Chapter 556: The Arrival of the Sea God (Part II)
Jiang Chun, who came up from the water, shook off the shellfish and algae hanging on his body, and did not wear a coat, but he skillfully found a loose pair of pants outside the cabin and put them on, and then squatted next to him to learn to frog call.
Soon two children, a man and a woman, ran out, the eldest looked to be about eight or nine years old, and the younger one should be five or six years old, and behind them was an old woman who was a little hobbly.
The little girl happily shouted next to Jiang Chun: "Sauce, sauce, sauce!"
The little boy smiled and called out in Chinese with a strange accent: "Uncle Jiang!"
Jiang Chun smiled and touched their heads, then spoke a string of Burmese dialect with the same weird accent, sat down cross-legged at the door of the cabin, and while helping them to dispose of the fish that had not yet been processed and prepared to dry it into dried fish for preservation, he chatted with two children and an old man - the two children were teaching him Burmese through what he did and what he did.
Because of his terminal illness, time is running out, Jiang Chun travels around with all his money, wanting to see the world well before he dies, and then quietly "die outside" without letting anyone know - he has no relatives and friends left anyway.
In Montamira, when he saw the "vision of the eight-armed and eight-eyed giant", under the influence of strong fear, he still chose to stop in front of the giant, wanting to end his illness and life in this special way.
However, when the illusion dissipated, under the influence of strong emotions, he suddenly understood what he was really afraid of.
What he is afraid of is not simply dying, but dying alone, painfully, and with nothing, what he is afraid of is that when he is about to disappear in this world, he has not been able to leave any traces in this world, and this world has no memory of him, and this forty-one years of life is so full of regrets.
He chose not to be treated and traveled abroad, on the one hand, because the treatment was too late and had no effect, and he did not have much money to support continuous treatment and high-priced medicines, and on the other hand, it was also to escape.
After Montamira was affected by the projection of fear, he suddenly figured out a lot of things, and clarified what he was most afraid of and what he wanted most.
No matter how much life is left, there is a chance to start doing it, and even if you still have nothing to achieve when you die, you have at least done your best.
Before returning to China, Jiang Chun was going to take one last look at a small island that he had seen in a magazine on the plane, so he went to the beach and chartered a small fishing boat to go there.
Unexpectedly, because of various accidents, he didn't go to the island in the end, and he and his boatman were trapped at sea until the sun went down before returning, and he lost his course and strayed into the local area where illegal activities such as smuggling and smuggling are often carried out.
Jiang Chun's boat performance was average, and the boatman was stunned for a long time and didn't react, so he couldn't escape as soon as he was discovered, and was caught by the gang of people boarding the ship.
The unlucky Jiang Chun and the boatman were both sunk in the sea.
But what I didn't expect was that Jiang Chun, who thought he was going to die, woke up at the bottom of the sea, but his body was bound by heavy objects and he couldn't break free.
Fortunately, he seems to have the ability to breathe underwater, and even in the water, he will not be suffocated.
When, driven by hunger, he caught a fish that was wandering around him, and after sucking the blood of the fish that had been swallowed, he fell into a deep sleep again.
I don't know how long it took, but when he woke up again, the joints that were locked by the weight suddenly could twist in reverse, and the muscles in some parts were much stronger, and he managed to break free.
Jiang Chun spent a lot of time determining his state, and realized that his body had undergone a very miraculous mutation, but now he couldn't eat anything, and when he was hungry, he could only swallow the blood of other animals to relieve it, and every time he drank blood, he had to sleep for a while.
The need to drink blood, which makes him a little unacceptable, because in his cognition, drinking blood is something that some evil beings will do, but after staying in the sea for a while, he was relieved, because he saw a lot of underwater creatures hunting each other, more cruel and bloody, but obviously no one will feel that this kind of predation and hunting between hunters and prey in nature needs to be killed by the label of evil, human beings themselves are also carrying out all kinds of predation, and a lot of meat in the vegetable market and table needs to be slaughtered.
As long as there is a bottom line, don't touch human blood, don't kill for the sake of killing, hunting and eating blood for survival, there doesn't seem to be anything to mind - don't ordinary people have to catch and kill if they want to eat fish?
After figuring it out, Jiang Chun became more and more "like a fish in water" in the sea.
