Chapter 15: The Strange Fish

The boat is on the water, and the shore on either side is a somewhat barren mountain range. The water here is not all transparent, nor is it pitch black, for some reason, it looks faintly green, and it is not the healthy turquoise color, but.... It's a weird green color like chemical pollution.

Andy looked at the endless water, and between the undulating waves was the bottomless bottom of the lake.

The ship's propellers were spinning rapidly, and the boat, powered by a small nuclear generator, was not very fast, but at that rate it was believed that they would be able to reach the western edge of the Buraku-controlled territory in the east, and then continue walking east until they reached their destination.

The bald head sat in the cab with a gun and smoked, and every now and then he twitched a few times, and the dog next to him drooled and his eyes were red, making people feel as abnormal as his owner.

Kant and Milolo and the others were always vigilant, and the guns did not leave them for a moment, but when they reached the water, the space became more cramped, and the situation naturally became more dangerous.

Most of the people here don't know how to swim at all, and the glowing green water doesn't look like it's perfect for bathing, in case something happens....

"What the hell... It wasn't so exaggerated here before. Captain Adich stood at the bow of the ship and stared at the surrounding waters, as if his brow was furrowed at something he had not expected.

"What's wrong?" Andy asked curiously.

"Lake Mead has always been polluted, I don't know why, but only some areas used to have dirty water, and most of the area was clean... It's no wonder that the water purifiers in Hoover Dam City downstream can no longer produce clean water suitable for human drinking, and the situation upstream is already so bad, if it continues like this..."A sneer came from behind, and the bald head muttered something that others didn't understand as he slashed open the can in his hand with a knife.

"What are you talking about? Who do you think this is because of? As a result, there is no difference between everyone, it is the same everywhere...."Several people in the caravan looked at each other a few times, and they all showed puzzled expressions, and finally pretended not to hear.

That bald head sometimes makes some weird babbles, and I'm afraid that my brain is a little unconscious all the time, and if I stimulate him too much, it really makes people worry about whether he will do something terrible that hurts others and himself.

The can seemed to be a little difficult to pry open, and the bald head moved more and more, until in the end he almost frantically stabbed the can with a knife.

His dog seemed to be very hungry and barked in disgust all the time. Suddenly, the bald head stopped his movements and stabbed the dog in the neck.

The dog screamed and then fell to the ground and convulsed, the dog's blood suddenly gushed out of its veins, and the strong smell of blood spread, and the bloody scene made Dimarson, who was wearing a hood, retch.

The bald head stood next to the dog, and was immediately sprayed with dog blood, but he didn't react, just grabbed the dying dog and threw it overboard.

"What are you doing? Are you crazy? Adic suddenly became very angry. The bald head wiped the dog blood on his body with a dirty towel with a nonchalant face, but it didn't have any effect.

He bared his teeth and threw away the towel. Miloro walked to the side of the boat and saw that the dead dog had gradually sunk, and the dog's blood was gradually spreading in the water.

"Get your guns ready." Adich scanned the water from side to side with a nervous face, and after a while, the place where the dead dog had sunk just now began to tumble abnormally, and some things had been attracted by the smell of blood from the corpse and began to compete for food.

Everyone on the boat looked nervously at the place where the water was splashing, no one knew if those monsters would be stimulated to be ferocious and not satisfied with a small dead dog, the target of the ship on the water was too big, and it was impossible for those guys not to detect it.

"What's that?" Andy saw some terrifyingly shaped black shadows swimming rapidly under the green water, and the corpse should have been torn to pieces soon, as some parts fluttered in the water and disappeared in the blink of an eye after a grunt.

"This water area is overflowing with witch snakes, and there are some strange mutated big fish and crabs, no one has counted what monsters there are, we had better not have a chance to know." Adich grabbed the rope of the two-headed cow, and judging by his expression, he didn't want to stay around for a second.

But at this moment, the bald head actually turned off the engine, and the ship was docked not far from those underwater monsters.

Faced with everyone's stunned expressions, the guy staggered and took out a fishing rod from a box, and then began to skewer the meat pieces in the can on the fishing hook, and actually started fishing.

He pulled out a rusty metal stool and sat on the side of the boat, scooping a basin of dirty green water with a broken basin to wash away the dog's blood, and this operation succeeded in getting the others to take a step back.

"He used to be like this?" Andy watched in disbelief as the bald head threw the rod into the water as if no one was around.

"Last time..... If I knew, I would never have been on board. Adich gritted his teeth and shouted at the bald head.

"Hell, if you're not afraid of death, you can do whatever you want, hurry up and start the ship!" The bald head turned a deaf ear, sitting on a stool and shaking his head.

"Uninformed coward, Lao Tzu is hungry, come early in the morning to disturb Lao Tzu, I am going to fish here now!" Adich covered his head and sighed.

