"Selastin? Leo." As far as the alchemist was concerned, the other party seemed to have little joy. "I really didn't expect that I could meet you here. I'm about to doubt whether we have returned to Ayinblo."

In the narrow cabin, wooden barrels and boxes were piled up, broken debris were piled in the corner. An oil lamp hung on the board above his head, emitting a dim light. In the low room, everyone was squeezed together, their bodies were soaked in sea water or sweat, their clothes were wet against their bodies, their faces were pale and as if they were dead. They were exhausted, and most of them lay on the ground as if they had completely fallen asleep, and from time to time they made one or two uncomfortable moans, and twitched unconsciously a few times.[]

The alchemist retracted his gaze, "I didn't expect that I thought it would be someone else." He took a few steps towards the other party, "but I didn't expect that not only a thousand-faced man, but also a meeting of you."

"The world is so small. You are still in a state of dispersion."

The alchemist frowned. He didn't understand where the other party's malice came from and always spoke ill of each other. The hostility on Brand's face was obvious, with disgust and countless ridicule, one after another.

Even the captain next to him couldn't help but ask, "Is he your enemy, the white devil?" The captain sneered, "If so, you should leave and leave him to us for treatment. Don't let your kindness overflow and cause us trouble."

"He was not in his heart," said the alchemist.

"I can't see it." The captain reminded him, "Don't forget the agreement we reached. Don't discuss how to escape in your chattering language. I will stare at you, the white devil."

"If I do this, you can come to the castle to find me, sir."

The captain snorted in shame and annoyance, without answering.

"Ha, what did you say, Serastin? Leo?" Brand looked at him with his eyes slanted, holding his blood-stained eyes, with joking and sarcasm, "What are you going to do with us? Throw it into the dungeon, or execute it on the spot, or be put down the stake? I really can't tell you can be a guest of honor everywhere."

Is he mocking or jealous? Maybe both, Leo thought. "You should be more friendly and less delusional about being murdered," the alchemist told him.

"But other than that, what are you here to do?" Brandt pulled the robe under him, his back against the bulkhead, rubbing hard to make himself feel more comfortable sitting. "Are you here to laugh at us, or to show your altitude? I really can't think of anything else."

Is my brain sick? Or is it because I have nothing to do when I am full, and I come here just to listen to his sarcasm? "Put your hostility, Brand!" the alchemist growled angrily, "I should have them tie you up and stuff your mouth with a pair of smelly socks. I think there is nothing missing here."

"Then come on, get out after finishing it." Brand snorted coldly.

Leo could no longer control his anger. He stepped forward, grabbed his collar, and shouted at him face to face, "She is fucking self-righteous, do you really think everyone is killing you? If I want to harm you, I won't talk nonsense to you at all." He threw Brand on the ground, "I heard clearly, I fucking sentimental to save you."

Brand fell to the ground, and the pain prompted him to grit his teeth but he held back without saying a word. He raised his head stubbornly and stared at Leo, sneering, "Is that so? I won't thank you either."

“I haven’t expected it—”

"Brand..." beside the black-haired alchemist, his companion moaned softly, "Where are you?"

"I'm here. I'm here." Brand endured the pain and moved to the wall and hugged his companion, "You're finally awake. Do you feel better?"

Leo suddenly felt like he had become a villain, the villain in the novel. Only then did he notice that the guy who buried his head in the shadow and almost invisible face seemed to be called Deka - if he remembered correctly, he should have this name. From the beginning, he was following Brand's side, the slightly fat Alchemist apprentice. But now, Leo couldn't see what he had looked like before. He was thin, his eyes were deep, and his body was covered in skin and bones, looking like a skeleton.

"I'm cold," he said.

"I'm here." Brand held Deka and suddenly choked up. "Persevere, hold on for a while, and I'll find the doctor."

Leo glanced at the captain next to him, thinking that no one was willing to heal us white devils. "Take them out." The alchemist said to the captain, "They can't stay here anymore."

"You mean--" The captain suddenly became panicked.

The lights were so dim that Li Ou noticed that there were shallow puddles in the shadow of the cabin, and the tentacles of the aquatic plants were stretching and stretching, everything was exactly the same as what he had experienced. Those people seemed to have died, leaving only a faint breathing left to survive. Their faces were pale and swollen, as if they were drowning ghosts I had encountered in Qianhu City. The narrow room was filled with the smell of the ocean.

"Maybe I'm over-thinking," the alchemist dared not be 100% sure, "but be prepared."

The captain swallowed, and he grabbed the hilt of the sword tremblingly and shouted "Guard". However, this caused misunderstanding, and Brand immediately became alert, as if Leo would kill him in the next second. The rest of the conscious people also struggled to try to sit up. They were all eaten by monsters, and even he was trying to save them.

"Celastin? Leo, are you going to kill us?" Brand leaned against the bulkhead and stared at him resentful. His weapons had been taken away by the soldiers. At this time, he was unarmed, hungry, weak and weak, and he was unable to resist. "Is this what you said to help?"

