Chapter 116: 114 Strange Ways to Die Have Increased (Combined Chapter) [Supplementary Update]

114 Strange Ways to Die Have Increased (Combined Chapter) 【Supplementary Update】

Hearing Li Nuowei's slightly teasing words, Drake's initial panic was instantly replaced by a surge of anger, and he irritably slapped away the hand Li Nuowei had placed right in front of his nose.

Li Nuowei chuckled and said, "It's fine. I remember you know sign language, right? I can understand it; you can use that to communicate with me. You told me in one of my reincarnation loops that you specifically took a sign language course to attract a deaf-mute girl, only to find out she had a boyfriend, and it ended up amounting to nothing."

Drake looked at the other in astonishment, then revealed a look of annoyance, likely wondering just how big a mouth his self in that reincarnation loop had to have, to actually tell him such an embarrassing story. But this also proved from another angle that his self in that reincarnation loop really trusted Li Nuowei.

Helpless, Drake gestured: I think I know where those people fled to.

Li Nuowei pondered for a moment and guessed the answer: "In the process of transforming into a fish-man, your sense of smell has become sensitive now, right?"

Drake nodded. He was indeed experiencing the ability of a superhuman sense of smell; it was a sensitivity he could never have felt when he was human. Just a moment ago, he suddenly felt his olfactory ability amplify, smelling a strange odor mixed with fishiness and human blood. To Li Nuowei, it might have been almost imperceptible, but to him, it was as intense as if it were right under his nose. Moreover, the scent of blood made him feel ravenous, and his whole body became somewhat agitated.

Of course, it wasn't just his sense of smell; Drake felt his hearing was also strengthening, and his strength seemed to have increased as well. The muscles in his limbs had a sense of swelling, and his originally loose sleeves were starting to fit tightly against his skin.

Under Drake's lead, Li Nuowei climbed over a hillside, bypassed most of the mountainside, and finally found a cave.

The cave was a scene of misery; a strong, fishy stench rushed toward them. Fresh blood flowed out from within the cave in torrents. Several mangled fish-man corpses lay scattered everywhere; some had only half an arm left, others only a head. Shredded flesh and internal organs were everywhere.

Drake's Adam's apple bobbed up and down in his throat. Looking at the cruel and bloody scene before him, his vision suffered a strong impact.

Li Nuowei also received a certain degree of visual shock, but his attention quickly shifted elsewhere. He looked at the unidentified slime covering the surroundings and those fish-man corpses, feeling deeply puzzled: "How could they have died in such a way?"

Drake gestured to Li Nuowei: It looks like some very large creature ambushed them.

"It doesn't look like something a large fish-man would do, either." Li Nuowei shook his head. Based on the few times he had direct contact with fish-men, they would not engage in cannibalism; on the contrary, they had a strangely strong sense of group consciousness. If one fish-man were harmed, it would draw a frenzied siege of revenge from a group of fish-men.

Drake felt suspicious and gestured to ask: In this Abnormal event, are there any other large Abnormal creatures?

Li Nuowei said: "I cannot be sure, because I cannot fully glimpse the full picture of the event."

There were not many things he could be certain of. Before experiencing this current reincarnation loop, he had never been to this island either. From the fact that he did not understand "Bronze Statue Life," one could tell he was not entirely familiar with everything.

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle...

A strange tongue-clicking sound rang out from the deep cave, disturbing the two who were discussing.

Hearing this unsettling sound echo, both of their hearts trembled. Drake, even more so, keenly heard the sound of splashing water and something soft slapping against the stone wall.

Drake looked at Li Nuowei and gave a look: Should we go in and investigate?

"Sure, I can just start over if I die anyway." Li Nuowei nodded. Although he was resistant to the idea of dying, he was fearless, so he took the initiative to lead the way.

Drake gave a silent, dry laugh and followed behind him.

Walking inside the cave, Li Nuowei and Drake both felt their feet stepping on large patches of sticky glue. The strange sensation was uncomfortable, and they found it difficult to move; it was so slippery and sticky that they were afraid of using too much force when lifting their feet for fear of being splattered by the slime, and they were afraid of falling if they didn't plant their feet firmly. They also had to control the noise, because they didn't know if the thing making the tongue-clicking sound was also sensitive to their voices.

Crossing over the corpses and walking through the slimy cave passage, they soon discovered that there was actually a dark stone chamber at the end of the cave.

