Chapter 21 - 21. like lighting a fire on water

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At that time...

(I shouldn't have underestimated him. I thought he had missed the shot. Turns out he was after the left lung. It's suffocating. I have to get that.)

Douglas may have managed to escape, even though he had a gunshot wound he received from Chris at the time.
Sadly..

"Where are you going?"

He was surprised to hear a familiar voice. Not only that, he even got shot with dart. Unfortunately, not an ordinary dart.

"You!"

Although he managed to remove the dart, he was surprised because the one who shot the arrow was a woman who had been working with him.

"A little gift from that person. At least you can do anything here. Even if you have to sink this cruise ship for them." She said as she turned around and waved her hand.

"Wait.."

Unfortunately it was too late, Douglas's body reacted and underwent an unstable change. The arrow that hit Douglas was actually a special arrow that had been modified and given a virus.

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Back to the present..

"Something must be wrong here. I don't like it."

Chris felt something was wrong. He wanted to check, but he couldn't leave his position.
But..

"This is vermilion. Anyone copy?"

The sound was coming from the communication line of his earpiece. Feeling familiar with that voice, he immediately answered the communication call.

"Chris here. Why are the reinforcements late? Listen, something bad happened here. I can't just leave the injured here. Any good suggestions?"

"I know! Now listen to me carefully, chris. According to the data previously sent by agent Campbell to HQ, currently the cruise ship you are on has been fitted with a time bomb modified with the BOW virus and ready to explode at any time. One of them hidden from the guests. The rest are still hidden. Besides that, there are still 5 more bombs that could explode at any time. And that has happened since 2 hours ago."

Hearing that, Chris was even more surprised. Even though all this time, he thought that this cruise ship only contained BOW. In addition, some of the oddities he was currently dealing with occurred frequently.

"Vermilion! A few minutes ago I heard 2 explosions and also someone screaming. Was that..."

"True!! But believe it or not, the 2 explosions were not BOW bombs. We could see smoke and also fire from outside. Located on floors 1 and 2. In cabin 031 and elevator."

Chris was probably annoyed by the outburst. But suddenly chris remembered the time when he and the others had a discussion right before they made a disturbance and attack.

"Vermilion. Can you find the quickest access point so I can find the guest?"

"There should be a way to access the emergency exit. It's located about 20 meters from where you are. Are you sure you want to do that?"

At first Chris was just silent.

"I also don't want any more victims. I prefer to save the victims first. I'll do the rest when it's under control."

Chris' unanimous decision made the atmosphere start to heat up.

"Alright. I will guide you until you can get off this cruise ship. The vermilion army will secure the outer area as well as floors 3 and 4 for you. Do what you think is right."

"Thanks. Chris out!"

Chris is eager to share this good news with others, but the shaking of another cruise ship makes it difficult to walk.
Sadly. He didn't notice because one of the lickers caught Chris with his long tongue. The attack came from above.