The black coffin that had originally held the Captain lay askew in a corner of the cargo hold, while a full twenty bodies lay just a few steps from the door.
The staff member stopped dead before he could step inside. His calm gaze turned to horror, and he even wondered whether his eyes were deceiving him-
"There are a few more bodies elsewhere on the ship. Sorry for the trouble, but could you collect those too?"
At Li Xian's words, the staff member choked on his own saliva and broke into a coughing fit.
"Cough, cough..."
His gaze darted back and forth between the corpses and the players. Beyond his alarm, there was now a hint of fear in the way he looked at them, as though he had already dreamed up an entire grisly story.
"Well, I'll have to check with my supervisor..."
Having found an excuse, the staff member was about to bolt when Ke Yi grabbed him.
"What's the rush? We'll come with you."
The staff member's expression changed. He forced an apologetic smile and stammered out a reply.
"I couldn't possibly trouble you like that..."
Every word was an attempt to refuse. He clearly wanted to get away from them as quickly as possible, but Ke Yi had no intention of letting him go, for a very simple reason:
The ship had already docked, yet there had been no notification that they had cleared the Instance.
That was unusual. At least, Ke Yi had never encountered it before.
There was only one way to interpret "docking," no matter how he thought about it. Could there be some other condition they had to fulfill?
He kept hold of the staff member's wrist as he pondered this, until unmistakable panic crept into the man's voice-
"Bring him