Offer a savior to the infinite world!

Jotaro took a big step forward, and Star Platinum seemed to be about to punch someone, but there was clearly no one in front of him.

what happened?

The positions of himself and Jotaro changed inexplicably.

And this sudden attack...directly...

His vision blurred in an instant, and Lin Yi's gaze stopped on the hand, the hand that pierced his chest and directly dug out his heart.

Atreus.

Why did he appear behind me?

What exactly is this ability...

"So, are you ready?"

Atreus asked in a low voice.

Lin Yi and Jotaro, who were standing at the bottom of the stairs, were stunned at the same time.

Boom——

Thunder rumbled from the thick fog.

Lin Yi and Jotaro were standing in the same place, and Atreus himself was standing on top of the stairs.

It's like nothing happened.

It seems like everything hasn't even started yet.

But at this moment, both Lin Yi and Jotaro were unable to judge the situation in front of them.

Is it an illusion?

Is it the manifestation of some spiritual power?

Or some other ability they don't know about?

"Well, it seems that this is not the right time."

Suddenly, Atreus turned his head and looked behind him, and spoke in a low voice.

As his words fell, Gu Mingji Jue appeared silently in the dark corner of the corridor behind Atres, and his pink eyes looked at the other party without any emotion.

"We still have plenty of time to spend together, so let's forget about this time."

He shook his head slightly, and accompanied by another thunder outside the window, Atreus himself suddenly disappeared from the spot.

Lin Yi didn't see how the other party acted at all. Jotaro frowned and also didn't notice any clues.

It was as if he didn't exist here at all, so he could disappear into thin air without any reason.

"Troublesome guy..."

It seemed that the other party was just conducting some kind of test this time.

But the problem is that they have no idea what the other party has done. It is completely different from Neiltat's ability to manipulate flesh and blood, and Basher's shadow power, which can make direct judgments. After Atres' power was revealed, they had no idea what kind of power it was.

"Is everyone okay?"

Ritsuka walked out from behind Komeiji Kaku and asked with some concern.

Lily and Curse Wrist had already regained their spiritual form at this time, and acted in a way that was not easily discovered by people around them to prevent danger.

[I can't sense his mental fluctuations. If he is not a puppet or a mannequin holding some kind of targeted prop, then he should have a very strong ability to close his brain and think. I'm afraid my power can't easily have an effect on him.]

After closing his eyes and examining the surrounding situation for a while, Gu Mingji Jue spoke in the mental link.

[Just now, this guy showed a very strange ability when facing us. I don't know how he did it. However, if the information that Miss Jue obtained from Miss Basher is correct, then perhaps...]

A scream suddenly came from downstairs.

The smell of blood was spreading all around.

Realizing that something might have happened, they stopped hesitating and quickly headed downstairs.

After they left, a door on the side of the corridor slowly opened, and Atreus, who was hiding inside, walked out in a somewhat embarrassed manner, with a mop and a broom poured all over him, making him look dirty and stained all over.

"Finally he left. He almost couldn't hide it. Tsk, which irresponsible cleaner put these troublesome things there?"

Atreus shook his head, took out the brooms and mops that were piled up in the room, and put them in order. He then hung the rags on the rack. There was a problem with the upper and lower joints of a mop, so he squatted down and carefully repaired it. After making sure there were no problems, he dusted himself off, closed the door of the newly cleaned cleaning room, and then slowly walked away to the other end of the corridor.

At the same time, downstairs, the smell of blood was spreading.

Chapter 44: Chaos Begins~?

At this moment, in a shopping area inside the giant ship, many people were fleeing screaming.

The source of the bloody smell was the several corpses in the shopping area. The ceiling of the shopping area fell down for some reason and hit several people who had no time to dodge, killing them on the spot, leaving only a bloody mess.

A man who was on the edge of the falling ceiling had his leg broken. The severed limb was stuck under a steel bar and he kept howling miserably.

Lin Yi and Jotaro grabbed the steel bar and lifted it up, and then several people around came forward to help drag the other party out. Ritsuka helped evacuate the people around, and secretly checked the safety of these ceilings with the curse wrist to prevent people from passing through other areas where the ceilings were loose.

