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Chapter 599: Monster in the Water (4k+)

“It is difficult to draw a high mountain, it is difficult to draw a treetop, it is difficult to draw a dragon facing up in the sky, it is difficult to draw water without waves underground…”

Next to the low table in front of the small building, Liu Yonglu was reciting words while shaking his head. He glanced at the villagers in front of the low table. Okay, a lot of people have come.

Thinking of this, Liu Yonglu nudged Gonzalo who was sitting next to him with his elbow.

The old drunkard had been drinking all morning and was in a daze. After a long time, he spoke incoherently:
"The merciful... gods are hard to draw... crying, and the devils of hell... are hard to draw flesh."

These two lines were also taught to him by Liu Yonglu. Lin Brown specially took a bottle of good wine from the boat as an incentive. The old drunkard took a long time to learn them.

"Hey, big sister, have you been suffering from insomnia recently? Do you always feel remorseful for your cowardice and meanness in the dark? Are you worried all day long because of the battle between gods and demons?
Draw it, draw all the helplessness in your heart without reservation.

The angel of God will cleanse the dirt in your soul in your dream, and the blessing of God will cover your whole body, making you fearless. "

Yuannianer (a fortune-telling jargon, referring to the business of doing business) also requires adapting to local conditions.

It would be a bit inappropriate for Liu Yonglu to read from the script at this time, so he specially prepared a series of words to deal with the villagers.

There are two reasons why he set up such a stall. First, Liu Yonglu wanted to find the preachers lurking in the village.

The small white wooden board on the low table was nailed to the table. If the villagers came to draw, they had to bend over and stretch their necks. Lin Brown and Shani on the roof could clearly see the identity of the visitor.

The two of them had a small notebook in their hands and would simply record the eliminations. The people in the village said not too many, but not too few. In a few days, the three of them had eliminated more than half of the people.

Second, Militang told Liu Yonglu to use Gonzalo's identity to control these villagers.

Millitang still remembers the Battle of the Holy See vividly. When the battle started, one-third of the believers turned against them. Millitang has not figured out what these villagers who appeared out of nowhere are.

To be on the safe side, Millie Tang hopes to control the villagers as much as possible.

A peasant woman in her fifties or sixties in front of the stall was tremblingly drawing a rice shovel on a wooden board.

After Liu Yonglu finished his speech, the peasant woman was still a little hesitant to pick up the charcoal pencil. Liu Yonglu comforted her with a few more words:
"Sister, don't worry, a painting is a mirror that reflects your soul. You can paint whatever you want. See?

The envoy of God is ready. He has met the God in his dream and is waiting to show him your painting. "

Liu Yonglu pointed behind him and saw a small bed behind the stall. After Liu Yonglu finished gluing the dumplings, Gonzalo lay down on the bed and began to sleep.

Gonzalo also loves to do this job, and taking a nap after drinking too much is a routine operation for him.

Liu Yonglu no longer had to take care of him, and the two of them got what they needed.

After the peasant woman finished painting, Liu Yonglu pretended to wait for a while, then he lay down in front of Gonzalo's bed, lowered his body, and pretended to listen to him.

"Yeah, yeah, I see."

After listening, Liu Yonglu stretched his neck and inadvertently looked up at the roof of the small building. The wet quilt did not give him any signal, which meant that the peasant woman was fine.

Liu Yonglu returned to the table and gave a vague explanation, then pointed to a basket on the table. The basket was covered with a handkerchief, and under the handkerchief were a lot of dry bread, all made from the leftover bread from Dog Riding Rabbit.

"Sister, take some away. The gods and their messengers have sensed your inner suffering and pain. This is the food they share with you."

This was also Liu Yonglu's dirty trick.

When Liu Yonglu was working in the Youth League, he would look at a magazine when he had nothing to do at noon. They were not good magazines, just the cheapest ones, such as Youth Digest and Story Club.

One of the articles talks about how scientists amuse pigeons.

It is said that these scientists prepared a cage in the laboratory, kept a dozen pigeons in the cage, and placed a feeder. The scientists fed the pigeons at random times every day.

After a while, scientists discovered that the pigeons in the cage showed many strange behaviors.

Some will spin in circles with their wings raised, some will raise their necks and call, and some will circle in the cage along a certain route.

Scientists analyzed that these pigeons probably felt that some of their behaviors were inevitably related to the delivery of food, and these behaviors were the basic reactions of superstition.

There may be crackers in the painting, which are the pigeon food that Liu Yonglu feeds to the villagers.

He simplified the process of judging the "sinners". If this continued for a long time, these villagers would inevitably create trouble out of nothing, so Liu Yonglu specially arranged another set of "religious procedures" for them.

In the past two days, some villagers have shown some signs of pigeons. They will draw specific patterns, or do specific actions when queuing to ensure that they can get the biscuits given to them by the messenger of God today.

