novelraw Chapter 191: A Matter of Life and Death
Chapter 191: A Matter of Life and Death
"Phew, there were truly no results at all tonight..."
On the pitch-black street, a man carrying a long black bag sighed as he walked. Beside him was the rushing Klein River. This young man lived near the Klein River, and he was just returning home after a day of fishing.
Saint-Nazareth had many rivers, and many of them possessed natural advantages for fishing. But in the few years prior when Saint-Nazareth was surrounded by factories, the water of many fishable rivers was extremely filthy, to the point that many fish that originally should have appeared in the river completely disappeared.
However, ever since the implementation of the Environmental Protection Act, it was as if the entire environment of Saint-Nazareth had been purified. Schools of fish appeared in the river water once again. This allowed the fishermen of Saint-Nazareth, who were obsessed with fishing, to no longer have to expend great effort running to the outskirts of Saint-Nazareth to fish.
Strangely enough, the implementation of the Environmental Protection Act had clearly been going very smoothly before. Because the Environmental Protection Act had preferential policies for these enterprises that actively relocated, as well as large environmental subsidies, this was a measure adopted to enable enterprises to reduce their emissions.
Those enterprises all gladly agreed. It was said they had purchased a very clean energy source from a certain channel in the Southern Continent. This way, not only did they not have to relocate their factories, but they could also earn the subsidy funds issued by the government.
But since this month, the winds had changed for some unknown reason, and those entrepreneurs began to become dissatisfied again...
Leaving those behind-the-scenes stories aside for now, let's temporarily return our gaze to this young gentleman carrying a body full of gear, preparing to return home.
At this moment, the bucket in his hand was completely empty. There were no fish, nor any other aquatic creatures. It seemed to declare that his entire day's fishing progress had gained nothing whatsoever...
Yes, he was "air force" (returned empty-handed).This gentleman was quite depressed. Standing on the pitch-black street, he sighed. He looked around and suddenly saw a small tree in front of a closed shop that had already borne fruit. The man's eyes darted around, and he slowly walked to the front of that small tree, carefully reaching out to pluck a tiny fruit and putting it in his hand.
That fruit was still completely green. One look and you could tell it wasn't ripe, letting alone eating it.
But this gentleman didn't care either. He merely plucked two or three more fruits and put them into the bag that originally held fish. Touching the originally completely empty bag that now held some "stock," he patted his belly in satisfaction and continued walking in the direction of home.
"Whoosh~"
"Who?!"
A gust of cold wind blew behind him, scaring him so much he hurriedly turned his head and shouted loudly. But the only response to him was the still-rushing Klein River; there were no other sounds.
He breathed a slight sigh of relief and slowly walked to the front of the Klein River, staring incessantly at the surging river water ahead.
In reality, the water quality of the Klein River was very good, but generally no one was willing to fish here. The speed of its current was too fast, simply not having the conditions to catch fish.
He sized it up for a full circle and discovered nothing. He sighed and was just preparing to leave, when by the moonlight spilling from the sky, his peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of a human figure waving a tail rapidly passing through the bottom of the water. The size of that shadow leaned toward being thick, and it seemed to have two heads.
"A... a water ghost?"
He gasped a breath of cold air, his body not retreating but instead moving forward, until both his hands rested against the guardrail by the riverbank. He even poked his head out, looking toward the distance, watching that shadow go farther and farther away.
"Could it be some kind of large fish? Pity it went too fast, otherwise I could try to see if I could catch it."
Just as he finished his exclamation, in the next second, a shrieking whistle suddenly came from behind his back. The moment that sound entered his ear, he suddenly felt a chill on his neck, and his perspective also began to rotate rapidly.
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Yes, those two fleeing figures the fisherman had seen at the very beginning were exactly Jasmine fleeing with Fisher on her back. In the water, the Whale-kin's rapid swimming speed was fully brought into play, but in fact, this was not Jasmine's top speed right now.
As she advanced, the blue water currents in her eyes continuously circulated. It turned out she was simultaneously healing Fisher's wounds.
There was no other way; Fisher's current injuries were truly too severe. He had already lost too much blood himself. If she carried him across all of Saint-Nazareth, he would likely have passed away and lost his breath by the time they reached the shore.
However, helping Fisher heal his injuries greatly slowed down Jasmine's forward speed in the water. This also resulted in those monsters behind them biting on exceptionally tightly, unable to be shaken off no matter what.
"Fisher... you must hold on..."
Jasmine turned her head slightly. Seeing that Fisher could still breathe arduously in the water, she finally set her mind at ease and began to accelerate. Fortunately, the Klein River only had a single channel throughout. If Jasmine had taken the other interconnected and crossing rivers, she would very likely have gotten lost to a large extent.