Leo was angry and didn't fight. Why couldn't this guy tell me the difference between good and bad? Could it be that he was burned by the sun at sea, or was he betrayed so much that he didn't even have the simplest trust? "Damn, I won't harm you." He roared at him angrily, "Brand, follow us out of this haunted cabin. You should go and bask in the sun."

"Battle the sun?" Brand stood up his hair like an angry cat. "Do you think we were salted fish in the cabin, or were dragged out for public execution?"

"Don't, stop talking nonsense with them." The captain urged him, and he shouted for reinforcements. The sound of boots pedaling on the board echoed in his ears, and a team of soldiers rushed into the cabin and stuffed the aisle. However, Leo stopped him.

"Do you want to trap yourself in it?"

"but--"

"Look, the sword is flashing and the face is ferocious. I wish I could kill me with one knife." Brand stared at the soldier standing at the door and sneered, "Do you still dare to say it is to help us? Help us meet the god of death?"

This idiot! The alchemist really wants him to meet the damn gods now! "Shut your mouth and think about it with your dog's brain!" Li Ou shouted angrily, almost suppressing the urge to draw the sword. "You are also a fucking alchemist. Feel the surroundings, are your head covered with seaweed? You didn't even notice..."

"I found...what..." Before he finished speaking, his face suddenly changed. "I, I..."

"Let's go." The alchemist even made a sarcastic expression. He signaled to the captain, "Trag them out, and those who have died of sleep should not touch him for the time being."

The soldiers walked in hesitantly under the command of the captain. They hesitated for a moment, but in the end they held the weapon tightly in one hand and pulled them out of the cabin. Several guys tried to struggle, but the soldiers didn't know how to control their emotions. They kicked and threatened with their blades, as if the crew were prisoners about to set foot on the execution ground.

One after another, the crew members were dragged out of the cabin, and the soldiers' curses of resistance came through the bulkhead. The two soldiers walked forward and tried to pull the Dicka who kept talking nonsense from Brand's arms. "You don't allow you to touch him, I'll do it myself." He struggled to stand up and staggered out. He suddenly stopped, "Where are them?" He looked at the soldiers who deliberately avoided it, unconscious, as if they were dead, "Where are them!"

"Let's go out first," said Leo, "and then it's their turn."

"Don't try to deceive me!" Brand stared at Leo angrily, shouting to him with all his strength, "I won't leave anyone behind! Never!"

Leo frowned. Didn’t this guy realize the danger yet? “Get out first!” he ordered. The water vapor in the cabin became heavier, and the fishy smell of the ocean seemed like a rotten salted fish, which made people feel sick. “Take him out!”

Brand tried to struggle, but Mr. Captain had enough. "I don't want to stay here anymore." He growled, "Soldiers, drag them out, hell! We have to go out, right away! I'm going crazy!"

So the soldiers were even more merciless. One of them went to capture Deka, and the other used a long spear to suppress Brand. But a soldier next to him suddenly fell to the ground, causing a violent sound. The wooden barrels and boxes on the side fell to the ground and hit the soldier, almost submerging him. Fortunately, he looked fine.

However, in just a moment, the soldier screamed in horror. His voice was far sharper than the woman's scream. "Who is it, who is it?" He shouted, "Help, captain, help!" He kept kicking his legs, clasping the board with both hands, but he couldn't stop sliding towards the back. His nails buckled clear marks on the floor, and blood left on it. "Help!" he screamed.

The captain was almost stunned. He forgot to give orders.

Li Ou rushed up first, he grabbed the soldier's hand and pulled him out. Behind the wooden box that was stacking high, something seemed to be pulling inside in the darkness that blocked the light. He found that he could hardly resist the strange force, and the blurry hidden in the darkness seemed to be a monster.

"What are you looking at? Come and help!" he shouted at the soldiers who were stunned at the door.

A soldier ran over, grabbed his companion's other hand, and worked hard with the alchemist to pull him out. They pulled him for a while, and Leo found that the black shadow twisting on the other end was beyond imagination.

"Damn it! Don't be stupid!" Another soldier took over the position of the Alchemist. "Take all these things away."

No one heard his orders. The soldiers' terrified shouts seemed to be a spell of a fixed body, which made most of the guys dare not move at all. "Damn!" He cursed and had to come forward to move the empty boxes himself. The wound on his left hand was faintly ached. Finally, a soldier ran over, but in a blink of an eye, the soldier buried under the wooden box let out a shrill cry. His eyes widened, rolled up the whites of his eyes, and sweat suddenly crawled all over his body, as if he was suffering great pain.

The soldier was stunned for a moment. Li Ou pushed him away, "Get out! Don't get in the way!"

The wooden box fell to the side like a landslide, and then Li Ou saw what was hidden behind him. In the shadow were several pale faces, swollen and round faces soaked in water, emitting a fishy smell all over his body, and his eyes were shining in the dark, revealing hatred for the living and bloodthirsty hunger.

"He, they-" Brand's face was filled with incredible and panicked fear.

