American Zombie Detective

Chapter 156 Die by Your Side

Qin Jin's gaze remained calm, silently confronting the countless empty eyes on the dilapidated flight outside the porthole.

The cabin was dark and quiet, with only the roar of the engines and the soft snores of the sleeping passengers, making this eerie escort flight all the more chilling.

Sudden-

"ah!!!"

A heart-wrenching scream abruptly shattered the oppressive silence! The sound came from the economy class at the back, filled with desperate fear and uncontrollable madness!

The cabin instantly erupted in chaos!

The sleeping passengers were startled awake and sat bolt upright, their hearts pounding. They were wide awake and a cacophony of anxious complaints, angry mutterings, and confused questions erupted in the air.

"What the hell?!"

"What happened?"

Some people began to look around, while others unbuckled their seatbelts, stood up, and peered out; a few passengers began to stand in the aisle.

No one could have imagined that the scream just now was only the beginning!

Before the echoes of the first scream had even faded and many people hadn't even found their bearings, two other seats in economy class erupted almost simultaneously with even more shrill, panicked screams and shocked shouts!

"My God! Dead! There are dead people here!"

"Help! Help!"

Utter, out-of-control chaos swept through the entire cabin like a tsunami.

More passengers stood up in terror, desperately trying to leave their seats, as if getting away from the source of the noise would keep them away from danger.

People jostled and pushed in the aisle like headless flies. Some wanted to escape their seats, some wanted to see what was happening, and some simply rushed towards the front of the cabin, which seemed safer. The cries of children, the screams of women, the roars of men, and all sorts of shouts were mixed together wildly. The sound waves instantly rushed into the business class, startling all the last passengers!

fortunately!

When the first scream rang out, all the flight attendants rushed to the economy class, and Captain Dyson also rushed over from the catering area. When he saw the scene, his face instantly turned extremely ugly.

"Please calm down! Get back to your seats! Fasten your seatbelts!" The flight attendants shouted with all their might, but their voices were like mosquitoes in the huge wave of panic and were instantly drowned out.

At this moment, Captain Dyson displayed his powerful ability to calm people down. He shouted loudly, "Ladies and gentlemen! This is Captain Dyson of this flight! Please follow instructions and do not move! This is an airplane!"

This isn't the ground—the plane will crash!!!

Perhaps it was a coincidence, but just as the captain was shouting, the plane suddenly experienced a turbulence. This huge tremor greatly shocked all the restless passengers, and the noise in the airport instantly disappeared. The captain continued to shout, and the flight attendants took the opportunity to push the passengers back to their seats. Some passengers also helped to calm the guests next to them.

Security officer Klaus appeared at this moment, showed his identification, and, with the cooperation of the purser, began investigating the source of the disturbance.

The source of the riot was simple: three passengers mysteriously disappeared from economy class, and three bodies appeared instead!

Although the flight attendant, Millie, was also scared, she still completed her duties with the help of the security personnel, moving the surrounding passengers to other areas and clearing the area around the body.

Beside the first corpse, a middle-aged Caucasian woman stood, her face ashen, her body trembling violently, barely able to stand.

When the woman woke up, she found that her husband was gone, replaced by this corpse right next to her, so she immediately screamed.

The passengers next to her were also terrified, but they managed to restrain their fear and drag the almost limp woman from the inner seat to the aisle.

The corpse's clothes were tattered and decayed, with brown, rotten and dried flesh and blood stuck to them. The skin had a dark and withered appearance, with some places shriveled and sunken, while others had large holes that exposed the bones inside.

The other two bodies were in similar condition.

A lone seat appeared in a corner; the passenger, awakened by the screams, looked around before spotting it.

On the small table in front of the corpse, the books left behind by the original owner were still spread out.

Another body appeared in the middle of a three-seater. The passengers on either side were completely unaware and were also awakened by the shouts. Only then did they realize that their travel companions had changed, and they were so frightened that they scrambled away.

The safety officer tried to remain calm, signaling everyone to stay calm, while he put on gloves and went forward to conduct a preliminary examination of the three gruesome corpses.

His discovery deepened everyone's fear:

First, the three bodies were unrecognizable, but they were definitely not on the passenger list for this flight; they were complete strangers.

