My Endless Life.

Chapter 362: Water Monster Appears

No one expected Lisa to do this, including Sun Xiaoqing and Li Qi.

The knight did not dare to act rashly. He raised his hands to indicate that he had no weapons in his hands and had no intention of fighting back. Then he asked:
"Lisa? What are you doing?"

"I am not obliged to answer your questions. Hand over your weapons to me!"

Lisa's voice was cold. She did not answer the knight's question, but instead went to confiscate the weapons from the knight and Sun Xiaoqing.

The knight's eyes turned cold, and when he was about to take out his weapon and try to fight Lisa head-on, he suddenly heard Lisa say:
"and many more."

Lisa stopped the two people who were about to take action and turned to look at Li Qi: "An, come here."

After hearing Lisa's words, the expressions of Sun Xiaoqing and Xiake changed.

The knight said anxiously: "Lisa! What do you want to do?"

Sun Xiaoqing was also surprised and said, "You want to take a child as a hostage? You..."

Before, she thought Lisa liked children very much and was very nice to Li Qi, but looking at Lisa's expression now, her previous attitude towards Li Qi might have been a disguise.

Sun Xiaoqing knew that Li Qi was special and that he was not an ordinary child, but even so, she could not guarantee that Li Qi would be safe in Lisa's hands.

In this strange town, it seems that anything can happen.

The two people's anxious words did not shake Lisa's decision. She continued to say to Li Qi:

"An, listen to me, come here, if you don't want your aunt and this uncle to get into trouble, come to me."

When facing Li Qi, Lisa's tone became noticeably softer.

It didn't look like he was going to do anything bad to Li Qi.

Li Qi thought for a second and then walked towards Lisa.

"Meng An! Don't go over there!"

The knight immediately tried to dissuade him, but was kicked to the ground by Lisa: "Don't talk too much!"

When Lisa kicked the knight to the ground, she still pointed the gun at him, not giving him any chance.

Li Qi watched her movements and expressions, and saw some shadows of training in her.

Police officers all undergo some combat training, and there seems to be nothing suspicious about Lisa in this regard.

But Li Qi felt that some of Lisa's movements did not seem like police fighting techniques. Judging from her vigilant movements and the way she held the gun, she was at least not an ordinary police officer.

While Li Qi was thinking, he had already come to Lisa.

This time, Lisa pointed the gun at Li Qi, then turned to face the two people in front of her and said:

"Okay, this time, hand over all your weapons, and... tell me how to leave here."

Lisa said this in a cold voice, as if she wanted to take Li Qi as a hostage.

But Li Qi could feel that Lisa didn't really intend to shoot him, she was just pretending.

So Lisa's behavior was just to find the knight and Sun Xiaoqing to ask for a way to leave the town?
Li Qi was confused.

He always felt that things were not as simple as he imagined.

……

Vincent and Lin Hui came to the small lake in the forest.

Li Qi followed them, controlling two different selves in his mind in two different threads, while also looking at the small lake in front of him.

Perhaps it was because Li Qi's previous behavior was not like that of an ordinary child, and therefore when Li Qi followed Vincent and Lin Hui to the lake, the two did not stop him.

They just stood by the lake, took out their pistols, and looked vigilantly at the small lake in the forest.

After the two arrived at the lake, they began to carefully look for traces of monsters by the lake. Soon they really found some traces of water monsters.

It was on the lawn on the side of the lake. There were traces of being dragged by something on the lawn. Lin Hui also found a trace of scales around the traces.

The scales are like giant fish scales.

"It seems that water monsters do exist."

Lin Hui looked at the scales in his hand and confirmed this fact again.

Vincent stood aside in silence, his eyes fixed on the shimmering lake, trying to find the water monster hidden in it.

But no matter how he looked, the lake was unusually calm and there was nothing unusual to see.

Li Qi took the novel that recorded the water monster and read the plot:
"'Wilson accidentally got a notebook that recorded the habits of the water monster. The notebook looked very old, with yellowed pages and curled corners. Even the handwriting inside had faded a little due to the passage of time.'

"'...But Wilson couldn't care less about that at the moment. He couldn't wait to open the notebook and look for the record about the water monster. One of the records caught Wilson's attention. It said...the water monster is a nocturnal creature. If you want to make it appear during the day, there is only one way...'"

Li Qi read this, closed the novel, and looked up at the two people who were looking over here because of his voice:

"Fresh blood will whet the water monster's appetite, and the fresher the blood, the easier it will be to lure the water monster out."

"Fresh... tender blood..."

Vincent muttered these words, and suddenly he thought of something and looked at Li Qi:

“You want to…!”