[About one-third of the roof has been damaged in key structures and is in a state of possible collapse at any time]

Curse Wrist reported the result quickly.

[The only person who could do such a thing could be Atreus. Did this guy deliberately run to this shopping area and destroy the ceiling before meeting us? ]

First, he took advantage of the gathering of the Returned Hunters to launch a surprise attack and killed them, then cleaned the room and sorted out the clothes of the dead, then ran to the shopping district not far away and dismantled a few roofs, and finally, after he and Jotaro investigated the situation of the Returned Hunters, he ran to the road they had to pass and posed for them, and then ran away.

Lin Yi roughly figured out the other party's sequence of actions.

What on earth is wrong with this guy? Although he is not a complete lunatic like the previous two Return to the Spirit Kings, this guy's brain seems to be abnormal in another sense. It is completely impossible to understand many of the completely unnecessary steps and reasons for his actions.

Then, another scream came from not far away.

Pedestrians walking in several simulated indoor blocks suddenly caught fire for no apparent reason and ran around screaming. They were covered in oil that fell from the sky for unknown reasons, and then they caught fire. Then, half a block was covered in grease, and then a big fire broke out.

And this was not the end, as there was another explosion at another place on the ship. This time it was a real pipe explosion, which directly swept away an entire corridor. No one in the corridor at that time was left with intact fragments larger than a fist.

On the top deck of the giant ship, the outermost railing suddenly broke at this moment, and many people leaning on the railing fell directly off the ship into the sea.

The shouts of panicked people, the screams of injured people, the wails of dying people, all kinds of noisy sounds filled this huge ship lost in the fog. Chaos filled every corner, and the security personnel who were supposed to maintain order at this time did not show up.

Lin Yi quickly discovered the security personnel, or rather the bodies of the security personnel.

Some time later, the bodies of the captain and managers were discovered by the restless crowd.

And in the captain's room, someone left a line of words in blood, claiming that the ship had been cursed by the devil and that two-thirds of the lives of the people on board must be sacrificed before the remaining people would have a chance to survive.

And obviously, this immediately caused even greater chaos.

"What does this guy want to do?"

After subduing several people who wanted to take the opportunity to loot supplies, Lin Yi sighed and whispered with a headache.

"He killed the security personnel and management personnel on the ship, and lost communications and was trapped in the fog. Did he want to let the people on the ship kill each other? Why would he do this? Is there any value in doing this?"

After commanding the servants to protect many tourists and knocking down a bunch of tourists who tried to commit violence, a tired Ritsuka also whispered.

“…He needs the souls of the dead, and they need souls that have been greatly stimulated.”

Jotaro then came to a conclusion.

"If this fog itself is not special, it is possible that the fog itself is an additional effect of some power. It's just that we don't understand that power, or the form of that power is difficult to perceive. And, if he didn't deliberately reveal false information in his previous meeting with you, then he should be planning to start a certain ritual, and for this he needs souls that are in a distorted state, such as his two companions, and the humans who are now in panic."

Gu Mingji Jue's eyes swept over the people in the corridor and said that her telepathic ability had been activated silently, but no matter how she sensed, she could not find the returning spirit king named Atreus. The investigation of the Cursed Arm Hassan also failed to obtain any results. The other party seemed to have disappeared from the ship, and there was no way to find his whereabouts.

Perhaps, the other party is not on this ship?

Lin Yi didn't think that this enemy would be so kind as to proactively tell them their own information. It was just like the strange attack before, that weird feeling where it seemed as if a part of time was cut off, and several seconds had passed without being noticed, and then in an instant everything returned to the starting point miraculously.

It's like time was fast-forwarded and then rewinded?

Lin Yi couldn't help but think of the end of the battle with Bashell yesterday. When the other party was about to die, he asked her about Atreus's ability. Gu Mingdi read that this was Bashell's first subconscious reaction when she heard this question.

hourglass.

When Basheer heard the question, "What is Atreus' ability?", an hourglass appeared in his mind.

Why an hourglass?

What is the connection between the sand that keeps flowing downwards and Atreus's abilities?

Or, can we use the hourglass to judge Atreus's ability to a certain extent? What is the basis for this?

Whatever the possibility, at least now, the rescuers must act.

