"Very big... a boat... rotting..." These words left Su Li and the other two exchanging bewildered glances. Ding Longyun frowned and said, "A very big boat that's rotting?" Su Li didn't press further but instead looked into the distance. By now, he could already make out a faint silhouette through the distant mist. The blurry shape grew larger and clearer until, finally, they all saw it—a dark, boat-shaped shadow emerging from the mist ahead. This boat-shaped shadow was sizable, about twenty to thirty meters long, swaying unsteadily through the thick fog as it drifted toward them. Beneath the water's surface, undercurrents churned, while above, the mist roiled with increasing intensity. An indescribable sense of eeriness gripped everyone's hearts. Though they could see the boat-shaped shadow drawing nearer, there was no joy of a potential rescue vessel—only a vague unease, as if disaster was about to strike. "Xuehui, can you see if there's anyone on that boat?" Ding Longyun asked in a low voice, his eyes fixed on the swaying dark shape in the fog. Due to the mist, he couldn't make out its true form. Xu Xuehui silently stared at the distant shadow, and slowly, fear crept into her eyes. "Corpses... lots of corpses..." she said again, then looked to Su Li as if seeking help, reaching out to tug at his sleeve. Su Li took her hand in return, feeling its coldness, and said softly, "Don't be afraid. Do you mean there are many corpses on that boat?" Xu Xuehui shook her head, looking at Su Li, and said, "The boat... is the corpses." "The boat is the corpses?" Su Li was momentarily stunned. He looked again at the distant dark shape and noticed that, though it swayed, it was moving quickly, rapidly approaching their building. Soon, it closed within a hundred meters. As the distance shrank, they finally saw the true face of that boat-shaped shadow. It wasn't a boat at all. It was countless human corpses piled together, forming the shape of a vessel. Most of these corpses were half-rotted, melting like wax, with many exposing bleached white bones. The decaying, liquefied remains had fused together into a single mass—a boat of corpses—floating on the water. From afar, obscured by the mist, it had looked like a ship. No one knew how this corpse boat had formed, nor could they understand how such a thing could float and drift toward them at such speed. "How is this possible? What the hell is this thing?" Ding Longyun couldn't help but cry out. In just a short time, the massive corpse boat had closed to within forty meters of the building. "This thing is seriously off. Those corpse beasts and sea spiders gathered below the building earlier were scared off by it. There's definitely something wrong with it. Let's be careful and not provoke it," Su Li said quietly. Through the corridor window, he watched as the corpse boat slammed into a balcony on the thirtieth floor with a loud crash, then came to a stop. A nauseating stench of decay wafted up. Gong Xiao couldn't help covering her nose. Su Li gently pushed Xu Xuehui back toward the room, then gestured to Ding Longyun and Gong Xiao to quietly retreat as well. Though what they saw now was a mass of half-rotted, half-melted human corpses, there had to be something sinister behind it. Gong Xiao led Xu Xuehui slowly back into the room. Ding Longyun clamped his mouth shut, even holding his breath, silently watching the corpse boat's changes in the darkness. Su Li activated his "Peek Rune," hoping to observe the corpse boat covertly. But whether due to the distance or some other reason, his "Peek Rune" captured no information. "Strange. Even ordinary corpses can be scanned for data. Why isn't it working this time?" Su Li pondered silently, staring at the corpse boat stopped at the thirtieth floor. Suddenly, with a loud bang, that balcony seemed to be struck by some invisible force and shattered. The explosion was immense. Even on the thirty-second floor, they felt the building tremble. As the balcony disintegrated, the front part of the corpse boat—many of the rotting, melted corpses—also burst apart, as if an invisible force had exploded from within, sending fragments of bone and decaying flesh flying everywhere in chaos. With that blast, the upper half of the corpse boat, formed from countless human remains, split open. A massive dark shape emerged from the crack, slowly writhing its way out. Su Li and Ding Longyun stared wide-eyed, fixated on this shocking development. Both sensed that the corpse boat was no ordinary thing—it must be hiding something. After leading Xu Xuehui back to the room, Gong Xiao quietly slipped out again, pressing close to Su Li to look out the window. Her delicate face showed a look of shock. From the corpse boat crawled a mass of earth-yellow substance. It writhed upward, slowly emerging from the boat, resembling a gigantic beetle. "So huge." All three instinctively gasped. This beetle-like monster had a crocodile's tail, measuring eight meters from head to tail. It bore a turtle-like shell on its back, with thick, sturdy limbs. When it stood upright, it towered over four meters. On its belly was a single massive eye, and it had no head—where a head should be, there were dozens of bizarre tentacles. It crawled out from the corpse boat formed of countless bodies, spreading its dozens of tentacles, each tipped with suckers that latched onto the building's outer wall. Using these sucker-tipped tentacles, it began to climb upward. Its ascent was slow, gradually rising. When it encountered a protruding balcony blocking its path, it swung one of its forelimbs and smashed into the balcony above. Su Li and the others watched as the sturdy balcony wall crumbled like clay before its strike, leaving a massive hole with debris flying everywhere. The sheer destructive power made their scalps tingle. If that thing hit them, wouldn't they be instantly turned into a pulp? "What kind of monster is this? Is it coming for us?" Ding Longyun shuddered, watching the giant creature's climbing path—it was heading straight for their position. If it was targeting them, they were in deep trouble. Given its terror, even the security door or walls wouldn't stop it. They had nowhere to hide.