Secondly, the state of the body was extremely strange, as if it had undergone a long period of natural drying and localized decomposition, indicating that the time of death was definitely not just a few days or even a few months, but possibly several years or even longer!

Third, the bodies were dressed in ordinary clothing, not uniforms. One body even had an airplane headset hanging from it, suggesting it belonged to a passenger from another plane.

The third point was immediately confirmed—

"Outside! Look to the side! What's that?!"

In the front row of economy class, a man by the window let out a near-hysterical scream, his finger trembling as he pointed out the window.

This shout was like a drop of cold water into boiling oil, instantly triggering a new and even more terrifying commotion!

"What? What's outside?" "Let me see! Let me see!"

Almost all the window passengers pressed themselves against the windows in terror, while those sitting in the aisle and on the other side were completely panicked. They desperately tried to squeeze through to see what was happening, and the crowd surged wildly to one side of the plane again, causing the fuselage to appear to tilt slightly!

"Back up! Everyone back up! Don't crowd to one side! The plane will lose its balance! Do you want to die?!"

Captain Dyson and Security Officer Klaus roared at the top of their lungs, their faces flushed, as they, along with some more rational and daring male passengers, roughly pushed the people who had squeezed in back to their areas and seats.

This life-or-death warning and brutal physical restraint temporarily suppressed the most dangerous trend of imbalance, but the panic only increased.

More people saw it—the dreadful, rusted ghost flight that followed them like a shadow!

It moved even closer, the wings appearing like phantom images, almost completely overlapping with their own.

Through the huge hole in the other plane's fuselage, the interior of the cabin could be seen more clearly, where the rotting passengers still maintained that uniform, chilling gaze.

Immediately afterward, the woman who had screamed first let out an even more piercing, inhuman wail: "Ike! It's Ike! My God! He's on that damn plane!"

Through the hole, you can see a man out of place in one of the seats on that ghost flight, strapped to his seat with a tattered seatbelt!

It was her missing husband!

His eyes were tightly closed, and his body trembled as the wind rushed in through the hole, but he made no conscious movement. It seemed that he was either unconscious or dead!

Not far from him, two other original passengers from the plane were swaying in the wind, just like him, and appeared to be dead as well.

Qin Jin understood instantly.

This is not a simple accompaniment or hallucination; it is a supernatural displacement.

Almost simultaneously, the co-pilot in the cockpit also fell into unprecedented panic!

He discovered that although the plane was still flying along the predetermined route in autopilot mode, it did not respond to their inputs at all!

Even more terrifying, all the radio communication equipment was left with only hissing noise, as if it came from the abyss, making it completely impossible to make any contact with the ground.

The ghost plane that was clinging to them had no display on its instrument panel. It seemed to be weightless, clinging to them and dragging the plane full of living people into unknown airspace.

"Passengers, please remain calm! Please return to your seats and fasten your seatbelts! The crew is handling the situation!"

The flight attendants and purser tried their best to reassure the passengers, but their trembling voices could not quell the spreading panic.

Although most people had returned to their seats, the cabin was filled with cries, prayers, and hysterical screams; fear, like a thick fog, enveloped everyone.

Qin Jin also sensed some trouble. He glanced at Alessa beside him, who tilted her head and thought for a moment before standing up: "Qin, I'll go check on Yuanxiao."

"Okay!" Qin Jin nodded in agreement: "Bring it out and be prepared. If all else fails, we'll abandon the plane—" His voice was low, but his tone was calm: "While you're at it, see if there are any parachutes, take them."

Aresa nodded, her small figure nimbly avoiding the trembling crowd in their seats, and taking advantage of the empty food preparation area in front, she quickly entered the storage room below the front cabin.

At this moment, Qin Jin noticed the gap in the front row. The brat turned his head again, but this time he didn't squint or shout. Instead, he looked back in fear, trembling all over.

Looking into the fearful eyes of the brat, Qin Jin's gaze met his, and a cold smile suddenly appeared on his face. He said softly, "Hey! Guess what? That damn airplane might catch you next?"

The unexpected remark left the child stunned for nearly three seconds, then he turned around and burst into tears.

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