This Damned Thirst for Survival

Corpses were hung from the ceiling, with their toes dangling in the air.They wear human clothes and should be human, but their appearance is not that of human beings.

The face of the corpse was pale, the brain was swollen, the veins crawled from the neck to the face, and the eyes were about to pop out of their sockets like fishes.What was even more frightening was that their bodies were covered with mucus, and the mucus dripped from their toes to the ground, sticking their legs together, as if they were fish tails.

The nose and eyes of the face gradually merged, both human-like and fish-like.And their abdomens are protruding high, whether they are men or women, they seem to be eight months pregnant.

A strong fishy smell hits the face.

Such a horrifying scene shocked everyone in place, and they were speechless for a while.

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

Li Wei hung his hands by his side and looked down at the ground. His abdomen was bulging like two basketballs, and it was so big that it even burst the buttons of his clothes.

Lu Yi's face turned pale, "Are they already dead?"

But after asking these words, Lu Yi had an answer in his heart.How could it be possible to survive after becoming like this?

There was the sound of mucus dripping everywhere in the bilge, Jiang Luo slowed down his breathing and tried to suck in as little air as possible.He looked at the slime on the ground reflecting light under the light of the flashlight, and said in a low voice, "Let's go, let's find Kuangzheng first."

Kuang Zheng had only been taken away for an hour, and he would definitely not be able to change into this appearance.

A group of people carefully shuttled among the corpses.The deeper they went, the stronger the fishy smell became. This fishy smell seemed to put them in a piece of stagnant water that hadn't been changed for several years. There were rotten fish and shrimp corpses and aquatic plants hidden in the stagnant water. Every breath was a breath. A torture to the nose.

As he walked, a pair of blue and white toes brushed past Jiang Luo's hands, and Jiang Luo suddenly paused.

He turned and looked up, staring at the corpse touching his arm.

The eyeballs of the corpse were protruding, and the head was hanging down by the rope.Jiang Luo stared at him for a while, and Ye Xun asked strangely behind him, "Jiang Luo, what's wrong?"

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

Everyone behind: "?!"

Zhuo Zhongqiu felt a chill down her spine when she thought about the possibility that they were not dead, she whispered: "How is this possible! I just observed carefully, and they are not breathing anymore."

Jiang Luo turned to look at them, and suddenly asked, "What do fish breathe with?"

Without waiting for others to answer, he said to himself: "The gills are used, and the nose is just a simple olfactory organ of fish schools."

Ye Xun then raised his head to look at the corpse. In just a moment, a thin layer of sweat was already dripping from his forehead, "Get them down to have a look?"

They lowered a dead body from the ceiling.The corpse didn't feel anything, its eyes were wide open, as if it was staring at each of them strangely.

Jiang Luo touched the end of his nose, and it was true that he was not breathing.He touched the sides of his cheeks with both hands, but found nothing.With the flashlight down, Jiang Luo suddenly saw that something was wrong on both sides of the corpse's throat.

He reached out his hand carefully and found a gap. He lifted the surface skin, and there was indeed a hot fish gill underneath.

Jiang Luo looked up at the others.

They stared at the gills of Jiang Luo's fingertips with complicated expressions, 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 to be alive after becoming like this.

"Although he's alive, he's about to die," Jiang Luo said in a low voice. "He's breathing weakly, and his heartbeat is failing. He can last for an hour at most."

He withdrew his hand and wiped the mucus from his hands on his clothes. "When the crew inspected you, did they only check whether you had a fever or not?"

Ye Xun put away his unspeakable emotions, "I still have eyes."

Jiang Luo held the lamp and shone it on the victim's eyes. The victim's eyeballs had no other symptoms except that they were covered with a layer of misty white. He couldn't figure out what this meant. Luo suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and muttered to himself: "The eyes of fish in the deep sea will degenerate, right?"

Even some fish have no eyes at all, and even having eyes can't play the role of seeing things.

Jiang Luo seemed to have caught something, he handed the flashlight to Lu Yi, and asked Lu Yi to help him light it.Jiang Luo carefully inspected the victim, the nose did not change, over the nose, Jiang Luo parted the victim's lips.

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

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

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

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

It was like a signal, after one bulge, the second and third bulges popped up one after another, turning into twenty or thirty uneven ups and downs in an instant.

Seeing this scene made one's scalp tingle. Seriol, who was squatting aside, was taken aback, and said in a trembling voice, "There is something in his stomach."

"Cut it open and have a look." After a while, Wen Renlian took out the dagger from his body and asked Ge Zhu to light him a match.

