Mysterious Hunting Ground

Chapter 335 325. Origin of Lake Monster, Agreement

"Did you catch it, Kenny?" Sean, who was hiding behind the pine trees by the lake, rushed over quickly, looked at the mysterious and huge creation with wide eyes, and exclaimed in a trembling voice, "Oh my God, that snake-like neck." , with a turtle-like torso and a total length of more than three meters. Do you know what I thought of? The legendary Loch Ness Monster."

"It does look a bit like it, but the water monster doesn't have such complex and changeable abilities." Dean looked through the light of life of the monster suspended in mid-air, which was about level 4, shook his small arms and thighs, white steam steamed, and used his telekinesis to Drying the moisture around his body, "I'm sorry that I took advantage of your sympathy and deceived you. But if I didn't do this, I wouldn't be able to catch you at all."

"Let's talk about it now. As long as you cooperate honestly, I promise not to hurt you further."

Woo buzz...woo buzz...

A deep and majestic sigh came from the monster's frozen mouth, like a whale's cry, which made the entire ice sculpture tremble slightly. This unique sound wave seemed to have some kind of magic power, condensing in the lake below the two of them.

The lake surface stirred up circles of ripples, and a line of light blue water rose slowly in the center of the ripples, transforming into a petite boy.

The appearance and body shape are exactly the same as Dean's pseudomorphic Billy Drayton.

But the whole body is a transparent light blue, and every inch of the skin is flowing, like a water man.

The expression is vivid.

"I agree to your conditions," Waterman Billy looked at Dean and spoke in a clear, childish and awe-filled child's voice, "but you have to promise to let me go after I finish answering the questions and keep it a secret for me. , don’t reveal my existence.”

"Wow...it's almost carved out of the same mold." Sean's eyes flickered between Dean's transformed Billy and Water Man Billy, and couldn't help but mutter, "It's the ability to shape with this kind of water flow. You deceived Martha."

"We promise you," Dean said solemnly, "As long as the conversation is over and you prove that you have not harmed any innocent humans, I will apologize and let you go."

"I believe you." Waterman Billy looked at Dean from head to toe, as if he could see through his heart, "I can feel your sincerity."

So it also has telepathic abilities?

Dean was slightly thankful. Fortunately, he was fully engaged in the performance just now, and the simulacrum could perfectly simulate Billy's soul, otherwise he would not be able to trick this mysterious creature.

"Now let's get started, who are you? Where do you come from and how long have you been in the lake?"

What am I?

Water Man Billy looked up at his body that was frozen in mid-air. A trace of confusion flashed in his blue eyes, and he said a shocking sentence, "I don't know what I am, but I am in Chang Lake." Born in it.”

"The time of birth, according to your calculation method as humans, was late one night two years ago."

"I woke up from darkness and chaos with a body the size of your hand."

Billy's soft voice echoed in the night air,

"The lake water brings me a kind of warmth and comfort that touches my soul. There is also a mysterious and meaningful voice in the lake. Just like my mother, she taught me to use my abilities to hunt fish in the lake and avoid tourists and fishermen on the lake. , purify every lake water and make them more suitable for survival."

"I don't know where I come from. If I had to name one place, Long Lake is my home."

Changhu is my home.

When Sean heard this, he frowned strangely. The self-introduction of this mysterious creature did not sound like a monster that would kill little girls at all, but rather like a nature conservationist.

And Dean suddenly whispered an apology to Billy, reached out and struck the ice sculpture, and his mind turned into an invisible blade and quickly cut open its big mushroom-like head, and took out a drop of blood.

Well, it's light blue, like some kind of bodily fluid.

The blood flew into Dean's mouth, emitting a complex smell of waterweed, fishy, ​​cold and slightly sweet.

His body then twisted and transformed back into the snake monster Seth, activating licking memories, and memory pictures belonging to "The Thing in the Lake" passed through his mind.

The waterman Billy opposite was startled by this sudden change. Deep curiosity flashed in his big eyes, but he heard him speak again,

"What abilities do you have?"

