Chapter 75: The Stranger and the Old Night's Watch
In the darkness of the night, the old night watchman held a shotgun in his left hand and his right hand against the door, his eyes staring at the door through the reflection of the moonlight.
Syllable!
The crash was heard again.
The power of that thing is not particularly great, but it is like a machine that does not know fatigue, and it has never stopped from the beginning to the present.
"Is there anyone to save me?"
Until now, the old night watchman could only hope for those who passed by.
But in a town where it's already dark, how can anyone come to the dock?
"It's all that boat bastard, Saunders bastard! If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be holding a shotgun and staring at this shaky door at night! If you survive this time, you must replace the door with an iron one! ”
The old night watchman scolded and scolded, and he could only use this way to give himself courage.
The sound of the impact outside did not slow down or stop because of his swearing, but still at a strange frequency.
A strange howl looming in the air touched the soul and made the old Night's Watch more and more excited.
Bang!
It was the sound of gunfire, and the old night watchman shuddered.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang......
Several shots in quick succession did not stop.
Someone has come to save themselves! That was the old Night's Watchman's first thought.
After a rapid barrage of fire, the gunfire stopped.
Knock knock~
There was a tap on the door, and the old night watchman hesitated to open it.
It's a monster with many legs!
"Ahh The old night watchman ducked back in fright, and raised his old shotgun to shoot, only to find that the multi-legged monster had been killed and was being held by a man in a trench coat with a strange smile.
The yellow race is rare here, and they are even rarer than the Innsmouths.
The old night watchman shouted inwardly, "Damn it, what are you doing!" ”
"Not afraid? Won't go crazy? ”
Listening to the strange talk of the other party, the old night watchman shot back, "I'm crazy, don't expect me to scream at the sight of a corpse!" ”
The old night watchman also put down his gun, after all, the other party saved his own life.
He looked beyond the strange man, and seven or eight multi-legged monsters, which had become corpses by this time, were slumped on the ground, the same as the one in the strange man's hand.
In the dark port, someone can quickly eliminate those ugly monsters with bullets, and the person in front of him must also be a monster.
The old night watchman who laid down his gun soon regretted that he had done so, and he should have killed the other man with a vengeful shot.
The monster corpse was thrown on the ground, and the strange man nodded, raised a strangely shaped pistol with an extremely long barrel, and pointed it at the old night watchman's head: "Is the Titania here?" ”
"Titania? That damn ship is in the harbor! Right there! ”
The old night watchman pointed to a large ship moored in the distance:
"If there's anything alive on the ship, whether it's a monster or a human, kill them all with your strange gun!"
"Uh-huh~" The other party did not refuse.
……
Li Zu picked up his pistol and walked towards the port with his shoulders bent, and the old night watchman's scolding behind him was still clear.
He stepped on the corpse of the monster with many legs, and the monster was hit by a bullet and a strange liquid was bubbling out of the muzzle.
At the dock, there were corpses lying all over the place.
Li Zu's nose twitched slightly, and he squatted down again and poked the nearest corpse: "Just dead, gunshot wound"
There was a big scuffle here.
It has nothing to do with monsters.,It's a fight between the crew.,Indiscriminate crazy fighting.,It doesn't seem to have any purpose.。
Everyone is like a stake, standing in place and fighting.
Li Zu, who has seen all kinds of fighting scenes, can only explain this battle with "crazy people go crazy" in the end, after all, except for crazy people, who doesn't care about their lives and doesn't dodge...... Kill just for the sake of killing?
Li Zu stepped over the worthless corpse and came to the Titania.
"Sure enough, yes......" He stepped into the cabin, where there was still a contract.
The contract was roughly for an expedition under the name of the Sloegmorton family to lease the Titania with 70 bullets.
……
The old night watchman looked at the single bed twice, sighed, brought a chair against the wooden door, and sat on the chair with a shotgun, and pressed his body against the door.
"Alas!"
He wondered if it was time for him to retire, but people who didn't work in Oakmont Town had no social benefits, and the simplest survival skill in the past, "catching fish", was no longer competitive in front of the people of Innsmouth.
"The EOD bunch?" He remembered the charity.
Knock knock~
There was a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" The old night watchman is in high spirits right now.
"All the people on board are dead?" There was an inquiry outside the door.
"That's right, they're all dead!" The old Night's Watch replied impatiently.
Knock and knock again.
"What are you doing? Don't think you've saved my life, I'm going to answer your questions all the time! "The muzzle of the old Night's Watchman's shotgun is already pointed at the wooden door.
His head is still a little out of control, no, it should be said that it is getting more and more out of control!
There was a strange sound of "grunt", and it was a multi-legged monster that besieged him for half a night!
The old night watchman couldn't help but look out through the crack in the door.
Sure enough, it's that kind of monster, and it's being grabbed by the weirdos, and it's swinging its teeth and claws towards the door!
"Bastard! Bastard! What are you doing! Where did you get this damn thing! The old night watchman had risen and raised his gun to the door.
He's going to shoot, kill that monster and the weirdo with one shot!
When the old night watchman got up, the door was violently kicked open, and the white monster smashed it in a parabola and hugged the old night watchman's face.
Cool to the touch, with the salty smell of seawater, the end was like a human palm grabbing the back of his head and pinching his hair.
The madness and suffocation were no longer controllable, but the monster had been lifted before the old Night's Watch went mad.
"Whew! Whew! Whew! The old night watchman took a few quick breaths to calm his mind.
"Better?" The painless voice came, and the strange man sat on a chair in the doorway, with a monster-like puppet in his arms, and a shotgun that belonged to the old night watchman.
"Where are you from...... Was it all an illusion just now? "The old night watchman was a little indistinguishable.
He looked at the puppet in the stranger's arms, and couldn't imagine anyone playing with such a weird, crazy toy.
Yes, he thinks what he just saw was a hallucination.
The weirdo just smiled: "What happened to the Titania?" ”
The old night watchman, who knew the power of the shotgun, was pointed at his head and swallowed his saliva: "Some time ago, an expedition chartered the entire ship of the Titania and set sail, they were an expedition organized by Sloegmorton, and I saw Albert Sloegmorton on it that day.
Just today, they are back...... They brought back that stuff too! ”
The old night watchman pointed to the monster puppets: "They went mad and killed each other, and I escaped by hiding here without saying a word." ”
"All dead?"
"That bastard Sanders isn't dead, he was hacked with an axe by a mad crew member" The old night watchman pointed to his chest and gestured to where the axe had been cut off: "That's all I know, can you ...... the gun"
The strange man moved his shotgun.
"At this point, if only Reed were here, I'm sure I'll know what's going on," the weirdo muttered to himself.
The shotgun was thrown into the arms of the old night watchman.
The figure that had departed in the moonlight was getting farther and farther away, and the old night watchman swallowed his saliva, holding the shotgun but still did not dare to shoot, he had a strong feeling that if he raised the gun, he would definitely be killed.
……
After a few hours,
An outsider, also depressed and with a scar on his face, arrives.
Charles Reed, a private detective who travels with Li Zu to this isolated town.
"Is the Titania parked here?" Fearfully, he walked around the corpses of the monsters on the ground and questioned the old Night's Watch.
"Damn it, you strangers......" the old night watchman scolded.
"Outlander? Could it be Bruce? Reed muttered.
"Did you come here before with a yellow man wearing a long trench coat and no energy on his face?" He asked the old night watchman.
"yes, that rude bastard!" The old night watchman cursed.
"He's looking into it, too?" Reed was strange, but looking at the monster corpses all over the ground, it was difficult to find a second candidate in his heart.