Ancient Invasion [End Times]

Day 160 after the invasion · Parasites on board

Du Nanrong stared at the huge black shadow under the bow of the cruise ship.

Not long after, Lin Qian ran to the deck and called out to Du Nanrong.

"Du Gong! Let me tell you, we have located the coordinate point, and it is estimated that we will sail for [-] hours. You, Du Jingshu and Luo Xiaonan are staying on the back of the turtle. Call us if there is any situation!"

Du Nanrong nodded absently.

Lin Qian wanted to go back to the cabin after shouting, but suddenly stopped, he turned his head slowly to look at Du Nanrong, pursed his lips and asked, "Du Gong, what are you looking at?"

Du Nanrong pointed to the bow of the boat, and said softly: "Under the bow, there is a big shadow, I can't tell what it is."

Lin Qian's scalp tingled.

"Maybe it's just seaweed." Du Nanrong immediately added, "The giant tortoise didn't respond either."

Lin Qian nodded: "I'll call the doctor to take a look."

After Lin Qian finished speaking, he immediately turned and walked into the captain's room.

After a few seconds, Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi walked to Class A. Duan Yi held a large metal harpoon in his hand, and a thick, long and strong sailor's rope was tied to the end of the harpoon.

"It's right here." Du Nanrong pointed.

Duan Yi shook the feel of the harpoon in his hand, estimated the position, and thrust the harpoon down fiercely.

Du Nanrong's pupils shrank slightly, and he shouted, "I've been stabbed!"

Duan Yi pulled the rope, and slowly pulled the harpoon back, together with the thing stabbed.

"Sure enough, it's a water plant." Du Nanrong saw the dark green mass being pulled out of the water, and immediately heaved a sigh of relief, smiled and said, "It was a false alarm."

Duan Yi shook the harpoon, and threw the huge ball of seaweed back to the surface of the sea.

"It's okay, then let's go back to the cabin first, and check what can be used in the cabin, and I will throw it to you later." Lin Qian said to Du Nanrong.

Du Nanrong nodded. He looked at the large group of seaweed that was thrown a little distance away by the Duan team, and shook his head with a grin. After this period of time, he was frightened, and he didn't know how long it would take to recover.

Lin Qian and Zhang Jiuzhang stayed in the cab to operate the big guy, sailing towards the target coordinate point, while Duan Yi and Cheng Sheng searched the entire cruise ship carefully.

Most of the cabins require an access card to enter, but a small number of cabins are left wide open until the owner leaves.

Duan Yi took a brief look around, took a carry-on bag in the cabin casually, emptied out all the contents, and took the blankets, food, and washing things in the cabin...everything that was useful was taken away. Duan Yi put it in the big bag.

Quite the demeanor of geese plucking their hair.

After searching three or four cabins, they filled a luggage bag full of things, at least fifteen to twenty kilograms in weight.

Duan Yi whistled, Du Nanrong reacted immediately, ran to the side facing the deck, and saw Duan Yi was carrying a large luggage bag in his hand.

"Go on!" Duan Yi shouted, his arm muscles bulging slightly, and he carried a luggage bag weighing dozens of kilograms to Du Nanrong's side.

Du Nanrong took the bag and opened it. Good guy, it's full of daily necessities. He even found several razors and shaving cream.

Du Nanrong touched his piercing chin, and immediately used it.

When there was no razor before, a few men simply shaved with a dagger.

Duan Yi and Zhang Jiuzhang were proficient, there was only a short stubble left on the chin, which was quite clean. Du Nanrong shaved himself with a dagger for the first time, and there were a few small bloody cuts.

In short, it is miserable.

After Du Nanrong finished shaving, he immediately felt refreshed, and he was a handsome, energetic young man again.

He cleaned the foam and stubble off the razor, and caught a glimpse of the cruise ship logo printed on the razor.

"Melville..." Du Nanrong read out softly, only feeling that the name sounded familiar.

"Ah! This ship is Melville?" Du Jingshu called softly.

