My wife is the stand-in.

"Kanna, stop playing around, the big guy you've been waiting for has arrived."

Kanna's head popped out of the murky river water, her bright, torch-like eyes staring at Amanosaki. She rested her head on the gunwale of the boat, letting Amanosaki climb onto her head.

"Kobayashi said that if you wander around in the rain carrying metal, you'll get struck by lightning. Nozaki will take the Spear of Noronchinus and turn it into charcoal."

Amanosaki sat cross-legged in the dry, warm fur, snuggling comfortably against it. "Then I'll leave it to Kanna, please protect me!"

"Yeah, Kanna, you're amazing!"

With a flap of her wings, Kanna emerged from the water, spreading her wings amidst thunder and gale, and soaring upwards.

The leader of the Wudang branch was fiercely fighting, wielding ten explosive flying swords, when suddenly he saw a giant white dragon rise, its wings spread and a great wind billowing. Its body resembled an open cross, and amidst the falling lightning, it carried the majesty of a religious final judgment. He suddenly sighed:

"When the Peng bird migrates to the Southern Ocean, it stirs up the water for three thousand miles and soars up on the whirlwind for ninety thousand miles... What a magnificent sight!"

As he spoke, he scattered a shower of flying swords, causing a series of explosions on the river surface.

Amanosaki's eyes were surrounded by magical patterns, and his enhanced eyes were fixed on the snake-like ripples in the darkness in the distance.

“That’s the Kingfish! Kanna, the fish that were released from the downstream blockade are an entire clan, and this Kingfish is their mother and mother. They’ll definitely be rescued in a frenzy later.”

Amanosaki scratched Kanna's soft fur: "Ready to get bitten by lice?"

"Nozaki, let me play with it until I'm done before I kill it!"

Kanna only said this one sentence.

"Good~"

boom!

Upon hearing this, Kanna suddenly whipped her tail, and electricity surged from the base of her tail all the way to the tip. From an invisible, tiny current to a visible bolt of lightning, in the blink of an eye, Kanna unleashed a deafening roar of thunder.

The entire dragon, empowered by lightning, vanished into the sky in an instant.

The next second, the dragon stretched out its claws and slammed them into the river!

The impact created a dent in the river's surface, and a spiderweb of blue electricity spread across the water. Immediately, hundreds of four-clawed fish twitched and floated to the surface, flipping over.

The strong airflow spread, causing the fishing boat to rock violently. Some of the Wudang heroes lost their footing and were swept away by the airflow, falling from their bamboo poles into the water.

"This is human territory! Heretics and evil spirits are forbidden to enter!"

Kanna roared, the sound emanating from the dragon's vocal cords, devoid of the cuteness of a little girl, and carrying the domineering presence of a creature at the top of the food chain.

"ah--!"

A baby-like, high-pitched cry came from underwater.

A gigantic mouth, kicking up a spray of water mist, lunged at Kanna!

Kanna flapped her wings and slammed them into the kingfish's face, calmly deflecting the attack.

In the command center, Lin Shuyu said in a shocked tone, "Multiple abnormal indexes detected... Kingfish, there are two!"

Kanna took off again, her claws digging into the scales to lift a kingfish out of the water, while another kingfish was eyeing her menacingly from the side!

"Ah!" Spiegelberg stared in surprise at the scene, stammering, "What, what do we do now? Call the army?!"

"No..." Lin Shuyu rubbed her forehead, explaining in a low voice with a bit of a headache, "We're filming, director. From the very beginning, two kingfish were released downstream. This is the first scene. Kanna is going to be injured and defeated, and then she'll be rescued by the arriving army. Meanwhile, Amanosaki sadly abandons his duty as a dragon knight."

Spiegel blushed and repeatedly said, "Oh, I'm sorry, it was my fault."

He was panting heavily, feeling like he wasn't getting enough oxygen.

Only after witnessing the battle between the dragon and the monstrous fish did he truly understand the terror of these creatures.

