Mermaid Reef

The black vines stand out against the pearly skin, like evil tattoos.

The twigs at the ends of the vines squirmed restlessly.

It turns the charming and beautiful mermaid in the legend into a mysterious creature, the black that symbolizes evil is soaked with dazzling golden scales, the indescribable tentacles rest on the transparent and flawless thin fins, and the slender neck and bare chest are full of scars. There are several circling poisonous thorns.

The still city sleeps in the night, and no one sees this symbol of death.

The mermaid sank into the sea.

The fish tail brought up the waves, avoiding one vortex after another.

The magic carpet is fleeing ahead.

This is another failed attempt by Gu Keluo. He has "extracted" several time cracks in a row, but each time is very close to the normal timeline, and the furthest one is only 1692.

For humans, 250 years is a long time, but in the eyes of evil gods, this is not enough time for them to sleep and recover their strength.

Gu Keluo was injured when he quietly returned to the earth from the depths of the universe. Of course, such a physical state is not suitable for finding allies, so he chose to rest.

Now the problem is, no matter how he jumps around on the timeline, he still can't cross this "time to rest and recuperate", which has led to his power being suppressed all the time.

Gu Keluo gritted his teeth with hatred. He only slept for 500 years. In the long timeline of the earth, this amount of time is insignificant at all.

Unlike Gemil, as long as Gemil goes back to the past, he will definitely be suppressed, so Gu Keluo actually has a great chance of winning.

It's normal to miss once, it's bad luck to miss twice, and it's strange to miss three or five times.

"What did you do?" Gu Keluo couldn't help asking.

He remembered that Gemil had always been confident, and even rushed to chase him as soon as he saw him. He didn't worry about the appearance of Gu Keluo's power recovery. The magic carpet even suspected that Gemil had secretly affected the normal judgment of time order .

Gemil: "..."

This has no beginning and no end, what are you talking about?

In the angry voice of the magic carpet, Gemil finally understood Gu Keluo's question.

"No, I didn't do anything."

Just looking at a timetable handed over by a human investigator, I knew the suspicious time when this area was unstable.

As for why he wasn't worried about the recovery of Cocoro's power - Gemil thought he wasn't blind, and wasn't there a city next to him?The city looked a little cleaner and tidier than it did in 1882, and the buildings were closer to the time when he knew Jason. Should he hesitate?

Gu Keluo didn't believe a word of Gemil's words.

He called Tonatiu, the God of Scorching Sun, and the flowing fire appeared in front of his eyes along the rift of time. It stands to reason that they were very likely to be taken back to ancient times and bump into Tonatiu who wanted to hunt, but what happened?

Gu Keluo did not admit that he had failed, nor did he deny that he had bad luck. He believed that Gemil had done something.

"Tonatiu will come!" the magic carpet shouted angrily.

"It's okay, I'll give him your corpse."

Gamil said harshly, "Tonatiu likes to devour his own kind, and doesn't care who provides the food."

The magic carpet sneered: "No, he is insatiable and will not let go of anyone who can eat."

An ancient god whose power has been suppressed is the best delicacy in the eyes of the Burning Sun God.

Gu Keluo believes that the mortal danger can make Gemil "change his mind" because he himself has awakened in this way.

Nothing matters more than power.

ally?Heir?self?

All of these are not "powerful" for Cocoro to pay attention to.

In the past, Gu Keluo didn't have the emotion of fear, and he even thought it was exclusive to ants.

When the fear first appeared in Gu Keluo's brain, it quickly took root, as stubborn as a weed, and no matter what Gu Keluo did, he couldn't pull it out.

"You will thank me, there is no more appropriate fusion choice than me!"

The magic carpet continued to clamor, but the vine ball only felt noisy.

The mermaid's sharp nails left deep gashes on the surface of the magic carpet.

Gamir is extremely fast in the sea, which is why he chose this avatar.

When the power is suppressed, the shadow does not have such a high attack power, and the giant whale will appear cumbersome in fighting, and it is not as good as the mermaid.

Jason suddenly discovered a new use of power, and all the vines stood up, and quickly froze, like vines full of barbs.

No, it is a sharp giant net.

With the ice barrier, Jensen can attack without touching the body of the magic carpet.

That is, the appearance of the mermaid has become even weirder, like a sea monster in white spiked armor.

While dodging and delaying time, Gu Keluo searched for cracks, he didn't believe that it would still be so unlucky again.

