This Damned Thirst for Survival

The bodies were hung from the ceiling, their toes hanging in the air. They wear human clothes, and they should be human, but they don’t look like human beings.

The corpse's face was blue and white, his brain was swollen, the blue veins crawled from his neck to his face, and his eyes were about to burst out like fish. What's more frightening is that their bodies were covered with mucus, which dripped from their toes to the ground, sticking their legs together, as if they were fish tails.

The nose and eyes on the face gradually melted together, both resembling a human being, and transforming towards a fish. And their abdomen is high and bulging, whether it is a man or a woman, it seems that they have been pregnant for eight months.

A strong fishy smell came over.

Such a frightening scene shook everyone in place, and was speechless for a while.

There was no wind in the bottom cabin, but the corpse that was hoisted up was slightly turned in a circle by the rope. Lu Yi suddenly pointed to a man not far away and said, "This is... this is Li Wei!"

Li Wei put his hands down beside him, looking down at the ground, his belly bulged like two basketballs, so big that he even broke the buttons of his clothes.

Lu Yi's face paled, "Are they dead?"

But after asking this sentence, Lu Yixin had the answer. How can you survive after becoming like this?

There was the sound of mucus dripping everywhere in the bottom compartment, Jiang Luo slowed down his breathing, taking as little air as possible. He looked at the mucus on the ground reflecting the light under the light of the flashlight, and whispered: "Go, let's go to Kuang Zheng first."

Kuang Zheng had only been taken away for an hour, and he definitely couldn't change his appearance.

A group of people carefully shuttled through the corpse. The deeper they go, the more intense the fishy smell. This fishy smell is like putting them in a piece of stagnant water that has not been changed for several years. The stagnant water hides rotting fish and shrimp carcasses and water plants. Every breath is one. Kind of torture to the nose.

As he walked, a pair of blue and white toes passed by Jiang Luo's hand, and Jiang Luo had a sudden stop.

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

The corpse's eyeballs protruded, and its head was drooped by the rope. Jiang Luo decided to look at him for a while, and Ye Xun behind him asked strangely: "Jiang Luo, what's the matter?"

"Ye Xun, they don't seem to be corpses," Jiang Luo pursed his lips, "They should be alive."

Everyone behind him: "?!"

When Zhuo Zhongqiu thought about the possibility that they were not dead, she felt a chill in her spine. She whispered: "How is this possible! I just observed it carefully, and they no longer breathe."

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

Without waiting for others to answer, he muttered to himself: "It is with the cheeks, and the nose is just a pure olfactory organ for the school of fish."

Ye Xun followed up and looked at the corpse. For a short while, a thin layer of sweat was secreted on his forehead, "Take them down and have a look?"

They lowered a corpse from the ceiling. The corpse was unconscious, and his eyes widened, so strange as to stare at each of them.

Jiang Luo touched the end of his nose, indeed he was breathing out. He touched the sides of his cheeks with both hands, but didn't touch anything. When the flashlight went down, Jiang Luo suddenly saw something wrong with the corpse's throat.

He stretched out his hand carefully and found a gap. He lifted the surface of the skin, and there was a hot fish gill beneath it.

Jiang Luo looked up at the others.

They stared at the gills of Jiang Luo's fingertips with complex expressions, and no one thought that they were still alive.

No one can tell whether it is a good thing or a bad thing for these people if they are still alive after becoming this appearance.

"Although he is a living person, he is about to die," Jiang Luo said in a low voice, "He breathed weakly, and his heartbeat was declining. He persisted for an hour at most."

He retracted his hand and wiped the mucus off his clothes. "When the crew checked you, did you only check for fever?"

Ye Xun put away his unspeakable mood, "and eyes."

Jiang Luo took a lamp and illuminated the victim's eyes. The victim's eyeballs had no other symptoms except for being covered with a layer of misty white. He couldn't think of what it meant. When Jiang was about to remove his hand, Jiang Luo had no other symptoms. Luo suddenly flashed his inspiration, muttering to himself: "The eyes of the fish in the deep sea will degenerate, right?"

Even some fish don't have eyes at all, and they can't act as a sight if they have eyes.

Jiang Luo seemed to have caught something. He handed the flashlight to Lu Yi, so that Lu Yi had a group of him to light up. Jiang Luo inspected the victim carefully, his nose did not change, crossing the nose, Jiang Luo opened the victim's lips.

