Sunnyshies: Ah, I suck at giving warning, it didn’t look professional enough. Anyway, Warning! Warning! Blood and gore up ahead! Multiple deaths!! Warning!
The thing in the water
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Ke Ji felt the temperature and strength from his arm, and his eyes gradually darkened.
He gradually closed the distance between the two of them without any trace, and in the depths of his steel blue eyes reflected Lu Liran’s disorienting consciousness, and he leaned towards him as if instinctively.
Untimely joy welled up in Ke Ji’s heart, and the touch on his lips was just like in his memory, cool and soft, with the taste of the lake water, and the fine air bubbles emerged from the gap between the lips where the two touched, with a hint of itching.
Before Ke Ji could keep this feeling firmly in his heart, the strength on his arm suddenly disappeared.
The electronic sound of the system sounded in Lu Liran’s mind——
[The system monitors that the host is unable to start the live broadcast independently at the moment, but the content requirements of the live broadcast have been met, so the system automatically enables the online live broadcast function for the host, cheers for the host!]
Lu Liran opened his eyes, and suddenly distanced himself from Ke Ji.
The man looked a little unnatural, he nodded slightly at Ke Ji, made a gesture, and swam towards the crowd.
Ke Ji looked helplessly at Lu Liran’s back swimming away, the corner of his mouth curled up indistinctly, and he quickly followed.
[Hey hey hey! What’s happening here? Am I in Brother Lu’s live broadcast room?!]
[It’s like being in the water…?]
[What about the anchor, why is there no sound? No explanation? Is this live broadcast? Just a play?]
[There must be a situation where it is not convenient to talk]
[Nonsense, this is in the water, how about you try speaking there?]
[Fuck me, has Brother Lu developed an underwater dungeon?! Exciting!]
The live drone camera ball was adjusted to underwater mode, with a faint light, it became the only light source in the gloomy lake.
Xian Dan and his party all jumped into the lake, and a dozen or so black pickaxe back beetles also fell into the water impulsively, struggling on the surface of the water, thus the group couldn’t help but dive a little deeper to a depth of one or two meters.
Xian Dan noticed the light on Lu Liran’s side, and his eyes lit up thinking that Lu Liran opened the camera ball for the sake of light. He saw Lu Liran and Ke Ji swiming towards him, made a quick gesture and pointed to the water.
Lu Liran looked up with the help of the weak light, and saw that the dozen or so black pickaxe back beetles fell into the water. They struggled for a while, but soon, they obviously showed the behavior of adapting to aquatic life, and they didn’t drown as they thought.
Lu Liran’s eyes sank, he took out the outdoor dagger that he carried with him, kicked his long legs, and swam to the surface of the water without a sound, and the dagger was neatly inserted into the back of an adult insect.
The tip of the dagger turned and hooked a long bluish-white thread-like thing on the bug’s body. The adult bug seemed to have its spine removed suddenly, and was paralyzed on the water surface unable to move.
[What the hell is that?! Why are there bugs!]
[Mom, Brother Lu, did you pick out its intestines?! —— Momo gifted the anchor 1x sukiyaki pot]
[Help, I’m so confused, can any class representative tell me what’s going on? Why did I see Brother Lu in the water as soon as I entered the live broadcast room, and there were a bunch of bugs!! I seem to have missed a whole day of plot—— TheReprsentativeofSquattingClass gifted the anchor 1x White Truffle]
[+1 This is what a new branch line was triggered while sleeping behind our backs…]
[Fuck, isn’t this lake the one we saw before? Isn’t there something in it?!]
[It is estimated that…this is not good, it seems that they will be completely wiped out in this wave]
Lu Liran didn’t have time to manage the live broadcast room, he kept moving his hands, one after another the black pickaxe back beetle floated on the water with their legs upside down, and they all lost their ability to move.
Shu Hua stared at him, he looked at Lu Liran, and then at the adult bug.
Qin Qi pinched his nose and almost took a breath, Mr. Lu broke the central nervous system of that bug ah!