Li Nuowei wanted to turn on a light to see the situation inside the stone chamber, but he suddenly felt his hand, which he had reached into his pocket to grab his phone, being grabbed by a hand with a scaly texture. He turned his head in confusion, only to see Drake staring at him intently with a pair of slightly glowing yellow eyes.

Li Nuowei understood instantly, realizing that Drake, whose vision had also been enhanced without him noticing, seemed to be able to see what terrifying things were happening in the dark stone chamber.

From Drake's perspective, inside the stone chamber, which was covered in various bizarre and cult-like murals, several ink-green tentacles were emerging from a hole in the center of the floor. They swayed their bodies, and the tips of the tentacles could split open, turning into petal-shaped mouthparts. Each petal was covered in dense, jagged teeth, and in the center of the mouthpart, similar to the stamen of a flower, were two sharp spikes. At this moment, one of the tentacles was skewering a fish-man corpse; those tentacles could easily tear the tough fish-man corpse apart, separating it to swallow and consume.

Seeing this bizarre scene, Drake finally knew that in this Abnormal event, there was another terrifying Abnormal creature involved, and this was most likely an Abnormal creature from the sea monster's faction, using fish-men as food.

Drake held his breath and shifted his attention away from those tentacle creatures. There were no other human figures in the stone chamber. He soon noticed that the murals in the stone chamber were related to the Sacrificial Ritual between the island's original inhabitants and the sea monster. He learned that before the island's original inhabitants believed in the alien giant fish, the God of the Peaceful Sea, they had originally worshipped the sea monster. He speculated that it was only later, when people had better religious choices, that they betrayed the sea monster.

He subsequently noticed one of the murals describing the offering of sacrifices, and the scene was almost a reenactment of the bizarre scene currently unfolding, only the difference was that in the mural, it was humans being eaten by the tentacle monster, whereas now it was fish-men.

Drake was thus able to confirm that these few tentacles were most likely another part of the body of the swamp monster beneath the Air Raid Shelter—that is, the sea monster often mentioned in the legends of Liuhua Port. The God of the Peaceful Sea back then had not been able to completely finish off this opponent.

Of course, if it wasn't the sea monster, it could also be some kind of kin Abnormal creature with a similar form to the sea monster.

Just like the relationship between the fish-men and the God of the Peaceful Sea, the two were very similar in appearance and form, but there was a world of difference in their authority.

Drake wanted to test whether these tentacles, which lacked eye organs, were sensitive to sound. He picked up a stone nearby and threw it against the wall inside the stone chamber.

The moment the sound of the stone hitting the wall rang out, two of the tentacles, like hungry beasts smelling the scent of food, immediately lunged out without hesitation, piercing through the stone wall and gouging out several huge gaps.

Seeing this, Drake's heart raced. It seemed the other party was indeed very sensitive to sound. Fortunately, he and Li Nuowei had been cautious enough when entering the cave, not having spoken another word, and had been very careful to control their footsteps.

It was just that it probably wouldn't be easy to exit the cave now; those tentacle monsters seemed too hungry, and they likely wouldn't leave easily until they were satisfied.

Hiss-cough!

Just as Drake was pondering, a deafening, muffled roar came from the direction of the hole in the ground. Those tentacles that had emerged from the hole suddenly went rigid and straight as if their fur had stood on end, then they retracted violently, rushing underground, followed by several splashes of water spraying out from the hole.

Boom, boom, boom!

The cave began to shake, and a strange roar from the abyss came from beneath the hole.

Drake seized the opportunity, grabbed Li Nuowei's hand, and ran toward the cave exit; it would be too late if they didn't run now.

Li Nuowei also cooperated, following behind Drake and running with all his might.

The two soon ran out of the cave, feeling the trembling of the earth. They ran toward the pier at the foot of the mountain with a clear goal.

Rushing back to the pier all the way, they returned to the speedboat. Drake pulled up the anchor rope, Li Nuowei started the speedboat, and they turned around and left.

The sea was surging with waves, and sounds seemingly from a foreign realm continued to ring out; even the noise was vibrating the sea.

"What did you see?" Li Nuowei asked loudly while driving the boat, watching the turbulent sea surface as waves constantly slapped against the vessel. He was struggling to control the rudder. He was somewhat anxious; he had a premonition that they didn't have much time left to live and had to collect enough useful information before the next reincarnation.

Drake also likely realized that they might not be able to get out of this sea. With the fastest hand speed of his life, he gestured in sign language, telling Li Nuowei everything he had seen in the stone chamber.

