127. The line between life and death
"Phew, tonight is really fruitless..."
In the dark streets, a man with a long strip of black bags walked with a sigh beside the rushing Krein River, a young man who lived near the Klein River and had just returned home from a day of fishing.
There are many rivers in St. Nary, many of which have natural fishing advantages, but in the past few years, when St. Nari was surrounded by factories, many of the rivers that could be fished were so dirty that many of the fish that were supposed to be in the river disappeared completely.
However, since the implementation of the environmental protection law, the entire environment of Saint-Narri has been purified, and schools of fish have reappeared in the river, so that these old fishers who are obsessed with fishing no longer have to go to the outskirts of Saint-Narri to fish.
Strange to say, it was very smooth when the Eucalyptus Law was implemented before, because the Environmental Protection Law has preferential policies for these companies that voluntarily relocate, as well as large environmental subsidies, which is a way to reduce the emissions of enterprises.
The companies readily agreed, hearing that they had purchased a very clean energy source from a channel in the southern continent, so that they could not only not relocate the factory, but also earn government subsidies.
It's just that since this month, I don't know why the wind direction has changed again, and those entrepreneurs have begun to be dissatisfied again...
Putting aside the stories behind them for the time being, let's turn our attention back to the young man who was carrying his gear and preparing to go home.
At this moment, the bucket in his hand was empty, and there were no fish or any other aquatic life, as if to announce that his day's fishing progress had come to nothing...
Yes, he is in the Air Force.
The gentleman was quite depressed, stood in the dark street and sighed, looked around, and suddenly saw a small tree in front of a closed shop that had already borne fruit, and the man's eyes rolled, and he slowly walked to the front of the little tree, and carefully reached out and picked a small fruit and put it in his hand.
The fruit was still completely green, and at first glance it was unripe, let alone about eating.
But the gentleman didn't care, just picked two or three fruits and put them in the bag that originally contained the fish, and touched the bag that was originally empty at this moment to be restocked, he patted his stomach with satisfaction and walked in the direction of home.
"Huhu~"
"Who!?"
Behind him, a cold wind blew, which frightened him and quickly turned his head and shouted, but only the still rushing Klein River responded to him, and there was no other sound.
With a slight sigh of relief, he slowly walked to the front of the Klein River, looking at the rushing water in front of him.
In fact, the water quality of the Klein River is very good, but generally no one wants to go fishing here, it is too fast to catch fish at all.
He looked around and found nothing, sighed and was just about to leave, but by the moonlight from the sky, he suddenly saw a figure with a tail under the water moving quickly through the water, the size of the shadow was thick, as if there were two heads.
"Water . . . Kelpie? ”
He gasped, and leaned forward until he had his hands on the railing on the riverbank, and he poked his head out into the distance, watching the shadow go farther and farther.
"Is it some kind of big fish? It's a pity that I went too fast, otherwise I could still try to catch it. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the next second, a scream suddenly came from his back, and the sound just came into his ears, he suddenly felt a chill in his neck, and the perspective began to rotate rapidly.
"I..."
He watched in amazement as his head broke away from his body that had protruded out of the guardrail, his perspective spinning and falling into the water.
At the last moment of his gaze, he suddenly saw a shark with three human heads on its head opening its foul mouth towards him.
Originally... The real water ghost is in the back...
As he thought so, his vision suddenly fell into darkness, and his body on the shore fell uncontrollably into the water, and was soon swallowed up by the countless shadows in the river, and there was nothing left left.
Yes, the two fleeing figures that the fishing old man saw earlier were Jasmine who was fleeing with Fisher on her back, and in the water, the fast swimming speed of the whale race was fully exerted, but in fact, it was not Jasmine's full speed at this moment.
As she walked forward, the blue water in her eyes kept flowing, and it turned out that she was also treating Fisher's wounds.
There was no way, Fisher's injuries were too serious now, he had already lost too much blood, and if he carried him through the whole of Saint-Nari, it was estimated that he would be dead and out of breath by the time he went ashore.
However, helping Fisher treat his injuries greatly slowed Jasmine's forward speed in the water, which caused the monsters behind him to bite very tightly, and they couldn't shake it off.
"Fisher... You've got to hold on..."
