The man's neck was bitten by the black shadow in the artificial river, and bright red blood spread along his neck on the turbulent water surface.

He struggled hard with his hands and feet, and the blood spread quickly in the river as he stirred it up.

Gurgling.

The color of blood seemed to attract the attention of more shadows.

Strings of water bubbles rolled from the water to the surface of the river. The originally waveless artificial river seemed to have been boiled, and the water surface was churning.

"Sister Fen! Save me!"

As soon as the man's voice fell, two black figures suddenly emerged from the water, jumped up, and bit his arms from the left and right sides.

Phew!

In the darkness, the sound of bones being broken could be heard clearly.

More blood rolled with the churning water waves, and the air was filled with a sweet smell of blood.

Like a piece of bread crumbs dropped into a fish pond that had been hungry for three days, the man was quickly devoured by the restless black shadow underwater before he could even make a sound again.

The unfinished black shadows quickly gathered into a group and rushed toward the members of Zhao Tuo's team who were forced to the shore.

The water level on the shore is shallow, and the swarming black figures gradually reveal their complete upper bodies.

Under the bright moonlight of the full moon, Lu Sheng and the others finally saw the true face of these sea monsters.

The so-called sea monster has a human-like upper body, and its skin is dark green, covered with thick scales and shriveled wrinkles of different shapes.

There is a bunch of sparse hair on the top of the head, and only a pair of gray-white eye shadows and two small nostrils can be seen on the face.

The two upper limbs resemble frog webbed feet, and the fish tail on the lower body is as sharp as a knife, and its speed in the water is comparable to that of a submarine.

"These sea monsters are so powerful, their strength and speed are almost equivalent to those of fourth-level superpowers..." Zhang Xiaojuan took out her mobile phone and frantically took pictures of the sea monsters.

"You just said there are no sea monsters in the artificial river!" Han Rui pouted unconvinced.

"Nature is developing and times are progressing. We have to try to accept new things, do you understand?"

"ah!"

Heart-rending screams not far away interrupted the bickering between the two.

The remaining members of Zhao Tuo's team were unable to dodge, and were bitten by the sea monsters and dragged under the water.

The originally clear and transparent man-made river was instantly dyed red, and the water was flopping like dumplings.

Zhao Tuo's wife only missed the surface of the water for a moment and was quickly dragged to the bottom of the river.

"You know what this tells me?"

Lu Sheng glanced at the severed limbs floating on the water with an indifferent expression, and suddenly turned to look at Han Rui and Sun Tiantian.

"How can your shoes not get wet when you often walk by the river?" Han Rui was confused.

"Wrong, this incident tells us that when it comes to love, the brain dies first."

Han Rui's empty little head thought for a moment, then nodded seriously: "Sister Lu, I understand!"

"Go back and sleep." Sun Tiantian's eyelids were so sleepy that she beckoned the people watching to go back.

Just as several people turned to leave, a high-pitched buzzing sound suddenly came from behind.

A sea monster jumped up from the river, opened its upper limbs and pounced on Zhang Xiaojuan.

"Damn it! What are you doing! No one is allowed to go home at night!"

Zhang Xiaojuan waved instinctively.

Sharp earth thorns shot up from the ground and just hit the sea monster's abdomen, pinning the monster in place like a skewer of candied haws.

"Uh oh uh oh!"

The sea monster made a piercing cry, struggled twice and then lost its sound.

Zhang Xiaojuan forced Han Rui to use the seeds to summon two arm-long bean sprouts. She held up the bean sprouts and gave them a few tentative pulls.

"Should be dead."

After poking for a long time without any response, Zhang Xiaojuan turned around to greet Lu Sheng and others.

"Is this... a mermaid?" Han Rui huddled behind Lu Sheng, only revealing her two big eyes and looking at him from a distance.

"The water pollution has been serious in the past two years. The mermaids have become like this due to chemical pollution." Zhang Xiaojuan glanced at the wrinkled face on the soil thorn and couldn't help but curl her lips.

Lu Sheng carefully looked at the dark green skin of the sea monster, and his eyes finally landed on the underside of the right forelimb.

The skin of the sea monster's whole body is covered with thick scales, and only the upper limbs near the waist have a slightly smooth skin.

And under the right forelimb of the sea monster in front of me, there was a faint blue color of pen water.

"Look at this, does it look like a tattoo?" Lu Sheng asked Zhang Xiaojuan to put away the tattoo and lift up the sea monster's arm.

"Isn't this a QR code?"

Xiao Yu took a closer look and exclaimed.

A year or two ago, QR code tattoos were all the rage on the Internet. Couples often tattooed QR codes on their bodies that could be scanned out to link to pictures, showing their loyalty to each other.

At first, Sun Tiantian almost forced Xiao Yu to get a tattoo. Later, he gave up Sun Tiantian's idea after searching many pictures of failed tattoos on the Internet.

The blurry pen water color on the sea monster happened to be similar to the color of a failed example he had searched for before.

"Where can the pervert under the water give such an ugly mermaid a tattoo?" Han Rui boldly came out from behind Lu Sheng.

"I know!" Zhang Xiaojuan held her chin and thought for a while, then suddenly hammered her palm.

The remaining few people raised their heads at the same time, waiting quietly for his eloquent remarks.

"Under the water, is it possible that SpongeBob tattooed her, and that the QR code is actually the payment code for Krabby Patty?"

Zhang Xiaojuan looked serious.

Lu Sheng and others: "..."

"Sister Lu, there are still 8 days left, let's find another teammate." Han Rui looked disgusted.

"Hey! Do you have any imagination?"

Zhang Xiaojuan protested dissatisfied.

"Give me the photo you just took."

The remaining sea monsters by the river had long since disappeared into the river. In order to confirm his suspicion, Lu Sheng could only look for clues from Zhang Xiaojuan's mobile phone.

Fortunately, Zhang Xiaojuan's mobile phone has a night shooting function, and she can even take pictures of the scales on the sea monster clearly.

Lu Sheng searched each photo carefully and finally enlarged one of the photos.

"Do you still remember the girl we rescued on the first day we arrived in Qinhuaicheng?"

Lu Sheng looked complicated and enlarged the photo and handed it to the remaining people.

In the area she zoomed in, she could clearly see a small bell with a special shape hanging around the neck of the nearest sea monster.

"This is the bell the girl wears around her neck!"

Because the shape of the bell was rare, Sun Tiantian paid special attention to it at that time.

Yesterday when they were shopping in a gold store, she was looking for the same style but couldn't find it.

"How did she become a sea monster? Parasitized by a fish?"

Lu Sheng frowned slightly, "There were at least dozens of them in the river just now, right under Chen Dongsheng's nose. It's impossible for him not to know."

"unless……"

"These sea monsters were created by him..." Sun Tiantian and others suddenly realized.
Chapter completed!