69novels Chapter 126 Drifting
Chapter 126 Drifting
Lorne, who was feigning sleep, twitched his brow almost imperceptibly. He maintained a steady breathing rhythm, but his right hand quietly reached for the "Ripper" hidden at his waist.
"Splash—" The life raft lurched violently.
Something was moving, Lorne realized.
"Bang!"
The flash of gunfire briefly illuminated the sea. A contorted figure fell to the ground, twitching a few times on the deck before becoming still.
Lorne took a step forward, and by the light of the moon and the faint firelight, he could make out the monster's appearance.
"A fish-man, huh..."
Its entire body was covered in dark green scales and covered in bluish-green slime, but it looked more like a giant fish than a human, with strong limbs and obvious webbing between its hands and feet.
I thought it would be similar to the Deep One, but it looks like a wild beast...
The drag marks... Lorne looked at the water stain on the ground and the moved crystal coffin.
The target wasn't me, but the crystal coffin... No wonder I took it down with one shot; it seems their attention wasn't on me at all.
He kicked the fishman's menacing head: "Could it be that there's a fishman princess inside the crystal?"
This was said in a joking tone.
After all, no matter how you look at it, the girl in the crystal coffin and the fishman don't seem to be the same species at all.
"The problem now is what to do with this fish-man's corpse..." Lorne muttered to himself, not knowing much about this kind of marine creature.
"As reserve grain?"
Looking at its grotesque corpse, Lorne felt a surge of irritation. This inhuman creature had a strange sense of déjà vu.
That's disgusting!
"Are we going to throw it back into the sea?"
"No, that's such a waste..."
A slightly weak female voice came from behind.
"Snap!"
Sensing danger, Lorne immediately turned and raised his gun.
The black-haired girl was standing on the other side of the life raft, her azure eyes misty as she stared at Lorne, who was full of vigilance.
"You..." Lorne didn't know how to start a conversation or say hello.
Most importantly, the girl's appearance is in very bad shape now.
Perhaps because it was lying inside the crystal, it wasn't immediately apparent.
But when she stood up, Lorne discovered that none of her clothes were intact; her dark red coat was in shreds, and her trousers were covered in holes.
The only thing that was still intact was a white linen shirt.
But because it was wet, some beautiful and indescribable things were faintly visible.
He swallowed unconsciously.
The girl seemed to sense Lorne's embarrassment, and she parted her cherry lips slightly to say:
"Fishmen are a great ingredient, and parts of their bodies are also excellent materials."
After a brief standoff, Lorne slowly lowered his weapon.
"Hmm~ That's right." The girl smiled with satisfaction, then suddenly reached out and touched her own impressive curves. "Give me your coat." This charming command carried an air of absolute authority.
No, I refuse.
"Why?" Tracy was a little surprised. She didn't expect Lorne to reject her. Normally, no man would reject her.
"The sea breeze is too strong, and I'm afraid of getting cold."
"..."
……
Under the moon, by the campfire
"Here you go." Lorne handed a piece of tender meat from the merman's body to Rachel.
Meow~
Seeing the cat Lorne enjoying its meal, Lorne also stuffed a piece into its own mouth.
It was a melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness, with a very faint bloody taste and a perfectly balanced salty and savory flavor.
Being able to eat this delicious food while adrift at sea is a blessing.
"Hmph~"
Tracy, wearing Lorne's coat, also picked up a piece of fish and savored it. She was in extremely poor condition and needed to replenish her energy and build up her strength.
Lorne eventually gave the coat to the other person, although it was indeed pleasing to the eye to let such a beautiful woman show off her figure... cough cough... I mean, it was indecent.
"Cough cough..."
Because the life raft wasn't very big, even though Lorne tried to avoid it, the other person's beautiful figure still occasionally came into Lorne's view.
It made Lorne's mind wander.
It's not what I wanted to see; it's beyond my control.
Lorne tried to look away, but still felt a familiar heat.
"lure"……!
Lorne's pupils suddenly contracted; he had felt a familiar sensation from this girl earlier.
Now he was certain; the feeling was the same as with the "Phantom" pistol. No, it was even stronger than the "Phantom" pistol.
Through long-term exposure, he has become virtually immune to the allure of the "Phantom" pistol.
But he couldn't completely ignore the charm of the girl in front of him.
This shows she's a very powerful extraordinary being; no wonder even the mermen were tempted...
Why can't I just meet a normal girl? Lorne sighed inwardly.
……
Finally, Lorne broke the silence: "That storm destroyed the passenger ship I was on, sweeping me and my cat to this area... And you, miss?"
Tracy, wrapped in a large coat, paused for a moment and said:
"Like you, I am an innocent victim of that storm."
"Do you know our location?"
Lorne guessed that the other person might be related to that pirate ship, meaning she was likely a pirate, but he didn't point it out.
He didn't say anything about crystals or extraordinary beings.
After all, it's best not to pay too much attention to details in an empty environment, and besides, he didn't have a helmet...
Tracy looked up at the sky and then around: "It shouldn't be too far from Bayam, but I'm not sure of the exact location."
"But we can try sailing north, which would make it easier to encounter land."
Lorne nodded, agreeing with the other's point of view. Even if the passenger ship had deviated from its course, it shouldn't have strayed too far, and its current position shouldn't be too far from Bayam.
"It seems we'll have to stick together for now."
"Let me introduce myself, my name is Brando."
……
For the next two days, Lorne used a plank of wood as an oar and tried to sail north.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard they tried, all they could see was a vast expanse of sea.
"Your turn." Lorne looked at Tracy, who was pretending to be asleep.
"You're from Ruen, aren't you?" The girl stretched lazily, deliberately letting her coat slip down a bit to reveal a section of her snow-white shoulder. "It's not gentlemanly to make a lady do the work."
Clearly, Tracy, covered in wounds, didn't want to work. The lightning was more powerful than she had imagined, and her wounds were healing very slowly.
But she didn't want Lorne to see how weak she was. So she had to suppress her discomfort and resort to seduction.
As one of the more individualistic members of the witch cult, she would rather not actively seduce men if she could.
But now she has no choice but to learn from her fellow witches.
"Thank you, but I'm not a gentleman."
"Huh?" Tracy thought she had misheard.
Lorne seemed to ignore her charm and simply tossed the oar aside.
Thanks to the "machine's" abilities and his own resistance, now that it was clear that it was a charm, how could Lorne possibly fall for it?
Besides, the experience of that certain parasite is still fresh in my mind. It's best to be careful with this girl of unknown origin.