Chapter 918: 916: Dream

[Liu Xinzhi’s Perspective]

Time went back to when she and Miss Mu had just returned to the room, finished communicating with Yi Chen, who only left behind a cigarette butt on the balcony,

just as the two were discussing whether to go to the banquet hall to unite with other potential Fu Jiangs or to stay in the room and watch the situation unfold.

Boom! A violent crash was heard, causing the entire cruise ship to shake fiercely.

"Sea monster!" Liu Xinzhi shouted loudly,

ka ka ka~ The sound of pipes echoed from between the deck layers, as if something had already invaded the inner layer of the ship.

"Xinzhi, come over!"

With Mu’s shout, Liu Xinzhi immediately dodged over, and the two sat together under an umbrella at the bedside.

Strange sounds were everywhere, reaching near their room, moving through the walls within the sewer ducts and ventilation pipes, getting closer and closer.

"It’s coming!"

Mu had already prepared to pierce with an umbrella,

while Liu Xinzhi drew a carving knife that she had just swiped from the banquet hall from her waist,

splash splash~

The unmanned bathroom suddenly started to run water, the sound of water slowly changing to bare feet stepping on water, approaching the bathroom door.

Click! The lock turned, as if a monster was about to emerge from the bathroom and pounce on the two of them.

But when the door opened, it was Miss Mu wrapped in a bath towel who walked out,

"Sister Mu! How are you taking a bath... then who’s sitting next to me?"

When Liu Xinzhi turned her head, a swollen female corpse with soaking hair was sitting with her! The corpse’s body had split along the midline, a large number of octopus tentacles drilling out from the abdominal cavity.

Wrapping around Liu Xinzhi’s entire body and dragging her in, chewing and crushing.

Buzz!

A jolt in her head, Liu Xinzhi suddenly awakened.

She abruptly felt her body and found everything intact! And she had actually fallen asleep alone on the bed, the cigarette butt on the window sill still had some embers, indicating Mr. Yi had just left not long ago.

The bathroom light was on and the sound of water was coming, Miss Mu’s umbrella was placed beside the bathroom door, making Liu Xinzhi instinctively think Sister Mu was bathing inside.

"I can’t stay outside alone, I must stay with Mu all the time. Sister Mu! I’m coming in to bathe too!"

Liu Xinzhi was undressing while walking towards the bathroom, and upon opening the door, she saw Sister Mu’s perfect form showering in the water.

When she stripped off her clothes and stepped into the shower with light steps wanting to embrace, her arms only grasped empty air.

There was no one in the bathroom.

Bang! Meanwhile, the door behind her slammed shut

Buzz buzz~ The bathroom lights flickered.

A cold and pale hand without nails suddenly stretched out from the shower drain, grabbing Liu Xinzhi’s calf, with such great strength that it dragged her entire body into the 10cm diameter drain, like stuffing a sausage.

Feeling her entire body compressed, her internal organs and bones shattered,

at the moment of death... Buzz! Liu Xinzhi woke up once more.

This time she was leaning in Sister Mu’s arms, the two sitting on the bed, on guard against the ever-looming sea monster.

The sensation of her body being compressed from the previous death still lingered, making Liu Xinzhi hug herself, an inexplicable fear sweeping through her body.

But she quickly overcame the fear, a glint flashed in her eyes, seeming to have figured out everything.

"Ah~ It seems I already fell into a trap and fell asleep! The so-called sea monster must be related to forced sleep, probably Sister Mu also fell asleep.

If I continue to die frequently like this, it will gradually exhaust all of my resources, and my external body will ultimately perish, I’ll utterly die in the dream.

Instead of fiercely struggling here, I might as well make some final arrangements in advance.

I have unfinished words for Mr. Yi, I must convey them to him before I die! According to Sister Mu’s deduction, the host of the beauty contest should know Mr. Yi.

If I plead desperately, maybe the letter can really reach Mr. Yi’s hands, as long as I express my love, it doesn’t matter."

