Chapter 134: Out-of-Control Fishman

Xia De's proposal made Miss Louisa a little moved. She thought about it while wrapped in the robe:

"I think I can find the general location where he went ashore... Then okay, detective, I'll delay you for half an hour. I'm also a little cold. If we can't find him in half an hour, we'll leave. However, his injury is much more serious than mine. If we can find him, I think it will save a lot of trouble."

The two looked at the pitch-black riverbank together. Somehow, this night was exceptionally quiet.

The Terraril River is a river with a relatively large flow in the complex water system passing through Tobesk. During the high water season, this is an important inland river shipping channel from the west to the northeast of the kingdom.

Even in the river section within the urban area, the flow rate under the water is quite astonishing. Unless you have special abilities, are particularly good at swimming, or have floating objects, no one can swim in the river channel for a long time.

Fortunately, although the coachman who was injured by the two people together had injured Miss Louisa in the river channel just now, he didn't stay in the water for long. They only walked downstream along the river embankment for ten minutes, and Xia De's eyes captured the red light halo in the dark night.

"Separated by at least dozens of steps, you actually saw this kind of bloodstain?"

When the detective holding the box pointed out the traces on the ground, Miss Louisa asked somewhat unexpectedly.

In fact, this mainly depends on the fact that it is night now, and the fog on both sides of the river channel is not very thick, and those red light halos representing bloodstains are very conspicuous.

The injured man obviously didn't expect that the woman he injured at the bottom of the river would dare to track him, so he only covered the traces of his going ashore. After entering the alley next to the river channel, he didn't even cover the wet footprints.

Miss Louisa was in front, Xia De was behind, and the two also chased into the alley. Away from the area of the river channel with wind, the thick fog surged up again. And as the two went deeper into the alley, there was actually a fishy smell in the air, as if someone had opened the lid of a herring can and left it in the wind.

"My God~"

Because Miss Louisa was walking in front, she couldn't hold her breath and stopped her steps. She pulled Xia De's robe to cover her mouth and nose, and Xia De also smelled the smell blown by the cold and damp wind, and almost vomited:

"What is this?"

"Detective, the situation is a bit wrong..."

The darkness in front of the alley was a bit too thick, like the thick ink that couldn't be melted on an oil painting. Even on a foggy night, this situation was very abnormal.

Xia De looked around, and the red light halo was already very bright:

"He is nearby, just passed here, the traces of blood are very obvious..."

Only then did he realize that at the edge of the field of vision, the bleeding volume represented by large pieces of red light halos had exceeded the normal level:

"Miss Louisa, something is wrong."

"Indeed something is wrong."

Miss Louisa stared at the darkness in front, and then asked Xia De:

"Can you use your 'Light Spell' now? Pay attention to controlling the power of the miracle, don't illuminate half the city."

"No problem."

Xia De held the box in one hand and pointed to the front with the other. With a soft whisper of "Silver Moon," the silver moonlight bloomed at his fingertips.

Miss Louisa stood on one side of Xia De, letting the light shine forward.

Then, they saw a huge figure standing in front at the same time. It was a fishman, in the literal sense. The lower body was two human legs, while the upper body was a complete fish the size of a real person.

The fish scales had rotted, and white maggots were constantly wriggling in them in pieces. The wind passed by its side, blowing the smell toward the two people downwind.

And just as the silver moonlight touched the fishman, the detective and the writer received the prompt from another me at the same time:

【You have touched a 'Whisper'.】

The silver moonlight shone on the fishman's back, and a black smoke with a foul smell floated out immediately. The fishman with his back to the two turned around, and the rotten and collapsed face appeared little by little from the shadow produced by the silver moon light.

Xia De felt his stomach cramping, but his fingers were still very steady, shining forward. Seeing that face, he felt as if he saw a huge monster wandering in the deepest part of the deep sea abyss casting a glance at him.

Miss Louisa on the side was also uncomfortable, but she had already understood the current situation:

"Look at the clothes on its body, it's the coachman's clothes. Damn it! That guy was too seriously injured, and the artifact on his body is out of control!"

Hearing this, Xia De felt relaxed instead. He almost thought this was a humanoid artifact. You know, any humanoid artifact can be directly rated as 【Sage Level】 (Level 2).

"Miss Louisa, steady your hand, don't look ahead!"

Miss Louisa's two hands were forward, and raging flames immediately sprayed forward from her palms. The fishman was originally injured by the holy silver light, but now it was burned by the flames, but it didn't retreat, instead rushing toward the two.

The burning smell made both people downwind endure the urge to vomit. Miss Louisa summoned her life ring, the enlightenment spiritual rune 【Hunter's Trap】 flickered, and then a rope with brass-colored luster fell from the sky, tying the "neck" of the fishman, which was the position of the gills.

Ang~

It made a sharp, strange cry, and the strange rhythm contained in the sound made Miss Louisa unable to stand still, but the hand reaching out from behind her supported her.

"Really, it's troublesome if this smell can't be washed off!"

The golden-haired girl said half-annoyed, and one hand fumbled in the robe, took out the rolled-up paper page, and threw the paper page into the air.

"Hmm?"

It should have been the paper page burning, and then the figure of the match girl appeared. But unexpectedly, in that cold wind, the thrown paper page couldn't burn, and the surroundings were filled with water mist at some point.

The ugly and ferocious fishman broke free from the rope, broke through Miss Louisa's sea of flames, and was completely exposed to the silver moonlight. Its mouth opened wide, and the yellowish sharp teeth and the wriggling flesh buds inside approached Miss Louisa's neck.

But the golden-haired girl wasn't panicked, clenched her fist covered by flames and hit it. With a bang, she knocked the fierce mermaid to the ground, and then kicked it into the darkness of the alley.

"Did you also learn women's fighting techniques?"

Xia De muttered in a low voice, and his finger light shone further away, but unexpectedly discovered that in the alley, there was actually a little girl lying there. When the two discovered the fishman just now, it was probably just out of control and was about to launch an attack on her.

"What did you say? Its strength is not outstanding... Oh!"

Miss Louisa didn't notice the distance, but looked at her fist. A layer of blue-green fish scales covered with foul smell covered it and spread to the whole arm at a speed visible to the naked eye. But before Miss Louisa could think of a way, Xia De's hand reached out again.

"Cynthia's Silver Moon Gift."

The hand with silver light covered Miss Louisa's fist, and the holy moonlight dispelled those fish scales like an epidemic at a very slow speed. Xia De whispered in the golden-haired girl's ear:

"Miss Louisa, there is an ordinary person over there."

Miss Louisa looked into the darkness and frowned:

"I probably know what is out of control, document-level artifact 【Scales of the Drowned Fishman】! This is an artifact that spreads fish scale disease, and can also make the user turn into a species similar to a fishman. I know this!"

She looked up at the monster slowly climbing up in the alley, and Xia De's fingertip moonlight clearly reflected its figure:

"Detective, you go save that little girl, I know how to deal with it."