the bones are buried in the yellow sandy soil. ]

A new prompt was given, and a new day began.

The water had risen a lot overnight and was almost at the manor's entrance; it had already submerged the "tourists are not allowed to enter" stone. Fortunately, no living dead appeared at night, and everyone was well rested.

The number of scales on their body was still increasing, but they were not painful or itchy.

Early in the morning, the refugees went fishing in the inflatable boat. With a food source, the tension initially caused by the food shortage dissipated a lot.

"If we had known, we would've gone fishing two days earlier," they slapped their thighs in regret.

Ren Yifei let out a 'hehe' at that moment. Were the manor's people the ones who told them not to make an effort and find food from the ocean or mountain? It was their own cowardice and unwillingness to go because they heard that there were monsters in the water

Ren Yifei also went and met the crazy old man at the entrance along the way. This person was simply an immortal. He sat alone by the gate in such harsh conditions, yet nothing happened to him.

He was chanting things like 'going to die' repeatedly. Sometimes, they suspect the man was just pretending to be crazy.

Actually, he had also gone to the owner of the manor earlier that morning, but the other party refused to meet anyone and had not appeared for a while now.

"You can come at noon," the violinist said, "Maybe she'll show up."

Thus, he decided to go fishing first.

Saman did not come. He had his own personal matters, not to mention that he could not catch fish.

There were many people on the water since everyone had already gotten a taste of the sweetness. Earthworms became scarce early in the morning, but fortunately, Ren Yifei hid a few small fish yesterday so that he could use them as bait.

Someone borrowed his inflatable boat yesterday, and today, that person brought it back early in the morning— the other party had already gone fishing earlier. Ren Yifei floated on the boat, tied to a tree with a safety rope.

Gurgle gurgle gurgle, his ears picked up the sounds of a bunch of surging bubbles. Ren Yifei thought he had encountered a fish but found nothing when he looked.

He hooked the little fish and started fishing while keeping the constant gargling sound in mind.

"Bubbles?" He suddenly thought of something and reached out to grab the rubber airbag on the bottom of the boat. The airbag that had been inflated that morning was actually a little soft.

Ren Yifei's expression changed immediately, and he stretched out his hand and pulled the plastic rope, ready to retreat.

The plastic rope was unexpectedly pulled over, and he lifted his head only to find a man standing under the tree. The man was standing crookedly while looking at him with a sneer.

Ren Yifei's heart made a thud; the plastic rope had already been cut. There was still a wooden plank on his boat, but Ren Yifei did not believe that person would simply watch him row the boat back.

Sure enough, after he rowed a few times with the woods plank, the other side took out a black crossbow, and arrows flew swiftly at him. Ren Yifei managed to dodge narrowly, but his boat could not. A hole was punctured into the airbag, causing the speed of air escaping to increase.

Then, several arrows shot at him consecutively. One directly hit his shoulder blade, almost penetrating his shoulder, and the rest hit the airbag. He immediately sucked in a cold breath of air.

Cold sweat dripped down his face as he looked down at the arrowhead that had yet to hit his bone. He clenched his jaw and broke off the exposed portion of the arrow shaft in front of him. The arrow could not be pulled out because the barbed head would cause more blood loss. Although he brought bandages, this amount was not enough to stop the bleeding.

But the most troublesome thing right now was that the boat was starting to sink.

The people on the shore kept screaming, but no one dared to stop the man, Ygqs6v

"I let him live, but left a hidden danger," Ren Yifei painfully paddled while the little black cat on the boat lay in the small wooden bucket and cried.

There were originally several inflatable boats next to him, but now they were far away for fear of being caught in a crossfire.

After another series of arrows, Ren Yifei's heart tightened, and he put the wooden bucket with the cat in the water and pushed it aside. He then directly rolled into the water.

The water was unexpectedly cold. Ren Yifei raised his head and found that the world outside the water was pitch black.

Gurgling, the sound of bubbles.

Boom, the sound of lightning.

Click, the sound of something snapping.

It was a very familiar sound. He seemed to have heard it before, but there were many human voices mixed in it

"Ahhhh— help—"

'The ship is about to break!"

Ren Yifei finally opened his eyes and immediately saw countless pearl-coloured shadows approaching him with twisted, eerie smiles.

"...Hi?" Isn't these the things from the mountain? There were still a few crabs hanging on their translucent clothes and other parasites on their body. It was as if they hated that they could not cover their entire body with seafood to prove that they were not coquettish b*tches from the shore but from the sea.

