Chapter 45: Lin Yan: It Absolutely Can’t Get Out!
Lin Yan looked at the old backpack drifting to Wu Xie’s side and fell silent.
No need to guess, he knew for sure that the notebook he was looking for was inside. Good grief, does the original plot have some kind of causality phenomenon? It even delivers the clue right to Wu Xie’s face? So all that rummaging he did earlier was pointless—either he was incompetent, or that thing was automatically overlooked by him?
Is this for real? Couldn’t he change the plot more to keep himself safe? Wu Yong did save them, sure, and while the original plot doesn’t specify if he did or not, it definitely wasn’t this smooth. But since the notebook wasn’t at the bow of the ship, why was that sea monkey still released? Don’t give me that butterfly effect nonsense. If it really was the butterfly effect, if he had chosen to watch Wu Yong die, none of this would have happened, right?
When Wu Yong was confronting them earlier, he carefully observed Wu Yong’s expression and eyes, and found that Wu Yong wasn’t lying. That means he really heard a “person” calling for help. That means the sea monkey has a built-in hallucination function. As for why he and Wu Xie weren’t affected.
After returning from Lu King’s Palace, he realized that the armor piece that Wu Xie accidentally swallowed was definitely kirin gall, so he was immune to hallucinations. And while he hated being controlled by others, that thing in his brain was really a big shot! The green-eyed fox corpse was like that before, and now the sea monkey is too.
He was probably a break illusion master now?
Did Wu Yong, who released the sea monkey, not know there was a sea monkey there? He didn’t believe that the always well-prepared Wu Family wouldn’t have corresponding things to protect themselves. Or was he really just a guide, responsible for leading them onto the ship? After completing his mission, would he be silenced?
Good grief, is the Wu Family this ruthless to their own people? But that doesn’t make sense.
He looked at Wu Xie, who was staring blankly at the backpack, grabbed him and stood up, then bolted: “Run!”
He heard a loud shout from behind: “Wait for me!”
He turned his head and nearly passed out.
He saw Wu Yong holding a steel pipe and running for his life—yes, that’s right, he was still clutching that steel pipe. But who could tell him why there was a sea monkey hanging on Wu Yong’s steel pipe?
The sea monkey was grabbing the steel pipe and was dragged all the way to them by Wu Yong before stopping.
Wu Yong shouted without looking back: “Why aren’t you running? Run! There’s a monster!” As he dashed past them and bolted out. Not even ten seconds later, they heard a huge “splash”—alright, he jumped into the sea.
Heh, now he knew how this guide NPC got away unscathed. By the way, did Wu Yong just leave their Third Master Xiao behind like that? Would he get beaten to death when he got back?
As for why they stopped running, the reason was simple—the sea monkey had let go of the steel pipe and was now staring at them right in front of them.
How ugly was the sea monkey? Reading the original plot description, Lin Yan didn’t feel much, but standing in front of it, he unconsciously started to suffocate.
It was too stinky, really too stinky! A hundred times stinkier than the dry corpses hanging on the nine-headed serpent cypress, a thousand times stinkier than that James’s rotting corpse! The novels often describe how people hold their breath when facing zombies or that kind of ghost stuff for a reason! He was already nearly passing out from the stench!
But neither of them dared to move.
He didn’t know what triggered the sea monkey’s attacks, but they didn’t move and neither did the sea monkey.
Wu Xie found an angle to quietly turn his face and signaled Lin Yan with his eyes: What do we do? Have you seen this scene before? How do we get out?
Lin Yan signaled back: How should I know! When I asked the ship captain earlier, he only said the sea monkey would gut people open. When I asked how to deal with it, he just said to beat it! But look at this thing, can the two of us beat it?!
Wu Xie could only signal back: You’re right!
Lin Yan: Heh!
After a long standoff, they didn’t even dare breathe loudly, afraid any sound would alert the sea monkey.
At this moment, Lin Yan suddenly noticed something, raised his eyebrows, ignored Wu Xie’s eyes frantically signaling at him, and slowly backed away.
Good, it didn’t alert the sea monkey.
Confirmed! This sea monkey was absolutely placed here by the Wu Family! Otherwise, why was it staring at Wu Xie!
Lin Yan completely forgot that Wu Xie still had that half-baked, sometimes effective kirin blood on him, so he had no idea his guess about the facts was ten million miles off the truth.
Actually, Wu Yong wanted to drag the sea monkey into the sea with him. How could he really abandon Wu Xie? (Wu Yong, who jumped into the sea and found he hadn’t brought anything down with him: ???)
Wu Xie looked panicked: Holy crap! What about me if you leave?
Lin Yan smugly raised his eyebrows, walked to the cargo hold entrance and grabbed the door handle with his hand: Just slowly back away like I did, that’s all.
Seeing that Lin Yan wasn’t planning to ditch him and run, Wu Xie subconsciously let out a big breath: “Phew! You scared me to death, I thought you were going to abandon me and run!”
The sea monkey, which had been staring intently at him: ???!!!
Lin Yan: “MMP, you idiot! Hurry up and run!”
Wu Xie still hadn’t realized what he’d done and instinctively turned his head back: “Huh?”
The sea monkey roared, its mouth’s fishy sea stench hitting Wu Xie in the face, nearly knocking him out from the smell.
“Holy crap!” Wu Xie yelped, grabbed the backpack, and ran out. Lin Yan cooperatively waited at the door, and as soon as he was out, slammed the door shut with lightning speed—
“Bang!”
“Creak creak—clang!”
The first sound was the sea monkey hitting the door, the second was a board roughly in the shape of a sea monkey falling from the door right in front of them. They and the dazed sea monkey inside the door stared at each other.
Sea monkey: ???
Wu Xie: !!!
Lin Yan: !!!!!
“Holy crap, this works?”
Lin Yan muttered to himself, doubting if there was something wrong with his eyes. Did he just see a sea monkey punch a hole in the door? Wu Xie yanked the doubting-life Lin Yan over and roared: “What are you spacing out for? Run!”
Lin Yan complained while running: “This isn’t scientific at all! It’s so strong, why was there no movement from it for so long after we came up, only starting to ram the door after we’d been up here for hours?”
Wu Xie said while running: “How should I know! Aren’t we supposed to escape first right now?”
Once they ran out of the cabin, he and Lin Yan exchanged a glance, then each darted to one side of the door, waiting for the sea monkey to come up—
“Clang!”
The cabin door was iron, and this time the outcome was finally good—the iron door had a sea monkey-shaped bulge, and from inside came the same scratching-at-the-door growling as before.
The still-shaken Wu Xie painfully swallowed: “This… should be fine, right? Should we brace it with something else?”
Lin Yan glanced at the deck, which was empty, then at the door where no matter how crazily the sea monkey scratched, the bulge didn’t deepen: “I don’t think so. Forget there being nothing to brace it with, this iron door is impossible for it to break through, unless it knows how to open doors—otherwise, it absolutely can’t get out!”
For some reason, Wu Xie instinctively looked at the door handle. Just as he looked at it, it snapped downward at extreme speed.
The door slowly opened, and the sea monkey, off-balance, crashed out, locking eyes right with Lin Yan, who had just finished bragging with a lingering smirk on his face.
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Wu Xie looked horrified at Lin Yan and the sea monkey staring back at him without moving, giving him a sympathetic look: Weren’t you saying it couldn’t get out? Now… what do we do?
PS: There might be another update later, not sure when.
