Is it a living thing?
This is just an island reef off the coast of Dongquan Island. Why would marine life that can temporarily land choose a place like this?
She thought so in her mind, but when she saw the outline of the thing clearly, her vigilance immediately reached the highest level.
It was a "blood corruptor".
Its upper body vaguely resembles a human figure, with relatively complete facial features that look rounder and greasy. Its arms are elongated and thinner, and its finger joints are thicker and longer, making it look like it has long, large hands.
Then starting from the waist down, its legs fused together, but instead of turning into a fish tail like in fairy tales, it became a slug-like tail, sticky, disgusting, and bloody.
It was obvious that it had just been transformed into this state not long ago, because its upper body was even wearing a crew uniform - Xia Yibing had seen this kind of coarse white shirt, which was the sailors' favorite daily wear.
There is only one island nearby, Dongquan Island. She thinks that the only ships that could get into an accident near Dongquan Island are the transport ships that come here regularly at regular intervals.
So this should be "our own people", but the premise is that it still retains human consciousness.
After letting the Black Owl walk around the Corrupted Blood, Xia Yibing could not see any signs of it waking up.
She was sure that it was not dead, but it seemed to have exhausted all its strength, with most of its body wrapped around the base of the slender reef, letting the waves wash its back from time to time.
It was neither Eternal Night nor Spirit Sea now. Xia Yibing was very brave. She controlled the Black Owl to jump from the top of the long and thin reef to the flat surface and stand on the edge of the slippery and raised reef, letting it use its ability to catch a fish.
Then control the Black Owl to fly up and throw the fish on the Corrupted Blood's face.
Its tightly closed eyes trembled for a moment, and then slowly turned upwards.
A Borean sea eagle was reflected in its pitch-black eyes. It let down its guard again and decided to ignore it, hugging the reef tighter.
Then another fish was thrown over and hit it in the face, causing it to sit up instantly and roar.
Its body coiled around the long and thin reef like a snake, revealing a ferocious expression from the other side, grinning at the black owl, revealing a row of staggered but flat teeth that could still be said to belong to human beings.
But its body structure was indeed very abnormal. Xia Yibing saw it very clearly when it made this move - a concave vortex appeared at the junction of its chin, neck and ear.
She didn't know what it was, maybe some kind of organ, but she was sure it was not a human characteristic.
"Keep teasing it." She made up her mind. "There's no one else here. Let's see if it can still talk."
It's not that Corrupted Blood cannot exist in reality. Her assistant Gare on the island witnessed an infection incident with his own eyes. That was the first time they experienced the power of the Linghai virus. In the entire underground prison, one-third of the prisoners turned into monsters and huddled together to reproduce and mate.
You have to know that most of them are males... Dr. Qiao said that after the transformation is completed, they will have the characteristics of both males and females, which is also something that makes Xia Yibing feel extremely disgusted.
But there was really no chance at the time - they had to consider their own safety and the safety of other prisoners, so they completed the rescue and evacuation as quickly as possible and burned them all to death with kerosene.
Think about it: a bunch of things, or pieces of meat, with the upper bodies maintaining human outlines and the lower bodies like slugs, and the bones all over the body becoming soft.
When they were piled together like this and burned to death with kerosene, the pile of...remains left behind must have looked so disgusting that it was enough to make even experienced agents feel sick.
Xia Yibing still remembers those burnt and therefore fixed hideous faces.
Parts of their flesh and blood had been torn and fused together, as if they had a dozen faces. Their snail-like necks were struggling to reach towards the sky, and silent wails were emitting from their big mouths.
They really had no chance to test whether these things retained human intelligence, because the only one they captured and sent to the laboratory died soon after.
Dr. Qiao deduced that even if they were not burned, they would soon die on their own, because of the Linghai virus - he and many researchers and even agents believed that this virus required a special environment - that is, the Linghai.
When the Spirit Sea exists, people infected with the virus can merge into the Spirit Sea in the form of Corrupted Blood People.
After integrating into the spiritual sea in this way, they are not like those people who were completely assimilated by the spiritual sea in their human form before... They are not so muddle-headed, but show some independent consciousness.
But if the Linghai environment does not exist, and they are exposed to the mysterious world in reality and contaminated, the Linghai virus will quickly destroy their cells and even their genes. They will rot and die, quickly turning into a pool of rotten blood.
This one hasn't rotted and died yet. What is it holding on to?