A fishy smell rushed over his face, Jiang Luo held his breath and found that the victim's teeth had also changed. The teeth gradually turned into sharp teeth, like a shark moving closer together like a fish.

Jiang Luo is basically certain that the blood eel is a deep-sea fish.

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

The abdomen was bulging abnormally. The most frightening thing was that something in the abdomen seemed to sense the light, and a bulge suddenly appeared on the abdomen.

It's like a signal. After one bump, the second and third bumps pop up one after another, and it turns into twenty or thirty uneven undulations in an instant.

In this picture, the scalp was numb. Seryol, who was squatting on the side, was taken aback. His voice trembled and said, "There is something in his stomach."

"Let's take a look." After a while, Wen Renlian took out a dagger from his body and asked Ge Zhu to light him a match.

He quickly swept the blade over the match, whispered "I'm sorry", and plunged the tip of the knife into the victim's abdomen, slashing his stomach so sharply.

A large piece of sticky, smelly **** mucus gushed crazily from his stomach, and twenty or thirty small palm-sized fry slipped to the ground along the mucus, jumping around on the ground.

Ge Zhu covered his mouth and retched, "What's all this?!"

Jiang Luo avoided the mucus splashed by the tail of the fish when it hit the ground, took the opportunity to insert a fish fry with a knife, and held it under the lamp to observe carefully.

The fry were completely dark, without scales, and were as smooth as a loach. But the loach does not have a fish tail, it does. The fry's eyes protruded from the sides of the head, and the eyes were blood red.

Obviously, this is the fry of the blood eel.

The fry of the blood eel was grown using the body of a commoner.

This blood eel didn't have a head that was so big that it was about to break its brain, and it was very fragile. It had all died in less than half a minute after being exposed to the air.

Jiang Luo threw away the fry on the tip of the knife, and photographed the inside of the victim's stomach. Several transparent round objects were still stuck on the stomach, which should be fish eggs that failed to hatch.

Wen Renlian's face was deep, "Kuang Zheng should also have such fish eggs in his body."

"...And the incubation time only took one day and one night," Zhuo Zhongqiu squatted aside, "Li Wei was taken away last night, and his belly has grown so big this evening."

Ge Zhu didn't know where he took out two **** of paper and blocked his nose, tentatively lit a match to pick up the transparent fish eggs sticking to his stomach. After the fish eggs are heated, they fall off the stomach wall very quickly.

"Fear of fire." He thought thoughtfully.

They stitched up the victim's belly again. After losing the fry, the victim's belly fell loose like an enlarged balloon with an ugly shape.

Wen Renlian said: "Go well."

With a stroke of his knife, he freed the half-fish and half-human victim from the pain in advance.

Jiang Luo and the others continued to walk towards the depths, and soon discovered that the further they walked, the smaller the change of the person who was hung in the back.

"Kuang Zheng?"

The group dispersed, whispering the name of Kuang Zheng.

In the corner, there was a weak knocking suddenly.

Several people quickly approached the voice, "Kuang Zheng?"

The flashlight's lights were messy, and finally hit the place where the sound came from. Kuang Zheng was lying on the ground with a rope wrapped around his neck. The rope broke, which should be the result of his struggle to break free.

It was clear that the moment of correction, everyone walked around quickly.

Kuang Zheng's face flushed, his breathing was rapid, his head was sweating profusely, and he was trying his best to resist the effects of sleeping pills and trying to open his eyes.

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

Kuang Zheng nodded hard.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Jiang Luo placed his hand on Kuang Zheng's abdomen, and his face was dignified by the slight bulge.

At this time, Wen Renlian stiffly withdrew his hand from behind Kuang Zheng, "Jiang Luo..."

Jiang Luo looked at his hand, with a slime on top.

There were eggs in Kuang Zheng's body, and he even began to mutate.

Lu Yiliu Shenwuzhu said: "What should I do?"

Jiang Luo asked Wen Ren to turn over Kuang Zheng, lifted up Kuang Zheng’s clothes and looked at his back, "Let Seror ask the gods to ask him if he can get rid of the eggs in Kuang Zheng’s body. If not, The only way is to open his stomach and take out the eggs."

Serel showed a look uglier than crying, "I, I will try."

Ye Xun suddenly said, "Call the police."

He pursed his lips, "It doesn't matter if the assessment fails, life is more important."

