The old woman carried the child out of the back room, the small body was still wrapped in heavy clothes.

The three of Xu Heng tried to see the child's face clearly. After all, in such a strange environment, any abnormal existence was very suspicious.

The old woman carefully tucked the child's clothes, then looked up at them with vigilant eyes, but did not deliberately cover the child's face.

So Yitu still saw the face of the little girl with paralyzed limbs, not the bulging eyes as imagined.

It was just an ordinary child's face, although the facial features were a little ugly when combined, the skin was a haggard blue-gray.

Obviously, this child is probably suffering from a very serious disease, and looks like he will die at any time.

Perhaps the reason why the old lady invited them to kill the fish was here.

Yitu made a simple guess, and felt a clue in his heart, but he was not sure.

After all, so far, no plot or clues have emerged, and his deduction is nothing more than looking at the flowers in the fog and guessing the outline.

"Those things in the river, we called them human sharks at first."

The old woman sighed softly and said in a deep voice:

"Although they are called sharks, they are not the beautiful mermaids in mythology."

"The human-faced shark has an ugly appearance and a snake-like body with a thick and dense layer of scales attached to the surface. It is not afraid of flames, nor is it afraid of any swords or bullets."

Hearing this, Xu Heng couldn't help frowning:

"That means, that thing can't be killed at all?"

The old woman glanced at him, did not deny his words, but did not answer, just continued:

"Their teeth are sharp and tongue-tied, and their mouths are discreet. Once they are sucked, there is no possibility of them surviving."

"Then where is its human face?" Huasan asked aloud.

According to the old woman's description of the mermaid, it is more like a vampire fish-lamprey than a mermaid.

But it has the word human face in its name, so it can't be irrelevant information.

"Human face..." The old woman thought for a while and said:

"Their beautiful face grows on the back, and normal people can't resist its temptation."

Hearing this, Yitu frowned even deeper.

The old woman must have seen the mermaid with her own eyes, otherwise she would not have been able to describe the appearance of the mermaid in such detail.

However, this point conflicts with what she said to the three players at the beginning, that they should not see the faces of the mermaids, nor should they look into their eyes.

This means that not only did the old woman see the face of the mermaid, but she was also the only survivor in the whole village who was lured by the mermaid.

Just as the three were silently digesting the information, the old woman spoke again:

"The fish you want to kill is not a human-faced shark."

The three of them were taken aback when they heard this, and Yitu asked:

"It's not a human-faced shark, what is it?"

"鮜." There was a gloomy look on the old woman's face, "The half-fish that was killed by the man-faced shark and mutated, they are called 鮜."

"Screams are not living creatures in the true sense, they are always on the boundary of half-dead and half-alive. Although cannibalism cannot change their state, it can make them eliminate the pain caused by shark poison in a short time."

"I've said so much, just want to tell you that the desire for human flesh is very strong, don't take chances to face them."

Speaking of this, the old woman sighed, with a strange look on her face:

"After tonight, I hope you all survive."

"After all...except for me, everyone in the village has turned into 鮜."

Yitu was not surprised when he heard this. In fact, they were already mentally prepared the moment they saw the empty village.

It's just that he still has a little doubt, that is, the fish will go ashore to eat people in order to relieve the pain, so what about the human-faced shark that caused this tragedy?

Will it also follow the 鮜, climb up the river bank and devour human flesh?

Yitu asked this question, and the old woman didn't hide it, she said truthfully:

"I do not know."

"Since the villagers have turned into scorpions and occupied this river, the human-faced shark has never appeared again."

"Is there not one?" Huasan asked.

The old woman shook her head, "Not one."

After hearing this answer, Huasan and Yitu looked at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other's eyes.

According to the old woman's description, it is obvious that there is not only one human-faced shark that can slaughter an entire village.

However, when the 鮜 appeared, the human-faced sharks all disappeared.

This had to make Yitu start to suspect that the mutated 鮜 formed by the villagers is actually a human-faced shark in disguise.

As for the old woman who guides the plot, it is very likely that in principle she has already lied and passed false information.

Even without considering what the purpose of her lying is, it is absolutely impossible to be a beautiful lie.

