Mermaid Reef

Jason looked up suddenly.

His sight fell on a ruined camp far away through the dark red smog hanging over Puerto Montt.

... The reporter named David was rescued.

Perhaps the word "save" should not be used, but "capture".

Because the scene of David being carried out of the burrow reminded Jason of a certain image.

A group of foraging ants found a wasp with injured wings in a mud pit after the rain. They happily rushed up to lift the wasp, and then transported it back to the nest to serve as food.

The wasp was cut into fine pieces and swallowed mouthful.

Other debris will become part of the nest structure and is useful material.

How interesting.

There seems to be nothing new on this planet, and all misfortunes can find a reference.

Humans and insects obviously can't understand each other, but in the eyes of the evil god, their thoughts and emotions are interlinked, sometimes so similar that even the evil god is surprised.

Jason said to himself: "Although I don't care about the life and death of this human being, I fed him food for a few days."

This "feed" refers to throwing food and water into the place where David is trapped.

When Jason returned to Earth, he was surprised to find that David was lucky enough to survive and did not die in the earthquake and tsunami.

This luck is really not simple, because when Jason returned to Puerto Montt, the most terrifying wave of disasters had passed, and there was no second living person within ten kilometers around him except David.

Well, David is the largest surviving creature in this area, the others are rabbits, mice, cockroaches... and some tenacious plants.

This is no ordinary earthquake or tsunami.

This is an awakening of the ancient gods, and a war broke out between the evil gods.

David received a revelation from the evil god 20 hours before the big earthquake and ran away desperately.

His efforts clearly paid off - when Leviathan rushed out of the formation, and when Typhon's sons fought the Nidhogg mutants, David was not in the range of death.

But David didn't have enough time to escape the second danger circle.

Leviathan was severely injured, and flesh and blood fell on the sea and the ground like a torrential rain.

Objects stained with the flesh and blood of the ancient gods will slowly decay, and because Leviathan's body is extraordinarily large, the scope of this random death is also particularly large.

But David was lucky, he and the ruins he was trapped in were not splashed by the flesh and blood of the ancient gods.

Next came the tsunami caused by the earthquake and the evil god war, which lasted for several hours. This was the third circle of death with a larger scope.

David is alive again!

When the earthquake happened, David's car happened to be driving on a high-lying road. After being trapped, the tsunami was weakened by half of the mountain wall, and then poured into several cracks on the ground, only hitting David several times Bathing in sea water, by the way, scared the poor guy half to death, and nothing else happened.

Investigators Jensen knew had bad luck.

Isn't lack of luck a commonality among investigators?

Why is this human being called David, who is mentally confused, has a broken will, and is about to lose his mind, yet can escape death?

Jason couldn't figure it out.

So he appeared in front of David's car.

A gentleman in a black top hat with a sapphire cane and a sapphire cane appeared out of nowhere in a small space where no one could stand in theoretically, silently observing the humans trapped in the car.

What would David think?

He thought he had hallucinations before he died, and saw the figure of death in Puerto Montt.

Trembling, he said prayers, recited passages from the Bible, and begged God for mercy.

He felt a cold and dark atmosphere, and he saw a twisted vortex and countless black shadows behind Jason.

The window glass was already shattered, so David didn't have a sufficiently safe (psychologically safe) enclosed space.

Davy screamed with terror on his face, and struggled feebly, thinking he was going to die soon.

Jason found that this lucky human seemed to have been trapped in the ruins for two days and two nights, lacking food and drinking water. If he didn't eat again, no matter how lucky David was before, he would soon become a corpse in the ruins, and then It's a bunch of pointless rotten meat.

That's not good, how can a pile of rotten meat reflect the illusory value of "luck"?

Jason wanted David to live, regain his sanity, and maintain his health.

Jason wanted to see if David could be lucky next time.

So this guy can't die.

Anyway, it's just feeding food, and it doesn't take much trouble.

Jensen left and didn't show up again, throwing food and human-friendly scents.

Speaking of alcohol as a smelling agent, humans are always fascinated. After drinking it, it seems that they will forget their troubles, forget their pain, stay away from nightmares, and fall into a deep sleep.

It was perfect for the wounded and spooked investigator, and Jensen picked out a few bottles specifically.

This practice made David further realize that demons are real.

The words of the devil and the food given by the devil are all true. What exactly is the devil going to do?

David fell into a deeper fear, trapped in the dark cave, hallucinations almost swallowed him, with the last bit of willpower, as long as he heard movement, whether it was hallucination or not, he kept beating for help.

Even at the moment of his salvation, David couldn't tell if it was reality or hallucination.

Because during these nine days, he dreamed many times that he was found by the rescue team, returned to the United States, returned to friends and relatives, hugged the dog, lay on the bed at home, and he swears his nose smelled roasted. Sausage and manicured lawn, laundry detergent.

Especially true.

It's a pity that when I opened my eyes, it was still the narrow and sultry ruins.

David was on the verge of a breakdown, unable to maintain his sanity.

Now, except for the word devil, he only reads the prayers he finds useful, and then nervously taps the distress signal repeatedly.

Unaware of his fate, he was hoisted high and put on a stretcher as they prepared to "transfer" David to safety.

They would carry David for a long journey, choose a mountain top, let the helicopter land slowly, and take David away.

Jensen knew this process because that's how the humans in this camp came—they were the first "rescue teams" to reach the epicenter of the earthquake.