"I, I can turn into water and merge into the long lake," Billy said. "This is very important. I can't let any human find my traces. My instinct tells me that once my whereabouts are revealed, I will suffer horrific consequences." Doom, like now.”

Dean and Sean looked at each other and nodded.

Such a strange lake spirit, except for innocent children, once adults find it, they will most likely be unable to resist the temptation in their hearts and sell it for money and other benefits.

"I can also control the water flow to change into various shapes..." Billy stretched out his hand towards the lake under his feet, and streams of water wrapped around his feet, like light blue vines emitting white smoke, wrapping around his legs. The body spins around and around.

A flower bud grows on the vine, blooming quietly in the moonlight, and a stream of water turns into a bee and pounces into the flower's stamen to collect nectar.

Soon the honey sac became heavy, but it had no time to fly away. Another stream of water turned into a bee-eater and held it in its mouth. It flapped its wings and flew high, hitting the ice like a cannonball, breaking a big hole and dissolving in the lake water. Here, it turned into an ice-blue catfish and swam into the dark bottom of the lake.

This series of changes was like some kind of exquisite magic, which dazzled Dean and both of them.

"Very good, other than that?" Dean confirmed these statements in his blood and asked, "What other abilities do you have?"

"I can also absorb the emotions and knowledge around me."

Billy glanced at the faces of the two people, "Those fishermen who live by the lake and sail on the lake all day long pass by my head. I can feel their inner activities and read various things from their minds. Weird ideas and knowledge.”

"I didn't understand it at all at first. I didn't understand why the human mind is so complicated, far beyond the fish in the lake."

"But I absorbed more and more, and they became simpler and easier to understand. I gradually mastered your human language, and learned that there are Qiaopier Town, Shiling Town, Naples Town... and there are people living in the town beside the long lake. All kinds of people.”

“I often hear about some of the new and interesting things happening in the town from the fishermen’s minds.”

Billy couldn't help but reveal a smile, and even the strange light blue eyes that were frozen in mid-air showed a joy.

Dean and Sean also seemed to be infected by something, and a feeling of joy rose in their hearts.

And the shallow water in his pocket started to suck wildly.

"Master, grab it and enslave it to generate electricity for me! What a pure and energy-rich emotion... hiss... it can greatly increase my growth rate!"

Dean ignored Shoal's screams and sighed, "Just by living in the lake, you can know the events in the surrounding human society. This ability is like the god of the long lake."

"God? I'm not a god, otherwise I definitely wouldn't be caught easily by you. My feeling is right... the human world is very dangerous... complicated... there are ordinary people and supernatural people." Billy glanced at Dean with fear. The latter shook his head and smiled, "This is the effect of the law of convergence, you can't avoid it. But you have been observing humans, so have you ever hurt them?"

"Never, I just want to stay away."

"Why did you take the initiative to contact Martha half a year ago?"

"Martha..." Billy's eyes dimmed, "I originally lived in the Long Lake without any worries and never planned to get close to anyone. But since I heard about your human emotions and inner thoughts, my mood has also changed. The ups and downs of change.”

“Human emotions are sometimes as sweet as honey and make me happy.”

"But sometimes, it's like a cocoa-flavored cake, so bitter that I can't help crying."

"One of the strongest emotions comes from the fact that from June to November every year, thousands of tourists from all over the world come to Changhu to escape the summer heat."

"But most of them are not alone, but a family...husbands, wives, children, and some even bring old people with them. They sail over my head in a boat together. They have fishing competitions and swimming competitions, splashing water and playing with each other every day. Everyone has a smile on their face...warm and happy.”

"It was a completely different kind of happiness from what I usually feel. I absorbed a lot of similar emotions, but the scary thing is..."

Billy's words paused, and his blue little body trembled alone in the night wind.

Another buzzing sound came from the huge ice sculpture, but this time it was full of melancholy and sadness.

"I didn't feel a trace of happiness. Instead, I felt uncomfortable all over." Billy covered his face and sobbed. "Even when I was eating fish, I couldn't appreciate the sweetness of the past. Even when I was floating quietly in the water, I felt I feel a kind of spiritual exhaustion, a kind of bone-chilling coldness.”

