The Deadly Sea
Xu Huo saw it clearly. As Hugo closed in, Jiang Feng's sister had immediately used a Defense Artifact. He didn't know whether the difference in their speed was simply too great or the artifact's protection too weak, but the scalpel had clearly sliced through something like a thin membrane before reaching her throat. The barrier had caused almost no delay, which was why she'd been killed without being able to fight back.
As soon as she died, the seaweed they'd gathered collapsed. Hugo looked up at the people on the eighth floor. "Captain Matt, why don't you tidy up your things? They're not much use anyway."
Matt smiled. The next moment, the ship began to change. The seaweed returned to the floors and walls, and the mottled hull gradually became bright and new. Even the vanished seventh floor reappeared, and the ship grew larger overall... The ship was undergoing another transformation!
Xu Huo, who was still outside, immediately returned to the ship. He rushed in just before the seventh floor sealed up. Once he landed, he glanced at the walls, which were splitting and shifting, and realized that the others had been spread farther apart.
Quite a few people had originally fallen from the seventh floor to the sixth, and there were plenty of Players hiding on the sixth floor. But after the ship changed for the second time, its interior layout shifted slightly. Some people vanished into the suddenly appearing rooms or behind corridors, while the steadily expanding floor pushed Xu Huo toward the windows.
Xu Huo glanced at Bai Kou, who stood still in her original spot, then ran toward a newly formed corridor, avoiding the sight of both sides.
The metal strip that had killed Jiang Feng just now probably hadn't appeared by chance.