Escape from the Terror Island

Author: Zheng Yuanjie, Yang Peng / Country: Mainland China
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: The 5th episode features a white ship painted with a black skull; a madman with his head shaken off; ghostly fog over the sea; terrifying human disappearances.
At the seaside dock, a white ship was parked. On the hull of the ship, a black skull was painted. "Get on the ship!" The Sea Eagle ordered with an uncompromising tone. The madmen surged onto the ship like a tide. Zhang Nannan, along with Xiao Lin, who was being dragged forward by Zhang Nannan's arm, tried to stop Leo and Rabbit's Robby, but they were swept into the crowd and onto the ship. Throughout the process, the madmen kept shaking their heads nonstop. Shake, shake, shake hard, shake recklessly, shake without hesitation—some people's heads even shook off their necks, rolling like balls on the deck. Those who didn't lose their heads kicked the heads around like soccer balls, while those who had lost their heads went crazy, desperately grabbing them. Those who managed to grab them attached the heads randomly to their necks: some had their heads attached upside down, with the back of the head facing forward and the face backward; some had their heads attached the wrong way around, with mouths up and eyes down; some had their heads attached crookedly, with eyes and mouths standing upright; and some had their heads attached incorrectly, with women's heads on men's bodies—or men's heads on women's bodies. Despite this, their heads kept shaking! Shake, shake, shake hard, shake recklessly, shake without hesitation.
"Whoo—" The ship carrying the madmen blew its whistle, like an arrow leaving the bow, speeding toward the dark, vast sea. The sea police also mobilized, several cruisers arrived upon the news, and formed a pincer around the white ship. Just as the sea police were about to board the white ship in their rubber rafts to take control, suddenly——a dense fog rose from the sea. This was an extraordinary fog: in the center of the fog, the ghostly face of Zhang Ke appeared. The fog rushed toward the large ship like a hurricane, then with lightning speed, opened its gaping maw and swallowed the white ship whole. When the terrifying fog dissipated, the white ship, loaded with madmen, had vanished into thin air, just like a ship that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle after encountering a UFO.
The white ship sailed through the sudden fog. A few minutes later, it left the dense fog behind. The madmen on the ship gradually calmed down, but each had vacant eyes and looked exhausted. "Auntie Nannan," Xiao Lin pushed his sister, who looked like a vegetable, but Zhang Nannan didn't react. She just sat motionless on the deck, staring blankly at the dark sea and a faintly visible island in the distance.
At night, it was quiet, and the sound of the sea hitting the ship's hull was particularly clear. "Robby, where is this ship heading? What should we do?" Xiao Lin asked anxiously, turning to the wolf dog beside him. "I'm not sure either?" The wolf dog shook his head and looked around. He noticed that the terrifying fog, like a bronze wall standing between the sky and the sea, had surrounded the island and the surrounding dozens of sea miles. The white ship was moving away from the fog wall and closer to the island. "Don't hurry. Once it's here, we must adapt. The most important thing now is to stay calm and then decide on our next move." "Okay!" Xiao Lin nodded and calmed down—it was now a case of waiting to see what happens.
"Clap, clap, clap!" A loud slapping sound came from the other end of the white ship. Xiao Lin and Robby looked toward the sound that broke the silence. They saw the Sea Eagle slapping Duck Flat Rabbit's back of the head with his palm—they had all turned back into human form. Duck Flat Rabbit's mouth had become long and thin, stuck to the neck of a long-haired man sitting motionless, greedily sucking something.
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