In the sound of flipping books.

The sun begins to set in the west.

Sean in the back row of Citroen put down a few pages of information and rubbed his sore eyes,

"Kenny, I'm almost done with the information, and I've only found a few monsters that slightly match the description of Wanda's pale blue, dolphin round head - water monkeys, craken, sirens, water ghosts, lake monsters..."

"Among them, water monkeys, water ghosts, and sirens can confuse people with illusions and songs, do you think there is one of them hidden in the long lake? Bewildered Martha at night half a year ago? ”

"These three monsters have no compassion or humanity, and purely treat humans as food." Dean put down a thick book in his hand, "As soon as they catch their prey, they will use their fangs and claws to brutally dissect and devour their favorite parts. ”

"And Martha came into contact with the things in the lake for half a year before dying. The body remains intact after death, which is inconsistent with the hunting habits of the three-headed creature. ”

"All suspicious subjects have been ruled out in the data, right?" Sean sighed listlessly, "What's next?" ”

Dean stared out the window at the road and his eyes turned, he had asked Professor Aiden of Alamo University and Dr. Sean of the Hawkins Laboratory to help investigate this monster, but no news had come back so far.

"Maybe the monsters in the Long Lake are unique and have never been recorded in any materials?" Dean mused, "Let's drive around Long Lake and visit the fishermen who live near the lake, they know the lake area best, and if there are monsters in it, they must know something." ”

"Good idea, but we should visit another person first." Sean said with a complicated expression,

Dean understood what he meant in an instant and drove the car to the "Bridge Pier Antique Shop".

Mrs. Carmody still stood quietly behind the glass counter in her bright orange pants suit, dozing off with an indescribable smell of her chunky body covered with all sorts of strange jewelry.

She's like a goosebump witch who lives in a bizarre tree hole, waiting for a young hardcover man to come to her door to die.

The first time the two stepped into the antique shop, her dim eyes like oil lamps blinked twice, and instantly lit up like flames.

A strong desire is coming.

"Coming back so soon," Carmody looked at Dean expectantly, "have you caught the evil thing in the lake?" ”

"Unfortunately, not yet." Dean walked over to the counter and subconsciously touched the three fluffy raccoon specimens, "But we've found some of the monster's basic features, the pale blue, the smooth head..."

Dean told what he had heard from Wanda's mouth and the information he had distilled.

"You've lived near the Long Lake for decades and know the supernatural realm, can you tell me what kind of monster this is?"

Camody glared at the two of them with dissatisfied, "The abacus is fine, and you want the old woman to work for a day?" But you are too naïve, I want to know the details of the evil thing, why do you entrust others to do it? ”

Dean looked at her in silence with a penetrating gaze,

"Damn it! I can only provide a few free messages," Carmody said, as if he had suffered a big loss, "I have visited the fishermen by the lake and the old people who have lived there all their lives, but they have not seen a single hair of the monster." ”

"There have never been rumors of monsters in the Long Lake Basin. Otherwise, as soon as Marsha died, the legend of the lake monster would have spread throughout Pier Town. ”

Dean and Sean looked at each other and saw the disappointment on each other's faces, and the fishermen didn't have to visit.

"But there was an ecological inspector at Long Lake who gave me a few special clues." "In the past two years, for unknown reasons, the water quality of Long Lake has improved significantly, but the fish production has been abnormally reduced, about one-tenth less. ”

"The climate, the humidity of the lake, and the temperature don't fluctuate much, so it stands to reason that there shouldn't be such a huge drop, unless—"

"Unless something foreign eats the fish?" Dean blurted out with a move in his eyes,

"Yes, it could only be the lake monster that is doing it." Carmody gave him an appreciative look, "It has a lot of appetite, more than 200 kilometers of river basins, and one-tenth of the reduction in production is also dozens of tons." In this way, its size is probably not inferior to that of an adult shark. ”

Sean next to him couldn't believe it when he heard this, "Such a huge evil thing, and it needs to eat a lot of fish, why have the fishermen never found any traces of its activities?" This doesn't make sense. ”

After Sean's words, the silence in the antique shop seemed to last for a century.

Carmody's unkempt gray hair broke the silence a little,

"This is the crux of the matter, and I have done a lot of analysis, and I can only come to a slightly reasonable conclusion - the naked eye cannot see the evil thing in this lake, so it can always live in the lake secretly."

