Chapter 2: The Mysterious Race
Nie Kai followed behind Song Xiaoxue and hurriedly walked in the direction away from the coastline, and along the way, there were containers in sight. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
As the largest port in the world today, huge cranes and countless containers make up everything here. Containers of all colors are stacked on top of each other, scattered on the flat concrete floor, like a steel giant city, making people who shuttle through it involuntarily sigh their insignificance.
It was still early in the morning, but the sun had already risen, and the warm sunlight occasionally shone on them, warm and indescribably pleasant, but they walked very carefully, because there was a faint roaring sound around them. Those guys are nearby.
Nie Kai handed over the gun to his left hand, and shook his right hand vigorously, perhaps too nervous, his palms were full of sweat, sweat and the blood that flowed out before were mixed together, making a mess in his hand, and he was a little slippery when he held the handle of the gun.
"I'm sorry. Song Xiaoxue noticed his movements, and suddenly felt a little guilty, "I shouldn't have bitten you, I just suddenly thought it would be fun to do this, have you ever watched a zombie movie, it's the kind played by Lin Zhengying, super handsome." Song Xiaoxue said with a fluttering eyebrow.
She suddenly noticed that Nie Kai had a cannibalistic expression on his face, and quickly interrupted the topic, "In this way, can I do the next marking myself?" You see, I can actually use my knife to draw the marking." She patted her waist as she spoke, and she could see a delicate knife hanging from each side of her pants.
Nie Kai's face was full of black lines.
"Forgive me. Song Xiaoxue shook Nie Kai's shoulders and said with a flattering face.
"Good, good. Nie Kai wanted to scold her severely, but when he saw such a beautiful girl coquettish to himself, he couldn't get angry. "It's okay, you see it's bloodless. He said sneeringly, and deliberately pressed his index finger hard with his thumb, and a large bead of blood immediately appeared. "Haha..."Nie Kai's face was full of embarrassment.
Song Xiaoxue was already covering her mouth and laughing. Suddenly, the smile on her face froze and was replaced by an indescribable solemnity. Nie Kai had never seen Song Xiaoxue's expression before, only to see her staring at her back, her hands slowly slid down to the double knives on her waist, and slowly pulled out the pair of delicate short knives. It was a pair of Nepalese style short knives, forged from high-grade ATS-34 steel, which was both hard and tough.
Nie Kai knew that they were in trouble, but he didn't dare to make a move. He quietly looked into Song Xiaoxue's eyes, carefully moved the gun back to his right hand, and clenched it. Although he didn't have a lot of shooting experience, he knew that this was the only life-saving item he could rely on at the moment.
"Squat!" Xiao Xue suddenly roared, and at the same time began to speed up towards the place where Nie Kai was standing, and the next moment, she jumped up with all her might, then turned around and swung her knife. The shining blade took advantage of the power of Song Xiaoxue's turn in the air, and quickly slashed towards the upper right.
The sound of gold and iron clashing, Nie Kai was already squatting on the ground, and a spark exploded above his head, accompanied by a dark green liquid. Nie Kai saw a dark green figure fall not far from them, and rolled on the ground twice, and then immediately grasped the ground firmly.
Nie Kai finally saw the face of the thing clearly. It was about the same size as an ordinary person, with a huge fish-like head, but with human-like limbs, dark green skin, covered with dense scales, slender fingers, connected with translucent dried flesh, and the ends of the fingers were dark, cold claws.
"Deep diver! the myth is actually true!" Nie Kai thought about what this was. During his week at Yog's Academy, he was forced to make up for the entire Cthulhu Mythos, in addition to learning the necessary skills. According to the Cthulhu Mythos, the Deep Diver is a servant of the evil god Cthulhu and lives in the unknown deep sea, with a near-endless lifespan. However, he remembered that Song Xiaoxue had also said that, in fact, so far, there had never been an orthodox sighting report of a deep diver. In other words, the existence of deep divers has always been a controversial issue. Unexpectedly, now they actually met a living body!
Nie Kai was a little excited, but more nervous. He held a gun and quietly observed the living fossil in front of him, which once existed only in legends. He noticed that the little finger of the diver's right hand was close to the nail, and a small soup of dark green liquid had gathered. Obviously, Song Xiaoxue's spinning slash just now left him with a lot of wounds. However, Nie Kai was even more surprised that with the chopping ability of the Nepalese knife and Song Xiaoxue's full strength, he actually failed to cut off one of its fingers, and its bones were so hard that they were probably far beyond ordinary steel. Nie Kai adjusted his posture holding the gun, he didn't know if his bullet was sure to penetrate the skull of the deep diver.
The diver was watching them as well, lying on the ground, its sharp claws tapping the ground anxiously into a series of "click-da" sounds. Although I don't know why it suddenly launched an attack just now, it seems that now, Song Xiaoxue's fierce counterattack has made it feel threatened.
