Mobile Shelter

Chapter 75 Anomaly Detected

After settling the rescued personnel in, the captain picked up the battle report presented by his assistant and examined it in detail.

The captain wanted to know why there were so many casualties in this rescue mission. It wasn't like they hadn't fought against those mutated marine creatures before. Logically speaking, there shouldn't have been so many casualties in this rescue mission.

According to the survivors, the personnel who went into the enemy's cabin to carry out the rescue were all killed in action while covering the retreat.

Those who were supposed to be responsible for deck safety only realized that their comrades who had entered the cabins had not come out after seeing the survivors escape from the cabins.

They also heard from the survivors that those people were trapped in the cabin because they were covering the retreat, so they organized a group of people to go in and rescue them.

However, all the soldiers who entered the cabin lost contact, even though they were carrying shortwave radios.

If it weren't for the personnel remaining on deck who could barely hold off the attacks of those mutated marine creatures, it's likely that after discovering this situation, others would have organized a rescue effort to enter the cabin.

Fortunately, the person in charge of the defense on the deck noticed the abnormality. Even though all the survivors had been evacuated, they did not continue to organize people to enter the cabin for rescue. Instead, they decisively chose to retreat.

After seeing this intelligence, the captain finally found the source of his inner unease.

Why were the survivors they rescued able to leave the ship's cabins unharmed, while none of the veterans they sent on the mission returned?

If casualties occur during a mission, even if the casualties are severe, the captain will not have any doubts in the face of such a situation.

But the fact that everyone who entered the cabin had disappeared without a trace made him suspicious.

Looking down at the people on the deck through the glass, the captain began to question for the first time the mission he had been carrying out.

Although they have successfully picked up those people, the mission will be complete once they are brought back to the port.

But the captain's unease made him restless. After thinking for a long time, he called his assistant over and whispered a task in his ear.

Upon first seeing the captain's action, the assistant knew that the matter the captain was instructing him on was probably quite private, but as the captain continued to give his instructions, the assistant's expression gradually became strange.

Even after the captain finished speaking and left his ear, the assistant's expression remained somewhat strange. He then asked again in a slightly questioning tone, "Boss, are you serious? Are you really going to do this?"

The captain shoved the battle report his assistant had handed him back into his hands before saying, "Didn't you read what was inside when you sent it over? If this were peacetime, I'd lock him up for three days if the report was written like this."

The assistant then picked up the battle report to examine it closely, and casually replied, "Isn't it because the situation was urgent? I just got the report and ran over to deliver it. The contents are..."

"Who wrote this battle report? This is utter nonsense! No normal person would believe anything written here. I suggest we arrest the person who wrote this report and interrogate them thoroughly. This person is definitely suspicious."

The assistant, who had been somewhat casual, instantly flew into a rage upon seeing the battle report.

Seeing his assistant's angry expression, the captain breathed a slight sigh of relief. It seemed that the other party hadn't peeked at the contents of the battle report when sending it to him.

If the other side didn't react like this after reading the battle report, the captain would have thought the other side was a different person.

After the assistant calmed down a bit, he gritted his teeth and made up his mind, saying directly, "I'll personally lead the team over there. I want to see whether those people rescued from the cabin are human or ghosts, but..."

Before the assistant could finish speaking, the captain interrupted, "We haven't even returned to port to write the rescue report yet. The battle was so intense, and we've suffered so many casualties."

"Among the survivors, it's not unusual for a few to die from their severe injuries. Have the accompanying medics treat those seriously wounded. If they can't be saved, just put them in the power reactor to reactivate them."

The assistant understood the captain's meaning, nodded seriously, and quickly left.

After discovering the problem in the battle report, the assistant was actually a little uneasy, so he wanted to verify it as soon as possible according to the captain's instructions.

Standing on the deck, Dong Qi, who was responsible for monitoring the survivors, suddenly noticed that many of the survivors had some sticky fluid seeping from their palms.

Upon discovering this, Dong Qi did not make a fuss directly. Instead, he seemingly walked up to Shao Kai and quietly told him what he had discovered.

After hearing Dong Qi recount the problem he had discovered, Shao Kai did not react excessively at first. Instead, he waited until the two separated and, while walking around casually, discreetly checked and verified Dong Qi's discovery.

After confirming that Dong Qi had not misread the words, Shao Kai intended to leave the deck immediately to report the problem he had discovered.

But just then, the assistant, following the captain's instructions, brought a small team to look for the "seriously injured person" and wanted to bring him into the cabin for treatment.

Upon seeing his assistant arrive with his men, Shao Kai walked directly towards the assistant and quietly told him about the problem Dong Qi had discovered.

After hearing Shao Kai's account, the assistant was immediately startled and realized that even without further verification, it was clear that these rescued survivors were not ordinary.

However, because of the emergence of awakened beings, the identities of the survivors cannot be determined in detail yet. Therefore, some 'wounded' individuals need to be brought into the cabin for detailed verification.

Perhaps because of the previous experience of selecting people, the survivors did not suspect anything when the assistant brought them into the cabin this time. Instead, they enthusiastically recommended themselves and wanted the assistant to choose them.

Despite the large number of survivors who volunteered, the assistant didn't select many. After seemingly choosing a few people at random, he took them away.

However, Dong Qi also noticed that among the survivors who were chosen and taken away, two of them had palms covered in slime.

Not long after the assistant and his men left, many of the survivors on the deck suddenly cried out that they were thirsty and wanted water.

At first, no one paid much attention to this situation and simply handed them a few bottles of water to share.

But as soon as those people unscrewed the bottle cap and opened their mouths to drink water, they immediately spat it out and then began to dry heave incessantly.

This condition seemed contagious; before long, all the survivors on the deck experienced the same thing: collective dry heaving.