It was raining outside, and it was dripping.

Bai Su put away his hand, and the white branches and buds returned to his fingertips, sparing the lives of the humans on the ground.

I don't know when the rain fell, maybe it was after the first drops of water fell from the eaves and hit the stone slabs with a snapping sound, and the rain shone from the illusion into reality.

The black-haired youth left the room next to the two humans, opened the door, and a damp and fresh smell of mountain rain came to his face.

Bai Su quickly closed the door and helped the people in the house to close the windows so that they would not catch a cold.

He's a monster for the sake of humanity.

Boasting in his heart, Bai Su poked his head out slightly from under the eaves, stretched out his hand, and felt the rain fall into his palm, and then slip between his fingers.

Rain seems to be just ordinary rain, nothing special.

It's rather strange why it rains here.

In the afternoon, when there was still the Internet, everyone also turned over the weather forecast, and if you have missed it, you can forget it, but in the future, it should be rainless for three days.

What's more, there are no clouds in the sky.

A miserable white crescent moon hung high above the dark sky, and the rain that was born out of nowhere slanted down, pouring the already damp ground even more muddy.

The black-haired young man stood in the courtyard and looked up at the sky, but he couldn't find the shadow of the clouds for a long time.

Bai Su rummaged through his knowledge of barren natural phenomena, even the sun and rain need the existence of clouds, and the moon rain should also need it, right?

Standing in the rain for a while, the black-haired young man suddenly listened with his ears pricked up, and then his footsteps moved.

Bai Su walked in the direction of the courtyard wall.

He hesitated between leaning against the wall and sitting on the persimmon tree in the courtyard, and chose the latter.

If you sit on a tree, the tree can also provide some shelter.

So the black-haired young man jumped lightly onto the tree, and he leaned on the trunk of the tree to look out, and saw the faint lights floating on the road in the distant village.

There was also a faint fog in the rainy village, but the fog was not thick but still reduced visibility.

The lights flickered and flickered closer and closer, and when he got closer, Bai Su realized that it was a villager wandering on the road with a flashlight, his face seemed to have glanced at him during the day, and the other party had been introduced by Wen Jianyuan.

During the day, the name of the village is still a simple and honest face, and when it rains late at night, that face changes.

The black-haired young man raised his hands to look like a telescope in front of him, but in fact, a white branch stretched out from the treetops under the cover of the rain.

The branches of the trees were distinctly white, but they were not so striking in the darkness of night and rain.

Getting closer, Bai Su saw that the villagers' faces, which were supposed to belong to people, had been deformed, and they began to bulge forward from the midline of the face, especially the chin, the tip of the nose, and the forehead, which were so bulging that they became a little ugly.

The same is true for the rest of the parts, as if a fisheye filter is installed, and the two eyes are no longer flat on the surface, but one left and one right are embedded there, and the ears also give birth to some fin-like shapes.

If Bai Su evaluates, he thinks that humans are still a bit like fish at this time.

But...... Is this the costume for the mermaid?

Bai Su recalls a fantasy story written by humans, and believes that the transformed form of the villagers is more like a mermaid than a mermaid.

The former has a human body with a fishtail, and the latter has a fishhead and human legs.

The former can be beautiful...... Oh no, it can be ugly.

Bai Su remembered some human horror movies, and the next ○ Dao Mei ○ fish or something, so ugly that it was unappetizing.

It seems that it is also one of the few thriller movies that has been judged by Bai Su and cannot be used for dinner.

But the fish man is undoubtedly ugly, no matter how to put the human legs and fish head together, it is a hunting scene, and the villagers outside the courtyard are fortunate that the mutation is not so outrageous, and they still have their hands.

The villagers swayed their flashlights closer and closer, as if they were just patrolling aimlessly.

At the end of the trail, in front of the house where they were staying, the villagers turned towards the gate with their heads grunting.

He was observing something, a pair of bulging eyes looking up and down, and finally raised his hand that was not holding a flashlight, his fingers spread like a frog, and several thin webs were connected between his fingers.

Not knowing what he touched or left behind on the door, the villager stayed close to the door for a while.

He stayed for a long time, and Bai Su couldn't help but bend his eyes from the air.

Only one eyeball poked out of it, and the lonely villager could not see him, so he generously walked around the back of the villager to observe.

The door was left with slippery slime, as if some aquatic creature had crawled over it, leaving traces of its arrival.

— also like a marker.

