After an intense arm-wrestling match, Furong ultimately admitted defeat...
She sighed and said, "Ah, what a shame..."
"Every time I think I might finally beat Captain Beidou at arm wrestling, reality always slaps me in the face..."
"This time, I was so close—so close to winning!"
"I really wonder if I’ll ever find someone who can actually beat me at arm wrestling?"
"Am I truly doomed to never meet my Prince Charming, my perfect match, and just stay single forever?"
"Haha! Furong, if you ever meet someone you like, you can just throw the match on purpose—then it’d all be perfectly justified," Beidou replied with a laugh.
"No way! I won’t do something so dishonest!" Furong said firmly.
"If someone wants to be my partner, they have to beat me fair and square at arm wrestling!"
But as Furong spoke, she suddenly looked at Beidou with a hint of shyness and said,
"Captain Beidou... actually, I just realized something. Isn’t the perfect candidate standing right in front of me?"
Beidou frowned slightly, looking at Furong with hesitation.
Furong’s cheeks were now flushed, and she seemed to be gazing at Beidou with a dreamy, entranced look...
"Captain Beidou... things like gender—don’t get so hung up on them..."
"You’ve beaten me so many times... aren’t you already the most perfect person in my heart?"
As a bunch of question marks filled Beidou’s mind, an unsettling thought crept in...
Furong’s behavior right now clearly wasn’t normal...
Could it be that the condition for Furong to be corrupted by the Eerie... was losing in an arm-wrestling match?
"Captain Beidou, even though I know you’ve always treated us well..."
Furong looked at Beidou and slowly began to speak:
"But in the end, the Alcor is your personal property. We sailors... are just workers aboard your ship."
"If one day, our bodies are injured or crippled, or if you’re simply in a bad mood, you could easily find some excuse and drive us out of the Crux Fleet, throw us off the Alcor without hesitation, right?"
"Captain Beidou... you would abandon us, wouldn’t you?"
"That’s not true! The reason I had those injured crew members disembark was for their safety!" Beidou explained.
"Besides, for anyone who leaves the Crux Fleet, I always provide a fair amount of compensation. It absolutely isn’t abandonment!"
"It doesn’t matter anymore, Captain Beidou. Honestly, I don’t care about any of that now..."
Furong smiled as she spoke, stepping forward to hug Beidou, and said:
"After all, since you beat me in arm wrestling, I already belong to you..."
"In that case, shouldn’t I also own half of the Alcor?"
"And with that, half of the crew on board should fall under my command too, right?"
"Huh? Furong, what are you doing? Why are you hugging Captain Beidou?"
At that moment, First Mate Chongzuo happened to pass by on the deck, staring at the scene in confusion and exclaiming in surprise.
"What? Do you want to hug Captain Beidou too?"
Furong furrowed her brow and pouted, looking rather displeased:
"I’m Captain Beidou’s person, and Captain Beidou is mine. I can’t let a third party like you interfere..."
In the next moment, a dense surge of eerie power suddenly burst from "Furong’s" body.
In a flash, she darted forward with incredible speed, appearing right beside Chongzuo.
She drew the dagger from her waist and slashed with lightning-fast precision!
A gleam of the blade, a spray of blood—before Chongzuo could even react, "Furong" had cut him cleanly in half vertically under his shocked gaze!
"Furong" revealed a disturbing smile as thick, inky-black and blood-red fluid began seeping from her eyes and mouth.
She giggled and said:
"I originally planned to throw your whole body overboard... but since only half of the Alcor belongs to me, it’s only fair that I claim half of the crew as well..."
"I’m a very reasonable person. I never take anything that doesn’t belong to me..."
"And to make sure everything is evenly and neatly divided, I chose to cut vertically! I’m going to expel the half of you that belongs to me—off the Alcor!"
As "Furong" spoke, she picked up half of Chongzuo’s body and tossed it into the sea...
"Furong! Everyone on the Alcor isn’t anyone’s property! We’re comrades who’ve been through life and death together—brothers and sisters in arms! How could you do something ?"
Beidou glared hard at "Furong," her voice filled with fury.
"I don’t care about any of that... Anyone who dares interfere with me and Captain Beidou—I’ll expel half of their body off the Alcor!"
Looking at "Furong" now, Beidou furrowed her brows slightly...
Judging from the current situation, could it be that Furong’s condition for becoming corrupted by the eerie force is... losing an arm-wrestling match?
Then, she ends up seeing the one who beats her as her partner—while also developing an intense sense of possessiveness and protectiveness toward them?
Although Chongzuo’s death was truly regrettable, if the conditions for Furong’s eerie state could be used strategically, perhaps it might lead to a useful outcome...
"I say, Furong," Beidou tested the waters with a question, "if someone stood in front of you right now and said they wanted to kill me, what would you do?"
"Someone dares to hurt Captain Beidou? Dares to harm what’s mine?"
"Furong" showed an enraged expression, speaking viciously: "Unforgivable. I would tear that person to pieces!"
Just as she had suspected...
But the real issue now is—how can Furong be freed from the eerie state and return to normal?
Beidou sighed inwardly.
She didn’t even know what the current situation was in Liyue or with Ningguang, and now unexpected trouble had broken out right on her own ship...
"All hands, stick to the original course and continue toward Liyue. Do not interfere with me and Furong!" Beidou shouted to the crew.
"Hehe... Captain Beidou, you really do know how to play along..."
"Furong" revealed a satisfied smile and said,
"This way, I won’t have to waste energy watching out for anyone else..."
As she spoke, "Furong" took Beidou’s hand and began leading her toward the cabin.
"Captain Beidou, since you beat me in an arm-wrestling match, that means I belong to you now..."
"Whatever you want to do to me... I won’t resist at all~"
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