With Lu Liran taking the lead, Xian Dan and Shu Hua immediately drew out their knives in a similar manner, and took care of the other dozen or so bugs that fell into the water.
They clearly feel that the later they handle the bugs, the harder they are to kill, and the more flexible they are in the water, as if they have gradually adapted to the buoyancy of the water.
The last two bugs were pierced by Ke Ji with a single blow.
Xian Dan couldn’t hold his breath, and floated to the surface to take a deep breath.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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[Aaahhh, fuck. What did I see at that moment!? Are those bugs in the sky?! It’s all bugs!?—— Man has gone crazy gifted the anchor 1x Top-quality Wagyu Beef]
[Wipe, Brother Lu, is this a nest of bugs that have been stabbed or something? How did you guys fuck with the bugs!]
[Just now, in the blink of an eye, I thought there was a sandstorm outside…it’s actually bugs]
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After Xian Dan let go of Zhan Xiao to take a breath, Shu Hua was somewhat unable to pull the unconscious Zhan Xiao.
He was at least the weight of an adult man’s bone, plus he lost consciousness again, so he began to sink straight into the water.
Shu Hua held him back with all his strength, but he couldn’t hold out until Xian Dan swam back, and as soon as he let go of the strength in his hand, he saw Zhan Xiao falling straight into the water in a daze.
Seeing this, Shu Hua and Xian Dan wanted to swim to the depths of the lake, but Ke Ji stopped them one by one.
The two were startled slightly, but they didn’t try to struggle to get past Ke Ji to save the person.
In fact, they knew very well in their hearts that even if they pulled Zhan Xiao out of the swarm, the man who was almost strangled by the swarm would not be able to survive.
Everyone watched Zhan Xiao fall to the bottom of the lake in silence. There seemed to be an invisible big mouth in the depths of the deep and dark lake, swallowing the person bit by bit.
Zhan Xiao has no good flesh all over his body, he was cut and bitten by the swarm sticking to his body. He floats due to buoyancy, and he looks like a damaged kite falling to the bottom of the lake, which makes people feel horrified.
Just now, the footage from the drone was not here on purpose. It was only then that the people in the live broadcast room noticed that there was such a person in the dim lake.
They don’t even know if it’s even a person.
[Fucking shit, barrage body protection, aaahhhh! —— Riceyyds gifted the host 1000x rice grains]
[Who can resist seeing this suddenly in the middle of the night ah!!]
[Wuwuwu, I can’t do it anymore, I’ll just watch the replays. I need a high-intensity warning. My heart says it can’t]
[This is scarier than playing horror games for me, once you come to the anchor’s live broadcast room, you will be addicted to it—— Vigorous Little Red Panda gifted the anchor 5x Buddha jumping over the wall]
[Ah, upstairs, are you the master of the game area next door?! The wall is broken!]
[Little Red Panda came to Brother Lu’s live broadcast room last time! I heard that Little Red Panda was scared and fell off the chair!]
[Don’t turn over old accounts, watch the anchor’s live broadcast carefully! —— Vigorous Little Red Panda gifted the anchor 1x Buddha Jumping over the wall]
[I am afraid of the deep sea, I really can’t TAT this time, please cut the camera quickly, I just want to see Brother Lu and Ke Meiren! —— No One gifted the anchor 1x Top-quality wagyu beef]
Just when the people in the merchant fleet watched Zhan Xiao sinking into the bottom of the lake, they saw Zhan Xiao’s body suddenly rushing up from the depths of the lake at an incredible speed!
Everyone couldn’t react at all, and just stared at Zhan Xiao with their mouths slightly open.
The underwater vision was so poor that they could only vaguely see that it was Zhan Xiao, but they couldn’t see clearly what was going on under the lake.
But Zhan Xiao rose up too fast, almost in just a few seconds, Zhan Xiao had almost floated from the invisible depths of the lake to a few meters below their feet!
Everyone could see Zhan Xiao’s expression clearly now, his eyes were wide open, a series of blood-colored blisters gushed out of his wide-open mouth, and he rushed towards them screaming silently.
