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Chapter 514 Innsmouth: Changing Fish

Old Zadok stepped on the sea water with his webbed feet, and fled to the distance in a panic.

Qin Zhibo looked at Zadok's back, and then looked back at the hillside by the sea.

There was nothing worthy of attention on the bare, scorched hillside, not even a single person.

What is he afraid of?
From Zadok's drunken remarks just now, Qin Zhibo probably understood something.

The bringer of Innsmouth's unique local culture, Obed Marsh, created the secret religion here, gradually turning the locals into hybrids with deep divers.

But after the Great Purge in 1927, Innsmouth was reduced to a "dead city".

Entering a more advanced modern society, the descendants of Obed Marsh established the STK company, dedicated to the development of targeted drugs for the treatment of "Deep Diver Syndrome", and gave Innsmouth, which has been polluted by the blood of deep divers. people take.

The current helm of STK, Walter Marsh Jr., should be a member of the Marsh family that Zadok said back then.

As usual, this should be a boon. Targeted drugs can correct the errors in the blood, and Innsmouth people can live with a relatively normal appearance.

However, it is not ruled out that there are old and stubborn people like Zadok who do not want to take medicine and only want to return to the embrace of their "ancestors".

Mark Allen said that the final destination of the hybrid deep divers is in the eternal sea.

What surprised Qin Zhibo was that Zadok mentioned Cthulhu again.

Not only that, but also "Dagon", these seem to be the beliefs of the local esoteric religion in Innsmouth.

At present, Qin Zhibo doesn't know what these things are.

Qin Zhibo shook his head, temporarily put aside these messy dirty words, and concentrated on the matter at hand.

Focusing on the deep blue sea, Qin Zhibo saw the water of the Atlantic Ocean.

The sea water here is not as dangerous as the Pacific Ocean, but it can still give Qin Zhibo obvious discomfort and depression at noon.

At the mouth of the river about 3 miles from the coastline, there is a big black rock reef castle that looks like a devil.

"Okay, now let's see where we can find 'Fantastic Beasts'?"

If you want to catch a deep diver, you have to go into the sea, but before you go into the sea, you must first overcome your fear of the sea.

Qin Zhibo visualized [Fear in a Bottle] in the palm of his hand, bent down to fill some water in the bottle on the bank.

All of a sudden, Qin Zhibo felt that a certain nerve in his brain seemed to be misplaced.

This feeling is very mysterious and magical. When I raised my head to look at the sea again, the discomfort of sea water disappeared completely!

"Really good!"

Qin Zhibo couldn't help cheering excitedly, and even sang a happy song to the depths of emotion.

"Encountering seawater~ I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid~"

"I'm quite nervous~ I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid~"

Qin Zhibo danced like a snake, and he stopped after a long time, ready to put the cork back into the bottle.

But during the operation, Qin Zhibo accidentally caught sight of the seawater in the bottle.

At this moment, Qin Zhibo felt an unprecedented depression and uneasiness approaching his heart, and even his body's breathing function became difficult at this moment.

Qin Zhibo was so frightened that he staggered and sat on the ground. The brown bottle containing sea water also fell on the sand, spilling some sea water.

The sea water of the Atlantic Ocean moistened the ordinary sand, Qin Zhibo stared in horror.

Qin Zhibo: Will -15
After a while, the seawater on the beach either leaked or evaporated, and Qin Zhibo came back from his trance.

Qin Zhibo didn't realize why it was called "fear in a bottle" until now.

Although this prop can block all fears of the same kind of items in the bottle, it will also concentrate all fears in this one item in the bottle.

This means that if there is a mouse in it, you can not be afraid of any mouse in the world, but you are terrified of the mouse in the bottle.

This is what "fear in a bottle" really means.

Qin Zhibo quickly picked up the cork on the ground, closed his eyes to find out the general direction of the bottle, put the cork back on the bottle mouth, and put it back into the system before he dared to open his eyes.

After "overcoming" the fear of sea water, Qin Zhibo took out the [Deep Diving Potion] from the system, which was his reliance to fight against deep divers underwater.

Pulling off the cork, Qin Zhibo drank the bottle of oral liquid-sized liquid in a heroic gesture of blowing on the bottle.

This is to keep the liquid inside from touching the taste buds on the tip of your tongue, leaving any bad experience.

It turned out that it was right to do so, and the liquid only left a pungent and stimulating pain when it passed through Qin Zhibo's throat.

Immediately, he felt his throat burning, and something indescribable was spreading from his throat.

"Cough, cough—"

Qin Zhibo coughed violently, desperately wanting a glass of water to soothe the injury, and his eyes just happened to see the water of the Atlantic Ocean flowing slowly in front of the sand.

But the reason in his heart told him that the water was not drinkable.

So he hurried back to the Buick parked not far away, picked up the mineral water and poured it down his throat.

After drinking a bottle of mineral water, in addition to the obvious feeling of bloating, the throat also feels better.

However, the changes were not over yet. Immediately afterwards, Qin Zhibo felt that his body was undergoing a certain change from the inside out.

His bones squirmed and thumped like maggots under his skin.

At the beginning, this feeling was as comfortable as "killing chickens with horses", but after a long time, I felt exhausted all over.

The skin began to become hot and scalding, and Qin Zhibo saw with his own eyes that webs were growing between his fingers at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Then there are the eyes and the back, as if something is about to break open the back, tear the skin, and spew out.

"I'm cracked!"

"Gaia!"

Qin Zhibo roared on the sand, then suddenly lost his voice and passed out

After an unknown amount of time, Qin Zhibo woke up again.

When I got up and looked around, I found myself collapsed on the sand in front of the Buick door, and everything around me was still a familiar scene.

what time is it.
"Ah-"

Just as Qin Zhibo was about to get into the car to check the time, he noticed that there was a gap between what he wanted to say just now and what he actually said.

I am Qin Zhibo.
"Yee—"

Making a strange sound again, Qin Zhibo quickly raised his hand to touch his neck.

The previous smooth skin has disappeared, replaced by extremely rough leather, and there are some gaps that feel abrupt.

Touching the face again, it was also rough skin, and eyes that couldn't be closed no matter what.

This……

Qin Zhibo quickly looked in the mirror at the car window, and his current appearance was reflected on the translucent glass
A deep diver.

(End of this chapter)