Frontispiece: When a lie is packaged, it becomes a story.

The strong fishy smell emanating from the fish tank in the dark room makes people feel like they are approaching the garbage heap of the seafood market, as if the fish tank is filled with the internal organs of various sea creatures.

Wei Chiran, Saker and Yin Wanmeng slowly stepped forward, looking at the fish tank filled with turbid seawater, trying to see what was inside.

Inside the hotel, Hatsutsu, who was watching through the camera, whispered to them, "Be careful." ”

All three of them knew that if Charles entered the dark room, and the space in the dark room was only so large, then the wriggling thing in the fish tank was none other than Charles himself.

But what happened to him, and why did he hurry back to the dark room and burrow into the fish tank?

Wei Chi Chi motioned to the others not to get too close, and slowly walked to the fish tank, which was at least nearly three meters high, and there was a ladder next to it, it was impossible to jump directly into it, and he had to step on the ladder.

There were still some traces of blood on the ladder, some of which had dried up, and the marks were of different shades. From these blood stains, it can be seen that many times Charles ran in in a very hurry, stepped on the ladder and jumped into the fish tank, so that he slipped several times, and his foot was cut by the ladder.

The thing in the tank squirmed and swam from time to time, making a cooing sound, and the gas it spit out floated on the surface of the water and turned into countless bubbles.

Because of the turbidity of the sea water in the fish tank, Wei Chi Chi couldn't see clearly, so he could only look closely, and at the moment of getting close, he saw a human face also pasted over, and he was so frightened that Wei Chi retreated.

The Saker and Yin Wanmeng behind him also saw the face, which was clearly Charles's face, but the cheek area became very strange, like fish gills.

Could it be that Charles turned into a fish?

The lieutenant stepped on the ladder cautiously, wanting to find out what was going on at the edge of the fish tank, and since he couldn't see through the fish tank, he might be able to see what had happened to Charles by climbing up.

After climbing the ladder, the lieutenant crouched there with a sigh of relief, maintaining a position where he could jump backwards at any moment, because he didn't know what Charles had become, whether he was aggressive or not.

Charles rolled in the water, and as he rolled, a fishtail rolled out of the water.

This scene made Wei Chiran and the three of them dumbfounded?

In the early summer, through the surveillance in the hotel, he couldn't help but say: "Mermaid? ”

Wei Chi said: "The mermaid is almost the same, but it is definitely not beautiful, and it is quite disgusting." ”

As soon as the words fell, Charles, the mermaid who was originally in the tank, suddenly jumped up, directly reached out and grabbed Wei Chiran and dragged him into the water.

Wei Chi didn't have time to dodge, and was dragged down directly, but his reaction was also extremely fast, and he immediately tried to break free, but he couldn't use his strength in the water, and Charles's whole body was as slippery as if he was smeared with oil, so that Wei Chiran was directly entangled by Charles in just a few seconds.

Yin Wanmeng immediately climbed the ladder to save Wei Chi Ran, but she couldn't help at all.

"Get out of the way!" The falcon directly took out his pistol, aimed at the fish tank and fired two shots.

The bullet did not break the fish tank, the bullet was only embedded in it, and the lieutenant Chi Ran in the fish tank was still struggling.

In a trance, Wei Chi noticed that Charles seemed to be trying to stretch his neck towards his throat, and there seemed to be a mouth in the neck area, and it was a mouth full of sharp teeth.

Unable to find other tools, the Saker continued to shoot, and after hitting almost all the bullets in the same range, he stepped forward and smashed the glass directly with the pistol as a tool.

Eventually, a hole was smashed into the glass, and the sea water inside flowed out of the hole.

While the water in the fish tank was gradually decreasing, Yin Wanmeng, who was standing above, finally saw the situation in the fish tank clearly-Charles had turned into a strange mermaid, with a head almost the same as a human appearance, except that there were more gills on his cheeks, his ears seemed to be degenerate, the upper body was a human body, and the lower body was a fish, the fins were full of barbs, and the pitch-black scale armor looked very oozing in the dim light.

The most terrifying thing is that Charles has an extra mouth in his throat, and his mouth is full of fangs, and he is constantly trying to bite Wei Chiran's throat.

But after the seawater in the fish tank was almost released, Charles also let go of Wei Chi Ran and began to struggle in pain in the fish tank, making a sound like a fork cutting over a plate, which made everyone present uncomfortable, and naturally covered their ears.

Yin Wanmeng endured the pain and reached down: "Grab my hand!" Fast! ”

Wei Chi grabbed Yin Wanmeng's hand and was dragged up, and then the three of them immediately rushed out of the dark room, because Charles's scream was too uncomfortable.

The three panting trio looked at each other, and the soaking wet lieutenant took off his coat slowly: "How can this be?" ”

Yin Wanmeng shook her head: "I don't know either." ”

The Saker pondered for a moment, then burrowed into the dark chamber again.

In the darkroom, Charles's voice was no longer as painful as before, but sounded like a moan.