Jiang Luo calmly said, "Ye Xun is right. When we set off from the triangle mouth, there was a police ship following the Angonishi far away. We could go to the communication room to connect to the police ship when the crew was not paying attention. To send them a distress message."

The area where the Angonishi is docked is on the high seas and does not belong to the jurisdiction of any country. However, as long as the victim has people from their country, the country has the right to board the ship and arrest the suspect.

The communication room is in the working area where the crew frequently enters and exits, and there is almost no possibility of sneaking into it. But the most urgent thing is to treat Kuang Zheng. This is obviously not a good place for treatment. Several people once again used the five ghost transportation technique to leave the bottom compartment.

They neither set up an altar to put incense nor tribute, and the five ghosts looked ugly to their faces, so they were too lazy to send them a ride, and they disappeared after throwing them out the door.

They worked hard and returned to Jiang Luo's room with Kuang Zheng on their backs.

After returning to the room, it was more difficult for Kuang Zheng to breathe. Jiang Luo asked Lu Yi to drag Kuang Zheng to the bathroom and turned on the faucet to put water in the bathtub.

Kuang Zheng was placed in the bathtub. After being soaked in water, the speed of his mutation seemed to be slower. The breathing gradually calmed down, but I had completely lost consciousness.

The knives are ready, the high-purity alcohol is ready, there are many things that can be used in the rich man's room. After the bathroom was cleaned, only Seyol and Jiang were left behind.

Jiang Luo put on his gloves and nodded towards Serel.

Serol clenched his fist, took a deep breath, and began to sing a song of God.

Jiang Luo watched him singing and dancing, and he was agitated by Serel's out-of-tune singing several times. Serol sang and danced for fifteen minutes. There was still no sign of success. Jiang Luodu When he thought he was about to fail, Seyol suddenly closed his eyes and stood still.

After a few seconds, Seror opened his eyes.

The azure blue eyes suddenly became steady and mature, and a copy of "Three Hundred Sentences for Learning English Well" appeared in his hand. He looked at Jiang Luo, startled slightly, and then said: "Young Master Jiang."

Jiang Luo tentatively said: "Brother Black?"

Hei Wuchang waved his hand, and the book in his hand disappeared. He said, "It's me."

It is true that it is white impermanence, the upper body of the gods actually invited black impermanence.

But is impermanence useful?

After Jiang Luo and Hei Wuchang greeted each other, they told him about the corrections. Hei Wuchang pondered for a moment and asked, "Young Master Jiang, have you ever heard of bone scraping to heal injuries?"

Jiang Luo looked at Kuang Zheng, "Are you going to scrape him off?"

Hei Wuchang shook his head, "No."

"Although I have never done anything to heal injuries, but I heard you say that it would be easy to drive away the fish eggs in his body. Just use the dark fire to penetrate into his hands and feet, so that the qi from the limbs enters the internal organs, and then Scrape his abdomen from bottom to top, and force the fish eggs to escape from his mouth."

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

Hei Wuchang said: "Please also ask Young Master Jiang to help me hold his hands and feet."

Jiang Luo and Hei Wuchang tied Kuang Zheng's hands and feet to both sides of the pool, allowing him to float on the surface of the water. Jiang Luo palmed Kuang Zheng's head, allowing him to breathe, while his lips were soaked in water, "Brother Black, I'm all right."

Hei Wuchang solemnly said: "OK."

Jiang Luo: "..."

Heiwu often used Serel's shell to speak English to him, which was really magical.

Hei Wuchang waved his hand, and four faint blue flames appeared in his hand. The flames rushed into the body from Kuang Zheng's limbs, Kuang Zheng's face suddenly changed, and he snorted in pain.

Jiang Luo pressed him, Hei Wuchang took the knife from the side and pushed Kuang Zheng's abdomen from bottom to top with the wider back of the knife, pushing the invisible things out of his spleen and stomach.

Kuang Zheng's mouth began to overflow with blood-colored mucus and yellow stomach juice. His complexion became more and more distorted, and he suddenly struggling violently, spitting out a lot of mucus and fish eggs.

The transparent round fish eggs plunged into the cold water, and Jiang Luo saw that these fish eggs even hatched out of these fish eggs, and even small tadpole-like fry fled in them.

If it is a few hours later, I am afraid that these fry will come out of the fish eggs and live in Kuang Zheng's body.