Du Nanrong looked at his daughter and raised his eyebrows slightly: "What's wrong?"

"This is the world's largest and most luxurious cruise ship that was newly launched not long ago. I heard that the design specifically refers to the Titanic glacier accident that year, and many accident prevention measures have been taken. It is known as a giant ship that is truly impossible to sink." Du Jingshu said.

"And this cruise ship is top-notch and luxurious. There are several beautiful luxury shopping streets on the cruise ship, such as the Little Champs Elysees, Little Fifth Avenue, etc. It's like moving Paris into the cruise ship." Du Jingshu still remembers In the cruise promotional video she saw before, she said, "This cruise ship's first voyage to the public is expected to be next year. This should be its maiden voyage."

"I heard that the maiden voyage is only for internal invitations, and those who are invited are all wealthy gentry from the upper class, the mayor and secretary of the government." The little girl's tone was involuntarily filled with yearning.

Du Nanrong smiled when he heard the words, rubbed Du Jingshu's hair, and said, "Then it looks like we got a bargain for nothing, and we have boarded a cruise ship that only rich people can get on."

Du Jingshu laughed.

The two stood in front of the big ship, looking up at the huge ship in front of them, making the two of them smaller than one.

"Hey dad, look at that lump of algae, is it floating over again?" Du Jingshu suddenly tugged at Du Nanrong's hand and asked softly.

Du Nanrong looked over, and sure enough, he saw the ball of seaweed that was thrown out by Duan Dui approached again.

Du Nanrong frowned and said, "Maybe it's the direction of the ocean current, so bring it here again."

Du Jingshu nodded.

Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi visited the entire cruise ship, and there was even a long table of buffet banquets on the restaurant tables, the lights in the ballroom were still flickering, and there was a music disc on the classic old-fashioned record player.

No matter how you look at it, it seems that the hall was full of people just a second ago.

The two looked at each other and continued to turn over the cruise ship.

It can be seen that the crowd on the cruise ship at that time was a little rushed, and some places were full of footprints, on the chairs and walls, as if people were scrambling to push each other.

Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi walked through a closed cabin. Dozens of pink and white whiskers protruded from the crack of the door, showing a completely shriveled state.

Duan Yi gently held Cheng Sheng and motioned Cheng Sheng to stand behind him.

"This looks like the tentacles of some kind of worm, such as a noodle worm." Cheng Sheng said, "A marine worm, a parasite."

Duan Yi nodded slightly: "I opened the door."

"Ah."

Cheng Sheng tensed up slightly and nodded in response.

Duan Yi took two steps back and kicked open the hatch.

In the cabin, near the door, dozens of whisker-like white and pink tentacles were intertwined and densely covered, shriveled and lifeless.

They walked along the place where the tentacles became denser and came to a bathroom door.

Duan Yi glanced at Cheng Sheng and opened the bathroom.

Cheng Sheng took a light breath, his face slightly ugly.

In the bathroom, I saw a man lying naked in the bathtub, his eyes staring blankly at the ceiling, his mouth was wide open, and his mouth was like a "window" through which the tentacles of noodle worms stretched out.

Cheng Sheng threw a ball of fire, burning the man and the tentacles around him to ashes.

"That person is the Vice Chairman of the Military Commission of the Jianghan Military Region." Duan Yi said.

Cheng Sheng said "Oh", "Obviously his title doesn't have any deterrent effect on a parasite."

Duan Yi smiled helplessly.

"Let's go and look at the other locked cabins." Cheng Sheng said, "I suspect that these cabins may be isolated and sealed."

Duan Yi nodded in response, and the two of them kicked open the other tightly closed cabins one by one, and saw that the situation inside was just as it had been seen just now. In each closed cabin, there were one or two closed cabins. The corpses are all people parasitized by parasites.

"Noodle worms are relatively common parasites in the water. They are often found in the body cavities of various fish. Sometimes they will burrow out of the abdominal wall of fish like this, speeding up the death of fish." Cheng Sheng said, "The only good news is that this Seed worms don't stay out of water and hosts for long, so what we see are dead, shriveled parasites."

