Kaleidoscope of Death

After the mosquitoes scattered, Lin Qiushi and the others left the restaurant. These mosquitoes waved their wings and formed a light black line in the air, leading to an unknown room.

Lin Qiushi thought it would be more complicated, but he didn't expect Ruan Nanzhu to get the correct answer by mistake. He looked at Ruan Nanzhu and said, "Want to follow it over there?"

"Sure." Ruan Nan Candle looked at the time to make sure it was still early, "Let's go."

After they said that, they followed the direction guided by the mosquito and headed towards the location of the house.

Every five minutes, the location of the house would change, and the direction of the mosquitoes was also different, they were hanging in the air, connecting one by one. Lin Qiushi and the three of them followed the mosquitoes' directions, but soon, he found something wrong - these mosquitoes had actually split into two groups at a certain location, a group facing left and a group facing right, pointing in different directions.

"How did this happen?" Looking at the forked mosquitoes in front of him, Gu Longming was dumbfounded, he grabbed a mosquito and trapped it in his hand, when he let go again it quickly returned to its original location, "Why are these mosquitoes forked, could it be..."

He figured something out. He looked at Lin Qiushi with an ugly face, "Are there two monsters?"

That seemed to be the only answer, but Lin Qiushi always felt that it wasn't that simple, and he said, "Split up and take a look?"

Ruan Nanzhu slightly intoned, "Okay, Gu Longming follows you to the left, I'll go to the right."

Lin Qiushi nodded and didn't argue with Ruan Nan Candle, but instructed Ruan Nan Candle not to force himself if he found any abnormalities, this time he would mainly focus on gathering information.

When Ruan Nan Candle heard Lin Qiushi's long-winded advice, she couldn't help but smile: "My family Lin Lin has really grown up and is old enough to worry about me, it's really comforting."

Lin Qiushi: "...I'm very serious."

"Good, I know you're serious." He came over and kissed the corner of Lin Qiushi's lips with a natural movement, "I'll be careful, see you later."

Lin Qiushi waved his hand at him, "See you later."

While the two of them were talking, the surroundings changed once again, the location of the previous access changed again, this time the mosquitoes were pointing to a location that seemed to be the bottom cabin of the ship.

Lin Qiushi and Gu Longming didn't dare to waste any more time and trotted along, trying to find the room the mosquitoes indicated before it changed again.

They were fast and took half the time to find the room the mosquitoes were pointing to on the bottom deck. The human-faced mosquitoes that flew in mid-air were densely posted above the door upon reaching this room, and Lin Qiushi smelled a strong smell of fish as soon as he approached the place.

This smell was too strong, similar to what they had smelled in the room that time, making one suspect that the huge fish monster they had seen last night was locked inside the room in front of them.

After Lin Qiushi approached this room, he didn't rush to try to enter, but instead pressed his ear to the door panel and listened carefully to the sounds inside the room. The house, however, was quiet, as if there was no living creature, but Lin Qiushi still heard something a little strange, the sound of tiny breathing coming from the door panel... It was so close to him, as if the things inside were no more than a door away from him.

He seemed to have seen something through the dense darkness, his face changed slightly and took two steps backwards, pointing at Lin Qiushi inside the house, nodding his head in fear to indicate that there was something inside.

Lin Qiushi then got up and also looked at the window.

Through the gap in the curtains, he saw a pair of yellow eyes hidden in the darkness, eyes that belonged to a fish, the pupil was a standard round shape, the whites of the eyes were bright yellow, and was now peeking towards the door with an unkind look.

The thing's eyes slowly moved, as if it had noticed someone standing outside the door, and Lin Qiushi saw it slowly open its mouth, which was a dense patch of white teeth and a faintly glowing blue tongue.

Wait... yellow eyes? Lin Qiushi held his breath, he felt like he was grasping something, reacting quickly, he pulled out his phone and turned on the lighting function, then cast the light along the curtains.

The light shone into the room, and Lin Qiushi was able to finally see what was inside, it was a creature that was hard to describe, at least Lin Qiushi had never seen it before.

It had a huge fish head, and a fragile human body, that fish head was too huge and heavy, causing it to not be able to stand upright at all, the slender body that didn't match the head at all could only lie on the ground, and the most striking thing was the long spike on top of its head, the spike looked sharp and sharp... it made Lin Qiushi think of the long sword that killed Minotaur in the mythical story at first.

The fish-man was attracted by the glare Lin Qiushi was holding, and its mouth let out a strange roar, and Gu Longming looked at its strange appearance, involuntarily touching his arm and barely smiling, "What the hell is this?"

