“Turning the False into True?”
“Drowning the Dream Master?!”
Li Andy’s pupils constricted, and he instantly understood something.
Absurd…
Truly absurd!
These “people,” these NPC-like existences, actually realized they were fictional!
Their goal wasn’t the ship and the coal mine, but the 【Memory Heart Source】!
They wanted the Heart Source to sink into oblivion, to maintain their existence forever, to achieve what they called… turning the False into True!
How… how exactly did they awaken?
“Hiss—!”
At this moment, the crew member completely lost his humanity, transforming into a half-snake, half-human siren, and lunged at Irene and Erick.
Erick fearfully embraced Irene, instinctively gritting his teeth and closing his eyes.
However, the anticipated immense pain did not come.
He opened his eyes, only to see the terrifying monster, bound in place by his own torn clothing.
“Bang!”
A bullet blew open the back of its head, and foul-smelling blood flowed everywhere.
“Woohoo, this version of Officer Mom is so handsome too~ Oh oh~~”
Li Andy had just fired a shot when the revolver in his hand began to fawn, its cylinder twisting rapidly, as if contaminated by an evil god.
What the heck?
Li Andy felt a wave of disgust, a sudden urge to throw it away.
But the ferocious monsters surging from the ship’s hold interrupted his thoughts.
“Bang! Bang! Bang—!”
As his gunshots echoed, the sailors finally reacted, picking up their weapons and fighting back.
However, the power of ordinary bullets was limited; they couldn’t seriously wound those scale-covered monsters at all.
In just a moment, the battle completely tilted to one side.
The survivors screamed in terror and fled, jumping into the water in a desperate panic.
But if they couldn’t defeat the monsters on the deck, they would be even more miserable underwater.
Before long, the waves brought up streaks of red.
In just a few minutes, the only survivors were the few around Li Andy.
“Stay… stay away from Youxi!”
Sophia saw a monster approaching; though fearful, she still closed her eyes and swung her suitcase.
With a “thud,” the monster was knocked off the deck by her delicate cry and splashed into the sea.
The trembling sailors were stunned.
Sophia panted slightly, clearly having no memory of combat.
The overexertion left her unable to react to the monsters attacking from behind.
Watching the blood-stained claws rapidly approach her delicate skin.
At the critical moment, a translucent Specter Nun appeared, wielding two cross-shaped tombstones, and smashed one onto the monster’s head.
“Don’t be afraid, Sophia.”
Youxi stepped out from behind, protecting her amnesiac sister.
“What should we do?!”
On Li Andy’s side, the young navy man beside him turned pale, gritting his teeth and firing continuously.
His aim was accurate, but the damage was ultimately limited.
Just as the monsters surrounded everyone and were about to launch their final charge, Li Andy finally made his move.
He slightly raised his left hand, and the rope net securing the miscellaneous items on the ground suddenly tightened, wrapping around all the monsters like a sticky spider web.
Then, he squeezed his left hand!
The cracking sound of bones breaking rang out, instantly incapacitating the monsters.
The young navy man beside him gasped in astonishment.
Is this the power of the 【Witch’s Home】?
He took a deep breath and said to Li Andy:
“Sir, I… my name is Kraut! My father is…”
“They’re coming.”
Li Andy interrupted his self-introduction and looked towards the sea.
The speeding molly had now slowed down, stopping about a mile away.
At this moment, the sky was covered by a thick layer of clouds, obscuring the already scarce sunlight, as if foreshadowing the end of the world.
“Monsters… those monsters can fly!!”
On the deck of the molly, a group of monsters, appearing to be a fusion of deep-sea creatures and bats, flew over in a vast, overwhelming swarm.
The already terrified sailors’ hands trembled so much they couldn’t even hold their guns steady.
“Sir… what should we do?”
The young navy man, Kraut, his teeth chattering, poured all his hope into Li Andy.
Li Andy’s expression was grim; he stepped forward, pouring a large amount of spirituality into the ship’s hull beneath his feet.
Instantly, the entire ship came alive.
The hull swayed on its own, and the mast dipped.
The entire ship, like a legendary giant unicorn whale, continuously attacked the flying demons with its sharp horn.
At the same time, the two cannons on the side automatically reloaded, continuously spewing fire at the winged swarm in the air.
However, the vessel’s capabilities were limited; even with full spiritual power, it couldn’t perform actions beyond common sense.
Instead, the intense burden caused cracks to appear in the hull.
Dense clouds covered the sky, and more and more monsters landed on the deck.
Gradually, Li Andy found himself unable to attend to others.
The already few remaining sailors were reduced by more than half.
“Prepare to abandon ship, go ashore!”
Li Andy shouted loudly after blasting a monster’s head with a shot.
Hearing him, everyone rushed to gather around him.
But the next second, as if receiving some synchronized command, the monsters collectively surged towards Irene and Erick at the end of the line.
In an instant, the group was scattered, and the screaming Irene and Erick were snatched into the air by the monsters.
Fortunately, the monsters didn’t seem to intend to kill them.
Otherwise, the sight of them being dismembered in mid-air would be forever seared into everyone’s memories.
“Dad!”
“Irene!!”
The two were carried higher and higher by the monsters.
Li Andy frowned, deciding to release the man-eating blood coal.
As a wisp of spirituality struck the coal pile, the black coal bled.
“Whoosh—!”
A large amount of ominous red and black matter surged out, lunging at all flesh and blood life.
In just a moment, it devoured most of the monsters on the deck.
“Hiss—!”
The monsters’ piercing howls spread across the sea.
A mile away, the molly slightly turned, aiming its broadside at Li Andy’s coal ship.
“Boom—!”
Dozens of cannonballs flew in unison, accurately exploding on the deck.
Sparks flew, actually igniting the blood-stained coal!
The red blood was extremely strange; instead of alleviating the burning, it fueled the fire like refined fuel, and with a “whoosh,” the sea of fire instantly engulfed most of the deck.
Immediately after, the high temperature seemed to activate the ship’s hold beneath the deck, which exploded with a roar.
A violent impact swept towards everyone.
“Watch out!”
Sophia’s eyes flashed red; without thinking, she lunged at Youxi and Li Andy, attempting to protect them with her slender back.
“Hum—!”
The impact arrived, first shattering the Specter Nun, then sweeping everyone into the sea.
Splash—
The deep sea swallowed all sound.
Sophia felt a burning pain in her back.
Her consciousness blurred as she helplessly sank to the seabed, watching the two familiar figures slowly drift away.
Don’t, don’t leave me…
This feeling made her inexplicably panicked, as if it stirred the most uneasy memories within her body.
At this moment, she felt the seabed was not the seabed, but a void and lonely abyss.
Illusion penetrated the barrier, and her thoughts instantly twisted reality.
In an instant, the seabed was truly not the seabed, but an abyss!
On the surface of the sea, an octopus-headed monster on the molly looked at the suddenly changed color of the sea, and the tentacles wriggling on its face suddenly stopped.
He murmured in a hoarse human voice, incredulously:
“There… there’s another Dream Master here…”