Chapter 118: Chapter 76: Ghost Ship Under the Moon! Sea Demon Monster!_2
“Ah!”
As the night deepened, the sea remained calm, reflecting the stars and the moon above in a peaceful scene. Suddenly, Su Changkong’s eyes shot open in his cabin. His ears twitched as he heard a very short and faint scream, followed by the sound of something falling into the water—it had come from outside the cabin!
“Is something wrong?”
Su Changkong immediately stood up, his expression changing. He rushed out of the cabin.
On the deck outside the cabin, each of the guests participating in the Ghost Market transaction had also sensed that something was amiss and were all on high alert.
“What happened? Did I hear a scream?”
“It sounds like someone fell overboard!”
On the deck, the guests had been startled by the brief scream. Some seemed to know what was happening and responded.
“Ah! Help! I can’t swim!”
In the water below, a woman’s panicked screams for help could be heard.
Su Changkong saw a disheveled woman flailing about on the surface of the water, her face indiscernible.
The organizer of this Ghost Market, the owner of the ship, a burly man wearing a wooden mask, ordered, “Use a rope to pull her up!”
“Yes!”
The guards on the ship replied and immediately prepared a rescue rope, a standard piece of equipment on board, and threw it down for the overboard woman to grab.
“Pull her up!”
When the woman grabbed the rope, several guards worked together to drag her up, steadying her shoulders to help her onto the ship.
This was originally just a minor incident—a guest of the Ghost Market had accidentally fallen off the ship.
But suddenly, everyone felt simultaneously that something was off!
“This isn’t right… Did a woman dressed in white board the ship tonight?”
One of the guards suddenly spoke up.
While collecting the boarding fees from the guests earlier, they noticed that although there were dozens of guests, most wore inconspicuous colors like black or blue.
A woman in white, such a conspicuous feature—was there such a person among the passengers?
“Be careful!”
While the guard was puzzled, the alarmed shout of a comrade rang in his ear.
The white-clothed woman, who had been pulled from the sea with her hair disheveled and seemed to shiver from being soaked, now had the corners of her mouth under her hair turned up in a cruel smile!
“Not good!”
A guard near the white-clothed woman felt a sense of alarm rise within him and tried to move away, but it was too late.
“Pfft!”
The pale, bloodless hand of the white-clothed woman shot out abruptly, and amidst the crisp sound of flesh being torn, the guard’s chest was brutally penetrated. Staggering back, a transparent hole of blood appeared in his chest.
In the woman’s hand was a still-beating, blood-red heart.
“Laoqi!”
The guard collapsed onto the deck as the rest of the guards cried out in anger.
This white-clothed woman, who had appeared out of nowhere, had murdered one of their companions without any warning!
What was even more horrifying was that the white-clothed woman, holding the heart, sniffed it and then brought it to her mouth, greedily gnawing on it. This sight made everyone’s scalp tingle!
“Has she… gone mad?” Someone stepped back subconsciously. Most of those attending the Ghost Market were no easy prey, having seen plenty of brutal characters. Yet, this act of eating a human heart before everyone was unprecedented in their lives!
“This woman… is very strange!”
Su Changkong watched this unfold, his face also showing seriousness. This white-clothed woman had called for help in the water near the ship, making people believe she was a guest who had fallen overboard. But once they pulled her up, she immediately attacked, effortlessly gouging out the heart of a guard with a foundation in Martial Arts—we’re dealing with a dangerous individual!
“Dammit! You’re looking for death!”
In a furious roar, a guard wearing a horse-face mask saw his comrade die on the spot, and the white-clothed woman was now chewing on his heart. In a mix of shock and rage, he drew his cleaver from his waist and aimed a Splitting Cut at the woman’s neck.
“Plop!”
To everyone’s astonishment, the powerful cut, capable of splitting a thick tree, struck the white-clothed woman’s neck and made a slight ringing sound as if a dull blade had struck tough leather. Her neck was left completely unscathed!
“What… is this Horizontal Training Hard Skill?”
The guard in the horse-face mask was stunned.
Typical Horizontal Training Hard Skills might resist attacks like punches, kicks, and bludgeons, but to withstand a blade with one’s bare body, there were very few experts capable of such feats even in the whole of Ink Forest Prefecture City!
This white-clothed woman had taken his powerful blow to the neck without any defensive posture; this was almost inconceivable to the man in the horse-face mask!
At that moment, the white-clothed woman had swallowed the heart she held and suddenly lifted her head, revealing a pale face devoid of any blood. Most eerie were her eyes—a beast-like yellow with vertical pupils, glowing peculiarly, nothing like human eyes.
“Plop!”
With a sweep of her hand, her slender and delicate yet blade-like palm cleanly severed the neck of the guard in the horse-face mask.. His head flew off and landed heavily on the deck!