Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 398 Aquatic Creatures
A short pain is worse than a long one. The monster's neurotoxin has already penetrated into the wing membrane. Even if I use fire to burn off the mucus remaining on the surface, it will be of no use...

The pain was indescribable. It was as if Wang Xiyi's sense of pain had been magnified thousands of times, and her flesh was being cut off by a knife dipped in concentrated salt water. If the pain continued, not only would Wang Xiyi be unable to continue fighting, she might even faint from the pain at any time.

The black dragon's body has a strong ability to recover, and it can regenerate its wings even if they are cut off. However, with such a "severe injury" as being cut off at the root, it will take at least two or three days for the wings to grow back.

At least in this battle, Wang Xiyi completely lost the ability to fly.

The tentacles retracted into the depths of the building and seemed not to pursue, but Wang Xiyi could clearly sense the slight vibration coming from underground - this strange creature was moving along the underground pipes and was flanking Wang Xiyi from multiple directions.

More than one creature? Or multiple tentacles of the same creature?

Wang Xiyi was too lazy to think about it. She simply accelerated on the spot and once again flew through the buildings that she had just crashed through!
These old brick houses could not withstand the "torture" of going back and forth twice. Behind Wang Xiyi, the houses collapsed one after another. She was like a cannonball fired from the ruins, and in the blink of an eye she rushed to the gate of the Senyang Aquatic Clan!

Wang Xiyi did not just rush in unarmed. Instead, she grabbed the wreckage of the van, lifted the entire vehicle up, and pushed the front of the vehicle forward directly into the open door of Senyang Aquatic Clan!

There was a loud bang of glass shattering, and countless fish tanks were crushed into pieces, while the aquatic creatures in those tanks fell to the ground one after another.

A horrifying scene appeared. After struggling on the ground for several times, these aquatic creatures began to mutate their bodies one after another - some of them grew limbs that could move on land; some began to secrete mucus from their abdomens, crawling like mollusks; others evolved organs that could compress and spray air, and used the reaction force of the jet to push themselves directly into the air more than one meter high.

All this happened in just two seconds.

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Tianfu City, Weird Things Research Institute, Safe House.

"Wang Xiyi's communication has not been restored yet?" Yang Qi frowned.

"No, but according to the last message she sent back, she seemed to have been attacked. I guess her earphones were knocked off." Ye Xuan said, "But judging from the data from the hunter's bracelet, her vital signs did not fluctuate, so she should not have been seriously injured. I tried to send a message to her bracelet, but she ignored it... It seems that she is fighting a monster at this time."

Yang Qi: "You really don't need support?"

"What Ye Sha said is right. If even she can't deal with the enemy, if we want to send support, we can only send Sun Hang..." Ye Xuan shook her head.

At this moment, Song Yarong, who had been typing on the keyboard at the table next to her, suddenly stood up and walked towards Yang Qi.

"I just checked the detailed information of this 'Senyang Aquarium'. Tsk, there are so many suspicious points... I really don't know what the Investigation Bureau branch of Jinlu County is doing." Song Yarong handed a tablet to Yang Qi. "Senyang Aquarium was registered in March 4714 of the lunar calendar, with a registered capital of 3 yuan. The legal person is a local of Jinlu County named Li Fan. He used to sell ornamental fish and fish feed at stall No. 145 in the Jinlu County Farmers' Market. Later, he partnered with others to open this aquarium store. You can also find this store on the navigation software, and you can also find some customer reviews."

"Ah? Isn't this the base of the cult? They really sell fish?" Fukada Miki said in surprise.

"If you're going to put on a show, you have to do it completely. If you don't operate normally, it will easily arouse suspicion from the local security bureau." Ye Xuan said lightly.

"But the comments on the software are almost all negative. For example, some fish died within two or three days after they were bought, and some cats died after eating fish feed from their company... The customer who left this comment later complained to the relevant department, saying that Senyang Aquarium sold fake feed..." Yang Qi stared at the screen of the platform computer in silence, while Song Yarong spoke vividly to the other people in the room.

