Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 376
When Chen Yan focused on the footsteps, he heard the dull footsteps getting closer, like the sound only made by leather shoes with leather soles stepping on uneven rocks.

Chen Yan glanced at the scaffolding, guessing in his heart, not to mention that he and Jack Baldo could no longer leave the basement before the small door was opened, even if they could leave, there must be no time to hide the silence before the footsteps outside the door came in. Dig the hole of nearly two square meters.

He is very interested in the [cotton candy] that is shining green under the table, and he doesn't want to conflict with the owner of this room for the time being, but it is too difficult to explain the fact that he broke the ceiling and rushed to someone else's house for no reason. , a conflict will occur.

Chen Yan does not want to have a conflict, but the next conflict seems inevitable——

The footsteps outside the door were getting closer.

At the critical moment, he heard the voice of wish.

"Do you need to hide?"

Chen Yan immediately realized that Wish had a solution to his current impasse, so he nodded immediately.

"Then you stand next to the scaffolding, and I'll help you cover up the three-dimensional space around the scaffolding. Be careful not to make any noise or move around, because I'm not very good at this. Once you move a little more, you will immediately was discovered."

Hearing the voice of wish, Jack Baldo said in surprise, "Hey! Who's talking!"

Chen Yan was also very curious, why did Wish always hide her figure when facing Ogami, but showed her voice when facing Jack Baldo?
Chen Yan didn't have time to explain. He just whispered to Jack Baldo to follow him, and the latter also knew that the situation was urgent, so he didn't ask any questions. He followed Chen Yan and came to the scaffolding.

When they stood there, there was a sound of unlocking the door.

At the same time, the space around them rippled like water droplets, and immediately, Chen Yan felt that the world in front of him seemed to be shrouded in a very thin layer of mist.

The next moment, the door opened.

A prawn man wearing gray-yellow insulating suit of a welder and gray safety shoes!Into the house!
The shrimp man obviously had a human body, but he had a shrimp head on his head. Chen Yan was completely stunned at this moment. Looking at the shrimp head that was about the size of a human head, he was in a state of extreme shock. The thoughts in his head were chaotic, and after thinking wildly, he could tell that the shrimp head should belong to some kind of soft-legged shrimp in the class of soft shells and prawns...

Although he didn't know how aggressive and powerful the Shrimp Man was, Chen Yan only felt his scalp tingling when facing this weird thing at close range, and had no intention of conflicting with it at all.

Jack Baldo beside him was motionless, and Chen Yan couldn't turn his head to look at his face, nor did he know how he reacted when he saw the shrimp man.

The shrimp entered the basement, and the small door opened behind him. The scene behind the door shocked Chen Yan even more——

Beyond the "pier" made of small black rocks, the light white, fluorescent water stretches to the end of the field of vision, and there is a "ceiling" made up of a large number of stalactites at a height of about five meters above the water.

More than four meters... at most five meters high, but it did not exceed the height from the basement to the first floor.

However, how could there be such waters underground in Yanan City?
Shouldn't there be a huge sewer under the ground of Yanan City?
Chen Yan was taken aback suddenly.

Could it be that... this water area is the sewer of Yanan City? !
Other memories emerged in Chen Yan's head, which denied his previous guess.

wrong.

When I talked to Ogami before when they came to Yanan City, I felt strange—the sea was in the northwest of Yanan City, and the smokey lake was in the southeast of Yanan City. Nan City, how could they have reached the Smoky Lake from the seaside only through a simple cave?
Chen Yan realized that he seemed to have discovered something extraordinary.

That's right... If there were such waters underground... there were such caves and dark rivers, then Ogami and the others could have passed through such caves and reached the Smoky Lake.

That's it!

The previous doubts were reasonably answered under such a strange situation, and Chen Yan actually relaxed a little.

After the shrimp man entered the door, when he closed the door with his backhand, Chen Yan saw a boat docked on the Heishi pier outside the door—does the shrimp also want to take the boat! ?
The shrimp man closed the door, put down the toolbox, threw the insulating suit aside, hummed a short tune from "From Green Sleeves to Green Hat" that was popular in Yanan City during this time, dragged his shoes, and put himself on the sofa for a while. Down, let out a sigh of relief.

Chen Yan looked at his series of operations, feeling indescribably familiar.

How does this look like a normal human office worker just came home after get off work every day...

Although Chen Yan had many doubts in his heart, he did not let down his vigilance, because the sofa was opposite the scaffolding, and the distance between the two was no more than three meters. This distance was so close that he could even smell the unique smell of sea salt on the shrimp man. .

The shrimp man stretched out on the sofa, and when he turned over, his two big eyes were right in the direction of the scaffolding.

