Mobile Shelter

Chapter 76 No One Was Spared

Dong Qi suppressed his nausea and carefully observed the people before discovering that what they vomited was not the usual food debris, but a thick, translucent mucus.

And most importantly, there were also yellow, round things distributed in the mucus.

Upon seeing what was in the slime, Dong Qi instantly found the source of his inner unease, so he immediately activated his natal vehicle and rushed out of the equipment warehouse.

Then, to the astonishment of the surrounding crowd, he shouted loudly to Shao Kai, who had returned to his side, "It's dangerous here, get in the car with me right now."

In fact, as early as when Dong Qi's natal car arrived on the deck, Shao Kai had already sensed that Dong Qi might have discovered the potential danger. Considering his friend's warning and Dong Qi's status as an Awakened, Shao Kai thought about it.

Shao Kai had complete faith in Dong Qi's ability to judge danger. As soon as he heard Dong Qi call out to him, his body instinctively rushed toward Dong Qi's car.

However, as he approached the car, Shao Kai instinctively called out to his friend who was still on the deck, "There might be danger here. If you trust me, then come with me to the car."

The team led by Shao Kai, composed of logistics personnel, had only a normal superior-subordinate relationship with everyone except Dong Qi; their relationship wasn't particularly close.

Shao Kai's shouts were not directed at them, but at the captains of several other teams, who were his friends with whom he often met.

When their chariot burst through the cabin door, those people had already turned their attention to this place. After hearing Shao Kai's call, they hesitated for a moment before following Shao Kai's example and rushing directly towards the location of their chariot.

At this moment, Dong Qi's destined car had arrived beside him. As soon as Dong Qi sat in the driver's seat, Shao Kai opened the passenger door and plopped down in.

Those who heard Shao Kai's call rushed over in just a few seconds, opened the side door of the vehicle, and swarmed into the car.

Seeing this, some clever people on the deck reacted quickly. Some of the members of Shao Kai's team, who were very close to Dong Qi's car, decisively followed the others and climbed into the car.

The remaining few people neither recognized Dong Qi nor respected Shao Kai; they were simply following orders because of the mission. So, after not hearing Shao Kai give a clear command, they remained in place without doing anything.

Some of the slightly smarter people on the deck, because they were a bit far from their car and saw more than ten people getting into it, simply didn't go over.

Some people picked up their weapons and looked around warily.

Others simply and decisively fled the area, running directly towards the cabin door.

Faced with the sudden chaos among some logistics personnel on deck, the frontline combat personnel who were originally on duty at the edge of the deck railing also shifted their attention from the sea outside the ship to the slightly chaotic deck.

Seeing that all the car doors were tightly closed, Shao Kai, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was just about to ask Dong Qi what had happened.

Suddenly, they noticed that the mucus vomited by the survivors on the deck seemed to contain something, and that thing was constantly moving around in the mucus, stirring up the mucus on the ground.

Before anyone could react, long, transparent strips, no bigger than a middle finger, burst forth with viscous fluid and entered the bodies of the survivors who were still vomiting on the deck.

As transparent strips continuously burrowed into their bodies, the survivors, who were still vomiting, suddenly stopped vomiting, and their bodies visibly shrank.

As the survivors' bodies gradually withered, people saw long, creeping marks appearing on their drier skin, seemingly moving erratically within their bodies.

Once the survivors' bodies had desiccated into dried-out corpses, a long worm about the size of an infant's arm burst through their shriveled bodies and appeared directly on the deck.

In less than a minute, the survivors who were vomiting on the deck had turned into pieces of dried corpses.

This sudden change gave those still on deck no time to react.

When those sea serpent-like creatures appeared on the deck, they rushed directly towards the humans closest to them, and then several sea serpents completely covered them.

Those humans covered by sea snakes seemed paralyzed, making no effort to resist, and simply fell straight down on the deck.

The soldiers standing on the edge of the railing only hesitated for a moment before reacting. They then used their bullets without hesitation, employing extremely precise marksmanship to pick off the newly appeared sea snakes.

However, although the soldiers were very accurate with their guns, they couldn't even last thirty seconds against the overwhelming numbers of the sea snakes. The sea snakes quickly broke through the defensive net of bullets and rushed to their side.

Faced with this situation, some soldiers still fought bravely against the sea snakes. In the end, like the logistics personnel on the deck, they were covered by a large number of sea snakes and fell to the ground due to paralysis.

Others, realizing they couldn't stop the sea snakes from approaching, gritted their teeth and made a decisive leap over the railing and into the water.

However, even deep down they knew that even if they climbed over the railing and jumped into the water, seemingly escaping the battlefield and no longer being attacked by those mutated sea snakes, it would be a disaster.

However, their ship was still surrounded by a large number of mutated marine creatures. If they jumped into the water now, they would be walking into a trap, and their chances of survival would be slim.

No one expected that only a few minutes had passed between Dong Qi's car breaking through the cabin door and appearing on the deck, and the strange changes that occurred on the deck.

In those few short minutes, the only living people left on the deck were those who had taken refuge in Dong Qi's car.

Fortunately, after the anomaly occurred on the deck, those who had run to the cabins earlier realized that the remaining people on the deck had no chance of survival, so they decisively closed the cabin doors, cutting off the passage between the cabins and the deck.

The gate that Dong Qi's car crashed through was only connected to the equipment warehouse. Although there were also hatches in the equipment warehouse leading to other cabins, locking them would completely seal off the equipment warehouse.