217: Chapter 217 I might not have killed you an hour ago, but it’s too late now!
The cold metal walls were no longer still.
A faint tremor came from beneath his feet.
And… a dull, rhythmic… hum, characteristic of some colossal structure from within?
Lin Mo’s bare feet trod on the cold metal floor of the corridor.
Bloody footprints stretched all the way.
“Ship.”
Nie Xiaoqian’s cold voice directly echoed in his consciousness.
“We are moving. Inside a giant ship.”
Lin Mo paused slightly.
Not a hospital.
A cage floating on the high seas? A laboratory?
Very good.
High seas.
No restraints.
No witnesses.
A good place to kill.
He didn’t plan to spare a single one.
Power!
He needed more power now! Brain Quantum! Slaughter was the fastest path to evolution!
As for whether he could leave?
It didn’t matter.
First, he would slaughter all his enemies underfoot!
“Go.” Lin Mo’s voice grew colder. His goal was clear—upwards! Clear them out!
The killing machine restarted!
Nie Xiaoqian was responsible for clearing the path, and alloy cabin doors were torn open like paper!
The Netherworld Water swept through, surveillance rooms, equipment rooms… wherever it passed, only bursting blood mist and cold notifications were left!
“Obtained Brain Quantum: 100.”
“Obtained: 200.”
“Obtained: 80.”
Lin Mo’s steps were unceasing, like a moving purgatory, quietly and efficiently harvesting.
Occasionally encountering a white-coated researcher or a sailor running in the wrong direction, their eyes froze in terror, and the next moment, their heads exploded like fireworks.
Finally.
At the end of the corridor.
A noticeably thicker metal door, embedded with an observation window.
The captain’s cabin.
Nie Xiaoqian waved his hand!
Bang! Boom!
The door twisted, exploding inwards!
Inside the door.
The space was wide.
Various navigation instruments flickered.
A bald, middle-agedFat Man in a high-ranking uniform slumped in his large captain’s chair.
When he saw the blood-soaked figure at the door—a man who seemed to have crawled out of hell, walking in barefoot—
“Thump!”
Hisfatbody rolled directly off the chair, falling hard to his knees on the floor! The floor even vibrated!
Grease and sweat mixed on his face, and his entire body trembled violently like a sieve!
“Mercy… Have mercy! Sir! My lord! Have mercy!!!” he wailed, snot and tears gushing out!
“I’m just a boatman! The company! The company forced me! I don’t know anything!!!”
He kowtowed frantically, making loud thudding sounds.
“Killing me! Killing the other crew members! It’s useless!!!” He suddenly looked up, a hint of morbid survival instinct bursting in his eyes:
“This! This is the doldrums! Point Nemo!!! The spacecraft graveyard!”
“The nearest land! Two thousand six hundred kilometers!!!”
“The ship is gone! The people are gone! The equipment is destroyed for navigation! Even if you can reach the sky, it’s useless! No one can come! And you can’t get out!!! Starve to death! Die of thirst! Be trapped to death in this dead sea in the middle of the ocean!!!”
He seemed to have found a bargaining chip, his voice growing sharp: “Keep me! Keep the ship! I’ll take you away! I swear!!!”
Lin Mo didn’t listen to his pile of nonsense at all.
He only caught the key information.
“Boss. The people above. Who?” His voice was like a bone-scraping steel knife.
The captain shivered, as if grasping a life-saving straw, answering incoherently:
“Experiment… the specific sub-area boss… Dragon Nation… Lin Tianhe! It’s him! It’s him! He was the one who brought you in!”
“Global CEO… Yankee! Smith! He’s at the headquarters! I’ve told you everything I know! Have mercy…”
Enough.
Lin Mo had what he wanted.
The next second!
Before the captain could finish!
Nie Xiaoqian’s figure flickered!
Puff! Puff puff puff!!!
The heads of several slumped sailors at the door exploded simultaneously without warning! Red and white splattered all over the control panel!
“No—!!!” The captain’s eyes bulged! He let out a heart-wrenching scream of despair! His bargaining chip! His reliance for survival! Gone! “You’re crazy!!! Lunatic!!! You kill us! You’ll die here too!!! No one can…”
He cursed frantically!
Suddenly.
The captain’s wide-open mouth froze.
His terrified and frantic eyes instantly solidified into extreme blankness and confusion.
He saw.
In front of Lin Mo.
An object appeared out of thin air.
A… exquisitely beautiful, yet eerily spectral… Phoenix Chariot!
A small, delicate Phoenix Chariot, entirely crafted from white bones and some strange glowing metal!
Pale netherflames entwined around the chariot body, weeping phoenixes were carved on the shafts, and strings of pearl-like ornaments dripping with Netherworld Water hung from the front of the chariot!
“Hoo…”
The Phoenix Chariot floated silently. Its eerie glow circulated.
It was as if it was the bride’s carriage from the Nine Underworlds!
Lin Mo extended a finger, gently stroking the cold bone shaft, then looked up at the petrified captain, a cold curve appearing at the corner of his mouth:
“I’m sorry.”
“If it were an hour earlier, perhaps… I might have considered it.”
He paused, his tone carrying a hint of understated cruelty and mockery:
“Unfortunately, now.”
“My newly wedded… Corpse Consort…”
“She brought her dowry.”
Before his words finished!
Whoosh la la—!
Dong Xiaowan’s Paper Nezha’s paper spear was like a venomous python! Whoosh! It pierced through the captain’s fat body!
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft—!!!
Instantly! Piercing through front and back! Dozens of blood springs gushed out!
With a violent twist!
Rip—!!!
The captain’s two-hundred-plus-poundfatbody, along with the extreme fear and bewilderment frozen on his face, was instantly torn apart!
Shredded! Like rotten meat thrown into a meat grinder! Turning into a sky-full of splattering blood rain and bone fragments!
It splattered all over the captain’s cabin with a crackling sound!
Sticky blood dripped down the screens.
Silence.
Only the hum of the instruments remained, and the endless, dead silent sea outside the window.
Lin Mo was expressionless.
With a thought.
The white bone chains dispersed, re-condensing into the small white bone Phoenix Chariot, floating beside him.
Its eerie glow flickered.
As if waiting for its master.
“Killed Captain X1, obtained Brain Quantum: 350 points.”
Lin Mo withdrew his gaze.
He looked out the porthole.
A gloomy sky.
A bottomless, dark sea, as if solidified.
Point Nemo?
Sea of Silence?
The cold curve at the corner of his mouth had not disappeared.
“Go.” He stepped out, walking towards the Phoenix Chariot.
Nie Xiaoqian followed him like a shadow.
Dong Xiaowan transformed into a wisp of green smoke, attaching herself to his arm.
The white bone Phoenix Chariot silently opened its chilling portal.
This huge, steel prison, floating in the center of a human activity exclusion zone.
Soon, only endless bloodstains would remain.
And dead silence.
Very good, now!
Return to Dragon Nation!
Seek revenge on Lin Tianhe!