Chapter 14: Riot

There was too much hair, too dense, everywhere.

Hundreds of thousands of silk-like strands wrapped around Li Youyi, pulling him inch by inch into the grave soil with irresistible giant force.

He couldn't breathe.

At his mouth and nose, it was either mud or hair.

Just as Li Youyi was nearly suffocating, the internal airflow from the sole of his right foot surged out. Instantly, his lungs, which were about to burst, were relieved, and he miraculously entered a mysterious state of continuous internal breathing.

"This airflow can actually replace breathing. Doesn't that mean I can hold my breath for as long as I want from now on?"

Only excited for a moment, Li Youyi returned to the dangerous and terrifying reality. He struggled with all his might for a while, only to exhaust himself, unable to fight against the hair at all.

Gradually.

He sank deeper and deeper, the soil on his back becoming thicker.

At a certain moment.

Li Youyi felt a bone-chilling cold air coming from beneath him, and through the strands of hair, he saw that beneath him was an ice coffin emitting a blinding white light.

Lying flat in the coffin was a long skeleton wearing red clothes, hands folded on the lower abdomen, calm and composed.

The bones were like immortal jade, and strands of bright red blood were flowing on them... there was actually fresh blood preserved? And it contained extraordinary vitality.

All the hair grew from the skeleton's head, spreading out along the cracks of the ice coffin.

"It really is a corpse coming back to life! But it shouldn't be, it has already turned into a skeleton, how could it suddenly wake up?"

"This ice... is melting..."

As the ice coffin melted, Li Youyi's whole body became wet.

The coffin lid was getting thinner and thinner.

Li Youyi's sense of crisis became stronger; pulling him down, it couldn't be because she was too lonely lying below alone? If he didn't break free, once the ice coffin melted completely, he would probably turn into a skeleton too.

Right, the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish.

This supreme treasure of the Chan Sect was still in his hand.

The two fish eyes had a huge origin and could definitely subdue the red-clad immortal maiden in the coffin... phew! What red-clad immortal maiden, she was just a skeletal demon.

The Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish seemed to have been activated when it was stained with his blood, emitting cyan light and red clouds.

Forget it, treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

Just as the coffin lid melted to the point of transparency, Li Youyi accumulated strength, fought against the hair wrapped around his arm, and pulled his right hand, which was tightly gripping the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish, back with all his might.

Instantly, his wrist collided with the edge of the coffin lid, which was of uneven thickness after melting.

"Bang!"

As Li Youyi fell into the coffin, his wrist grazed the sharp edge of the coffin lid, and blood surged out instantly, flowing along his arm toward his palm.

This skeletal demon was too bony, with no flesh on her at all.

Falling onto her, Li Youyi was bruised all over. The key was that the hair was wrapped too tightly, making it impossible to move, and he could only passively make contact with her.

Li Youyi's eyes were almost embedded in her deep-set eye sockets.

His nose was stuck in her nasal cavity.

His lips were pressed against her mouthful of snow-white teeth.

The hair was wrapped tighter and tighter...

Li Youyi's body felt like it was about to be crushed, and the places where she bruised him the most, such as his lips, cheeks, shoulders, and crotch, were already broken, with blood overflowing.

Bizarrely, this blood was absorbed by her, drilling into the white bones.

"Is she trying to devour all the flesh and blood on my body? She doesn't want to come back to life, does she?"

Li Youyi was dizzy from being squeezed by the hair and the skeleton beneath him, and even the scalding airflow in his body retreated.

Even more terrifying, an icy cold force came from her forehead, soaking into Li Youyi's brow, making him shiver all over.

"Whoosh!"

Just as Li Youyi was about to be toyed to death by her, the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish finally reacted, erupting with cyan light and red clouds.

The hair wrapped around Li Youyi retreated like straw encountering fire.

Li Youyi finally broke free, sat up, and slapped her skeleton head covered in hair, making her turn her head away. She was bullying him too much, he had to vent this anger.

The Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish only brightened for an instant before dimming again.

Li Youyi was so scared he immediately fled; how could he dare to continue teaching her a lesson?

While climbing the grave mound, he found the Huang Long Sword.

Just as he jumped off the grave mound with the sword, he heard the wind chimes on the blue stone tablet ring loudly again, and black hair like a cloud of snakes rushed out from the pit at the top of the grave mound, surging toward Li Youyi.

In an instant, flying hair was everywhere within a radius of five zhang.

Li Youyi wasn't sure if the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish was activated by his blood; if he were wrapped into the ice coffin again, he might not be able to escape.

"Swish! Swish! Swish..."

His legs dodged and moved quickly, and the Huang Long Sword swung and slashed continuously.

As the scalding airflow from the sole of his right foot flowed to his right hand, a layer of faint yellow light appeared on the blade of the Huang Long Sword.

He swung the sword horizontally.

The arc of light was like the moon, extremely brilliant.

Those black hairs were slashed, immediately turning into wisps of smoke and dissipating in the air. This sword had clearly turned into a demon-breaking blade, which demons and evil spirits feared.

On the deck near the medical shed.

Dozens of men, women, old, and young had their hands tied behind their backs, sitting or lying under the railing.

Because they had eaten breakfast containing drugs, some were still in a state of fainting. The conscious scientific researchers were all filled with anger, scolding Chen Hong, Kong Fan, and others standing not far away.

Kong Fan was the head chef, short and fat, looking to be in his forties, his white chef's uniform stained with both oil and fresh blood.

The other three members of the kitchen team were dragging the wounded and disabled from the medical shed one by one.

