302. Engineer

The Bandaged Man and the fishman moved toward the deck, the ship trembling slightly as the massive steel monster let out a deep roar, filling the two with excitement.

"You're still very capable!"

The Bandaged Man's single eye gleamed as he looked at the fish-man.

"It's no big deal. I should be glad that I chose to be an engineer."

The fishman said modestly.

"The engineer can analyze and understand all man-made objects and make them start up in their original state. If I think it can start up, then the ship will definitely be able to move."

"A very convenient power."

"Bandaged Man commented."

However, their combat strength is slightly lacking.

If this fishman guy were to encounter that monster in the engine room alone, he probably wouldn't last five seconds.

Fortunately, they had an advantage against these kinds of monsters and were able to defeat them without taking any damage; otherwise, the two of them would have been killed here.

"Is this the difficulty of [Alienation]? It doesn't seem so bad."

The Bandaged Man sighed inwardly, then suddenly a question came to mind.

"What if those devices malfunction after we leave?"

Based on the strange situations encountered before, the Bandaged Man felt that there might be other monsters on this ship besides those shadowy monsters.

"Don't worry, after I repair and activate it, even if it's damaged, those things will still function normally. What I repaired is the existence of that thing itself, which means that no matter what form it takes, it can operate according to the functions I set. Even if it flies away, it won't be a problem."

No sooner had the fishman finished speaking than a loud crash came from downstairs.

What was that sound?

He listened intently.

"It seems to be coming from the room we were in earlier. Are there other monsters?"

Gray mist flowed from the Bandaged Man's fingertips, drifting along the path they had come from. About two minutes later, the gray mist reached the engine room.

The room was deserted, but all the main control equipment had been moved to the other side of the room. The entire engine room was a mess, as if it had been gnawed by some creature.

Nevertheless, the Starship's turbines continued to spin, and the ship accelerated, seemingly on its way to the island.

"This"

The Bandaged Man told the fish-man what he had seen and heard, and the two looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

There really is an invisible and intangible monster on this ship!

Suddenly, the Bandaged Man felt as if his Gray Fog had touched something.

In an instant, he gathered all the Gray Fog at the location of all the senses.

The Gray Fog was like a gaping maw, enveloping everything in that location. You could see that whatever was scattered on the ground, no matter what it originally was, immediately dissolved, disappeared, and became part of the Gray Fog.

However, the Bandaged Man was not at ease.

Because those were all very ordinary, ubiquitous things, there was nothing among them that could have caused the engine room to become such a mess.

In other words, he missed out again.

As the corridor grew increasingly dark with the movement of the cruise ship, the Bandaged Man sensed something approaching him.

It was some kind of spontaneous, inexplicable inspiration.

"Run!"

The Bandaged Man patted the fishman, and the two immediately started running towards the deck.

After running for a while, Lu Ban stopped.

"So tired."

The two people's physical abilities far exceeded those of ordinary humans. Lu Ban couldn't keep up after a while and was left behind, panting heavily.

"You should start exercising."

Feng Yu scoffed.

"Neither of them are human. No matter how much I train, I can't surpass the limits of human beings."

Lu Ban retorted.

However, after resting for a while and until the grass on his body disappeared, he recovered.

Physical fatigue is essentially the damage to the body caused by strenuous exercise. Muscle soreness is caused by lactic acid produced by anaerobic respiration in muscles. Therefore, fatigue and discomfort from exercise are also a form of injury.

The grass inside Lu Ban's Lu Ban had been frantically consuming the substances that made him feel uncomfortable while he was resting, quickly relieving Lu Ban fatigue.

It also did a photosynthesis incidentally.

Lu Ban has now returned to stealth mode and walked onto the deck.

He discovered that one person was missing from the deck.

The Four-Eyes has disappeared.

Or rather, the Four-Eyes who was still alive has disappeared.

All that remained on the ground was a mass of mangled flesh and blood, and next to it, a mass of writhing flesh and blood that was gradually closing up.

Countless eyes were on that flesh, staring intently at the Bandaged Man and the fish-man.

Tentacles made of flesh and blood spread silently, like hunters lurking in wait, ready to kill the two people in front of them at any moment.

"Hound!"

The Bandaged Man made a surprised sound, seemingly never expecting that such a monster would exist in this place.

No, he quickly realized that this was the kind of challenge expected from a mission of [Alienation] difficulty.

But this challenge is just a bit too exciting.

"Once you're targeted by the Hound, even if you return to your own world, these time-traveling beings will catch up with you. The only way to survive is to completely kill or seal them away!"

The Bandaged Man's fingertips turned into Gray Fog, his bandages unfurled, and his entire body became a cloud of dark gray mist. His single eye turned scarlet and flickered hazily in the center of the mist.

Without saying a word, the fishman jumped into the sea.

"?"

The Bandaged Man was stunned.

Is this guy selling himself out and then planning to run away?

How could he be so decisive?

The Bandaged Man never imagined that he would be used as a "friend" to take a bullet for a novice who didn't know much about the game.

In the blink of an eye, the Hound's whiskers reached out, the mist around the Bandaged Man suddenly contracted, and then the tentacles pierced into it.

He wanted to devour and dissolve the tentacles, but the open eyes on those tentacles shattered that idea.

The Bandaged Man discovered that his most prized supernatural power was like a baby trying to stop the ship's advance under the attack of the Hound. The fleshy tentacles quickly enveloped the Gray Fog, and some strange substance dripped from the tentacles, making the Gray Fog mist darker and darker, almost black.

Before the Gray Fog, the Hound opened its mouth, which had millions of teeth and was covered with whiskers, layer upon layer.

With a single bite, the Gray Fog, along with its tentacles, was swallowed. The Hound suddenly expanded several times its original size, then quickly shrank back down.

The Hound's body trembled slightly a few times, then quickly fell silent.

It then came to the patch of flesh and blood that the Four-Eyes was slowly wriggling and trying to escape, and carefully licked it clean, just like a dog eating food from its plate.

He even let out a burp.

Sniffing the air on the cruise ship, the Hound came to the edge of the deck.

It saw the fish-man swimming freely in the sea, and then looked inexplicably at the sea behind the fish-man, where a few ripples had been stirred.

The Hound moved its short legs and jumped into the sea.