Chapter 32: The Half-Amnesiac Assassin
Without taking a few more days of rest, Captain Akang set out on his journey again. Leaving the very lively Taiping Imperial City, he left behind the bustle, followed the traces of coming, and rushed to the location of Qiqi, Lingji and Aaron, who he couldn't rest assured.
The scenery along the way is still sparkling and romantic, with fish and shrimp frolicking and crabs chasing each other, and the scenery is pleasant. If life can be lived so numbly all the time, without doing anything, it will definitely provoke a dangerous ambush hidden in the darkness. Strong winds blow in the air on land. In the transparent water of the ocean, there will also be undercurrents surging, mixed with all kinds of unknowns, testing the loyalty and endurance of all kinds of life.
Then we passed through the small forest of seaweed and coral. But this time, it seems that the atmosphere there is a little different, darker and darker, a little more eerie. On the one hand, the captain remembered that he hadn't interacted with his pet companions for a long time, and on the other hand, he needed them to patrol his side, so he lit up his eyes and summoned the pet lantern anglerfish. Not long after, the nearby lanternfish lit the lantern and arrived as promised, gathered around the captain's body and opened a range to move forward together. The information that the lanternfish saw and perceived was all reflected in the captain's brain.
People who have partners usually don't feel lonely, and besides, they are such loyal partners.
Although the swim had advanced for several days, estimated to be several hundred kilometers, the captain was still cautious. The road ahead is always unknown, and the vast mind of the sea is pregnant with a thousand kinds of creatures, but also hides unpredictable dangers. If you are not careful, you may be exposed to danger, perhaps by a whirlpool of natural disasters, or by the favor of giant carnivorous beasts.
Sure enough, the lanternfish sent an unusual message from behind them: a strange shrimp seemed to be following them behind them for days. The shrimp has two large black eyes, two long legs, and two rows of sharp teeth when it opens its mouth, and swims extremely fast. One, two, three......
The captain sensed this information, and his mind quickly recalled what kind of shrimp seed it was. But before I could remember what kind of fish it was, a piercing sting pain came over me: the shrimp was attacking the lanternfish. Because of its superior body size over lanternfish, lanternfish are abused to the point that life is worse than death. His pet was ambushed, how could the pet owner sit idly by.
The captain turned and rushed to the group of prawns, and saw that the abused lanternfish was bleeding all over its body, and its body color had turned black and sunk to the bottom of the sea. I knew in my heart that the teeth of the prawns were highly poisonous, and after transforming into a fighting form, a dazzling white light shot out from the top of the head. The large black eyes of the prawns must have been adapted to the dim light of the seabed, so they must be afraid of bright light. Sure enough, they scattered in all directions, and it must have been the stimulation of the bright light that played a role.
But at the same time, the surrounding anglerfish sent back another danger signal to the captain, a merfolk tried to sneak up from behind him, and the mermaid stretched out a spike on its back and stabbed the captain at great speed.
It seemed too late to turn around, and the captain dodged decisively. A long thorn pierced the air behind him. By the time the captain swung his tail and turned his head, the thorn on the back of the opponent's other hand had already attacked. At the last moment, the captain waved his hand to block the stinger, and the bright light above his head shot into the opponent's eyes again. When I saw each other, I found that the other party was actually wearing a mask and did not show his true face. Perhaps because the mask obscured some of the light, the masked man was not too afraid of the bright light. Under normal circumstances, the eyes are suddenly exposed to strong light, and there should be a short period of blindness, false blindness, and even pain. However, this opponent does not seem to be in pain, and still attacks blindly.
Before he could think of a countermeasure to deal with this uninvited guest, he punched his opponent in the back and knocked him unconscious. Behind him appeared one of Arcantero's generals------ Swordfish Childyasha.
