Grand Voyage : Surviving on a Ghost Ship-Chapter 265 - Dead body

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The Penitent Armour climbed up out of the elevator shaft. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Once it was steady on its feet, it opened its chest plate, and a large quantity of bones spilled out.

Yang Yi first picked up the bone spear and put it away in the Charred Creeping Worm Ring. Then he picked up a tibia from the ground and obtained its information.

【Name: Rat Thrall (Gu Ze)】

【Description: A human who has been parasitized and heavily modified by homing rats.

A large number of homing rats live inside its body. Its mind has been warped by toxins, causing it to treat the rats like its own children and protect them at any cost.A high mental attribute grants resistance to the toxins, but if parasitised too extensively, the mental changes become irreversible. Can be fed into the Monster Vending Machine.】

“So it’s actually a player’s corpse?”

Yang Yi was somewhat surprised to see that the corpse information included a player name.

Moreover, this was the first player corpse he had found aboard the Sanctuary.

However, the tibia in his hand was quickly taken away.

Suna was attempting to reconstruct the skeleton.

She placed the bones in their proper positions, gradually assembling a humanoid skeleton across the floor.

Viewed this way, it was much more intuitive. Any abnormalities in the skeleton could be seen at a glance, making it easier to infer the condition of the flesh.

“This looks like a human skeleton, but it’s missing the ribs and the mandible.

The body weight seems to have been quite heavy. The leg joints are badly worn, so it probably wasn’t good at running. The leg bones are short and thick.”

Suna crouched down to observe it up close, sketching at the same time on a sheet of paper as she tried to draw what the creature had looked like.

“The spine also tilts forward severely and has deformed. The arms, on the other hand, don’t show anything unusual…”

She quickly produced a rough sketch.

It depicted a hunched, obese figure, with the chest and abdomen swollen into a spherical shape, while the legs looked short and thick.

She had also drawn many small black circles densely packed across the chest and abdomen.

Yang Yi understood what she meant. They were likely meant to represent the homing rats parasitising the body.

“Does it look right?” she asked Yang Yi, since he had seen it himself.

He shook his head, not entirely sure.

At the time, the creature had been shrouded in black fog, almost blending into its surroundings, making it hard to judge its exact build. Still, it did seem somewhat fat, and a large number of rats had indeed burst out of its body.

After hearing Yang Yi say that the rat thrall could move through darkness, Suna added shading to the figure, representing rat fur.

Its body was probably covered in rat fur. Only then would it have been able to move in the dark.

“We can collect some homing rat pelts and make armour that resists the darkness,” Suna added.

There were huge numbers of rats on this lower level. Gathering a hundred or so would be enough to make a decent set of rat fur gear.

Yang Yi nodded in agreement.

“We can collect more. It should sell for money.”

He was already thinking about selling the pelts and fur products. Players in the Lightless Sea would likely be willing to pay for them.

He aimed his camera at the skeleton and took a photo, then put the bones into the Charred Creeping Worm Ring, planning to bring them back and convert them into a pull when the opportunity arose.

Next, they prepared to head for Area C, where more clues might be hidden.

The two of them retraced their steps and walked back towards the port.

“Suna. Do you think it’s possible that the Sanctuary fell because of the rats?”

Yang Yi asked as they made their way back.

She was silent for a moment, then shifted her focus to the toxins produced by the homing rats.

“The toxin is somewhat like a hormone that acts on the central nervous system. It interferes with the host’s behavior and cognition. But I don’t know the exact effects. Without a living specimen, it’s hard for me to make a judgment.” She replied and glanced over at him.

Yang Yi understood what she meant. She wanted to capture a living rat thrall for examination.

A skeleton alone provided very limited information. Even its appearance had to be reconstructed through guesswork.

“We’ll talk about it later. For now, let’s go to Area C,” Yang Yi said, sticking to the original plan.

At the moment, Flame Serpent’s Fang was still on cooldown, with nearly ten hours remaining. It was really not a good time to head down and fight a swarm of rats.

The Ironbreaker was also ill suited for narrow corridors.

On top of that, the air circulation down below was poor, which would greatly reduce the effectiveness of fire based abilities.

He could not exactly use a restricted just to fight rats. That would be far too costly.

The two of them returned along the same route to the docks, activated the Nightmare Star, and headed towards the port of Area C.

On the way, Yang Yi took out the telescope. Gritting his teeth, he paid ten thousand seashell coins and activated its treasure hunting function.

He already had a good grasp of the situation inside the Sanctuary. Most valuable, high priced items had likely been looted long ago.

But what if the locals had missed something?

That possibility could not be completely ruled out.

Yang Yi decided to take the easy route and spend money to scan the area with the telescope.

After paying more than ten thousand seashell coins, the telescope would mark the locations of treasure chests or high value targets within its field of view with golden indicators.

The more money paid, the better the effect.

After sweeping the area, Yang Yi lowered the telescope, disappointment showing on his face.

There was nothing. Not even in the much anticipated general warehouse.

This meant either the payment was insufficient and the scan failed, or there truly were no high value items left, or the items had been damaged.

The latter was far more likely.

So much time had passed that even items that were once valuable might have been ruined by darkness corrosion.

Still, the ship itself was a treasure.

Once the rats were dealt with, if he still could not take control of the Sanctuary, he planned to sweep the place thoroughly and try to claim the ship for dismantling. That would yield a large amount of materials, as well as blueprints for this special vessel.

Moreover, the Sanctuary’s warehouse likely had storage space similar to that of the Nightmare Star. The locals would not be able to take those resources. Only crew members or the player who controlled the ship could access them. When the time came, it would be worth checking.

With the follow up plan settled, Yang Yi put the telescope back into his ring and steered the Nightmare Star into the port of Area C.

The port here was almost identical to the previous one, as if cast from the same mold.

The Nightmare Star docked beside a pier very similar to the last.

The two of them disembarked and headed toward the main gate.

With a light container providing illumination, Yang Yi did not wear the boots of the Penitent Armour. He only put on the gloves and controlled the armour to walk ahead.

The light container, however, remained on Yang Yi himself. The armour was only a few steps in front.

In addition, a skeletal rat moved ahead as a scout, roughly keeping pace with the armor.

This was an effect of the Execution Rack. Yang Yi had just remembered it and decided to make use of it.

The ship was idle anyway when it was not moving.

With a suit of armour and a skeletal rat leading the way, they soon reached the gate.

This door had also been breached, but unlike the one in the previous area, it was only half destroyed.

On the remaining half, a skull symbol had been painted in black, with a cross drawn beneath it.

By instinct, this looked like a warning sign. Most likely it had been left by local explorers, signaling danger inside.

“There’s even something like this?”

It was Yang Yi’s first time seeing such a mark. He took a photo to document it, then controlled the Penitent Armour to enter through the gate.

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