Mr. Victor was furious, and this morning, when he went to the lake as usual, with a small packet of corn kernels, to feed the wild ducks, he found the carcass floating on the lake.

A dozen tan mallards floated on the surface of the lake, their bodies mutilated, and the weather was getting hotter, and a large swarm of mosquitoes surrounded the carcasses in the water, making an anxious buzzing sound.

Mr. Victor was outraged, and since his retirement he has come to Lake Constance every day to feed the wild ducks, which are the spiritual sustenance of the lonely old man, several of whom were born this spring.

After receiving Mr. Victor's report, the police took it very seriously, and they immediately came to the scene, but saw that the victims were just a group of mallard ducks, which are very common in Europe, and immediately lost interest.

Since the arrival of refugees in Germany, the police have become very busy, and the force has been expanding year after year, but it has not been able to keep up with the skyrocketing crime rate.

"What, it's just a flock of ducks." The policeman muttered reluctantly.

The local police also have a backlog of 17 sexual assaults, 48 robberies, 132 thefts, and a religious clash against a Catholic church.

Faced with a complicated and thorny situation, the police are already anxious and interested in investigating a group of dead ducks.

"Do you know who did it?" The police asked Mr. Victor.

"I don't know, but I fed them yesterday." Mr. Victor said.

Reluctantly, the police fished the duck's carcass out of the river, and everyone was shocked when the tragic wound came into view.

"Just bite off your neck, it can't be a crocodile who did it, right?"

"Don't talk nonsense, there are no crocodiles in the lake at all."

"Who would do that? Fox or wolf? ”

"The fox goes into the water to eat ducks, and you think of it."

"Look at these wounds, they are deep and small, and the attack is under the ducks, and they seem to have dried up with fish."

"A fish that can bite off a mallard's thigh? Is there such a ferocious fish in the world? ”

Everyone expressed their doubts, the way these wild ducks died was so brutal that the corpses were almost torn to pieces.

After discussion, the police decided to collect the body and send it to the animal protection agency.

......

Munich.

Investigative journalist Anna drove a Volkswagen Beetle out of Munich and along Route 96 towards Lake Constance.

Anna works for the Munich Die Welt, and although she has the word "world" in her name, she is an out-and-out lace tabloid that reports on the world's anecdotes and has a fairly popular audience in Germany.

Readers of the Munich Die Monde usually believe that vampires really exist, that Atlantis did not perish, but that the entire continent was transformed into a spaceship, that the whole family left the earth, and that the Alps were inhabited by Bigfoot, a close relative of the Himalayan Yeti.

In short, the Munich Die Welt, for these people with too much curiosity.

Recently, the editorial office received a call from a reader revealing all sorts of strange things happening in the Lake Constance area, such as murdered mallards, old women with fingers bitten off by strange fish, mysterious boats that haunt the lake, and so on.

The editor-in-chief felt that someone should be sent to investigate, so this honorable task fell on the young Anna.

After several hours of driving, Anna finally reached the Lake Constance area, and although it was a famous tourist mecca and the lake was stunning, Anna did not have time to enjoy the scenery and found the first eyewitness of the trip.

It was a couple who worked in a nearby rubber factory, they had no children, and the husband was an avid fisherman, and he showed Anna the strange fish he had caught from the lake.

This strange fish has a silvery flat body, sharp teeth, huge dark eyes, and well-developed muscles.

"It's weird." "I've lived on Lake Constance all my life, I've been fishing in the lake since I was six years old, I've never seen such a strange fish, and believe me, it's not supposed to be a species here," said a rubber factory worker. ”

"Recently there have been many rumors around the lake that there is a retired old lady in the next town, who has been bitten off by a strange fish, and continues north, near the nature reserve, where the local wild ducks are rapidly disappearing..."

The rubber worker said a lot of strange things that had happened recently, and he associated them with strange fish and came to a terrible conclusion.

"It must be a conspiracy of the authorities!" The rubber worker lowered his voice and said, "The authorities are doing biochemical experiments nearby, and the waste is being discharged into the lake, which has caused all the fish in the lake to mutate!" ”

Anna is not at all surprised by this, and the readers of the Munich Die Welt, mostly with conspiracy theories, Anna herself firmly believes that aliens are all around us, disguised as humans.

