Mobile Shelter

No one expected that in just a few minutes, the ship, which had already embarked on its return journey, would undergo such a serious change.

More importantly, with all the humans on duty on the deck now dead, the mutated marine creatures climbed back onto the ship and quickly took over the deck.

Standing in the cockpit, the captain, through the cabin window, took in everything that was happening on the deck.

It was at this moment that he understood the specific source of his unease, and also understood why all the rescuers who entered the cabin had lost contact and none of them had followed the survivors back to the deck.

Although the deck area of ​​the ship had fallen, the captain was only heartbroken about the loss of so many soldiers and was not afraid of the loss of the deck.

He was well aware of the actual battles with those mutated marine creatures along the coast, so he had made many contingency plans before setting off, including the current situation where the deck was lost.

Through the initial battle on deck, the captain also confirmed that the sea snakes that hatched from the survivors' vomit were actually carbon-based life forms.

Furthermore, their physical defenses are not very high; in addition to their consistently large numbers, they can be easily killed by firearms.

These sea serpent-like creatures may have a significant advantage in confined spaces.

In a wide open area like a deck, an ordinary person could easily kill him if they used appropriate weapons, such as a flamethrower.

Just as the captain was pondering how to use the available resources in the ship to fight back and retake the lost Jiaban area from the Naxi mutated marine creatures,

He suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He had been thinking about the deck that had been taken over by mutated marine creatures, but then he remembered that when the rescue mission ended, he had put some of the rescued survivors into the cabin.

However, he soon realized that he had ordered all the survivors he had initially put inside the ship's cabin to be moved to the bottom cabin.

Furthermore, he specifically ordered that after sending them to the lower decks, they be given enough food for the return voyage, and then the passageways to the lower decks be completely sealed off, imprisoning them.

Under these circumstances, even if the survivors imprisoned in the lower decks were to experience the same situation as the survivors on deck, the lower decks would be completely sealed off, so any incident in the lower decks would not affect the other decks.

The only people left were the few his assistant had brought into the cabin. With that in mind, the captain immediately picked up the communication device beside him and dialed to contact them.

As soon as the call connected, before the captain could even speak, the assistant on the other end anxiously blurted out, "Captain, something terrible has happened! After dissecting the people I brought into the cabin, I discovered that most of their organs had been dissolved by a special kind of mucus."

Furthermore, this special mucus contains something similar to fish eggs, which hatch quickly upon contact with air.

The hatched creatures are only the size of a middle finger. Although they can be easily crushed by hand, the number of fish eggs in the mucus inside the survivors' bodies is too great.

If all the survivors on deck have this condition, I strongly suggest that they be removed from the deck immediately and pushed back into the sea.

When the captain heard his assistant dare to make such a suggestion, which would have landed him in a military court in peacetime, he knew that the other party was truly pushed to the limit.

However, the assistant's suggestion came too late. The captain then told the assistant what had happened on the deck and then told him what he thought might be the fate of the survivors who were held in the lower cabins.

Although the other party was his assistant secretary, he was also considered his personal advisor.

Therefore, when faced with important decisions, the captain will tell the other party everything without any concealment, including his own guesses and the possible entanglements in the future.

Although his assistant was flexible in handling matters, due to her background, she was unaware of some of the related factors involved in the events themselves.

Therefore, if you don't tell him everything beforehand when he makes a suggestion, his advice may be biased.

It is precisely because of this unreserved trust that their teamwork has become increasingly seamless.

Although they were in a superior-subordinate relationship in public, after many years of getting to know each other, they had become brothers who could rely on each other for support.

Furthermore, the assistant was very self-aware, and even though he had several opportunities to be transferred to a position of authority, he did not choose to leave.

Although it is said that it is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix, a chicken can never fly very high, while a phoenix can roam freely in the heavens.

In fact, he sometimes reflects on the past late at night, wondering if he could have achieved his current status and position if he had chosen to leave and work elsewhere.

It is said that even a seventh-rank official is inferior to a prime minister. He thought about it many times and understood that if he were to be transferred to a post outside the ship, he would never be able to obtain such a high military rank.

As the captain's status rose step by step, his status as the assistant who followed the captain also gradually improved, and this improvement, which followed the market, did not attract the jealousy or suppression of others.

That's why he went to great lengths to advise the captain, enabling him to make rapid progress in a short period of time.

After hearing the captain's account, and recalling what he had discovered while dissecting the survivors' bodies, cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He then anxiously spoke to the captain on the other end of the communication device:

"Boss, quickly activate the emergency evacuation preparations. Some things can't be explained in a few words over the communicator. I'll come find you right now, and we can talk about it face to face."

The assistant didn't reveal what he had discovered over the communicator because he was afraid that if he explained what he had found, the other party would abandon their safety and leave first.

Although the relationship between the two had reached the point where they could entrust each other with their backs, the assistant would not choose to gamble on people's hearts when it came to his own life and safety.

Therefore, he will only speak about this matter when the two of them meet.

In order to leave safely, he had already notified the other party in advance to prepare to abandon the ship.