The Grim Reaper Can't Be Tricked

At 05:30, the sky was like midnight, and the dark clouds were rolling down, like cotton that had been saturated with water, and the pressure was extremely strong.

Below the black reef is the rough sea, the sea is black, the sea is bottomless, and the sea wind is violent. It is impossible to go out to sea in such weather. All the fishing boats are docked on the shore. Suddenly, a lightning bolt explodes at the junction of the sea and the sky, followed by a rumbling Thunder, as if roaring from hell.

There is a 50-year-old lighthouse on the highest reef level. A car parked at the entrance of the lighthouse. Two lights went out. Thomson got out of the car in a hurry, found the key and opened the door.

Ding Yiqing and the others followed closely behind.

The iron door was pushed open with a bang, Thomson groped to find the oil lamp, lit it and climbed up the spiral staircase: "Can I really trust you?" He looked back at the three of them suspiciously: "You said you came to solve the problem Yes, but you don’t even know the name of the town?”

"The town 20 years ago was not called a mermaid town, and no outsider dared to come in 20 years ago. Outsiders who strayed in rarely left, and even if they left, they might not remember anything, right?"

Ding Yiqing's eyes were light and cold, without such intense emotions, but Thomson didn't dare to look directly at him. He was a little guilty, which showed that Ding Yiqing's guess was right.

Thomson hesitated for a moment, then continued to walk up: "Sorry, tonight is a stormy night, I'm too sensitive... But you don't know the name of the town, which means you don't know any intelligence information. You are completely passive and prone to accidents."

Cen Jin put his hands in his pockets, strolling in the courtyard: "Didn't this take the initiative to persuade you to abandon the dark and turn to the bright? You can fill in the missing information. Of course, you can also deliberately conceal, add or blur some important information. Anyway, we can judge , There are also teammates who broke into the inside who can provide information, but we found that you are not very honest, and the cooperation between each other may not be necessary to continue."

Let him say all the good things and irony, what else can Thomson say?

"As long as Freya and I can leave the town safely, I will tell you everything I can tell you." Climbing up to the lighthouse, there are windows one third of the way, and you can see the rolling sea. Thomson observes the sea with a lantern After two or three seconds, he continued to move forward: "It is true that no outsiders have entered the town for a long time."

He asked Ding Yiqing: "You don't know the name of the town, but you know these secrets?"

Ding Yiqing: "It's not a secret, there are no tourists on the streets and car passengers, the hotel is very quiet, and there are many windows with dust.

Hearing that we were coming to this town, the drivers refused to pick us up. In the end, a driver who didn’t know the name of the town 20 years ago sent us here by navigation, but stopped on the road in the town and refused to come in again.

It shows that the town has a good reputation, but it still has a bad reputation, so the drivers dare not come here, the traffic is inconvenient, and the number of tourists will naturally drop sharply. Can't stay. "

Cen Jin was quite curious when he heard the words: "Speaking of which, Mermaid Town has many and strict rules. Tourists should have been executed, but it didn't attract the attention of the outside world. Is it because you have a special way of destroying corpses and traces?"

Thomson stopped suddenly and remained silent, the candlelight stretching his shadow very long.

The three of Cen Jin were alert for a moment, but they heard Thomson say: "As long as people are swallowed by the fog on the sea surface, they will disappear completely."

"What do you mean?"

Thomson walked quickly, pointed to the window of the lighthouse and said, "The thick fog is in that sea area. The singing of the mermaid can guide the direction and lead the ships to break through the dense fog and enter their country. People who died in that fog They will disappear forever, and any trace of their existence will be erased, just like words written on white paper being erased by an eraser, no one will remember this person, not even the world."

The three of Cen Jin looked in the direction pointed by Thomson, and could only see the seawater turbulent, congealed into black whirlpools, and instantly set off turbulent waves. They were terrified, and a strong ominous premonition filled their hearts.

"Those outsiders who break the rules of the town will be taken to the sea that is rumored to be the homeland of mermaids, and they will be executed like hanging Viking pirates. Their bodies will be swallowed by thick fog, and all memories about them outside the town will disappear. existence is erased.

The gas station used to be the area I patrolled. I met a friend there. He was a resident of another town. He promised to help me sneak out Freya. I accidentally broke the rules of the town and was sent into the thick fog. I sneaked out of the town to find his parents, wife, children and colleagues, and found that none of them remembered this person.

His education, work files, photos from childhood to adulthood...all related things have disappeared, can you understand that feeling?It's like there is no such person in the world, he is just a virtual character I imagined because I longed for someone to save Freya! "

Thomson suppressed his excitement: "Afterwards, I secretly investigated the people executed by the town, and found that everyone's existence was erased. Great fear enveloped my heart and soul. What can completely erase a person's existence?"

"It's a god."

With a deadly clatter, the lighthouse fell into an eerie silence, and the candles went out.

