Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

“Boom boom, boom boom—”

It felt like someone was walking in the cabin, which was why Tang Qianqian decided to take out her notebook and go out to find out what was going on.

They struggled for half an hour yesterday, and when they finally mustered up the courage to turn on the lights and patrol the cabin, the sound had long disappeared. Tang Qianqian could only record all the details of where the sound came from.

Especially the refrigerator.

Two of the creme brulees were missing.

But Tang Qianqian didn't dare to confirm whether she had eaten the egg pudding while she was hallucinating, or whether someone else on the boat besides her and Lihua had really stolen the caramel pudding, so she recorded the remaining amounts of caramel pudding and other foods.

The strange sound came after dark, and everything was calm during the day.

Tang Qianqian's heart was full of contradictions at this moment.

If the caramel pudding had not decreased, and no one else had ever boarded the spaceship, then she was undoubtedly suffering from navigation syndrome; and if all this was not her hallucination, but some kind of terrible creature really had sneaked on board the spaceship...

Tang Qianqian's face turned pale, and in an instant, scenes from those space-themed horror movies emerged in her mind one by one.

No, she didn't want to be a breeding ground for aliens.

"Let's each take a step back." Tang Qianqian cheered up and suggested, "Let's go together."

"Okay, but you must never betray me!"

"Then let's count to three, two, one, and we'll rush out together."

"three!"

"two!"

"one!"

The next moment, the man and the cat retreated back into the room at the same time. They grasped the door handle in tacit understanding, and suddenly closed and locked the door.

"I promised not to betray you!"

Tang Qianqian turned her fear into anger and grabbed Lihua's face with both hands. Fortunately, she had been careful just now. If she hadn't stepped back tactfully, she would have been locked out by Lihua, the white-eyed cat. She questioned Lihua's soul, "Think carefully, who took you in, who provided you with a warm and comfortable apartment?"

I really don’t know who this tabby cat learned bad things from!

"Then you should be a good person to the end!"

Lihua struggled, "I'm still better at keeping watch."

"You have to go today, whether you want to or not!"

“Boom boom, boom boom—”

The noise coming from outside the door brought the two of them to an abrupt halt. The sound came from far away and gradually got closer, stopping in front of their door.

Then, there was a gentle knock on the door.

"Is this... still an illusion?"

Tang Qianqian asked in a trembling voice.

However, this time, Lihua did not answer her again.

The tabby cat demon fell to the ground with a plop, sticking out its tongue, and looked like it was dead.

This cat has even learned how to pretend to be dead!

The recent additions are not ideal, so I decided to change it to two updates, but each update will be 3000+ words, which is the same as three updates with 2000 words each.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 244 Ship Spirit

"You mean you didn't have sailing sickness, but something really weird got on board?"

A quarter of an hour later, Duan Mingyuan rushed to Tang Qianqian's room after hearing the news, and brought in the caramel pudding that was placed at the door of her room.

Tang Qianqian hid herself in the quilt, with only her head sticking out, shivering.

The quilt looks bulging, and there should be a tabby cat hidden inside.

She was not the heroine in those horror movies who went out like a reckless man to check when she heard an inexplicable sound, and then encountered an evil spirit in a dark corner and had her tendons and skinned alive. She followed the guidance of Senior Ming Yuan and called the other party as soon as possible.

To ensure that everything was safe, she and Lihua hid under the quilt before Duan Mingyuan arrived.

According to Article 71 of the Code of Evil Spirits, no evil spirits may attack people in quilts, nor may they forcibly open the quilts by any means. When humans hide in quilts, the principle of "man and quilt are one" should be followed. Those with serious circumstances may be sentenced to life imprisonment.

"It's true, Senior, what you are holding in your hand is caramel pudding, right?"

"Ah."

"How about...you try it?"

Duan Mingyuan didn't understand why, but he did it anyway.

The taste is that of caramel pudding, with some sweet scent of roses. This is a special version of pudding for September, serving as the main dessert for interstellar voyages.

Tang Qianqian saw Duan Mingyuan eating a pudding in front of her and finally left the bed.

But Lihua's mental state was very unstable, so she decided to continue resting in bed for a while.

"Identification completed. I don't have navigation syndrome at all. There's just something weird on the ship!"

Now that Duan Mingyuan has arrived, Tang Qianqian feels more confident in speaking.

Evil, huh?

If you are brave enough, come out and compete with Senior Mingyuan!

Duan Mingyuan was thoughtful. If Tang Qianqian's judgment was correct, then this girl had a natural insight into the arrival of danger, just like the danger prediction feature in Pokémon. When there was danger in the environment, she would tremble and give a warning.

Even when he last conducted a comprehensive inspection on the Ranger, he did not notice the presence of anyone other than them.

However, the two caramel puddings at the door made people feel that the other party did not come with malicious intentions, and looked like they wanted to make friends with Tang Qianqian and Lihua.

"Let's go and take a look at the place you mentioned."

Duan Mingyuan said.

The strange noise came from the kitchen, just like a mouse at night, sneaking into the kitchen to steal food while the crew fell asleep.

This search still yielded no results. Tang Qianqian, holding a notebook, said that three caramel puddings were missing from the refrigerator, two of which were placed at the door of her room, and one was missing.

"Must be hiding."

Tang Qianqian rummaged through the kitchen cabinets and drawers, leaving no one unsearched. The last time they conducted a thorough search, they all mistook each other for humans, but after living on the boat for a few days, she had begun to suspect that they might be monsters such as rats or insects.