They seemed to reach out to pull him. He touched his pocket and was about to make a move, but something firmly grabbed his ankle. It was the skeleton. It had appeared once again and pulled his feet, dragging him down.

If it weren't for his still intact rationality and knowing that the skeleton might not be malicious, Ren Yifei would have immediately kicked it with his foot. But with a strange gambling mentality, he relaxed his resistance and let himself be dragged to the bottom of the water.

The pearl-coloured spirits let out a shrill sound in unison, and despite obviously being underwater, his ears felt as though they were being deafened by someone screaming.

"Screw off!" He stretched out his hand to push them away, and wisps of blood emerged from his wound like a red gauze in the water.

The pearl-coloured shadows got excited and stretched out their long transparent nails.

"Go away!" He said again and took the initiative to go downstream.

The closer he was to the bottom, the brighter the world became. Finally, at a certain moment, Ren Yifei seemed to be pulled out of the unusual space.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

He coughed violently before realising that he had floated to the surface, and the people on the shore immediately spotted him, "He's not dead. He's over there."

Ren Yifei immediately took a deep breath and went underwater as an arrow brushed past him.

The player on the shore held their prop and felt heartache every time they used it.

The prop had limited use, and one arrow meant one step closer to the prop being rendered useless. He did not want to use it, but these NPCs were too much.

After that day, not only did he lose his leadership, but his partner also died. That was not all, there were also the NPCs, who had previously followed him, that stole what little food he had left. As a result, anger rose from the bottom of his heart and malice brewed, causing him to simply shoot the NPCs who robbed him of his food.

After that, he thought of the NPC that had gotten him to this point.

Killing one was murder, and killing two was also murder. Since he had gone this far, he might as well go all the way and take out this NPC called 'Gu Xingye'.

This instance's environment was special, so what if the NPCs hate him? It just adds a little bit of difficulty to the game.

Holding up the crossbow while patrolling the water, the player's brows furrowed as he thought this NPC would directly sink into the water, just like all the other NPCs that fell into the water. However, the other party's head emerged. This unexpected incident made him feel unwell and have a premonition that things were out of his control.

"Impossible, it's just an NPC," he thought.

"Crash!"

"!" Something suddenly sprang out of the water and grabbed his calf. The player lowered his head but only saw a pair of red eyes looking at him through the water. When he met those eyes, his vision blurred.

At that moment, the person in the water pulled his leg and dragged him straight down. The player was startled and struggled instinctively, but a large wave of salty ocean water poured down his throat the next second. He obviously knew how to swim, but it seemed useless.

Half of Ren Yifei's head emerged from the water, and his red eyes stared calmly at him, appearing strange and menacing.

"You!" The corporate drone player was very alarmed. He looked at Ren Yifei's particularly evil-looking face in the water. He opened his mouth and spat out a bunch of bubbles, "Who are you? Who the hell are you?"

He finally felt that something was wrong.

The corporate drone player immediately reached for his other props and Ghost Card, but he did not feel anything. His heart dropped as the situation became more out of his control.

"You've been searching for me for so long, but you don't know who I am?"

After searching for so long... The corporate drone player's eyes suddenly widened, "It's you?"

Ren Yifei put his hand on the other party's head and pushed him directly down into the water, "Be a good person in your next life."

The player felt nothing but darkness in front of him. A group of ghosts appeared around him, laughing as they surrounded him, and the hideous skeleton pulled him, dragging him down.

The player struggled and kicked the skeleton away with so much force that it directly broke apart.

The skeleton was kicked into the depths of the ocean as its black eye sockets stared back at him. The ghosts immediately dispersed.

"F*ck," he cursed and swam toward the surface.

However, there was only the dark ocean in front of him as he swam farther and farther, and after a while, he suffocated.

"What's going on?" Looking at the dark surroundings, the corporate drone player finally understood, but it was too late.

Ren Yifei scared everyone as he climbed up from the water, soaking wet. They had just seen him dragging someone down just a few seconds ago, and probably thinking that he was a dangerous water ghost, they all scattered in fear.

"Don't look for me, don't look for me!"

Ren Yifei stretched out his hand and let a large amount of ocean water drip from his fingertips. He sighed, opened his mouth to take a deep breath, and walked towards the water again.

When he went into the ocean this time, nothing happened, and he successfully retrieved the bucket and the cat.

Ren Yifei looked at his hands. The corporate drone player was dead, right? He had died in his hands.

