Colonial Suit

Chapter 249: Deadly Blood

The light was dim in the narrow cabin. Bloodshot eyes were fixed on the table as he devoured the food. Across from him, Eileen watched him curiously.

This was a storage room, and Bloodshot had been eating for a full hour since Eileen brought him here. During this time, Eileen went out several times, but each time she returned, she only saw Bloodshot continuing to eat without stopping.

Eileen didn't know why this blood-covered man could eat so much, but she didn't dare ask.

Because Bloodshot was too frightening at the moment. Not only was his body incomplete, but his eyes also emitted the gaze of a wild beast. If he hadn't spoken before, probably no one would associate him with a 'human.' In just one hour, Bloodshot had eaten all the food Eileen brought. Only then did he roll into a corner of the cabin, a wary look in his eyes...

"Meat..."

"You're still not full?" Eileen was a little surprised. This food was hard-earned, and she had made several trips back and forth to avoid attracting the attention of the people on the ship. Even an elephant should be full, right?

"Meat... raw..." Bloodshot monotonously repeated, his eyes fixed on Eileen.

Eileen was even more surprised. Raw meat, what did he want raw meat for? Did he want to eat it? Looking at his beast-like eyes, Eileen suddenly felt herself blurring, unable to distinguish whether the person in front of her was a human or a beast...

But since she had already saved Bloodshot, she couldn't ignore him. So Eileen walked out of the storage room again. Ten minutes later, she pushed a small cart back.

"There's some raw meat here, but it's frozen. Is that okay?"

Bloodshot didn't answer, but instantly appeared next to the cart. The violence he revealed in that instant scared Eileen pale. Immediately afterward, she saw Bloodshot grab a large chunk of raw meat, the size of his head, and then crush it violently. He swallowed it greedily.

The frozen meat made a chilling crunching sound in his mouth, and blood flowed down the corners of his mouth. It looked extremely terrifying.

"You..." Eileen was startled. Just as she was about to speak, she saw Bloodshot suddenly glance at her. Immediately afterward, a wisp of finger wind shot out from his fingertips, and Eileen felt a pain in her forehead and fainted.

In the instant she fainted, she seemed to see Bloodshot crawl into the cart she had pushed...

The yacht's party was still going on, but the style gradually changed from elegant to crazy. Figures intertwined on the dance floor, emitting excited laughter. The sound waves were so loud that they even transmitted to the bridge through the channel.

On the bridge, the old captain frowned slightly. "It's getting a little excessive. If the adults find out, it will be difficult for us."

"But it's rare for the young masters and young ladies to come out and play, so a little indulgence shouldn't be a problem, right?" The first mate said cautiously beside him, while observing the captain's expression.

He was worried that the captain would recklessly stop the young ladies. That would definitely make the young ladies angry. Given the adults' love for the young ladies, it was imaginable that the captain's career would be over. Naturally, he, the first mate, wouldn't have a good time either.

The captain glanced at him, his snow-white beard twitching slightly. "Do you think I would interfere in the young ladies' revelry?"

"Hehe..." The first mate rubbed his hands, a trace of embarrassment on his face.

"Don't worry." The captain walked to the porthole of the bridge, looking at the vast starry sky outside. "I'm not interested in how the young ladies play. I just want to safely reach our destination. Go ask the power group when we can reach maximum speed."

"The power group just sent a message back, saying it will take five minutes."

"Five minutes?" The captain's expression was not good. "Even if this is a yacht, their efficiency is too slow. If high-altitude jumps didn't require reaching maximum speed first, I wouldn't bother with them. Have too many peaceful years rusted their bodies? If so, I can suggest arranging them to the family fleet."

"Captain, don't be angry," the first mate hurriedly advised. "I will teach them a lesson."

"Hmph." The captain snorted coldly and stopped talking. He knew that the crew's laziness was directly related to the first mate. But this was just a yacht, so he was too lazy to care. Moreover, he was retiring after this trip. The Romick family's good treatment would allow him to live the life of a superior person for the rest of his life. Why provoke them?

Thinking this, the captain felt much better.

The hull of the ship trembled slightly, gradually approaching maximum speed. Immediately afterward, a layer of blue shield appeared around the yacht. The outside of the porthole became blurred.

They entered high-altitude jump.

This mode of travel, which requires a jump launcher in the general world, has become widespread in the Fifth World. In particular, the Song of the Rain Night is the Romick family's advanced yacht and is equipped with excellent jump stabilization devices, so that even during the jump, there is no need to enter hibernation. Moreover, it can escape without restriction when encountering star pirate attacks.

