The third deck

Shiqi's body was covered in bite wounds of varying sizes and depths.

The largest was on his lower abdomen, as big as a fist, with his severed intestines visible through it.

Even the smallest was the size of a coin, bleeding nonstop.

As Qin Ran walked in, surprise and relief spread across Shiqi's bloodstained face, as though he had just escaped death.

But in the next instant, Shiqi's expression changed drastically.

[Words of Arrogance] came cleaving straight down.

Facing an impostor, Qin Ran held nothing back. Unable to dodge in time, "Shiqi" was immediately split in two.

He was cleaved apart through the chest.

The disbelief remained frozen on his face.

But his features began to change.

His clothes and wounds changed along with them.

He was wearing a patient's gown from Gode Sanatorium, but his face did not belong to anyone Qin Ran had seen on the beach.

"Did he bring more than just those people aboard the Sunshine Mary?"

Qin Ran studied the corpse, frowning slightly.

The "illusion" the enemy had set up earlier had clearly been meant to buy time, not to engage him in battle.

Because there was something aboard the Sunshine Mary that demanded the enemy's attention in combat more urgently.

Qin Ran glanced back at the spider corpses, and a bad feeling rose in his heart.

These spiders were all the same size, but there were many of them.

Even so, there was no need to bring more people to deal with them.

A small team armed with flamethrowers would have been enough.

And someone who could procure explosives should have had little trouble getting flamethrowers.

So these spiders definitely were not what the enemy wanted to deal with.

It had to be something far more terrifying!

"It really has become a monster's lair!"