Chapter 939: Gluttonous Feast: Feeding on People’s Fear

"Little brother, why is the wind blowing again!"

"We just sent away a typhoon not long ago. Is this going to bring another typhoon?"

Fukui, like Niigata, is close to the sea. Flying against the wind, the sound of roaring wind and waves can be heard in your ears. The rustling trees are like ghosts hiding in the dark mountains with their teeth and claws dancing.

Wajima itself is not big, and since we are flying in the sky, there is no need to take a long detour, so we arrived at Niigata Port before Haishi.

As soon as the flag ship landed, everyone noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the fleet. It was too quiet and not even a single sailor was seen on the deck.

"Where are the people?"

"Where have all the sailors gone? Why are there only empty ships?"

The Criminal Investigation Department talked a lot.

The old Taoist priest looked worried: "It seems that my little brother has guessed that there is something going on with the fleet!"

Jin An looked around, then led the old Taoist priest and the others towards the ship building.

Knock knock.

Jin An knocked on the door: "I, Jin An."

As a result, there was silence behind the door.

Jin An frowned slightly and frowned again: "We are back. I know there is someone behind the door. Open the door. I have something to ask you."

Liu Tai and the others looked puzzled: "What's going on? Why doesn't everyone open the door?"

When something happened to the fleet, Jin An had no patience to whisper guidance and directly used his inner strength to shatter the door latch.

But before they could see clearly what was going on inside the ship, they were attacked by a large number of arrows.

Jin An seemed to have known the situation in the cabin in advance. With a roll of his Taoist robe, a strong wind blew from his inner energy, easily deflecting all the arrows.

Only then did the old Taoist priest and others standing behind Jin An fully see the situation inside the ship. There were many sailors sitting quietly in the ship, staring directly at them. Some looked wary, some looked desperate, and some looked confused. Terrified.

As you walk into the ship building, you can see more space. There are several mutilated corpses on the inner deck and walls of the ship.

The corpses all died in the same way. The upper body exploded in a fan shape, and the bones and flesh of the upper body spread like green mold spots, like pork that had been put away for a long time and became rotten and moldy. It was very unappetizing to look at. The decks and walls were covered with these disgusting mold spots that exploded on the upper body.

There were even these disgusting corpses hanging from the ceiling.

The most horrifying thing was a few people sitting on the ground. Their lower bodies were still sitting in a sitting position, while the flesh and blood of their upper bodies exploded to the ceiling. The exploding colorful mold stains stuck to the ceiling and were still connected to their lower bodies, like open-umbrella mushrooms. , this visually shocking picture has exceeded the psychological endurance limit of ordinary people.

I don’t know how the sailors in the shipyard could endure this kind of fear and still remain quiet.

Jin An frowned: "Can anyone tell me what happened here?"

But these sailors were all sitting numbly, and still no one was willing to answer him.

Jin An led the people behind him towards the second floor of the ship building. No one stood up to stop him. The sailors remained numb and sat motionless.

Jin An was sure that these people were alive, but he didn't know what happened to the fleet during their absence, which caused these people to behave strangely. It seems that the truth of the matter can be found out only by finding General Wang Lu.

On the fifth floor of the flag ship, it was not difficult for Jin An to find General Wang Lu. General Wang Lu was sitting on the Grand Master's chair, looking motionless in a certain direction of the fleet.

Next to General Wang Lu, there were a dozen personal guards standing, but the upper bodies of three of them were blown into mold spots and stuck to the ceiling.

There is a fourth corpse beside General Wang Lu. Judging from his clothes, he is the adjutant of General Wang Lu. He is also dead.

Jin An naturally sat down next to General Wang Lu. This seat was exactly the seat where he and General Wang Lu sat side by side when they were sailing on the sea.

Jin An also followed General Wang Lu's example and stared in a certain direction of the fleet.

At this time, the storm at sea was still increasing, the fleet was rising and falling with the waves, and a bigger storm was moving towards the East China Sea.

Jin An first briefly recounted the events of the past few days. When it came to the visions of heaven and earth, what he saw and heard along the way, and when he was worried about the safety of the fleet, he came all night and stood behind General Wang Lu. The expressions on the faces of the surviving guards finally changed. They were grateful, moved, and solemn.