After a long while, Cen Jin broke the dead silence: "I guess it's an evil god. Our purpose is to kill the gods. Although it's shameless to say that, but... the first lesson of our school is to live with the gods."

Thomson stared at him in astonishment, and found that the other two also agreed with him. A chill suddenly hit his heart, and he asked with difficulty who they were, who dared to provoke the gods.

Cen Jin smiled, "I said he is a good man who came to liberate you. Then,"

When the topic changed, Cen Jin looked serious: "What is the function of the lighthouse? Who is the guest who came from afar tonight? Is it a mermaid? Do you know the origin of the mayor of the town? What is the purpose of controlling you with strict rules? ? Those children are being disciplined centrally, is it for brainwashing?"

Wu Yujie added: "I have observed that there is no school in the town, so where are the children sent for centralized discipline?"

Cen Jin: "Are you sure?"

Wu Yujie: "I used to think that the town was strange, but I couldn't figure out what was so weird. It was Lao Ding who reminded me that there were no children in the town. I suddenly realized that the strange thing was that there was no school."

Thomson: "There will be guests coming ashore on a stormy night, and the lighthouse is to guide them. They are indeed mermaids. The mayor once went to the country of mermaids, and after returning, he became the most loyal servant of the mermaids.

Mermaids domesticate human beings and feed on human emotions. Every time they go ashore, they want to suck their emotions.

Those children... At first we thought they were hiding on the cliffs of the back mountain of the town, but later we found out that they were taken on board by the mermaids and entered the mist. We guessed that they should be sent to the kingdom of mermaids. "

Ding Yiqing: "They were also sent into the mist, but their existence has not been erased?"

Thomson shook his head: "All the erased humans, the town remembers them. He seems to want us to fear and fear him more, and force us to suppress our emotions even more."

Cen Jin: "The more you suppress your emotions, the more you accumulate. Maybe it's a big meal for mermaids who suck on emotions."

Thomson glanced at him: "Yes."

At this time they came to the top floor, Thomson began to pour kerosene to light the fire, and the lighthouse became the only light in the depths of the dark sea.

The four of them stood quietly in front of the window, staring at the deep sea. A black ship broke through the thick fog and waves and appeared in front of the lighthouse. At this moment, the dark clouds dispersed and the bright moonlight illuminated the sea, allowing the four of them to see the lighthouse clearly. The shape of the ship and the merman appearing on the deck.

It was an old wooden boat, as if crawling out of the deep sea, the hull was black, covered with oysters, conch and seaweed, dozens of naked flesh crawled on the deck, the upper body looked like a human, but the lower body was a slippery fish tail .

But it is not the beautiful fish tail in film and television dramas, but there are many kinds, and there are so many.

There are both octopus tails and silver hairtail's slender and shiny tails, which are more like deformed deep-sea fish.

The facial features are not as beautiful as described in fairy tales and myths. They are quite ordinary, even a little flat, with gills around the ears, and sharp teeth. They are a group of intelligent creatures that will make you sank when you look closely at them.

They whispered to each other, basking in the moonlight, and their tails slapped the deck, making a rustling sound, which was a bit uncomfortable to hear.

Cen Jin frowned, and when he was engrossed in watching, one of the mermaids suddenly looked up and his heart jumped in fright, he quickly squatted down and held his breath.

Wu Yujie leaned her back against the wall: "Have you been discovered?"

Cen Jin: "I don't know if they were seen."

Thomson lowered his voice: "Mermaids have poor eyesight, sensitive hearing, and extremely aggressive voices. Even if they are just chatting normally, they will cause harm to humans."

Cen Jin: "We are talking now, can they hear it?"

Thomson pointed to the window: "Sound-proof glass, I installed it secretly, otherwise they would hear it."

Ding Yiqing: "Will they all go ashore to look for food?"

"One will be left to watch the ship." Thomson's eyes flickered: "What do you do?"

Ding Yiqing looked at Cen Jin, who put his hands on his knees, patted his fingers on his knees and said, "Your daughter is hiding in the small room on the first floor of the lighthouse, don't rush to deny it, or you can rest assured that your daughter will be alone at such a dangerous moment? Are you going to spend a lot of money to replace the soundproof glass of the lighthouse?"

Thomson was very discouraged: "Yes, as a reward for guiding the way, mermaids will not attack the lighthouse. But they suck human emotions and use singing to stimulate human brains and release their suppressed emotions. It is like a floodgate suddenly releasing floods. Careless handling If it does, it will cause a flood.

But the mermaid doesn't care about the life or death of the food, so every time the mermaid eats, the town will turn into a crime city, with violence, blood, and fighting as the main colors, and cases of beating people to death usually occur. "

Cen Jin: "We need you to do me a favor. We won't let you and your daughter leave the lighthouse. We just need you to turn off the fire of the lighthouse the next time a ship enters the port."