"And then what? Wasn't this investigated?" asked Miki Fukada.

"No, the owner of Senyang Aquarium admitted that it was his mistake. He mistakenly sold rat poison in the store to customers as fish feed, and he also paid the customers a large sum of money as compensation... All of this can be found in the civil mediation files of Jinlu County." Song Yarong said.

"I don't think it's rat poison." Yang Qi shook her head and pointed at the photo in the file. "It's clearly written on the bag that it's 'Senyang Aquarium Freshwater Fish General Feed'. I don't think there would be an aquarium store that would use its own fish feed bags to pack rat poison."

"Didn't the department that received the complaint conduct any tests on this package of 'rat poison'?"

"No, the moment they called Senyang Aquarium, the owner apologized and compensated them. Because the customer's compensation demands were all met and there was almost no dispute during the whole process, the bag of rat poison was not taken for testing." Song Yarong said, "Jinlu County is seriously infested with rats. Every household has rat poison on hand. It is common for pet cats and dogs to accidentally eat rat poison and die."

"But the most crucial one is this review from April 4714, one month after the opening." Song Yarong stretched out a finger and swiped the screen of the tablet computer. "A customer bought a tank of ornamental fish and took it home. Within a week, more than two-thirds of the fish got a strange disease and many disgusting growths grew on their bodies... The customer immediately chose to return the goods for a refund."

Attached to this comment were two blurry photos that looked like they were taken with a door lock. You could barely see that the dorsal and caudal fins of the two fish were covered with circles of rotten meat, which looked like tumors attached to their bodies.

Everyone looked at each other.

"I think these fish are strange creatures." Song Yarong said word by word.

"I think so too." Ye Xuan nodded. "In addition to selling normal ornamental fish, Senyang Aquatics also secretly raises some fish monsters. The poisonous feed called 'rat poison' is probably used to feed these fish monsters. And this bad review is just like the rat poison incident. It was an accident. The fish monsters raised in the store were mistakenly sold to customers as ordinary fish... No wonder the attitude towards compensation is so good."

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Jinlu County, No. 591 Shengli Avenue, Senyang Aquarium.

Those mutated monsters climbed onto Wang Xiyi's body in various "ways of movement" and kept biting the scales on her body. For a moment, Wang Xiyi felt like she was a bag of flour piled in the corner of the restaurant, and these annoying monsters were the rats that climbed onto the flour bags.

The mice wanted to tear open the outer packaging of the bag and eat the white flour inside... But for these weird creatures, the flesh flowing with the blood of the black dragon was the "flour" they desired.

Wang Xiyi said coldly, and suddenly a faint blue flame burst out from her whole body, and in a blink of an eye, these aquatic monsters that had crawled onto her body were roasted into charcoal.

Also ignited was the gasoline leaking from the van's fuel tank... and the "water" flowing out of the broken fish tank.

The liquid used to feed these aquatic monsters is not water at all, but a liquid that is more flammable than gasoline!

The entire "Senyang Aquatic Tribe" instantly turned into a sea of ​​fire.

Looking at the raging flames all around, Wang Xiyi suddenly understood something.

No wonder Qiao Liu's Qingzhu Bar, which obviously didn't use many flammable materials in its decoration, could be burned so cleanly...the two large ecological fish tanks were filled with the best fuel.

"Burn it, burn it all."

Wang Xiyi was not afraid of fire anyway, so she scraped the wreckage of the van, picked up an iron folding chair, and walked towards the back of the store.

The store of Senyang Aquarium is not too big. Even if the space occupied by fish tanks and aquariums is included, it is less than 100 square meters at most...but this does not mean that the internal area of ​​the building is only 100 square meters.

The buildings in this block are similar in structure and are of the type that can be used for both commercial and residential purposes - the side facing the street is used for shops, and the back of the shops is used for living. Passing through the front hall, there is even a medium-sized patio in the back, and the bamboo racks in the patio are hung with strangely shaped dried fish.

