Mantra

Chapter 45 Glutinous Rice
After the gunfire stopped, the terrified Leia Niu immediately raised his head and looked towards the end of the dark corridor...

Soon, he saw a bloody "ball" gurgle out of the darkness of the corridor.

That's nothing but... the bloody head of the ship's stick.

Under the dim oil lamp, the blood and human oil that slid from the head were extremely conspicuous.The more frightened Lei A Niu fled to the back of the cabin desperately.

While the shit was running, A Niu ran hysterically and shouted: "Dead man! Dead man..."

But in the huge tank boat, no one responded to his call.

However, Ah Niu didn't care about all these things, let alone think about the implications.Relying entirely on instinct, he ran hysterically between the cabins.

He screamed and slammed on the doors of every compartment, and quickly ran back to his cabin.

But when Lei A Niu staggered and hurriedly opened the cabin door, ready to call for someone, he was stupid.

His original fear was covered with a layer of surprise and shock!

In the cabin, the crew members he used to be familiar with, Zhenghu and the captain disappeared, and lying on the scattered beds between the plywood... were lumps of human body-shaped, black and moldy glutinous rice!
Among the black and gray glutinous rice, Leia Niu was at a loss for a moment, he didn't know what happened, but after observing for a while, he was surprised to find human blood, remnants of clothes and even hair around the glutinous rice.

But he couldn't see his companions, not even their corpses... none of them, only those black and gray glutinous rice laying flat on the bed...

During the shock, Lei A Niu's mind was running fast, but in the end he only thought of one thing... This cabin is haunted!

Thinking of this, Lei A Niu couldn't stand anymore, he staggered and ran around, trying to find even a living person, someone who could tell him what happened.

However, he was disappointed.

Lei A Niu went to every cabin in the tanker, but what he saw was the blood-stained bedding and those damned but ubiquitous, fast-rotten glutinous rice.

The glutinous rice that was supposed to be sealed in the rice vat seemed to come alive suddenly at this moment, being splashed everywhere by some unknown force, and spreading a suffocating smell of corruption to every corner of the cabin.

Seeing everything, A Niu ran frantically as if fleeing from a refugee. He gave up the idea of ​​finding a companion, and just avoided those corrupt glutinous rice that appeared inexplicably like a plague god.

In the end, desperate, he locked himself in the small and airtight stair compartment, holding a dim butter lamp in his hand, trembling, not daring to breathe out.

In the silence, Lei A Niu remembered the content of the note "run away".

However, he has nowhere to escape.

A Niu's bowels were already green with regret, and he suddenly realized that he should have believed in Mr. Qingmian's words and ran away recklessly.I didn't expect that my hesitation had already cost my life.

There must be no drug for regret in the world, especially for Lei A Niu in a desperate situation. Although he regrets it, all he can do at the moment is to hold the lamp, wait quietly, and pray that the Queen of Heaven will show her spirit.

In the despair that gradually engulfed himself, he hoped that the rescue that might appear at any time, or... the ghost hidden in the glutinous rice could forget him, the only remaining sailor.

However, Ah Niu's luck did not bring him the good luck he imagined, and the situation became more and more cruel as time went by.

A Niu was only safe in the compartment for a moment, and then he suddenly heard a delicate and clear sound like wind blowing sand from the direction of the wooden door of the compartment.

Startled, Lei Ah Niu hurriedly held the oil lamp to look for the source of the sound.

With the light on, he quickly locked the door panel of the wooden door.

... That sound came from grains of black moldy glutinous rice squeezed in through the gaps in the wooden door.

The soul-chasing black glutinous rice made Leia Niu scream like crazy, he took off his clothes instinctively to block the leaking doors, but it didn't help.

The glutinous rice seems to have a soul. While he was moving, more and more people squeezed in. Later, it was like a fountain gushing in from the crack of the door. The small "sand leaking" sound before now also became There was a roar like an old cow knocking on the door.

The sound was like some monster mixed in the glutinous rice outside the door, killing Lei A Niu.

With every impact, the wooden door, which was not strong enough to begin with, trembled violently with the sound of the impact, and as the impact intensified, more and more glutinous rice leaked from the crack in the door.

At first, Lei A Niu wanted to resist, but soon, he gave up resistance in the "soul-locking glutinous rice" like a blowout.

The whole ship will not be spared, so what can he do?In the end, I'm afraid he will turn into a moldy humanoid glutinous rice like those "missing" crew members... leaving only some blood and hair.

In the end, the door was "knocked" open by the huge force mixed with the glutinous rice.

Lei A Niu stared blankly, waiting for the fate to come.

But to his astonishment, the person standing outside the door was not the evil ghost that locked his soul, or the black and smelly glutinous rice monster that he had imagined.

He was greeted outside the door by the man with the blue face and long beard that he saw in the afternoon.

