withered prosperity

Because of Yan Hai's insistence, Yun Ji couldn't carry him over.

The three of them walked towards the lake slowly, during which the atmosphere was rather awkward.

But it was mainly because Fu Bo, who was walking at the end, felt embarrassed, while the other two were calm in the front.

On the way, Fu Bo couldn't help staring at Yan Hai's back.

He had been able to confirm just now that "Mr. Yan" was in front of him, and this face should be Mr. Yan's real appearance.

Just not to mention the completely different appearance, the strange thing is that after the impression of the somewhat reserved young man changed his appearance, even his temperament seemed to change accordingly.

You see, he is walking forward with his back straight like this, the thin layers of gauze on his body are winded in the wind, and the part of his neck where the collar is exposed is a little whiter than the white piping embroidered with curly cloud patterns...

Fu Bo was still observing in amazement, his vision was suddenly blocked by Yun Ji who somehow walked right in front of him.

He had been sizing up Yan Hai's gaze, and met Yun Ji who had stopped and turned around.

Seeing displeasure in Yun Ji's eyes, Fu Bo quickly lowered his head, and once again told himself in his heart that it is wise not to listen, not to see, or to ask.

Yan Hai also stopped not far away, looking at the ancient cypress that was cut open by the sword energy.

"What's the matter?" Yun Ji walked behind him and looked in the direction he was looking at: "I was confused by that child's illusion at that time, and I thought it was just chopping her neck, but I didn't expect it was just a cut. branch."

"Nothing," Yan Hai shook his head. "I was just thinking, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to handle this child."

"I don't think so." The corners of Yun Ji's mouth curled up involuntarily. "If you hadn't reminded me about her hair, I'm afraid it would have taken me a lot of time to see through her tricks. But... I didn't have time to ask you, is her hair the flaw of the entire illusion? It's like the eye of the formation, Can it be cracked once cut?"

"No, there is no flaw in Qianlian Island's illusion. It's all here to see through the illusion." Yan Hai reached out and tapped the corner of his eye, but it seemed to be pointing at his own mind: "As long as you can see through the illusion, everything in front of you is empty." Shadow has already taken the lead, and this is why I think illusion is not suitable for great use."

"If everything is an illusion, what is the point of illusion?"

"If she has the ability to lure you to the cliff, you will be walking on a smooth road. If you step on the air, you will be smashed to pieces. Moreover, it is not easy to practice illusion to perfection. That child has only learned a little. "Yan Hai walked towards the lake, and said as he walked, "I said I would cut her hair because I saw that she was touching her own hair all the time. I guessed that she was very fond of hair, so I deliberately frightened her and let her do it on her own. Give up. Otherwise, if it is forced to break, I am afraid that it will seriously injure her."

At this time, the cruise ship was already on the shore, and Fu Bo's subordinates were holding the rope and pulling it desperately to the shore.

Even if they are all good hands, there are not many people, and the things in the lake are heavy, and it is a bit difficult to pull them up.

Yun Ji took a few steps, took the thick rope from one of them, and wrapped it around his palm.

With his help, the behemoth was soon dragged to the shore.

Those present were either well-informed or had undergone rigorous training, but what they saw before them was still jaw-dropping.

Everyone covered their mouths and noses and stepped back a little.

Just like what I saw in the middle of the night yesterday, a gigantic strange fish was lying on the shore. Because it had been dead for a long time, its bright red eyes were cloudy and black, and it exuded a stench.

Yun Ji also smelled it naturally, but this tangible smell was subtly different from the one he smelled from the fish last night.

"This is... a fish?" Fu Bo asked in surprise, "Why do you still have feet?"

Not only do they have feet, there are more than the two seen last night, there are also two slightly smaller ones near the caudal fin.Regardless of the size, these four feet are all shaped like eagle claws. Although there are only three claws, they all have sharp nails.

Yun Ji turned to look at Yan Hai.

Yan Hai walked to the fish and walked around it.

"It looks like a carp, but it has long legs and is so big. I've never heard of it..." Fu Bo also took a closer look, and asked uncertainly: "Master, you don't know that there is such a thing in the lake. ?”

Yun Ji shook his head, his eyes never leaving Yan Hai's body.

"What's wrong?" He saw Yan Hai stop and asked, "Do you know what this is?"

"This thing has legs, but it's very different from the giant salamander... When I was on the island before, I haven't seen such a sea beast." Yan Hai thought for a while. "Find me a sword, I want to cut it open and look inside."

All things are born according to the situation, the water does not need to use feet, and the fish do not need to grow feet.Even if they have feet like giant salamanders, they are for walking on the ground, and they should not be in the shape of bird claws.

So what this is, no one can say.

Before Yun Ji could speak, Fu Bo handed over the sword on his waist.

How could Yun Ji ask Yan Hai to cut the fish? After receiving the sword, he went there and stood side by side with Yan Hai.

"Come on, the skin and flesh of this fish are so hard that you can't cut it without internal force." He said, "Just tell me how to cut it."

"Slicing the belly of a fish is like killing a fish." Yan Hai did not stop Yun Ji, but explained to him: "I want to see if there is anything weird about its internal structure."

Of course Yun Ji had never killed a fish, but Yan Hai made it clear that he stepped on the strange fish and cut open the fish's belly with his sword.

