novelraw Chapter 1379 697: Damn, You're Screwed!
Chapter 1379 697: Damn, You're Screwed!
Screams.
Right there in the narrow ship corridor, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Hanafiya, who was just convulsing moments ago, suddenly sprang to life, mouth agape, biting onto the neck of his companion behind, knocking him down, and began madly devouring him.
Unable to tell if it was a cry or a mad laugh.
"Help, help... help..."
The victim being bitten screamed hoarsely, struggling, calling for help in vain, until the second officer Shamska, realizing something was wrong, drew his gun and mercilessly killed the frenzied Hanafiya.
With a bang, the creature that was just a comrade lay lifeless on the ground, its fate unknown.
Yet those vacant eyes still stared fixatedly at them.
It sent chills down their spines.
In the stuffy cabin, for a moment, it was as if they had plunged into an ice cave.
The crew looked at each other, stunned.
Outside, the cannons roared; the situation unclear, yet internally such horrors had occurred. Everyone felt a deep chill that was far more terrifying. Worse still, on the floor, the severely wounded victim with a bitten throat began to convulse... among the spasms, the flesh cracked, the body mutated, taking on a woody texture, the melting face rotted swiftly, yet the expression turned into an involuntary grimace.
Just like that, in front of everyone, they slowly got up...
Bang!
The second officer's face twisted, pulled the trigger, and gunshots rang out incessantly. Soon, the newly mutated crewmate also became a sieve, collapsing backward.
In the dead silence, no one spoke.
"Something's wrong!"
The second officer's expression grew darker, staring at the two corpses under his feet, subconsciously taking a step back.
Why is there no blood from the bodies?
"Where... is it wrong?"
With intestines spilling, the corpse raised its head rigidly, monotonously repeating: "Normal, we are normal... we are very normal!"
Beneath the cracked, gelatinous skin, a metallic skeleton was revealed, complex modules sparking, the eyes glowing crimson.
In the sharp friction sounds, they tried to get up from the ground again but fell, seemingly out of control, their limbs violently twitching and cramping, twisting into a grotesque posture, supporting their bodies.
The head arched backwards, rotating.
The stretched and torn flesh exposed skeletal bones like a skull, with tangled cables and modules.
In the end, the prosthetic eyes rotated, gazing at each dazed pirate.
"Normal, normal, normal..."
Those chaotic whispers overlapped, like delirious dreams, monotonously without inflection: "We, normal, you, why..."
The second officer felt a cold shiver all over, staggered backward, but heard the dense, subtle sounds from the darkness of the cabin.
Like a torrential rain.
Under the flickering lights, strange crawling outlines emerged from the floor and walls of the cabin, crawling out densely, like a tide.
Clearly having faces resembling humans, yet crawling, leaping, and sprinting on the ground with hands and feet, smiling as if immersed in bliss, murmuring softly.
The terrifying numbers seemed endless!
Intensive gunfire erupted amidst fear-filled screams and cries, under the barrage of bullets, one silhouette after another shattered, yet soon more monsters climbed out from the cabin, entangling with each other, trampling over their kin, seemingly unfazed by fear and pain, pouncing on every living being.
Screams rose, only to be abruptly silenced, as blood and limbs splattered from the monsters' bites and tugs, falling from the air, welcoming another round of plunder, even all-out fighting.
Eyes, hands, bones, viscera...
Even clothes and shoes were adorned on their faces and bodies like treasures, hungrily licking the blood, faces covered with torn-off human skin.
Excited howls, shrieks!
And thus, the disaster began to spread.
"Oh wow!"
Ji Jue gazed down, sighed lightly with feeling: "Accidentally became a zombie, how terrifying."
The curtain after all was formed by the Tyrant Spirit Contract, even if reshaped beyond recognition by Ji Jue, inherently carried the properties of the Sin lineage.
The original curtain plundered spiritual substance and soul through fog, like a living creature draining all life within its domain...
After incorporating the Three-phase Alchemy, the properties completely reversed.
No longer plundering spiritual substance, instead channeling Mercury Fog transfers the user's spiritual substance into targets, strengthening them.
Unfortunately, the Embers lineage's spiritual substance has Material Interference traits.
Naturally they tend to affect materials.
When Ji Jue was still an apprentice, he could use spiritual substance to reinforce materiality, the stronger the craftsman, the more exaggerated this trait.
And now, Ji Jue's spiritual substance... how to put it, the human content is too low.
Once out of control, it will quickly cause Mutant transformation, causing the infected to solidify.
Imbuing spirit into matter is inherently a core of alchemy, and this process is logically empowered by Ember's Three-piece Set. Thus, targets imbued with Ji Jue's spiritual substance, if lacking resistance, will immediately transform into living creations during the mutation.
This is without Ji Jue injecting the Flame of Evil Demon, otherwise, who knows what kind of monstrosity it'll turn into!
Oh no!