At this moment, Chen Yan almost suffocated——

He found that the eyes of shrimp people are not pure black like ordinary shrimps, but like human pupils, with black eyes and white eyes - this shrimp people has a pair of human eyes!

The next moment, the eyes of the shrimp man's two big eyes suddenly froze.

It... seems to see something?
how is this possible!I didn't move at all!

The next moment, the shrimp man's pupils began to shrink, and the mandibles, small jaws, and claws on the shrimp's head stopped at the same time.

Did it... find me? !
Chen Yan saw its gaze - its big eyes were looking at the position under its feet.

underfoot?

Underfoot... is moss!

Thinking of this, Chen Yan's heart sank.

Even if they were able to hide their figures, the trampled moss under their feet could not return to their normal state. The moss grew so densely that it was clear at a glance whether they were trampled or not!
It found me!
Chen Yan was very nervous, and felt that everything in front of him seemed to be different. He looked at the pupils of the shrimp people, and saw a series of constantly changing expressions in the pupils that were completely different from those of humans—first he was stunned, and then It was panic, fright... until fear.

The shrimp man showed even stronger fear than him!

The next moment, the shrimp suddenly stood up from the sofa, walked towards the door, and said in a proficient, standard Imperial language with a unique accent of Yanan City:

"Oh! I forgot to bring the key!"

How did you open the door if you forgot your key?
Why don't you find a decent one for any reason?
The shrimp man took two steps forward, and suddenly fell down due to nervousness. After this fall, he no longer pretended to be camouflaged, and he didn't even need the insulating suit. He even crawled out of the basement and plunged into the cave in the white waters.

Chen Yan stared blankly at it disappearing from sight, and heard the voice of wish laughing, and finally couldn't hold back: "Then what the hell is it!"

As he uttered his voice, the water temperature barrier created by the wish disappeared.

Jack Baldo replied succinctly, "It's the Shrimp Man."

Chen Yan pointed at the water area, feeling uncomfortable all over: "But why is he afraid of us? Shouldn't subhumans be more fierce and bloodthirsty?"

Wish answered his doubts: "You are just a stereotype. Some highly civilized demi-human groups are actually very gentle, especially the shrimp people who are at the bottom of the ecological niche. When facing humans, They're usually more defensive than aggressive."

Chen Yan chewed the words: "The degree of civilization is very high? Does it mean that this ethnic group has already been socialized?"

Before waiting for the wish to answer, he affirmed the answer to this question:
Whether it is from the costumes, behaviors of the shrimp people, or the furnishings in the room, the group of shrimp people is undoubtedly a highly socialized group.

"Actually, it's a bit strange. This shrimp man is a little different from normal demihumans."

Chen Yan raised her eyebrows: "How to say?"

Wish said: "I didn't see any traces of the lycanthropy virus in his body, and...his form is too strange."

"You should have seen the head of the shrimp. The part above the neck has become the head organ of the shrimp. The place where the head of the shrimp meets the human skin looks deformed and ugly... I have never seen such an ugly Asian. people."

Wish emphasized: "After the demi-humans were infected with the lycanthropy virus, [beastization] similar to evolution took place. This evolution is benign. It will not turn them into monsters, but make them into..."

Wish paused here, as if thinking seriously.

After serious consideration, Wish blurted out:
"Become a beast!"

Chen Yan and Jack Baldo were silent at the same time.

Wish explained:
"I mean, have you ever seen a real beast? Even things like shrimp, whether they are hunting for food or swimming in the water, have [beauty] in their form."

Jack Baldo was puzzled, but Chen Yan knew what Wish was talking about, and affirmed her words:
"Yes, the long evolution has allowed animals to adapt to the world and have the appearance given to them by the world. No matter how weird the appearance is, they can find a unique sense of beauty from it."

Wish was satisfied with Chen Yan's explanation, and then said:
"If you look at that shrimp, it obviously doesn't have that kind of beauty that belongs to shrimp, but only... grotesque."

The adjective of wish this time is impossibly precise.

"He's not a human being, and he doesn't have the face that humans can most distinguish [beauty feeling], and he's not a shrimp, so it's impossible to show the posture of a shrimp in water [beauty feeling]."

"I've seen normal shrimp people. The proportion of shrimp is much higher than that of humans. It's not at all the...monster I saw just now."

Chen Yan suddenly realized something, excitedly said:
"In other words, this thing is considered an abnormal creature!"

Wish realized that something was wrong with him and asked:
"What do you want to do?"

Chen Yan took out her mobile phone:

"Since the shrimp man was scared away, he won't be back for a while...Let me make a call first."

As he spoke, he called Lawrence, the zoo's first agent.

(End of this chapter)