Miss Louisa was somewhat moved by Shade's suggestion. She wrapped herself in her robe and thought for a while:
"I think I can find the general location where he landed... Well, detective, I'll take up half an hour of your time. I'm a little cold too. If we can't find him in half an hour, we'll leave. But his injuries are much more serious than mine. If we can find him, I think it will save a lot of trouble."
The two of them looked toward the dark riverbank together. Somehow, this night was exceptionally peaceful.
The Talare River is a relatively large river in the complex water system that runs through Tobysk. During the flood season, it is an important inland waterway for shipping from the west to the northeast of the kingdom.
Even in the urban river sections, the underwater flow rate is quite amazing. No one can swim in the river for a long time unless they have special abilities, are very good at swimming, or hold floating objects.
Fortunately, the driver who was injured by the two men did not stay in the water for long, even though he had just injured Miss Louisa in the river. They just walked downstream along the river bank for ten minutes, and Shade's eyes caught a red halo in the dark night.
"You actually saw this kind of bloodstain after being at least dozens of steps away?"
When the detective holding the box pointed out the marks on the ground, Miss Louisa asked with some surprise.
In fact, this mainly depends on the fact that it is night now and the fog on both sides of the river is not very thick, so the red halos representing bloodstains are very conspicuous.
The injured man obviously didn't expect that the woman he had beaten at the bottom of the river would dare to track him, so he just covered up his traces of landing. After entering the alley beside the river, he didn't even cover up his wet footprints.
Miss Louisa was in front, and Shade was behind. The two also chased into the alley. Away from the windy river area, the thick fog surged up again. As the two went deeper into the alley, there was a fishy smell in the air, as if someone had opened a can of herring and hung it in the wind.
"Oh my God~"
Miss Louisa was walking in front, so she stopped first, unable to hold her breath. She pulled Shade's robe to cover her mouth and nose, and Shade also smelled the smell that came with the cold and damp wind, and almost vomited:
"What's this?"
"Detective, something is not right..."
The darkness in front of the alley was a little too thick, like the thick ink on an oil painting that could not be dissolved. Even on a foggy night, this situation was very abnormal.
Xia De looked around, and the red halo was already very bright:
"He was nearby, just passed by here, the blood was very obvious..."
Only then did I realize that at the edge of my vision, the large red halos represented the amount of bleeding, which had exceeded normal levels:
"Ms. Louisa, something is wrong."
"It's definitely not right."
The blonde girl stared into the darkness before her and asked Xia De:
"Can you use your 'light magic' now? Be careful to control the power of the magic and don't light up half the city."
"no problem."
Xia De held the box in one hand and pointed forward with the other. As he whispered "Silver Moon" softly, the silver moonlight bloomed at his fingertips.
Miss Louisa stood to the side of Shade, letting the light shine forward.
Then, almost at the same time, they saw a huge figure standing in front of them. It was a fish-man, literally a fish-man. The lower body was two human legs, and the upper body was a complete life-size fish.
The fish's scales had rotted, and white maggots were wriggling in them. The wind passed by it, blowing the stench toward the two people downwind.
At the same time when the silver moonlight touched the fish-man, the detective and the writer simultaneously received a hint from another me:
You came into contact with "Whisper".
The silver moonlight shone on the fishman's back, and immediately a foul-smelling black smoke floated out. The fishman, who had his back to the two of them, turned around, and his rotten and decayed face gradually emerged from the shadow created by the silver moonlight.
Shade felt his stomach cramping, but his fingers were still pointing forward very steadily. The moment he saw that face, he seemed to see a huge monster lurking in the deepest part of the abyss of the deep sea casting a glance at him.
Miss Louisa beside her was also feeling bad, but she already understood the current situation:
"Look at the clothes on it, they are the driver's clothes. Damn it! That guy was injured too badly, and the relics on his body are out of control!"
Hearing this, Xia De felt relieved. He almost thought it was a humanoid relic. You know, any humanoid relic can be directly classified as a sage level (level 2).
"Detective, hold your hands steady and don't look ahead!"
Miss Louisa stretched out her hands, and blazing flames immediately burst out from her palms. The fishman was originally injured by the holy silver light, and now he was burned by the flames. He did not retreat, but rushed towards the two people.
The burning stench made the two people downwind resist the urge to vomit. Miss Louisa summoned her life ring, and the Enlightenment Rune Hunter's trap flashed. Then a piece of brass-colored rope fell from the sky and tied the murloc's "neck", which was the position of the gills.
Oh~
It made a shrill, strange cry. The strange rhythm in the sound made Miss Louisa a little unsteady, but a hand reached out from behind to support her.
"Really? It will be troublesome if this smell can't be washed off!"
The blonde said half in annoyance, groping a hand inside her robe, pulling out the rolled-up paper and throwing it into the air.
"Um?"
The paper should have burned, and then the figure of the match girl appeared. But unexpectedly, in the cold wind, the thrown paper could not burn, and the surroundings were filled with mist without knowing when.
The ugly and ferocious fishman broke free from the rope, broke through Miss Louisa's sea of fire, and was completely exposed under the silver moonlight. Its mouth opened wide, and its sharp yellow teeth and the wriggling flesh in its mouth approached Miss Louisa's neck.
But the blonde girl was not panicked, she clenched her fist covered in flames and punched it. With a bang, she knocked the ferocious mermaid to the ground, and then kicked it into the darkness of the alley.
Xia De immediately shone the light of his finger further away, and unexpectedly found that there was a young girl lying in the alley. When the two of them found the fishman just now, it had probably just lost control and was about to attack her.
"Its power isn't great... Oh!"
Miss Louisa didn't notice the distance, but looked at her fist. A layer of green and smelly fish scales covered it and spread to the whole arm at a speed visible to the naked eye. But before Miss Louisa could think of a solution, Shade's hand reached out again.
"Silver Moon's Gift from Scindia."
The silver-glowing hand covered Miss Louisa's fist, and the holy moonlight slowly dispelled the fish scales that looked like a plague. Shade whispered in the blonde's ear:
"Ms. Louisa, there is another ordinary person over there."
Miss Louisa looked into the darkness and frowned:
"I think I know what's out of control. It's the scales of the drowned murloc, a poet-level relic! This is a relic that spreads ichthyosis and can turn the user into a murloc-like race. I know this!"
She looked up at the monster slowly rising up in the alley. The moonlight from Shade's fingertips clearly reflected its silhouette:
"Detective, go save that little girl. I know how to deal with it."