Chapter 48 Anomaly
And so, after a night of busyness, morning finally arrived.
However, outside, the storm still swept across the heavens and the earth, causing the sky to remain dim and visibility to be very low.
And after a night of busyness, Lonis was also a bit tired… After all, she had played with Elus for so long the night before, her body felt a bit numb, and she was even staggering when she walked.
“Alright, that’s about it. Little idiot, go rest.”
“Elus, aren’t you going to rest…”
Although Lonis wanted to lie down for a while, she also knew that Elus had been busy all night. She must be very tired now.
“Mm, I’ll stretch a bit before going to sleep, because it’s daytime now, and I can record more information?”
“Oh…”
“Seriously, little fox is so cute. You can’t sleep well without your master by your side.”
“I, I don’t!”
…
To prove that she could sleep by herself, Lonis lay on the bed and fell sound asleep heartily.
Compared to last night, the monstrously huge waves had calmed down considerably, so the slight rocking of the ship did not make Lonis uncomfortable, but rather made her sleep very comfortably.
The bed had restraints, so there was no risk of rolling off the bed.
And when Lonis woke up again…
It was already evening!
The twilight sunset shone diagonally into the room through the glass. Both the pure white curtains and the soft bedsheets were immersed in this yellow, making it extremely warm.
It seemed that this storm had passed.
“Ugh… have I slept this long?”
Lonis twitched her ears and tried to sit up from the bed, but at this moment she noticed…
Her ears were wet!
And if she sniffed carefully, she could smell a very familiar scent.
This meant…
While she was fast asleep, Elus, that little black-hearted girl, had hugged her like a pillow again.
And that wasn’t enough, she even bit her ear! Fortunately, Lonis was a deep sleeper, otherwise she would have been so ashamed to be played with like this by the girl.
“Forget it, I don’t care. I’m so hungry, I should eat something first…”
…
Lonis yawned and prepared to walk out of the room to find something to eat in the kitchen.
But…
“Huh? No, no one?”
Lonis looked around. Usually, the ship was very lively. After all, Su Ling was a restless person, and Candelle often went to fool around with Cécile, always making a fuss from time to time.
However, the inside of the ship was now silent, not a sound.
“Is everyone… sleeping?”
Thinking this, Lonis carefully went to her companions’ bedrooms.
But she was shocked to find…
The companions’ rooms were also empty, not a soul in sight!
Whether it was the senior girls’ rooms, Su Ling’s or the Princess’s rooms, Bai Ye’s, or Candelle’s rooms, they were all empty, with no activity at all.
Not only that, but Lonis also found that the Time Shuttle was now docked at sea, as if it had been anchored.
What had happened?
Was everyone… trying to scare her?
But she hadn’t done anything wrong…
A sense of panic suddenly arose in Lonis’s heart. A sense of unease drove the silver-haired girl to search the entire ship from top to bottom.
Even the prison and the closet, she had searched them all.
But…
There was still no trace.
Even more bizarrely, Lonis found a half-eaten small cake on the dining table in the restaurant.
On the living room table, she found half a cup of cold coffee.
But their owners had disappeared…
Lonis searched anxiously, and the sun gradually sank into the sea. Night fell, and everything merged into darkness.
This made the entire ship appear even more empty and lonely.
Not a single response. No matter how Lonis called out, all she heard echoing in her ears was the sound of her own footsteps.
“Elus, my big softie, where did you go!!! Su Ling, don’t hide anymore!!! Everyone, where did you all go!!!!!!”
Lonis used all her strength, but still, there was no response.
Not to mention the figures of her companions, she didn’t even find a single note.
Now, she finally realized a fact…
Everyone seemed to have encountered some disaster.
And now, in the entire ship, she was the only one left.
…
Upon realizing this, Lonis’s mood became extremely cold.
An indescribable sense of bewilderment and despair spread throughout the little fox, to the point where she could barely breathe.
Because she had no idea what had happened, nor did she know the current situation of everyone.
Everything before her was like a nightmare, it was too bizarre. If it were an ordinary person, they would probably have been mentally deranged by this sudden change, becoming a bit crazy.
However…
Lonis was not an ordinary person.
Although some time had passed, and although she had become a girl, a hero… was still a hero?
On her journey to save the world, Lonis spent most of her time traveling alone, even in the dark and boundless demon realm, even in labyrinths full of traps, she had bravely overcome them.
So…
“Calm down, Lonis, you need to be calm!”
This was Lonis’s personality.
If Elus were by her side, she might have been trained by her wife into a soft girl who only whimpered, her mind would have been a bit slow, and she wouldn’t have been able to figure out many things.
But when she was alone, her thoughts became extremely clear.
The first thing to confirm was…
The ship’s internal functions were relatively intact, with no signs of external intrusion.
This meant that the ship had not hit a reef and stopped unexpectedly. And the fact that no note was left for her meant that everyone had not gone out to handle something.
So, if that was the case…
Was it because of the anomaly during the storm that all this happened?
The ship had sailed into the Vast Sea, so a curse had appeared and caused everyone to disappear?
But a curse…
Could it do something like this?
Then perhaps it was a strong magnetic field, or… a Shadow Beast?
In a daze, Lonis recalled the legend of Shadow Beasts. Senior Luo Zhisheng had said that Shadow Beasts were an old natural disaster in the Dulan Islands.
And judging by the season, it was currently the New Year, which was also the time when such monsters were prone to appear.
However…
Even if Shadow Beasts influenced everything, what should she do?
After all, no one had ever seen such a monster, nor was there any evidence that people attacked by Shadow Beasts had any chance of survival.
In that case, had everyone already…
“No, calm down. Lonis, you need to be calm. Elus, such a black-hearted girl, would definitely not just disappear like this!”
Lonis shook her head. She didn’t believe that people like Elus, Senior Isumi, and Princess Cécile would die so directly.
It was just that everyone might have fallen into some kind of predicament and needed her help.
If that was the case…
What could she do?
…
Just as Lonis was thinking carefully, with sweat all over her palms…
She suddenly saw a glimmer of light flash outside the window.
“That, what is that…”
The girl’s eyes widened in astonishment. She pressed herself against the glass and finally saw what it was.
A glowing, small fish.
Its wings floated slowly, as bright and dazzling as a fairy’s ribbon.
And if you looked up at the sky…
It was a school of star fish,
They floated along the night sky in the sea of clouds, forming a ribbon that looked like the Milky Way.