"Ugh," the pain in his shoulder interrupted his hypocrisy.

"I didn't catch any fish, and I still ended up smelling fishy," Ren Yifei sighed inwardly.

Outwardly, he still maintained the stupefied expression someone would have after their first kill.

Although that player deserved to die, it would not be normal for him to look like nothing happened when he just killed someone. Thus, there should be some psychological shock.

Fortunately, the previous incident with the nail gun set up a basis for him this time, so he didn't have to go overboard and just have fun with it.

That said, if he hadn't fallen into the water once, he would not have made such a discovery.

The scenery he saw after falling into the water was simply a replica of the first night. Coupled with the screams of those people, the narrative of a ship wreaking and sinking into the ocean on a stormy night immediately appeared in his head.

The key clue of this instance had pretty much been directly slapped in his face.

The wet Ren Yifei walked all the way to the gate, and the crazy old man was still sitting there, muttering to himself. He walked over and squatted down, "You didn't enter because 'Starlight' is a sinking ship?"

The madman lifted his head, "Starlight? Starlight..."

"Who are you? The ship's doctor?" Ren Yifei asked again.

There was light in his eyes for the first time, and he stood up, "Thank you, I almost forgot about it. I should find it, Starlight..."

The crazy old man crossed the threshold of Starlight Manor for the first time and rushed inside.

While all the NPCs thought he was crazy, only the players were thoughtful.

He looked at the map by the gate. If Starlight was the embodiment of the ship, wouldn't the owner of the manor be the captain? The workers inside were the boatmen, and they, the uninvited guests, were the tourists.

The algae growing in the corners of the manor could also verify this possibility.

Starlight Manor was a ship. With this premise, he should look at the other clues.

Those high-grade ingredients in the cold room that could not be eaten, the spoons specifically used to eat caviar in the sand pit, a violinist, and hundreds of passengers. Everything pointed towards this being a passenger cruise ship, a relatively large and luxurious kind too.

"The corpse is hidden in the belly of the fish, fish belly... fish, boat, fish..." he wiped his face, and his eyes lit up slightly; he found a thread.

Ren Yifei returned to the mushroom house to change his clothes. He was soaking wet, so it was not suitable for him to go directly to the dining hall to find someone. His wound was also a little numb, which gave him a bad feeling.

No one was in the mushroom house, and it was unknown where those people went, but Ren Yifei chose to change his clothes in the utility room.

"Wait a while. Dad will get you something to eat later," he left the wilted black cat outside. His whole face was deathly pale.

The arrowhead must be removed before the wound can be bandaged. But it could not be pulled out. The bards are too destructive to the wound and would cause heavy bleeding; even the bandages would not save it.

There was only one way now. aJX05e

Ren Yifei gritted his teeth and cleaned the sawdust on the broken arrow, making the broken surface smooth.

He bit down on his old clothes, took a deep breath, lifted his hand to hold the broken arrow, and pushed it in, causing the arrow to pierce through his back.

"Wu..." All his painful moans were firmly suppressed in his mouth. His teeth clenched onto his old clothes as cold sweat broke out all over his body. Every one of his muscles was trembling, and his fingers were shaking.

With a bang, he stretched his arm behind his back, grabbed the arrow poking through, and pulled it straight out.

"Ha..."

It was a triangular arrowhead, and from the bloody groove, there was some purple under the blood stains, while the blood above it was also very dark.

Ren Yifei opened his mouth and gasped silently. His hand loosened, and the arrow fell into the debris.

"Poison..." his hunch came true; the other party had smeared poison on the arrow. But it could not be toxins from the upas tree. Perhaps it was made with the nearby poisonous herbs from the mountain.

When Saman came in and saw the black cat in the bucket, he knew that 'Gu Xingye' was there. He had just discovered what happened on the shore and knew that a player had been counter-killed.

The players were talking about the NPC and wondering how he had escaped from the water, while Saman was worried about his injury. He happened to be carrying some medicine to treat injuries, which he had previously prepared.

"Gu Xingye?" Saman heard some movements in the utility room and opened it without thinking.

Inside, Ren Yifei had both his hands propped up against the wall; his muscles were tense, and his head was lowered, revealing his slender neck.

There was a hole in his back, and dark blood ran down his curved spine, through the hills and valley, and down his straight thighs.

Suddenly, Ren Yifei turned his head to the side, and the wet, red corners of his eyes lifted. Its curvature was like a sharp knife, fiercely stabbing Saman's heart.