S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 4 Chapter 73

Ghost Ship Murderer 37 – Monster

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This pair of eyes, when Lin Ruo saw them again, he still found them creepy. The memory of that year came back. On the boat, it was that same pair of eyes that stared at him and Han Wei...

Looking at it now, those eyes looked even more horrible, cold and evil...

After Aria locked the iron door, she reached out, picked up a chair and pinned it against the door, backing up in front of Lin Ruo.

With a 'bang' and another strike of the axe, the hole got a little bigger.

Then another strike.

The 'bang, bang' sounds were unhurried... The other party was in no hurry to come in, and the terrified looks of the people in the boat seemed to make her more satisfied.

Seeing Lin Ruo beckoning to her, Jiang Nan ran to his side. She faced the door and looked at the face in the doorway. She had not seen this face before, but she felt that she would probably never forget this face, these eyes, in her life...

This pair of eyes could not be seen as beautiful or ugly. From the pair of eyes, only evil could be seen.

Jiang Nan thought that Aria was already evil and abnormal enough, but the woman with the axe outside the door, perhaps... really belonged to the demons or ghosts...

"Ah!" Aria suddenly screamed, seemingly losing her composure and seemingly becoming extremely alarmed at the sight of Emilia.

At this time, outside the door, Emilia had already hacked the hole in the doorway large enough. She smiled, reached out, and gently pushed the chair that was against the door... With a clatter, the chair toppled to the ground, and then, a loud screech sound could be heard.

The iron door swung open.

Aria screamed twice, then suddenly stopped... looking at Emilia standing there in the doorway with an axe, a smile appeared on her face.

Jiang Nan saw the change in Aria's face and was somewhat puzzled, but before she could understand, Aria suddenly grabbed her arm and pushed her forward.

"Ah!" Jiang Nan was not prepared at all, she stumbled and fell over, flopping onto the floor. When she raised her head, she saw Emilia in the doorway, who was looking at her with her head lowered and her eyes, which were ghostly, looking at her.

In that instant, Jiang Nan could barely move.

"Jiang Nan!" Lin Ruo, who was still conscious at this point, was about to rush over to save her, but who knew that Emilia would throw her arm out and block him.

Lin Ruo was pushed by her, and it felt like he was hit by a car, a huge force made him fall backwards… and he fell on the bed.

Emilia raised the axe, and Jiang Nan closed her eyes...

At the same time, the sound of Aria's laughter was heard.

Emilia raised her eyes, and Aria suddenly took a gun out from behind her and smiled at her.

Although Lin Ruo didn't have much knowledge about firearms, he could see that the gun's power shouldn't be small. Aria's terrified expression from earlier had long since disappeared, and the smile that replaced it was one that carried a hint of sinister.

Afterwards, he heard Aria open her mouth and say a few words.

Lin Ruo understood, and said a sentence in German, "You're still the same monster."

Jiang Nan was lying between the two, naturally she knew that if she didn't think of a way to avoid this situation, the consequences would be unimaginable. These two were both crazy at first glance, one had an axe and the other had a gun, so she tried to creep aside as quietly as she could, but just as she was about to crawl out of Emilia's line of sight, Emilia suddenly raised her axe.

"No!" Lin Ruo shouted, smoothly picking up the orange within reach and throwing it at Emilia, who grabbed it with one hand and crushed it.

Jiang Nan hurriedly crawled to the side and stood up against the wall, nervously looking at Emilia in the doorway.

Emilia snapped her head... Looking at Lin Ruo, she seemed to be slightly stunned.

At the same time, a gunshot was heard.

Lin Ruo thought that Emilia would definitely be hit at such a short distance… but he saw her flicker...

Lin Ruo opened his mouth wide... only a few words popped up in his head – Unscientific!

Really unscientific!

Emilia had dodged the bullet and rushed over in such a short period of time.

Aria seemed to have prepared for this, holding her gun up and shooting as she backed away.

There was only so much space in the cabin, who could tolerate a gun in there, not to mention stray bullets, just the sound of a gunshot would be enough to scare people.

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At this moment, the boat that Bai Yutang and the others were was approaching the two ships that had met, and the sound of gunshots coming from the distance was clearly discernible.

"Gunshots!" Zhan Zhao was a little worried about Bai Ye's safety.