Perhaps it is more appropriate to call it an investigation team. They tried their best to enter the dark red steam-shrouded Port Mont, and two groups of people died because of this.

Jason's eyes fell on the corpses slowly corroded by the flesh and blood quagmire, and he suddenly made a decision.

He walked up step by step from the bottomless crack.

The squirming flesh and mud froze one after another when Jason passed by, turning into solidified strange stones one by one, and regained their vitality after he walked away.

"……where are you going?"

At the bottom of the abyss, a white hand rested on the scorching hot rocks.

There are gauze fins supported by a few small silver bone spurs between the wrists, and the long and transparent nails are as clear as ice crystals on a winter lake.

The owner of the palm couldn't feel the temperature of the magma at all, and didn't care about those small pieces of squirming flesh.

Long red hair hung down his arms.

In the darkness of the abyss, half of a face was faintly exposed, and the golden eyes were like dancing flames, but this flame could stop everything from breathing, and the living things touched by this gaze could only howl and become deformed monsters.

Jason's movements paused, and he didn't look back.

"Something happened outside."

"What? Another human came in?"

Gamir's merman avatar lay nonchalantly on a rock.

Leaving aside the terrible environment of flesh and blood, in fact, the power here is abundant, and the location deep into the ground is also very suitable for the evil god's preference.

It is indeed the lair transformed by the ancient god Leviathan.

But Gemil didn't stay here to occupy the lair, but to find the mutant of the tongue lice evil god Nidhogg.

"Hydera said that the thing turned into a stone after it solidified, fell into the seabed, and maybe rolled into the magma deep in the formation, but we have been searching for seven days, but we haven't found it yet."

Gemil was very upset.

No matter what conspiracy the god of wisdom Thoth has, Leviathan and Nidhogg are finished anyway, and the history of the earth has turned another page.

Unexpectedly, Leviathan's severed limbs left in Port Mont were simultaneously infected by parasites, turned into Nidhogg's incarnation, and "drawn" the power of Typhon's heirs.

Although it was sealed by the barrier of the rune code and frozen into a stone sculpture, its whereabouts are unknown.

After Gemil returned to the earth, what he saw was the Typhon's heirs lying all over the ground in Port Montt, and the triumphant Hydera.

Gemil beat Hydera expressionlessly.

Gamil didn't spare Typhon's other children either. Those who were seriously injured were beaten to the last breath, and those who were less injured were slapped a few more times.

——Let them be gluttonous!eat anything!Now there is a problem with eating!

Not only that, Gemil also wanted to beat Typhon.

In the end, Typhon's allies rushed over to pick up the bunch of unlucky children, and unanimously agreed with Gemir's plan to beat Typhon.

After they left, Gemil was lost in thought looking at Port Mont.

Jason suggested to fish for Nid Hogg's avatar statue here. After all, it was made by Thoth. It cannot float in the magma casually. Is the vine grabbing?

What an eyesore.

And if you don't control it, maybe some unlucky evil god will be parasitized silently?

Of course, this possibility is not very high. The rune seal layer is very strong, and it is more likely to be integrated with the ground than to float around.

Jason didn't think so, and Gemil didn't think so either... This thing doesn't deserve to stay on Earth!

try to find!Must find!

This is a mental level of thinking. In terms of performance, Gemil is not very focused.

On the fourth day of looking for the statue, the shadow tried to sneak up on the vines, but the vine balls dodged cleverly.

Finding the statue then becomes a game of hide-and-seek using the Puerto Montt ruins as a map.

Gemil pretended not to "see" Jensen's location, and slowly searched along the cracks and swamps. As for whether he was looking for the statue or Jensen, he had to ask himself.

In this era of the earth, there is rarely such an area heavily polluted by the power of evil gods, and the situation is very chaotic, and there are many aftermaths of the power of evil gods.

The terrain has been reshaped, weird and complex, but it fits the evil god's aesthetics.

Everywhere you can see the blood oozing from Typhon's brood, the fallen feathers, the cut flesh that was afraid of Nidhogg's contamination, and the damaged internal organs they spit out.

These things do not have the ability to become dependents, they can only wriggle in the sea pits and ruins, instinctively absorbing the original chaotic power ejected together with the underground steam, that is, "karst water droplets".

Now it is very close to the beginning of the birth of the earth, the years when the legendary evil gods fought and devoured each other fiercely.

Gemil didn't know why Jensen suddenly stopped playing this game and wanted to go out.

Humanity?

Gemil wondered, he didn't even bother to take a look at the two batches of humans that came before. Humans couldn't survive in this environment.

What is the difference between human beings sent to death and mud all over the ground?

Jason touched his forehead and told David's situation.

Gemil knew this human who lived nearby and was fed by Jason from time to time.

"...So? Let's see how this human being was imprisoned and cut into pieces?" Gemil asked with a frown, which sounded boring.

"No, I don't want to know whether David's luck works among humans. What I want to know is his ability to survive in the face of mysterious events, so he cannot be taken away."

Jason felt that David could die, but he must not be killed by humans, otherwise wouldn't the food these days be for nothing?

***

David opened his eyes suddenly, and he found that the car space he was familiar with was still in front of him.

He wept silently, looking desperate.

— Another rescued dream.

David had no idea that there were more than a dozen corpses lying on the ruins above his head.

A chunky man, a mercenary leader...

Their bodies were covered with a thick layer of frost, their eyebrows, hair, and beards were all white, and their eyes were empty and lifeless.