Four hours ago.

North atlantic.

The waters of the Hebrides.

This is Scotland's northernmost archipelago and one of the world's wildest seas.

There are churning waves, empty beaches, precarious cliffs, and no man's land on all sides.

The nearest city is Dremberg, just over 100 kilometres away.

The city was used as a prison for exile during the time of King Arthur, and during the Age of Discovery it was occupied by the famous pirate Drake as a lair for him to escape capture, and under George I, it became a tax evasion port for the hoarding of black slaves.

But now, with the disappearance of pirates, the slave trade has been abolished. There is only a sparsely populated town, a town of 100 people who live on fishing.

Apart from birds and herring, there are few other species that want to visit the area.

But now, in the middle of the cliff-strewn waters, an old diesel fishing boat is speeding through the waves.

There were four people on board.

The man who drove the fishing boat was named Terry, and he was a typical Caucasian race, with a large nose, thin lips, and a large beard.

He was dressed in shabby cowboys, knee-high rubber boots, rough hands, and a dusty fishing hat. He was dressed like any other herring fisherman in the area.

But he is not a fisherman, he was, and he is not.

Until the age of 20, Terry and his father fished at sea, but since he returned home from the life and death of World War I, he no longer looks down on the stable job of fishing, which has no future.

After more than 20 years of working in his hometown, he now has a job that is more oily than herring fishing.

Sneaking.

Smuggling of people.

The Hebdili Islands are connected to Scotland, Denmark, Iceland and Norway.

Since the outbreak of the First World War, there has been no shortage of stowaways. Thanks to the inhospitable environment, from time to time there would be foreign homeless people who would try to use Scotland as a landing base and from here travel to the British Empire in the hope of finding a job in England, where the environment was stable.

But Terry knew that most of that was just an unrealistic fantasy. After layers of exploitation, most of those smugglers ended up dying in a foreign land.

For more than twenty years, Terry has seen all kinds of guests, but this time the guests .......

He's really unprecedented.

Through the rearview mirror, which was blurred by the sea, he could see three strange creatures sitting straight on the deck behind him, sitting in exactly the same position, the wind and waves blowing on them as if they were slapping on the reef.

Such a temperament Terry is very familiar, and only a soldier has such a straight sitting posture.

But to say that they are soldiers, Terry finds it strange. For all three were dressed in large robes, and they could not see clearly, and they wore pointed, high hoods on their heads.

It wasn't the tattered robes of the stowaways. The robe was pure black and new. It is covered with a strap-on-the-scale. Even in such a violent sea breeze, there is no chaos at all.

He had seen so many troops in World War I, but he had never seen troops from any country wear them like this.

The only identifiable thing is a red-background swastika on each of their arms.

Which symbol Terry is a little familiar, I can often see it when I read the newspaper in the past two years, it seems to be a workers' organization on the German side.

But Terry wasn't sure, because the people in the newspapers weren't dressed like they were.

Passing through a wave, the boat jolted violently.

"That guest in your morning, which direction did you go. ”

Suddenly, the first of the three, and the tallest one, suddenly asked.

He sat motionless on the boat, as if his ass had been welded to it.

"Uh......" Tyri was caught off guard as the three hadn't spoken since they got on the boat, and he hadn't thought they could speak English.

"What do you say?"

"I asked, your morning guest, in which direction you were going. ”

"I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about. ”

Terry pushed the question back, although he is a smuggler, but smugglers also have rules, and more than 40 years of life experience has taught him that the smartest way to live is not to mix any contradictions.

"Yes? Looks like he's given you a lot of money. ”

The tall hooded man whispered, his voice seemed to have an inexplicable magnetism, which made people feel relaxed.

Tyri's eyes, which had been wary just now, suddenly drifted.

"Oh, you said that generous little guest, he did give me a lot of money. ”

Hooded Man: "Which way did he go?"

Terry: "He also went to the island of Handa, and went along the River Tay to the southern interior of Scotland. There's nothing there, and a lot of people get lost when they go in, and they never even come out again, so I advise you not to go in......."

Syllable!

The fishing boat passed through another wave, and it tossed violently, and the sea breeze blew, and Terry came back to his senses.

He felt as if he had just said a lot of things, but he couldn't remember what he had said.

In the rearview mirror, the three were still sitting like a rock. As before, there was no change in his expression.

"Hell ......"

Terry muttered, sping up the boat. He wanted to end this somewhat odd list as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the boat soon sailed to the shore of the island. Lichens and mosses are everywhere, cliffs are mottled with sedimentary rocks and jagged rocks, and the cliffs along the coast are covered with guano.

On the shore, there stood two big men, smoking cigarettes and waving at the boat.

Seeing them, Terry breathed a sigh of relief. He is a cautious person and will not do things that he is not sure of, and the two are his cousins, and he is in the smuggling business with him. is a very reliable partner.