"What happened?"

"Is it related to that warship?"

Jin An raised his hand and pointed to a warship in the fleet with a calm voice. That was the source of all the weirdness.

General Wang Lu, who had been sitting still, spoke. Perhaps it was due to the heavy losses of the sailors or the successive deaths of his fellow guards and adjutants who were traveling with him, which hit him too hard. His voice was hoarse and heavy...

After the first batch of masters from Yujing Golden Tower, Zhenguo Temple, and Tianshi Mansion were all wiped out, a second batch of teams were sent to explore the ghost ship.

This time more people were sent, but it still ended in failure and a large number of experts were lost.

The heavy losses made Shenzhou dare not easily send people to board the ghost ship, so General Wang Lu issued an order to cut off the iron ropes and attack the ship with rockets.

But all the people sent to cut the iron rope died.

This incident was like a living person violating the taboo of the dead. Strange things not only happened on the ghost ship, but began to spread to the surrounding areas. The panic was intensifying. Some people chose to jump into the sea to escape and swam desperately to the shore. But all of them are like stones sinking into the sea. They disappear as soon as they jump into the sea. No one is alive or dead, no corpses are seen.

Being unable to cut off the iron ropes and jumping into the sea to leave the fleet was a huge blow to General Wang Lu who ordered the formation of the iron ropes. He blamed himself in his heart. If he hadn't given the order, maybe everyone would have had a chance to escape.

What happened next was accelerating and serious, and more people died one after another. Everyone had a characteristic before death, that is, they were panicked and yelled.

After discovering this detail, since they could not find out the truth of the incident, everyone finally chose the most helpless method, asking everyone to stay in the cabin, seal the doors and windows, stop running around, and keep quiet and don't make any noise! No matter who knocks on the door tonight and shouts to open the door, no matter what noise is heard outside the ship, do not open the door or answer the door! Let’s get through tonight’s crisis first, and then we can make long-term plans after dawn tomorrow!

This did indeed control the number of casualties.

Boom, boom, boom.

After listening to General Wang Lu's hoarse voice, Jin An placed his right middle finger on the armrest of the Grand Master's chair and tapped the wood with a thoughtful expression.

"Panic, upper body, explosion, it seems that the cause of death of these people is from scaring themselves to death. When people's hearts can no longer fill the fear, they die of fear."

It is said that the authorities are confused and the beholder knows the truth. Jin An calmly thought about it and gradually figured out the clues.

Speaking of this, he always felt very familiar, as if he had seen similar weird and strange stories somewhere before. He had a strong mind, quick thinking, and a photographic memory, so he quickly thought of where he had seen this familiar feeling before.

A similar case was encountered in "Quang Binh You Shuo Synaesthesia Record" written by Quang Binh Sanren. It was said that a small town was plagued by evil spirits and the people behaved strangely. They believed that letting babies cry at night would scare away the ones who stole the baby's food. Mandrill, so at night, the town is filled with the sound of babies crying.

Even if the baby is hoarse from crying and the parents prick it with needles or pinch it with their hands, they still try their best to make the baby cry. They are afraid that the baby will be picked up by a mandrill if it stops crying.

So there are a lot of mute and disabled children in that town.

Seeing this ridiculous thing, the San people of Quang Binh asked the townspeople, have any of you seen anyone's child stolen by a mandrill?

The townspeople replied that they heard it from someone, from the grandmother-in-law next door to the wife herself, but no one said that they saw it with their own eyes.

In fact, there is no such thing as child stealing. It is just an evil spirit who took advantage of the serious preference for boys over girls in that town. Many baby girls were abandoned by cruel parents after birth, or some wives lied about giving birth to children because they were afraid of being scolded by their husbands. The baby boy was later stolen by the mandrill, so the evil-eating ghost used people's selfish motives to spread rumors and let himself feed on people's fear, thus continuously strengthening himself.

People's hearts are filled with fear, which is a great nourishing tonic for some evil spirits.

Thinking of the case recorded by Guangping Sanren, and then thinking of the current situation, Jin An already had some idea of ​​the various strange things happening in the fleet.

There is Dong XZ in the fleet who is feeding on the fear of thousands of people and having a feast.