Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Jiang Lan exerted force with his hands, and the puppet was instantly broken into pieces. A slender black shadow quickly rushed out from the flying wood chips, trying to climb up along his calf, but was caught by Jiang Lan with his quick eyes and hands.
The shadow twisted between his fingers, its body as slender as a snake, but if you looked closely, you could still vaguely distinguish the head and limbs on the body of this thing. Jiang Lan lowered his head and smelled it. The familiar fishy smell was exactly the same as the smell of the water monkeys at the bottom of the boat. However, the smell of this shadow was particularly faint, and you had to get close to smell it.
He stared at the thin and long black shadow, guessing that this thing should have been a water monkey. It was just that he didn’t know how it was condensed, not only could it hide its aura, but its body was also much smaller. It looked smarter than an ordinary water monkey. However, no matter how smart it was, it was just a water monkey.
It would not have any impact on him or Hai An. The people who caused this drama should know this, but they still wanted to do it. What was their purpose?
Jiang Lan couldn’t figure out this problem for a moment, and the black shadow was still struggling and twisting in his hand, so he unhappily rolled up the black shadow and stuffed it directly into his mouth and swallowed it.
Useless and annoying,
Might as well eat it.
Hai An who happened to see this scene: …
He blinked slowly and said with some difficulty: “What did you…eat just now?”
“An annoying little snack.”
Jiang Lan didn’t notice his expression, and waved his hand nonchalantly, saying, “The boatman is a puppet. The current situation seems to be premeditated. Let’s row the boat to other places first.”
As he said this, he picked up the oar and was about to row the boat to take a look somewhere else.
As soon as the boat moved, the surrounding water monkeys came over one after another, clinging to the bottom of the boat with their twisted limbs, and then like a pile of monks, one on top of another, created a long dragging shadow in the water. The small black-sailed boat was firmly grasped by them and could not move at all.
Jiang Lan used the oar to hit the water monkey in front a few times, knocking away the one in front, but the ones behind quickly came up.
After repeating this several times, Jiang Lan became impatient and turned to Hai An who was in a daze and said, “I’ll go down and clean up these annoying things.”
“…”
Hai An immediately thought of the black shadow that he had swallowed and vaguely guessed his way of “cleaning”. But he still didn’t want to believe that the little puppy he had taken a fancy to, could be so rude when eating.
He opened and closed his lips with difficulty, and his final voice trembled a little: “How do you want to… deal with it?”
“Just eat it.” Jiang Lan said as a matter of course: “Although these water monkeys taste a bit fishy, they are not too unpalatable.”
Before he had finished speaking, he dived into the water.
Under the dark water, dozens or even hundreds of water monkeys gathered around Jiang Lan like a black mist. They were not very intelligent and only acted on instinct or “commands”. Jiang Lan changed into his original form underwater, used his claws to pull the surrounding water monkeys together, then rolled them up and stuffed them into his mouth and swallowed them whole.
These things probably didn’t have time to eat people and shed blood. Although they tasted a bit fishy, they were very pure and had no impurities. Jiang Lan ate them like eating marshmallows without sugar. He thus finished them all in no time.
Hai An, who was waiting on the boat, watched the “black fog” under the water get smaller and smaller, until finally only a black giant beast with red eyes and bull horns was left.
Hai An: …
Why was the contrast between the little puppy and his original appearance so great?!
After eating the snacks, Jiang Lan turned back into his human form and floated to the surface. He leaned on the side of the boat and asked Hai An: “I want to go to the front and take a look. Do you want to wait on the boat or come with me?”
Anyway, my clothes are all wet, so it doesn’t matter whether there is a boat or not.
Hai An sighed sadly, and said sadly to Jiang Lan’s face, which was very appetizing to him, “Our diets are too different. It may be difficult for us to live together in the future.”
Jiang Lan: …?
What was this person talking about in his sleep?
“My love died before it even began. I’m very sad now, and this dirty and smelly river water will make me feel even worse.” Hai An covered his chest and felt shaky, so he simply sat down at the stern of the boat: “Can you take me to the shore?”
He smiled suddenly and said, “In return, I can tell you a secret.”
Jiang Lan rolled his eyes and said readily, “Deal.”
“Long Bing also has a twin brother, Long Yi. I heard that he also came to China this time. And they seem to have been in contact with a certain organization in China.”
Hai An didn’t want to keep him on suspense and told Jiang Lan what he knew: “I don’t know what organization it is, but it seems to be full of monsters like you.”
Jiang Lan’s face became solemn. Apart from the Monster Management Bureau, he had never heard of any other monster organizations in the country.
This incident was indeed premeditated.
“Do you know what they are looking for?” Jiang Lan asked.
“I don’t know.” Hai An spread his hands and looked at Jiang Lan with regret: “If I knew, I would definitely tell you. I am very honest with my sweetheart. Of course, from now on, you are no longer my sweetheart. So the honesty ends here.”
Jiang Lan automatically filtered out his dirty talk, only grasped the key points, and said with a smile: “Thank you for the information you provided.”