"Thump!"
The river channel ahead suddenly narrowed. Because Jasmine turned her head to check Fisher's status, she didn't pay attention for a moment and crashed into the wall on the edge of the river channel. She used her arm to block the impact, so the unconscious Fisher was not harmed.
"Awoo! Awoo!"
But in the next second, cold and terrifying roars sounded continuously from behind. Jasmine was so scared her soul was about to fly away. But thinking of Fisher leaning on her back, she gritted her teeth and gripped Fisher's body tightly in a death grip, refusing to let him leave her.
Since Fisher trusted her so much, she absolutely had to ensure his safety!
Fisher's existence gave her courage. She endured the sourness of her scared eyes, twisted her body in the waterway, and forcefully slapped her tail against a human-headed shark that had arrived in quick succession. As if striking a watermelon with an iron rod, that tail directly smashed the three heads on the shark's head to pieces.
But that shark didn't die. Instead, it roared and struggled in the water as if it had lost its eyes.
Jasmine did not linger in the fight. Using the force of slapping the enemy, she twisted her body in the water, adjusted her direction, and headed towards Serpent's Head Street not far ahead.
Serpent's Head Street was brightly lit with firelights everywhere. There were torches inserted into the street buildings everywhere. For the punks and gang members here, the true nightlife had just begun.
The adjacent waterway entered a cliff phase. Jasmine and the monsters slid down the waterfall together. Beside the waterfall, there were also many iron chains connected to the main gate of Serpent's Head Street, swaying slightly along with the water flow at the end of the waterway.
Originally, these were all mechanisms to control the sluice gates of Serpent's Head Street. Before Saint-Nazareth's pipeline system was built, they had solved Saint-Nazareth's water usage problem in winter.
In mid-air, Jasmine was worried Fisher would fall down. With one hand supporting Fisher's back and the other gripping the iron chain tightly, she swung towards the street.
The rattling of the iron chains and the roars of the monsters instantly attracted the gazes of countless gangs on the street. Innumerable human-bugs roared as they descended from mid-air, snarling towards Jasmine and the crowd behind her.
"A... a monster!"
"Quick, go notify Balikun and the others!"
The crowd was terrified and fled in all directions. The human-bugs roared and went towards Jasmine. Jasmine hugged Fisher tightly in a death grip. The black water currents continuously circulated in her eyes. Just as she was about to act, a male voice suddenly came from behind her,
"Don't move!"
"Bang!"
Jasmine didn't move, but the head of a human-bug right before her suddenly burst apart in response to the sound, exploding the foul-smelling fluids inside.
"Awoo! Awoo!"
Jasmine looked back in some surprise, only to see an old man wearing bartender attire walking out from the side of the street, carrying a double-barreled shotgun brimming with destructive power. The crosshairs were aimed at the countless roaring monsters ahead.
Behind him was a tavern sign with flickering neon lights. It read "Jack's Tavern."
The old man's face was completely covered in hideous scars. A half-smoked cigarette dangled from the corner of his mouth. First, he sized up the Fisher with an unknown status of life or death on Jasmine's back, and then looked unpleasantly at the human-bugs leaping down from the waterway one after another. He sighed and merely lamented,
"Damn it, we're closing in three minutes..."
"Roar!"
Although his words said so, Old Jack's movements were not the least bit slow. He carried his firearm, swept past Jasmine who was standing perfectly precisely exclusively exactly entirely wholly natively fully plainly correctly squarely firmly deeply loudly specifically completely completely directly safely safely wildly entirely exactly cleanly solidly freely exclusively cleanly completely strictly cleanly squarely exclusively heavily tightly entirely safely plainly strictly effectively squarely deeply purely squarely carefully smoothly smoothly., first finishing off one with a single shot, and then familiarly reloaded to handle several others.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak!"
"Hand Fisher over to those rats!"
Just as Old Jack had just swept past Jasmine, Jasmine then saw big rats, one after another, both black and fat, crawling out from the pipes.
A dense, dark mass of little animals halted before Jasmine. The leading little rat quite gentlemanly gave Jasmine a bow, gesturing for her to hand Fisher over to himself. As a result, before the bow was even finished, he was smacked on the back of the head by the other rats behind him.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!"
He cried out as if protesting, and then changed to a hand gesture. In Jasmine's extremely shocked gaze, that swarm of rats arranged themselves in perfect order into a shape similar to a stretcher.
Countless rats held hands to form two layers. The top layer of rats even pointed at their own heads, telling her to quickly place Fisher on top.
"Oh, oh... okay."
Jasmine hadn't met these little guys, because when Fisher came to see Old Jack and the others he didn't know Jasmine yet. But Jasmine could sense the goodwill of Old Jack and these... uh, rat friends.