There are all kinds of monsters in this world. Lihua told her clearly that there are also rat spirits on the blue planet.

But no one likes rat spirits, and you can usually only find them in the dirtiest and darkest corners.

"Or maybe we're looking in the wrong way."

Duan Mingyuan seemed to be thinking about something.

Just as Tang Qianqian thought, this is a world full of monsters, evil spirits and strange people, but they still search in the same way they treat humans.

He checked the changes in the life energy on the Ranger until he noticed something unusual in the northwest corner of the kitchen.

Duan Mingyuan came to the open space near the kitchen counter. Although the floor looked no different from the surrounding ones, the life energy in this area had created a gap, as if someone had dug up the floor and then pieced it back together.

He bent down and groped on the floor for a moment, then opened a secret door in front of Tang Qianqian's shocked eyes.

It was dark behind the secret door. From this angle, she could vaguely see the stairs leading down.

Tang Qianqian suddenly felt unwell when she thought that she might have been living with a monster on the Ranger for the past few days, and wondered if the monster had sneaked into her and Lihua's room while they were asleep and done something.

She took out her cell phone and turned on the light.

He followed Duan Mingyuan tremblingly.

This is a space that theoretically should not exist. At least the existence of the secret door was not marked on the design drawing provided to them by the Third Prince.

The space under the stairs was extremely small, and the air seemed to be filled with a faint smell of caramel pudding.

This place looked no different from a storage room. Tang Qianqian suddenly came to the corner, shone the light of her mobile phone towards the innermost corner, and prepared herself mentally to see a hideous monster.

However, what caught my eye was a girl with long straight black hair and wearing a school uniform.

The girl hugged her knees pitifully and huddled in the corner.

She was cornered by the two and did not resist. She just raised her head and looked at them. After a brief silence, she suddenly said in a robot-like voice without any emotion, "Dululu, I am the ship spirit of the Ranger."

"It turns out to be the ghost of the Ranger. This clears up the misunderstanding."

Hearing the girl say this, Duan Mingyuan immediately relaxed.

"It would be strange if it can be removed! Senior, look at her, how does she look like a ship spirit?"

Tang Qianqian complained that she recently discovered that although Senior Mingyuan usually looked serious and difficult to get along with, he seemed to have a unique sense of humor in some inexplicable places.

Simply put, he is the type of person who brings a deadpan comedian to life.

When he proposed the name "Merry" in front of a group of experts, Tang Qianqian couldn't help but respect Duan Mingyuan.

And now, the senior actually believed in the existence of the ship spirit.

Just like Chopper.

Could it be that... the senior has been trying hard to integrate into the identity of "ship doctor" recently?

As for this girl with long black hair, although no one knew where she came from, she was definitely not a ship spirit, but a truant student from a high school.

Tang Qianqian is very familiar with this because she used to be a truant girl and understands the mental state of this group of people very well.

"Tell me, which school did you escape from?"

"…No. 1 Middle School in the city."

"No. 1 Middle School? The No. 1 Middle School in Yunlong City?"

The girl with long black hair nodded silently. Her natural red pupils always made Tang Qianqian feel that they looked familiar.

First of all, Chaozhong is not open to the public yet, and the fact that a student from the No. 1 Middle School in the city can sneak into Chaozhong is itself full of wonders.

She continued, "What are you doing on the Ranger?"

The girl with long black hair lowered her head, fumbled in her schoolbag for a while, took out a crumpled 50-bei cash note from the space on the left, and handed it to Tang Qianqian.

"What does it mean?"

"Ferry ticket money."

Tang Qianqian was speechless for a moment.

In this day and age, you want to buy a space flight ticket for 50 francs? Is this the real-life version of "I'm a student, can you give me a discount?"

If you really count it, the three caramel puddings she ate totaled this much.

That was the masterpiece of Jiu Yue, the apprentice of the palace chef. Coupled with her identity as a nine-tailed fox demon, it was not a problem for her to hype up a pudding and sell it for thousands of shells. The court now lacked everything except rich people.

Ever since the last auction, many people have been thinking about Miss Fox Fairy and have been asking the auction house when Miss Fox Fairy would be able to appear on stage again.

The lights and shadows on the Chaozhong train platform were also replaced with the advertisement shot by Jiu Yue. When they first arrived in Chaozhong, they found a group of people standing under the holographic projection, looking up at Jiu Yue in the light and shadow and going crazy. These people formed Miss Fox Fairy's Fan Club, and it was said that some important figures in the Chaozhong had also joined it.

It’s a pity that the minister fell to his death, otherwise he would be the best leader of the support group.

The black-haired girl seemed to understand that the money was far from enough, and asked hesitantly, "Can I pay in installments? I have 20 taels of living expenses a week."

"Do your family members know that you have come to the court?"

Tang Qianqian's bad premonition became stronger and stronger. When she saw the girl with long black hair shaking her head, this ominous premonition suddenly reached its peak.

Not only did she skip school, but she was also a runaway girl.

The black-haired girl suddenly thought of something, and her eyes lit up. "If you can't pay in installments, I can cooperate with you to make blackmail calls to my family."

“First of all, we are not human traffickers.”

Tang Qianqian said, "Secondly, do you know where the Ranger's destination is?"

It is understandable that one wants to run away from home because of too much pressure or conflicts at home, but escaping from this planet is a bit too much.

"Mechanical Star."

!! ?

Tang Qianqian was speechless again, because she actually didn't know the destination of this journey. Mr. Mingyuan only got a string of navigation beacons.

She turned to Duan Mingyuan and asked, "Are we going to Jiqiao Star?"