Chapter 17: The Teasing Decisive Battle
It was getting dark, and Mak and his friends sat on the riverbank, sipping whiskey as they watched the two buoys rise and fall in the waves.
"Where did all the fish go?" Mai waited for twenty minutes, but the buoy didn't move.
"There are no fish in this river. ”
Mai couldn't help but glance at his friend beside him, "Love, I've never seen a river without fish. ”
Loew was a bearded, middle-aged man with a stocky build, "There may have been fish before, but now I see that it is all stagnant water." ”
"How so?"
"I can't smell fish. ”
"You think your nose is smarter than a cat?"
Loew shrugged his shoulders and looked awkward, "Don't forget, my family has been fishing for three generations, and my grandfather once killed a 10-ton whale shark with a harpoon off the coast of Norway. ”
"Did you see it with your own eyes?"
Loew shook his head, "I wasn't born then, but I'm sure he wouldn't brag." ”
"I appreciate your professionalism, but this time you've lost your eyes and caught a big fish. Mai saw the buoy sink underwater, and hurriedly grabbed the fishing rod to reel in the line.
When it was a wig pulled up, Loew smiled from ear to ear.
In this situation, the two no longer expect to catch fish, and drink and laugh wholeheartedly. Just as Loew bent down to pour the wine, Mai saw a black shadow in the river, more than ten meters in diameter, but he wiped his eyes, and the black shadow disappeared again.
Loew brought over the glass on which the wine was poured, only to find that he was staring at the river and did not answer, "Mai, what are you doing in a daze?"
"Man, I seem to have drunk too much. ”
After dinner, everyone gathered outside the car to chat, Lina asked why her husband returned empty-handed, Loew rushed to say that Mai mistakenly mistook the wig for a big fish, and by the way, he also talked about the deeds of his grandfather who killed the whale shark back then, and everyone was happy.
Jim was going to bring some music to the scene, and although the atmosphere around him was weird, the time and place didn't stop the Spaniards from having fun in time.
After the disc is swallowed by the machine, the horn plays a surging melody, and no matter how many times you listen to it, the song of the rock beast still sounds as beautiful as ever.
But as soon as he returned to his chair, the music stopped. He wondered that the turntable had never been broken, and when he turned around, he saw an Oriental woman standing with the power plug of the turntable in her hand.
Jim immediately got up from his chair, "Ma'am, did the song provoke you? No, rock beasts have always only attracted people, maybe I provoked you, no, I have always been loved by everyone." It can only be a problem with the turntable, you really have an eye, I have wanted to change it for a long time, and I just came out with the latest model last quarter, and the sound quality is excellent......"
"Angel. ”
Lina walked over and took off her headscarf and wrapped it around her shoulder, and led her away, or Jim would go on and on.
As she passed Jim, Angel paused and said, "Sorry, the song attracts monsters." ”
"Monster?" said Jim, who had listened to their songs countless times, had never known it had such an effect.
Lina takes Angel into her RV, and when the guests sit on the couch, she goes to the kitchen to make coffee.
Halfway through the warm coffee, Angel's mood stabilized. "Poor girl, a terrible story must have happened to you. ”
"Monsters, it's hiding in some corner of the city. Angel's hands holding the coffee cup trembled, and there were ripples in the cup, "I saw it crawl out of the river with my own eyes, devouring the people on the ground, and the aircraft and artillery couldn't help it." And the aliens, who hover over the pyramids......"
When she saw Lina bow her head and say nothing, Angel stopped her hysteria, but she didn't expect that after thinking for a while, the Frenchwoman came over and patted her on the shoulder and said, "It doesn't matter, I believe in you." ”
Lina left the RV, Angel saw her walk through the window to her companions, they discussed for a while, seven meters apart, Angel couldn't hear what was said, but when Lina finished speaking, most of them had a smile on their faces.
This is not to blame them, even if Angel has experienced it herself, she thinks it is a dream.
No, it's too flamboyant.
She left her headscarf on the couch and hurried out of the car, it was too dark, but she had to find a place away from the crowd, only then the terrible monster wouldn't come to the door.
"Angel. ”
She heard Lina calling her behind her back, but she couldn't help but look back, so she could only say silently: Lina, I'm sorry, I'm too cowardly.
Everyone saw Angel running into the dark street corner and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"This woman is a mystery. ”
As soon as Jim's words fell, his ears were pulled by his wife, a punk girl in a leather coat and a nose ring, "I think you're a lust fan." ”
"Pain, Amy, you're mistaken, I said she's a fan, a fan of rock and roll. ”
Everyone was amused by these two.
Seeing his wife's sullen appearance, Mai stepped forward and put his arm around her shoulders and said, "Lina, let her go, she will find a safe harbor of her own." ”
"Shhhh Loew suddenly frowned and said, "Listen, what's the sound?"