"It looked like this mermaid we saw in the room at first," Lin Qiushi said, "Do you still need the yellow eyes in the room?"

Gu Longming nodded his head to show that he remembered.

It was only when he spoke of the yellow eyes that something dawned on him. The eyes of the man-eating fish-man monsters weren't yellow, but uncomfortably white, but this detail could easily become blurred under impactful images, and he only vaguely remembered it after Lin Qiushi's reminder.

"So there are two monsters?" Gu Longming gulped, "Then is this monster's function..." he shifted his gaze to the sharp spikes on top of the monster's head and said something similar to what Lin Qiushi was thinking, "Is it a longsword? "

Lin Qiushi said, "One could guess so."

At least for now, they hadn't found anything else suitable on the ship that looked like a weapon. In fact, the moment they got a good look at what the fishman in front of them looked like, a similar guess popped up in Lin Qiushi's head, and Gu Longming apparently thought of the same thing as him.

The sound of the two men talking seemed to have stimulated the monster inside, and it began to crawl around the room in a fury, its twisted appearance looking grotesque and terrifying.

Lin Qiushi saw its grumpy appearance, but he had a bad feeling, so he grabbed Gu Longming and took a few steps backwards.

As soon as they backed up, a sharp thorn appeared on the sturdy wooden wall in front of them, apparently the thing in the room had actually pierced the wall with its own head just like that, and then left several holes in the wall one after another - one could imagine how painful it would have been if they hadn't retreated just now and had the misfortune of being pierced by the spike.

But just as Lin Qiushi identified the identity of the things in the house, the time for the room to change arrived just in time, the room in front of them disappeared and was replaced by another ordinary bedroom, and the direction guided by the mosquitoes also changed, and the location of the fish moved to the deck.

Gu Longming felt disgusted at the thought of the fish's appearance, in fact, before he came to this door quite like to eat fish, but in the past few days under the fishy smell of fish, he now think of the taste of fish reflex nausea, I'm afraid that even after leaving this door will have to maintain a long time to see the fish, the state of nausea.

Lin Qiushi said, "Let's go, go to Zhu Meng's side and take a look."

Gu Longming nodded his head.

The two left the bottom cabin, went up and saw Ruan Nan Candle standing on the deck, supporting his head to look at the black seawater, heard their footsteps this turned back: "Found something?"

Lin Qiushi said, "We seem to have found the long sword."

Ruan Nanzhu's eyes lit up at the words, "Found it?"

Lin Qiushi nodded and gave a brief description of what they had seen, focusing on the fact that he had seen a long thorn on the head of that fish-man monster, that thorn looked strong and sharp and seemed to be a good attack weapon.

Nguyen Nam Candle, on the other hand, said that in the room he had sought past, he had seen the giant fish-man that had eaten the man last night.

"But how are we going to kill that fish-man." Gu Longming, crouching on the deck and dejectedly eating the candy Lin Qiushi gave him, said, "I don't think that thing is any better than the fish-man monsters we saw before."

The most worrisome thing about wounds was not the width but the depth, once the wound was deep, it would be difficult to heal, especially on this ship that lacked medical care, so you could imagine being poked by that long, sharp thorn, it was expected that even if you didn't die on the spot, you would die of tetanus and other complications in a few days.

Ruan Nanzhu listened to Gu Longming's concerns and comforted him, saying don't worry, when the time comes, everyone will give you a good time.

Gu Longming: "...or not, thank you ah."

Lin Qiushi does think it's a paradox, they have to kill the yellow-eyed fish man before they can kill the Minotaur that represents the monster, but now the question arises again, how are they going to kill the yellow-eyed fish man, are they only going to have to take the restaurant's dinner knife and fight the thing?

The three of them were discussing exactly how to do it, but they heard noises from the restaurant's location, which were mixed with human screams, and screams of pain.

Hearing this sound, they knew that something must have happened again, Lin Qiushi gave Ruan Nan Candle a look and turned around to go to the restaurant, but before they entered, they smelled a strong smell of blood. Lin Qiushi looked down and found blood dripping on the floor, while an injured man was lying on the floor inside the restaurant, covering the wound on his abdomen with his hand. The wound seemed to be very deep and was bulging out with bright red blood.

Gu Longming took a few steps forward and said, "What's going on? How did you get hurt?" He took off his jacket and used it as a gauze and began to move skilfully to treat the wound as if he wanted to help the man stop bleeding.