The fish-eyed villager who was concentrating on painting on the door was happily smeared when suddenly his bulging eyes caught something, and the person turned his head.

However, he saw nothing.

In the blind spot of the fish's eye perspective, an eyeball suspended in the air spun around behind the villager.

The villager spun around in place, perhaps because he had never found anything he cared about in his 160-degree field of vision, so he could only turn his head suspiciously and continue to face the gate, repeating his movements.

And the eyeballs shook and remembered something.

The phone is out of signal rather than out of order, which means that he can use some functions that are not connected to the Internet.

For example, the camera function.

The eyeballs slowly and leisurely retracted, and when they reappeared, they changed shape, protruding from the sides with slender branches, and the ends branched out into five thinner ones, resembling fingers.

The "hand" held the phone in front of the eyeball and adjusted the angle.

The camera with the sound and flash turned off in advance did not attract the attention of the fisheye villagers, and Bai Su even took several perspectives to record his movements completely outside the villagers' field of vision.

You can look back at the humans, if they ask...... Let's just say that I have insomnia at night.

His eyes waved absently, still holding his phone seriously.

The villager stoodled back a few steps as if he had completed a task.

At this time, Bai Su noticed that the villagers' shoes did not fit, to be precise, something was born on the soles of their feet, and they lifted the shoes and pushed out a few seams.

It looks like the human foot has also changed, is it the same as the hand of the flippers?

The fisheye villager looked at the gate with satisfaction and nodded his head up and down.

The villagers were going to return the same way, so they re-raised the flashlight to go back and forth, but after walking a few steps, when Bai Su was about to recover his eyeballs and mobile phone, there was a squirming movement in the woods on the side of the road.

Bai Su heard it, and the fisheye villagers heard it a few beats too slowly.

Then the villager jerked his head in the direction from which the sound had come from, and his back arched like a frightened beast, and a gurgling roar came out of his throat.

The light of the flashlight turned towards the woods, and not long after, under the illumination of the light, a black shadow suddenly appeared in the woods.

A familiar shadow, a familiar attack, but the purpose seems to be slightly different.

Bai Su raised his eyeballs for the first time, and the mobile phone he was holding was also hanging in the air.

The rain that changes its landing point with the direction of the wind splashed a few water marks in front of the camera, and the white branch poked out the slender branches and wipes it, and it was still wet after wiping for a long time, so it simply stretched itself out, condensed into an umbrella shape that can be used to shelter from the wind and rain, and finally narrowed the focus of the mobile phone.

After he finished these steps, a person and a black shadow below had already fought.

It may not be appropriate to say that the fight is not appropriate, because the combat effectiveness of the two is a bit worrying in Bai Su's opinion, and it is more like a turn-based coming-and-going.

The fisheye villager lunged forward, and the flashlight fell, leaving a puddle of slime on the ground, and a black shadow sprang out at the same time, slashing through the villager's bare neck, cutting a wound.

The dark red blood immediately flowed, and the villager howled in pain, then turned and grabbed it hard, at a completely different speed from before, and waved his hand downward, scraping some black silt with his flippers, and hammering the black silt to the ground.

- They are hostile.

It's not hard to see this, and the phone camera continues to zoom in.

Bai Su felt that the classification of this fish-eyed villager could not be fully regarded as a human being, and a few wounds drawn by the black mud did not appear in the coma that ordinary humans would have, but his movements were a little slower.

The battle ended up in Fisheye's victory, and he picked up the broken branch by the side of the road and threw it like a harpoon, and the slime-stained broken branch pierced through the black silt and nailed it to the ground.

The fisheye villager walked over slowly, and the whole person was prostrate on the ground.

The camera couldn't capture what he did, and by the time Bai Su put down his phone with his eyes, the villagers had already gotten up from the ground.

The black mud on the dirt floor was gone, leaving only a broken branch inserted into the mud.

After that, the fisheye villagers ignored the obtrusive branches, staggered back to pick up the broken flashlight of the lampshade, and still walked back, as if the battle episode just now had not happened.

Bai Su, who witnessed all this, felt strange.

He took back his phone, pressed the red circle to finish shooting, and repeatedly dragged the progress bar of the recorded video.

The black-haired young man turned his head to look inside the room, and then looked thoughtfully at the dirt path outside the courtyard.

He stroked his wet and hungry hair around his fingertips twice, and finally went down the tree from his heart.

……

Cold, very cold.

The icy waters of the lake poured in from all directions, pressing him downward.