Billy took a deep breath;

"I was sick. I couldn't help but ask myself, why do everyone else have close family members and companions, even the stupid fish in the lake have groups. And I'm just alone?"

Billy stared at Dean and Sean. The doubt, confusion and sadness in his eyes made them deeply shocked. Is there such a "monster" with such deep humanity in the world?

Did it really hurt Marsha?

The event progress has jumped to 60%.

"I also want to find a companion!" A strange light flashed in Billy's eyes, "Then the companion came."

"Martha quietly walked to the lake half a year ago at night and cried sadly to the lake."

"I had never seen a human cub with so much sadness in its heart, and it intrigued me and aroused my curiosity."

"I swam over and secretly listened into her heart... She was bullied by her classmates at school because she lost her parents. Not long ago, she lost her grandfather who loved her the most."

"She was lonely and helpless. Her life was bleak, so she was about to jump into the lake and end her life."

"But her loneliness moved me... I couldn't help but show up in front of humans for the first time, stopped her from committing suicide, and then used water to transform her dead relatives to make her happy."

"The young of man is the purest creature in the world."

"I was good to her, and she felt my sincerity. She accepted me as a friend and called me Danlan. She not only kept my secret, but also came to the lake to meet me and play with me every night after grandma went to bed."

light blue.

Dean's mood became extremely complicated, and the blood memory proved that this guy was not lying.

A human girl just made a pact with a monster?

The world is really wonderful.

Billy's tone became lively and cheerful, like the tinkling tinkling of a rushing stream.

"My illness is cured... I am full of expectations every day. I look forward to meeting Martha, listening to her tell all kinds of interesting and sad things that happened in her life, and describing her future."

"Two lonely souls attract each other and heal each other." Sean muttered and looked at the lake monster ice sculpture, but he couldn't tell whether it was male or female.

Billy continued,

"We spent half a year like this, and this half year was also the happiest time since I was born." "Until the night a month ago." Billy stared at the lake at his feet, as if he saw an abyss, and his liquid cheeks were filled with fear. Trembling, "I was supposed to go to the lake to meet little Martha as agreed between nine and ten o'clock, but a thick fog suddenly appeared on the lake and blocked my path."

"So you didn't create the fog?" Dean asked as he watched the progress jump to 70%.

"I don't have that ability." Billy's eyes were fearful and painful, with a hint of sobs in his throat. "The mist is filled with a special energy field, which obscures my sense of direction. It's really ridiculous. I actually got lost in my own home. Road, can't find the agreed place with Martha."

"There are some terrible and dangerous creatures hidden in the fog... They seem to have a symbiotic relationship with the white fog..."

Dean was lost in thought, a monster that lives in symbiosis with the fog?

Why doesn't it sound like a product of the earth?

"I kept swimming like crazy, always to another, far away shore."

"The fog disappeared, and at two o'clock in the morning, I finally managed to swim to my destination and met Martha."

Billy paused, covering his face and sobbing.

"But my only friend, my companion, has turned into a cold corpse and left me forever."

The contagious buzzing sound in the ice sculptures passes through the ice, just like paying homage at the grave of a loved one, and the sadness penetrates deep into the soul.

Dean and Sean couldn't help but feel their noses sore.

……

The event progress jumped to seventy-five percent.

Dean asked, "Did Martha be obscured by the fog and drowned, or was she killed by a monster in the fog?"

"I could feel that the things in the mist took away her inner being first." Billy stared into Dean's eyes, filled with regret. "The remaining empty shell fell into the water and gradually lost its activity. I tried I passed, but it’s useless, and I can’t selfishly take her body away, otherwise her grandma will go crazy.”

Dean suddenly realized that this inner part refers to "soul".

"I can only look at my friend, floating on the lake... Wuwu... I'm sorry..."

He cried like an abandoned child, and at the same time, in the light blue eyes of the ice sculpture behind him, the dreamy stardust was stained with a layer of mist.

pat.

A few diamond-like tears fell down.

"Oh God," Sean slapped his forehead after digestion and looked at his companions in disbelief, "So our investigation was in the wrong direction from the beginning? It wasn't the thing in the lake that killed Mal at all. Sha, is the thing in the mist the real murderer?"

