The moonlight illuminates the way back for humans.
The short-haired young man was swaying on his feet. If someone hadn't been supporting him, he might have slipped on his feet, stepped on a puddle, and would have fallen into the field ridge, rolling all over in mud.
"Brother Xia...Brother Xia has a rock in front of him!" The minor grabbed the adult and pulled him to the left, barely avoiding the raised obstacle.
I don’t know who was so unethical and dropped the gravel on the ground. It looked like a stone slab fell to the ground and shattered.
Gao Tianyi pulled once and twice, but the more times he pulled, the young man also collapsed a little.
"I said." Gao Tianyi tugged on the adult's sleeves and tried to turn his head, "Can we go faster?"
Go back early so that drunk adults can take sobering medicine.
They made a mistake and didn't bring everything with them. The refreshing charms alone didn't have much effect. It was a success to be able to make Xia Chengyin react to his drunken state so late.
Gao Tianyi took out another talisman and stuck it on the adult's back, thinking about the possibility of knocking people out.
After thinking about it, you will find that it is unrealistic. A young man cannot defeat an adult without any means. What's more, the other three are on their own, and no one pays attention to him.
Gao Tianyi: I am still young and I am so tired.
A man and a woman at the back sandwiched another companion in the middle. The one wearing glasses observed carefully, especially the area between the black-haired young man's cheek and auricle. The skin there was smooth and had no abnormality.
"There are really no adverse reactions?"
"No."
"Well, that's the truth."
"...Everything he has said so far is not the truth." Qi Zhuyue tossed her head irritably and messed up her long hair, "The fish on the table...Bai Su, you said the fish you saw in the backyard ——”
The person under observation lowered his head and slid his fingers quickly on the screen of his mobile phone.
After a while, the black-haired young man seemed to have seen something, holding his chin and lost in thought.
"..." Qi Zhuyue didn't know what to say, so she could only call out the person's name again, "Baisu?"
The black-haired young man turned his head following the sound, and looked at the human woman with eyes of the same color. He opened his lips lightly: "I just... saw this fish."
The screen of the mobile phone was turned to the other person. After loading for a long time through the slow network, a photo appeared - a silver-gray oarfish with a red dorsal fin.
This fish is actually nothing. The photos on the Internet make it look a bit ugly, and its body looks extremely huge compared with other fish around it.
But the problem is, Bai Su saw it in the backyard.
"Are you alive?" Tang Nuo asked.
"It's alive." Bai Su replied, "The moment the sun shined on it, it swam twice."
The coiled figure is more hidden under the water, and what can be observed with the naked eye is the head-down dodging movement of the banded fish.
The body that is three to four meters long is condensed in this small water tank. It is a little pitiful, but more importantly, it is bizarre how deep-sea fish survive on the shore.
Human beings looked at the photos, heard the answers, and fell into deep thought.
They really didn't expect that on the first night of their first day, they would encounter such a thrilling and unconventional thing during dinner.
With the appearance of the oarfish, the other fish in the fish tank were not very eye-catching. After Bai Su's search and identification, he still found a few fish that did not belong to shallow water.
How could he normally come into contact with so many fish? He could only recognize the oarfish because he had caught it while playing a human game. What was that game called? One was an island building game. All he caught was bass all day long. He didn't know anything about that game. Interested, I played it once or twice after being recommended by fans; another game called Fishing ○ Undercurrent also has oarfish, which is one of the few fishes that has not mutated.
One thing he said was that he was quite curious about the taste of those contaminated and mutated fish... was it the same as the ones cooked in this village?
"By the way." Thinking of something, Bai Su took back his phone, "I asked where the water pipe in the backyard leads to."
Based on Bai Su's description, Tang Nuo could almost restore the layout of the backyard.
There are three rows of fish tanks that are three or four stories high. The top layer of each pile is connected to a water pipe. Several water pipes merge into a corner of the yard to form a very thick one, which climbs from the position opposite to the water tank. go out.
"People... said it was connected to sea water."
"……ha?"
The eyes of the three parties faced each other. Except for Bai Su's plain eyes, Tang Nuo and Qi Zhuyue undoubtedly showed expressions of astonishment.
seawater.
Bai Su also confirmed it, and the middle-aged woman said that those water pipes led to the sea.