The dense patter of rain hitting the glass, the rocking and thunder of the boat, the roar of a dragon, the dark red foam splashing out as the river water crashes against the boat, and the pieces of a corpse—these are all real things that you can't experience firsthand while sitting in a movie theater.

He watched as Kanna fought two monsters lurking in the water, scathing scales and blood flying everywhere. The man carrying the gun sat cross-legged atop the giant dragon's head, his spine slightly bent, looking down at everything.

He felt a power more ferocious than the Fauvism, and a tension that threatened to break through one's own eyes and mind.

"Director, you, you..."

Karenina looked at Spiegelberg with some surprise, not quite understanding.

She noticed the director's pants were soaking wet, but the great director wasn't embarrassed at all; instead, he watched the battle in the thunderstorm with obvious satisfaction.

“Sorry, I’m getting old and can’t control myself,” Spiegelberg waved his hand. “Besides, facing such an exciting scene, don’t you feel your bladder tightening with nervousness?”

Karenina did not answer.

In fact, she did manage to leak a few drops, but thanks to her youth and good health, she didn't lose her composure.

Chapter 165: The Battle of the Giants (Part Two)

Two kingfish would be quite dangerous for ordinary branch heroes.

But to Connor, it was just another toy.

She held onto the kingfish tightly, refusing to let go, and tried to lift it up and fly away, but the kingfish was too heavy, making the process extremely difficult.

Another kingfish was threatening from the side, so Connor threw the fish in his claws at it like a rag doll.

"Connor, what's the next step in the script?" Amanosaki patted Connor's head, coaxing him gently.

"Hmm...is it about rescuing someone?"

"Connor is awesome!" Amanosaki continued to encourage him.

He followed Connor mainly to keep an eye on her.

After being reminded, Kanna submerged half her body in the water, blew bubbles, and made a gurgling sound to imitate an engine. She used her head to push against the blood-stained fishing boat and carefully cleared a patch of water.

The kingfish tried to bite Connor, but Connor thrashed about with her limbs and claws, using only her powerful tail to keep the two kingfish from surfacing.

So they commanded the clan to charge forward fearlessly, and Kanna felt an itch on her buttocks and stomach, as if something was scratching her.

She giggled, her muscles tensing instantly. A high-voltage current flashed past her, causing the fish that were biting her to twitch and then struggle to release their grip. Some of them clung to her feathery downy fur, clearly dead.

Amanosaki pressed his earpiece: "Was this scene filmed? If it's good, let's move on to the next part."

Lin Shuyu looked at Spielberg with her beautiful eyes.

Spielberg, who had been gazing out the window with an expression of profound rapture, couldn't help but show a pained look upon hearing the translator's words, as if to say, 'Don't ruin this authentic feeling!'

Although somewhat reluctant, his directorial instincts still compelled him to focus on the camera. He spent two minutes scanning through hundreds of shots before nodding dejectedly.

"We can proceed to the next shot."

Then Amanosaki whispered something in Kanna's ear.

The lines were hard to hear in the captain's cabin, but it didn't matter; they could be re-recorded later.

Seconds after the new camera command was issued, the doors of several nearby fishing boats suddenly opened, and the swordsmen wielded their weapons and swiftly slashed at the strange fish on the boats. Among them, several Wudang swordsmen in flowing white robes, led by a rather beautiful female swordsman, charged toward the shore.

"A Ping!"

When Kanna saw the girl surrounded by the knights, her eyes immediately lit up, and her voice became much more cheerful.

A fisherwoman named Aping showed great strength in the torrential rain, but the strong smell of blood and the feeling of death made her pale. When she heard a giant beast calling her name like thunder, Aping instinctively trembled and raised her head.

Then, waving her hand, she said in an envious and excited tone, "Kanna! You really are a dragon!"

"Hmm!" Kanna nodded, and with a flick of her tail, she swatted away the strange fish under the bamboo pole one by one. The two didn't say much, both trying to suppress the urge to brag about their filming experience. Under Kanna's cover, A-Ping was quickly led back to shore by the swordsman.