Because he couldn't control himself, Gao Tianyi could only go up and down with his consciousness with the body of "Wen Tao".

Shen did not sink to the bottom of the lake, but continued to rise and fall and re-hold his breath, and occasionally choked on water because of untimely ventilation.

The feeling of choking was not good, not pain, but deprivation of the right to breathe, and the constant influx of liquid between the mouth and nose squeezed the space for oxygen, forcing the person to hold his neck in the struggle.

Call...... Call...... Call.

The sound of heavy breathing was not like that of a child, and "Wen Tao", who had once again been given a chance to get out of the water, pressed one hand to his neck, and the other hand grabbed the clothes on his chest.

The water was sprinkled like a curtain of rain in front of her eyes, it was the water dripping from the bangs on her forehead, and the "girl's" clothes and hair were all wet and sticky to her body, which was even more uncomfortable than when she dived before.

They are being punished.

Because I didn't listen to the adults, I ran to the place where I shouldn't have been.

Just now the man pulled all the children ashore for a training, Gao Tianyi thought it was over, but who expected the man to smile darkly afterwards and asked them, "Who has gone into the water?" ”

Few of the children answered, but under repeated questioning by adults, some of them raised their hands, and some were pointed out by others, and under several accusations, all the children who had gone into the water were led out.

"If you like to play in the water...... Then have enough fun. ”

The adults said that they drove the children into the lake, and dipped their heads in the water again and again, and those who resisted were suppressed, and the strength of the children was nothing compared to the strength of the adults.

"Wen Tao" is of course also one of the people who was pressed into the water, and her situation seems to be a little more complicated.

The adults looked at her and whispered, but Gao Tianyi couldn't hear a word.

He could only hear the words that were constantly muffled, and the adults' words mentioned "Wen Tao"'s parents, and also mentioned what "Wen Tao"'s parents handed over.

What is it? His consciousness sank into the water in the next second, interrupting Gao Tianyi's thoughts.

When he was able to breathe again, he found that there were fewer people on the shore and fewer children being pushed into the water.

But there were no small footprints on the road towards the shore, and Gao Tianyi involuntarily turned his head and looked in the direction of the middle of the lake.

Nothing was to be seen, the surface of the lake was still as sparkling as he had seen it when he came, only the cloud-obscured area had shifted, and the place closer to the shore now looked gloomy.

"Aren't you leaving?" The adult next to him seemed to leave, and the adult who couldn't see his face was about to walk to the shore.

Walk? Didn't they notice that there were fewer people?

Gao Tianyi opened his mouth, and at this time the control of his body seemed to return, and the young man heard the girl ask in her voice, "What about the others?" What about Wen? ”

The first half of the sentence is said by Gao Tianyi himself, and the second half of the sentence is the consciousness of "Wen Tao".

The adults on the shore seemed to be surprised, and replied to Gao Tianyi: "Wen [——]? Didn't that kid leave with his father a long time ago, when his father was teaching just now, he cut off his foot, and now he should be going to the village clinic. ”

Gao Tianyi blinked in confusion, not knowing when something like this happened.

Dreams don't need to be logical.

At the urging of the adults who couldn't see their faces clearly, Gao Tianyi climbed ashore, the lake was still sinking, but he seemed to be used to it, dragging his legs forward.

The adults waited there, and when Gao Tianyi came ashore, he put on a coat for him, and led him down the road to the village.

Gao Tianyi began to silently remember the road, hoping to come to the lake to see after waking up from the dream.

After leaving, the adult who couldn't see his face clearly turned his head and talked to "Wen Tao", and both inside and outside the words were saying that it was wrong for "Wen Tao" to sneak away to the lake with someone naughty this time.

"This is a forbidden thing in the village, and now that you have committed a taboo, it is estimated that you are still in charge of some people in the village...... You have to think about your parents, your parents are [——] in the first place...... When the time comes, in case ......"

The adult who couldn't see his face clearly didn't finish his words, he just shook his head, and everything was just silent.

Gao Tianyi seems to know the identity of the other party, this familiar tone and familiar attitude should be Wen Jianyuan.

Wen Jianyuan sent "Wen Tao" back all the way, passed by his house, changed the coat covered by "Wen Tao" into a towel, and said that he didn't have to return it.

In the end, Gao Tianyi, who was like a chicken in soup, stood at the gate of the courtyard, looking at his "parents" inside the door.

"You ......" Donno pushed his glasses, "have you gone into the water?" ”

(End of chapter)