Ordinary people can't see what's in the lake?

Dian shook his head.

"Alright, you two, I've said it all, the next task is up to you, just bring it to me, whether you live or die, the Celent rune belongs to you." With a wave of his hand, Camodi began to send off guests, "Don't let me down. ”

……

Crunch...

The wooden door of the antique shop opened.

The two re-entered the white world of ice and snow.

The sun shone down on their faces, reflecting the cool thoughts between their eyebrows.

"Man, according to Carmody, that lake monster will be invisible?" Sean pulled the car door and sat in the back seat, "Only when it actively appears, can humans see it through their eyes, like Martha and Wanda?" ”

"It doesn't have to be invisible, it's a water monster that lives in a lake, and it should have some kind of water-related superpower.

"What do you mean?"

"I'll check first."

Dean got in the car and returned to the long lake, arranged for Sean, and walked alone to the ice cave, where the shallows were still soaked and supervised by the fish to search for the bottom of the lake.

"It's useless to search like this, so change the search method." Dean teleported to the shallow shores, "You ask, are there any fish that have noticed that their kind around them have inexplicably decreased, as if they have been eaten by something, but they can't see the attacker?" ”

The shallow beach didn't move immediately, the four-petal mouth opened and closed, sixteen eyes blinked, and wailed, "Master, I'm so miserable, a big catfish swallowed me in my stomach just now, and I almost never see you again." ”

"Don't complain, go quickly, the energy has doubled in the past two days!"

The shallows gurgled into the blue water, and the general swept through the slippery scales like a soldier, silently communicating.

It doesn't take half an hour.

Standing on the back of a dogfish patrolling the shallows, a message came back,

"The owner is right, after inspection, the 5th Sturgeon Brigade No. 25, the 3rd Dogfish Brigade No. 10... A total of 20 fish of the same type were reported missing for no apparent reason. ”

"Good fellow, did you still put the fish in line?" Dean amusedly asked, "And when did their latest disappearance happen?" ”

"Just last night."

"When we searched the bottom of the lake?"

"Yes."

Dean looked at the ice cave, his expression becoming solemn, "That monster is moving right under my nose. ”

After Shadow is upgraded to level 5, its perception far exceeds that of ordinary people, and it is especially sensitive to energy fluctuations.

God's perspective will not even leak a speck of dust in the air, and with Dean's vision, even a ghost has nowhere to hide. Together, they couldn't find the monster.

"Its ability is not just stealth to change the color of the body, but more like the ability to 'hydrate', breaking down the body into water molecules and merging it into the lake, so that it can be called elusive."

"How do I find it? And then how do you prevent it from escaping? ”

Dean thought about it and returned to the lake to meet up with Shaun, who was running, and brainstormed together.

"The fishermen can't see this monster, not even you and me." Sean reached out and sharpened his claws on the rough bark of a pine tree, "Then why did it take the initiative to show up to Martha and meet Martha many times at night for half a year?" ”

Dean looked at the endless lake, "There's something about Martha that attracts it. ”

Sean said to himself, "What could it be?" ”

Dean mused, "Martha is a young girl, not an adult, who has lost her parents and grandfather. ”

"The most important point is that half a year ago, the day Martha first saw the thing in the lake, she was very badly bullied at school and was heartbroken... This intense sentimentality attracted the lake monster? ”

Sean nodded, "It's not sooner or later, it's that day, it's very likely." So, first of all, it has to be a young child to let the things in the lake let their guard down. Secondly, you have to have a lot of mood swings to attract it? ”

Dean's pupils constricted to a point, sharp as a goshawk staring at its prey, "Try it." It lives in the lake and is a big fish, so we catch it with the right bait! ”

Bait, fishing?

Sean's eyelids jumped, "You mean it's too cruel to use a child to seduce a monster, right?" Would that hurt him? ”

"There's no need to put other kids in danger." Dean looked at the mimicry skill in the system, "I'll do it myself." ”

……

As night fell, the moon rose high in the sky.

In the dark bedroom bed on the second floor of Villa 120 Lakeside Road, Billy, who was snorting softly and falling into a sweet dream, suddenly had a sewing needle-like wound on his arm.