With a quick sweep of the blade across the match, he murmured an "excuse me" and plunged the point of the knife into the victim's abdomen, slashing open.

A large piece of sticky and smelly bloody mucus gushed out crazily from its stomach, and twenty or thirty palm-sized fry slid down the mucus to the ground, jumping around alive and well.

Ge Zhu covered his mouth and retched, "What is this?!"

Jiang Luo turned his head to avoid the splash of mucus when the fish's tail slapped the ground, took the opportunity to insert a fry with a knife, and held it under the lamp to observe carefully.

The fish fry is completely black, without scales, and is as smooth as a loach.But the loach does not have a fish tail, but it does.The fry's eyes protrude from both sides of the head, and the eyes are blood red.

Obviously, this is a fry of blood eel.

The fry of the blood eel were actually grown from the bodies of civilians.

This blood eel didn't have a head that was so huge that it was about to burst its brain, and it was very fragile. It died within half a minute of exposure to the air.

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

Wen Renlian's expression darkened, "There should be fish eggs like this in Kuang Zheng's body."

"...and the incubation time only took one day and one night," Zhuo Zhongqiu squatted beside him, "Li Wei was taken away last night, and his stomach has already grown so big tonight."

Ge Zhu did not know where to take out two balls of paper to block his nose, and tentatively lit a match to pick up the transparent fish eggs stuck to his stomach.After the fish eggs are heated, they will soon fall off the stomach wall.

"Afraid of fire." He said thoughtfully.

They re-sewed up the victim's stomach, and after losing the fry, the victim's stomach sagged like an inflated balloon and was in an ugly shape.

Hearing people said repeatedly: "Go."

With a swipe of the knife, he released the half-fish, half-human victim from the pain in advance.

Jiang Luo and the others continued to walk deeper, and soon found that the further they went, the smaller the changes in the people who were hoisted behind.

"Changzheng?"

The group dispersed, calling Kuang Zheng's name in a low voice.

In the corner, there was a weak knocking sound suddenly.

Several people quickly approached the voice, "Kuangzheng?"

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

The moment it was clear that it was Kuangzheng, everyone quickly surrounded him.

Kuang Zheng's face was flushed, his breathing was short of breath, he was sweating profusely, trying to resist the effect of sleeping pills, trying to open his eyes.

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

Kuang Zheng nodded with difficulty.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Jiang Luo put his hand on Kuangzheng's abdomen, and the slight swelling made his face solemn.

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

Jiang Luo looked at his hand, there was a piece of mucus on it.

Kuang Zheng also had eggs in his body, and he even started to mutate.

Lu Yiliu said in bewilderment, "What should I do?"

Jiang Luo asked Wen Renlian to turn Kuangzheng over, lift up Kuangzheng's clothes and look at his backside, "Let Seriol ask the god to go up and ask that 'god' if there is a way to remove the eggs from Kuangzheng's body, if not The only way is to cut open his stomach and take out those eggs."

Seriol showed eyes that were uglier than crying, "I, I will try."

Ye Xun suddenly said: "Call the police."

He pursed his lips, "It doesn't matter if you pass the test or not, human 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 Angonise far away. We can go to the communication room to connect to the police ship while the crew is not paying attention. signal to send them a distress message."

The area where the Angonise is now docked is the high seas and does not belong to the jurisdiction of any country, but 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 work 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 Kuangzheng. This place is obviously not a good place for treatment. Several people used the five ghost transport technique to leave the bilge again.

They neither set up altars to place incense, nor placed tributes. The five ghosts looked ugly at them, and they didn't even bother to see them off. They disappeared after being thrown out of the door.

They carried Kuang Zheng back to Jiang Luo's room with painstaking efforts, and were terrified all the way, but luckily no one else noticed.

After returning to the room, Kuang Zheng found it even more difficult to breathe.Jiang Luo asked Lu Yi to drag Kuang Zheng to the bathroom, turn on the faucet and pour water into the bathtub.

Kuang Zheng was placed in the bathtub, and after being soaked in water, his mutation speed seemed to be slower.His breathing gradually calmed down, but he 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 up, only Seriol and Jiang Luo were left.

Jiang Luo put on his gloves and nodded towards Serior.

Seriol clenched his fists, took a deep breath, and began to sing the song of inviting God.

Jiang Luo watched as he sang and danced to Dashen, and was agitated by Seriol's out-of-tune singing several times, and his scalp tingled. Seriol sang and danced for 15 minutes, but there was still no sign of success. Jiang Luo thought that When he was about to fail, Seriol suddenly closed his eyes and stood still.

After a few seconds, Seriol opened his eyes.

