abnormal sea area

"Don't hurt him!" Xie Weiran ran over from the seawall, "He has no malicious intentions! He is Hai Tong!"

Qin Ge retreated to the edge of the seawall, holding a stone in one hand, and carefully looked at the boy in front of him.

The cracks in the child's cheeks, neck and ribs are slowly moving, as if breathing.He was drenched in water, shining brightly in the evening sun.Under Qin Ge's gaze, the young man seemed embarrassed. He turned around so that Qin Ge would not continue to stare at the gap on his body, and then he jumped up with one hand supporting the seawall.

He stood on the seawall, his soaked black swimming trunks clinging to his body. The gap that was still moving had stopped, as if a sharp weapon had cut his skin, but there was no blood and no pain.

Qin Ge remembered Haitong's characteristics.

This special kind of human is generally born in the coastal areas, and they are all male without exception.Most of them are short in stature, and even when they are adults, they look like fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, which are quite different from Cha Lao.Sea children are naturally good at water. They have two sets of respiratory systems, lungs and special-shaped gills. They use the special-shaped gills to breathe when they dive into the water. Because of this feature, they can stay underwater for a long time without carrying breathing equipment, and even dive into humans. The deep sea that cannot be easily reached.

Stories related to Haitong were recorded in "Yi Ren Jie Lu" in the Ming Dynasty.During the 11th year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty, more than a dozen "different children" were born in various places in the South China Sea.They have loved swimming in the deep sea since they were young, and they can often catch rare catches, and even bring back valuable sea pearls.A businessman became ill-intentioned because of this, bought these strange children at a high price, and controlled them to pick pearls for himself.Pearl shells mostly grow in harsh environments. Even though these aliens have extraordinary abilities, they are often injured, and several of them died one after another.

The businessmen who control these aliens look around for similar children to supplement the number of pearl divers, and buy the daughters of poor families and force them to have sex with aliens.But nine out of ten of the children born are normal people, only one or two "strange children" with fish gills appear occasionally, and their appearance is different from the previous "strange children".

Qin Ge also stood up.He found that the Haitong in front of him was not short, but looked like an ordinary eighteen or nine-year-old boy.

He is the child born after the intercourse of humans and sea children.Qin Ge thought to himself, so Hai Tong's own characteristics only retain the abnormal gills, and he is exactly the same as other ordinary people.

"Why aren't you wearing clothes?" Xie Weiran finally ran closer. She ignored Qin Ge and grabbed Haitong's arm first, "You're injured again. Didn't I give you a diving suit before? Wear it Just like not wearing it, you won't feel uncomfortable."

"I don't like it." Haitong replied, "I don't want to wear anything when I go into the sea."

Xie Weiran: "Don't take off your pants, or the little girl in the village will go to the city to complain again, saying that you are a hooligan."

Hai Tong frowned, and raised the edge of his swimming trunks: "They came to see me first. If I didn't wear anything, I would swim in a place where no one was around."

Xie Weiran: "In short, you must wear clothes from now on."

Haitong is very stubborn: "I only wear this one."

Xie Weiran was annoyed, but Haitong obviously didn't want to get entangled with her pants and clothes anymore.Qin Ge noticed that his hand had been clenched into a fist, as if he was holding something.

Sensing Qin Ge's gaze, Hai Tong first put his fist back behind his back, Xie Weiran laughed, grabbed his arm and asked him to put his hand in front of Qin Ge.

Qin Ge: "?"

Hai Tong hesitated, and slowly opened his fist.In his palm lay a few pieces of sea glass of different shapes and colors, and the brilliance of the setting sun suddenly brightened.

Qin Ge was surprised: "...for me?"

Haitong remained silent, Xie Weiran spoke for him: "This kid is afraid of strangers, but when he saw me coming with you, he knew you were my partner. So, this is his gift to you."

The artificial glass discarded into the sea, after a long journey and polished by sand, waves, and fish kisses, the edges and corners disappeared, and each one became round and smooth, like gems in the deep sea.Qin Ge stretched out his hand, and Haitong put Hai Glass in his palm seriously.He was very happy that Qin Ge liked this little gift, and when Qin Ge was staring at him, he finally stopped avoiding it and smiled with narrowed eyes.

Qin Ge thought to himself, of course the girls would visit him secretly.Such a good looking, such a lovely boy.