Terry parked the boat, and one of his two cousins came up to lay down a rusty iron chisel, and the other tied the cable to it.

Terry: "Let's go here, it's £45 in total, I'll discount you £40." If you want to take a car, you can walk 30 kilometers east along the coast. ”

With that, he stood on the side of the boat with his waist crossed, waiting for one of the three to come out and pay the bill. And two of his cousins also stood by his side to prevent any accidents from happening. After all, they are doing illegal business, and the guests they receive are mixed.

The three people on the boat stood up, and the tall man at the head asked softly, "Did that little man also get off the boat here?"

"Yes, yes, don't ask, hurry up and give the money and go, this area also has a coast guard. Terry said anxiously.

Ignoring Terry's somewhat uneasy emotions, the tall man turned his head and said indifferently, "Überprüfen." (Check it out)

The other two disembarked in silence and dispersed, turning their heads to look around, and one of them took out a black stick and drew in circles.

See what they do. Terry's eyes narrowed, a twinkle of danger flashing in his eyes, and he slowly lifted his half-wet shirt up, revealing the handle of his revolver with mahogany at his waist.

His two cousins, seeing that Tyri was not good-looking, looked at each other, and then put their hands in their coat pockets, where were the handles of two thick knives.

Terry is a smuggler, a man with blood on his hands. Dangerous stowaways he has also seen, murderers, robbers, thieves...... But in 20 years, no one has ever taken advantage of them.

However, a scene that shocked Terry appeared.

The chest of the tall hooded man in front of him suddenly bulged, and then, a silver monkey head came out. It has long, shiny silver fur and huge eyes.

It climbed onto the shoulders of the tall man in the hood, looked at Terry sympathetically, then closed its eyes and shook its head in the air.

Terry had never seen such a monkey, not at all.

His two cousins were also completely dumbfounded.

The silver monkey suddenly opened his eyes and squeaked in one direction.

The hooded man nodded, and the other two men with the black stick immediately put it away.

The three of them walked in the direction pointed by the silver monkey together, without the slightest intention of stopping to pay the bill.

Terry was furious, and he pulled out the revolver from his waist. Clicked and pointed forward.

"Hey, stop, what are you doing!"

His two cousins pulled out their machetes with a thud.

However, the three of them walked in front of the two behind, their pace was steady and resolute, and they had no intention of stopping at all. His cries were unheard.

Tyry put his hand on the trigger, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes. He was also a man who had fought in the war and was not shy about killing.

However, at that moment, something suddenly fell on Terry's shoulder.

Terry thought it was a seabird in the area, but when he turned his head, he was immediately dumbfounded.

It was a creature he had never seen before.

It has a butterfly-like body, but it is as large as a falcon, and it is green with purple bumps on its wings. It has cold red eyes and thin hooked claws.

Terry was dumbfounded.

Then, the next second, the creature opened its mouth, revealing sharp teeth and purple letters.

It screamed, giving Terry no time to react. Flying and pounced on Terry's face, Terry, who had never seen this kind of battle at all, panicked, and he hurriedly tore it up, trying to tear off the monster attached to his face.

"Fool, help!!"

His two knife-wielding cousins were dumbfounded, they didn't care about the three odd men, and they were scrambling to help Terriget the strange creature.

The monster was so tightly attached that it was useless to wrap around an adult's strength, and the monster opened its mouth, and Nobuko drilled through Terry's head in one fell swoop.

"Uhh

Terry let out a miserable cry, and all he felt was that all his memories were rapidly disappearing away from him, including his emotions and reason.

The two cousins were in a hurry and tore frantically.

But at this moment, two more strange creatures in the sky fell and landed on the shoulders of Terry's two cousins.

After the two looked at each other, they were instantly enveloped in great fear.

They couldn't take care of anything, and they ran wildly in a panic.

They hadn't gone far before they fell to the ground. One by one, they struggled desperately and twitched.

On the other side, Terry couldn't even remember what his name was, and finally, in desperation, he frantically pulled the trigger.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

.......

The smoke cleared, and after a few gunshots, the beach fell silent.

Terry collapsed on the beach, motionless. The same goes for his two cousins.

The fleshy wings of green and purple hugged Terry's face. On the deserted beach, there was a tooth-sucking sound, and half of its body burrowed into the head of the man in front of it.

Finally, the sound of grinding teeth ended.

The green-purple creature pulled out its head and shook the blood from its body. Then he spread his wings and quickly caught up with the man who was walking in the distance and only a few small dots left.

Soon after, the other two also finished eating, got up and began to chase after their masters.

The bodies of the three were left lying on the deserted beach, each of their heads hollowed out of a bowl-sized hole, and the inside was empty.

After the high tide, the bodies of the three were swept by the sea, rolled on the rocky floodplain a few times, and disappeared without a trace.