Professor Xu, whose legs were both broken, was dragged by one arm by a young cook out of the medical shed, his mouth twitching in pain, howling as if crying and laughing: "Animals will return to their nature... feeling danger, they will attack and kill. Lacking food, they will cannibalize their own kind. If human nature is not constrained, all evil will be released, unbridled... desire... madness..."

"Old thing, you've been the one eating the most during this time, howling so loudly, it seems your strength has all grown into your mouth!"

Kong Fan had a strong prejudice against Professor Xu because over the past few days, Professor Xu's appetite had increased greatly, and his students ran to the kitchen shed several times a day, which was very troublesome.

Of course, he and those students didn't know that most of Professor Xu's food was actually going into the stomach of the person in the neighboring bed.

Professor Xu's head was kicked twice by Kong Fan, blood streaming from his mouth, and he immediately quieted down.

"Bang! Bang... bang..."

Several gunshots rang out in succession.

A moment later, Xie Tianshu walked out of the nether mist with a cold expression, wearing a dragon-patterned thumb ring on his left thumb and holding a pistol in his right hand.

Four security team members followed behind, carrying two corpses, and threw them in front of the crowd.

Seeing the corpses of Captain "Gao Xin" and another crew member, the angry scolding turned into screams and crying. Others were completely terrified, not daring to breathe, their bodies just trembling violently.

"You actually killed someone, how did Captain Gao provoke you? You are simply lawless." Professor Xu said angrily.

Xie Tianshu was a person with a gentle and stable temperament, patiently explaining: "Professor, we are now in the Ghost Wasteland Realm where land cannot be seen; where do laws come from, where does heaven come from? The captain was a good man, but good men are destined to be unable to survive in harsh environments and are the first wave to be eliminated."

"You are a biology professor; you should understand better than anyone that survival is the first law in the universe."

"When the living environment becomes harsh, organisms will become irritable and uneasy, and then, take the initiative to clear out competitors for food. Those who don't take the initiative are destined to be eliminated."

"Survival of the fittest. Isn't that what you often have on your lips? Only by clearing out the inferior people on the ship who consume food and water can the superior people have a better chance of surviving."

"Sigh, if a man has no far-sightedness, he will have near-term worries. You can't wait until the food is really exhausted, everyone is so hungry they have no strength, and then, cannibalize each other? That would be too ugly; we are people of a civilized society."

"Captain Gao couldn't bring himself to be ruthless, so I have to be this bad guy."

Immediately, Xie Tianshu came to Zhao Meng, squatted down, looked at his broken and bent legs, and said very displeased: "How were your legs beaten like this? You guys are too ruthless! Brother Meng, does it hurt? It must hurt a lot, how about this, you hand over the Buddha's sarira, and I'll give you a quick death. I swear to heaven, I will definitely do what I say."

Zhao Meng's face was as white as paper, he opened his eyelids, and looked at him indifferently.

Xie Tianshu's eyes instantly turned much colder, and he asked in a deep voice: "Have you found Li Youyi yet?"

A security team member said, "Not yet."

"The deck area is only so big, where could he hide? Search inch by inch, dig up all the grave mounds, and find him. Where is Xie Jin?" Xie Tianshu said.

"He took people to the planting area and hasn't returned yet." The security team member said.

Xie Tianshu knew Xie Jin's intentions; he must have gone for Cai Yutong.

"Brother Meng, do you know why I am certain that the Buddha's sarira must be with you two junior brothers?"

Xie Tianshu smiled, then added: "Because when the Long Ji sank, I saw with my own eyes that Li Youyi erupted with cyan light and red clouds. The more you cover up and deny, the more it shows that the Buddha's sarira is on the ship. Tell me now, and you will have much less pain."

Zhao Meng remained silent.

Gao Huan, his hands tied behind his back, his face pressed against the cold ground, slowly woke up, his shoulders and wrists in immense pain, his head dizzy, his vision and hearing gradually becoming clear from blurriness.

After seeing his situation clearly, his gaze moved to the two corpses, and his pupils contracted violently.

He struggled to sit up in disbelief, his eyes staring fixedly at Captain Gao Xin's corpse, and suddenly cried out: "Dad!"

He stood up and rushed over.

His center of gravity was unstable, and he fell beside the corpse, head-first.

"Dad... who killed my dad... which one of you did it, you... ah... woo..."

Gao Huan's voice was hoarse, his heart aching and twitching, his tears mixing with the fresh blood on the corpse.

Chen Hong was surprised: "So Captain Gao's son was also on the ship, he hid really well."

"Another connection." Kong Fan sneered, it was just a scientific research ship, how could they stuff so many people in.

A security team member whispered in Xie Tianshu's ear: "This kid and Li Youyi are very close and have been together often recently; he must know where Li Youyi is hiding."

Xie Tianshu walked over to comfort him: "Xiao Huan, the dead cannot come back to life, you must restrain your grief. Tell me, where is Li Youyi?"

Gao Huan saw the pistol that originally belonged to his father in Xie Tianshu's hand; how could he not know who the executioner was?

"I'll kill you!"

Gritting his teeth, he slammed his head forward.

Xie Tianshu retreated quickly.

Gao Huan slammed into the air and fell to the ground. Before he could crawl up, he was stepped on the neck by Chen Hong, his ear bleeding from the hard sole of the shoe.

Chen Hong said: "Don't refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit, can't you see the situation?"

"I can see your... mother..." Gao Huan roared.

Chen Hong's eyes sank, and he kicked out, kicking Gao Huan until he nearly fainted, unable to curse anymore.

In the nether mist, messy footsteps and cursing sounds came.

Xie Jin and the other three brought the five students from the planting area back.

Seeing the tragic scene on the deck.

The students who had been angry just now all shut their mouths, silent as cicadas in winter. Two of the girls lowered their heads, their legs trembling violently.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 15 =====