Wang Xiyi took a look at the dried fish, and suddenly she remembered a file she had seen before - it was said that when the aquatic monsters first appeared in coastal areas, countries around the world pointed the finger at England and Japan. The reason was that these two countries had discharged a large amount of nuclear wastewater into the ocean after the nuclear power plant accident...

Those aquatic monsters were believed to be mutated fish after being exposed to nuclear radiation, but a few months later, people realized that this matter was far more serious than nuclear radiation pollution.

The first aquatic monsters to land on the coastal areas of each continent looked very similar to the dried fish hanging on the bamboo poles.

No one would have thought that these aquatic monsters that crawled out of the deep sea would appear in an inland area so far away from the ocean.

There was a blank "partition zone" between the shop in front and the patio, so the fire in the shop had not spread over. Only the choking smell of smoke drifted over and filled the patio.

The floor of the patio was paved with cement bricks, on which traces of undried mucus could be seen - it was obvious that the tentacle that had just attacked Wang Xiyi first passed through the patio, and then through the Senyang Aquatic Clan's shop... That thing was so large that the Senyang Aquatic Clan's shop could not accommodate it at all!
Wang Xiyi took two steps at a time across the patio, then kicked open the door and walked into the living room.

The furniture in the room was all over the floor, but no trace of slime was found.

Wang Xiyi returned to the patio again - behind the living room was a residential area, and there was no space to keep large monsters.

That guy... has he been hiding underground all this time?
As soon as this thought came to mind, the cement bricks in the patio were lifted up one after another, and four or five tentacles as thick as thighs with suction cups emerged from the ground and beat Wang Xiyi fiercely!

"really!"

The real body of this strange creature is hidden in the underground pipe system of the Senyang Aquatic Clan!
The bodies of mollusks are very stretchable. Even a huge and strange octopus can easily get into a pipe with a diameter of less than one meter and move freely in it.

What's moving in the pipe is not just a tentacle, but a whole weird creature!
Wang Xiyi wrapped her whole body with flames to prevent the mucus containing neurotoxins from getting on her body again, and at the same time, she slammed hard into the wall on one side!
If she continued to stay in the courtyard, she would only be unilaterally attacked by these tentacles, which would be just like catching a turtle in a jar... and she would be the unlucky turtle.

She had to get to an open area so that her speed advantage could be realized.

The most open place around here...is probably Victory Avenue at the entrance.

Wang Xiyi dodged two tentacles that were coming down on her and crashed through three walls in one breath. Just when she was only one wall away from Victory Avenue, the ground beneath her feet suddenly collapsed!
“Fuck!” Wang Xiyi cursed inwardly. The moment she lost her balance, she subconsciously wanted to flap her wings and fly into the air. However, as the wound on her back throbbed with pain, she suddenly realized that she had cut off her wings...

"Oops!"

The collapsed ground formed a bottomless cave. Wang Xiyi, who had lost the ability to fly, fell directly into the depths of the earth. The broken rocks and soil kept hitting her scales, making a sound like the clashing of metal.

"Hold on! You have to hold on! If you fall, you're done for!"

During the fall, Wang Xiyi kept adjusting her posture, and the dragon claws on both hands dug deeply into the cracked cave wall... However, the broken cave wall could not support her body at all, and with several deep grooves plowed on the cave wall by the dragon claws, her falling trend was not effectively curbed.

This cave was more than two hundred meters deep. When Wang Xiyi fell heavily to the ground, she found that she had fallen into a huge underground cavity!

This underground hole was obviously not caused by the collapse just now. It had been hollowed out long ago... As for the purpose of hollowing it out...

Wang Xiyi turned her head and looked to the side.

Not far from her "landing point" was a surging underground lake. Countless tentacles tore through the surface of the lake and attacked her like a dancing python.

(End of this chapter)