The next day.
Before dawn, Gao Yi had already woken up from his sleep.
He didn't rest well that night.
The messy thoughts were like a big net, trapping him in prison. Seeing that the lights outside the window began to dim, and a touch of fish belly white appeared quietly, Gao Yi simply pushed open the French window of the hotel and came to the balcony alone.
Oncoming was a gust of cool wind.
Looking around, the east, where usually a small half of the sun should appear, is now obscured by a thick layer of dark clouds. Without the sky and sunshine, the entire Dongbin Bay seems to have been deprived of color, with a mysterious atmosphere from the inside to the outside. The stock is indifferent.
Today is a rare cloudy day.
Gao Yi walked downstairs and came to the cafeteria.
There were not many people dining at this place. As soon as he entered the door, he spotted Ah Shen sitting in a seat not far away. The two looked at each other with a calm expression on their faces, but their movements involuntarily accelerated a few times. point.
They all couldn't wait to know what happened to the crabs that came ashore after a long night of waiting.
"The worst thing that could happen is that they invade human territory."
Gao Yi was pedaling a shared bicycle, and Ah Shen poked his head out of the basket in front of him: "But it's been so long, and there haven't been any disturbances nearby. I think the group of crabs that came ashore were just a taste of it, and they didn't..."
Gao Yi, who was riding a bicycle, looked at Ah Shen, who was silent, with a puzzled look on his face: "What's wrong?"
No explanation needed.
Gao Yi suddenly understood the reason why he kept silent.
It stinks!
The early morning sea breeze blew by, but it was mixed with a stench that made people almost faint. Gao Yi's eyes widened and he immediately covered his mouth and nose with one arm: "Why is it so smelly?!"
Click!
There was a crisp sound of something being crushed by the wheels from the tires underneath.
Gao Yi looked down and found that it was actually a crab corpse.
Is it the smell it emits?
After walking a few meters, another crab corpse came into view. Gao Yi suddenly had a bad guess in his heart, and reality seemed to verify his guess. On the road after that, more and more people Crab corpses appear one after another!
"Mr. Gao, the source of this smell does not come from one or two crabs..."
Ah Shen finally couldn't help but said: "It's the entire crab group, they are all dead!"
squeak--!
There was a rapid sound of brakes, and Gao Yi stopped at the beach where the crash occurred last night. Looking down, he saw motionless crab corpses everywhere along the undulating coastline.
They are like cicadas in June. From being unearthed to mating, it only takes a few days. They are also like centipedes after the rain, crawling up from the dead branches and leaves, laying out their ugly bodies.
The stench of protein decay hits you head-on.
Even though he had covered his mouth and nose with his arms, Gao Yi could still feel a pungent smell coming from everywhere, like an invisible hand, constantly drilling into the depths of his nasal cavity.
The flutter of wings fell.
Gao Yi looked sideways and saw that a seabird had landed on the stone pier outside the guardrail with a dead crab in its mouth.
The seabird lowered his body, as if he was about to start feasting, but at this moment, his body suddenly twitched for no reason, and he suddenly vomited an unknown thick substance from his throat pouch.
A familiar scene appeared.
It fell down as if out of strength, and suddenly became silent.
"It's dead?"
Gao Yi came to the lump of incompletely digested thick matter, and through the carapace fragments inside, he roughly inferred the predecessor of this pile of things. The limbs inside were from at least three or four crabs.
"Did it die because of eating these crabs?"
Ah Shen looked over: "Food poisoning? Or bacterial infection?"
"No."
Gao Yi decisively denied: "These things may have a big impact on the seabird's body, but it will never kill it on the spot! There must be something more terrifying in these crabs, which only live for a few minutes after landing... …”
Having said that, Gao Yi himself was stunned.
"No, not just crabs, but also fish, those dead fish..."
He murmured to himself: "There are far more problematic things in this sea area than expected! Just because seabirds prey on them, they are also implicated."
"Where is that person?"
Ah Shen asked at this time: "Isn't it true that none of the residents over the port have eaten dead fish? But it seems that I haven't heard of anyone passing away unexpectedly."
"That's what I'm confused about right now."
Gao Yi took a few steps back and helped the shared bicycle up: "Let's go to the Homecoming Port."
…
local hospital.
In the inpatient ward, a nurse walked in with a cart.
There were several injured people who were attacked by crabs living here temporarily. This was the first time she saw someone being injured like this by crabs. Fortunately, with professional medical measures, there was no serious problem. This should be all right. Sleeping soundly.
She whispered the patient's name, and at the same time prepared the gauze that would be used in a while, but strangely, the ward was unusually dull at the moment, and there was a deathly silence everywhere.
No human voice.
No babbling.
There was no movement.
Including breathing!
The nurse was startled by her thoughts and shook her head hastily.
A few hours ago, these people were fine. A nurse on duty heard them communicating about their feelings of being attacked. To be fair, how could it be possible that it had only been so long now...
Still no one responded to the call.
The nurse took courage and gently put her finger under the nose of one of them.
No breathing.
Her face turned pale for a moment, and then she reluctantly put her head to the man's chest, wanting to hear his heartbeat.
Ping-pang-pang-rang!
"What happened to Xiaoyue?!"
The voices of other colleagues came from outside the door.
The door was pushed open with a click, and several nurses on duty hurried in. They saw the previous nurse falling to the ground in despair. A cart had completely overturned, and the bottles and cans on it were spilled. land.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Colleagues stepped forward in confusion and tried to pull her up, but found that the latter was like a soft-legged shrimp, unable to stand firm after trying several times: "What's wrong with you? !”
"he……"
Xiaoyue stared blankly at the man on the hospital bed. After mumbling for a long time, she uttered a few words: "He...he is dead."
"died?"
The nurses on duty looked at each other in disbelief: "Are you kidding me? These people just have superficial wounds. Besides, the wounds have been treated, how could they be dead?"
"Really! You guys have to believe me, he is really dead!"
Xiaoyue pointed at the man and said with a trembling voice: "I just heard it, this man... this man has no heartbeat, and his body is completely cold!"
The nurses looked at each other in confusion, and finally chose to step forward to check.
Not long after, the door of this ward was pushed open again.
And a piece of news that was no less than wildfire was burning in all directions.
"Seven injured after being attacked by crabs at White Beach last night"
——"All confirmed dead!"
(End of chapter)