"Are you alright? Captain. Sayshasha asked, "Did I come just in time?" ”
"Hmmm! It's more timely. The captain was puzzled and asked, "Why are you here?" ”
"Akentero told me to pick you up, he already expected you to be targeted. It's not just me, but the jellyfish enchantress is here too. ”
The captain looked to the side, and the jellyfish enchantress was watching from a short distance, and the captain nodded in acknowledgement.
A lion's mane jellyfish swam up and stretched out its tentacles to wrap the unconscious merfolk around them, ready to be transported back to Acantero. The mermaid had a silver-gray scale that shimmered with cold light when it was engaged just now, and now after fainting, it should return to its non-combat form, showing a black scale, which looks like a female merfolk.
The captain was curious and reached out to take off the other party's mask. First, a tuft of long black hair fell down, and then a delicate face was revealed.
"Wow!" Everyone present was surprised, her appearance was very similar to Kiki, but she was more mature in age.
"Everyone has a lot of questions." Ayasha said, "Bring it back and interrogate it, and the mystery will be revealed." ”
After the jellyfish dragged the female assassin away, a few swordfish followed with a few dead prawns.
"Wouldn't it? Is she a pet? This one is going to be killed too? The captain asked, confused.
Childyasha smiled, "Don't you understand? The assassin's speed was so fast that it took a few prawns to kill her before we could catch her. Now bring them back and let Acantero see how she came from. So even if this female assassin doesn't say anything, we won't get nothing. ”
"Makes sense." The captain agreed.
"Captain, you owe us a favor to Akentero." Jellyfish Enchantress quipped.
"Speaking of Arcantero, how would he know that something was going to happen to me and let you pick me up?" The captain asked.
"Akentero is smart, we are only doing what we are told, and we don't know everything else. When you get back, ask him yourself. Saysha replied, "By the way, try this female assassin why she attacked you." ”
A short fight ended hastily, so fast that the captain didn't know what was going on. But since the appearance of Yaksha and others, he has become even more convinced. Akentero must have a strong set of logical reasoning skills for events, as well as a complete intelligence background. Either they really expected someone to sneak up on them, or they sent someone to keep an eye on them in the first place.
The sun shone lazily on the calm island, and the shallow bay was the small world of Kiki and Lingji, chatting and playing to pass the time waiting for Captain Akang's return.
"Girls!" Aaron swam from far away from the shallow sea, shouting, "The captain is back, the captain is back!" ”
The two girls swam towards him: "Where is it?" ”
"In the cave at the bottom of the island, the captain was entangled and attacked by a mermaid, and was later captured alive by Childyasha and the jellyfish Enchantress. Aaron replied, "Let's go and see, everybody goes." ”
There is a cave hidden by the sea at the bottom of the island, and there is a large space inside. Swimming inside, heading upwards there is an air-filled hall where a natural secret abode is formed. Because the entrance to the cave is hidden, it is generally not easy for ordinary people to find it.
Kiki, Lingki, and Aaron swim excitedly all the way down. Flocks of colorful small fish and shrimp get out of the way and enter this hidden cave, and finally come to the air hall inside.
Sure enough, all the personnel arrived, and they stood in a circle around an iron cage in the middle. The mermaid who was caught in the iron cage was locked up, and her appearance made everyone present feel very strange when you look at me: why do you look so similar to Kiki? The dark eyes and long hair, the slightly larger figure, and the face were so similar. In addition to the black scales all over the body are different places.
"What's your name?" Akentero broke the silence and asked the merfolk in the iron cage.
"Rakshasa ." Her eyes were unusually calm, with a clear innocence.
"What's your pet?"
"Strange shrimp." Rakshasa replied calmly, and the situation of being trapped in the cage did not give her any fear or discomfort.
"Strange shrimp?" Acantero asked, "What species is the odd shrimp?" ”
"With 'shrimp' in its name instead of shrimp, it was the hegemon of the sea 500 million years ago, at the top of the food chain. It is highly poisonous, one gram can kill a dinosaur, and there are still a certain number of surviving numbers, but it is very rare. ”
Rakshasa's answer surprised the captain a little, how could she tell her details without worry? The pupils of her eyes didn't notice any unusual changes when she spoke, and she didn't mean to lie at all, could she be a fool?
