When 'God' Decides To Start Over-Chapter 1006 - 386: The Eerie Ship (Part 3)

Inside the door was a space even larger than the previous hall, supported by wooden pillars. It was nothing like the dormitory Li Xiu had imagined; instead, it resembled a warehouse.

The reason for Li Xiu’s drastic change in expression wasn’t the sheer size of the space, but rather the rows upon rows of black wooden coffins filling the warehouse-like room, likely numbering in the thousands.

This was certainly no little girl’s boudoir. Calling it a mortuary would be flattering it; even mortuaries wouldn’t contain so many coffins. Besides, why would there be so many coffins on a ship?

"Do you live here?" Li Xiu asked Xiaoyue, looking at her with a strange expression.

If Xiaoyue lived in such a place, then was she human or ghost?

"Yes... that’s where I sleep..." Xiaoyue walked to a coffin near the door, its lid partially ajar, and said bashfully, "It’s the first time someone wanted to see where we live, so it’s a bit embarrassing."

Li Xiu, with a peculiar look, walked over to Xiaoyue and peeked inside the coffin, finding it completely empty.

"Can I look at the other coffins?" Li Xiu asked, glancing at Xiaoyue.

"If you want to see them, you just need to call their names, they’ll come out on their own. No need to trouble you, sir," Xiaoyue said.

"No problem." Li Xiu casually pushed open the coffin next to him, revealing inside a little girl about Xiaoyue’s age. She lay there with a rosy complexion as if asleep, yet Li Xiu heard no breathing or heartbeat.

Even with the noise of Li Xiu opening the coffin lid, the girl didn’t awaken, remaining motionless inside.

Li Xiu felt a tingling sensation at the back of his neck, suspecting he had stumbled into a Vampire’s lair.

"Xiaoxue, the young master is here to see you," Xiaoyue called softly to the girl inside the coffin.

Though the girl showed no signs of breathing or heartbeat, Xiaoyue’s call miraculously made her open her eyes, and she seemed to resume breathing and her heart started beating.

The little girl sat up immediately, climbed out of the coffin, and hurriedly saluted Li Xiu, saying, "I didn’t know the young master was coming, please forgive my lack of courtesy."

"No worries, I’m the one intruding." Li Xiu glanced at the other coffins, but had no urge to open any more.

"Xiaoyue, are all your companions here?" Li Xiu asked.

"Yes, everyone is here," Xiaoyue replied with a nod.

Li Xiu asked nothing further, allowing Xiaoyue to lead him away.

"What’s the deal with this big ship? Are Xiaoyue and the others human or ghost? And what is that strange man’s identity?" Li Xiu thought of numerous questions but found no answers.

Xiaoyue and Xiaoxue seemed to be very much alive. If he encountered them elsewhere, Li Xiu would never doubt their identities.

But the situation here was strange. They appeared alive, yet, when inside coffins, they were like the dead.

"Xiaoyue mentioned the last guests were the President and Guan Qingzhai; could it be they’ve been sleeping in those coffins for sixty years?" The more Li Xiu thought, the eerier it felt. How could humans sleep in a coffin for sixty years without food or drink?

Even for someone like Li Xiu, who could rival a Divine Position, sixty years of sleep without sustenance was impossible, not to mention even six years or six months.

Back on the deck, Li Xiu pondered the scene with the coffins. On this vast ship, there was only the strange man and these children who were neither human nor ghost. What was the ship’s origin?

Li Xiu headed to the hall, but as he reached the entrance, he heard the strange man’s voice from the ship’s bow: "My old friend drank a bit too much and has gone to the guest room to rest. Would the young gentleman be interested in a chat with this old man?"

With an unchanged expression, Li Xiu turned toward the ship’s bow, finding the strange man sitting on the rail, holding a wine pot in one hand and something else in the other, drinking in the sea breeze.

"How should I address you?" Li Xiu asked the strange man.

"Names... I’ve long forgotten mine. Call me ’uncle’ if you like or ’old man’ if you prefer not," the strange man replied breezily.

"What would you like to talk about?" Li Xiu frowned. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Not even giving his name, how was this a sincere attempt at conversation?

As if reading Li Xiu’s thoughts, the strange man smiled, "Don’t misunderstand, young gentleman. It’s not that I don’t want to tell you my name; I’ve truly forgotten it."

Knowing Li Xiu was skeptical, the strange man continued, "It’s normal not to believe, but if you were on the sea alone for thousands of years, with no one to talk to or keep you company, just staring at the sea, you’d forget many unimportant things too."

"But aren’t Xiaoyue and the others here on the ship?" Li Xiu spotted a flaw in his words and said directly.

"They... aren’t human..." Li Xiu never expected the strange man to say such a thing.

While Li Xiu also felt Xiaoyue and her companions weren’t human, he wouldn’t say so in front of Xiaoyue. Yet the strange man stated it so bluntly, which even Li Xiu found somewhat cruel.

Glancing at Xiaoyue beside him, he found her eyes vacant, lacking any focus, like a soulless body, mechanically turning to leave.

"Young sir, though I don’t remember my name, I can tell you a story. After hearing it, you should be able to know who I am," the strange man said, taking a swig from his drink and wiping his mouth.

"What story?" Li Xiu asked, looking at the strange man.

"The tale of a man who went to sea in search of immortality," the strange man said, gazing at the endless ocean.