Li Nuowei drove the boat while watching Drake's sign language, trying hard to memorize Drake's description.

"The thing that killed the fish-men is the sea monster or a kin of the sea monster; the islanders used to worship the sea monster..." Li Nuowei kept the important information in mind, focusing on the key points and keeping it brief, silently repeating it in his heart.

Bang-boom!

Suddenly, a huge water column surged up on the side of the speedboat. A large fish-man, with only its upper body exposed above the sea, measuring over twenty meters in length, was biting into a large, multi-eyed, multi-legged soft-bodied creature similar to some kind of octopus, breaking through the water surface. They entangled and tore at each other, leaping over the water and then sinking back into the sea, surging up huge waves that caused the entire boat to pitch and roll.

Li Nuowei tried hard to control the rudder, not letting the boat steer in other directions, holding onto a glimmer of hope for survival as he tried to keep driving the boat.

However, with a sense of weightlessness coming from beneath his feet, the entire speedboat was suddenly lifted above the water surface, flying into the air more than twenty meters above sea level. Li Nuowei and Drake were forced to lift their feet off the floor, their bodies sticking to the ceiling of the cabin.

"Strange ways to die have increased." As Li Nuowei felt the boat falling, he smiled and said this to Drake, who was showing partial fish-man features beside him, just before death.

Drake smiled helplessly and gave him a thumbs-up.

As the boat fell into the sea, the hull made a crushing sound of being unable to bear the weight. Li Nuowei and Drake, who had been stuck to the ceiling, were both smashed face-first into the floor due to the inertia of the fall, turning into meat paste.

"Wake up! Wake up!" Yu Lianyun pulled the Mysterious Investigators who were floating on the sea back to the beach, then performed first aid on them one by one, hoping that someone among these corpses she had fished back could respond to her. She pressed and pounded on their hearts while loudly calling their names.

However, several people in a row yielded no results.

Yu Lianyun had no choice but to inject each of them with a stimulant; in the end, she only heard a weak heartbeat from Shang Wei, and she was instantly overjoyed, continuing to perform emergency drowning resuscitation on him.

"Pfft—cough, cough!" Shang Wei choked out seawater from his nose and mouth, waking up in a daze; his eyes were bloodshot, and he muttered something unintelligible, his mind seemingly not yet fully clear.

Yu Lianyun immediately slapped Shang Wei a few times, as if slapping away the voices plaguing his mind, making him suddenly perk up; with a swollen, pig-like face, his eyes were filled with shock and confusion, "Holy crap... where... where are we?"

"It seems that somehow, we drifted back to land," Yu Lianyun said, letting out a sigh of relief; a misty drizzle was falling from the sky, drenching her pretty face and leaving her looking quite disheveled.

"We're back?" Shang Wei was somewhat incredulous; he looked at the few corpses beside him, his eyes gradually turning red, and with the rain hitting his face, it was impossible to tell if what was on his face were tears or raindrops, "We actually really made it back..."

Half an hour later, they boarded the motorcade sent by the organization to pick them up.

Wrapped in a blanket, Yu Lianyun gave her report on this investigation to the Group Leader: "... That is how things happened. My recommendation is to immediately upgrade the 'Liuhua Port missing persons case' to A-Class; we need more manpower to handle this matter. This is no longer something that I and the people from the branch organization can resolve."

Wei Chengye listened to Yu Lianyun's report and summary with a composed expression and said, "I understand. I will immediately issue an order to change the threat level of this Abnormal event, and at the same time, I will dispatch the two Zodiac Squads closest to Liuhua Port to rendezvous with you. Afterward, you will all act together; as an eyewitness to this incident, you shall have the highest authority."

"Understood." Yu Lianyun nodded heavily, then discussed a few more things with Wei Chengye before ending the communication.

Shang Wei, with his pale face, looked as if he had suffered a major blow; his expression was numb and slightly vacant. Then, as if he had suddenly remembered something important, he looked up at Yu Lianyun: "Right, that detective, that F-Class amateur Investigator—isn't he still inland? His investigation should be stopped; he cannot continue any further."

Shang Wei was emotionally agitated; he truly did not wish to see anyone else die because of this Abnormal event.

Yu Lianyun comforted him: "Calm down first. I have thought of him too, and I am calling to contact him now."

Shang Wei breathed heavily, nodded with red eyes, and then looked out the window with a wooden expression, his eyes filled with sorrow.

Yu Lianyun sighed inwardly, then found Drake's contact number on her phone and pressed the call button.