The three of them walked back to the land along the seawall, with Haitong walking in the front, with a strong and beautiful back.He turned around and said a word to Xie Weiran, Qin Ge vaguely heard him asking what happened to a certain person.

What spit out from Hai Tong's mouth was obviously a female name.

Xie Weiran: "No progress yet. Don't go up the mountain anymore, it's too dangerous."

Haitong didn't nod his head, his expression was a little sad, and he continued to walk forward without saying a word.

"He asked about Grandma Cha." Xie Weiran explained to Qin Ge, "His family is a poor household corresponding to our research group. I know him very well, because they are rare and special human beings, so I took him to Grandma Cha. I have visited the tea garden. He and Grandma Cha are good friends, so what happened to Grandma Cha makes him very sad. He often goes to the tea mountain and stays for a whole day.”

Qin Ge suddenly realized.That's the name of Grandma Cha.In addition to labels such as "rare", "special human beings" and "tea grandma", the woman living in the tea mountain has a name all her own.

"What about him? Does he have a name?" Qin Ge looked at the child's back and asked.

"His name is Xiao Hai." Xie Weiran said with a smile, "You must have a good relationship with him."

"why?"

"Aren't you here to find a witness in a living allowance corruption case?" Xie Weiran thought for a long time, "Jiang...Jiang what?"

"Jiang Yong." Qin Ge's heart sank, "Xie Weiran, so you are the one who is in charge of meeting the witnesses in this case with me?"

Xie Weiran looked sincere: "I will help you."

Qin Ge was full of depression: "Thank you in advance... But what does this have to do with Xiao Hai?"

The two finally set foot on land.Haitong turned around and waved at them, motioning them to continue to follow him.

"Xiaohai knows where Jiang Yong is." Xie Weiran said.

Xiao Hai lives with his mother and only has a primary school education.He's not stupid, it's just that he can't go on after finishing elementary school.The fishing village is in a small town, and there is a primary school in the town.He was just a little darker when he was a child, and there were thin cracks on his face that looked like scars.In the primary school in the town, there are many children who grew up with him in the fishing village, because he is so good at swimming, everyone regards him as the king of children.If anyone in the school laughed at Haitong's "scars", there would be a dozen or twenty dark-haired little boys and girls, picking up pencil cases and brooms to fight with them.

After graduating from primary school, Xiao Hai was assigned to a junior high school in the city.There are only two friends in the same junior high school as him, and they are not in the same class. At the age of 12, he finally began to grow taller like a sliver. With his body growing, the abnormal gills on his face finally fully matured.

"Although you and I are also special human beings, we look exactly like ordinary people." Xie Weiran said, "So we can't really understand their experiences and moods."

The children knew that there was a special human being in the class, Haitong, who was taciturn and didn't like to wear shirts. He always grinned in pain when he wore his summer school uniform.What really made other people understand what "Haitong" means was the heavy rain brought by the typhoon.

On the day when the typhoon came, the air in the morning was dry and hot.Hai Tong was listless all day, and rushed to the faucet to drink water after class.When school was about to end, the heavy rain began to fall, and the students left the school early.The rain was so heavy that the air was suddenly full of moisture.

"Everyone in their class saw Xiao Hai's gills that day..." Xie Weiran imitated a movement with his hand, "It's moving."

As long as he imagined it a little bit, Qin Ge felt sad.

Haitong pressed his own gills, he was terrified, but this was his instinct, he couldn't control it.The children in the entire classroom were screaming and fleeing, and the riot attracted people from other classes, and the screaming became louder and louder.Haitong was at a loss. The teacher asked him to cover the gills on his face with his clothes. He took off his shirt in a hurry, but forgot that his ribs and neck also had abnormal gills.

Since then, Xiaohai has been kicked out of the children's world.He is not human anymore.He is a monster.

"After barely studying for a semester, he refused to go to school anymore. No one paid attention to him, and there were many people who bullied him." Xie Weiran shrugged, "His mother said, Xiao Hai is happy, just don't mix It has nothing to do with being in the crowd. To be honest, he is really happy not to go to school, and he has been living happily until now."

Xie Weiran thought for a while: "It's just poorer."

Qin Ge didn't know if Hai Tong heard what Xie Weiran and himself said.The boy led them silently through the low woods, and finally came to a brick house.

The brick building was dilapidated, the windows were open, but the door was closed from the inside.

Xiao Hai poked his head around the window: "Grandfather?"