In the water, he gradually felt more comfortable and free than on land, and the weakness and discomfort caused by the illness that he had almost become accustomed to during this time had all disappeared, as if the original Jiang Chun had died, and now he had become a "water ghost".
He had a faint feeling that his resurrection and mutation in the water was probably related to the "eight-armed and eight-eyed giant vision" that Montamira saw.
Or has he now become a creature of the same dimension as the "eight-armed and eight-eyed giant"?
Jiang Chun is very happy in the water, and he is constantly perceiving and enjoying the mutations in his body, and he is making various attempts.
But there was one thing he couldn't let go.
The boatman who sent him to sea was also "dealt with" by the "gang" that night, but the other party was not as interested as him, and he did not come back to life, did not mutate, and died at the bottom of the sea.
He couldn't just let this matter go.
He thought of a lot of treatment plans, but in the end he chose a more secure method, he did not come directly, but in a few days, in the evening, the shipwreck and the corpses that were previously disposed of by the "gang" were brought to the seaside where there were more people living and there were tourists, so that they could be found.
Subsequently, he secretly investigated the places where the smuggling, smuggling, and trafficking gangs hid their goods, wrote down in detail in English on a piece of paper, and threw them into the largest local police station at night.
Next, it's a matter of waiting.
Just in case, Jiang Chun also wrote a manuscript in English about the things he had found out, and the situation of the two dead people he witnessed, and sent them to the media if the police did not act. If it really doesn't work, he is even considering whether to carry out the "punishment" himself and seek justice for the dead.
In the days after the mutation, in addition to thinking about the changes in his body, what he thought about the most was why these things happened, and the "miracles" that happened in Montamira before, the situation when the god-like "eight-armed and eight-eyed giant" came into the world, and it was difficult for him not to connect the two things together.
And this connection, the reflection on various moods, and the experience of the fear at that time, made him think from time to time:
Could it be that his transformation is because the "eight-armed and eight-eyed giant" is granting him power and power on his behalf, giving him a "new life", so that he can become a sharp sword to punish certain evils?
In this process, Jiang Chun saved a little boy who was drowning by chance, and then found that this little boy turned out to be the child of the boatman who went to sea with him before.
The wife of the boat family ran away after his disappearance, leaving behind only two children, a boy and a girl, and an elderly mother who was suffering from multiple illnesses and was dying, and the family's life was in trouble.
Jiang Chun helped the family from time to time, quietly guiding and helping them to salvage some valuable items from the bottom of the sea to sell, and from time to time catch some fish and other excellent seafood to improve their food or sell them in the market for money.
After getting acquainted, he would occasionally come out of the water at night, and he would help the family with tasks such as repairing houses and repairing electrical appliances, while chatting casually with the two children and the elders—learning Burmese from them and teaching them some basic Chinese.
The two children are very fond of Jiang Chun, and they also have a strong affection and longing for China because of him, and they both said that they must go to China to see and go to school in China in the future.
Except for the old and the young, it was not that no one else in the vicinity had seen Jiang Chun.
A few fishermen in the neighborhood saw two children holding the seafood that they could only catch in the deep sea, which was of excellent quality and huge size, and directly accused them of stealing it from themselves, snatched their seafood, and drove them out.
So after knowing this, Jiang Chun quietly touched the fishermen's houses that night and gave them a simple "warning" - drawing a few simple symbols of "eight-armed and eight-eyed giants".
Later, when the fishermen went out to sea to fish, they did something to their boats at sea, fulfilling the "warning" he left behind, and frightened them.
After that, the two children went to the market to sell seafood, and the fishermen did not dare to bully them again.
Although some time has passed since the mass illusion incident of Montamira, the impact of that incident is still fermenting in various parts of Myanmar.
Especially in the folk places, the more backward the place, the more awe of the "eight-armed and eight-eyed giant", there are all kinds of speculations and associations. The effect is also great among those who go out to sea to fish.
Jiang Chun knew this, so he used the name of "eight-armed and eight-eyed giant" to deter.
Judging by the results, it's still good.
Today, Jiang Chun went to the children's homes to help them do some work, learn a few words of Burmese, and learn a little about the situation by the way.
Knowing from the old woman that the police still did not take any action, and the few gang members involved in human lives were still at large, Jiang Chun realized that he could not count on the Burmese police.