Liu Xinzhi was no longer fearful, nor did she care what the dream-created Mu beside her was saying.

She approached the desk in the room to write her will.

However, instead of pen and paper, she found an art knife and slowly sliced along the midline of her body, then peeled and ripped off the entire outer skin.

She was ’writing’ her will on the inner layer of the skin with the art knife.

The ’Mu’ sitting on the bed had already become a swollen floating corpse, but just tilted its head watching everything, as if the entity controlling the dream was also very interested in this behavior.

The so-called will was actually a letter of confession, detailing the encounters, acquaintance, and understanding with Yi Chen over the past few days,

During the writing, Liu Xinzhi would laugh or cry, and after writing the last sentence, rushed straight to the balcony, facing the dark and deep sea, shouting loudly.

"I don’t know if you know Mr. Yi, but if you meet him, please hand over my body to him! Thank you... I now offer myself to the sea."

With that said,

Liu Xinzhi committed suicide by jumping into the sea in the dream, severely violating the second rule "Beware of the sea."

Sinking, descending towards the darkest sea bottom

The pressure from the deep sea forcing seawater into Liu Xinzhi’s body, gradually swelling, about to burst like a balloon when,

Bang!

Something exploded! And it splattered all over her face.

When her eyes opened again, she was still in the cabin aboard the cruise, only a fleshy root tube plugged into Liu Xinzhi’s mouth had burst.

Cough cough cough!

She kept coughing, expelling a large amount of seawater from her body, and when her consciousness gradually cleared, she saw Sister Mu beside her with a fleshy tube in her mouth, immersed in a special sleep state.

The fleshy tubes came from the room’s ventilation duct,

Liu Xinzhi intended to cut the fleshy tube on Mu’s body but hesitated at the last second and pulled back the carving knife.

She was barefoot, stepping on the cold floor, walking towards the banquet hall, towards the source of the fleshy tubes.

The entire banquet hall was filled with densely hung fleshy tubes like roots, all the contestants gathered there were forcibly put to sleep, some even had food still in their mouths, forks and knives directly stabbed into their eye sockets after falling asleep.

Continuing onward, passing through the banquet hall to the bow deck of the cruise,

this was the origin of all the sleeping fleshy tubes, the so-called ’sea monster’ was right here, to be exact, a Buddha Mother from the deep sea.

A living flower seat parasitic like a sea anemone on the deck,

a black-haired Buddha Mother with floral-ring pupils sitting cross-legged, over ten meters tall,

the flower seat was part of the Buddha Mother’s body, the roots born beneath the flower seat were the fleshy tubes connecting everyone’s dream.

One face of the Buddha Mother was black, the other was white, both hands gesturing in a Dharma Seal,

her back growing numerous octopus tentacles writhing madly, each over a hundred meters long, capable of swallowing the entire cruise ship.

The Buddha Mother’s lips did not move yet a voice came from the sea:

"Fu Jiang’s essence should be extremely selfish, placing their interests at the top, and life is their foundation to gain all of this.

Everyone is longing to survive in the dream, only you seek death actively for that strange affection.

Interesting, I didn’t expect there to be someone like you on this ship, and you happened to have devoured one of my offspring before.

Alright! I will give you a chance, come and devour this statue, gain my malice! This will help you win the beauty contest later, and perhaps then you could truly be with Mr. Yi."

Liu Xinzhi listened to this seductive voice from the deep sea, but did not intend to climb up and eat.

She stretched lazily, a sinister yet gentle smile appearing on her face,

"No need! I’m better off being myself... while everyone’s asleep, as the only one awake, I should be able to do some serious business."

Liu Xinzhi didn’t fear that the Buddha Mother behind her might directly kill her, she immediately ran back to the banquet hall, starting to enjoy the most perfect banquet.

"Sisters, let me help end this endless dream for you~ and take your place in the ultimate beauty contest."