Song Xiaoxue had slowly leaned over at this time, and at the same time as she had just shot the deep diver, she was also shaken back several meters away by the reaction force, so that after landing, in order to cushion, she used her left-handed knife to leave a cut of nearly one meter on the container next to her, and she barely stood still. Nie Kai saw her panting, knowing that the collision just now must have consumed a lot of her energy.
"Be careful, it seems that its speed is very fast, and its strength is not weak. Song Xiaoxue moved back to Nie Kai's side and said in a low voice, her twin knives across her chest one after the other, guarding against the opponent's attack.
"Well, thank you just now. Nie Kai replied, he didn't dare to look away, just now the deep diver jumped from the top of the 4-storey high container and went straight to the top of his head, if it wasn't for Song Xiaoxue's timely help, he might have been lying on the ground.
The long standoff was long and both sides had some scruples.
"I'll go first, you find the right opportunity to shoot and hit the weak point!" Song Xiaoxue didn't finish speaking, the person had already rushed out, and her knife was faster than her, and at the moment of starting, she had already thrown the short knife in her right hand. The foot-long knife takes the diver's face in an almost straight trajectory in an instant. However, the Deep Diver was nimble enough to leap lightly at the last minute and dodge the surprise attack accurately. The sharp short knife castrated unabated, and finally inserted steadily into the concrete floor.
But the battle was far from over, and before the deep diver landed, Song Xiaoxue had already arrived. She jumped and flipped lightly, her body spinning in the air at an angle almost parallel to the ground, while her left hand held a short knife and swung a sharp vertical slash. The deep diver was still in the air, and he was at the same height as Song Xiaoxue, seeing that the sharp blade was about to be chopped down immediately, and there was no way to avoid it. In desperation, it can only keep its hands in front of it.
There was another crunch, but this time, the diver's index finger fell. With a terrible scream, the deep diver rolled out a long way again, screaming and scurrying onto the container next to it. While Song Xiaoxue was using her left hand to complete the chopping, she had already picked up another sharp blade inserted in the ground with her right hand, a knife technique without any gaps. She took a step back and once again took a defensive stance with her twin knives, smiling with satisfaction as she looked at the half-cut fingers on the ground.
"Beautiful!" Nie Kai shouted excitedly. The diver immediately turned his head and let out a series of unwilling low growls in his throat: "Cough, cough, cough, cough......"
"Not good. Even though he couldn't read its meaning, Nie Kai immediately realized the danger. Sure enough, the deep diver moved again, only to see its legs suddenly exert force, like a cat, it burst out of the top of the container on their left side, and in an instant, it jumped onto the side wall of the container on the right.
"The target is not yourself!" Song Xiaoxue also realized its intentions, but it was already a beat slower, so she had to throw the short knife in her hand hard, but it was still slow, and the deep diver had already exerted his strength again on the side wall of the container, rushing to the ground at a faster speed, and the target was straight away.
Song Xiaoxue no longer had a knife in her hand, she could only run desperately towards Nie Kai, but obviously she couldn't catch up, and a trace of fear suddenly appeared in her heart. "Shoot!" she shouted with the last of her strength.
Of course, Nie Kai knew that he was going to shoot, and he desperately pulled the trigger, but because his marksmanship was only a beginner after all, and the index finger was still bleeding, at the critical moment, he actually missed.
The deep diver arrived in an instant, it roared and waved its claws, the piercing killing intent came towards it, Nie Kai even heard the sound of the air tearing, and it seemed that there was no chance for him to pull the trigger again. "Are you going to die?" a sigh crossed Nie Kai's mind.
"Calm down...... Calm down...... Concentrate a little...... Concentrate a little...... Come closer...... A little closer. Another cold voice sounded in Nie Kai's head, an indisputable tone.
Nie Kai suddenly felt that the last second had been stretched infinitely, and he readjusted the angle of the gun, silently watching the deep diver's claws slowly approach. In the final moments, when the eerie claws were only a glimmer of light from his eyes, the muzzle of his gun was pressed against the eyes of the deep diver. Nie Kai didn't hesitate any longer, the earth-shattering gunfire erupted, the bullet instantly did not reach the eyes of the deep diver, there was green juice splashing, the deep diver's hoarse roar was cut off in an instant, the expression on his face also froze, and the almost zero-distance shot took away all its vitality in an instant, killing it with one hit.
However, the huge inertia of the deep diver's body was not completely offset by the bullet, and Nie Kai only had time to avoid its sharp claws before being hit to the ground by its body. He struggled to sit up, feeling that his whole body was about to fall apart, he looked at Song Xiaoxue, who was panting violently not far away at the moment, and reluctantly raised his right hand, gave a thumbs up, and smiled.
