"My God, what is that!"
A person screamed, and we woke up like a dream, and our guns were aimed at the unknown creatures floating from the swamp, but we heard Rafal shouted in a low voice: "Don't move, it's a monitor lizard! The lizard is right! Things that move are especially sensitive, the faster we move, the faster we die!"
An armed man said in a low voice: "Squat down, and slowly go back along the same road," he turned his head and gestured to the companions behind him, and they nodded understandingly, which seemed to be It is a common layout code in mercenary battles.
We squatted down according to the instructions of these experienced mercenaries, and while staring at the red-eyed monster to prevent it from suddenly attacking, we moved our bodies carefully and retreated to the cover of some trees.
But it was too late to say now, but soon, a wave of muddy waves suddenly rose in the swamp!
A huge black silhouette stood up, and in an instant, a big bloody mouth full of sharp teeth was turned out of the muddy water. The dark purple venom-stained tongue flicked in mid-air, and the curved and sharp animal claws were as deep as a digger. It plunged deeply into the ground, then arched its back with umbrella-like membranes and stared at us, making a snake-like hissing sound from its mouth.
My eyes widened in astonishment—I swear this is not any lizard whose species name can be found in the Biology Encyclopedia. Monitor lizards that eat dinosaur eggs!
God knows how there are extinct creatures in such a place!
Unexpectedly, the monitor lizard did not attack immediately, it lay there quietly, its big red eyes turned in two different directions like the lens of a monitor, as if it was observing our group of ants Like creatures, ready to go. I don't know if its venomous tongue has the deadly hunting skills of a chameleon, if so, even if we have a gun in our hands, it will be difficult to compete with it.
The nervousness made my sweat come out of every pore, and I didn't dare to move. I firmly pointed the gun in my hand at the monitor lizard's mouth. Eva clings to my back because of fear, I feel her trembling slightly, and I can't help worrying that she will suddenly scream out of control or run away. In order to calm Eva's emotions, I reached down with one hand and squeezed her wrist gently and firmly, while her fingers gripping the corner of my clothes tightened even more.
This kind of subconscious dependence made me feel a desire to protect, and my horror was somewhat overshadowed. However, the moment my courage rose, I suddenly found that one of the monitor lizard's eyes was staring in our direction impartially. Then, the head slowly turned around, and then narrowed its eyes , staring at me quietly, as if looking through me to the distant depths of the dense forest.
I suddenly felt that this ancient creature was a bit special, because it didn't look like a hungry predator. It looked at us not like a group of prey, but more like a group of ignorant ants. It seems to be thinking about our purpose, our background, whether we are worthy of its killing.
Eva, however, trembled more violently. The barrel of her gun went over my shoulder, aimed at the lizard's eyes, and I grabbed her other wrist and warned in a low voice, "Don't panic, Eva, calm down..."
My voice stopped abruptly with a loud "bang" from the muzzle of the gun. In a puff of smoke from the muzzle of the gun, an astonishing recoil pushed Eva and I to fall backwards. My brain was filled with buzzing tinnitus, and my whole body was spinning for a moment. I shook my head and just stood up, and saw the umbrella-shaped wing membrane on the monitor lizard's neck not far away suddenly stretched wide because of being irritated. It uttered a sharp roar at us, showing its attacking posture completely!
"Shit!"
I cursed loudly, turned over and grabbed the barrel of the gun and aimed at its head, while the surrounding armed personnel also fired. In the rain of bullets that exploded instantly, its head was raised high, and its purple tongue was like a sharp arrow from its mouth towards us. Straight up. Rafal and I immediately clicked the trigger and shot left and right, but my poor marksmanship was always out of focus, but I saw the tongue flicked towards Eva beside me like a whip, and suddenly she let out a scream , stumbled in a panic, got up and fled to the depths of the woods!
I let out a loud roar, and threw her to the ground, "Don't run around, Eva! It attacks the fast-moving prey first!"
Before I finished speaking, I heard a burst of movement piercing through the forest and broken leaves coming towards us, and I knew that something was wrong. I hurriedly turned over and subconsciously protected Eva behind me, but a purple-red shadow like lightning struck us in an instant. In front of me, I raised my gun to protect my head reflexively, but when I heard a movement from behind, my whole body was grabbed by the back and pulled back by a huge force, and I suddenly fell on Eva's body behind me. A few meters away, the tongue of the monitor lizard rolled up her legs like lightning, and she was about to be swallowed by that bloody mouth full of sharp teeth!
"No!!" I rushed forward and was about to fire, but Rafael even jumped and fell near the monitor lizard's mouth and began to shoot. Suddenly, a deep voice came from nowhere and suddenly resounded through the entire dense forest——
"Eka... la... Miya..."
That was the voice of Agares!
In an instant, I saw the giant lizard miraculously come to a stillness. Its tongue slowly loosened as if it was a remote-controlled mechanism. Eva, who had fainted from fright, rolled to the ground, and it He closed the blood-biting mouth, even closed those scary red eyes, and lowered his head to prostrate on the ground. This ferocious ancient creature actually showed a respectful attitude, as if it were a believer welcoming the gods.
I couldn't believe the sudden change of the situation, I couldn't even close my jaw, and my eyes searched for the tall black figure in the woods, but all of a sudden, I saw several armed men on the opposite side and Rafal using a He stared at my back with a hellish look, and at the same time raised his gun and pointed it diagonally behind me.
I didn't need to turn my head to realize what was behind me, but in fact, I also saw a long black fish tail coming around from behind at some point, wrapping around my ankle.