Jasmine tilted her head slightly, and after seeing that Fisher was still able to breathe hard in the water, she finally relaxed and began to speed up, but fortunately, there was only one channel in the entire Klein River, and if Jasmine took several other interconnected rivers, she might probably get lost.
"Winter!"
The river in front of her suddenly narrowed, and Jasmine suddenly hit the wall at the edge of the river because she turned around to confirm Fisher's state, and she used her arm to resist the impact, so the unconscious Fisher was not harmed.
"Whew!"
But in the next second, the cold and terrifying roars behind her sounded one after another, and Jasmine was so frightened that her soul was about to fly, but thinking that Fisher was still leaning on her back, she gritted her teeth and grabbed Fisher's body to prevent him from leaving her.
Since Fisher trusts himself so much, he absolutely has to make sure of his safety!
Fisher's presence gave her courage, and she endured her sour eyes with fear, twisted around in the waterway, and slapped her tail at the oncoming sharks, like striking a watermelon with an iron rod, and the tail smashed the three heads of the shark's head apart.
But the shark didn't die, it just roared and struggled in the water as if it had lost its eye.
Jasmine didn't fight, and with the force of slapping her enemy, she twisted around in the water and adjusted her direction towards the snakehead street not far ahead.
The streets of Snakehead are lit up with fires and torches stuck in the street buildings, and for the gangsters and gangsters, the real nightlife has just begun.
The waterway next to it entered the cliff stage, and Jasmine and the monsters slid down the waterfall together, and next to the waterfall, there were many iron chains that connected to the gate of the snakehead street, which were swaying slightly with the water at the end of the waterway.
Originally, these were the mechanisms that operated the sluice gates in Snake Head Street, but they solved the problem of water supply in the winter before the construction of the pipeline system in Saint Nari.
In mid-air, Jasmine feared that Fisher would fall, so she grabbed Fisher's back with one hand and dragged the chain with the other hand towards the street.
The sound of chains and the roar of monsters instantly attracted the attention of countless street gangsters, and countless human worms roared down from mid-air, roaring at Jasmine and the crowd behind her.
"Blame... Monsters! ”
"Hurry up and inform Barikun of them!"
The crowd was frightened and fled, the people and insects roared towards Jasmine, Jasmine hugged Fisher, the black water in her eyes continued to flow, and she was about to make a move, but suddenly a male voice came from behind her,
"Don't move!"
"Bang!"
Jasmine didn't move, but the head of a human insect in front of her suddenly exploded in response, bursting with foul-smelling slurry inside.
"Whew!"
Jasmine looked back in surprise, only to see an old man in a bartender costume walking out of the street with a destructive double-barreled shotgun, aiming his crosshairs at the countless roaring monsters in front of him.
Behind him, there is a tavern sign with flashing neon signs, which reads "Jack's Tavern".
The old man's face was covered with hideous scars, and he had a half-smoked cigarette in the corner of his mouth, first glanced at the unknown Fisher behind Jasmine, and then looked at the human worms jumping down from the waterway one after another with an unkind face, he sighed, but sighed,
"Damn, we'll be in three minutes..."
"Roar!"
Despite the words, Old Jack was not slow in his movements, and he took the musket and skipped Jasmine, who was still in place, first killing one with one shot, and then skillfully reloading the others.
"Squeak squeak!"
"Hand Fisher over to the rats!"
Old Jack had just skimmed Jasmine when Jasmine saw a big black and fat rat crawling out of the pipe.
The black-pressed critters stopped in front of Jasmine, and the little mouse at the head bowed to Jasmine rather gentlemanly, signaling her to hand over Fisher to herself, but before the salute was finished, she was slapped on the back of the head by other rats behind her.
"Squeak!"
It screamed in protest, then changed its hand, and under Jasmine's shocked gaze, the group of rats lined up in an orderly shape that resembled a stretcher.
Countless rats held hands to form two layers, and the top rat pointed to her head and told her to quickly put Fisher up.
"Oooh... Good. ”
Jasmine hadn't seen these little guys, after all, Fisher didn't know Jasmine when he came to see Old Jack, but Jasmine felt that Old Jack and these... Well, the kindness of the rat friends.