Everyone quieted down, the sound of the rattling became clearer and clearer, and suddenly turned around, and a huge wave rose in the river, smashing with a crushing momentum, and before people could react, they were swallowed up.
Lina struggled to push her head out of the water with a few laps of rapids, and Loew grabbed the lamppost with one hand and reached out to her.
Jim hurriedly grabbed the trunk of the tree and climbed up, saw the turntable floating, and reached out to scoop it out of the water.
As turbulent as it came, the water receded with great power, sucking away the helpless people and things on the shore.
Jim jumped from the tree to the wet ground and looked around to see all the RVs staggered, one of them still floating in the river, and he saw Loew and Lina under the lamppost.
Lina bent over to choke on the water in her stomach, and before she could recover from the violent coughing, she looked around, and there were only three of them left.
"Wheat. She searched around the camp and saw no sign of her husband.
An iron garbage can on the side of the road shook by itself, and there was a double thump sound, and when the iron lid was lifted, a dirty man emerged. Before he could recover his senses, his wife threw herself into his arms, and "Lina......" He hugged his wife, who was crying with joy, despite the fact that he was still standing in the stinky garbage.
"Look, there's a man in the water. Jim said loudly as he stood on the shore.
Loew ran to see that it was his wife, who was unconscious and floating in the river. Loew immediately climbed onto the railing, intending to jump into the raging water, but Mai and Lina held him back.
It was then that Jim saw a pair of huge eyes emerge from under the water, and it opened its mouth, and immediately formed a vortex, sucking the people on the water in.
The four who witnessed it were dumbfounded, forgetting to flee, and stared blankly as the monster's head protruded from the water, followed by its body that was more than four stories high, and a large amount of river water poured down from it.
"The girl was right, it's coming, the monster is coming. Jim looked at the red eyes of the monster in the night sky and became emotional.
The monster also looked at the Spaniard with the turntable, and it bent down and sniffed him with two deep hole-like nostrils.
Jim held up the turntable, "You've got to come for it, take it, don't be embarrassed, I've got a lot of rock 'n' roll albums, and they're all limited editions......"
Before he could finish speaking, the monster opened its mouth wide and bit his upper body, and it took it into the air, and its exposed legs were still kicking, and it tilted its head and swallowed the whole person into its stomach.
The red eyes locked on the three people on the ground again, and they fled in panic.
Myra ran with his wife to a residential area with dense buildings that was the best place to escape the attack, but found that his friend Loew had changed direction and ran to his RV.
"Loew, it's dangerous there. Mai called out to him, but he waved his hand and said, "Mai, I'm going to sea." ”
Seeing his friend running into the RV, Mai was very puzzled, but he knew his friend's personality very well, and once he decided to do something, ten cows would not be able to pull it back.
The monster behind him was advancing step by step, and Mai couldn't stay any longer, so he could only silently bless him in his heart.
After the river washed away, the RV was a mess, iron pots, cups, and debris all over the floor, and a storage box on the roof of the car was pulled in, and there was a row of bound red bullets next to it.
Loew cracked the chamber of the gun, stuffed two thumb-sized bullets into it, and closed it together.
He picked up the two picture frames on the ground and erased the water trails on them, and the wife in the photo was still snuggled into his arms and smiling.
Turning his gaze, the photo shows an old man with gray hair, holding a harpoon with a mountain blade in his hand, although the iron handle is rusty and yellow, the old man's gaze is as straight as a rock.
"Grandpa, please bless you, my grandson is going hunting. He left the frame on the table and turned out of the living room.
As soon as he stepped out of the car, a huge shadow hung over him. Loew raised the thick barrel of his gun and aimed it at the head in the night sky, "Remember today, next year today will be your death day, ugly bastard." ”
He pulled the trigger, but didn't hear the expected sound, and pulled it twice more, but there was no response. He looked confused, "Damn, it's stuck." ”
The monster raised its arms, its claws scraping at him.
"Wait, it's a foul. Loew's handsome posture at the end of the day, lying on the ground in a dog lying motion, commonly known as a groove.
The claws flew into the air, scraped onto the RV, and then it flipped three times in the night sky and crashed into the river.
He had just escaped, lay on the ground and breathed a sigh of relief, and when he looked up again, the monster's large, black feet had been pressed down. He held his breath and tried to hide under the tree with a perfect roll, well, it wasn't perfect, and although he managed to get there, he got a mouthful of dirt when he rolled.
He ducked behind the trunk of the tree, buying time to dispose of the indisputable shotgun, and scrambled to reload it, when he heard a low groan, and the tree behind him was uprooted, tossed aside, and crushed a hut.
Loew, who had no cover, raised his shotgun high, and boom, a huge recoil came from the handle, and at the same time, the monster's left eye exploded a piece of blood and swayed into the night sky, which was particularly spectacular.
He watched as the monster staggered into a building, causing it to collapse, half of its body buried in the dust, motionless.
"It's done, grandpa, I've made it!" he shouted, his voice reaching farther and farther into the night.