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

Jiang Luo tentatively asked, "Brother Hei?"

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

It's really worthy of Bai Wuchang, please God's upper body unexpectedly recruited Hei Wuchang.

But is black impermanence useful?

After Jiang Luo greeted Hei Wuchang, he told him about Kuang Zheng.Hei Wuchang pondered for a moment, and asked, "Young Master Jiang, have you heard of bone scraping to heal wounds?"

Jiang Luo looked at Kuang Zheng, "You want to scrape his flesh?"

Hei Wuchang shook his head, "No."

"Although I have never done any healing work, but from what you said, if it is just to expel the fish eggs in his body, it is quite simple. Just use the dark fire to drill into his hands and feet, let the fire gas enter the internal organs from the limbs, and then Scrape his abdomen from bottom to top, forcing the fish eggs to escape from his mouth."

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

Hei Wuchang said: "I also ask Mr. Jiang to hold his hands and feet for me."

Jiang Luo and Hei Wuchang tied Kuang Zheng's hands and feet to the sides of the pool, making him float on the water.Jiang Luo palmed Kuangzheng's head, allowing him to breathe while his lips were soaked under the water, "Brother Hei, I'm fine."

Heiwuchang said seriously: "OK."

Jiang Luo: "..."

Hei Wu often speaks English with Serior in his shell, which is really magical.

Heiwuchang waved his hand, and four dark blue flames appeared in his hand.The flames rushed into the body from Kuang Zheng's limbs respectively, Kuang Zheng's face suddenly changed, and he groaned in pain.

Jiang Luo held him down, and Hei Wuchang took a knife from the side, and pushed the wider back of the knife from bottom to top on Kuangzheng's abdomen, forcing the invisible things in his stomach 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 struggled violently, spitting out a large amount of mucus and fish eggs.

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

If it was a few hours later, these fry would probably come out of the eggs and live in Kuang Zheng's body.

Heiwuchang forced Kuangzheng to vomit three times, and when the mucus was gone in the last thing he spit out, he said, "Okay."

Jiang Luo immediately pulled Kuang Zheng up, and washed his hands profusely with sweat.Hei Wuchang looked around, hesitated for a while, and asked, "Mr. Jiang, where are you? I haven't been able to find Mr. Sai for the past few nights."

"We're going to sea," Jiang Luo said, "Shouldn't this be your work area?"

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

Jiang Luo remembered Serior's sleepiness as if he had been sucked out of his blood a few days ago, and persuaded him nicely: "Brother Hei, you can't let Serior work all night every night, he can't bear it." living."

Hei Wuchang listened quietly, his expression becoming more and more guilty. After Jiang Luo finished speaking, he pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "I will think about it. Mr. Jiang, please God's upper body can't last too long, otherwise it will cause harm to the host. Heavy burden, I left first."

After Jiang Luo finished thanking him, Hei Wuchang withdrew the four dark fires that penetrated into Kuang Zheng's body, and closed his eyes. The next moment, Seriol opened his eyes again. He couldn't stand up wearily, and asked with difficulty: "Kuang Zheng ,How about it?"

Jiang Luo smiled and said, "You succeeded."

The second after getting the answer, Seriol fell to the ground sullenly.

Jiang Luo supported him in time, called him in, and moved the two of them to the bed in the bedroom.Ye Xun and Wen Renlian changed Kuangzheng's clothes, and after setting them up, a group of people squatted beside the bathtub, looking at the fish eggs in the pond.

Fish eggs die quickly in cold water. It seems that such water is not suitable for the growth of fish eggs.

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

The sea area where deep-sea fish live is deep and extremely cold. As a deep-sea fish, the eggs of blood eels are extremely delicate.I'm afraid that the crew of the Angonise let rich people lure civilians on board because they knew this secret, and used it as a container for artificially raising blood eel fry.

This is not man eating fish, this is clearly man eating man.

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, and they said they were constantly monitoring the seabed for fish eggs."

"We were deceived," Wen Renlian sneered. "They should have put bait that day to attract blood eels."

The bait was most likely the four civilians missing from the boat.

They traveled at sea for four days, and four civilians happened to be missing. The blood eel that was caught weighed more than 500 kilograms, and it was very likely that it had swallowed four people.

Of course the civilians don't know about this, but the crew do. Do the rich know?

Ge Zhu whispered from the side: "Actually, I've been thinking about a question since I was in the hold. The captain said that blood eels can be eaten in three days. Is this blood eel a big fish caught at the beginning, or is it in the hold?" Civilians who are gradually turning into fish, or hatched fry?"

