Chapter 209
Drops of water kept falling from the ceiling of the cellar, dripping onto Huasan's pale cheeks and hitting Yitu's eyes.
Xu Heng looked at the scene in front of him and slowly exhaled.
In the narrow pool space, the NPC was kicked to the bottom of the pool by the umbrella
The old woman had already gotten up from the ground.
She looked expressionlessly at the three people who had fled in here. They were also wet and in a miserable state.
But unlike Yitu and the other two, there was a two-meter-long and half-meter-wide glass cabinet lying behind her.
The glass cabinet was also filled with water, but the water had already turned a dark red and turbid color.
Yitu could even see scraps of meat and debris floating in the water. Apparently, the old woman Fang Qin had kept something in the glass cabinet and had fed it not long ago.
At this moment, they realized that what the fish said might not be entirely false.
After a brief silence, the old woman took the lead in breaking the deadlock. She gave Yitu and the other two a fake smile:
"Have you killed all the fish outside?"
"I thought the ones that found the entrance were fish attracted by the aroma."
Fragrance? Yitu was stunned for a moment. Stupid smell.
Ever since he entered the cellar, his nerves have been highly tense. Apart from the severe and unbearable pain, the rest is the biting and numbing cold.
If the old woman hadn't mentioned it, he wouldn't have noticed at first that the cellar was indeed filled with a sweet and fishy aroma at this moment.
Unlike the smell of water and blood, this smell is sweet enough to make people feel sick, yet inexplicably intoxicating.
Yitu couldn't describe the feeling specifically, but Xu Heng knew what this sweetness was.
In fact, it was not the first time he smelled this smell. He had smelled it long before the starling that entered their room and covered himself with the bed sheet disappeared.
Under the fear of the unknown, the fishy and sweet smell that fills the nasal cavity reveals a smell of death.
At first, Xu Heng didn’t quite understand it, it was just an impulse.
But at this moment, in this narrow, dungeon-like space, when he saw the thick, lake-blue fish tail flash by in the glass cabinet behind the old woman.
The impulse finally broke through the fog and reached the heart.
The sweet smell came from the human-faced mermaid, although he knew that this thing was most likely the granddaughter of the old woman they had seen before.
The sweet smell that fills the nose inexplicably arouses an unprecedented strong appetite.
Although it sounds funny, at this moment Xu Heng's mind really appeared the image of fresh and delicious sashimi.
It was a strong desire to eat fish.
It comes so suddenly, but it gives rise to endless imagination.
Xu Heng bit the tip of his tongue, which felt slightly numb, but he couldn't help but saliva was secreted from his mouth.
Driven by the sweetness, he couldn't control his reaction, but his mind was very clear.
Xu Heng quickly realized that perhaps it wasn't just the three of them who were affected by the smell.
There are also some fish that are almost crazy.
At this moment, sharp cries were heard from the top of the cellar, accompanied by violent banging and the sound of tearing bedding.
Those were the snipes searching for a scent, trying to get into the tunnel regardless of the consequences.
What attracted them crazily was the mermaid kept in a glass box by the old woman.
The true appearance of the thing could not be seen in the turbid blood water, and before this, the face of the little girl that the three people had seen was probably just the human face on the back of this thing.
Although the old woman had told them that the beautiful face of the mermaid was very attractive, it was most likely one of the main ways the mermaid used to hunt prey.
But in fact, the three of them did not react at all.
In other words, the beautiful face of this mermaid is defective and has no function of luring prey.
However, the little girl's face that Yitu saw had no scars or man-made scratches.
This face, which should have been seductive, has actually turned out to be a very ordinary face.
As for the cause of this incident, Yitu could only think of one possible reason.
That is this human-faced mermaid, which has a genetic defect, that is, only half of the mermaid's blood flows in its body.
As for the other half... the answer is obvious.
This is why the old woman Fang Qin is here, and why they are here.
"Your granddaughter is a half-mermaid, and you lied to us."
Yitu looked into the old woman's eyes and said in a deep voice.
Fang Qin's expression did not change as he spoke.
She just curled her lips and said, "Did they tell you? I told you not to trust the words of the abalone. What do you know..."
She had only said half of her words when the noise and movement above their heads grew louder and more intense.
