The ladder was put down on the fishing boat and everyone got off the boat one by one.
Because there is no wooden plank built by the pier, we have to wade from the shallows to the shore.
Anxi's clothes that had just been dry were soaked again.
There were lush woods in front of them. After getting off the boat, everyone moved forward in three directions according to the groups they had just assigned.
Li Zihua and Bai Linya were in a group, Chu Qingyan was in a group with Zhang Yichen and Lu Qingqing, and An Qian, Cheng Nuan and Liu Ningxin were left in another group.
Each group must have one person who can perform attack output, otherwise they will have to run away when encountering villagers.
Anxi and the other three walked along the path in the middle towards the housing area of the village.
Compared to the deep mountains and forests or the empty seaside, she felt that the curse was most likely to be hidden in a certain house.
Having fought against Curse several times, Anxi has managed to grasp its timid and cunning personality.
The three of them walked out of the woods. In front of them were huts with thatched roofs.
The housing complex is now silent.
All the villagers were waiting on the shore for the return of the fishing boat. Unexpectedly, Anxi and the others sneaked onto the island from the back of the island.
"Search door to door." An Qian whispered to the two people behind her.
Cheng Nuan and Liu Ningxin nodded, and the three of them temporarily separated and went to different rooms.
Anxi chose a hut in a remote location that was closest to the woods. She climbed to the window and took a peek, but there was no one inside.
Then she tried to move the window, but it was unlocked, so she opened it directly, turned over from the window and jumped in.
"Cough!" Anxi couldn't help coughing when she landed. She was covered with injuries now, and she was relying on perseverance to persist. After all, if she didn't persist, she would be dead.
Time cannot be lost.
Anxi suppressed the urge to cough and began to rummage around the room.
This should be a girl's room. She is a girl who is not keen on dressing up. The cabinet is full of pants and washed white T-shirts.
Anxi rummaged through the kitchen again and found only some fruits and vegetables and half a bag of rice. There was no trace of meat or fish at all.
Is this guy still a vegetarian?
Anxi walked around the house but found nothing, so she was ready to jump out of the window again.
But she just walked to the window.
"What are you doing."
Someone was already waiting by the window in advance, watching her every move.
"Who!" An Qian was startled and raised the white bone nail to block her chest.
"My name is Miaomiao."
But the person outside the window had no intention of attacking. She stared at Anxi's face and asked, "You killed that monster in the sea, right?"
Her tone was calm, and she didn't sound like she was looking for trouble for Anxi.
Anxi then looked carefully at the people outside the window.
With a cold expression and a ponytail on her head, she was the girl who sent them to the island and reminded them not to eat fish.
Unexpectedly, Anxi turned over to her home.
"I killed him." An Qian replied without putting down the bone nail in her hand.
"..." Miaomiao on the opposite side stared at her quietly, looking meaningful.
An Qian was confused and was about to ask again.
Miaomiao spoke first.
"At the village chief's house."
Anxi was shocked: "What?"
Miaomiao added: "It's what you're looking for. You must have seen it after you killed that strange fish."
Anxi knew that the girl was talking about the existence of a curse in the village chief's house, but she didn't understand why the girl told her.
An Qian asked her doubts directly: "Aren't you also a villager in Fishing Village? Why did you tell me?"
"Because that thing shouldn't exist!"
Miaomiao's ice-sculpted expression finally cracked: "If it weren't for that thing, my family wouldn't be as disgusting as it is now!"
Anxi thought about the fish-man she saw in the crystal ball. It turned out that this was not the original appearance of the villagers, but because of the curse.
"Then why didn't you..."
Anxi looked Miaomiao up and down. She looked very awake, presumably not affected by the curse.
"...When that dirty thing came to the village, I was going to school outside the island. I came back to the village for my family."
Miaomiao's intense emotion only lasted for a moment, as if she didn't want people to see this side of herself.
She took a deep breath to calm down and recounted what happened in the village.
"Our village is very poor. Even guarding this sea area is of no use. This sea area is not rich."
"That's why that thing had the opportunity to sneak in."
"I don't know what weird power it has. It can actually make fish in the sea reproduce in large numbers. The quality of the fish is extremely high, and the village suddenly became rich."
"But in addition, some strange fish are also quietly appearing. Those mutant fish can't be full just by eating some small fish and shrimps. Whenever the breeding season comes, they need a lot of feed, otherwise they will become Eat all the normal fish.”
When Miaomiao said this, she raised her eyes and looked at An Qian: "When you are all covered with those fish eyes, it will be the most nutritious and high-quality feed."
An Qian finally connected all the known information from Miaomiao's words.
No wonder the recruitment information is inconsistent. Normally, fishing is not allowed during the breeding season.
In this way, it makes sense that they are not actually here to catch fish, but to be eaten as feed.
This is the true meaning of the breeding season.
"When you gain wealth, you have to pay a corresponding price." Miaomiao continued.
"That thing still left a curse on the village."
"The villagers are not allowed to leave the island. They turn into disgusting fish-men and are extremely delicious food for the mutated fish in the sea."
"At the same time, they can only survive by drinking mutated fish soup. This is to keep the villagers in the village and continue to cheat them into getting more "feed". "
Miaomiao finally finished telling the story about the village. She lowered her head and felt a touch of sadness all over her body.
No wonder she drove the boat to pick up the player to the island, because she was the only one in the entire village who could leave.
For the sake of her family, she had to repeat the job she hated again and again, suffering from the torture of her conscience.
That's why Anxi was reminded not to drink fish soup.
The curse of mysterious power...
It is destroying and sucking the fresh life out of Fog City.
An Qian calmed down, looked at Miaomiao and said, "Where is the village chief's home?"
Hearing this, Miaomiao raised her head and said sincerely and seriously: "It's in the northwest, I'll go with you!"
Anxi nodded, climbed out of the window, looked to the northwest, and prepared to run with all her strength.
But she just took a step.
"Wait!" Miaomiao grabbed her clothes, and Anxi almost stumbled and fell to the ground, causing more injuries.
"The homes of the villagers are covered with slime. If you rush in and get attacked by that dirty thing, you won't be able to hide."
"Slime?" Anxi recalled the scene she saw in the crystal ball. The villagers in fish-man form were indeed covered with transparent liquid.
Like Miaomiao said, if she accidentally steps on the slime and slips when those black and red tentacles attack her, it will simply expose her weakness to the enemy.
Anxi thought for a moment, then looked up at Miaomiao and asked, "Does that mucus contain a lot of water?"
"Yes." Miaomiao didn't know why Anxi asked. She nodded blankly and said, "Most of it is water."
"That'll be easy." An Qian tilted her lips, changed direction and started running, not forgetting to shout to Miaomiao behind her:
"Follow me quickly! Go back to my house and get something before you go!"