Gu Keluo struggled to use his space talent, and Jansen also checked the air flow through the tentacles at the end of the vines, but in the fierce chasing and fighting, they found nothing.

The blood gradually drained from the magic carpet fell into the sea.

The entire bay is like a boiling soup pot, the water is turbulent, and a terrible disaster seems to be brewing.

Jason raised his head suddenly, and he felt the breath of the compass.

Here comes Juan.

Also reacting at the same time was Cocoro.

***

The wave was like a high wall, destroying the palm trees on the beach in an instant.

The harbor was also in disarray after the waves receded, with some small boats washed up on coastal neighborhoods and crashing their bows into house walls.

Juan's face was full of mud and sand, and he hugged a street lamp, looking at the receding sea water, gasping for breath.

Immediately afterwards, he felt a piercing chill behind him, and a strange and inexplicable voice sounded in his ears.

Juan let go of his hand and fell down.

The sand remaining in the sea was like a trap, pulling him towards the sea with a strong drag force.

Juan struggled desperately with a severe headache.

Even if the two legs couldn't move at all, they were still pedaling hard.

"Snapped."

Juan heard the sound of his own bones breaking.

He also suspected that this was an illusion, because in the illusion he could hear the sound of worms crawling in the blood vessels, as well as the bubbling sound of the heart being ripped open.

As for the pain... In the terrifying feeling brought by the evil god, it is often impossible to clearly feel the existence of the limbs, and the brain is completely occupied by severe pain.

Juan closed his eyes, and he heard a howling gust of wind in a blur, and the smell of sea water?

Then his vision went dark and he lost consciousness.

***

The magic carpet remembers Juan.

For this human being who destroyed his plan, Gu Keluo decided to kill without hesitation.

But Juan's fate was a mystery. He got caught in the quicksand and was carried straight out to sea by the receding waves.

This kind of crisis, even for people who are proficient in water, it is difficult to break free, and whether they can survive is completely dependent on fate.

When Gu Keluo appeared above Juan, the blood dripping from the wound on the magic carpet could turn Juan into a pool of screaming mud in one second. The formed mud will also disintegrate.

Then Juan fell into the tide of quicksand...

Jason managed to freeze a beach before the magic carpet caught up with Juan.

The ice was very brittle, and it collapsed after being washed by sea water a few times, but Gu Keluo was even more brittle now, and he hit the ice wall straight.

The vine ball quickly threw a pearl, and Juan disappeared again without even opening his eyes.

This also shows that the blood of the evil god is corrupting this land.

"I just saw the compass casing cracked."

Jason said worriedly that he had a bad feeling.

At this time, Gu Keluo laughed loudly, and the still world was distorted, and then covered with countless cracks like glass.

"Want to kill me? What a pity, the flesh and blood of the evil god itself can disrupt order."

The magic carpet looked at Gemil sarcastically, laughing at Gemil because he had never killed the same kind before, so he couldn't figure out the reason.

"I'm using myself to crash here, come on, I think you will be very pleasantly surprised to see..."

The crack burst open, and what rushed out was not a terrifying flame, nor the awakened Burning Sun God, but a huge caterpillar that looked like a mountain of meat.

Jason: "..."

Gemil: "..."

Watching helplessly the caterpillar swallowed the cocoa in one gulp.

Immediately afterwards, the flesh and blood shredded the body of the magic carpet like sharp-toothed grinding discs.

The terrible scream made the vine ball curl up uncontrollably, and incidentally blocked the mermaid's ears with two tentacles.

"The human investigator said that there was a plague in Kingston in 1850. How many people died?"

"I don't remember...but there are quite a few. Diseases are prone to occur here, and there are corpses killed by pirates back then..."

The vine ball stopped, and stared blankly at Huidie together with the mermaid.

So they witnessed with their own eyes that traveling through time and space made Gray Butterfly stronger?Crazy growth in various time cracks?

All kinds of negative effects caused the magic carpet of the ancient gods to become weaker and weaker, and finally fell like this?

Gray Butterfly began to transform violently in Gu Keluo's dying struggle.

It gave birth to a light and complete body.

The huge and transparent wings gave birth to strange flowing lines, just like the pattern on the back of a magic carpet.

Hui Die didn't even look at Jason and Gemil, and flew directly into the sky.

At the same time, the world was completely shattered, and Jason fell into the dark and upside-down vortex again.

