"Come on, you're just wasting all of our time..."
There were grumblings of dissatisfaction in the crowd.
"We've lost a lot of time here, and if there was anything suspicious here, he should have appeared long ago."
the man said.
The facial muscles of "Thorn Seahorse" twisted slightly, and he looked straight at his superior: "It is a monster. If we perfunctory here and let it continue to escape on this land, who knows How many victims will there be?"
There was an almost morbid obsession in his voice.
His officer stared at the face of "Thorn Seahorse", and he suddenly remembered that he actually had a sister... It was called "Box Jellyfish" or something. His sister was much better than him, and she later Dried up with the "cod".
"Thorn Seahorse" has said countless times in the lounge that when he gets used to a little more and his training performance improves a little bit, he must stay in the same place as his sister.
"My mother told me I had to watch her."
he said.
However, the current "thorn seahorse" no longer needs to look at his sister.
That young woman had already lost her life in the previous operation... So, for "Thorn Seahorse", this task is actually far from an ordinary task.
The officer met the blood-red eyes of "Thorn Seahorse" that contained the light of revenge, and he felt something called a heart of compassion beating slightly in his chest.
"I see."
He says.
Then he turned his head to the other team members and said, "Send two people up to have a look."
…
"Grumble..."
Inside the dark and cold water tank, after hearing the faint conversation outside, Rand had a string of blisters on his nose and mouth.
He dived into the dark depths with his hands and feet.
His new gills in the water allow him to breathe underwater for a long time, but this does not mean that he can stay underwater happily.
This brothel in the suburbs of Kansas did not have the opportunity to connect to those expensive piped water in the city. In fact, in order to save costs, the whole town refused to serve them by the water company, and directly pumped clear and sweet water from the ground. Groundwater, which is pumped into the water tank on the top of the building through a pump. The bottom of the water tank is a simple filter device, which can filter the water, and the water supply of the whole building comes from here... The temperature of the underground water, the total That said, it's not that easy to get used to. The temperature of the water made Rand's face turn blue for a while, and his fingers and toes were slightly stinging as if being bitten by something, but he lost his intuition soon after, and his limbs moved more and more clumsily. — a stark contrast to Munster’s dexterity in the water.
Rand's beloved little monster can only be described as "like a duck in water" here. Of course, its long and powerful fish tail and the experience of living in the water all the time make it objectively more adaptable to the environment in the tank than Rand.
Rand's vision has been greatly improved after the body mutation, but now the inside of the water tank is complete darkness, without even a trace of light. Under such circumstances, Rand found himself suddenly lost his sight, he could not see anything. The feeling of weightlessness at the bottom of the icy cold water easily confused his sense of space, and after trying to dive for a while, Rand was already dizzy.
He felt the ubiquitous water, the cold, heavy water squeezing him, making him nauseous and nauseated.
At the same time, a phantom-like intense fear suddenly fermented in his heart. He made a circle in the water, only to find that he was lost.
Is he really just in a tiny tank
still…
At that moment, Rand had a strange conjecture that he was sucked into the black hole.
In fact, this was the first time Rand had actually been underwater for extended periods of time with gill breathing—his under-remodeled body wasn't fully adapted to get oxygen from his gills. He dived unprepared from the hot roof into the cold water tank, and the strong temperature difference also caused a serious burden on his body. Not to mention that Rand was actually dealing with it all in a very tense situation... For a combination of reasons, he created the diving panic inside the dark tank that should have occurred in deep diving.
Involuntarily, he began to dance with that terrifying fear that almost took all his sanity away from him, and the violent foam from his nose and mouth began a series of surges on the ground...
Until a pair of arms stretched out from the darkness and stuck firmly to his body.
[help me-]
Rand made an irrational, silent cry for help in the dark.
He struggled hard with those hands, and his hands unconsciously crossed the man's face...
He felt as if he had ripped something from its face, and then stunned for a moment.
In this brief pause, Rand felt something more silky soft slide in from the bottom of his water-soaked suit, wrapping around his body.