She hurriedly placed Fisher on the "rat stretcher," watching helplessly as they squeaked and squealed while taking Fisher and rushing back into the tavern.
Jasmine did not enter. Old Jack behind her quite felt like "a single pillar cannot support a house." She needed to stay here and help this human.
She took a soft breath and looked at an extinguished streetlamp beside her. Taking a deep breath, she actually ran over and directly reached out to hug the pole of that streetlamp. Along with the stone bricks of the ground, she forcefully uprooted it.
"Sizzle, sizzle..."
"I'll help you!"
A bit of unfinished oily substance seeped out from the top of the lamp. Jasmine effortlessly swung the streetlamp in her hands and ran towards that swarm of human-bugs.
"Wait... wait a minute, what you're lifting is..."
"Ah, ah, ah, ah! Go die!"
Old Jack was the first to hear Jasmine's shout. He looked back and was almost scared out of his wits.
He only saw Jasmine with her eyes closed tightly, hugging a streetlamp three times taller than she was, charging towards his side. The fishtail behind her flicked slightly upwards. She directly leaped high into the air, bringing down a heavy smash upon the road ahead.
"Boom!"
"Damn it!"
Old Jack immediately hugged the firearm in his hands and rolled towards the road beside him without any other movement. As he rolled and rolled, his old waist with chronic illness suddenly tweaked. His old face instantly crumpled into a ball. Clutching his back, he only cared about gasping for air and couldn't care less about speaking.
"Fuck! My waist, you demi-human..."
"Sor... sorry! I didn't mean it, I don't really dare to look... Ah! They're coming over!"
Jasmine, who subconsciously apologized, still kept her eyes closed. She wildly swung the streetlamp in a flurry towards the direction of the human-bugs ahead. She smashed the ground so hard that cracks appeared, let alone those human-bugs made of flesh and blood right in the bullseye.
Many human-bugs covered by the shadow of the streetlamp were smashed to pieces on the spot, steaming with a pungent, foul smell. Jasmine held her breath, only caring about fighting.
Actually, logically speaking, Jasmine, who had undergone combat training, shouldn't be so afraid. But the appearance of these human-bugs was truly a little too hideous. They were exactly like peeled humanoid toads, and their faces even had the shape of human facial features pieced together, directly filling the horror index of the uncanny valley effect to the max.
Ordinary warriors would feel a chill down their spines, let alone this lovely Whale-kin young lady.
"Pfft!"
Seeing human-bugs being flattened exactly one by one, under the waterfall beside them, a thick stream of green, foul-smelling acid suddenly spewed upwards. Like raindrops, it fell onto the road beside them, directly piercing through the streetlamp in Jasmine's hands midway.
Jasmine's peripheral vision suddenly caught another blob of viscous liquid heading towards Old Jack on the ground. Her pupils shrank slightly, and she directly reached out and pulled Old Jack back. But her arm was consequently contaminated by that corrosive acid.
A burning sensation made her frown in pain. While the rims of her eyes turned slightly red, she gently reached out her hand and smoothed over all the red wounds. The blue water currents in her eyes circulated. Old Jack watched that miraculous healing method and couldn't help asking,
"You are... a demi-human from the ocean?"
"Eh? Grandpa, you know about the demi-humans at the bottom of the sea?"
"How would I know? I'm not interested in demi-humans..."
Old Jack curled his mouth slightly, which was trembling from his waist pain. He slowly stood up, hugging his firearm. But his old voice still came,
"I've read my son's manuscript researching demi-humans. He guessed there were demi-humans at the bottom of the sea, and had always really wanted to see with his own eyes... if intelligent life could exist at the bottom of the sea, what exactly they looked like..."
"I see. If I have time later, I'll invite you and Fisher to come back to the bottom of the sea together to have a look, okay... Ah! But you can't breathe underwater, this is really..."
Old Jack's body stiffened slightly, but this time when he turned his head, he wore a bit of a smile.
"There will be a chance."
"Roar!"
A huge, gigantic shark with countless heads suddenly darted out from beneath Serpent's Head Street. It turned out that the massive amount of acid just now was spat out by it. Those several three-headed sharks were at this moment devouring each other and combining, ultimately forming a single huge, twisted biological monster.
That single bloody gaping mouth abruptly opened wide, and its target was precisely the Son of the Sea, Jasmine, who was still staying in her original spot.
Jasmine didn't have time for any other movements. She subconsciously pushed Old Jack away, but she herself remained within the swallowing range of that giant mouth.
"Wu!"
She hugged her head in fear and crouched on the spot, watching helplessly as that foul-smelling, hot, deep giant mouth came towards her.
In a flash of lightning, it was already a matter of life and death.