The people in the merchant fleet panicked for a moment, and retreated subconsciously, for fear of bumping into Zhan Xiao.
However, their speed was still not fast enough, in the blink of an eye, just as the few people were about to swim to the side, they felt a huge force of water under their feet, twisting the surrounding lake water into chaos, and everyone was spinning uncontrollably in the vortex.
In the next second, Zhan Xiao rushed in front of them.
He swung his arms desperately to grab something, but he couldn’t catch anything. A large amount of blood and intestines gushed out from his throat and stomach with a big hole, instantly turning the surrounding lake red.
Before everyone recovered from the shocking, bloody and horrified scene, they saw a huge, smooth, pitch-black fish scale, like a huge underwater submarine, suddenly jumping in front of them.
Zhan Xiao was pushed out of the lake, and the one who jumped out of the lake with him was an incomparable giant behind him!
For the first time in the live broadcast room, there was a blank screen, but no one thought of sending a barrage. They were so shocked by the scene in front of them that they didn’t know what to do to react.
The swarm of bugs hovering in mid-air charged up the first time Zhan Xiao rushed out of the lake, enveloping Zhan Xiao in the blink of an eye, and even the huge monster behind Zhan Xiao.
The air was filled with blood mist in an instant, blood drops sparsely into the lake, like big pearls and small pearls falling a jade plate, and a series of bloody ripples bloomed on the huge lake.
All the people who were still hiding under the surface of the lake were dumbfounded and stared up.
Through the rippling surface of the lake, they can not really see anything, but the falling beads of blood and haloed blood fog was enough for all to imagine what happened up there.
The flight time of three to four seconds seemed as long as several minutes, and when the huge monster and Zhan Xiao fell into the water again, everyone woke up with a start.
Zhan Xiao was only besieged by the swarm for only a few seconds, but he looked like he had been shaved.
The muscles that were originally attached were bitten until there was no flesh left. Even the exposed bones could be seen to have been sawn off, the bone powder disperses when it comes into contact with water, leaving no trace as if it had been dissolved in the huge water system.
Zhan Xiao didn’t even make a sound, his eyes were open but they were lifeless, and he fell into the lake quietly and sank under the water.
And the huge monster that also fell into the water swung its tail angrily, and the surging water waves made the crowd dizzy. Everyone paddled fast in fear and panic, trying to get away from the terrible monster.
The monster’s body scales were cut and sawed to pieces. In just a few seconds, the original shiny and neat black fish scales were mostly peeled off by the swarm of insects in the air, revealing the blood-colored tender flesh under the scales.
It swings its huge body vigorously, and the people around are like a short shrub around a big tree.
Its long tail lightly swept over a person in the merchant fleet, and the person screamed out air bubbles, clutching his scratched waist, and blood gushed out immediately.
Xian Dan opened his eyes slightly, beckoning Qin Qi to swim over quickly.
It was like a small piece of flesh had been cut off from the wound area of the unlucky man, there’s no more consolation except that the wound did not hurt the internal organs deeper.
Shan Wu clutched the wound, feeling pain and fear, as he trembled all over.
After everyone saw Shan Wu’s wound, and they looked at the monster with more awe and fear.
In the chaos, no one could see the front of the monster clearly, but at this moment, the behemoth swung its long tail, it turned around and dived to the bottom of the lake, then turned its head again and charged straight up.
This time, everyone saw the true face of this behemoth clearly!
They saw that its large head was unusually flat, and its huge mouth was like an abyss.
They could even see with the naked eye that the mouth seemed to go straight to the stomach, except that the sides were full of sharp and dense tooth spikes, it was like a huge passage, which could easily swallow an adult’s body!
On the left and right sides of the giant mouth, there are two white beards several meters long.
At first glance, the group couldn’t believe it —— it looked like a catfish……
[Is this a real fish!? Fuck, this is too big!]
[What’s the situation with the bugs outside!? It took only a few seconds to surface the water, and both the man and the fish changed like this!?]