I raised my hand stiffly and made a stop gesture, swallowed dryly, and stammered palely: "Don't, don't get me wrong, this is my...friend..."
A wet tongue licked my neck unexpectedly. My throat twitched and I squeezed out a word: "...you."
A pale, wet webbed claw came from behind and wrapped around my waist. Rafal stared until his eyeballs almost fell out, and I laughed dryly in embarrassment: "Cough, really, he's just a little...too...friendly."
"He is my Desharow..."
Agares rested his chin on the top of my head, and his low voice made my ears numb. I saw everyone on the opposite side opened their mouths, I almost lost my breath and waved my hands in a panic: "I forgot to tell you, this big guy was caught by me in Iceland and the Rhine. I kept him for a while, and later released him... I don’t know why I met him here!”
I was talking nonsense, but I was screaming in my heart: Oh my god... this guy actually spoke human words in front of my classmates, and he said these words!
Just when I was at a loss to the extreme, Rafal woke up from a stunned state, helped Eva up, shook his head in disbelief, and stared at Agares and me. There was a mixture of fear and wonder in his eyes: "God...you met a mermaid who can communicate in English... Desaro, you are so lucky!"
God, lucky ass! It's too late to be unlucky!
I wailed in pain in my heart, trying to break off the claws that were strangling my waist, but Agares didn't intend to let go at all, instead he hugged him even tighter. I couldn't help suspecting that if I continued to fight against him, this guy would He has no sense of shame at all for making any more bottomless actions in front of my classmates. And Rafael and the others obviously didn't believe that Agares was friendly. After all, a mermaid kidnapped our companion yesterday. From the tension on their faces, we can see that the situation is about to explode.
I had no choice but to retreat, pretending to be calm and said to Rafal and the others: "How about... let him join us for now, maybe he can lead us to find Da Wenxi, and stop Shakaral and the others. Look, he still Subdued the monster."
"How do you know that this mermaid will help us? Da Vinci was attacked by his kind. Mermaids are very ferocious creatures, we have learned this before we landed on the island."
Rafal frowned, staring at Agares closely. The armed men did not relax their vigilance, the muzzles of the black guns were still pointing in our direction, one of the guys had a particularly violent emotional reaction, he was holding the bolt of the gun, the muscles on his face twitched, I have no doubt that he would attack at any time to shoot.
I can imagine that they also fought against the mermaid shoals before they landed on the Mermaid Island, and maybe lost a few companions. The thrilling situation they encountered should be comparable to that of me and Rhine.
"Trust me, I can discuss with him, I can convince him to help us, okay? This big guy looks a bit vicious, but in fact... very docile..." I squeezed out this adjective with difficulty, and stretched out He reached up and touched Agares' cheek.
His facial contours are sharp and sharp, and he doesn't feel good at all, and I looked at them who were dubious and forced a smile: "Hey, look, don't you? It's like a big dolphin."
In response, Agares rubbed my butt wantonly with one of his webbed claws on the back, luckily no one could see. I gritted my teeth with a blushing face, and kicked his tail fin calmly.
…
Because I did a good job of coordinating, Rafael and the others finally gave up confronting Agares, and for some reason, the giant lizard really surrendered to Agares, and obediently sneaked back to the swamp under his driving . The dense forest has regained the calm it was when we first entered. Because Eva was still in a coma, we had to slow down our journey and find a place to rest among the ruins.
Agares seems to be quite familiar with the structure of this ruins. He shuttled freely among the stone pillars in the swamp, disappeared for a while, and in the blink of an eye, his upper body appeared in a circle of stone steps not far from us. I noticed that it was an artificial bath like an ancient Roman bath, but its function was unlikely to provide bathing, because the floating island would periodically sink under the water. The bottoms of almost all the lakes and river beds on this island are connected to the mermaid nests underneath, and reach the sea directly.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but start to imagine the structure of this island. It is hollow inside and has countless outlets, so that it can quickly drain into the water, and its weight is lighter than any other island in the world. , perhaps this is the mystery why this mermaid island can surface regularly and then sink to the bottom of the sea.
Is it an artificial creation, or a natural geographical formation? It's amazing, it's like a hive and a submarine.
The mermaid race and their world are too mysterious...
I sighed secretly in my heart, and my gaze met Agares involuntarily. In the mottled and changing light and shadow under the bushes, his face was half hidden behind the stone steps, revealing only a pair of deep and bright eyes. He squinted his eyes, That look seemed to arouse my curiosity, implying that I should ask him something.
At this moment, a hand suddenly patted my shoulder. Rafal handed a piece of grilled fish skewered with a fork to my hand, and looked in the direction of Agares: "Sorry, Desaro, it seems that your friend is not hostile to us, thank you He drove away the monster and rescued Eva immediately. Here, take it and express our gratitude."
I was stunned for a moment: "He is a wild beast, why give him this to eat? He can hunt by himself!"
"Didn't you be his breeder before? For Da Wenxi's sake, you should raise him again!"
Rafael's words made me speechless, and I couldn't help but feel annoyed because I hit my foot with a stone, and I stared at him and said, "Hey, buddy, do you know that you are pushing me into the fire pit?" ?”
"What do you mean? Don't you want to get close to that mermaid? But just now..."
Rafal raised his eyebrows suspiciously, obviously unable to understand why my attitude took a turn for the worse. But I felt guilty for a while, got up and grabbed the grilled fish in my hand, and walked towards Agares bravely.