Grand Voyage : Surviving on a Ghost Ship-Chapter 264 - Going back

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The return trip was much simpler. He only needed to retrace his steps.

In less than forty minutes, Yang Yi finished this round of exploration and returned to the deck of the Nightmare Star.

Everything here was unchanged. No danger had occurred.

Yang Yi went back to his usual spot, organised the information he had gathered during the exploration, and left a message for Suna.

That way, she would see it as soon as she woke up and know what the next plan was.

Yang Yi planned to retrieve the bone spear first, then set sail, change ports, and head for Area C.

Compared with moving through the interior, switching ports directly was far more efficient, and it would also make retreating easier.

After finishing all this, he resumed fishing.

His current stamina was still at 51. After sleeping for a while later, it should recover to over 80, which would be enough to handle a long exploration.

He focused his attention on fishing. Finally, before Suna woke up, he caught a live long legged sardine.

“As expected!”

A look of joy appeared on Yang Yi’s face.

“As long as the Vessel of Light is hung along the side of the ship to disperse the thick black fog drifting on the sea surface, it’s possible to fish live fish from the sea!” 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Compared with fish that had aged and died, live fish were naturally far more nutritious and tasted much better as well.

This method of fishing could be used from now on. Harvesting live fish and turning them into dried fish would be far more efficient.

After Suna woke up, Yang Yi prepared to go to sleep and rest.

However, the two of them still discussed things briefly for a few minutes.

“You think a rebellion broke out inside the Sanctuary, the captain detonated the captain’s cabin, and left behind this information?” Suna asked after reading the message and Yang Yi’s deductions.

“From what I observed, that’s my conclusion.

The fighting was concentrated around the lighthouse area. It doesn’t look like an external invasion. It seems more like an internal revolt.

If it were external enemies, other areas would have made contact first and fighting would have broken out there.

And the battle wouldn’t have ended with the fall of the captain’s cabin. Even a surprise attack would have escalated into a full scale war.”

Yang Yi explained his reasoning.

Suna, meanwhile, was looking through some of the photos Yang Yi had taken, especially the message left on the metal table.

She hadn’t gone inside herself, so her impressions were naturally not as strong as Yang Yi’s. Still, his reasoning made sense. Once they investigated Area C, everything would become clear.

With the plan settled, Yang Yi returned to his room to sleep.

After sleeping for about five hours, he woke up and checked his condition.

His stamina had recovered to 96, almost full.

Ever since obtaining the Gluttonous extraordinary path, he no longer had any obvious weakness when it came to stamina recovery.

He still had nightmares, but they were all fragmented and chaotic, with no connection to reality.

He did not dream of dying aboard the Sanctuary, which counted as good news.

He sent Suna a private message to tell her he was awake, then began steering the Nightmare Star back towards the previous port, preparing to return along the same route and retrieve the bone spear.

More than ten hours had already passed. The homing rats would not still be waiting in the same spot for him.

When the Nightmare Star entered the open air port, dropped anchor, and docked at the pier, Suna had also finished her preparations and came up to the deck.

She handed Yang Yi two bottles of potion, labeled with ink as Bottle A and Bottle B.

“The mental potion you wanted. I tried to make it,” Suna added.

“Uh… I’m actually not in a hurry for it. Why don’t you test it a bit more? Safety first,” Yang Yi said tactfully, clearly not wanting to drink a bomb.

“I wouldn’t give it to you if I weren’t confident!”

Somewhat displeased, Suna forcefully stuffed the portioned potion into Yang Yi’s hands. He had no choice but to accept it.

They climbed down the ladder on the side of the Nightmare Star and entered the port, following their previous route towards the elevator shaft on the third floor.

This was a ready made and familiar path. There was no need to find a new route or break open the elevator doors.

When they reached the elevator shaft, Yang Yi leaned over and glanced down.

A wave of scorched stench and the smell of rancid grease drifted up, extremely unpleasant.

However, the temperature had already dropped.

He used his Third Eye to inspect the bottom.

He could see the black fog, but there were no rats visible within it.

Even so, to be on the safe side, he did not go down himself. Instead, he chose to send the Penitent Armour first.

He hung a Vessel of Light on the Penitent Armor, then put on his gloves to control it, guiding the armour as it grasped the ladder and climbed down.

The elevator shaft had experienced extreme heat, and there were signs of localized thermal deformation. However, the temperature had not been high enough to melt the metal into liquid.

Moreover, when the metal had glowed red from the heat, it had not been subjected to external force, so everything that should still be there remained intact, including the ladder.

The Penitent Armour quickly reached the bottom, its light driving away the surrounding darkness.

Yang Yi could receive its field of vision simultaneously and immediately surveyed the area.

The place looked as if it had been cleaned. Not even rat corpses could be found.

There were only some residual scorch marks, but in a ruin like this, they were unremarkable.

Those homing rats were likely back in a dormant state, most probably hiding in the ventilation ducts or in cable conduits behind the walls.

The senses synchronised from the Penitent Armor were far inferior to Yang Yi’s own. With only the gloves on, it did not even have a sense of smell.

He scanned the surroundings and, seeing no rats, controlled the Penitent Armour to move forward.

In any case, he was not afraid of an ambush. The armour was far harder than a rat’s teeth.

After walking for about two minutes, he reached the end of the corridor.

This was the spot where Yang Yi had previously pinned an unknown creature in place with the bone spear.

The corpse was still here. It seemed to have been affected by the spreading flames, with scorch marks all over it. It had already turned into bones scattered across the floor, most likely due to corruption by the darkness.

Its right shoulder blade had been pierced through by the bone spear Yang Yi had thrown. The tip had even sunk into the metal wall, hanging the left shoulder and nearby bones that had not yet fallen off against the wall.

The bone spear itself had also changed. Like a blooming flower or an opening umbrella, it had sprouted many bony barbs, each more than ten centimetres long.

If this were to pierce a human body, it would be far more than a simple penetrating wound. The proliferating bone barbs would cause secondary damage as well.

The skeleton itself had also undergone a certain degree of mutation, concentrated around the right shoulder, where several short bone spurs had grown.

This was definitely not its original state. The shoulder blade on the other side had not grown any spurs and had already fallen to the ground.

“After piercing, it grows barbs and causes deformation in nearby bones. If successful, it converts the target into a bone demon…”

Based on these observations, Yang Yi inferred the bone spear’s mechanism. Its power was even better than he had expected.

However, if the target had no bones to begin with, this transformation mechanism would probably be useless.

He controlled the Penitent Armour and tried to pull out the bone spear.

But it was embedded too deeply, and with only one arm, the armor struggled to pull it free.

He switched to kicking it instead. After two kicks, the spear finally loosened and was then pulled out smoothly.

As it was withdrawn, the bony barbs that had grown on its surface fell off.

With the bone spear back in hand, Yang Yi began to examine the skeleton in front of him.

It should have been a human skeleton, yet it was missing its ribs. Not a single one remained.

He rummaged through the pile of bones for a while, then discovered that the mandible was also missing. The skull had no lower jaw.

“This corpse is nothing but bones now, but it really is strange… I’ll bring it up and take a look.”

Yang Yi said this to Suna beside him, preparing to bring the remains back for her to examine.

This was more in her area of expertise.

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