[No wonder Brother Lu and the others hid underwater at the beginning…where else can they survive?]
[Aaahh, the fish is back!! It’s back again!!]
Seeing that giant fish swing its long tail again, jumping high out of the water, with its huge mouth wide open, it plunged into the bug swarm with one gulp.
In the swarm, the bug king, which was only as big as a human head, was swallowed by the giant fish’s big mouth, then it fell back into the lake again.
The swarm suddenly became chaotic, and the group of dragons scattered in the air without a leader.
Qin Qi and the others stared blankly at the giant fish that fell into the lake again.
From the fish’s mouth, they could still see several struggling adult bugs together with the bright yellow spots on the back shell of the head-sized bug king
Six looked at it stupidly, the bug king was swallowed by the strange fish like this?!
He spit out air bubbles unconsciously from his mouth, and immediately couldn’t hold his breath, struggling to float to the surface of the water.
As soon as he showed his head, he breathed a sigh of relief and was about to go down, but suddenly found that the water surface seemed to be different from before.
Six stared wide-eyes—— the dense swarm of bugs were scattered in the sky!
It must be because of the absence of the bug king that those adult bugs dispersed one after another!
Six hurriedly plunged back into the water, he pulled Xian Dan and the others on the surface, and shouted: “Look quickly! The bugs are gone!”
The night is no longer shrouded in swarms of bugs that block out the sky, and Xian Dan can even see the twinkling stars in the sky. The tail of the Big Dipper twinkling, as if guiding the direction of home.
Shu Hua excitedly hit the water surface hard: “It’s really gone!”
Heads popped out of the water one by one.
“……we avoided it?” Someone murmured in disbelief.
“We escaped!” Someone yelled affirmatively, “We survived!”
Qin Qi supported Shan Wu to float up to the surface of the water, and when he heard someone shouting, he couldn’t help grinding.
But before he could completely pull away his smile, a strong force behind him pulled him back, he subconsciously let go of his hand holding Shan Wu, and he saw Shan Wu suddenly widen his eyes in horror, his hands scrambled, paddling desperately to the other end.
Qin Qi subconsciously turned his head to look, but before he could see what was going on, his cheeks were suddenly hurt by the huge water flow, as if a layer of flesh had been scraped off.
He suddenly widened his eyes, and saw a large black diamond-shaped fish scale flying past in front of him. If he hadn’t been pulled away by Ke Ji just now, he would have been hit!
The strange fish charged straight over, causing huge splashes of water.
The others didn’t react, they just saw a big wave rising. Shan Wu screamed and jumped from the water surface, and his lower body fell into the mouth of that strange fish!
He screamed and grabbed the people around him: “Help me! Captain! Help me!”
Xian Dan flew over, and just grabbed Shan Wu’s fingers, but he was brought down by the force of the fish, and fell into the laze in a dazed state.
His eyes were red, and he watched as Shan Wu was dragged by the giant fish and quickly sank to the bottom of the lake, he couldn’t even see its shadow.
Lu Liran grabbed Xian Dan, he pulled the man up to the surface, and said coldly after emerging from the water: “What are you still staring at? Get ashore! Hurry up!”
Everyone saw Xian Dan floated up empty-handed, and Shan Wu didn’t even have a bubble. Everyone immediately understood what happened, and quickly swam to the shore.
Qin Qi was the first to be dragged ashore by Ke Ji.
His injured leg had been soaked in water for too long, half of his leg near the wound was swollen twice, and the flesh is bloated and turning outwards, which looks especially horrible.
But he didn’t seem to feel it. After being dragged back to the shore by Ke Ji, he stared at the lake in a daze: “I let go.”
Ke Ji glanced at him, he didn’t say much, he just turned around and jumped into the lake to look for Lu Liran.
Lu Liran and the others swam to the shore, but seeing Ke Ji turned his head and jumped back into the lake after he had already landed, he couldn’t help but curse in his heart, and quickly swam towards the man.
