Volume 3 Kuroshio 14 Swamp Fishman

-Actually, before I set foot on that vast swamp, I thought about how to explain to John how dangerous this swamp was. I thought he had never seen a swamp, or a crocodile......

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- Hehe, he told me that there was one further south of Westspring Town, and I started to think he was joking with me.

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-Well...... I should have been, but I can't remember anything about it. Have you ever eaten crocodile meat?

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-It's not that delicious at all, you may like it, but I really don't like it. I've forgotten what it tasted like the first time I ate it. But the second time I ate it, it seemed to have changed its taste.

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- Where did I eat? Well...... Is it in the town of Southsea in the kingdom of Alterac or in the dwarven wetlands...... I can't remember exactly.

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- It's been so long that I can't remember.

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- Of course I've been here before, but not like I am.

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- I used to be ...... With guards. Well......

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- That's not the point, I'll tell you what to do. But now it's me and John, and we have no guards but the two of us.

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- This is an obvious danger. This swamp is a big despair, and while you can't find the end of your despair, countless dangers await you. This was especially evident during the Second World War.

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- Of course a lot of people died.

- You don't want to keep interrupting, okay? You kid, listen to me, and then pick up the stubble when I want to catch my breath, and don't interject if you easily forget your doubts.

- Where the am I talking?

-Belch...... Be...... Belch. Although I had been here a long time ago, it was guided.

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-If you take another stubble, I'll knock your teeth off.

- I walked around the swamp with John, which was actually very dangerous. You've certainly not walked through the swamp, and the big blisters that make you look at a slightly drier spot in front of you and just can't walk through.

- Look at the look of your surprise.

- Some swamps are a little drier and the road is a little easier. But some swamps are simply soaked in water.

-The swamp where the orcs appeared was the kind of swamp with better conditions, although there were mud pits and deep pools, but there were not so many. This is also one of the reasons why the orcs attacked more and more smoothly later.

- But the swamp we are walking in now is not at all, do you know what it feels like to have your feet soaked in water and swollen, and your skin feels like they are going to fester?

-Yes...... Look at your stupidity. In the swamp, a pair of dry boots is more important than anything else, including food.

-You shut up! I said when I spoke...... Shut your mouth!

- We are both deeply affected by it. Later, we both knew that it wouldn't work, but we couldn't help it. The traces left by the dwarves have disappeared, and they are completely nowhere to be found after entering the swamp.

-I wonder how the dwarves got out of here, and I wonder why the landscape is the way it is.

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-Belch...... Well.

- Hmph, maybe so. Have you worked at sea before or ......

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- Well, it's no wonder. That's how your hometown is? You're not from Stormwind Kingdom?

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- Tsk, it turned out to be a native of Kul Tiras, Mr. Carlyle, I have been to your homeland, but Pelares.

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- Yes, yes, the wind from the sea will indeed be blocked, the mountain range we just came down from is indeed too high, and the dwarves live too high. Maybe that's why the swamp was formed.

- But there's one thing I think I need to talk about.

- Hmph, it's a leech.

- You know leeches, right? I hate leeches! Very, very, very hateful leeches! The only thing I felt when I saw that thing was nausea. That thing really feels extremely disgusting when it bites you, it's indescribable! It's tough, and I haven't tried to cook it over fire, but it has a magical effect.

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-Bloodletting.

- Especially swelling or ulceration, which works much better than some medications.

- Of course there is a lot to eat in the swamp, some blisters have fish in them. I'm talking about barbecue leeches, which I haven't tried before.

-Belch...... Fish......

-Hum...... Fish!

- Have you ever seen a fishman?

- Ah, you see, the handsome guys of Kul Tiras have seen it, but none of you have seen it?

- You've heard of that, right?

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-It is the protagonist of the story of the grandmother who tells the child not to go into the water when he is old.

- Did your grandmother tell you about it, boy?

- You can speak now, I allow you to open your mouth, huh......

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-Your grandma didn't lie to you, that's right, but the reality is much more exciting than in the story. And what I'm trying to tell you is that this thing is a species that you see once and never want to see a second time, and they're more uncomfortable than leeches.

- We came across that kind of thing, and it took me more than a week to go, maybe a week. The place was not the seaside, and I didn't see the sea or smell the sea breeze. There were a lot of blisters there, and I never expected to get out of the water.

- John and I were about to touch some fish to eat, and I took off my pants.

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- You don't take off your clothes when you go into the water?

-Hum.

- The water wasn't really deep, it was up to the ribs, but I saw fish in the blisters and when I slowly walked into the water, a head popped out of the water!

- Fuck me! You know that...... Is it so crazy when such a big eye and such a big head come out of the water? So big!