Anna took a picture of the fish and passed it on to her classmates in the biology department at the University of Munich to help him consult the literature and identify the species of the strange fish.

Anna then said goodbye to the rubber workers and drove north along Lake Constance, where she spent two days visiting several other witnesses before finally arriving at Mr. Victor's home.

When it suddenly rained outside, Mr. Victor warmly invited Anna into his house, and the seventy-two-year-old man, who lived alone, made coffee with his own hands, and brought cream and sugar cubes, plus a potato pie given to him by a neighbor.

The hot coffee with cream quickly warmed Anna's whole body, she put down her cup, picked up the voice recorder, and began to investigate Victor's experience.

"That's horrible." Victor rubbed his hands together and palpitated, then out of the corner of his eye, he looked at the Mauser double-barreled shotgun hanging above the fireplace.

When he was young, he used that shotgun to shoot down a lot of wild ducks, probably because of his conscience, and after retirement, Vivetor became a well-known animal protectionist.

"The ducks all died, and I called the police, but the police didn't want to investigate the cause of death, so I carried a shotgun and went into the reserve alone to find the murderer." Victor said.

To the north of Lake Constance, there is a large forest inhabited by wild ducks, foxes, hares, etc., which is usually closed to tourists.

"Have you found the murderer?" Anna asked curiously.

Victor's hands trembled slightly, and then he said in a hoarse voice, "To be honest, I'm not sure what I'm seeing. ”

"Can't be sure what you're seeing?" Anna was immediately interested, and she heard the smell of danger in Victor's words.

Victor nodded, "Soon after I entered the reserve, I heard the hounds roaring, and Mr. Enrique next door had a mixed sheepdog named Samurai, and I was familiar with the sound of samurai, but that day, the samurai's voice was clearly wrong, as if with a great panic. ”

"I thought that the samurai had encountered a wild wolf living in the forest, so I hurriedly picked up my shotgun, but when I got closer, I found that there were no wild wolves around, and the samurai was barking at the lake, apparently finding a big fish."

"The samurai is a very intelligent dog, not only can swim, but also is good at catching fish, if he sees a fish, he can rush up and catch it, and have a good meal."

"But the samurai that day, who had no intention of rushing into the lake, stared at the lake with alert and fearful eyes, as if he had seen something evil."

"I shouted to it, samurai, what do you see? Why don't you catch it, are you still afraid of a fish? ”

"When the samurai heard my voice, he turned his head, as if he had finally hoped for a savior, and yelled at me twice, as if to ask me to pass."

"But just then, the calm of the lake was shattered, and a silver object suddenly jumped out of the lake and bit down on the samurai's throat."

"The poor sheepdog was tilting his head to look at me, and he was completely oblivious to the attack from under the lake, and the blood sprayed out, and the samurai's eyes blackened, and he let out a scream, and fell into the shallows, and then the shallows splashed like a flock of water snakes wriggling rapidly."

"I was so frightened by the sudden situation that I was stunned for a full minute before I came to my senses, and ran desperately towards the place where the samurai had fallen, but by the time I got to the shallows..."

Speaking of this, Victor's voice suddenly choked, and his whole body began to convulse.

Anna hurriedly asked, "What do you see?" What exactly do you see? ”

Victor raised his head, his eyes bloodshot, and his voice hoarse, "Blood, the blood of the samurai stained the shallows red. ”

"It's dead!" Anna covered her mouth with a look of horror.

Victor shook his head slightly, "No, I don't know, because we searched the shallows and couldn't find the samurai's body, it just disappeared, completely disappeared in front of me, not a single bone, not a single residue left. ”

Anna felt her heart pounding, she leaned back, and her breathing became rapid.

Suddenly, Anna remembered the strange fish that the rubber workers had caught from the lake, so she hurriedly took out her mobile phone and opened the photos in the album.

"That's right! It's this murderous thing! ”

Victor stared at the picture for a moment and exclaimed.