Bai Yutang told Han Wei to speed up, but Bao Zheng informed them that there was no need to rush.

Zhan Zhao glanced at Zhao Jue, and when Bai Yutang wasn't paying attention, he lowered his voice and asked, "Bai Ye and Yutang, which one is more powerful?"

Zhao Jue was stunned for a moment, then as if he had heard a funny joke, he laughed so hard that he bent over and hit the railing.

Zhan Zhao frowned at him, feeling the urge to push him off the boat.

"Do you really think that your little tiger whose teeth haven't even grown out has much lethality?" Zhao Jue shook his head while resting on the railing with one hand on his chin, seemingly laughing at Zhan Zhao's childishness.

When Zhan Zhao heard the words "teeth haven't even grown", the corner of his mouth twitched. Bai Yutang has defeated everyone in the police department, and he has won many sparring championships, but he is still a tiger with no teeth, so is he not a mollusk?

Looking at Bai Yutang who was standing at the bow of the boat with binoculars observing the situation on the ship with some concern, Zhan Zhao asked Zhao Jue in a low voice, ''How much worse is he than Bai Ye? Before, I saw them fighting around the same level."

"Pfft." Zhao Jue had an amused look on his face, "Have you ever seen a big tiger bite a little tiger with force?"

Zhan Zhao frowned and hesitated for a moment, asking, "You always call Yutang a little tiger, so what am I?"

"A cat." Zhao Jue reached out and poked him in the shoulder, "A little black cat."

"What about you?" Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes and asked, "A big cat?"

Zhao Jue looked at him for a while and let out another "pfft."

Zhan Zhao waited for him to speak.

Zhao Jue held his chin in thought for a while, then smiled coldly and said a word to himself in an eerie manner, "Monster."

"Huh?"

Because Zhao Jue said it too softly, Zhan Zhao didn't hear it clearly, "What? Ant?" (Angel: Ants is 蚂蚁, or mǎyǐ in Mandarin, and Zhao Jue said monster in English.)

Zhao Jue glanced at him and reached out to pinch both of his cheeks when another burst of gunfire came.

There was a difference between a gun and a knife, a gun would run out of bullets.

Bai Yutang and the others were already extraordinarily sensitive to the sound of gunshots, and knew that the bullets should have run out after the last shot...

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Emilia slashed at Aria with an axe, and Aria flipped her hand to block the axe with the butt of her gun, and didn't seem to be afraid of it.

In that round of shooting just now, Emilia was not uninjured, she had scrapes on her shoulders and arms, but she was not directly hit by the bullets. This kind of reflexes, in Lin Ruo's opinion, are simply inhuman.

Jiang Nan leaned against the wall, she was shocked but not to the point of being confused, she still dodged the attack well, but her calf was grazed and bleeding.

Seeing that Emilia and Aria had finally tangled together in one place, Lin Ruo retreated to Jiang Nan's side, pulling her to move away from the two and near the door.

Emilia and Aria, two young women with abnormal behaviour, evil eyes and terrifying abilities, began to fight.

Usually a woman to woman fight is nothing more than pulling hair, tugging on clothes, or whatever, but this pair was different... In Lin Ruo's opinion, if ordinary women fighting are kittens scratching each other, then this pair was a Tyrannosaurus Rex versus a Giganotosaurus! The force of Emilia's axe chopping down made Lin Ruo frown. Aria blocked it with the butt of her gun, the force of the axe was too great, and at the same time that Aria bent her hand, she tried to kick Emilia in the abdomen...

With a harsh sound, Emilia looked down at her white dress, and there was a red scratch on it.... Then she looked at Aria's shoes, and there was a fine layer of nails on the toes of her shoes.

Lin Ruo was not sure what exactly these two women were fighting about, but in any case, the deep hatred was certain, and while the two were concerned about strangling each other, they had better hurry up and escape! So, when Emilia once again raised her axe and rushed towards Aria, Lin Ruo dragged Jiang Nan and ran towards the door.

But there was a "ping"... As Aria grabbed Emilia's axe, she was thrown by Emilia and crashed into the doorway.

Lin Ruo was bumped, and pushed Jiang Nan out.

Jiang Nan had already suffered an injury to her leg, and when she fell, she saw that Lin Ruo had been hit hard by Aria as she slammed into the wall.