"Hey!" Song Xiaoxue no longer had the strength to speak loudly, she gasped with relief, and whispered, "Good job." Then she slowly walked over to the diver and gently kicked its corpse to see if it was still motionless, then finally let out a long breath and sat down on the ground in collapse.
"Why did you wait so long when you fired the second shot. She suddenly turned around, a little angry, "I thought I was going to prepare for you." ”
"Isn't that trying to be accurate? Nie Kai heard the tone of concern, and deliberately pretended to be indifferent. He thought back to that moment just now, and suddenly felt a little chill down his spine. It was almost the same thing at all, as long as he slowed down for a moment, it must be him who was lying on the ground now, he didn't understand why he was suddenly so crazy just now, and there was a vague feeling of an outlaw.
"Forget it, but the fat man said that your marksmanship is very good before, and I still don't believe it, it seems that next time, I should be more cooperative with you. ”
"Oh, ha, ha......" Nie Kai scratched his head a little embarrassedly.
The fat man is a shooting genius in their group, and Nie Kai's marksmanship is what he taught. But in fact, the fat man taught him only the most basic things. "Look here, here, and then there, you know, and pull the trigger, it's as simple as that. The fat man said as he gestured with his hand to shoot, "Smack!" "This is the end?" Nie Kai was dumbfounded, but he still tried to pull the trigger. As a result, a miracle happened, Nie Kai, who had never used a gun, actually hit the bullseye perfectly in the first shot. Nie Kai felt like hell, he fired 3 shots in a row, but each shot turned out to be 10 rings. The fat man was also startled, and his jaw was about to fall to the ground. In short, since then, the fat man has been shocked by him, and has repeatedly told others that he is a new generation of gun gods, and this event was actually recommended by the fat man.
Thinking of the fat man, he suddenly felt a little worried. When they woke up this morning, it was just the two of them, and although Mr Yang had left a message, they were not sure if the fat man and the professor were with Mr Yang. "The fat man and the professor won't be captured by these guys, will it be dangerous?" Nie Kai said cautiously.
"It's hard to say, but if they're captured by a deep diver, it means the deep diver doesn't want to kill them right away. Song Xiaoxue paused, "But what does the deep diver want to bring them back for? ”
"You mean these things eat people?" Nie Kai felt a chuckle in his heart.
"Teasing you. Song Xiaoxue chuckled, "According to the descriptions in those documents, they have lived in the deep sea for many years, so no matter what, their staple food will definitely not be people." But..."Song Xiaoxue deliberately dragged out her voice, "I don't rule out the possibility that they want to change their tastes, you say, right?"
"Cut. Nie Kai saw Song Xiaoxue's intentions, and felt that he was obviously being looked down upon, "You don't need to scare me." They definitely don't look down on a rough-skinned man like me, but a little girl with fine skin and tender meat like you is different. His gaze stayed on Song Xiaoxue's white and tender calves for a second, and then quickly moved away.
"Yo, that's a compliment. Song Xiaoxue was even happier, she stood up, jumped up and walked to Nie Kai's side, lowered her head and whispered, "Do you think I'm beautiful?"
"I think it's time for us to go to Mr. Yang. Nie Kai stepped back, struggled to stand up, and said in a serious tone, "If it's a little later, maybe Mr. Yang will also be eaten by them." ”
"It's boring. Song Xiaoxue complained, knowing that the joke was enough, she patted the dust on her body and continued, "He but I think we'll find him soon." Look over there. Song Xiaoxue said, pointing to a container around the corner.
A pattern with deep traces, obviously drawn with a knife, is a very random three knives, just a gangzi. "Yes, yes, it's Mr. Yang's handwriting, I see that he has written this word, and the handwriting is exactly the same!" Nie Kai said happily.
"It's just as ugly, isn't it? This big liar, pretending to be a knowledgeable returnee all day long, deceived the little girl and said one thing after another, but he couldn't even write a word. Song Xiaoxue said disdainfully, "Finally, he still knows how to leave a few marks." Okay, let's follow his mark to him. She paused, "By the way, I'll get my knife back first." ”
Only then did Nie Kai realize that Song Xiaoxue's two knives were still stuck in the side wall of the container nearly 4 meters high. He wanted to let the other party step on his shoulder, but Song Xiaoxue obviously didn't want to waste his words. I saw her sprint two steps, 1 meter away from the container, jumping lightly, and then kicking on the side wall of the container, she easily reached her knife. Then, with a whoosh, she pulled out two short knives at the same time, and landed firmly with a backflip. Nie Kai was dumbfounded and hurriedly applauded.
"Hmph!" Song Xiaoxue snorted proudly, and walked in the direction of the word just now without looking back, and Nie Kai hurriedly trotted to follow. Before leaving, he took one last look at the funny corpse with the fish's head, lying on its side on the ground, a large amount of dark green blood flowing from the frame of his right eye and mouth. The bullet still failed to penetrate its skull.