As he pondered, the little boy took his hand and showed him a picture he had drawn in the past few days.
It was a portrait of an eight-armed and eight-eyed giant, and there were two Chinese characters written crookedly underneath - justice.
These are the two Chinese characters he taught the little boy to recognize the other day.
Jiang Chun smiled, and was about to take the painting and say something, when he suddenly heard some special movements.
After the mutation, his sensory abilities in the water have been greatly enhanced, and he can sense the movements in the water around him through the fluff around him, and he has also strengthened his ability to see things underwater.
But on land, although he has not degraded to the point where he cannot breathe or move, he does not gain significantly either.
The only exception to this is on land, where he is sensitive to any sound of water, such as the swaying of liquid in a container, such as the sound of stepping on water.
Just now he was very sensitive to notice that in the woods not far from the cabin, something had stepped on the puddle, and judging by the sound and movement, it should be a person. From the location, it was a great place to spy on the chalet.
Jiang Chun was alert and asked the old man and the children to go back to the house, while he himself ran quickly towards the beach, as long as he returned to the water, he was not afraid.
But just a few steps after running, suddenly a searchlight came over and locked on Jiang Chun's figure.
It was a pickup truck on the road in the distance, and it looked like it was from the police, but soon, Jiang Chun found the guy running out of the dense forest next to the road with various weapons in his hands.
He saw the gang leader who had instructed his men to throw him and the boatman into the sea.
Jiang Chun instantly understood why the clues he provided were so detailed, and the bodies of the two victims were also found, but the police never took action against the gang.
This group of guys is a gang at all!
Jiang Chun turned his head and began to accelerate into the water, but he didn't run a few steps when he found that there were also speedboats coming over the sea, and some people were even pointing guns at this side.
This group of guys came prepared.
Jiang Chun realized that it was likely that some of his previous activities exposed his whereabouts, and then the gang knew that someone had reported it, so they connected the situation on both sides - after all, the old and the young were the family members of the murdered boatman.
Jiang Chun regretted that he was not careful enough, and he also underestimated the power background and the degree of ferocity and audacity of those people.
The leader of the gang, with long braids and tattoos on his neck and arms, walked to the edge of the hut, and his men took out the two children and the old woman, took out a machete and put it on the little boy's neck, and looked at Jiang Chun:
"Where's that brother, and you wrote that email in English?"
The leader spoke Burmese, and although Jiang Chun couldn't understand it all, he could probably understand what he meant through a few words.
Although he was nervous, he turned his face in the direction of the leader so that they could see his face through the searchlight, and then replied loudly in Burmese: "I, Haili!
In the whole sentence, only the word "eight-eyed and eight-armed god" is the smoothest.
The leader didn't seem to understand too much, and asked the person next to him, and then laughed, he looked down and saw the little boy's drawing paper clutched in his hand, grabbed it, and spat on it: "What bullshit!"
A young man with a short stature and earrings next to him couldn't help but whisper a reminder: "Brother Hui, this 'eight-eyed god' appeared in Montamira, it is very famous, and it is said to be the ...... in charge of fear and life and death."
The more he spoke, the quieter he became, and halfway through his words, he didn't dare to say any more, because the ringleader "Brother Hui" was looking at him with cruel eyes.
"Brother Hui" suddenly raised his hand and tore the little boy's painting to shreds, and scolded: "Lao Tzu came out to mingle, he never believed in any ghosts and gods, Lao Tzu is the biggest ghost!"
Jiang Chun brushed away his long hair and shouted, "Look at who I am!"
He originally wanted to use his identity as the "deceased" who was killed by the other party to deter the other party, so that the other party was jealous, and did not dare to be cruel to the two children and the old man, and then took the opportunity to escape, as long as he was still in the water and was not caught, they should have some scruples - this is also the way he has no choice in this case.
But what he didn't expect was that as soon as he finished speaking, all the lights around him, whether it was the searchlights on the road, the lights in the cabins, or the flashlights in the hands of various gang members, fell into darkness.
Next, a very light drum beat sounded, from light to heavy, from slow to fast, and every stroke seemed to hit people's hearts, making people panic.
"Brother Hui" found that the drums seemed to come from his mobile phone, from everyone's mobile phones.