Lin Ruo reached out to cover his shoulder, and his face went white with pain... He understood that either his shoulder was dislocated or his arm was fractured, and his knee was a little sore, as if it had been twisted... Then he looked at the two women who once again stood up and were fighting and wrestling together. They were fast and ferocious, but their physiques were thinner than the average teenage girl, he couldn't help but frown – Monster!

Lin Ruo sat on the ground and couldn't get up. Seeing that Jiang Nan had arrived at the door, he was slightly more at ease. He looked up, but he saw Emilia, who was slightly squinting her eyes with some suspicion, staring at him.

Lin Ruo was startled, wasn't Emilia entangled with Aria?

Taking another look, he saw that Aria was lying on the bed, with an axe sticking out of her body. It looked like she had been nailed to the bed with the axe after having it hacked straight through her shoulder.

Lin Ruo frowned when he looked at it, it just so happened that his shoulder was still hurting, so it felt even more painful.

Aria was lying on the bed, the bed was covered in blood, and her eyes were wide open as she looked upwards, it wasn't clear if she was dead or not.

Lin Ruo has never seen such a bloody scene in his life, he was trying to tell if Aria was dead or alive when another face appeared in front of him.

Lin Ruo was startled and subconsciously leaned back, unintentionally slamming his head against the wall, which caused him to grimace in pain.

Right in front of him, Emilia slowly squatted down, her eyes slightly narrowed as she stared at him.

Lin Ruo had naturally seen her before, and strangely enough, she had barely changed at all over the past eight years, but her eyes just looked a little more perverted than they did back then.

Lin Ruo's heart pounded in his chest, and he thought to himself that he was dead, he and Han Wei had caused her to be struck by lightning back then, wouldn't she cut him to pieces this time?

His heart was almost jumping to his throat, when he saw Emilia suddenly stretch out her hand... The blood red hand was covered with blood, and it was still falling down drop by drop.

Lin Ruo suddenly felt a bit nauseous and wanted to vomit... He hadn't fainted from blood before, but now he saw a pair of bloody hands reaching out to himself...

At this time, he suddenly saw Emilia lower her head, and a very loud "bang" was heard. Emilia's face was slightly deformed in front of Lin Ruo's eyes, and was knocked away by a piece of iron plate that swept horizontally, her whole body flew out to the side and landed on the ground heavily.

Before Lin Ruo could react, Han Wei, who was hiding behind the ventilation window earlier, came in at some point, and holding the half of the ventilation window that had been removed in his hand, he yanked Lin Ruo up and ran out the door.

Lin Ruo's shoulder was dislocated, and his head was still dazed from the impact, so he stumbled as Han Wei pulled him outside, and his knee was probably injured, so it hurt to stand.

Jiang Nan was waiting at the door, she could have escaped just now, but she felt that leaving Lin Ruo behind was too unrighteous.

Seeing Han Wei dragging him out, she supported her own injured leg and helped support Lin Ruo as they ran together into the distance...

"Boat!" Jiang Nan reached out and pointed ahead... Sure enough, they saw a large ship moored right next to their boat.

Lin Ruo, on the other hand, drew in a cold breath… He will remember this boat for the rest of his life! Subconsciously, he glanced at Han Wei next to him.

Han Wei was also looking at him.

At this time, there was a "bang" behind them. The iron door was kicked open, and Emilia walked out with a bloody axe in one hand. Half of her face was covered in blood, and her face was deformed by Han Wei.

"You guys get on that ship! Pull up the anchor and leave quickly!" Han Wei picked up a rusty iron pole from the bow of the boat, and it looked like he was going to stop Emilia.

Lin Ruo subconsciously grabbed him, he instinctively felt that Han Wei could not beat that Emilia... That woman was not human-looking at all, and the scene from that year seemed to come back to haunt him, with Emilia's frightening pair of eyes... and her mouth that said, "of the two, can only go one back."

With that one sentence, Han Wei slept for eight years, was it fate this time? Is it true that after seeing this unfortunate ghost ship, it is destined that of the two, only one can leave?

Lin Ruo let go of Han Wei's hand that was holding him up, reached out, and went to pick up another iron bar, while saying to Jiang Nan, "Hurry up and get on the boat!"