"Hell! If you're hungry, I've got something to eat, what are you doing? Not to mention wasting time, what if some scary guys popped up all the time? The bald head had a nonchalant expression.

"Lao Tzu doesn't eat the same thing as shit made by your caravan, I love to eat the fish in this water, I don't feel comfortable if I don't eat it for a day, you don't talk nonsense, give me a quiet wait." Seeing that the madman was not entering, Adich turned around and motioned to Andy and Milolo with fierce eyes to use more direct means

"Persuasion", the two then took up their weapons and walked towards the bald head.

"You...."Andy had just said a word, when the bald head suddenly jerked the rod out of the water, and the splash and the struggling thing at the end shut him up.

On closer inspection, the thing that had been dragged onto the deck was a large fish, about half an arm's length; The fish was covered in thick scales, the color of the water was sickly green, its eyes were so large that it took up almost half of its head, and its large mouth was full of fangs.

Filthy growths grow on the fins of fish, and it appears to have a bug in one of its eyes.

Overall, this thing is disgusting to watch.

"Haha..."The bald head picked up the knife and walked over and inserted it into the eye of the big fish, and then pulled out the yellow-brown parasitic worm-like thing that wriggled in the eye with his fingers and threw it into the water, and the blackened rancid smell of fish blood splashed everywhere.

Andy's scalp tingles from disgust. Miloro watched as the bald head was disemboweling with a knife, trying to stop him as he was about to eat the fish.

"You can't eat that fish, and if you eat it, you'll die." The bald head raised his head and carried the half-disposed dead fish in his hand, looked at Milolo with provocative eyes, and pointed the sharp knife in his hand at him, intentionally or unintentionally.

"You know a fart, I've eaten all the fish in this lake, and this one tastes the best.... Anyone who hasn't eaten it won't understand how delicious this fish really is, especially its internal organs. Hahaha, mix some spirits when stewing, I don't know who tastes fragrant. Milolo pointed to the fish's hollow eye sockets.

"Do you know what that bug you picked out just now? It was the larvae of the witch snake, and the fish had eaten the dead body that had been laid by the witch snake, and it was also parasitized by the eggs of the witch snake, and even if you stewed the fish, you would be poisoned to death. The bald head was stunned for a moment, watched the fish in his hand swim uncertainly, and finally rolled his eyes to rehang the fish on the fishing hook.

"Okay, then I'll use this thing to see if I can catch a bigger one, I haven't tried it yet." Adich couldn't bear it anymore when he heard that he was still going fishing.

"You bastard, you've already collected half of your money, why are you still wasting time here? We're going to get to the east as soon as possible, we don't have time to go fishing here with you! The bald head stalked his neck and fired a shot into the air as he threw the rod.

"Lao Tzu killed a dog and beat the nest, you said you can leave? If you pay me half of the money, I'll do half of the work first, anyway, I'm already here, this is Lao Tzu's boat, Lao Tzu can do whatever he wants! I'm telling you, if I'm not happy, none of you will be able to land! Adich almost sneered.

"Do it!" Milolo raised his hand and fired the shotgun away from the bald head, and Andy walked over and kicked the metal stool under the bald head's buttocks, causing the unresponsive bald head to fall to the ground.

After a barrage of punches and kicks, Andy managed to grab his arm and twist it behind his back to press his bald head to the ground, and the bastard roared and struggled, but could not escape from Andy's pincer-like arm.

The bald head was then beaten by a group, and Kant tried to ask for the ship's activation code, but the bald head remained uncooperative, either by using foul language, or by deliberately giving the wrong password and then laughing at him.

How to get the password out of this guy's mouth became a new question. Milolo came up with a few ideas, such as smashing the lower body with the butt of a gun, kneeling on the bottle cap, violently breaking his fingers, etc.... But everyone thought that these operations were too much like the work of the marauders, or that they were emulating those madmen, and many caravans had been attacked by marauders and some members were taken and tortured, and this kind of practice was also despised by everyone.

Andy pushed Kant away and motioned for himself to try it first, and he grabbed the bald chin, his eyes staring straight into his eyes.

"If we can't get to shore, we'll have to stay here, don't you like fishing? Let's try to see what the effect of using people to make a nest is, take your clothes and tie them up with rope and throw them into the water to soak them, and skewer a few pieces of meat under you to see if we can catch a good fish. The bald head looked at his fierce face and twitched his eyelids, and finally reluctantly said the password.

Adich ordered the bald head to be tied, and the ship was restarted after entering the code. Andy and Milolo are kicked into the pitch-black bilge by the bald head and return to the deck, where they see the bald rod still there, stuck in the fence from the chaos, the line still submerged in the water.

Suddenly, the line straightened.