Without waiting for Vincent to finish, Li Qi took the initiative to say, "If you really want to lure out the water monster to deal with it, I can help you." Li Qi took out a small knife with a scabbard, turned it flexibly with his right hand, and then said, "But before dealing with the water monster, I think you should set a trap first."

Li Qi looked calm and composed, and his childish face revealed a maturity that did not belong to his age.

The mixture of innocence and experience in him gives people an extremely strange feeling.

The feeling was like being suddenly blown by a cold wind in the deep mountains and forests. It wasn't creepy, but it was enough to make one shiver.

Even though Vincent knew that Li Qi was very 'smart', he couldn't help but ask solemnly:

“…Who are you?”

"It's just a 'traveler' like you, trying to find a way out. Okay, make a decision quickly. Do you want to wait like this, or set a trap now and then I will lure it out?"

Li Qi looked up at the sky and said, "Today...it seems like it will get dark very quickly."

It would have been better if Li Qi hadn't said it. After he said it, Vincent and Lin Hui noticed that it was only early morning, but now it was already noon.

Lin Hui even took out his pocket watch and took a look, and found that the time was 12:10 noon.

It was just past eight o'clock when they came out.

The distance from the edge of the town to the small lake was not far. Even if they stopped and walked to find the trace of the water monster, it would take them at most an hour, probably less.

So where did the remaining three hours go?
Vincent and Lin Hui looked at each other and could see the astonishment and panic in each other's eyes.

The inexplicable appearance of the water monster and the sudden passage of time represent new strange changes in this small town.

But they didn't have time to think about why the town had changed.

Time was speeding up, and if they wanted to get back to town before nightfall, they had to act now.

Thinking of this, Lin Hui no longer asked about Li Qi's identity. He quickly put down the backpack he was carrying, took out the tools for setting traps, handed some of them to Vincent, and said:

"Hurry up, we have limited time."

"Lisa hasn't arrived yet..."

"It's too late to wait for her. Let's set up a trap first to lure the water monster out."

Noticing the change of time, Lin Hui no longer had time to wait for Lisa to come to his rescue. He planned to set up the trap with Vincent first.

After hearing what Lin Hui said, Vincent looked down at the trap tool in his hand, then turned to look at Li Qi who was playing with the knife. After thinking for a long time, he said to Li Qi:
"I'll leave it to you to attract the water monster later."

"Don't worry, just leave it to me."

Li Qi smiled back at Vincent, then shifted his gaze to the lake.

Because of Li Qi's two explorations, new events occurred in the town. In terms of the game, it was probably a version update that added new monsters and new copies.

Li Qi guessed that this was most likely something used by the person behind the scenes to deal with him. Of course, this was not absolute. Perhaps this was the natural evolution of the town, and Li Qi just accelerated it.

But no matter what, the water monsters here must be dealt with.

This might weaken the power of the person who controls the strange object behind the scenes.

At least that's what Li Qi thought.

Vincent and Lin Hui were good at hands-on work and they set the trap successfully very quickly.

It was a restraint trap made of nets and ropes, used to restrain prey and prevent it from escaping.

On the way here, Vincent and Lin Hui also read Cole's novel and confirmed that the monster was huge and agile. If they failed to hit the vital parts with a pistol, it would be almost the same as not hitting it at all.

If you want to hit the vital point accurately, you have to turn the water monster from a moving target into a fixed target.

In this case, a Binding Trap is a good choice.

The restraint trap was set up, and Li Qi stood behind the trap and looked at the lake in front of him.

His eyes moved across the lake, as if he could see the monster beneath the surface.

After watching for a minute, Li Qi finally took action.

He pulled out the knife without hesitation and cut the palm of his left hand hard, leaving a deep wound on the palm.

Blood flowed out from his palm and fell on the binding trap. Then Li Qi waved his left hand, and more blood was evenly sprinkled on every corner of the trap.

Li Qi's decisiveness and expressionless face left Vincent and Lin Hui speechless.

Seeing the wound on Li Qi's palm, even they felt pain, as if they all felt the phantom pain, but Li Qi was unaware of it, as if it was not him who had the wound on his hand.

Vincent and Lin Hui had different thoughts, but neither of them was in the mood to think about who Li Qi was.

Just a dozen seconds after Li Qi cut the wound, bubbles appeared on the surface of the lake as if it was boiling.

Less than two seconds later, a gigantic monster leaped into the air like a fish leaping out of the water, then fell from the sky and landed next to the lakeshore.

At that moment, everyone saw the appearance of the monster.

It has a huge head, a long crocodile tail, is covered in scales, and is the size of an elephant.

Just standing there gives people a terrifying feeling of oppression!
This is the water monster.

The 'Snow Mountain Lake Monster' that only existed in novels but now exists in reality!
(End of this chapter)