Chapter 376 Shrimp Man

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

Chen Yan glanced at the scaffolding and estimated in his mind that 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, they would not have time to cover up the noise before the footsteps outside the door came in.

Dig the hole of nearly two square meters.

He was very interested in the green marshmallows under the table. He didn't want to conflict with the owner of this room for the time being, but it was too difficult to explain why he broke the ceiling and rushed into someone else's house.

, a conflict will occur.

Chen Yan didn't want to have a conflict, but the next conflict seemed inevitable——

The footsteps outside the door are getting closer and closer.

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

"Do you need to hide for a while?"

Chen Yan immediately realized that wish could solve his current impasse, so he nodded immediately.

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

was discovered."

Jack Baldo heard the voice of wish and was surprised: "Hey! Who is talking!"

Chen Yan was also curious, why did Wishes always hide his figure when facing Ogami, but show his voice when facing Jack Baldo?

Chen Yan had no time to explain. He just whispered to Jack Bardo to follow him. The latter also knew that the situation was urgent and did not raise any questions. He followed Chen Yan and came to the scaffolding.

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

At the same time, ripples appeared in the space around them like water drops, and immediately, Chen Yan felt as if the world in front of him was enveloped in a thin layer of water mist.

The next moment, the door opened.

A shrimp man wearing a welder's gray-yellow insulating suit and gray safety shoes walked into the house!

The shrimp man obviously had a human body, but he was carrying the head of a shrimp. Chen Yan was completely confused at this moment. Looking at the shrimp head, which was about the same size as a human head, he was in a state of extreme shock.

The thoughts in my head were in chaos. In my wild thoughts, I actually identified that the shrimp head should belong to the class Sophia, a kind of soft-legged shrimp from the family Penaeidae...

Although he didn't know how aggressive and powerful the shrimp man was, but now facing this strange thing at close range, Chen Yan only felt his scalp numb and had no idea of ​​​​conflicting with it.

Jack Baldo was motionless next to him. Chen Yan could not turn his head to look at his face, nor did he know what his reaction was when he saw this shrimp man.

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

Outside the "pier" made of small black rocks, the pale white, fluorescent water stretches to the end of the field of vision. There is a "ceiling" made of a large number of stalactites about five meters above the water.

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

However, how come there is such a water body underground in Yanan City?

Shouldn't there be a huge sewer under the ground in Yanan City?

Chen Yan was suddenly startled.

Could it be that...this body of water is the sewer of Yanan City?!

Other memories emerged in Chen Yan's mind, and that memory denied his previous guess.

wrong.

When I talked to Ogami before about their coming to Yanan City, I felt strange - the sea is to the northwest of Yanan City, the Smokey Lake is to the southeast of Yanan City, and the sea and the Smokey Lake are separated by the entire Asia.

Nan City, how could they reach Smokey Lake from the sea through a simple cave?

Chen Yan realized that he seemed to have discovered something extraordinary.

Yes...if there are such waters underground...there are such caves and underground rivers, then Ogami and the others could have passed through such caves to reach Smokey Lake.

I see!

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 and closed the door with his backhand, Chen Yan saw the boat docked at the Black Stone Pier outside the door - did the shrimp also want to take the boat?

Shrimp Man closed the door, put down his toolbox, threw his insulating suit aside, and hummed a short tune from "From Green Sleeves to Cuckold" that was popular in Yanan City during this time. He dragged off his shoes and sat on the sofa.

He sighed and took a deep breath.

Chen Yan looked at his series of operations and felt that they were indescribably familiar.

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

Although Chen Yan had many doubts in his mind, he did not relax 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 sea salt smell of the shrimp man.

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

At this moment, Chen Yan was almost suffocating——

He discovered that the shrimp man's eyes were not pure black like ordinary shrimps, but like human pupils, with black eyes and white eyes - this shrimp man has a pair of human eyes!

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

It...seemed to see something?

How is that possible! I didn’t move at all!

The next moment, the shrimp man's pupils actually began to shrink, and the large jaw, small jaw and shrimp claws on the shrimp's head that had been squirming just now stopped at the same time.

Did it...find me?!

Chen Yan saw its gaze - its big eyes were looking at the position under his feet.

Underfoot?

Underfoot... there is moss!

Thinking of this, Chen Yan's heart sank.

Even if they could hide their bodies, the trampled moss under their feet would never return to its normal state. The moss was so thick that it was easy to tell whether it had been trampled or not!

It found me!

Chen Yan was highly nervous and felt that everything in front of him seemed to be different. He looked at the pupils of the shrimp man and saw a series of changing expressions in the pupils that were completely different from those of humans - first he was shocked, and then

It's panic, fright... until fear.

The shrimp man actually showed a stronger fear than him!

The next moment, the shrimp man suddenly stood up from the sofa, and while walking towards the door, he spoke in a proficient, standard Imperial dialect with a unique accent in Yanan City:

"Oops! I forgot my key!"

How did you open the door if you forgot the key?

Why don't you find a decent one?

The shrimp man took two steps forward and suddenly fell due to nervousness. After this fall, it stopped pretending and didn't even need the insulating suit. It rolled out of the basement and plunged into the cave.

among the white waters.

Chen Yan watched blankly as it disappeared from sight. Hearing the sound of wishes laughing in his ears, Chen Yan finally couldn't hold back anymore: "Then what the hell is it!"

As he spoke his voice, the water temperature barrier covered by the wish disappeared.

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

Chen Yan pointed to the water, feeling uncomfortable all over: "But why is he afraid of us? Shouldn't Asians be more ferocious and bloodthirsty?"

Wish answered his doubts: "This is a stereotype. Some highly civilized demihuman groups are actually very gentle, especially shrimp people who are at the bottom of the ecological niche. When facing humans,

They usually tend to protect themselves more and do not show strong aggression."

Chen Yan said eloquently: "The level of civilization is very high? Does this mean that this ethnic group has already been socialized?"

Without waiting for the wish to answer, he affirmed the answer to this question:

Whether judging from the costumes, behaviors, or the furnishings in the room, the shrimp people are undoubtedly a highly social group.

"Actually, it's a little strange. This shrimp man is a little different from normal demi-humans."

Chen Yan raised his eyebrows: "How do you say that?"

Wishful said: "I saw no traces of the lycanthropic virus in his body, and... his form is too strange."

"You should have seen that shrimp head. Everything above the neck has turned into the head of the shrimp. The place where the shrimp head meets human skin looks very deformed and ugly... I have never seen such an ugly shrimp.

people."

Wish emphasized: "After the demi-humans were infected with the lycanthropy virus, they underwent an evolutionary process called lycanthropy. This evolution is benign and will not turn them into monsters, but will turn them into..."

Wish paused here, as if thinking seriously.

After thinking carefully, the wish came out:

"Become a beast!"

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