At this time, the man was as stern and unruly as when we first met, he was wrapped tightly in a homemade green robe, and his whole body was still wet.

The only difference between him and Bai Rili is that there is an extra gleaming kitchen knife in his right hand.

Lei A Niu was relieved at that time, although he felt that this person was a bit weird or even weird from the beginning to the end, but he was a person anyway!

Moreover, he probably knows all the bloody truths here and the way to escape.

Thus, Ah Niu bowed his hands to the young man as if he saw the Empress Dowager, "Grandpa, help!"

The man didn't speak, but made a silent gesture, then grabbed Leiya Niu, grabbed the shining kitchen knife to open the way, and headed for the exit of the bottom warehouse.

Lei A Niu followed behind that person, seeing the changes around the cabin, his heart trembled again.

He saw that during the time he hid in the compartment, the originally clean and bright cabin had quickly rotted and mildewed.

Between the cabin and the aisle, the original tung oil-painted wooden boards were covered with unknown molds.In the cracks in the aisle that was clean just now, the glutinous rice with gray mold is slowly seeping out.

With the overflow of old rice, the whole ship is rapidly decaying.The musty smell filled his mouth and nose, and the choking Leia Niu couldn't open his eyes.

He felt that his ship had become a rotten tomb in a trance.

But facing such a strange scene, the green-faced man ignored everything, he just opened the way ahead with a kitchen knife.When he walked to the corridor near the exit, where the big brother with the stick head was decapitated, he stopped suddenly.

The sudden stop of the blue-faced man caused Lei A Niu to almost bump into him.After staggering to a stop, Leia Niu looked up in the direction the man was looking at.

... In front of A Niu and the others, Lei A Niu found that the reason why the man stopped in a hurry was because there was a huge and dark object blocking the aisle that he had to pass through when leaving the warehouse.

In the dim light, Leia Niu immediately lifted the lantern and lit it up on the thing blocking the way.

Afterwards, he was stunned to discover that the thing was nothing else, but a sea tank for glutinous rice that should have been sealed in the rice warehouse!
Lei A Niu looked at the sea tank that suddenly "run out" by himself, and was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground.The oil lantern in his hand fell to the ground and turned into a flame that burned brighter and brighter.

In the flickering firelight, Leia Niu was even more surprised to find that there was a crack more than five feet long and an inch wide on the sea tank that was supposed to be dark and as hard as ebony.

Between the gaps, black and gray aged glutinous rice is slowly flowing outward like a stream falling into the water.

What surprised Leia Niu the most was that those glutinous rice seemed to come alive, continuously stretching on the ground, and first converged like a stream... near the bloody head of the club head.

The stream of glutinous rice quickly seeped into the head of the stick, and the torrent of glutinous rice poured into the head of the stick like tentacles, and the stump of the stick quickly shriveled, and finally turned into a A moldy shell.

That glutinous rice seems to be... eating human flesh and blood.

"Glutinous rice! The glutinous rice has become fine!" Leia Niu looked at the cruel and weird scene in front of him, he was completely out of his mind, so he yelled this sentence hysterically.

But facing the bloody glutinous rice, the green-faced man didn't panic. After thinking for a while, he took a few steps back, bent down to gather strength, and began to chisel the boat with the kitchen knife in his hand.

Amidst the crackling sound, Leia Niu was stunned to see that the man's arm strength was astonishing. Every time he cut down, the sawdust from the wood on the bottom of the boat would be splashed.

Seeing the appearance of this blue-faced man, Lei A Niu immediately understood that this expert wanted to bypass the life-seeking sea tank, dig a boat and escape underwater.

When Lei Aniu suddenly realized it, he also secretly admired the man's arm strength and skill.

That's the "plate armor wood" at the bottom of the boat!Ordinary people don't use kitchen knives, even if they use an axe, they don't want to easily split the three layers of tung oil and five layers of lacquered red core wood.

Because of this, Lei A Niu's confidence in running for his life suddenly increased, and he admired this unidentified man in Tsing Yi even more.

But just when Lei A Niu thought that there was hope for his escape, something happened to the broken sea tank suddenly.

The things in the sea tank seemed to know that these two people were going to flee for their lives. More glutinous rice flowed out of the sea tank. He came by groping, but because of the soaring flames in the corridor, he moved very slowly.

All of this was seen by Lei A Niu who was looking around in a panic.

Trembling, Lei A Niu quickly patted the man on the shoulder.He pointed to the tank again.

The man turned his head and frowned slightly. After observing for a while, he suddenly said something bad!
Because he suddenly discovered that the cracks in those wriggling glutinous rice jars were getting bigger and bigger. Not to mention the cracks that were originally more than an inch long gradually expanded, there was also a faint gray-white shadow crowding out.

(End of this chapter)