A few drops of blood flew out into the mouth of a dark shadow standing nearby, and he stroked Billy's wound with his fingertips, which disappeared like the folds of an electric iron.

The black shadow's tall body suddenly shrank inward, his arms and thighs became thinner and shorter, and his angular face turned into a small blonde face with soft lines and childishness, and the down jacket and jeans that had been fitting slipped loosely to the ground.

The dark shadow's pale blue eyes looked at his teenage body, and beckoned to the wardrobe against the wall in the bedroom, a small cotton jacket, black children's pants, and children's leather boots automatically flew onto his smooth body.

He looked in the mirror, his expression with a kind of childish stubbornness, and he was the other Billy Drayton.

"The bait is ready."

The black shadow grabbed the clothes on the ground, jumped forward, and floated out of the right window of the bedroom, landing on the side of the villa.

Sean in the bushes ran out, his eyes scanning in amazement over his thin-armed, thin-legged, makeover companion, "Kenny? ”

"Well, it's me." Dean put on a straight face and said in a milky voice, "Let's go, go fishing farther away, cough cough..."

"Unbelievable, what a magical power, such a tall and strong man, actually turned into a little radish head, you look much cuter now, let my uncle touch it." Sean walked side by side beside Dean, looking down at his round head reflecting soft gold, and couldn't help but touch his big rough hand,

"Get out, don't touch me! I'm not interested in men. Dean pushed Sean's messy hand away and glared at him viciously, the murderous intent in his eyes that made the latter tremble.

Memories go back to the time when I was abused last night.

"I'm sorry, Kenny, I swear I won't offend your majesty again." Sean raised his hands and slowly followed behind his companion who was a few sizes younger, like a fart, "But I have a question, you will be transformed, is that Mexican face that I was shown earlier real?" ”

Dean couldn't help but turn around and glance at Sean in surprise, he could actually think of this,

"No, you will see me for what I am when I enter Midian, don't speak, you can stay away later, and wait for my signal." Dean took a deep breath and began to brew feelings of sadness, imagining the painful deaths of his friends and family, or waking up to find that he was still the poor and pathetic Luthor of his previous life.

Thanks to the fact that the spirit is a little beyond the will, the mind is lively.

He easily mobilized his emotions, and his eyes were faintly red.

But this emotion was far from strong enough, Dean simply took out a large bottle of whiskey from the space, tilted his head and poured it down.

Bottle after bottle.

It seems to be endless.

……

Eleven o'clock in the evening.

The moonlight fell on the ice of the long lake like flowing water, shining a low, white frozen air.

A little boy staggered on the ice, rubbing his reddened eyes and muttering with a sour throat,

"Martha... Whining... Where are you..."

"We made an appointment to celebrate our birthday together... Why not come today..."

"Martha... Whining... Are we still best friends? ”

A crisp cry passed over the icy lake, as the night breeze dispersed into the invisible darkness in the distance.

The little boy cried out with his hands around his chest, his petite body trembling, like a helpless stray cat.

As if he was tired of crying, he lay near an ice cave by the lake, staring at the blue water and the shocking cold of the lake, and the reflection of his own blond hair, and called,

"Martha, are you in there? I have something to tell you..."

"Ever since you left, none of my friends have been gone."

"Wanda is sick and doesn't care about me anymore..."

"Those bastards at school, calling me an ominous monster, I hurt you."

The boy sniffled, and his immature voice trembled,

"David and Stephen quarrel all day long... Whining... Divorce is coming. ”

"Stephen is tired and doesn't want to take care of me anymore. David was going back to New York for an exhibition, and he thought I was a drag. ”

"Mom and Dad don't want me anymore... Woo..."

Tick, tick...

Drops of crystal tears slid down the little boy's frozen red face into the lake, causing strange ripples.

"I sneaked out... There is nowhere to go and no friends..."

"Martha, I just want to see you one more time, I promise anything, I swear..." The boy crawled halfway into the hole in the ice, got his head down and on his feet, and stretched out his hand tremblingly towards the surface of the lake, his little thumb upward, less than five centimeters above the water.

Like the little beggar of the Supplicant and the Holy One's mercy.

But he lay on his stomach in the cold wind for two full minutes, and the lake did not give any response.