The falcon looked at Charles, who was already powerless to struggle, through the glass, and Charles's eyes also changed, unlike the previous pair of dead fish eyes, his eyes regained the brilliance of human beings, and at the same time his mouth opened and closed to say something.

The falcon couldn't hear clearly, so he immediately climbed the ladder and listened carefully, only then did he hear Charles clearly: "Water." ”

Charles is now like this, he can only live in the sea, if he is separated, maybe he will die, if he dies, all the clues will be broken.

But where to find seawater? The falcon looked around and finally found that there was a water outlet at the top of the fish tank, and then looked to the side of the pipe, found the location of the switch, and immediately stepped forward to turn on the switch.

After the falcon turned on the switch, he immediately ordered Wei Chiran and Yin Wanmeng to find something to block the hole that he had smashed open earlier.

After the gap was blocked, the water gradually filled the fish tank, although Charles became active, but his eyes also changed to the white dead fish eyes before, which looked very infiltrating, plus the fishy smell, and the appearance of the body, like a zombie mermaid.

The falcon turned his head and asked Yin Wanmeng, "How long does Charles stay in the dark room every day?" ”

Yin Wanmeng said: "6 hours." ”

Saker looked at his watch: "It's almost 5 o'clock in the afternoon, it doesn't matter, as long as he stays here and can't leave, wait until after 5 o'clock." ”

Yin Wanmeng also breathed a sigh of relief: "I'll go out first to stabilize the people in the office." ”

After Yin Wanmeng left, Wei Chiran and Saker looked at each other.

Wei Chiran asked, "Have you ever encountered this situation before?" ”

Saker didn't answer, because Wei Chiran forgot at that moment that early summer could hear their conversation.

After Wei Chiran also realized this, he didn't ask anymore, but stood there with the falcon, looking at Charles who had turned into a monster in the fish tank.

What really happened to Charles? Why did it look like this?

The two waited until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and when it was close to 5 o'clock, Charles in the fish tank began to scream in pain again, and Wei Chiran, who had been prepared, blocked his ears with the falcon, and watched Charles in the fish tank roll there, his body twitched from time to time, and at the same time, the body began to change, the fish's tail split apart and turned into human legs, the scales began to turn into skin, and the mouth of the larynx began to shrink and finally disappeared.

In less than five minutes, Charles changed from a monster to a human again, and crawled out of the fish tank weakly, sitting naked on the edge of the fish tank panting, and squinting at Wei Chiran and Saker next to him.

Eventually, Charles recovered and said, "You guys saw it." ”

The falcon asked: "Mr. Charles, we have no malicious intentions, we just want to know, what happened to you has anything to do with Professor He Yiyuan's disappearance?" ”

Charles didn't answer right away, just said, "I'm going to take a shower." ”

Leaving the dark room, Charles went to take a bath, Wei Chiran and Saker sat there waiting, Yin Wanmeng also returned, and the three of them did not communicate in words. Yin Wanmeng pondered for a while, and then left.

After taking a shower, Charles walked out, wrapped in a bathrobe, drank a bottle of water in one go, and asked, "Did my private secretary also see it?" ”

It seemed that Charles didn't know that Yin Wanmeng was with them, and Wei said casually: "No, she doesn't even know that we are in the house." ”

Charles asked, "What company are you?" ”

Wei Chiran said: "Private investigation company, we are very professional, let's put it this way, our profession is no less than Professor He." ”

Charles frowned, carefully looked at Wei Chiran and Saker, and then said, "You and Professor He are fellow believers?" ”

What do you mean? Could it be that He Yiyuan told Charles about the identity of the alien?

Before he could say anything, the falcon nodded.

Charles said: "You are also a stranger, no wonder you didn't go to the police when you saw my appearance." ”

Sure enough, He Yiyuan seemed to tell Charles a lot of things, didn't he know that it was against the rules of the alien way? Or did he have some kind of reason that had to be said.

Charles sat down in front of the two and asked, "What do you want to drink?" I asked the private secretary to prepare. ”

Wei Chi shook his head: "No, we just want to know, what the hell is going on, and where is Professor He?" ”

Charles said: "Professor He disappeared to help me, no, it shouldn't be said that he is missing, it's just that we lost contact, I don't know where he is, the last time we contacted him was a month ago." ”

The Saker asked, "Why did you become that kind of thing?" ”

Charles closed his eyes: "Familial inheritance. ”

"What?" Wei was puzzled, "Family inheritance? ”

Charles nodded, "To be precise, the whole thing started with the shipwreck of the Mary in 1927, and since then, our entire family has suffered a curse......"

Saker said, "Can you elaborate on that?" ”

Charles looked out the window, through the window can clearly look at the sea, he looked at a freighter at sea and said: "In 1927, a cargo ship owned by our family set off from Yongcheng, China, according to the plan, their route is the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, then the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Ocean, and finally returned to Britain from the Atlantic. It wasn't until the time of sailing to the Bay of Bengal that the Mary, which was supposed to appear in the port of India, was lost. ”