She hurriedly placed Fisher on the "rat stretcher" and watched as they creaked and rushed back to the tavern with Fisher.
Jasmine didn't go in, and Old Jack behind her felt a little alone, and she had to help the human here.
She took a light breath, looked at the street lamp that was extinguished next to her, took a deep breath, and ran over and directly reached out and hugged the pole of the street lamp, and pulled it out with the stone bricks on the ground.
"Zizi..."
"I'm here to help you!"
A little oily object seeped out from the top of the lamp, and Jasmine easily waved the street lamp in her hand and ran towards the group of human worms.
"Etc.. Wait a minute, you're lifting..."
"Ahhhh Die! ”
Old Jack was the first to hear Jasmine's cries, and when he looked back, he almost didn't scare his soul out.
I saw Jasmine rushing towards her with her eyes closed and holding a street lamp three times taller than her, and the fishtail behind her was slightly raised, and she jumped up directly and hit the road in front of her.
"Boom!"
"Damn it!"
Old Jack suddenly grabbed the musket in his hand, and rolled towards the road beside him without making any movement, rolling and rolling, his old waist with old illness flashed suddenly, and his old face was wrinkled in an instant, and he clutched his back and only inhaled and did not speak.
"Gan! My waist, you subman..."
"Hug .. I'm sorry! I didn't mean to, I didn't dare to look at it.. Yikes! They're coming! ”
Jasmine, who subconsciously apologized, still closed her eyes, and danced the street lamp in the direction of the human insect in front of her, smashing the ground into cracks, not to mention the human worms whose flesh and blood were hit in the bull's-eye.
Many of the human insects covered by the shadow of the street lamp were smashed on the spot, and a pungent and fishy smell evaporated, and Jasmine held her breath and focused on fighting.
In fact, according to the road, Jasmine, who has been trained in combat, should not be so afraid, but the appearance of these insects is indeed too hideous, like a humanoid toad with a peeled skin, and the face also has the shape of a human facial feature, which directly fills the horror index of the uncanny valley effect.
Ordinary warriors would feel a chill in the back of the crest, let alone this lovely whale race lady.
"Poof!"
Seeing that the human insects were directly flattened, under the waterfall next to him, a thick green foul-smelling acid suddenly gushed up, falling on the road next to him like raindrops, directly piercing the street lamp in Jasmine's hand halfway.
Jasmine's eyes suddenly saw another cloud of viscous liquid heading towards Old Jack on the ground, her eyes shrank slightly, and she reached out directly to pull Old Jack back, but her arm was stained with the corrosive acid.
A burning sensation made her frown in pain, and at the same time that her eyes were slightly red, she gently stretched out her hand to smooth out all the red wounds, and the blue water in her eyes flowed through, Old Jack looked at the miracle-like treatment, and couldn't help asking,
"You're... Subhumans from the ocean? ”
"Huh? Grandpa, do you know the subhumans at the bottom of the sea? ”
"How would I know, I'm not interested in subhumans..."
Old Jack pursed the corners of his mouth, which was trembling slightly because of the pain in his back, and slowly stood up with his musket, but his old voice still came again,
"I've read my son's manuscript on subhumans, and he guessed that there were subhumans on the ocean floor, and I've always wanted to see for myself what they would look like if there was intelligent life on the ocean floor..."
"Well, if you have time in the future, I invite you and Fisher to go back to the bottom of the sea to see it... Yikes! But you can't breathe underwater, it's really..."
Old Jack's body stiffened slightly, but this time he turned around with a little smile,
"There's going to be a chance."
"Roar!"
A huge shark with countless heads suddenly burst out from under the snake's head street, it turned out that it had spit out such a large amount of acid just now, and several three-headed sharks were devouring each other at this moment, and finally formed a huge twisted biological monster.
The bloody one opened its mouth wide, and the target was the son of the sea, Jasmine, who was still in place.
Jasmine didn't have time to make any other moves, she subconsciously pushed Old Jack away, but she herself remained in the range of the giant mouth devouring.
"Whew!"
She crouched in fear as she clutched her head and crouched in place, feeling the deep, foul-smelling mouth coming towards her.
Between lightning and light, life and death are on the line.