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

He hardly slept that night, and when the sky was slightly bright, Kuang Zheng finally opened his eyes.

He was frail, but fine.Wen Renlian fed him some porridge, and a group of people discussed how to sneak into the communication room.

The communication room is always occupied and surrounded by crew members.The final result of the discussion was to ask Jiang Luo and Ge Zhu, two rich people, to inquire in person.

They don't have to be cautious, they can directly use the excuse of visiting the crew's work location to enter the communication room openly.

Both Jiang Luo and Ge Zhu felt that this plan was feasible.

The Angonise is a huge and exquisite luxury cruise ship, with hundreds of crew members on board. If they are accidentally exposed in front of the crew members, they may be killed and feed the fish without anyone knowing.

Still have to be careful.

They did what they said, and after lunch at noon, Jiang Luo took Ge Zhu to find the captain and asked to visit the crew's work area.

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

The chief mate who was standing aside stepped forward with a flattering smile on his handsome face, "Mr. Zhong, Mr. Lu, please follow me."

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

Jiang Luo was not interested in him. He was wearing sunglasses, a flowered shirt and white shorts that were standard for travel, with a coquettish smile, and occasionally took off his sunglasses and winked at pretty boys and girls.

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

There were two large plates of red meat on the table. I don't know if it was beef or fish. It was sprinkled with seasonings and mixed into a raw ball.There was also a small plate of tomato sauce and chili oil next to it. The two crew members ate with gusto, and their mouths were stained red like blood.

After the crew saw them coming, they warmly invited: "Do you want to use some of the first officer and the two gentlemen?"

They were still chewing while they were talking.Jiang Luo looked at the lump of meat and remembered the dead bodies hanging in the bilge last night. He smiled and refused, "Thank you, no need."

Ge Zhu also politely refused.

The first mate was so greedy that he ate a couple of mouthfuls before leading them to continue shopping.

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

As soon as Ge Zhu entered, he used the excuse of a stomachache, his complexion was distorted by the pain, and his expression was exaggerated.Jiang Luo pretended to be flustered and said, "It's not the appendix, is it? Come and help me, and send Mr. Lu to the infirmary."

The chief mate and a crew member in the communication room hurried over to support Ge Zhu, and took him out to find a doctor.

There was another crew member in the communication room, Jiang Luo went over to chat with him, and when the crew didn't pay attention, he knocked him unconscious with a palm.

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

But before he succeeded, the crew woke up early with their hands on the table.

Jiang Luo immediately turned off the communicator, walked to the crew member, seemed to be watching him all the time, and said softly, "Are you okay? Why did you suddenly fall asleep?"

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

Under the sunglasses, Jiang Luo squinted his eyes as he looked at the crew's tall bodies and young faces.

A better idea came to mind.

Jiang Luo leaned against the table, his long legs intertwined, and he stood in a relaxed posture, facing the crew.He took off his sunglasses, revealing his beautiful and flamboyant phoenix eyes, with a smile in his eyes, "What's your name?"

The crew looked at him, stared blankly for a while, and said embarrassedly: "My name is Daniel."

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

Daniel hesitated and couldn't speak, and the beautiful guest with wanton temperament suddenly realized, and teased, "Maybe it's a boyfriend?"

The young man blushed, "Not at all."

"That's it." Jiang Luo nodded clearly, but stopped talking about this issue, but chatted about other topics, "How long do you usually rest after going out to sea?"

From life problems to hobbies, there seems to be hidden hints inside and outside the words, but it is like a breeze blowing through the reeds, so fast that people can't help but wonder if it is an illusion caused by being too narcissistic.

Jiang Luo carried out his romantic persona to the end, and at the end, he suddenly returned to the original question, "Do you like boys or girls?"

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

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

The meaning in these words is obvious. Daniel wanted to nod subconsciously, but a look of disappointment appeared 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 only because he was on the duty list that he had played so much.His smile turned regrettable, he put away his sunglasses and said, "It's a pity."

Jiang Luo got up and took two steps outside.Daniel's eyes followed him, feeling disappointed.But when the black-haired young man came to the door, he stopped suddenly, turned his head and said with a smile: "Then how about I come here to see you at night?"

The afternoon sun shone on his body, making his appearance seem to be coated with a layer of clear and shining golden light.

Daniel's eyes lit up, he stood up abruptly, and said excitedly, "I'm here on duty, sir, you can come over anytime."

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

After walking out the door, he stopped laughing.When passing the trash can at the corner, Jiang Luo casually threw the sunglasses that touched the crewman's chin into it.

In the communication room.

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

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