"We will reach our destination in three hours. Have someone check how long the young ladies want to play," the captain turned around, smoking his pipe and ordered.

Immediately, a crew member agreed and ran out of the cabin. But before he could get far, another crew member rushed in慌张.

"Captain, an anomaly has been detected inside the ship!"

The captain's pipe trembled. A gleam of light flashed in his eyes. "What anomaly?"

"It's..." The crew member was startled by the captain and answered timidly. "It's... a pool of blood. In the maid's passage."

The captain looked at the first mate next to him, and the first mate immediately replied. "No crew members have been injured, and it is impossible to enter the maid's passage."

"Did the bloodstain appear out of thin air?" The captain asked coldly, and then ordered the crew member next to him. "Immediately check the yacht's status."

"Yes!" The crew member agreed and started acting quickly. After a while, a crew member reported loudly. "Found it, Captain, in area C3, the energy lines of a cooling channel have traces of erosion, and that pipeline has been opened!"

"No one went to repair the pipeline there today," the first mate immediately said to the captain. "We have uninvited guests."

"That joke is not funny." The captain's expression was a little gloomy. Don't forget that the area they just stopped at was T6, a star field clearly designated as a war zone by the universe mercenaries. If someone infiltrated, it must have been there.

Damn it, being infiltrated in a war zone, who knows what kind of people got on board? If it's a general cosmic creature, that's fine, but what if it's a star pirate? The family's young ladies are on this yacht.

"Immediately send people to search there!" The captain immediately ordered. Then he glanced at the first mate. "Also, notify the security team in the cabins, they need to work."

"Yes, Captain," the first mate replied respectfully. Then he ran out of the cabin.

Looking at his back, a trace of worry flashed in the captain's eyes.

Please... please don't let anything happen. This is my last voyage.

Time passed little by little, and the captain became more and more anxious. No good news came. All the crew members sent out found nothing. Instead, the crew member who went to find the young ladies ran back and said that the young ladies didn't want to end the dance party so early, and asked him to notify them when they arrived. This made the captain's expression even gloomier.

But just as he was about to increase the search efforts, a crew member stumbled and crawled into the bridge.

"Captain! Something bad has happened!!"

"What's the matter with being so flustered?" The captain said in a low voice.

"That pool... that pool of blood..." The crew member seemed to be extremely frightened, his face pale. "That pool of blood is alive!"

"That's impossible!" The captain really wanted to slap this crew member. Alive, is his head still normal?

But out of the captain's responsibility, he still suppressed his anger and listened. It turned out that... after the crew member found the bloodstain, he saved it, preparing to use it during the search. But at first it was fine, but when a crew member accidentally touched the bloodstain, the blood actually burrowed into the crew member's body. Immediately afterward, everyone saw the crew member scream in horror, turning into a mummy in a matter of seconds.

It was too terrifying. Just thinking about the scene made the crew member feel terrified. The whole person was even trembling with fear.

Seeing his appearance, the captain decisively made a decision. "Take me to see it, and call the security team over."

This time things seemed to be getting out of control. Following the crew member in the passage, the captain walked and thought. What kind of bloodstain was that? How could it attack the crew member like a living thing? Could it be a life form itself?

The universe is so big that there is nothing strange in it. The captain naturally did not dare to be careless. He knew that the safety of the entire ship was on him at the moment, and any decision he made could plunge everyone into eternal doom.

The place where the accident happened was not far away, so the captain arrived at the scene in a short while. It was a closed compartment, originally used to store collected biological samples. The compartment was full of transparent containers. In the middle of the compartment, a group of crew members was standing.

"Everyone, step aside." Seeing the captain's arrival, the crew members in the field immediately made way for a passage.

Through the passage, the captain immediately saw a terrifying sight. On the cold floor of the compartment, a mummy wearing a crew uniform was curled up into a ball. His flesh had completely dried up, giving people a feeling similar to the bark of an old tree. No muscles could be seen under the shriveled skin, and the whole body seemed to have been thrown into a dehydrator.

"What is this thing?" The captain was startled by this scene. But before he could ask what was going on, something even more terrifying happened. The mummy actually moved and staggered towards a crew member.

"Ah... no!!"

The crew member couldn't dodge in time and was immediately pounced on by the mummy. Although the mummy was thin, it was incredibly powerful and bit off his throat in one bite. Immediately afterward, he swallowed it greedily. Blood spurted from the corners of the mummy's mouth, looking extremely terrifying.

"Oh my God!"

Seeing this scene, everyone screamed in fear, and the whole scene was in complete chaos...