Watching his movements, Lin Qiushi's mind fell back on some speculations about Gu Longming's occupation outside the door.

"He found those mosquitoes guiding certain directions outside, so we went over to take a look." The one who spoke was the man's partner, who had just witnessed the entire process of his friend's injury as a bystander, and his voice was shaky and trembling, "But when we got there, a long thorn came out of the room and poked him right in the body."

Gu Long Ming frowned, "It's not good, it looks like it's sticking in the kidney." They also didn't have any usable medical supplies around them, and based on this amount of bleeding, I'm afraid this person might be....

A girl next to me said, "I brought hemostatic spray, can I use it?"

"Give me a try." Gu Longming said, "Only a dead horse can be treated as a living one."

He tied up the man's body as best he could to keep the bleeding from the wound down, then sprayed most of it with hemostatic spray, which at least stopped the constant gush of blood.

"What the hell was that thing that stabbed your friend?" Someone saw the situation stabilize and focused on the one that was still alive.

"Looks like a fish." The survivor replied, "I'm not sure...just took a look and something went wrong."

"Let's go over and take a look too." The crowd, obviously more interested in the fish, left the restaurant.

So a few moments later, there were only a few scattered people left in the restaurant.

"How's it going? Is my friend still saved?" The man's eyes asked Gu Longming.

Gu Longming sighed and said, "Getting out earlier might still save the day, but..." this place wasn't something they could leave just because they wanted to.

So everyone quieted down, and Gu Longming looked at the blood in his hands and said, "I'm going to wash my hands first." He got up and went to the toilet.

The breath of the man who had been stabbed in the abdomen was getting fainter and fainter, and despite Gu Longming's best efforts, he was still out of breath after a few hours.

At this time, the entire restaurant was filled with a strong smell belonging to blood, and it happened to be dinner time, and the dead fish set meal was also served, so the fishy stench of dead fish combined with the smell of blood, and the crowd lost their appetite even more. Not even in a perfunctory mood, they left the restaurant separately.

Ruan Nan Candle, however, sat in the same place and didn't move, Lin Qiushi didn't rush him, he knew that Ruan Nan Candle didn't leave, he must have his own thoughts.

Gu Longming became a bit silent because of the death of that person in the afternoon, not very energetic poking at the noodles on the plate in front of him with a fork, looking like he had no appetite.

When all the people inside the restaurant had left, Ruan Nan Candle, however, pulled out a few plastic bags from his bosom.

"What are you doing?" Lin Qiushi was stunned.

Ruan Nan Candle: "I don't think the door will let us fight that thing hard, the difference in force is too great."

Lin Qiushi: "Are you trying to..." he watched as Ruan Nam Candle pocketed and stuffed all the dead fish on the table, "give the fish to that thing to eat?"

"The mythological drunkenness of Minotaur is aperitif wine," Nguyen Nam Candle, "and now we've pretty much figured out what aperitif means."

The fish you eat is fermented in your stomach, and you can taste it when you cut open your stomach pocket.

The first thing you need to do is to get your own copy of the book, and then you'll be able to get your own copy.

After all, this method was much more reliable than taking a dinner knife to that thing alone.

Ruan Nan Candle loaded up the dead fish and carried it out, following the trail of mosquitoes to find the room where the yellow-eyed monster fish was once again.

At this time, the outside of the yellow-eyed fishman's room had many more small holes, apparently it had made them with the sharp, sharp tool on top of its head.

Ruan Nan Candle asked Lin Qiushi and the others to stand far away, and with an outstretched hand, he threw the fish in his hand through the gap in the window.

The dead fish splintered and fell to the ground, the yellow-eyed monster fish excitedly jumped on top of the dead fish, holding it up with its hand and began to rudely gnaw on it, it ate the fish extremely fast and quickly ate the bag of fish thrown by Ruan Nan Candle clean. Good thing they were already prepared and quickly threw in the other bags of fish they had brought with them.

During the time it was munching on the fish, Ruan Nancandle was standing by watching, but Lin Qiushi was a little afraid that he would get hurt, after all, the last injured person's blood was still hanging on the window.

The yellow-eyed monster fish man finished eating all the fish, not even the head was left, after it had eaten its fill, it showed a terrified look and just lay on top of the floor and whirled to sleep.

"Let's go." Ruan Nan Candle said to Lin Qiushi.

It was already a bit late, and although he wanted to see what would happen here at night, staying outside wasn't a wise move.

The three of them went to find another bedroom where they could rest and lay down on the bed to wait for the night to come.