Jiang Nan looked at the two of them, then reached out and went to pick up another pipe, which meant – At worst, we'll die together.

Han Wei was somewhat speechless, "You guys..."

Before he finished his words, he suddenly... felt that there seemed to be something moving behind him.

Lin Ruo and Jiang Nan didn't notice it at all. Han Wei, after all, has a special ability, he felt that there was air movement behind him, but the strangest thing was that... Emilia, who was holding an axe in front of them, and who was more like a zombie than like a human being, stopped, raised her head, and looked behind him.

Han Wei subconsciously turned back, and was startled...

Lin Ruo also turned around and instinctively called out, "Bai Yutang?"

Jiang Nan heard the words "Bai Yutang" and was both shocked and delighted, thinking that they were saved, and hurriedly turned back to look as well.

Only to see a person half squatting on the railing at the stern of the boat.

He was half squatting on the thin railing, holding a long, black stick-like thing in his hand.

Jiang Nan took a closer look and was surprised – This person was not Bai Yutang, although his face was really similar, and his body was also similar, but his temperament and aura seemed to be completely different. How should she say it... Compared to him, Bai Yutang seems to be younger? Could it be that he is Bai Yutang's brother?

But Jiang Nan also thought that Bai Yutang's brother was Bai Jintang, and she hadn't heard of any other brothers...

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Who is the one who came? Naturally, it was Bai Ye.

Bai Ye came down from the railing and waved his hand at the three, "Get off the ship."

The three froze, and when they looked down below the ship, they saw a speedboat parked below, a police speedboat, and there were two SWAT team members looking up at the ship with their mouths open in a state of dumbfoundedness...

What were these two SWAT team members looking at? They were just thinking about how to send Bai Ye up when Bai Ye jumped up with a whoosh!

He really jumped up!

The two men wiped their eyes and looked at each other to see the other's reaction, and after determining that it was not an illusion, they kept repeating these words in their heads – Jumped up! Jumped straight up! How is it possible?!

Although Han Wei did not know who this person was, he could jump straight up from below the ship, he definitely was not simple. He bought some time to help the injured Lin Ruo and Jiang Nan to get off the ship first...

But Lin Ruo didn't move, he stood still and looked back curiously.

"Ruo, get off the boat!" Han Wei pulled him.

Lin Ruo stood frozen and didn't move, he saw that in front of him, Bai Ye held the end of the black stick and drew out... a silver-white sword.

Emilia stared at Bai Ye and suddenly took a step back.

Han Wei frowned – She was scared!

Lin Ruo was also surprised and asked Han Wei in a low voice, "Does she know about fear? That means she can communicate?"

Han Wei looked at him, "What do you want to communicate with her about? The skill of chopping people with an axe?"

Lin Ruo froze, stared at Han Wei, then smiled, "You're back to normal?"

"I haven't been abnormal, it's just that the one you saw wasn't me." Saying that, Han Wei helped Lin Ruo on the railing. At this time, Jiang Nan had already jumped down, and the SWAT team members went into the water to help her onto the speedboat, followed by Han Wei and Lin Ruo....

Just as the two of them got on the speedboat, they saw another large boat approaching from the front... The boat was grey in colour, and the shape was almost impossible to see on the sea at night, but the people on the bow of the boat attracted the attention of the crowd, it was the people from SCI.

Lin Ruo can finally breathe a complete sigh of relief – They were saved!

On the side, Jiang Nan also collapsed with exhaustion, and after the rescue, she didn't forget to look at Lin Ruo, "You're right, they've really come to save us."

Bai Yutang looked towards the boat, it was empty, where was Bai Ye?

As he was thinking, Ma Han gently nudged Bai Yutang from beside him, "Head."

"Hmm?" Bai Yutang looked at him.

"There's someone on the boat."

Bai Yutang was stunned, thinking that there were people on the boat, Bai Ye and the others... But when he turned back to look at Ma Han, he found that the place he was gazing at was different from the others, and what he was looking at wasn't the small boat that Bai Ye and the others were on, but the larger, more eerie ship beside it – PT1001.

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Translator Notes

Please feel free to comment any mistakes I made so I can improve and do better as I go through the book.

Translated: July 23, 2023 by Angel

Edited: July 24, 2023 by Angel