Rorschach and Paul arrived at the guest room on the second floor of the hotel.

Paul found the guest room according to the key card, and just pushed open the door, a slightly fishy musty smell came to his face, he frowned, turned his head to look at Rorschach, and asked:

"It smells so bad, why don't we change it?"

"I guess the other rooms aren't much better."

Rorschach shrugged his shoulders, under the hunter's tracking, he already knew that there were no other guests in the entire inn, combined with the gill slit on the bald receptionist's neck just now, he probably guessed the situation here, the so-called locals should not be pure humans, but I don't know if the disappearance of Paul's friend is related to them, I hope it is not the worst case.

Paul sighed, walked into the room, and turned on the light.

The interior of the guest room is very dilapidated, the walls have fallen off from the dampness, and the tables, chairs, and beds are covered with thick dust, and it is clear that no one has cleaned the place for a long time.

"Oh my!" Paul shook his head, "What the hell is this place, aren't they ready to receive guests?" ”

"Bear with me."

Rorschach walked to the window and opened the curtains, and it was pouring rain outside. He took out his mobile phone and glanced at the signal, but there was no bar, and he couldn't contact the outside world for the time being.

"There's a landline!" When Paul saw the landline on the bedside table, he grabbed the earpiece, but found that the cord of the earpiece had long been broken, and he angrily threw the earpiece on the landline and walked towards the bathroom.

After a while, there was a "bang" sound of flushing, and he walked out with a frown.

"The water here is all green, I don't even dare to wash my hands, this hotel can't live at all!"

Rorschach sat on the chair and said calmly:

"When your girlfriend and my friend come back, we'll leave here and head to Port Town."

"Okay." Paul nodded, and sat down in a chair beside him.

At this moment, a strange sound sounded in the hallway, coming through the door and into the room.

Rorschach frowned and stood up.

Paul looked at him nervously.

"I'll take a look." Rorschach said to him.

With that, Rorschach walked to the door, opened it, and stood in the hallway, looking left and right but finding nothing.

"What's going on?" Paul's voice sounded in some trepidation behind Rorschach.

Rorschach retreated to his room, closed the door, and said calmly:

"Maybe it's other guests."

"Really?" Paul gasped, "This place feels really evil, and I don't know what happened to Hall?" ”

"Don't worry, take a break and recover your strength."

Rorschach narrowed his eyes, thought about it, and decided not to tell Paul about the bald reception for the time being, which caused unnecessary panic.

Paul nodded, lowered his eyes and leaned back in his chair to rest, looking tired enough.

After a while.

"Ah——!h Paul jerked up from his chair.

"What's wrong?" Rorschach looked at him.

"Scared the hell out of me!"

Paul gasped, "Just ...... Just now, I had a nightmare. ”

"Nightmares?"

Rorschach asked, "What kind of nightmare?" ”

"I ......," Paul sat back in his chair and took a long breath, "I dreamed of Barbara, but not her, but a beautiful girl who turned around and looked at me...... She opened her mouth as if to say something, but unexpectedly, suddenly a tentacle spit out of her mouth, which frightened me, and then I woke up. ”

"...... like this"

Rorschach narrowed his eyes, "Do you often have nightmares?" ”

"Yes."

Paul swallowed and sighed, "I've had nightmares since I saw that legend......"

"What legend?"

"Yes......" Paul stared at him, thought for a moment, and then said, "It's a legend about merfolk." ”

"Merfolk legends?"

Rorschach thought to himself, Atlantis, mermaid...... It seems that they can be linked.

"Yes." Paul sighed, "Actually, Hor and I really came here to find merfolk. ”

"There's a mermaid in this place?"

"Hmm." Paul nodded, "I know it may be a little hard to believe, but there are really merfolk in this world, and Hor and I have seen the skeletons of merfolk before. ”

"Can you tell me what's going on?"

"That's right, I'm a movie props master, and I often make all kinds of props for movies, but now computer special effects are becoming more and more popular, and the business of prop masters like me is getting worse and harder, and then Hor and I took out the prop costumes we made during the filming of the movie for exhibition and made a little money, and the most popular of them is the mermaid costume we made, and you look like a real mermaid when you wear it."

Rorschach nodded.

Paul continues:

"But one day, at the exhibition, we met an old man who said we weren't really mermaids, and he took Hall and me to his mansion, where we saw the bones in the bathtub, and we could confirm that the skeleton must be a mermaid. The old man once said that he once owned a mermaid, but unfortunately the mermaid died, and he wanted to catch another one, but he was too old, so he hired us to find the mermaid. ”

"You're actually here looking for merfolk?"

"There's a little bit of this idea......"

Paul shrugged, "But we want to come here more with the old man's money to have fun, and I don't think we can find merfolk." But unexpectedly, when they came here, they encountered a storm, and Hor and Vicky disappeared...... Could it be that it was dried by a mermaid? ”

At this, Paul's face turned pale.

"Did the old man tell you that there was a mermaid here?"

"It's not." Paul shook his head and said, "He just handed us a diary that was some years old, and from the diary we found clues. ”

"Where's that diary?"

"On the yacht, it should now sink to the bottom of the sea." Paul sighed.

"And what does all this have to do with your nightmares?"

"Since reading that diary, I have nightmares every time I fall asleep, and the content of the dreams is very messy, but most of them are related to sea water and women."

"I don't think you're dreaming of mermaids, are you?"

"I don't know......" Paul swallowed.

"What else is in that diary?"

"I don't remember exactly......" Paul frowned, as if struggling to remember.

Rorschach narrowed his eyes, but unfortunately he didn't have a diary to learn more details.

Under the hunter's tracking, the bald receptionist, the middle-aged priest, and the two fishermen are all humanoids, are they mermaids?

Rorschach thinks no, they are at most humans with fish characteristics, and the real mermaids may be the so-called sea god priests.

He looked at the time and realized that more than an hour had passed, but Wolverine had not returned, was he in trouble?

At this time, Rorschach noticed that under the guidance of the hunters, a number of humanoid dots were pouring out of the surrounding buildings, and they were approaching the vicinity of the hotel.

Seeing this, Rorschach's heart sank, he stood up and walked to the window, pushed the window open and looked down, only to see that the locals were constantly gathering in front of the hotel, their movements were stiff and strange, each wearing a raincoat and holding machetes, harpoons and other weapons in their hands.

Obviously, the comer is not good.