At this time, the old woman's expression changed slightly, and she subconsciously said:
“Time is running out, time is running out…”
As she spoke, she began to grope in the water. The moment she stood up, the three of them saw the machete in her hand that was more than one meter long.
"what are you up to?"
Seeing the old woman approaching step by step with a machete in hand, Xu Heng, who was standing in front of Yi Tu and Hua San, suddenly became nervous.
"what are you up to?"
The old woman did not answer him, but with a slightly crazy look on her face, she said confidently:
"She is about to grow up, she is about to grow up, the time of change is coming, and you..."
“Everyone must die!”
As soon as she finished speaking, the old woman rushed over madly with a machete in her hand.
Xu Heng was stunned for a moment, but it was only for a short second. His instinctive reaction, which came from years of playing card games, was to lower his head, bend over, and throw the player over his shoulder in one go.
The old woman was thrown heavily to the ground, and the machete changed hands.
Xu Heng pressed the back of the knife against the old woman's neck, looking quite puzzled.
"I'm really sorry, I can't cooperate with you on this."
Although their props were deliberately restricted by the card field, the old woman, as an ordinary plot NPC, actually wanted to compete with these advanced players in reaction ability.
Even if she had a machete, as long as it wasn't a gun, the plot NPC couldn't hurt anyone.
Just when Xu Heng wanted to use this opportunity to force the old woman to tell him about the human-faced mermaid, there was a sudden movement from the glass box not far away.
A thin hand, only half the size of an adult, was printed on the glass box. The blood-red one was particularly shocking.
As this hand appeared, the top cover of the glass box was repeatedly lifted up, making a harsh rattling sound.
Xu Heng looked over subconsciously, but did not loosen the grip on his hands.
Yitu and Huasan also kept their eyes on the glass box. Although the task of killing fish mentioned by the old woman before was just to let the three of them act as bait to delay time.
But this mission does not completely deviate from the main plot.
Even at this point, the task of killing the fish became completely clear.
The "fish" they wanted to kill from beginning to end was never the so-called mermaid, but the mermaid that was being kept in the glass box at this moment.
Yitu tried to get up from the ground, but before he could stand up, a pale, death-like face was pressed against the transparent glass.
Yitu was stunned for a moment. That was not the face of a little girl. Apart from the distorted facial features and the lake blue scales, it was indeed the face of an adult woman.
Even though it is so ugly and so creepy.
Transformation? What direction is it transforming into? Is it a true mermaid?
Yitu hadn't had time to think carefully, nor did he have time to get an answer from the old woman.
The next second, the thing opened its eyes.
"Don't look into its eyes!"
At the same time, the old woman's struggling warning sounded.
However, it was too late.
Not only Yitu saw it, they all saw the blood-red animal pupils filled with countless threads.
It is a symbol of evil and a harbinger of death.
In an instant, the cold river water rushed into Yitu's ears, completely drowning him.
Swallowed by the darkness and floating for a moment, Yi Tu realized that he was probably haunted by the same strange incident that happened to Xu Heng before.
Although what he experienced was like falling into a river in real life, he felt a desperate suffocation and was surrounded by the cold water.
But Yitu still dared to be certain that this was just a series of illusions created by the human-faced mermaid to guide his consciousness to sink.
Although he is not sure whether the death of consciousness also means death in the game.
As the oxygen in his lungs was gradually drained away, Yitu had to stop thinking about anything else and try his best to imagine light.
However, what had worked for Xu Heng did not work wonders on him.
Yitu's heart sank suddenly, and he tried to come up with as many survival conditions as possible in his mind, trying to trigger the death multiple-choice question.
From candles to flashlights, and even possible ships, Yitu thought about them one by one, but the silent darkness remained indifferent.
No, what went wrong?
Yitu endured all this painfully, but felt that he was getting further and further away from the road of guessing the correct answer.
It wasn't a lamp, it wasn't a rope, it wasn't any props he could use, so what else could it be?
Friends, the old lady Fang Qin, or the villagers whom I have never actually met?
The answers to the multiple-choice questions were crossed out one by one until the last villager appeared and the silent darkness finally began to move.
As Yitu wished, the death multiple-choice question appeared before his eyes, although this question also did not give him any room for choice.
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