Mermaid Effect

It was a hot and humid summer.

Many years later, Rand could no longer tell the exact day of that day, but he was sure that it was an unusually hot and humid summer day.

The air was unusually humid and hot, and even the violent sea breeze didn't make Rand feel any better.A large amount of salt was mixed with the wind and blown on his skin. When he got out of the car, his clothes, which were barely dry, quickly became heavy and sticky, and his hair and clothes were also sticky.

"damn it."

Rand took off his glasses and wiped them with a handkerchief.

The tiny droplets of water from the waves stained his lenses, which remained blurry even after wiping.

"Hey, you better watch out."

A rude voice came to mind.Rand squinted his eyes and looked down, where Les Noan was shouting at him.Of course, with Rand's vision, he could only see the vague shadow of Lace now.

"Put on your glasses, idiot!" Rand's squinting was too obvious. Similarly, his too clumsy behavior made Lace's tone a little rough, "Your noble star fell off the reef. The head won't feel good."

The coastline of the Blue Moon Coast is full of reefs of various types. At the same time, it has been washed by huge never-ending waves. Almost all the reefs are extremely slippery. If you really slip and fall, it will be very troublesome. things.

And Rand... Lace's eyes fell on the little boy: a high-end handmade shirt and Italian leather shoes.

For god's sake, does he really know he's here for an interview?

Considering Rand's identity, Lace raised his reminder coldly and disgusted.

Rand frowned, and put his glasses back on awkwardly.

Now, Reis's impatient face became clearer. He was carefully climbing up the reef on the other side. The camera was hung around his neck and knocked against stones from time to time.

Rand tried to remind him of this, but was ultimately silent.

Getting along with the other party these days made him clearly aware of the other party's impatience and disdain for him.

Well, it's understandable.

Rand was forced into the newspaper office by Vincent Sievers, his brother, the legendary "big man".Before this, there had never been a reporter with less than ten years of seniority in the entire Dennis Express office.They were very proud of it—although the paper had only one-tenth the circulation—and the arrogance persisted after Vincent had bought it.

Perhaps this is why the circulation of the Denischer Express is only one-tenth of what it was before.

Of course, it was impossible for Rand to disclose his brother's evaluation to the person in front of him.In fact, he had to admit that his entry into the newspaper did cause a lot of trouble for others...just like before.

Rand's clumsiness and slowness have always caused him a lot of trouble, although he has a good appearance, black curly hair and wonderful green eyes, pale skin makes him look more like a fresh graduate Not a former librarian who spent five years in a small town, now a rookie reporter.

"Are we going to continue?"

While he was in a daze, Lace had climbed to the rock where he was panting. Rand looked at the dusty face of the other party and asked a little nervously.

Reese gave him a huge blank stare.

"Continue? Are you crazy? I don't see anything under here...Damn it, I should have known the virtues of these ignorant townspeople-even if they saw a luminous kite, they would exaggerate and think that It's a UFO!"

"However, they provided mermaid photos before..."

Rand said quietly.

The reason why he and Reis appeared at the seaside was not without reason.Residents of a small town near the Blue Moon Coast recently posted a video on the Internet - a huge mermaid sitting on a reef, and when the waves hit, he jumped into the sea with incredible movements.

The picture quality of that group of videos is quite blurry, but it still caused a small upsurge of discussion on the Internet (of course, only "small").

Before that, the Denihe Express was forced to relocate to a small city less than [-] kilometers away because it could not pay the expensive office rental fee, and the entire newspaper was undergoing a revision, adding various lace news and even horoscope forecasts to work hard salvage their declining circulation.

Based on the above two points, two unlucky guys were sent here for interviews.

These two unlucky guys are naturally Rand and Reis.

Lace was quite dissatisfied with this, and Rand knew it.The reef where the mermaid is in the video is located on the edge of the reef at the end of the coast, and Rand's pathetic motor coordination makes him have to stay on the gentle reef.

He can't even take a basic photo, and as for the interview...

Well, Reef wouldn't talk to him.

Thinking of the strange eyes and whispers that he was about to meet when he returned to the newspaper office, Rand couldn't help feeling that his breathing became labored.

Well, returning for nothing certainly didn't do him any real harm, "the guy" bought the newspaper after all and he was his brother.However, it was not possible to prevent other people from responding to Rand with a strange attitude, and Rand hated this.

He found that he even began to miss the old ladies in the small town library who chattered and even brought wool to the reading room to knit sweaters.

"Maybe...uh...maybe we can stay a little longer, maybe we can make other discoveries."

Rand said dryly.

At this time, Reis had already taken off his shoes and poured out the sand in them, and was about to leave for the parking lot.After hearing his words, Reis turned back and gave him a grim smile, his disgust almost overflowing.

"Of course you can, if you want."

He then gave Rand the recorder and camera and drove off in the battered old Ford, he said.

It was clear that he had no intention of continuing the interview with Rand at all.

Rand frowned and stared at the empty parking lot, where only his car remained.Another strong wind blew, and he looked back at the gray sea surface and the huge waves. Suddenly, he had the illusion that he was the only one in the world.

He was silent for a while, silently returned to the reef where he was before, and tried to climb down.

Without Reis, he felt that he might not be so tense, and less tense meant that his movements might not be so rigid, allowing him to reach the bottom reef.

And he did, though his hands were cut by shellfish on the reef.Rand looked at the wound on his palm that kept gushing blood, smiled helplessly, and then sat weakly on the huge reef.

In fact, here is still five or six meters away from the sea surface, even the waves can only hit here occasionally, and at the same time, the other side of the reef has become extraordinarily smooth due to the washing of the waves.

Rand looked at the other side of the reef hesitantly, and after thinking about it, he still didn't get close to it.He had already overestimated his physical strength once before, and he didn't want to make a second wrong judgment.

Yet the merman - if it existed - scaled the reef with uncanny ease.

Even though he had confirmed in his heart that the video was fake, Rand still found it quite interesting.

The wind was still damp, and his wound was aching, but when those things that made him nervous disappeared, the long-lost sense of relief returned to Rand.

The waves beat against the shore regularly, and the climate on the Blue Moon Coast is so harsh that even gulls don't want to come and go here.The waves and mist are gray, mixing the boundaries of the sky and the sea together, the sun hangs pale in the sky, and gradually sinks down as if the body is heavy.Rand stayed on the reef until dark, just like what Reis said, there is really nothing here.

Rand finally decided to go back after gaining the long-lost alone time, but until this time he suddenly realized that something was wrong, the reef in the darkness was almost confused with the night, and he had to feel the darkness if he wanted to go back to the top. climb.

"This is really bad."

Rand muttered with a wry smile.

He really made sure that he was really not suitable for going out for interviews.

But it is really not a wise decision to stay on the reef all night in the dark. Rand heard the sound of the waves gradually getting stronger, and the tide here is about to rise.

He subconsciously took out his mobile phone and turned on the flash toward the side of the reef in an attempt to see the bumps on the reef clearly.

It was at this time that the sudden light reflection from a recess on the reef caught Rand's attention.

At first he thought it was stagnant water, or something else, but after lighting it a few times, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

The two round fluorescent spots were absolutely impossible to be caused by stagnant water, and he also felt familiar, that kind of reflection... more like the reflection of the cat's pupils when it accidentally shines on the cat in the dark.

Rand felt his heart beat faster in an instant.

He stayed here all afternoon, but he never felt any creature behind him.

"Who?"

Frightened, he even asked stupidly.