The last rays of light disappeared from the sky as the sun set on the horizon, tonight was a moonless night, only the whistling sea breeze and the dark clouds that hung like a curtain in the sky.

Lin Qiushi was not very sleepy and looked at the window.

Ruan Nan Candle was lying on a different bed from him, but fell asleep and came up behind him, and they squeezed together.

There was no conversation, no eye contact, they tacitly seemed to be experiencing the scene in front of them a thousand times over.

They both waited for the answer that would come after the test.

Around three o'clock in the morning, their waiting finally came to fruition.

Lin Qiushi's ears caught a growl similar to that of a wild beast, followed by the sound of a violent fight, they were a bit far away from that place and couldn't hear exactly what was going on, but the sounds of the fight did last for a long time until it was almost dawn before fading away.

"Who do you think they're going to win?" Ruanan Candle whispered.

"I don't know." Lin Qiushi said, "It's the same for everyone."

While things went mostly smoothly, there were still some surprises beyond their expectations. Not long after the fighting stopped, but human cries and screams rang out from the ship, Lin Qiushi who heard the noise froze and got up from his bed to go to the window, he wanted to see what was going on outside, but the night outside was too dark for him to see clearly.

Luckily, Ruan Nan Candle's eyesight played a crucial role at this point, he saw the fisherman dragging a struggling man onto the deck.

"How did this happen?!" Lin Qiushi listened to Ruan Nam Candle's description and was a bit incredulous, "Today, obviously no one is eating fish inside the restaurant-"

In the meantime, Ruan Nan Candle raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you... remember the man who was scratched by Jane Chien Yuan yesterday?"

Lin Qiushi: "......." he nodded his head.

Ruan Nan Candle: "It seems like he hasn't been coming to the restaurant today."

All of Lin Qiushi's attention was on the two monsters today, but he didn't notice this: "But isn't it good that he didn't come to the restaurant?"

Not coming to the restaurant meant not eating fish, so why would the monster be staring at it.

But Ruan Nan Candle laughed bitterly, "It's not like there's more than just restaurants with fish."

Lin Qiushi: "......." he immediately thought of that dirty kitchen.

"There are still so many edible fish in the kitchen." Ruan Nam Candle said, "There's always a sacrifice."

Lin Qiushi sighed. He had thought there wouldn't be any more sacrifices tonight, but now that he thought about it, he was too naive, and the Gate simply wasn't that benevolent. The longer he stayed here, the worse the deaths and injuries would be.

The man's screams gradually lowered, and eventually only the long, silent night remained.

Lin Qiushi managed to get some sleep before dawn, but he didn't know if he was having nightmares from his poor sleep or if he wasn't sleeping at all, but he always felt like that thing had been lingering around the room they were in the latter half of the night. He even smelled the sickening smell of fish again.

On the third day, all three of them were not in good spirits, they hadn't slept too well these past few nights, after being troubled by various things.

After the baptism of the previous few days, the crowd had become numb to the corpses that appeared on the deck, they skillfully disposed of the corpses, cleaned the deck, and acted as if nothing had happened again.

Lin Qiushi's attention wasn't on the deck, he went to the dining room early, trying to look for signs of mosquitoes. But to his disappointment, the mosquitoes that had appeared as a line yesterday were gone.

"There's no need to rush." Ruan Nan Candle looked at his watch, "It's still early."

Lin Qiushi hmmmed, indicating that he knew.

Without a line, they couldn't find the two monsters, so they could only continue to wait.

At around eleven o'clock, the image Lin Qiushi was waiting for finally appeared, the NPC that had turned into a mosquito yesterday appeared in the restaurant again, wearing the same clothes and keeping the same expression, it was simply like an NPC that was regularly refreshed in the game.

This time without Ruan Nam Candle, someone walked up to this NPC and reached out to tap him heavily on the shoulder.

So the same image as yesterday appeared again, the mosquitoes scattered and disappeared into the restaurant, while at the same time, two lines made of mosquitoes appeared outside the restaurant, leading to an unknown place.

Lin Qiushi three began to follow the lines to find the place they were looking for, and after a few minutes, they arrived outside of a house, which was very different from yesterday, because just from the outside, it was clear that this house had gone through a vicious battle last night, the wooden windows were completely shattered, and the padlock hanging from the door was violently removed.

It seems that these two monsters, indeed, had a vicious fight. However, from what ended up happening last night, it appears that the giant fish man had the upper hand in the fight.

What the author has to say: monster: eat my salty protrusions!