The Witcher: Darkness Falls

The boat shook violently, and the captain lost his balance and fell to the ground.

Leon was quick to pull Stein back, otherwise he would have fallen into the river.

"What happened? Did you hit a rock?" Someone opened the cabin door and asked outside.

The members of the Iron Forest team also ran out, and Zivar and Karami squeezed out of the cabin.

"Hurry, guard my cargo! Don't fall into the river!" Denzel shouted from the cabin.

However, before he could shout, the people from the Iron Forest had stepped forward and tightened the ropes that bound the cargo.

Denzel came out in the rain to help, and other merchants quickly called on their subordinates to step forward to protect the goods.

"Go back quickly! It's not safe outside!" Leon shouted.

But no one listened to him. These goods were the merchants' lives, and it was impossible for them to ignore the goods.

Someone even shouted: "What happened? Did you hit something just now? Will the boat leak?"

"These goods of mine are all high-end. If they sink, you will have to pay for them!" someone shouted.

"No! My boat is very strong, and the bottom is reinforced with iron sheets. It won't leak even if it hits two more times!" The captain got up and explained loudly.

I don’t know if his mouth had been blessed by the sun god, but a muffled sound came from the bottom of the boat again.

For a moment, the cargo swayed and swayed, and the people on the boat could not stand firmly and fell to the ground.

The other travelers in the cabin were afraid of the ship sinking and ran out one after another.

If the ship sank at this time, it would be even more dangerous to stay in the cabin.

"What's going on?"

"Where did you take the boat?"

"Damn it, lower the lifeboat, we want to go ashore!"

"Can anyone tell me what that sound was?"

……

Suddenly, the deck was bustling with activity and chaos.

"Go back! It's dangerous outside!" Lyon and Ganmier shouted loudly.

Unfortunately, no one listened to them. Everyone was afraid that the ship would sink and they would be trapped in the cabin. Some people even surrounded the captain and demanded an explanation.

"I don't know! This is still a river. There was no such thing before..." The captain was speechless.

Leon pushed aside the crowd, rescued the captain and shouted, "Tell your sailors to row faster, go!"

"He can't leave, he..."

Boom——

There was another loud noise, and the entire ship shifted to the left. Even Leon himself couldn't stand steadily and fell down.

"Leon! Denzel fell down!" Suddenly, he heard someone calling his name.

Leon quickly got up, staggered to the side of the boat and asked loudly: "What's going on?"

Khakira, the halfling and second-in-command of the Iron Forest, shouted, "We asked him to come in but he wouldn't listen. He said the rope near the railing was loose.

As he was stepping forward to reinforce it, the boat suddenly tilted and he fell overboard."

Leon looked at the surface of the water. Denzel's head had emerged. He was breathing heavily and spitting out water.

Not only him, but two other businessmen also fell into the water, but they all knew how to swim and did not sink directly.

Gammill lowered the rope ladder and shouted, "Get him, Denzel! Get him!"

After hearing the sound, Denzel found the direction and moved towards it.

However, the collision just now made the boat unstable and it was still shaking. The wind was also shaking the boat.

This caused the waves pushed by the boat to push Denzel further away.

But a merchant was lucky enough to get close to Gammil's rope ladder and grab it.

"Pull me up! Pull me up!" the businessman shouted in horror.

As a last resort, Ganmir and Zivar joined hands to bring the businessman down first.

The other half-elves went to look for another ladder or rope.

"I'm fine, just watch my cargo!" Denzel shouted, his head floating above the water.

Lyon stared at the river. Although the water here was turbid, it was much better than the other side, and he could still see something.

He suddenly shouted to a businessman who had fallen into the water further away: "Be careful! Stay away from the boat! Don't get close!"

However, the merchant didn't listen at all, because on the other side, his men had already thrown a rope ladder down to him.

puff--

Suddenly, the water between the merchant and the boat exploded, splashing water high, and two rough, mantis-like green claws stretched out of the water and directly grabbed the merchant's head.

The next moment, the merchant was pulled under, and then bright red blood emerged from under the water and spread on the water surface.

"what!!!!"

"Damn it! What the hell is that!"

"No! Eric, oh no!"

"what happened?"

"Please, someone save him! Eric!"

……

The passengers on the boat who saw this scene screamed in fear and their faces turned pale.

Some female passengers even started crying, and the wife of the businessman just now was begging their hired subordinates to rescue people.

But the subordinates were also frightened and retreated again and again.

"What's going on?" Denzel, floating on the water, was terrified and didn't know what was going on.

"Don't move!" Leon roared, and he threw the two swords at his waist to the halfling next to him.

He then climbed over the fence, pulled a dagger from his boot, and smashed it directly at the shadow swimming towards Denzel underwater.

Denzel saw the water explode in front of him and a pair of large mantis-like claws reached out towards him.

But the next moment, another shadow fell from the sky and smashed the claw that stretched out of the water back.

Denzel was hit in the face by the waves and sank again. He held his breath and tried to stick his head out again.

At this moment, a rope was thrown over his head, and he heard someone shouting "Hold on."

He hurriedly pulled the rope, and the dwarves and half-elves on the boat began to exert their strength to pull him towards the boat.

In the water, Leon opened his eyes. He could not see anything in the water, but he grabbed a piece of scale similar to the texture of a lobster shell with his left hand and stabbed the monster with his right hand.

The monster seemed to be hurt by his blow, and began to swing wildly in the water, trying to throw Leon under.

But Lyon will definitely not let go. If he lets go now, he will be in danger.

But this was in water, he hadn't drunk any potion, and he couldn't hold his breath in water much longer than a normal person.

Just when he wanted to take a breath, a strong fishy smell came into his mouth, and Leon immediately realized that he had stabbed the right spot.

He didn't care where the stab was and just pushed the dagger in hard, twisting it as he went along.

The monster struggled violently at first, but gradually became docile, until it was completely calm a minute later and fell to the bottom of the water with Leon.

Leon loosened his hand and swam towards the surface holding the dagger.