-I wouldn't be scared of it if I met such a thing on land, but this is fucking in the water, and I've had an inexplicable fear of being in the water since I was a child. It's also because when I saw many fish bigger than me when I was very young, I had a kind of resistance to these big things in the water. As soon as this thing comes out, if it looks like a grass carp, it's nothing, the key is that mouth of sharp teeth and broken teeth! Oh, my God!

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- I have a wooden stick in my hand. Usually when I walk, I use it to explore the road, and at this time I use it to spear fish, but now I take a fish inserter with me.

- It is simply impossible to pick at this time. It's too late to smash. It's a stab!

- Originally, the stick was held in the hand, and at this time it was purely a desperate bet. Such a thing on land, not to mention that it would dare to fight with them even if it came three or five more, but this is in the water!

-Fish are much more powerful in the water than on land.

- It's just that I don't have that many ideas now, so I just stabbed it directly. Didn't it bare its teeth at me? Then it goes straight into its mouth.

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- Of course struggling, you think it's you, stabbing you and lying down?

-I stabbed it in the throat and it still tossed hard, it must have hurt, but it didn't work, I knew I couldn't drown it if I pressed it into the water, so I wanted to pick it up whole. But it didn't work out. I just wanted to see what was going on, what kind of force kept me from picking it up.

-Outcome......

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- A few more fucking big heads have emerged from the water!

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- So what else to say! It's just running! Run to the shore.

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- Fart moves! At this time, the ass that was not scared was shitting out of his eyes, and I think it was already very good.

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- I'm physically okay and let you down Stephen. I wasn't scared to pull.

- John yelled at me that he couldn't help me at all. I struggled to run to shore, but it was fish, and they were swimming much faster than I was, and before I could climb ashore, they were already close.

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- Swim a fart, I thought, but do you know what happens when you get caught in the legs by them?

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- Of course there are underwater! As soon as I reached the shore, I was bitten on the thigh by a fishman.

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-Your focus is always on the lower body, uh......

- But I'm sorry, my eggs are fine, and the stick is intact.

- Do you know what happens after an arrow in your testicles?

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- Ha, let's talk about that later.

- Nonsense, of course not me.

-The bite force of that thing is average, maybe because my skin is firmer, but the bite didn't tear my flesh off.

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- This wound, this ...... This is the first bite. It didn't hurt much to bite into this place, at least I could tolerate it. But this one, look at this...... Hey, this place hurts a lot!

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- I don't know, maybe the meat on the inner thighs is a little more tender? Really...... It's unbearable. I struggled to the shore as I got to the ground, and John slashed the fish-man who had bitten me to death.

- It also hurts in the back of the thigh.

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- I'd love to ask you to try what it's like to be bitten on the back of your thigh.

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-The dirt on your body is two centimeters, come, I can use my hands.

- Rack this guy over to me.

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- Does it hurt?

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- Hmph, she looks like a when she calls.

- Now you know how much it hurts, right?

-There was a lot of blood shedding, but I couldn't care about it anymore, and five or six fishmen came out of the water, they were supposed to be not that big, but the most disgusting thing happened very quickly.

- Have you ever seen a fish call?

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- This thing will call! Not only is the sound unpleasant, but it is also very loud. They screamed, and a large area came out of the surrounding pond one after another! You don't want to see that kind of sight!

-The sight of the fish crowding and rolling in the water is a little panicked, not to mention the group of monsters emerging from the water!

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-Run! Only run! Do you care so much at this time?

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- How much does that matter? Life matters, the pants will be there later!

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-Ha? Isn't that interesting?

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- It's not that easy to run away, after all, it's not a place to run casually, and soon we were caught up.

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- Yes, fight!

- Look at me this ......

- That's what they bite off.

- They don't give you time to think at all, they're just the kind of whining and rushing up. I'm curious how they get running around this muddy swamp. It's really amazing! Ordinary people can only sink deeper and deeper when they step into it, but these monsters can walk like flying on the water.

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- Chop, slash and chop. If you are bitten on your body, you will immediately throw it off or cut it off. In the end, we kept slashing with our backs against a big tree.

-I don't know how they were killed, but when the fish finally retreated, the side of the tree was stained red with blood. The corpses of the fish-men were laid out in a large area, and the two of us were even more scarred.

- Most of these scars were left at that time.

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- Didn't count how many were killed in the end, in short, a lot.

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- Well, of course, after killing them, I was able to retrieve my pants and the bow and shield that I had thrown there.

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- Of course, bows and arrows should never be easily discarded. I'd rather have no sword in my hand than throw away my bow and arrows.

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- John's Wounded ...... Actually, it's not light. Anyway, I know a little bit about herbalism, and this pile of fish-man corpses can make us eat for two days. Although it eventually decomposed, the two of us survived the days after the injury with the corpses of these fishmen.

- And the skins of these things have a special purpose.

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-Peel it off and stick it to the wound, the wound heals quickly!