“What are you doing down here again!” Lu Liran glared Ke Ji fiercely, his eyes were a little red, and he dragged him to swim to the shore quickly.
“I see you haven’t come up yet, I thought you were dragging someone to swim fast.” Ke Ji climbed ashore, then explained in a good-tempered manner. He turned around and took off Lu Lirna’s clothes, wrung them dry, and then draped them on the man, “Let’s not talk about this, go to the fire, the low temperature at night will frostbite people.”
Lu Liran didn’t say anything more, and hurriedly dragged Ke Ji to the campfire. The two huddled together to keep warm and dry their clothes, shivering from the cold.
The same is true for the merchant fleet. There were several piles of bonfires, but many were extinguished in the chaos, and some were naturally burned and gone, there were only three piles that could be used.
But there are fewer people, squeezing together in threes and four can also make do with it.
After an unknown amount of time, there was a sudden choking sound from the campfire.
Someone said in a low voice: “There are two more.”
“This damn…it’s really not a place for people to stay.”
“Really, one more day and I’m going crazy, I just want to go home.”
Lu Liran silently looked at the bonfire at the other end, his eyes were red.
For him, it was like a nightmare all over again.
Ke Ji held his hand tightly and said in a low voice: “You have done enough.”
“I know.” Lu Liran withdrew his gaze, and after replying, he watched the flames of the bonfire in silence.
Ke Ji knew that it was just perfunctory.
He suddenly leaned over, and slightly opened his arms to wrap around him, like a hug, and whispered in Lu Liran’s ear: “No, you must know, they survived because of you.”
Sunnyshies: Man, (≧∀≦) you don’t know how excited I was tl-ing this chapter. I was like, injected with chicken blood, I was so excited. BTW, the scene with Zhan Xiao, why do I feel like it has the same vibes with this GIF….
Hiii, chills.
Speaking of giant fish, the author love giant catfish. We’ll see it quite often in Swamp arc.
I’m so glad it IS a conscious kiss and they both know!! It was so cute when Ke Ji started smiling </33
I love how their love evolves sm ///
Thanks for the chapterr~
I love this story sm, truly one of a kind. The action, the descriptions, the deaths, everything feels so thrilling.
May the 2 RIP, trying to understand the amount of pain they both went through feels like a lot, makes me shiver.
One of them, alone in the depth of a dark place, slowly seeing your friends disappear from your sight, knowing full well your end w/the air in your lungs decreasing and the pressure building up.
The other one, feeling your skin, tissues, flesh getting bitten and eaten away by a group of things too small to achieve you in one hit, but with teeth sharp enough to make you feel each of them implanting in your skin. The pain slowly makes you numb, but still feel so scared and alone, knowing since you entered the water it was soon to be your end.
sister your description is too vivid don’t go around and scare people like that!!!
niarkniarkniark, I’m glad you’ve found my.. creativity.. interesting 🫶
indeed… very interesting…
I want to sponsor Lu Liran’s therapy.
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»They clearly feel that the later they handle the bugs..« felt (?)
».. and fell into the laze in a dazed state.« into the lake (?)
»He turned around and took off Lu Lirna’s clothes..« Liran’s
Okay, the big fish isn’t as creepy as the bugs xDD And yes, please just go home. You guys should have never gone there..
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
hehehe catfish…
Not reading this story at night, to scary.
I liked catfish. That was before…
Thank you for the chapter 💐
I agree with the dude. One more day of this, and I’ll go crazy, I also want to go home 🚶♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
Poor netizens…nighttime wake up call…in the water no sound…wha the fudge??? Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🐟🪲🪳🦟😳😳😳😳😳
Thank you very much.
Damn it! Author just had to kill Shan Wu. ㅜㅡㅜ And I was just starting to like him. 😭😭😭😭
It was a rollercoaster. Bugs and then fish oh god this place is so horrible. I’m not even shocked, actually i expected everyone to die but just two more died. They’re still lucky. Anyhow aren’t Lulu and Ke meiren so cute(≧▽≦) those tidy bit soft scenes is enough to made up for the gore.