[I am here, Rand, here I am.]
He felt that he heard someone's voice, but strangely, the voice seemed to sound directly in his head.
A hazy and faint blue fluorescence swayed and lit up on the dark bottom of the water.
Rand took a deep breath, he could feel the weird feeling of the water gushing out from behind his ears, and his distracted vision finally focused.
Munster's long hair lit up.
This is the predation method of wild sirens in the deep sea. Their hair-like tentacles are filled with cavities inside, and the glowing bacteria will emit light under the control of hormones to attract phototactic organisms... However, Rand is ultimately because of this. The light from this primitive means of predation calmed down.
Little by little his vision changed from blur to clear, and then he saw Munster now.
Its shimmering strands of hair looked like a fairy under the moon, and beneath those swaying hair...
[Munster? !]
Rand almost shouted, but in the end, only blisters came out of his mouth.
Munster's tentacles bound him firmly to it.
And Rand was so surprised because he saw a completely unfamiliar face.
His skin was pale, slightly bluish due to the fluorescent color, reminiscent of the first snow under the moonlight, with an inorganic coldness and purity, his eyelashes and eyebrows were as crystal clear as the icicles of snowflakes, As if the most skilled craftsman had carved it out of crystal, with a straight nose bridge, full and graceful lips, and his face had a very Greek outline, with a classical beauty, of course, if that were all, this one was almost a sticker. The face that appeared on the tip of Rand's nose could only be described as "beautiful" - however, he still had those eyes.
Like Opal placed in fire and blood, his pupils are sunk in those perfect eye sockets. Staring at Rand with deep affection, his pupils shone with the lustre of roses, sunlight and gems at the same time.
Those eyes gave him a verve unlike any other human being.
He looked so delicate, so beautiful, so perfect that he was like Narcissus who had fallen into the world by accident. Even just looking at him, you could feel the tremor in your soul...
Rand's body gradually began not to obey.
He was a little confused, almost thinking that what he saw was his own hallucination.
"Crack..."
At this moment, there was the sound of someone slamming the lid of the water tank from above their heads.
The "Narksos" looked up at the top.
The shimmer emanating from his hair faded in an instant.
He pressed Rand into his arms, his tail swayed slightly in the water, and dived towards the bottom of the tank.
At the same time, its hair began to flutter behind it, growing...
If you saw this scene in the light, you would think that at the bottom of the clear water, someone mischievously knocked over a can of silver ink, and the ink was spreading, spreading... until the bottom of the entire water tank was overflowing with that trace.
In fact, those "ink marks" are all hair-like tentacles on Munster's body. They were attached to the tank wall, densely tangled and intertwined, until they completely covered it and Rand.
Finally, those sheer strands of hair start to change color…
"opened!"
A ray of bright sunlight burst into the interior from the top of the tank.
Then, two figures appeared there.
"searchlight-"
The soft-hearted officer looked at the inside of the water tank, which was dark because of the lack of light, and reached out to pick up a special searchlight from the team's hands to shine it inside.
However, aside from the slightly rippling ripples, the only thing he could see was water...
Very ordinary, clear water.
Because of the depth, the underwater filter has only a faint shadow.
But it was enough for him to judge the situation.
There is no one here.
"Boss, not here either!"
At this time, other people's reports were uploaded from the shelf of another tank.
"… "
The officer nodded to them silently, and handed the searchlight to the "Thorn Seahorse" beside him.
The latter reluctantly swept the inside of the water tank with a searchlight several times, and finally lowered his hand with a pale face.
"I'm sorry, sir."
He said to the officer in a dry voice.
"I don't want you to be judged by your emotions - this is the last time."
The officer reached out and patted "Thorn Seahorse" on the shoulder.
Then he turned his head and yelled at the others on the rooftop.
"Close the team!"
…
Behind him, the two team members pushed back the water tank cover with a harsh sound of friction.
"boom-"
Amidst the loud noise, blue fluorescence faintly lit up inside the dark water tank.