The old lady gave some advice to the three of them, and even told them the only weakness of the three of them.

This surprised Yitu and the others, after all, they didn't assign the plot NPCs to their side at all.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Most of the plot npcs in the card field, even if they don't take the initiative to frame the player, they will definitely not stand on the same line with the player.

But the old woman in this password point is a little different.

She told Yitu and the others that because the carp is a living creature formed by the mutation of dead villagers, even though it has lost its human thinking, it still retains some of its memories when it was alive.

Some of them can remember fragments of being human, and some can even inflame their abdominal cavity, imitate human voice, and retain the ability to pretend to be human.

There are big and small differences between squid and squid, but without exception, they will firmly remember the two most important points of being a human being during their lifetime.

That is, their names and the way home.

Pointing to the willow tree covered with human skin outside the window, the old woman told them:

The first thing the fish do after landing is to wear back the human skin that has been shed.

Then they will follow memory, smell, etc., and grope back to their home.

So that's why, the whole empty village has its doors wide open.

"I hung those human skins on the tree. Carp are very sensitive to human breath and heat, but their vision is very poor."

"Those human skins are packed together, even if they want to find the right one, they will have to spend a lot of effort."

And this period of time is enough for her to prepare the hook and countermeasures at home alone.

When the old woman said this, a smug smile flashed across her face.

Although fish are paranoid about the sense of personal belonging they had in life, many fish will remember the wrong direction.

And these squid who remember the wrong way will instinctively come up and knock on the door.

So the old woman forbade them to close the door, even if it was dangerous.

Because once one of them knocks on the door, all the others will be attracted.

They know that there are living people in the house where the door is closed.

The old woman told Yitu with a serious face that if the matter really came to a critical juncture and the edge of life and death could not be escaped, try to call out the name of the fish.

When the old woman said these words, both Huasan and Xu Heng were taken aback.

You must know that there are hundreds if not thousands of villagers in this village, and each person has long been unable to recognize his appearance before birth under the transformation.

But the old woman tried to make them remember the names of some of them.

"... Zhang Boss's right leg was born with a disability, and Zhang's second child is a child with a broken tooth. The first eldest daughter in Han Yun's family in the east, and a younger daughter. The eldest daughter loves to laugh, and the younger daughter is only seven years old. It's only about the height of a person's waist..."

The old lady's speaking speed was not fast, but her inconspicuous features carried a large number of names. Even Huasan and Xu Heng, who had good memories, only remembered a small part of the first part.

Yitu is a little better than the two, and can remember almost [-]% of people's names, although when it comes to critical moments, they may not be able to really remember them.

The old woman only said this once, and there was no paper or pen in the room for recording.

No matter how many places they can't remember, the three of them can only admit it.

Seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, and the crooked moon was slowly rising, gradually reaching the top, the old woman carried the child into the back room.

She didn't tell Yitu and the others when Cu would go ashore, she just asked them to pay attention to the old willow tree behind the house.

After the whole world fell silent, it inexplicably gave people a deep sense of oppression.

Especially in the house they were in, all the doors were open.

This means that the defenses that a person instinctively seeks to feel safe no longer exist.

Yitu and Xu Heng sat on the bed in their own room, one at the head of the bed and one at the end of the bed.

The position at the head of the bed just happened to be able to see the strange willow covered with human skin in the back village, and the white clothes fluttered in the wind under the moonlight, which was particularly oozing.

And at the end of the bed, you can see several houses in the village with wide open doors. The dark openings seem to be able to crawl out of human-eating monsters.

Xu Heng touched his cold arm, looked away, and looked at the room they were in again.

He suddenly realized that the old lady hadn't placed any fishhooks in this room for catching squids.

what does that mean?This means that the three of them are themselves traps for the 鮜.

Xu Heng belatedly pointed to the ceiling, Huasan glanced at him, and whispered knowingly:

"You just found out?"

He was about to say something more when Yitu, who was sitting on the bedside, suddenly turned his head and lowered his voice:

"Shut up, they're coming."

Xu Heng and Huasan's heart tightened, only to hear the sound of water being broken in the extremely dark world.

Not big, but creepy enough.

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