"How did they appear on the boat?" Duan Yi frowned.

In particular, one or two of the dead people were named by Duan Yi, and they held important positions in the government system, which made Duan Yi habitually suspect the cause of death out of professional habits.

Cheng Sheng shook his head and said, "It's hard to say, maybe someone is carrying parasites."

He explained: "Taeniasis is a zoonotic disease, and perhaps some people are carriers of viruses and parasites, causing this parasite, which was not fatal to humans, to become such a monster in a short period of time. "

Duan Yi frowned slightly, and nodded in response.

Cheng Sheng burned the found corpses together with the shriveled parasites.

When they walked through another closed cabin, they suddenly heard a loud and violent movement, and the door of the cabin in front of them was knocked, as if the whole door was about to be removed.

Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi retreated a certain distance vigilantly.

Duan Yi pulled out the gun and held it in his hand, pulled the safety bolt, and asked in a deep voice, "Who is in there?"

"Bang bang bang!" The cabin door was slapped, but no one answered.

"I'll ask again, who is in there?" Duan Yi's eyes turned cold, "If no one answers, extreme measures will be taken if necessary."

"Bang bang bang!"

Duan Yi glanced at Cheng Sheng, Cheng Sheng pursed his lips and said, "Open the door. I'll cover you."

Duan Yi took out a pistol and handed it to Cheng Sheng, nodded slightly and gestured.

Three, two, one!

Duan Yi kicked open the cabin door violently, kicking down the cabin door with a huge momentum, directly pressing on the person behind the door.

Dozens of thin pink and flesh-colored tentacles suddenly stretched out towards Duan Yi. Duan Yi rolled over, pulled out his pistol and fired quickly, and several gunshots rang out together.

The tentacles retracted, and the hatch was pushed open by the person under the door. The person slowly got up, and the thin and dense tentacles deep in his mouth stretched out to the surroundings.

The man's pupils shrank into a small black spot, and the nails on his hands were long and sharp.

"It's an infected person!" Cheng Sheng shouted.

In the next second, a ball of flames and a bullet were fired at the infected parasite.

Cheng Sheng stared at the raging flames, the tentacles and the man were struggling and howling in the blue flames.

Duan Yi walked to Cheng Sheng's side, he frowned and said, "A community that carries viruses and parasites."

Cheng Sheng nodded.

He handed the pistol back to Duan Yi, tilted his head and said, "I'm still more used to using fire."

Duan Yi paused, smiled slightly, and put the pistol back into the butt.

After the two cleaned up all the parasites and parasite corpses in the cruise ship, they returned to the deck.

Cheng Sheng looked at the hulls on both sides and said, "There is not a single lifeboat bound on both sides of the cruise ship left."

"At least it means that they were evacuated safely." Duan Yi said - put all the parasites in a closed and separate compartment, and all the passengers, including the crew, were evacuated. Duan Yi estimated that there should be a well-trained trainer on the cruise ship. officer.

"Team Duan! Doctor!" Du Nanrong shouted from below, "Why do you have blood on your body!?"

Cheng Sheng heard it and looked at each other, probably from the time they bumped into infected parasites.

Cheng Sheng replied: "There was a small accident, and it was resolved."

Du Nanrong heaved a sigh of relief, nodded, and then shouted: "Dr. Duan team! Look around us! Those seaweeds are gathering more and more! They're all floating over!"

Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi were taken aback when they heard it, and then they climbed to the high mast and looked into the distance.

I saw that the sea surface around their hull was a dark color, which was hard to detect when viewed from a close distance. Only when I climbed to a high place and looked at it did I see a conspicuous dividing line between the depth and the shallow sea.

Seaweed swelled toward them in clumps.

Cheng Sheng's pupils shrank. If it was an ocean current, then the seaweed clusters shouldn't be surrounded from all directions like this.