Hei Wuchang forced Kuang Zheng to vomit three waves, and after the last thing vomited out of mucus, he said, "Okay."

Jiang Luo immediately pulled Kuang Zheng up, sweating profusely to wash his hands. Heiwuchang looked around, hesitated for a while, and asked, "Master Jiang, where are you? I haven't been able to find Master Plug these nights."

"We are going to sea," Jiang Luo said, "Isn't this your working area?"

Heiwuchang showed his original look, "It's really not our responsibility."

Jiang Luo remembered Seror’s sleepiness a few days ago as if he had been sucked blood, and persuaded him kindly: "Hei brother, you can’t let Seror work all night every night, he can’t bear it. living."

Hei Wuchang listened quietly, his expression becoming more guilty. After Jiang Luo finished speaking, he pondered for a while, and nodded: "I will think about this matter. Young Master Jiang, please God's upper body can't last too long, otherwise it will cause the host. Burdened, I left first."

Jiang Luo thanked him, Hei Wuchang retracted the four dark fires that had penetrated into Kuang Zheng's body, closed his eyes, and in the next instant, Seryol opened his eyes again. He could not stand sleepily, and asked with difficulty: "Kuang ,How about it?"

Jiang Luo smiled and said, "You succeeded."

The next second after he got the answer, Seyol fell to the ground with his head sullenly.

Jiang Luo helped him in time, called people in, and moved the two of them to the bed in the bedroom. Ye Xun and Wenren even changed clothes for Kuang Zheng. After setting them up, a group of people squatted by the bathtub, watching the fish eggs in the pond.

The fish eggs die quickly in cold water, and it seems that such water is not suitable for the growth of fish eggs.

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

The living area of ​​deep-sea fish is deep and cold. As a deep-sea fish, the eggs of blood eels are extremely delicate. It is probably because the crew of the Angonishi knows this secret that they let the rich induce civilians to board the ship and use it as a vessel for artificial breeding of blood eel fry.

This is where people eat fish, this is clearly people cannibalism.

Jiang Luo looked at Wen Renlian, "Do you remember the day Wilton jumped into the sea? We met the crew at the stern of the boat. They said they were monitoring the seabed for the presence of fish eggs."

"We were deceived," Wen Renlian sneered. "They were probably putting bait out that day to attract blood eels to the bait."

The decoy is probably the four civilians missing from the ship.

They traveled at sea for four days, and there were exactly four civilians missing. The blood eel that they caught weighed more than 500 catties, and it was very likely that it had already swallowed four people into their abdomen.

Of course the civilians didn't know this, but the crew knew, did the rich know?

Ge Zhu whispered from the side: "Actually, I was thinking about a question since I was in the bottom tank. The captain said that blood eels can be eaten in three days. Is this blood eel the big fish that was caught in the first place or was it in the bottom tank? Civilians who gradually become fish, or are they hatched fry?"

Jiang Luo felt that there was a high probability that it was a hatched fish, but instead of telling the guess, he shrugged and said, "Who knows."

He barely slept that night, and when the sky was light, Kuang Zheng finally opened his eyes.

He is weak, but he is fine. Wen Renlian fed him some porridge, and a group of people discussed how to get into the communication room.

There are people in the communication room all the time, and crews are all around. The final result of the discussion was to let Jiang Luo and Ge Zhu, two wealthy individuals, to inquire in person.

They don't need to be careful, they can directly enter the communication room with the excuse of visiting the crew's working position.

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

The Angonisé is a huge and exquisite luxury cruise ship with hundreds of thousands of crew members. If they are accidentally exposed to the crew, no one knows if they are killed or fed.

Still have to be careful.

They just did what they said. After lunch at noon, Jiang Luo took Ge Zhu to the captain and asked for a stroll around the crew working area.

The captain smiled and said, "Then let the first officer take you around."

The first officer standing aside stepped forward with a smile on his handsome face to please, "Mr. Zhong, Mr. Lu, please come with me."

Along the way, the first officer tried hard to show his humor, but every time he met Jiang Luo's eyes, he quickly avoided him. It seemed that he was afraid of Jiang Luo's training, but he was a little bit ready to move.

Jiang Luo is not interested in him. He wears sunglasses, a flower shirt and white shorts that are standard for travel, smiles happily, and occasionally takes off the sunglasses and winks at the beautiful boys and girls.