"Damn it, this is what you said, don't give up anyone." Li Ou responded quickly. He kicked the sluggish soldier, "pull him out, and then get out quickly." He saw that these soldiers had no will to fight, and staying here was simply seeking death. The guy who was unconscious due to the pain was pulled out. His legs were gone, and the broken bone seemed to be bitten by his teeth.

"Go out! Go out!" the alchemist shouted at the soldiers, "Damn it, can't you even escape?"

The drowning dead ghosts no longer hide. They pushed open the wooden boxes blocking the way and approached them. The captain held the sword and stood beside Li Ou. "White Devil, this is...this is...are you sure we can kill them?"

"Cut off their heads." Leo said, "It's quite simple, isn't it?"

One, two, three... There were five in total. It was less than the alchemist expected. A short-haired ghost rushed up first, and Li Ou had no time to choose an opponent. He jumped forward and waved his sword to slash. The rune sword passed through his sleeves, skin and bones, but somehow, the sound was very wrong. The breath around him was strange and cold, almost choking him. He saw the broken arms on the ground, and his black fingers were squirming under the light.

Another water ghost raised his pale round face. Leo raised his sword and chopped it up. The sharp sword cut his nose in half, cutting out a deep visible bone that penetrated his cheeks, just under the eyes that were burning red fire. Brand should have recognized this face. He shouted out a person's name and staggered back.

The alchemist felt something was plucking his ankles. When he looked down, he saw his dark fingers tightly clamping his calves. The broken arm was crawling up his thighs, tearing the wool and muscles. Li Ou felt a violent disgust. He quickly pried open the fingers on his feet with the tip of his sword, and threw the thing away. The broken arm squirmed on the ground, and his fingers kept opening and closing.

Other drowning ghosts staggered towards him. Although the guy with broken arms had one hand, no drop of blood flowed, as if he was unconscious. Li Ou raised his sword in front of his chest and quickly recited the spell of the trisyllable. The sword immediately shone brightly, like the bright moonlight at night, surpassing the dim oil lamp, reflecting the drowning ghosts even more terrifying.

The captain hesitated, but the water ghost came to him. He had to fight in horror. But he still remembered Li Ou's advice. He dodged the water ghost's claws, and the sword edge was deeply trapped in the water ghost's soft and fat neck, which seemed to be filled with fat.

A crew member's body rushed over and knocked the captain to the ground. He fell into a pile of wooden boxes and his weapons came out.

"Get up," Li Ou yelled at him, "Get out quickly!" However, the captain struggled for a few times but could not get up. At this time, a brave soldier rushed into the cabin without retreating. "Take him out!" He shouted loudly before he could identify who the other party was.

The space in the cabin was small, and the alchemist faced four dead bodies alone, so he had to stand and retreat. He cut through the belly of a water ghost with his sword, and his dark intestines spilled all over the ground with blood and sea water, but the other party was still alive. He retreated to the door, intending to trap them in the cabin. However, his back hit a guy who was in the way.

That bastard Brand hadn't left yet. "Damn it, why are you standing here?" He attacked and cursed.

"I don't need you to save me." Brand grabbed a soldier's halberd in his hand, and poked forward softly and weakly, but it was almost useless. The sharp sharp blade could not penetrate the smooth skin at all.

Li Ou cut off the arm of another corpse with a sword, and kicked the broken hand crawling towards him far away. Who knew that he was almost stabbed by the long halberd. He shouted angrily, "Damn it, don't block the way, do you want to kill me? Get out with Deka first!"

"Don't be fucking self-righteous!" Brand repeated stubbornly, "I don't need you to save me!"

Damn, he is even more annoying than Lu Yuewu. "You will kill us the fuck." Leo outlined the magic seal and shook the two water ghosts that rushed towards him, and fell into the corner of the cabin, splashing a large piece of flying wood chips. He took a step forward, pierced the throat of the corpse that lost his arm with a sword, and kicked the other party away with one kick. "Run!"

However, Brand did not move. The alchemist turned his head and found that Brand was facing away from him. Following his sight, Leo saw the abnormal blue-purple color of Deka's face, and his mouth spit out crab-like foam, his eyes opened dullly, and the muscles on his face were tangled together, as if he was suffering a lot of pain.

"Dicha—" Brand trembled all over and barely spoke.

"Don't go see him," Leo pulled his arm and said sadly, "Let's go."

Brand shook his arm away, "No! I won't leave him!" He actually walked towards the other party.

Li Ou tried hard to pull him back, "Open your eyes and take a look. He has become the same thing as those guys! He is dead!"

"He was fine before-"

"He was almost dead before!" Leo shouted angrily, but there seemed to be a root under Brand's feet and he couldn't pull it. "Do you want to stay here to die? He is dead, he is dead! He is hesitant, follow me!"

Brand was motionless, while Deka had already climbed up, opened her mouth and drooled towards them, her eyes filled with greed and hatred, and she wanted to swallow them in one bite. A low roar was also remembered in the cabin behind them.

"For your blessing, we should not leave."
Chapter completed!