The blackened viscera slanted out and flowed all over the ground, and the stench was unbearable. Even Yan Hai covered his mouth and nose and stepped back a little.

Yun Ji used his long sword to pry open those fish intestines and swim bladders, and unexpectedly found a few bones in them.

"This thing still eats people?" He frowned, and picked out a piece of white arm bone from the filthy flesh and blood all over the floor.

"If this thing is a carp, it should also eat meat." Fu Bo finally recovered from the shock. "When I was young, I went to the kitchen to play, and I often saw the cooks feeding the carp not to enter the water, saying that they would eat anything, especially offal."

Seeing the white bone in a blink of an eye, he immediately thought of another possible connection: "Last winter, this lake was frozen, and some naughty children sneaked in to play, and one of them fell into the ice hole. Afterwards, the body was never found, and the size of the bone is just right, so it might belong to the missing child."

That section of arm bone is much slender than ordinary people, indeed looks like a child's.

This strange fish was huge, and there were a lot of things inside, so Fu Bo called other people to find tools to continue looking inside.

One after another, I saw a lot of bones, some of which looked like human beings, and some of other animals seemed to be cats and dogs. It seemed that the flesh and blood had been digested, and the bone grafts remained in the body and were not excreted.

Everyone rummaged for a while and found all the internal organs of ordinary fish. Except that they were much larger than ordinary carp, they didn't see anything special.

Yan Hai was about to tell them to stop, when suddenly, among the pile of pickled things, something reflected light in the sun, and it flashed in his eyes.

Yun Ji also seemed to have discovered something, he jumped on top of the fish head, and there was that shining place under his feet.

"Wait." He had just lifted the membrane under the fish's head when Yan Hai stopped him. "It looks like something is moving."

Then everyone saw that under the thick white film, there was something beating slightly and rhythmically.

Yun Ji signaled everyone to back up, and then he also took a few steps back, completely cutting the diaphragm with sword energy.

"It's its heart." Fu Bo gasped, "Why is it still moving?"

The strange fish was killed in the middle of the night yesterday, and it has been four or five hours now, but the fish heart is still beating slightly.

Everyone helped to hook out the fish heart, which was bigger than a cow, and dragged it to an open place.

Yun Ji moved his nose, making sure that he smelled the stench from last night again.

"What's going on?" Fu Bo asked uncertainly, "Why is there a scent all of a sudden?"

The man next to him chimed in and said he could smell the scent.

Only Yan Hai was still covering his mouth and nose, and he glanced at Yun Ji who came beside him.

Yun Ji nodded to him, then raised the sword and cut the fish heart open in the middle.

The cut open fish heart is still beating slightly, and there is a colorful bead in the middle.

The bead was the size of a child's fist, wrapped in purple blood vessels, like...

"It grew by itself?" Yun Ji opened the flesh and blood meridians, and found that there were actually some connected to the beads.

"I've only heard that there are pearls in clam shells." Fu Bo felt that he had really opened his eyes today: "Can beads grow in fish stomachs? Why is this thing so evil?"

Yun Ji raised his sword and cut off the thickest blood vessel on the bead.

Under everyone's attention, the bead quickly changed from colorful to a dull gray bead, then the purple-red meridians slowly changed color, and then the whole fish heart turned gray-black.

After confirming that there was no change, Yun Ji wanted to pluck out the bead with a sword, but when the tip of the sword touched it, the bead completely shattered and turned into a piece of dust.

"This is really...evil..." Fu Bo was almost at a loss for words. "Pavilion Master, how do you think this should be dealt with?"

"How to deal with it?" Yun Ji looked at Yan Hai.

"It looks weird and eats human flesh. This kind of fish is very bad." Yan Hai seemed a little absent-minded: "I don't want to eat it."

"Okay." Yunji said to Bo: "Get it in the ice cellar first, I don't think it will be easy to like it."

Mr. Pei actually likes to eat... No!The owner of the pavilion definitely didn't want to leave it for Mr. Pei to eat!

Fu Bo shook his head vigorously to wake himself up, and then asked people to find a way to get the strange fish into the ice cellar.

Yan Hai walked to the edge of the lake and raised his eyes to look at the wide lake.

"Is this lake... man-made?".

"No, it is said that when Shangjing built the capital, there was a large lake in the city, which occupied nearly half of the area. At that time, it was divided into several blocks, and a part of the land was filled in the middle." Yun Ji added: "It is The lake in Chengwang Mansion was originally separated from this lake by the same lake."

"You said, is there such a thing under the lake?" Yan Hai glanced at the strange fish. "When you were a child, you never heard that there are big fish that eat people in this lake?"

"No, those years seemed to be quite peaceful." Yun Ji stared at the water pavilion.

"I always thought that of the two of us, I was closer to these man-eating beasts." Yan Hai raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "Looking at it now, at least I know what's under the water, but you don't know anything."

It obviously didn't happen overnight for the strange fish to grow to such a large size, and I don't know how many years it has been dormant under the water.

Just wait until one day you hit the surface and it opens its mouth...

"Even if you know it, it's not scary." Yun Ji said indifferently: "At that time, the living people living in these houses were far more terrifying than the monsters under the water."