Ge Zhu looked at him like this and couldn't help but relax. The two visited many places along the way, and when they were about to head to the storage warehouse, they saw two crew members eating out at the rest table at the corner of the corridor.

There are two large plates of red meat on the table. I don't know if it is beef or fish, sprinkled with seasonings and mixed into a ball. There was also a small dish of tomato sauce and chili oil next to it. The two crew members ate their mouths full of blood, with a **** red color on their mouths.

After seeing them coming, the crew also warmly invited: "Should the first mate and two gentlemen use a little bit?"

When they were talking, they were still chewing. Jiang Luo looked at the mass of meat and remembered the corpses hanging in the bottom compartment last night. He smiled and refused, "Thank you, no need."

Ge Zhu also politely declined.

The first officer was so greedy to eat two bites before he took them to continue shopping.

After reading everything that should be seen, the first officer finally took them to the communication room.

As soon as Ge Zhu entered, he excused his stomachache, his complexion was distorted and his expression was exaggerated. Jiang Luo pretended to be in a panic and said: "It's not the appendix, right? Come and help, and send Mr. Lu to the infirmary."

The first officer and a crew member in the communication room hurriedly ran over to support Ge Zhu, and took him out to find a doctor.

There was another crew member in the communication room. Jiang Luo walked over and chatted with him a few words, before the crew was not paying attention, he stunned him with a palm.

The force he used was so light that the crew would only faint for a few minutes at most. Jiang Luo took the opportunity to turn on the communicator and tried to connect to the police signal.

But he hadn't succeeded, and the crew woke up early on the table.

Jiang Luo immediately turned off the communicator and walked to the crew, as if watching him all the time, and whispered softly: "Are you okay? Why did you fall asleep suddenly?"

The young crew member was a little dazed. He rubbed his forehead and didn't know why he fell asleep. He was a little flattered at Jiang Luo's concern, "Thank you, Mr., I think I'm just a little tired."

Under the sunglasses, Jiang Luo looked at the tall body and green face of the crew member, and squinted his eyes.

A better idea came to mind.

Jiang Luo was leaning on the table, his long legs intertwined, standing with a relaxed posture, facing the crew. He took off his sunglasses, showing beautiful flamboyant eyes, with a smile in his eyes, "What's your name?"

The crew member looked at him, his eyes stunned for a while, and said embarrassedly: "My name is Daniel."

"Daniel," the black-haired young man nodded, slender and skinny fingers playing with sunglasses, "Do you have a girlfriend?"

Daniel hesitated and couldn't say anything. The beautiful customer with wanton temperament suddenly realized it, and teased him: "Maybe it's a boyfriend?"

The young man blushed, "Nothing."

"That's it," Jiang Luoran nodded, but stopped talking about this issue, instead chatting about other topics, "How often do you usually rest after going out to sea?"

From life issues to hobbies, there seems to be tickling hints in and out of the words, but it is like a breeze blowing over a reed, so fast that people can't help but wonder whether it is the illusion that I am too narcissistic.

Jiang Luo carried out his romantic personality to the end. At the end, he suddenly turned back to the original question, "Do you like boys or girls?"

Daniel seemed to be hungry. He swallowed and took a sip from the water glass nervously, "I, I don't know."

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

The meaning in this sentence is obvious. Daniel wanted to nod subconsciously, but there was a look of loss on his face, "Sir, I'm sorry. I'm on duty tonight."

Of course Jiang Luo knew that he had to be on duty, after all, it was because he was playing on the duty schedule. His smile became regrettable, put away his sunglasses and said, "It's a pity."

Jiang Luo got up and took two steps outside. Daniel's gaze chased him, disappointed in his heart. But when the black-haired young man walked to the door, he suddenly stopped, turned his head and smiled: "Then how about I come here to see you at night?"

The noon sun shines on him, making his appearance seem to be plated with a layer of clear glittering golden light.

Daniel's eyes flashed brightly, and he stood up "rubbingly", and said with excitement, "I'm on duty here, and my husband can come here anytime."

Jiang Luo raised his lips and smiled, and waved goodbye to him.

After walking out the door, he put aside his smile. When passing the trash can around the corner, Jiang Luo casually threw in the sunglasses that had touched the crew's chin.

In the communication room.

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

But more saliva was secreted from his mouth, dripping from his mouth, Daniel wiped his saliva, sat on the seat slowly, and said to himself: "I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry..."