Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 554: Chapter 261: Living Corpse Captain

Just from these logs, one could see the dire situation.

The fleet wanted to rescue more humans, like those trapped in the Lost Land like Chu He.

To this end, No.1 Border City had deployed considerable military strength aboard the ship, including organized Border Iron Guards, elite Ye Boshou and Processors, and battle-hardened Iron-blooded Veterans!

At that time, it was absolutely the strongest and last fleet of humanity!

But after setting sail, the mighty fleet was swallowed by a giant vortex and arrived in unknown waters.

The Spiritual Ability Users in the fleet couldn’t figure out their bearings, couldn’t contact any Giant City, and were completely cut off from communication.

Lost in unknown waters.

During this time, there were also multiple instances of Chaos corruption as well as acts initiated by the ship’s main consciousness.

This gradually pushed the already tense fleet closer to the abyss.

Eventually, the remaining fleet encountered the Dead Sea Wreck and, during a bloody battle, the warship controlled by Chaos believers directly crashed into the Dead Sea Wreck.

And then... the warship was captured by the Dead Sea Wreck.

This was what those nearby wanted Li Yelai and Jing Lin to know.

Li Yelai scanned his surroundings, truly seeing no living creatures, only scattered manuals and various instruments. It seemed the opposing party was a master of stealth.

Jing Lin, meanwhile, grabbed on the floor and hopped to the control panel beside Li Yelai, glancing at the log.

”The ship’s own consciousness, as well as the Chaos corruption, were later captured by the Dead Sea Wreck...” Jing Lin shook his head, ”Even with numerous elite soldiers and even captain-level powerhouses leading the team, they couldn’t withstand this combination of blows.”

”After entering the giant vortex and arriving in unknown waters, the Chaos corruption worsened.” Li Yelai examined the logs, ”Chaos power is even more active here.”

The fleet had specific Spiritual Ability Users trained to handle maritime environments.

They were supposed to use various abilities to ascertain the fleet’s position and even obtain cryptically vague messages from the Giant City in the Void Realm.

To maintain some form of contact.

But after arriving in unknown waters, the stars and sun and moon became eerie; as soon as the sun set, the moon quickly rose from the same position, and the starry sky changed rapidly, all celestial phenomena were bizarre and chaotic.

And the messages sent by the Spiritual Ability Users received no responses.

Instead, it attracted the attention of Chaos, resulting in a surge of Chaos believers within the fleet.

This was the most deadly; a lot of the fleet’s elite strength and several warships, due to Chaos corruption, erupted in civil war, resulting in heavy losses of both ships and warriors. So much so that when the flagship encountered Chaos corruption, they no longer had the strength to suppress it quickly.

”Did the ship develop its own consciousness from Chaos corruption?” Li Yelai, looking at the battered bridge, asked.

”I don’t know, but it’s possible. However, rumors say that some mechanical beings, under the influence of the Void Realm, autonomously perform certain actions,” Jing Lin responded, ”It could well be a technique of Chaos!”

Even the ship body could be corrupted; the power of Chaos was even more horrifying than Li Yelai, a Chaos Chosen, had imagined!

Li Yelai continued looking at the log.

After crashing into the Metal Continent (Dead Sea Wreck), the human warriors paid a terrible price, the Captain died, the Political Commissar died, the Iron Guard landing team’s leader died, captain-level powerhouses died... only then they finally managed to eliminate all the Chaos believers.

But the heavily-damaged fleet could no longer escape the area, caught among countless ships, becoming part of the Dead Sea Wreck.

The surviving warriors tried to leave the warship to investigate the Dead Sea Wasteland.

But they unexpectedly encountered an attack from monsters (flesh mutations).

After paying another heavy price, the survivors finally identified the characteristics of thirteen types of flesh mutations.

At that time, they were still trying to eradicate the flesh mutations and searching for a way to leave this cursed place, seeking a method to rescue the warship.

But the Chaos corruption still persisted, almost every month, part of the warriors would become contaminated by Chaos, and would be given funerals by the survivors.

This almost crushed all the survivors.

The log, at this point,

was already very sloppy.

Perhaps it had been taken over by several different recorders.

’The acting captain went mad, he said he heard the warship’s voice, but the warship had clearly already run out of fuel, we must find a new ship!’

’A Political Commissar of the fleet died, he didn’t even realize that he had already turned into a living corpse, nearly strangling his daughter unconsciously, he had been corrupted by Chaos. We exiled him...’

’We found a ship from an unknown civilization, possibly a Forbidden Zone, and discovered ice coffins inside. But the ice coffins had been opened, the contents had escaped. Or, were dragged out by something else.’

’We took the ice coffin back with us, it appears to be a taboo item, capable of continuously emitting cold and consuming oxygen. The low temperature can prevent the growth of the ship’s flesh and also allow us to preserve our warriors’ bodies, preventing them from turning into flesh mutations, or into Chaos living corpses.’

’We discovered many mysterious ships, their technology incomprehensible to us humans. We hope this technology allows us to escape here...’

’Major Wang En’s wife is pregnant, this guy kept it from us and secretly got married, the scoundrel.’

’We’ve been trapped here for five years, yet new life was finally born, and we’ve become the godfathers and godmothers of that child. Truly a blessed fellow, instantly gained three hundred and seventy parents!’