Qin Ge heard snoring from inside.He leaned over to the window, only to see that the room was dark, with a few wine bottles rolling on the ground.A gray-haired old man fell asleep on the bed, even snoring with the smell of alcohol.

"Grandpa is Jiang Yong." Xiao Hai said, "But he is drunk, and he may wake up tomorrow."

When Xie Zijing and Lei Chi left the South China Regional Office, in addition to getting a report on the serial murder case, they also got a piece of news.

"Another guide from headquarters arrived a few days ago, and you should be able to meet soon."

Xie Zijing was very unresponsive. It wasn't until he was sitting on the high-speed rail eating a 15 yuan lunch box that he thought of asking Lei Chi: "The headquarters also sent a guide? Who?"

Lei Chi replied calmly: "I don't know."

The two finally came to the seaside, and the starry sky was already low.

People from the criminal investigation department of the branch accompanied them and took them to patrol the beach: "At that time, the fishing boat was found to be burned, and many people gathered on the beach."

Lei Chi and Xie Zijing read the report on the high-speed rail and remembered what happened that day.

This season is the fishing moratorium in the South China Sea. There is not a single fishing boat in the coastal waters. All fishing boats that can go out to sea are connected by iron chains and dock at the fishing port.But some people still risk being discovered, taking advantage of the night, to go fishing or fishing in small fishing boats.

It was these few fishermen who were trying to steal the fish who found the fire on the sea.

The sea surface, fishing boats, and fire, these are the key points of the legend of Abanhuo.Regardless of whether there are legendary factors or not, a fishing boat caught fire on the sea itself is a very serious accident.

Riding on the night wind, several people heard the screams from the fishing boat, and hurriedly pushed the boat into the sea to save people.But the boat was only a dozen meters away from the shore, and they discovered that there were mermaids around the burning fishing boat.

"The fishing moratorium in the South China Sea is the period for mermaids to give birth. At this time, mermaids are very irritable, regardless of gender. Once they find human ships invading their waters, they will definitely overturn the fishing boats and drag people into the deep sea." Colleagues told the two People, "So those fishermen didn't dare to go any further. Someone on the shore also found that the fishing boat was on fire, and soon a lot of people gathered in this sea area. They found that the mermaids were fighting the fire, but when they put out the fire, The man was completely burned. The merman later pushed the boat to the shore and alerted the fishermen that the boat smelled of kerosene."

The bodies were so thoroughly burned that they were unrecognizable, let alone authenticated.But the mermaid found the ring that the woman in the boat fell off when the fire broke out in the sea.

With the ring, they finally confirmed that it was a guide who died.

"I want to meet the leader of the mermaid." Lei Chi said, "Can I arrange it?"

The colleague was very embarrassed: "Mermaids don't like to interact with humans. Only when they approach the shore actively can we communicate with them."

With Xie Zijing at the side, he suddenly stepped onto the seawall.

In the dark distant sea, there are a few silver backs flashing in the water.

"Those are mermaids?"

"Yes! They like to go out at night when there is a moon!" My colleagues quickly contacted the fishing port and asked them to provide a speedboat immediately.Lei Chi called the Chief of the Criminal Investigation Section: "Chief, is anyone in the Crisis Office familiar with the characteristics of mermaids? I know that they have not been classified as special human beings yet... Yes, these mermaids are most likely the most recent A direct eyewitness to the murder."

Standing on the seawall, Xie Zijing only felt the fresh and vast sea breeze blowing against his face, making him want to open his mouth and scream.He walked along the seawall into the sea, white mist rose from his body, and finally fell on the seawall. The Barbary lion flicked its tail and slowly walked out of the mist, with a proud posture, like a king.

It walked in front of Xie Zijing, staring at the mermaid figure in the distant sea like him.

In the middle of the journey, the lion suddenly stopped.It shook its mane, stared at the sand below the seawall, and flicked its tail wildly.

"What did you find?" Xie Zijing hurried over.

Its lion was visibly excited, its mane gleaming like splintered gold in a rich luster in the moonlight.The next moment, the lion jumped up and disappeared under the seawall.

Xie Zijing: "?!"

Under the seawall is not sea water, but a shallow spread.Qin Ge stood on the beach with a flashlight, and looked at Xie Zijing on the seawall.

The lion was circling around a ball of white fur on the beach, snorting.

The white fur shivered, and a pair of black eyes protruded from the long fur, staring at the lion and weeping.

The lion made a move.

Its paw landed on the long-haired rabbit's back and patted it lightly twice.