"Grab! Grab all these things!!!"

The roaring man wielded an iron rod and smashed the glass. He led several men and women into the warehouse and knocked the warehouse guard to the ground with one stick.

"Come on, come on. We're all going to die anyway, so we might as well have some fun."

The laughing man pushed the woman to the ground and tore her clothes as she screamed.

"Ha, everyone has to die, right? Then no one can survive!"

The frenzied people threw flaming bottles, and the flames soon covered a large area and covered the fleeing people.

In just half a day, order on the ship was on the verge of collapse.

Or maybe, after the disasters caused by the two previous attacks by the King of Return to the Spirit, many people had already been on edge, just waiting for this opportunity to explode.

"Eula!"

Star Platinum's iron fist punched the robber's cheek, causing blood to spurt out.

whoosh-

The magic power gathered on Lily's sword blade, and then was released violently, extinguishing the burning flames.

boom!

Lin Yi shot the perpetrator in the head with one shot, and considerately threw down a curtain to cover the victim's eyes before shooting.

Faced with these people who had gathered and made trouble because of panic and were in chaos, Jotaro directly knocked down the most violent person on the spot to serve as a warning to others. Komeiji Kaku released a mental shock to the group to force these people to become docile. Ritsuka took his servants around to maintain order. Then Lin Yi found the chefs, waiters and other non-management staff, and had a general communication with them. After confirming that there were no problems with the supplies, he asked them to continue serving in the same way as before, thus ensuring that there would be no problems with the basic order on the ship.

Then, after counting the people and materials, several rescuers, with the help of staff and volunteers, concentrated the tourists in a certain area as much as possible, and pre-checked and eliminated the hidden dangers in these areas for easy management. As for the reason, Lin Yi directly asked Gu Mingdijue to perform a few magic tricks on the spot, and then claimed that they were members of a certain secret justice organization, and now an evil person had sneaked into the ship. In short, he made up a random reason to stun the crowd.

The chaos was quelled at an extremely fast speed, or temporarily quelled, as the rescuers forcibly suppressed the situation with a swift and resolute posture. This method shocked Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was still a new master, and he unconsciously memorized the steps in his head, wondering if it would come in handy one day in the future.

However, actions of this degree alone were obviously only barely sufficient to maintain order on board.

As for Atreus, who was hiding in the dark and whose exact purpose was unknown, Lin Yi felt that he would never give up.

"But where on earth is this guy hiding? Why can't we find any trace of him after searching the entire ship? Could it be that he has jumped into the sea and has been swimming to follow the ship?"

After searching for several times without any result, Lin Yi's doubts became more and more serious.

And in fact, he actually guessed it right.

At the same time that they were calming down the chaos on the ship, about 100 meters behind the ship, in the water about 300 meters deep, Atreus was swimming in the water with a nimble posture, following behind the ship.

[A sea of ​​bones. Yes, the legend is true.]

[The hope of returning to the spirit tribe is within reach. The only legend that can save us is now before our eyes.]

[But...does it still need one-third of the energy to start? Otherwise, this ship will just drift forever in the lost ocean in the fog.]

Atreus lowered his head and paid attention to the rock structures on the seabed that looked like human skulls. The underwater world was like a pile of stone skulls with only bones left overlapping each other. His eyes gradually became cold.

"Pfft-"

Then, he accidentally inhaled some sea water and coughed loudly several times, almost losing sight of the huge ship in front of him.

Chapter 45: Obsessive compulsive symptoms?

They seemed to no longer be on this planet, in the ocean of the real world.

On the fifth day of entering this mission world, the rescuers confirmed this fact.

The compass has ceased to function, communications have been completely cut off and satellite positioning cannot be used. There is no longer day or night around, only a fog that seems to be eternal and a dim light whose source cannot be found in the fog.

There were no living creatures in the sea water. After going deeper, the rescuers even saw a rocky seabed structure that looked like countless skeletons and skulls piled up on top of each other.

This is no longer what a normal world should be like.

Especially after Lin Yi really reached the bottom of the sea, brought down some stones and brought them back to the boat, and confirmed that these things were not false illusions.

The only reasonable explanation is that they are not in the real world, but in some other world similar to the previous shadow space.