"Who sent you here? Why attack the captain? ”
"Captain Akang, the detective who wants to kill you, is my godfather who instructed me."
"Who is your godfather? What is your name? ”
"I don't know, he's always been dressed in black and facing me. I've never seen him before, and he just asked me to call him my godfather. ”
"Where does he live?"
"I don't know, he always came to me." Rakshasa's expression was still very calm, and she didn't hesitate in the slightest because of the role of the captive.
"Hmmm! Are you testing my patience and trying me to torture you? Akentero began to get a little impatient.
"Akentero, please be calm for a moment." Captain Akon calmed the mood and said, "I noticed the micro-expression on her face when she answered the question, and it didn't feel like she was lying. Unless her face is still a stiff mask, and I've already taken off one of her masks. It is also possible to make facial expressions change at all after words and external information stimuli. ”
"Which one is possible?"
"She's been traumatized on a mental level before, maybe she's lost her memory or something. So they are immune to feelings such as fear. ”
"What then?" Arcantero asked, agreeing.
"Let's take some questions she remembers, and then work on them."
"That's ......" Akentero hesitated for a few seconds, "Okay, you ask." ”
Captain Akon stepped forward and motioned for everyone to step back. After all, everyone's power can't scare the Rakshasa in the iron cage, because she doesn't know what fear is, just like a painless person without feelings.
"Rakshasa, listen to me, you must have something to remember, do you remember one thing that impressed you the most when you were a child?"
"When I was a kid......." Rakshasa's pupils twitched, and her gaze dropped a little: "Cold! ”
After a few seconds of hesitation, she continued: "It's bitterly cold, like being locked in ice. I don't know how long later, when I opened my eyes, I saw a lot of black bugs crawling on my body......"
Dubin, who was standing not far away, opened his mouth wide and showed a look of extreme surprise.
"Those black bugs," Rakshasa's pupils were in a state of defocus as he spoke, "little by little I peeled off the ice that stuck to my body, my body was still stiff, and then ......"
Dubin listened to her story and moved slightly towards the cage.
"Later, maybe the ice was completely stripped off of my body. The black bugs writhed, almost frantically, as if they were struggling in pain, and I could hear the frantic wails of someone nearby. ”
Rakshasa's pupils fluttered a few more times, probably a reaction to the memories of the scene that made her unforgettable for the rest of her life.
I opened my eyes slightly, and saw a man in black, with his face covered, reaching out to pick me up and walking towards the cave passage full of ice. And on the ground next to it, there was a man who was engulfed in fire......"
After Rakshasa finished speaking, he stopped speaking. Maybe that's all she remembers.
At some point, Dubin had circled around the back of the cage and looked over the back shoulder of the rakshasa. Suddenly exclaimed, "Ah! How can this be? You have a birthmark here, too. He didn't know whether he was frightened or sad.
Everyone was confused by this move.
"What's wrong? Dubin. Arcantero asked.
"She, she's my daughter too, and she's more like the real thing than Kiki! But how do I have two daughters? I only have one daughter! ”
Du Bin turned his face to look at Kiki and asked, "Then who are you?" Why are you impersonating my daughter? ”
Kiki, who had always been timid, was so frightened by this question that she hid behind the captain.
"Dubin, don't be busy talking about who is an impostor, Dr. Zhuo will do a paternity test for you. In my opinion, Quillen must have something to hide from us. And what's so bad about you picking up an extra daughter at once? It's not too late to figure out Quillen's purpose and the man in black in the story before jumping to conclusions. Akentero suppressed Dubin's anger.
"I think that's the end of today's inquiry." The captain saw that Rakshasa stopped talking, maybe she only remembered so much. So it was suggested that everyone retreat outside and sit down for a meeting. Discuss what everyone has in mind and make further reasoning.