[Comprehensive British and American] The villain is also looking for a job today

The phone time was 9:22. After a night, the storm calmed down a lot.

Ed opened the door, and on the wooden corridor, a row of wet footprints formed a string and stopped at the door of Ed's room.The footprints were much larger than the feet of normal adult men, and the toes were connected together, more like webs.

There is a fishy smell in the air, is it the reason of the heavy rain?

squeak-

A door on the right side also opened, and Olivia watched with half of her head exposed. Seeing that it was Ide, she hurried over.

"That's great, luckily you opened the door..." She looked ugly and preoccupied.

The incandescent lamp didn't seem to be powered on. After walking through the dark aisle, the two stepped into the restaurant and saw two men in black long sleeves sitting at the bar with their backs to them.

Seeing someone seemed to give the anxious Olivia a sense of security. She moved closer and patted one of her acquaintances on the shoulder:

"Matthew, did you notice last night that the door to Room 9 wasn't closed properly?"

After being slapped like this by her, the man's body shook slightly, and then his head fell to the ground with a bang, blood splashed Olivia's face like a fountain, and another person sitting next to him was also hit He fell to the ground, his head gurgling and rolling to the ground.

There was a commotion at the scene, and John heard the sound coming from the deck. Seeing this situation, he hurriedly went to Lao Mai.

Olivia was wiping the blood on her face and body hastily with a napkin—she didn’t want to go back to her room to change clothes first, and insisted on waiting for Old Mai and Pushtu to come over with Ede.

Ede stood by the window, looking at the waves being blown by the wind. The sea surface in the distance was connected with the gloomy sky. At a glance, it seemed that there was some darkness brewing in the distance.

After waiting for about 15 minutes, there was the sound of messy footsteps outside.

Old Mai walked in with a forced smile, and when he saw the corpse on the ground, unconcealable worry flashed across his brows.The Pashtun people followed behind, and Ide probably counted them, but there were no casualties among their people.

"Where are the others?" Ide asked, frowning, referring to the people she'd traveled from Gotham with.

No one answered her. After a long while, John said with difficulty: "...they are all gone. The door is not locked, and I can't find it anywhere."

Old Mai sighed heavily, went to the bar, picked up a bottle of whiskey and drank a few swigs.He put the wine bottle back on the table with great force, supported the table and looked at Pashtun, "They... have bad luck this time."

"What's the situation? So many people are given to them—isn't that enough?" Pushtu looked solemn, looking at the sea outside the window as if he saw a ghost.

"...What's the situation? Why are only our people dead! Shouldn't you make it clear? If something happens to me, I swear that I will pull a few backs before I die." Olivia looked at the two in disgust. The vague person took the gun out of the gun bag and slowly put it on the table.

Lao Mai looked around at the young sailors with confused faces and paused for a few seconds. He licked the mouth of the bottle and then said in a very low tone: "Only the old sailors know that sometimes there will be a monster in the sea. The black reef may be called a small island. There seem to be many caves on the reef, and some things will go in and out of it. Recently, this reef has appeared more and more frequently."

"Something?" What is it, Ide is thinking, and Olivia has already asked this question.

"Something like a fish and like a frog."

"Fish? Frog? It's hard for me to imagine how this kind of thing got on the boat? How could it kill people!"

There is a kind of creepy sincerity in Lao Mai's words, "No, you don't understand. That reef is a cursed place. A long time ago, there was a port city called Innsmouth. They landed on this black reef. Half-frog, half-fish monsters were found on it. The locals sacrificed live animals to them, and then they would give back countless gold and treasures. Innsmouth no longer has to worry about not being able to catch fish, just throw a net at will Caught tons of good fish."

"Their greed made them more and more dependent on these monsters, and they also communicated with them. Later, the people of Innsmouth learned to see things in a new light. They felt that humans evolved from water, and half frogs and half The fish monsters are like sea gods—they really lived together and spawned many hybrid murlocs."

This story is a bit disgusting to hear.

Lao Mai continued: "Some mixed-race children are no different from normal human babies when they are born, but as they grow up, they become more like murlocs—later people call them deep divers, and finally these children will return to the water and become into them—perpetual half-frog, half-fish monsters that never die unless killed violently."

"These things were reported to the government, and the government arrested the people of Innsmouth, and Innsmouth became a dead city. But obviously, the underwater world is their world, so how could they be so easily wiped out? These The legend has been passed down from the mouths of the old crew members—if you encounter deep divers, you can sacrifice a few people to them and you will find peace.”

Olivia: "So you went to Gotham to hire someone just in case, to hold us back?"

Pashtun looked at her disdainfully, and asked back: "This is also one of the tasks of hiring you. The risk is directly proportional to the benefit, isn't it?"

"Risk is one thing, and it's another thing to use tricks to fool us. What did you do to make the deep divers only look for us?" Ide asked calmly.

"...Your layer is sprinkled with fish guts." Old Mai seemed to defend himself: "This is just for the sake of maximizing profits. Firstly, the probability of deep divers appearing is very low, and secondly, deep divers will not kill everyone. .At first two people were missing, I thought they were sacrifices."

Olivia pressed down her elbows and tightly squeezed the pistol. The gun, "But you didn't expect that they weren't satisfied at all! They even killed more than a dozen people in one night, and even threatened us by placing the corpses in the restaurant as a prank. !"

John, who was completely terrified, asked tremblingly, "Do they have IQ?"

Old Mai smiled bitterly: "Although they look like a hybrid of fish and frogs, their IQ is about the same as that of humans..."

wow-

The wind picked up again, and the deputy managed to calm down and said, "I'm going to check the lower mast."

After the deputy walked out, Pashtun looked at Lao Mai: "What should we do now, how long are we away from India?"

"There are still about 12 days... If the wind is favorable, it can be reached in 10 days."

Suddenly there was a dull sound of a heavy object falling to the ground outside. Lao Mai picked up his gun and rushed out towards the deck, and everyone else followed.

In the thick and sticky sea fog, a black figure fell on the deck, while another figure knelt beside him, gnawing on something.Lao Mai decisively shot at the weird shadow.

After the gunshot, it was not known whether it had hit or not, but the black figure raised his head and stood up.Only then did everyone see clearly that this monster had a fish head and a human body, like a frog and a fish, with gray-green scaly skin and protruding eyes like fish eyes. He silently stared at everyone.