If you want to talk about raising marine fish, humans can still make it up and find some barely credible scientific methods to explain how the fish was transported. After all, money can make all the difference.
But the sea water... Let’s not talk about the altitude of this mountain village, but let’s talk about how dilapidated the pipes are. To draw some liquid from the mountain stream, you have to cross hundreds of meters of horizontal ditch... To put it bluntly, they are too dilapidated.
The humans had obviously thought of this. When they left Wen Jianyuan's home, they turned a corner and took a look at the back of the house. There was indeed an inconspicuous pipe submerged in the turf, covered by vegetation.
I didn't see it during the day, maybe they ignored it.
"Then...let's just say it's seawater and living deep-sea fish..." Tang Nuo pressed his forehead and gave up thinking, "We'll discuss these issues tomorrow. The top priority is-"
He led the others' eyes to look forward. In front of them, two people, one large and one small, were squatting on the ground in an imageless manner, with a posture of ruin.
Bai Su: "...Does Officer Xia have a bad drinking capacity?"
Tang Nuo: "Actually, it's pretty good, but I can't bear to drink so hard today. It's already a gift to be able to drink like crazy until now."
Qi Zhuyue: "I think we should help each other... Taoist priest Xiao Gao almost fainted from the pressure."
After being reminded by Qi Zhuyue, who really couldn't stand it anymore, the two men finally stepped forward and pulled up the person on the ground one by one.
Xia Chengyin was already drunk and half asleep. He relied on his own conditioned reflexes to move around. Bai Su was almost hit by him when he walked over, but there was no reaction after Tang Nuo was replaced.
In response, Tang Nuo pushed up his glasses and said, "It's probably because he's not familiar with your aura yet."
Bai Su looked at his hand that was almost hit and shrugged indifferently.
When he went to lift Xia Chengyin, he considered the strength of human arms. Since humans didn't appreciate it, he stepped aside. It was quite effortless to lift the human imp.
After wholeheartedly transporting the drunkard, they finally returned to their place of residence under the moonlight, accompanied by the distant sounds of barking dogs and insects from time to time.
First, he put the drunkard in and drank anti-hangover medicine until he sobered up. Then he took out some samples hidden in his clothes and brought them back for testing.
In the end, only Bai Su and Qi Zhuyue were left standing together with nothing to do.
It can't be said that everything is fine. According to the human plan, they planned to do a simple check-up on Bai Su who had eaten the entire fish feast when they came back.
Even if the person involved says it’s okay, the inspection is still necessary.
This job fell to Qi Zhuyue who had nothing else to do.
As soon as the human woman heard this, she put on a mask of pain in her heart, and her entire emotion was - you might as well kill me.
Bai Su felt that it was too quiet around him. He raised his eyes and looked at Qi Zhuyue who had a "calm" expression beside him.
"It's not for inspection." He asked, "Is it enough to just look at it?"
"Ah...ah, wait a moment." Qi Zhuyue suppressed her words.
She returned to the house and took out a blood collection tool from the bag. Their special department's bag was just like this. It could be regarded as a treasure bag to a certain extent, but of course, it was not to the level of Doraemon.
She went in and out quickly, and when she came out, the black-haired young man was standing in the moonlight.
The moon, which had been covered by clouds for a long time, finally came out, and the cold light shone on people's bodies, creating several circles of intoxicating white light.
As if it was Qi Zhuyue's illusion, she seemed to be blinded by the moonlight. How could she see gills opening and closing like fish on a person's face... Huh?
By the time Qi Zhuyue came to her senses, she had already crossed the two-meter gap and touched Bai Su's face.
It feels cold to the touch. There is no so-called gill structure, just a smooth skin.
It's just... can human body temperature really be that cold?
"What's wrong?" Bai Su asked.
His plain eyes looked at the human woman who was half a head shorter than him. She was looking at him blankly, her hand still attached to his cheek.
This was a very close distance, almost intimate, but Bai Su did not avoid human touch.
After all, he had created the illusion of fish gills on purpose.
To humans, it seems like they are seeing an illusion that does not exist, but to Bai Su, he only needs to slightly modify the contours of the cheeks to simulate the respiratory organs of the fish.