Dean nodded heavily.

The doubts in my mind were easily solved.

Before, he always felt that the lake monster had been waiting for half a year to bring Martha a happy time, and killing it was too unnecessary. To create a fog specifically for such a little girl would be a fuss.

Now there are reasonable explanations. The lake monster does not want to hurt Martha at all, and the fog has nothing to do with it, but has another origin.

But there is a causal relationship between the lake monster and Martha's death.

If they hadn't agreed to meet every night, Martha wouldn't have rushed to the lake late at night, and unfortunately her soul would have been taken away by a creature in the mist.

The progress of the incident has reached 80%.

……

These paragraphs of explanation, with the effect of licking the memory, turned into vivid pictures, passing through Dean's mind.

He was sure that this mysterious creature was not lying. He raised his hand and snapped his fingers in the air. The pale and solid ice layer withered like an osmanthus in late autumn.

Boom!

Water splashed everywhere.

The behemoth fell back into the lake.

But it did not dive into the bottom of the lake to escape. The snake's neck swung through the air, its soft and moist chin resting on the ice, and its big bright eyes stared at Dean unblinkingly. The waterman Billy stood under the head, holding a cup in his hands. begging in the chest,

"Help me, you are the most powerful being I have ever seen. You can definitely help me bring back the soul of my companion, Martha."

"Please, I'm willing to agree to any conditions."

……

Do you agree to any conditions?

Sean next to him clenched his fists, moved his lips and muttered,

"Man, I think I should help it. Although it is a monster, it is more... human than many humans..."

And Dean was lost in thought.

He had a strong intuition that as long as he took the lake monster and handed it to Mrs. Carmody in the antique shop, he could get the Serent Rune he longed for.

The old lady wouldn't mind at all whether the lake monster was the real murderer. Maybe the body of the lake monster had some special purpose for her.

It's a pity that Dean can't do such an unprincipled thing.

"Martha's soul was taken away by the monster in the fog, and the chance of survival is slim. But I will try to help you find her, as compensation for your misunderstanding."

This is also done to complete the event.

"Woo-buzz", "Woo-buzz"...

The lake monster was so excited that it stirred the lake water with all four legs. Clusters of colorful tail fins swayed like big mushrooms, and its body began to magically flash and emit blue light.

Dean changed the subject, "To save her, we must first understand the origin of Bai Wu,"

"I only vaguely felt the white fog coming from Shiling Town, Harrison Town, or Naples Town. I have never seen that kind of white fog in the two years since I was born," the round head on the snake's neck struggled to move on the surface of the ice. Sliding left and right, the mouth with a short beak and wide lip line like a beluga whale opens and closes to reveal a strange set of teeth, which are entangled with green water plants. "As soon as it appeared on the lake, the surrounding air and water flow... , the earth, and the fish in the lake began to violently reject it, as if this white mist was not a product of nature."

Shadows flashed across the lake monster's royal blue eyes.

"I even have a vague feeling that the evil hidden in it is more terrifying than the most terrifying things I have ever seen from the souls of the townspeople by the lake."

"It's not the evil in our world!"

……

Dean's head shuddered.

The white mist is not from this world, could it come from another world?

How did it invade the shore of Long Lake a month ago, and there were space cracks around Long Lake?

Dean couldn't be sure for the moment, but looked up and down at this magical lake creature, and slowly walked toward it. Snake scales began to appear on the Mexican's face.

"To investigate the source of the fog and rescue Martha, we need a closer and seamless connection to facilitate information exchange and meetings."

"I...I agree."

"You may feel pain and discomfort, and you will be under my control. But I promise that when the matter is over, I will set you free."

"Do you agree to cooperate?"

"I am willing!"

blah blah blah!

A wet, fat foot over a meter long broke through the water and was lifted onto the ice.

Dean sealed the deal with a gentle squeeze.

The soft, smooth and elastic touch made him squint his eyes.

The next second, his fangs were revealed in his grin, and a gray-black snake of power popped out of his throat like lightning, biting the lake monster's neck.

The order of the group of snakes was issued.

(End of this chapter)