Amanosaki, perched atop Kanna's head, could clearly see the greedy appearance of these strange fish. He found the four-clawed scaled fish utterly disgusting.

Until Kanna exclaimed in a cute voice, "Eh~", and then said embarrassedly that a fish had bitten her finger, making it itchy and that she was very sorry for ruining the shoot.

Listening to Kanna's sweet and innocent words, Amanosaki finally couldn't help but point at the reddened river water and curse:

"That damn four-clawed fish, why doesn't it just die? It should just die. It's so ugly, and it has so many offspring, and to make matters worse, it tastes awful. Doesn't it ever reflect on its own behavior?"

"Are you proud of being worse than a street vendor? You're a native species of China, so show some backbone and stop acting like you're a starving ghost reincarnated!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and unleashed a series of Gandra combos, killing several fish to vent his anger. At the same time, he didn't stop swearing: "Look at you, you're like a catfish swallowing dung in a latrine, all you do is babble."

"Anyone who didn't know better would think that the buttocks sticking out in the outhouse were your biological parents..."

Lin Shuyu blushed upon hearing these vulgar words, but cheers erupted from the river.

It turns out that Amanosaki used an enhancement magic trick to curse this time. Not only could it be heard clearly in the headphones, but it could also be heard clearly outdoors in the wind and rain. There was a man insulting the fish monster with vulgar and obscene words in the bad weather, and he just felt excited.

Some busybodies even joined in with a couple of shouts.

The atmosphere instantly became cheerful.

In the captain's cabin, Spielberg keenly sensed the change in the atmosphere outside. Although he couldn't understand what Amanosaki was saying, he still stopped Lin Shuyu, who was about to mute, from saying, "This scene can be cut into a rework."

Lin Shuyu paused for a moment, then nodded, put on her headphones, and tried not to listen to the vulgar language.

Amanosaki took the lead in hurling insults, stirring up the atmosphere and making everyone's emotions run high.

As a demon, the Queen Fish naturally possesses the ability to distinguish emotions, just as living beings can distinguish between fresh and rotten food.

At this moment, in the King Fish's "sense of smell," these ordinary "dishes," mainly composed of daring knights, undoubtedly became much more "rotten," which greatly annoyed the King Fish.

They migrated upstream from the great river, enduring many hardships along the way. They finally managed to break through the increasingly strict blockade and came ashore, where they encountered a fleet of ships. They had no choice but to replenish their energy.

The infrasonic cries emanated from the mouths of the two kingfish, causing the strange fish that had been indiscriminately attacking all the ships to stop their actions.

The clicking sound suddenly disappeared, leaving everyone stunned.

Then, these fish monsters stopped bothering the ships and instead gathered around the King Fish.

"Kanna, the hydrological data from satellites and observation stations shows that these guys are right under your ass right now."

Amanosaki asked with concern, "Can you hold on? Don't let the kingfish die from being bitten so badly!"

"Don't worry, Kanna, you're amazing!"

Kanna made an awkward OK sign with her paws and snorted out a hot breath.

"Yeah~!"

A baby-like shrill cry rang out, and the fish that had gathered beneath the river, turning half the sonar red, suddenly sprang into action!

They all crashed into Kanna, one after another, forcefully flipping her over!

Then, taking advantage of the fact that Kanna's body was rolled over, the four-clawed scale fish, relying on the characteristic of its swim bladder, which is similar to that of a lungfish, emerged from the river water, pounced on Kanna, opened its mouth and grabbed Kanna's fur, refusing to let go!

Then, wave after wave of strange fish burst out of the water, tearing and biting wildly. A few seconds later, Amanosaki understood the fish's plan.

Those strange fish had poor aim, but there were many of them. Soon, quite a few fish were biting the tails of the fish in front of them, and within a few breaths, several "fish chains" appeared.