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The sea wind lifted the black strands of hair and the hem of his coat, revealing to Lu Li the true culprit behind the screams:
The crew mber who discovered Lu Li had fallen overboard plumted from the seven or eight-ter-high lookout tower, his limbs and neck twisted grotesquely into a rope-like form, sending blood radiating outward, splattering onto the face of another crew mber standing below.
Thankfully, it was night and the thick fog ant not many passengers were on deck.
The third mate patrolling the deck quickly arrived, forming a human wall with the crew to prevent the spread of panic and evacuate the passengers on deck.
"Ma’am, please return to your cabin."
"Why did that sailor beco like that..."
"He accidentally fell from the lookout tower..."
"Do hands and feet break like that when you fall?"
"Uh... he... he fell on the railing..."
Lu Li listened as a crew mber persuaded a nearby lady to leave the deck.
Through the swaying legs, seeing the twisted limbs, Lu Li knew this was just the beginning.
"Sir, an accident has occurred..."
The crew mber blocked Lu Li’s view.
"I’m leaving now." Lu Li turned and stepped onto the stairs.
"Sir, the bridge is up there, sir—"
The crew mber shouted a few tis as he saw Lu Li wasn’t responding and helplessly continued to evacuate the other passengers.
Lu Li reached the upper deck, barging into the bridge.
"Sir, you have no authority—"
The raised flintlock pistol choked the crew mber’s words back down his throat.
"I’m the Exorcist, there’s sothing strange on board, I’m taking control of the ship temporarily. Tell below to set sail imdiately."
The crew mber faced the flintlock pistol in front of his forehead, slowly raising his hands.
"But the anchor is already dropped..."
"Anchoring in the deep sea?" Lu Li frowned.
"We, we’re very close to the Tillage Garden."
Immortal Giant was already near the Tillage Garden’s continental shelf.
"Where’s the anchor."
"At the bow!"
Lu Li lowered the flintlock pistol, the crew mber breathed a slight sigh of relief.
But leaving the crew mber directly might lead to insubordination—they would not think that disaster was quietly awaiting ahead.
At this mont, new noise erupted from the deck, crew mbers ran and shouted in alarm, due to the ergence of a shadow from the mist, like a dark curtain, slowly approaching.
Crew mbers at the ship’s side let out girlish screams, stumbling, fleeing, and crawling.
"What is that..."
Panic gripped the crew’s hearts as the shadow resembling the ship’s outline passed close to the Immortal Giant.
"That’s why I ordered you to set sail."
Lu Li cared more about the dark curtain enveloping the sky rather than the approaching shadow, "I’m going to raise the anchor, you stay here."
"Wait... here’s the winch key!"
The crew mber took down a set of keys from the wall and tossed them to Lu Li. He already knew what the right thing to do was.
Returning to the deck, the crew mber no longer dealt with the passengers on deck. So passengers ca out of the dining room, wrapped in blankets or their companions’ clothes, stood in the sea breeze, looking strangely at the running crew, calling out sothing.
With no obstruction, Lu Li reached the bow. He inserted the key into the winch, placed the flintlock pistol by his foot, and grasped the winch to slowly raise the anchor.
"Sir, what are you doing—"
Finally, a few crew mbers noticed Lu Li, exclaiming as they ran over: "Please leave imdiately—"
"I’m the Exorcist. There’s a monster in this sea area, the captain instructed you to raise the anchor and set sail imdiately."
Without turning, Lu Li continued to turn the winch.
These few crew mbers had experienced the earlier bizarre ti and saw the key in the winch, so they had no doubt.
"Need help?"
As Lu Li and four crew mbers accelerated the raising of the anchor, an astonishing voice ca from behind them: "Stealing my gun, now hijacking the passenger ship... are you an Exorcist or a bandit?"
"Miss Kate..."
The crew mbers exchanged glances.
"I’ll return it later." The flintlock pistol was still useful to Lu Li, "Keep an eye on the bridge, set sail as soon as the anchor is raised."
Kate shot Lu Li a peculiar look before turning to leave the deck.
Lu Li and the crew turned the winch, the heavy anchor left the water.
However, as the anchor gradually rose, a vaguely lodious song blocked out the chaos on the deck, seeped into their ears, growing clearer, filling their minds.
The crew stiffened and hesitated due to the song; Lu Li was the only one who ignored the Siren’s Song.
"Continue."
Lu Li turned the winch much slower.
At a certain mont, Lu Li suddenly realized the Siren’s Song was getting closer as the anchor rose—when the chain was fully wound into the winch, the song clearly echoed just outside the ship’s side.
Under the enchantnt of the song, the crew mbers lost their sanity, rushed to the ship’s side, Lu Li grabbed one crew mber, but the frenzied crew mber bit Lu Li, shaking him off before leaping into the sea with the others, swallowed by the surging waves.
Lu Li stared at a silhouette of a woman shrouded in mist, sitting at one corner of the anchor, singing the siren song.
Within that lodious song, Lu Li seed to glimpse a beautiful world devoid of strangeness, possessing Anna.
Resisting the song’s invasion, Lu Li slowly backed away, until both the song and silhouette vanished within the fog, then turned toward the bridge.
A massacre was unfolding on the deck... a screaming noblewoman was snatched away by webs descending from the air, a crew mber tied to the mast was torn in half by suction cups from the depths of the mist. A self-igniting passenger lunged at a companion, spreading the cursed flas to them.
Lu Li ignored the strangeness along the way, stepping onto the stairs, abruptly encountering a pale face sticking out from the corner of the wall.
So force seized his heart, making Lu Li frown. But the crew mber fleeing with him covered his chest, coughed up shattered heart fragnts, and died wretchedly.
Breaking away from the pale face, Lu Li reached the upper deck. A locked door blocked him.
The people in the bridge heard the commotion and looked over.
"Get back to your cabin, this is your last chance!" Flavichman roared angrily.
Lu Li calmly stared at the director of the Hodgkin Royal Sailing Company inside the bridge:
"Do you know what you’re doing."
Flavichman’s eyes were bloodshot, approaching the door, spitting fiercely through the window: "I won’t let you take my big ship... don’t even think about it!"
Lu Li grasped the flintlock pistol, then released his grip because of the silhouette erging behind Flavichman.
"This sea area is shrouded by the Mist of Strangeness, reaching the shore is your only chance for survival."
But the current situation at Seaview Cliff wouldn’t be better than on the ship.
"You—"
Flavichman, knocked unconscious by the silhouette behind him, hit the door.
The first mate moved him aside, unlocked the door, looked at Lu Li complexly: "I saw those monsters... you were right."
"You did well."
Stepping into the bridge. Besides the first mate, Kate and the crew were also there: "The anchor has been raised."
Lu Li handed over control of the Immortal Giant to the first mate, he grabbed the microphone to contact the boiler room, then said to Lu Li: "We need ti to heat up the steam."
"How long."
After a brief silence, the first mate said with a grim face: "Thirty minutes..."
The people on the Immortal Giant still had to endure thirty minutes within the Mist of Strangeness.
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