He couldn't help but close his eyes, his nose let out a whimper like a wounded little beast, and when he opened his eyes again, a trace of determination flashed in his eyes full of tears.

"Martha, can't you pull your hand?"

"I'll lean a little closer, I'll get closer to you, please..."

The boy leaned downward, trying to reach out to the water, and most of his body was buried in the ice hole.

When he finally managed to touch the water, he completely lost his balance.

Boom, a splash of water splashed on the surface of the lake, and the waves engulfed the petite body, and the cold water of the lake froze his whole body to lose its blood, and frantically poured into his nose and mouth, and his feet and right hand swayed clumsily like a wild dog in the water.

But the left hand was still stiff and weirdly straight, and the little thumb seemed to hook the other finger upwards.

But there was no response.

Gradually, the boy ceased to struggle, and like a corpse soaked in formalin, slowly sank to the bottom of the dark and silent lake, where he was about to be buried in eternal darkness.

Grunt.

A series of huge bubbles suddenly rose from the bottom of the water, and one of them wrapped the boy in motion, like amniotic fluid to protect the baby.

Then the darkness burst into a royal blue, soft, and beautiful light.

Puff puff, blue light flickered brightly and darkly, like the call of a giant firefly.

Faster and faster, more and more urgent.

When the light reaches its brightest point.

The invisible stream of water converged towards the blue light, and in the blink of an eye, it condensed into a large and flexible body—

The torso is as wide and flat as a turtle, without scales, horns, scars, or wrinkles, smooth and delicate, showing a dark blue color.

In front of the torso is a slender and soft neck like a sea snake and a round head, and a pair of large pale blue eyes on both sides of the head are shining, like two translucent gems, dotted with dreamy stardust, people can't help but look at its soul through the eyes, and peek into the deep secrets of the starry sky.

Woo Buzz –

It swam towards the boy, swaying its tail with colorful feathers as if it were dancing merrily.

At the same time, four thick and short feet paddle like oars, each of these feet with duck-like webs attached to each toe, gently flick in the water, and with the swaying colored tail fin, it allows it to speed through the water at a speed of more than 100 meters per second.

The human world swimming champion, yachts are hard to match.

It approached the drowning boy in the bubble like an arrow, pushed its head against the other's body, swam to the ice hole, and gently threw the boy onto the ice.

Under the impact of the landing, the boy vomited out a stomach of water with a painful expression and regained his breathing.

Woo Buzz –

Seeing this, the mysterious creature under the ice let out a deep and long cry, like an aria of a long lake, which made people clearly feel the joy and excitement in it.

The surface of the lake ripples in circles, as if celebrating its feat.

It didn't notice at all, and a dangerous light shot into the rescued boy's eye - got you!

Bang!

Invisible telekinesis detonates under the ice!

A large area of the lake seems to have been hit by an extraterrestrial meteorite, the ice sinks, and the crystal water waves pour out with vigorous cold air, throwing them in the air, and before they land, they are solidified into odd-shaped icicles at low temperatures, which are displayed horizontally on the broken ice, like snow-white forests covering the rolling mountains.

Before the frost condensed, a huge force had enveloped the behemoth in the lake, lifting it out of the lake and lifting it into the air.

What a beautiful creature it is.

The slender snake neck and thick body reflected a pure, bright blue in the bright moonlight, like the finest jade, and the beauty was breathtaking.

And the huge pale blue eyes above his head flashed a touch of human horror and doubt, and it did not understand why it was suddenly attacked.

It let out a low roar, and its massive body suddenly exploded into streams of clear water, smashing down like a waterfall in an attempt to escape back into the lake.

But there was already a flawless mental barrier waiting around, firmly blocking the path of every stream of water, compressing it inward with a hundred tons of monstrous force, pressing them back into the shape of beautiful creatures.

The little boy who had risen up on the ice clenched his fist, and the shadow hovering behind him clenched his fist.

Calorie deprivation!

Cracking sound.

Layers of crystal clear frost spread up the monster's four stubby legs, freezing most of its body in an instant, turning it into a wonderful, mist-shrouded sculpture of suspended ice.

Dean stared at its only exposed pale blue eyes,

It was soaked with green droplets, like the tears of the forest and the river, with bursts of buzzing and wailing sobs, which made his heart tremble.

(End of chapter)