Perhaps it was because the Borean Sea Eagle was indeed not a human being and could not trigger the Corrupted Blood's abnormal and fanatical reproductive desire for humans. After a while of intimidation, the creature retracted and hugged the reef pillar again.
Wait...it doesn't seem to be as simple as just holding it, but is there something being used to engrave words on it?
Order Black Owl to come closer...
Come closer.
Xia Yibing gradually saw clearly that it was indeed engraving words.
[The Winter God...mutates...]
[People...turn into monsters...]
[All dead...]
[Beware of the strange poison...]
After seeing these contents, her heart tightened.
The Winter God was the ship responsible for transporting supplies to Dongquan Island. It was an ironclad ship! From what it said, it was finished? Was it the only survivor of the Winter God?
Was it the last eternal night?
Xia Yibing suddenly reacted.
Last time she was trapped on the island for the entire night and had no way of knowing what was happening in the open sea.
...Or to put it another way, for so many years, no one on the island knew how wide the scope of the spiritual sea would be when it truly arrived.
The Winter God knew about this special spiritual sea. Every time they approached the eternal night, they would deliberately anchor and wait at a distant place. They would not enter the port until the eternal night passed and the spiritual sea receded. How come something went wrong this time?
The scope of the Spirit Sea has expanded?
What exactly happened on the Winter God?
Chapter 49: The Membrane in the Sky
Just when Xia Yibing was feeling extremely surprised and puzzled, the blood-corrupted creature began to undergo a horrible transformation.
She saw that the skin on its body began to shrink... It was as if something filled with liquid was shrinking rapidly under the high temperature, forming small pits, and then the skin broke and bled, gushing out in large streams.
It didn't take much effort, just a moment of stunned silence, for the thing had shrunk to the point where only a piece of skin was left, and then the skin quickly dissolved and disappeared as she watched, leaving only rotten blood in its place.
The dark red blood stained the reefs, some of it remained on them and seeped into them, while some was washed away by the waves.
The Black Owl hadn't received any orders for a long time, so it instinctively took a few steps away to avoid getting the strange blood on itself when the waves came up. Then it stared at the sea surface with a fierce look - it felt that something in the water was gradually approaching.
Then suddenly - it quickly directed its gaze towards the pool of rotten blood. Xia Yibing vaguely saw a shadow, a gray, smoke-like shadow rising from it and flying up little by little.
How could I forget that this is in the gray fog?
She almost sat up and slapped her forehead - the world in the gray fog is different from the outside! According to some people's inference, the gray fog is actually an extension of the dream world, so can the gray fog world replace the spirit sea to some extent?
She couldn't say for sure. After all, this Corrupted Blood One had survived in the gray fog for so long and still died. But it should have survived for quite a while, right? Maybe her guess was right?
"Follow him!" She quickly gave Black Owl an order, "Chase!!!"
The bird leaped up into the air. The wind and waves coming towards it did not frighten it at all. Instead, it used the strong wind to soar straight up, instantly increasing its speed.
But the Black Owl was fast, and the rising black smoke was even faster.
It only took a little time and the thing had already flown away and was almost out of sight.
Xia Yibing couldn't help but feel anxious. The vision was already limited in the gray fog. If she lost such an important clue due to a momentary negligence, what would she say to explain to the dead?
There was a high probability that the Winter Goddess was completely destroyed. So many people died, including the agents on the island. I would be lying if I said I wasn't angry.
She wasn't working so hard just to go back and meet Hitzfeld!
She was also angry! She also wanted to find out the truth as soon as possible, and even find out the possible mastermind behind it!
But she did not urge the Black Owl anymore, nor did she try to control it or do anything unnecessary. She just let the Black Owl chase on its own, and finally saw the black smoke tail diagonally above after more than ten seconds.
The Black Owl probably took a detour, but fortunately, the black smoke did not fly in a straight line.
Sometimes it flew in spirals, sometimes it shook up and down, and only very rarely did it fly straight up, as if it was subject to some mysterious interference and its flight trajectory was unstable.
The Black Owl circled around the thing, flying higher and higher as it rose.
How high is it?
Xia Yibing was not sure whether they were already ten thousand meters away from the sea surface.
The loud explosion could no longer be heard, and the only sound in the fog was the whistling of the strong wind, which sounded like ghosts howling and made her feel a little scared.
Then - just when she was wondering whether the Black Owl would follow this thing to the end of the sky and was hesitating whether to continue tracking it, the Black Owl stopped on its own.