No, Qi Zhuyue was confused after just one glance, and then staggered over, wanting to touch the reality she saw.
The change disappeared just as the woman's hand was about to touch.
Now, the black-haired young man pretended to take a step back and away from the woman's hand, and then put all his doubts aside.
"Has there been any change on my face?" He touched his face as if he knew what he was asking, and then touched the back of his cheek toward his ears.
The ear bones were soft and were being kneaded by the fingertips. They were human ears, not fish fins.
After a long silence, the human woman finally woke up from what she saw.
The cold temperature escaped from her fingertips, and she could only rub her fingers twice, recalling the possibility of smoothness and coolness coexisting.
This man's skin is also so good...the temperature...the temperature may be caused by the night breeze.
The gentle night wind in the mountains caused a row of goosebumps to appear on the exposed skin.
"No...nothing has changed. I must have seen it wrong."
Qi Zhuyue finally chose to remain silent, and her movements became much crisper. After completing the blood collection operation, she took out the instruments in her bag and took a look.
Sure enough, the numbers remained high.
That's right, just look at the all-fish feast, and look at the unusual humidity in the village.
They had seen the value for detecting yin energy after entering the village. At that time, they just felt that there was something fishy and hidden secrets in the village, but they did not expect that the strangeness would be revealed so quickly.
There has to be a foreshadowing process when people play games...unless an all-fish feast like this is already a foreshadowing process.
"Yes, the plot of the game is not set up like this." Bai Su agreed.
Qi Zhuyue exclaimed: "...Did I say what was in my heart?"
"Miss Qi is surprisingly very understanding." Bai Su bent his eyes, "My thoughts are written on her face."
Qi Zhuyue put away her things, pursed her lips and did not answer.
Seeing that she didn't respond to him, Bai Su started talking to himself: "As for the games I played live before I came here, what usually happens when I go to bed on the first night... So strictly speaking, it can also be done after dinner. Is it night time?"
Due to some procrastination, they went to Wen Jianyuan's house for dinner quite late. In addition, due to drinking, and Bai Su's speed of clearing the table, they managed to reduce the meal time to less than two hours.
"At night..." Qi Zhuyue murmured, "It would be better if nothing happens."
What they are playing is not a virtual game that can be saved and loaded, but an extreme survival game where you only have one life.
Accidents are accidents, and death is real death.
…
After the police officer sobered up, he held a brief meeting.
However, considering the headache, physical discomfort and the late weather, in order to be full of energy the next day, this meeting was really short.
After summing up what happened today, I dug out the dry food in my bag to satisfy my hunger when I wasn’t full for dinner. At this time, the people in the special department felt that the various flavors of fast food that their R&D department had developed would be useful.
For example, the flavor of braised beef noodles is now in your mouth.
Baisu, who was not hungry, also took a piece and ate it. It tasted a little dry and felt full.
"In short -" Bai Su didn't listen to the first half of the human's words, and only listened to the final summary, "Have a good rest today and wait for the test results tomorrow."
The short-haired police officer waved his hand and used a very vivid metaphor.
If you don't sleep at night, you may have a bad constitution when you wake up tomorrow morning.
However, special circumstances may occur even while sleeping, so everyone must remain vigilant.
"Does a vigil need to be maintained?"
"Need not."
The humans shook their heads and pointed at the talismans and props posted everywhere in the room. This was one of the reasons why they brought Gao Tianyi with them.
The short-haired police officer fell asleep after saying that. It seemed that the excessive drinking at night really caused him a lot of trouble. The young man next to him also lay down on the ground, leaving Baisu sitting there, looking down at the two humans on the ground. .
In the end, the whole family chose to sleep together.
what is this?
The black-haired young man held his chin thoughtfully until the humans looked at him with hair on his face.
The drunk one couldn't wake up, and all he could see was the minor's eyes peeking out from under the quilt.
"Brother Bai, aren't you going to sleep?"
"immediately."
The black-haired young man answered simply, and then also lay down.
His hands were folded in front of his abdomen, still in the same sleeping position that could be sent to a funeral parlor to serve as a corpse. A pair of eyes of the same color were brightly open in the darkness.
After a long time, his eyelids closed, blocking his vision.
But monsters don't dream.
(End of chapter)