After saying that, he told him to sit tight, then he grabbed the rope at the bow with one hand and pulled the sloop towards the shore.
As they returned to shore, they encountered other boats.
The tourists on the boats seemed to have not noticed anything unusual on the river. They continued to stare at the white mist in front of them with fascination, occasionally bursting into cheers and applause. Some old opera fans even shook their heads and hummed a few lines along, clearly still immersed in the atmosphere of the “wild stage”.
——But now, on the river, except for that voice that could not be distinguished between male and female, which was still singing sad and mournful funeral songs one after another, there was clearly no other sound that could be heard.
The white fog enveloped the spectators and the boats. Once they were out of sight of the naked eye, not only could no one’s figures be seen, but even their sounds disappeared.
These spectators seemed to be immersed in another world.
Jiang Lan sent Hai An to the shore, and when he got closer, he realized that the tourists who looked so strange on the river were no different from before. They crowded by the fence of the riverside avenue, pointing at the river enthusiastically and discussing with each other who sang better and who could sing to the end…
Hai An looked at them, then at the vast white fog on the river, and asked in confusion: “The scene they saw was different from ours? Then who saw the real thing?”
Jiang Lan shook his head: “It’s hard to say now, I’ll go find other people first.”
As he said this, he dived into the river again.
After realizing that these tourists were immersed in some kind of illusion and could not see him, Jiang Lan simply transformed into his original form and sneaked silently in the river.
The surface of the Ling River was wide and flat. Because of tonight’s event, there were at least hundreds of large and small boats on the river. After diving underwater for a while, Jiang Lan did not find his fourth brother but accidentally ran into Xue Meng and his group.
For the trip to South City, Xue Meng, Xiao Xiaoyu and Zhang Tianxing chartered a bus together. Xue Meng and Xiao Xiaoyu also brought their parents and relatives, while Zhang Tianxing brought the three little ones, Suan Ni Jiao Tu and Jiang Chi.
They were watching a play on the cruise ship when the accident happened. When the fun was at its peak, the cruise ship was suddenly shrouded in white fog. Except for Zhang Tianxing and the three kids, the other tourists on the cruise ship did not notice anything unusual and were still “listening to the play” with great interest.
Xue Meng was relatively lucky, as Zhang Tianxing came to find someone and woke Xue Meng up immediately after he realized something was wrong. But the others seemed to be possessed, and no matter how they called them, they didn’t respond.
Zhang Tianxing was worried that forcibly waking the person up would cause adverse consequences, so he didn’t dare to act rashly. In addition, there was no signal on his cell phone and he couldn’t contact the outside world, so he could only think of a way to return to shore and make long-term plans.
Apart from the three kids, Zhang Tianxing and Xue Meng were the only adults left on the cruise ship.
Xue Meng was a better swimmer, so he was sent down to the river to find a boat – their idea was to act in an emergency and grab a small boat nearby to go ashore and report the news first.
When Xue Meng collided with Jiang Lan, he was wearing a lifebuoy and paddling hard.
As he was paddling, he saw a huge black shadow swimming towards him under the water. He was so scared that his mind went numb. He stood there stupidly, holding on to the lifebuoy with a terrified look on his face.
Jiang Lan poked his head out of the water and asked him, “Where are the others?”
Xue Meng: !!!!
He first widened his eyes in fear, then thought the voice sounded familiar, then he exclaimed “F**k!” and howled with tears in his eyes: “Dad! Is that you?! You almost scared me to death…”
Jiang Lan: ???
He looked down at himself and finally realized that he was in his original form.
He changed back to human form awkwardly and touched his nose: “Where are you going?”
Xue Meng told him the plan. When Jiang Lan heard that Zhang Tianxing was also there, he quickly looked up and saw the cool guy looking down with an expressionless face.
“…”
Jiang Lan’s mouth twitched, and he greeted Zhang Tianxing awkwardly: “Are you all here?”
But he was screaming madly in his heart.
Ahhhhhhh Cool brother must have seen it!!!
What to do?!
Zhang Tianxing had a blank expression on his face. He looked at Jiang Lan, then at the kitten in his arms, and then at the large conch in Jiang Chi’s arms: “…”
He finally remembered why he felt familiar with Jiang Lan’s brother the last time he saw him. He had seen Jiang Lan’s brother on the cover of a financial magazine. He remembered that his elder brother had sighed at that time, saying that Dragon Palace had kept up with the times and started a company. It was also developing underwater resources. Its assets were even more substantial than those of Longhu Mountain, and it was preparing to go public.
The person on the cover of that financial magazine was none other than the current ruler of the Dragon Palace, Bixi.
Jiang Lan called Bixi “big brother”, and his true form that he accidentally revealed just now… should be the legendary ferocious and violent fifth son of the dragon, Taotie.
Zhang Tianxing’s calm mask gradually cracked and his gaze turned to Ni Ni, who had always called Jiang Lan brother.
It was shaped like a lion and was also called Ni Ni.
Ni Ni, Suan Ni.
The cruel truth was before him.
What he was holding in his arms was not a soft and adorable kitten at all, but a dragon.
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