With the help of her sharp eagle eyes, she saw clearly: the black smoke flew in a spiral again, then suddenly stretched out and became straight, ricocheted into the clouds above, and completely lost all traces.
"Can't we go any higher?" Xia Yibing questioned Black Owl with her mind.
The black owl cannot speak. Analyzing the chaotic consciousness it transmitted, Xia Yibing felt that it probably wanted to tell her: the world above is too dangerous.
Xia Yibing frowned on the bed, wondering what kind of danger could be so dangerous that Black Owl, who had taken the potion, could stop himself.
She had experimented with this before - when she ordered a black-tailed gull that had taken medicine to "commit suicide", it crashed into the door and died without hesitation.
But this kind of threat can actually make the creatures that take the medicine feel afraid and force them to ignore the effects of the drug?
So this shouldn’t be Black Hawk’s “unwillingness”.
Rather, it “can’t do it”.
It really couldn't fly any higher. The dark clouds above seemed so deep and thick at this moment, like a barrier from another world, but not something that could be crossed by an ordinary soul.
Thinking of the legend that the gray fog was an extension of the dream world, Xia Yibing had some guesses in her mind.
She felt that maybe the world above was a dream world.
The crew became Corrupted Blood, the Corrupted Blood died, and then the remaining souls of the Corrupted Blood ascended to the Dream World - this is in line with the order of things.
But the Black Owl is a flesh and blood creature, it cannot enter that world in this way. It can only stop, and it cannot do it even if you give it orders or even ask it to die, because that is impossible.
It was impossible for Xia Yibing either. Theoretically, she could enter the dream world while sleeping, but she only dared to fly upwards at that time.
That is to say, fly straight up based on the dream entry point of Dongquan Island and enter the dream world through this channel, instead of following Black Owl and drilling into the gray fog outside.
Although the dream world she entered was also filled with gray fog, she always felt that the two were different.
The examples of those pioneers also kept reminding her that everyone who dared to do this had died.
"Then let's give up this line for now."
She collected her thoughts and ordered the Black Owl to fly lower, telling it to "fly as west as possible."
With reference to the location of Wayne Port, Dongquan Island is located to the east.
If the Winter God that came from Wayne has not sunk at sea, there should be some wreckage quietly parked in that direction.
In fact, it shouldn't - she was sure it couldn't sink.
It was an ironclad ship, a large ship even among ironclad ships. It had seen many storms and waves over the years, and had ridden through the most turbulent waves. There was no way that there would be any wind or waves strong enough to overturn it near the island.
The Linghai virus only targets humans, so she wanted to find it and verify her previous discovery.
This was not a particularly difficult task because she at least remembered the route - the special channel that was specially opened up to dispel the gray fog on the sea.
The Winter God rested there quietly.
The sea was calm and peaceful. It was less than two miles from Dongquan Island. There was a very wide passage in the middle of the sea where the waves could be seen clearly, and on both sides were dense gray fog barriers.
Controlling the Black Owl to land on the side of the ship, Xia Yibing lay on the bed in the bedroom, biting her lower lip unconsciously.
The deck was covered in blood.
Most of them had dried up, and sticky body fluids had stuck the torn pieces of clothing to the ground. Only occasionally could you see where an actual corpse was.
Black Owl walked along the side of the ship and soon found one in the middle of the deck.
Compared to the rotten blood, he was at least a human being. The male corpse was half leaning against the wall, his death was horrible, the pistol in his hand and the bloodstains on the other side of the wall proved that he must have died of suicide.
There was a corpse like this at regular intervals. Most of them committed suicide by shooting themselves, while some were stabbed with a dagger. The most outrageous one she had ever seen was a female corpse. She was impaled on a flagpole like a skewer. She must have wanted to jump down from the flagpole, but failed to find the exact angle.
Well……
It is also possible that this is the angle she is looking for.
There should be no one alive on the boat.
After letting the Black Owl fly around for a while, Xia Yibing came to this conclusion.
Most of the people were driven onto the deck by those mutated creatures, and they were busy piling up into a mass of flesh on the deck to... reproduce and mate, so there should be no one down there.
She began to wonder why this happened.
This place is not far from Dongquan Island, but it is definitely a safe distance. In the past, the Dongshen Ship could avoid the Spirit Sea when it stopped here.
Has the Spirit Sea expanded?
It is also possible that they did not expand. It could be that the Corrupted Blood... they sensed this ship and pulled out some of their forces to deal with them...
