Chapter 211 Chloe's Humanity

"It took me a lot of effort to explain the situation to him. These Protestant people have some problems with their brains and will gradually become dull and stupid. But in the end, he understood what I meant and just lay down on the bed."

"Then, he seemed to have seen something terrible. His eyes widened, his expression became more and more frightened, and his body began to struggle constantly." Jeremiah paused, his pupils slowly dilated, and his voice became a little hoarse.

"I felt something was wrong, so I went over and grabbed his shoulders, trying to wake him up, but he wouldn't wake up. Damn it, I've been drifting on the sea for decades, there's no way I could have made a mistake. He looked like he was drowning!"

"Before my eyes, in his own bed, that man f**king drowned!"

Jeremiah tightly grasped the handle of the scimitar, confusion and fear mixed in his eyes, making his eyeballs particularly cloudy.

Josh and Ken shuddered unconsciously.

"He kept retching and trying to breathe, but his face gradually turned blue. I realized that no matter what I did, I couldn't wake him up, so I prepared to leave here first. At this time."

Jeremiah's eyebrows knitted together and his curly beard trembled slightly.

"That man. No, he is already a corpse, like a person who has drowned in the sea. I have seen many of them. His pale corpse is gradually swelling."

"Finally, it gradually turned into a monster, a monster I had never seen before, with a huge head and sharp teeth, but its hands and feet were disproportionately small, and there were webbed fingers and claws. I pulled out my scimitar and hit it, but it didn't move, like a corpse."

"That monster was so strange and scary. I don't remember what happened next. I escaped from that house and hid in an empty house for a night. I mustered up the courage to go back and check the next day."

“When I went into the room again, I found that there was no one in the room. There was no corpse, no tattooed man, and no monster. Everything seemed like an illusion.”

Qiao Xi hesitated for a moment, then cautiously asked, "Captain, could it be you who showed up?"

"You think I'm hallucinating, don't you?"

"No, no," Josh smiled and shook his head. Before he could come up with a reasonable explanation, he was blocked by Jeremiah's next sentence.

"I'm starting to dream about the deep sea now, too."

The room suddenly became quiet.

After a long time, Jeremiah's breathing became smoother. He let out a long breath and said, "Tomorrow, I will go with you to see the Prince."

"How's the research on the fish-men going?"

Hughes looked through the report in his hand with a tired look on his face.

There have been more and more invasions of murlocs recently. Those monsters seem to be endless. Even though we have not achieved any results until now, they still come to the island one after another to die.

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"Mercemen. A little strange." Chloe hesitated and spoke in a low voice.

Xius raised his head, a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes, and then he gradually became serious.

He had known for a long time that the fishman was strange, and he might have asked Chloe to point it out specifically. "What did you find?"

"Haven't there been more and more murlocs killed on the battlefield recently?" Chloe bit her finger subconsciously, her tone a little uneasy as she paced quickly in the office. "It was Richard who found it. Usually the bodies of murlocs are sent to him for disposal. He found that murlocs occasionally have some accessories on them."

"accessories?"

"Yes, such as necklaces, rings, etc. They are all human accessories."

"Human accessories?" Xiu Si's eyes were even more confused. "Why do I remember that fishmen are a size larger than humans? Can it wear human accessories?"

"I can't put them on. Or rather, they don't look like I'm putting them on. That's what's most strange to me." Chloe's anxious expression flashed across her face. "Those rings seem to be embedded in my flesh. Rather than saying I'm putting them on, it feels more like my fingers are gradually becoming swollen."

Xius took a deep breath and said, "You mean, fishmen can be transformed from humans?!"

This news was too outrageous. Xiu Si felt confused for a moment. If the fishmen were really transformed from humans, then...then he was killing humans? How could there be so many people who turned into fishmen for him to kill?

"No, that's unlikely."

Chloe bit her finger and said quickly and quietly, "They have no similarities to humans in terms of behavior or appearance. Well, their instinctive reactions are sometimes similar, but we won't mention that. The most important thing is that they are not wearing these jewelry like humans."

"What's the meaning?"

"For example, if I want to wear a ring, it must be on my finger. It doesn't matter which finger, but it will definitely not be on my wrist bone or rib. The same goes for necklaces. I won't wear them on my legs or waist."

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"You mean"

"They seem to have some human elements mixed in, but the technique is extremely crude. They don't look like humans at all. It's more like they are forcibly imitating humans."

It is clearly an inhuman monster, but for some reason it is imitating humans, and the imitation is so clear that this monster must have some extremely secret connection with humans.

Hughes sat back heavily in his chair and let out a long sigh.

"Well, at least it's not human. If you tell me now that this monster is transformed from a human, it would be a terrible thing."

After a while, he suddenly thought of something and sat up straight. "Chloe, you'd better not study how to use the skin of murlocs on airships. We don't need such technology. Even if you succeed, what if one day we find that murlocs are really transformed from humans? What if we can't find murlocs? Do we have to transform the islanders into murlocs?"

“I found new material.”

"Tell me, whose skin is it again?"

"mine."

Hughes looked up and met Chloe's gaze. Her orange-red eyes were as bright as fire, filled with a thirst for knowledge that left no room for anything else.

Hughes slowly stood up, walked around the table, came to Chloe, grabbed her collar with both hands, lifted her up, and looked her in the eye.

The girl was unusually light, and Zeus had noticed this a long time ago. He knew that the person in front of him was no longer human, but it was not until this moment that he felt that he was really facing this cold reality.

"Chloe, is there really no humanity left in this body of yours?"

(End of this chapter)