Chapter 64: Duoduo Is Her Nemesis

She widened her eyes and turned to look at the owner of the small hand.

She saw April pointing forward, then pointing at her own eyes, and finally waving her hand.

Dean Zhou understood immediately and nodded.

April pulled her hand back and let out a long sigh of relief.

It had been a close call just now; fortunately, her hand was fast enough to cover the stupid woman's mouth.

Otherwise, the stupid woman's scream would have exposed their exact location.

The eerie entity was blind to begin with, and she had been lying right beside Dean Zhou.

There was no guarantee that the entity wouldn't bite blindly and eat her instead!

April stared ahead, her bright eyes overflowing with vigilance.

Although she was extremely sleepy, she didn't dare to sleep.

She was afraid that if she fell asleep and talked in her sleep, she would lure the eerie entity over!

Unlike the other cabins, the upper cabin was brightly lit, quiet, and harmonious.

Duoduo curled up in Ling Yun's arms, her furry little head resting against his chest.

Fearing that the noises downstairs would wake her up, Ling Yun had cast a barrier across the entire upper cabin.

The young couple next door also shared in the protection, enjoying a sound sleep through the night until dawn.

Confirming that there was no more movement downstairs, Ling Yun dispelled the barrier.

In less than ten minutes, Xu Hetang brought breakfast upstairs.

Seeing that Duoduo was still asleep, Xu Hetang looked at Ling Yun with concern.

"General Ling, people died in both the lower cabin and the hold last night. Today downstairs won't be peaceful. Please take extra care of Duoduo."

"She is my daughter, you don't need to remind me."

Knowing that Xu Hetang cared about Duoduo, Ling Yun's tone was cold, but he held no malice toward him.

Familiar with his temperament, Xu Hetang didn't take his words to heart.

He stole a glance at Duoduo and then turned to leave.

The hold was reeking with a thick stench of blood.

Looking at the bloodstains covering the floor, Dean Zhou covered her mouth and retched repeatedly.

Had it not been for April, she would have died last night as well.

Although April had changed quite a bit, April had saved her life last night.

She had originally planned to cut ties with April once they left this place.

But now, she hesitated.

"One, two, three... thirty-three." The woman raised her hand, counting the heads.

When she first entered the hold, she had secretly counted once.

There had been a total of fifty-four people who chose the hold on the first night.

After the first night, only forty-six people remained.

And yesterday, a total of thirteen people died.

Had they not realized in time that the entity was blind, even more people would likely have died!

And those who had left on the first night still hadn't returned; they were most likely doomed.

Only two nights had passed, and twenty-one people had already died in the hold!

The woman withdrew her hand, her face deathly pale.

Compared to her, the others looked no better.

A young girl of fifteen or sixteen suddenly broke down, squatting on the ground and hugging her knees while weeping bitterly.

"I don't want to die, I want to go home!"

"What are you crying for early in the morning, such bad luck!" A man whose companion had died growled unhappily.

The woman beside him chimed in and nodded.

"Yeah, none of us want to die here, but crying isn't going to solve the problem.

The hold is supposed to be the safest place, yet so many people have died here. The other cabins probably..."

"Do you really still think the hold is the safest place?" A scholarly-looking man turned to look at her.

The woman was stunned and retorted, "Isn't it?"

"When the supernatural descent happens, people living in the other cabins at least have a door as a barrier, while we have nothing..."

No way?

The crowd stared in shock.

A man in his twenties was the first to snap back to his senses, glaring around at the crowd with a face full of anger.

"Who was it that said the hold was the safest? Damn it, we're all going to be killed by this person!"

As his voice fell, a heavy silence descended upon the hold.

April's little face paled, her eyes brimming with complex emotions.

No wonder that young couple was still alive; it turned out they weren't under Ling Yun's protection—the upper cabin was simply the safest place to begin with.

And the hold she had chosen was the most dangerous place of all.

Not only was there no food or water, but they also faced the constant threat of the eerie entity coming to slaughter them at any moment.

April clenched her fists, cursing her terrible luck internally.

Her previous instances had all gone so smoothly, yet this time...

True enough, wherever Duoduo was, bad luck followed.

Duoduo was her nemesis!

"How is it down in the hold? Did anyone die last night?"

A man's voice suddenly came from the upper corner of the stairs.

The crowd turned toward the sound, seeing him hurrying over in their direction.

Before he even got close, he caught a strong stench of blood.

He quickly stopped in his tracks and covered his nose.

"Looks like the hold is even more miserable than the lower cabin!"

"How many died in the lower cabin?" the scholarly-looking man asked.

"Two girls."

"Only two died!"

The woman widened her eyes, finally accepting the scholarly man's deduction.

"The hold really is the most dangerous place! No, I want to switch to the upper cabin!"

With that, the woman made a move to walk away.

The person behind her let out a cold snort. "It's too late to think about changing cabins now!"

"Switching to the upper cabin is out of the question, but you all have a chance to switch to the lower cabin with me.

Although the lower cabin isn't as safe as the upper cabin, at least there's food and water, and it's slightly safer than this place."

Hearing that cabin switching was possible, April's eyes lit up.

But soon, she recalled what Xu Hetang had told her yesterday and looked at the speaking man uncertainly.

"Mister, I asked that grandfather yesterday. He said once we make our choice, we can't change it."

"You don't have the qualification to change, but I do!" the man said with a smile. "My teammate died right as we boarded the ship.

So the rule I received had an extra hidden rule attached. It states that I have the right to freely choose a teammate.

If I choose a tourist from the hold as a teammate, that teammate gets a free cabin upgrade."

Hearing the man mention the rules, April's face turned pale.

She nervously tugging at the corner of her clothes, terrified that the people in her cabin would discover she was the one who had secretly hidden the rules.

Dean Zhou stood beside her, her sharp eyes catching April's abnormal behavior.

Before she could figure out what was wrong with April, a young man suddenly spoke up:

"What rules? How come I didn't see any? Did you just make that up?"

"Yeah, I didn't see any rules either. Did any of you see them?"

The woman turned to look at the others, who all shook their heads with blank expressions.

This time, it was the man from the lower cabin who was stunned.

"No way, you guys really haven't seen them?

I asked the others in the lower cabin, and they all found small slips of paper detailing the cruise ship's rules inside their rooms. You guys in the hold didn't have any?"

His words slowly drifted into Dean Zhou's ears.

She stared at April, furrowing her brow slightly as something quickly dawned on her.

Yesterday, she had bumped into April secretly hiding something.

Could the thing she hid be the cruise ship's rules?

But why would she do such a thing?

What good would it do her to keep everyone else in the dark?