Jensen felt Gemil turn into a shadow, wrapping himself up.

"Where is Gray Butterfly going?" Jason asked anxiously.

"...leave the earth, if I understand the meaning of its cry correctly."

Gray Butterfly has no brains and only acts on instinct.

When it becomes strong, it will subconsciously look for a territory for itself, and the earth is full of sleeping auras of the same kind, which are not ideal mating objects.

Jason rubbed the vine tentacles unconsciously: "Will it be beaten back by the Outer God like Gu Keluo?"

Gemil said bluntly: "I don't know, even if there is, it will be a long time later."

***

Jamaica Island Beach Camp, 1959.

Dr. Mara was leading people to explore the underwater terrain when he suddenly heard a noise.

"what happened?"

"Juan is missing, his assistant couldn't find him, so he came to look for you."

After hearing this, Dr. Mara pressed his forehead angrily.

The diving expert beside him was also very angry: "What's the matter with Juan? I can't see him these days. He looks mysterious. Could it be that he was kidnapped again?"

Dr. Mala was about to speak when he suddenly felt his body shake and the tent trembled.

"earthquake?"

Dr. Mara grabbed his notebook and backpack, and the others picked up tools and instruments, rushed out of the tent in panic, and gathered on the beach to look around.

"It's all quiet, it's okay! Everyone calm down!" Dr. Mara grabbed a loudspeaker and shouted loudly.

The shaking lasted only a dozen seconds, and the magnitude of the shaking was not particularly large, but it came too suddenly, and everyone on the archaeological team knew that Port Royal was destroyed by an earthquake, and the most recent major earthquake occurred in 1907 , Theoretically speaking, these 200 years are safe, but people will inevitably be frightened.

"Pack up your things and retreat to a higher place first!"

Dr. Mala reckoned that it was an earthquake of magnitude [-] or so, but he didn't know where the epicenter was, so he couldn't stay on the beach and had to be prepared for a tsunami.

"Help……"

A weak voice came to their ears, and everyone was startled first, and then looked into the pile of equipment boxes behind them in shock.

I saw that there was an extra person in the gap made by the boxes at some point, and his body was bent into a strange arc, as if he had been squeezed and tortured. It was scary to look at.

"Juan?"

"He's running a high fever and has a broken leg!"

Everyone was shocked, not understanding how Juan "drilled" into this circle from under their noses.

The most frightening thing is that Juan didn't "come in" by himself. His injury should not be able to move at all.

Nick heard their name called Juan in the distance, ran over to see Juan's appearance, painted a cross in horror and chanted "curse" and "curse of pirate ghosts", causing the scene to become even more chaotic.

Dr. Mara ran out to find a truck, which stopped at the gate of the camp, opened the door, jumped down and shouted:

"What are you doing standing up? Moving things and sending people to the hospital!"

When Juan was lifted up, he was raving deliriously.

Something shiny fell from him.

Nick's eyes bulged up. He was very frightened. He stammered and pointed to the compass and said, "That's the thing."

But none of the busy archaeological excavation team paid attention to him.

Nick stood there in panic. He wanted to pick up the compass, but he didn't dare to approach it.

When people carried Juan into the car, Nick ran over and bent over struggling, and then his hand touched another person's hand, and neither of them picked up the compass.

"Dr. Marat?"

Dr. Mara watched Nick silently.

"This thing is weird... Really, doctor, please believe me! It's cursed!" Nick explained in a panic.

Dr. Marat didn't believe a single letter of the curse, but what surprised him was that other people seemed to be selectively blind. Except for himself and Juan's assistant, no one "saw" such a dazzling sight. Gold.

Is this reasonable?

Dr. Mara took out an empty cigar box from his pocket, wrapped his hand with a handkerchief, picked up the compass and threw it into the empty box.

Nick was visibly relieved as the humidor clicked shut, as if seeing the devil back in the bottle.

"Excuse me, gentlemen, can I have that broken compass back?"

A voice sounded suddenly.

Both Dr. Mara and Nick were shocked and turned around abruptly.

I saw a British gentleman wearing a black top hat, which did not match the seasonal temperature of the tropical sea, standing quietly on the beach.

He was young and handsome, but his light blue eyes were like bottomless deep pools, exuding a palpitating chill.

Whether it's the panicked local laborers or the archaeological team members carrying instruments - the crowd passed by this gentleman, but they didn't notice the existence of this alien at all.