"Next person."

The peasant woman left with many thanks. Liu Yonglu looked up and saw a middle-aged man of medium height looking at him with burning eyes.

This man had a square face, big bags under his eyes, small eyes, and slightly dark skin. Liu Yonglu greeted him twice as usual, but he just stood there and did not bend down to pick up the charcoal pencil.

Something is wrong.

Under the table, Liu Yonglu had already grabbed the black stone.

At the same time, Liu Yonglu glanced behind the middle-aged man, as if he was counting the number of people in line, but his main purpose was to take a glance at Lin Bei and Xia Ni on the roof to see if they had noticed any flaws.

As a result, the eldest disciple and Lin didn't see it, but they saw the little girl Catalina hiding behind a carriage and shaking her head at them.

Sure enough there is a problem!
Liu Yonglu hesitated for a moment, then cleared his throat and said:

"Hey, it's not easy to communicate with the Lord God's Messenger. I'm exhausted today! Besides, the secrets of heaven cannot be leaked. We have already leaked a lot. We need to slow down a bit.

See you tomorrow, everyone."

Liu Yonglu suddenly stood up from his chair, pulled the curtain hanging above the low table, and closed his stall.

Now that he had already seen the appearance of the preacher on the ground, there would be plenty of opportunities to deal with him later. It was not worth it to fight him one-on-one now when he could fight three against one, so Liu Yonglu played it safe.

The middle-aged man behind the curtain had his eye bags twitching and left the team silently.

Liu Yonglu was even absent from the subsequent villagers' meeting. Anyway, after a few days of getting used to it, the villagers had accepted Gonzalo, and with the help of several other black-clad leaders, there would not be any trouble for a while.

"Lin Bei, I remember what the preacher on earth looks like. Let's be ready for the villagers' gathering tomorrow and catch BK!"

Back in his room, Liu Yonglu drew a portrait of the suspect and discussed the plan with Lin and Shani. It took an hour to finalize all the details. Then Liu Yonglu and Lin went back to sleep, leaving Shani to keep watch.

……

At the same time, in the Shi Weitian camp, the little genius brother and sister were sitting on the rocks, looking at the holy books in their hands with the help of the dim light.

They were on duty tonight, and the other two groups had been sitting on the shore all night, and some of them had fallen asleep or felt sleepy. Only they were very energetic, and the silence at night was perfect for reading the Bible and worshipping.

The two siblings sat in the camp without communicating with each other, just reading their own books.

Behind the two of them, beneath the dark water, the pale, swollen woman's face reappeared.

Her lower body flapped vigorously under the water, and she gradually gained the upper hand in the wrestling. This time, the woman's body floated up from the water intact.

The woman's arms below the shoulders had completely degenerated and merged with her torso, with only two narrow slits vaguely visible on the sides.

The lower body of the woman is made up of countless slender oral arms, which are wrapped in an umbrella-shaped cortex with only a small part at the end exposed. From a distance, it looks like the woman is wearing a dress with a huge skirt.

"Roselis, did you hear any sound...hiss, it seems like the sound of water? Is it time to change shifts?"

Haversham clamped the pages between his fingers and listened.

"Brother, what's wrong with your brain...it's only a few hours since the shift change..."

Roselis took out her pocket watch and looked at it. It was a little after 1 a.m. and still too early for the shift change. But there was indeed a sound coming from the water.

Unlike the sound of oars hitting the water, the strange sound at this time was more fragmented and more regular.

Haverson walked slowly toward the water's edge, holding a kerosene lamp in one hand and the holy spear in the other.

The pale outline of the woman gradually appeared in Haverson's field of vision. At first it was the umbrella-shaped body, and later it was the trembling mouth and arms under the water. Haverson raised his head slightly and saw the swollen face of the woman above his head.

Under normal circumstances, the moment Haverson saw the monster, he would use the holy spear in his hand.

But today the situation was a little different. Standing in front of the woman, Haverson inexplicably developed an indescribable sense of familiarity. He even smelled the scent of holy candles that could only be smelled in the chapel.

He stood there in a daze, his hands and feet out of control, and the idea of ​​fighting the monster gradually disappeared.

"Brother, why are you..."

Seeing Haverson walk to the water's edge and not come back without saying a word, Roselis followed him.

The moment she saw the monster, Roselis had a similar thought. They seemed familiar with the monster and should not do anything offensive or outrageous.

The woman's body was extremely soft. She hung down at an incredible angle, and her pale tongue stretched out from her mouth, licking Roselis's cheek.

Just when her mouth expanded to an incredible extent and was about to swallow Roselis's head, the downward restraining force appeared again to stop the woman's action.

The woman retracted her tongue and bent her neck to look at the scripture in Roselis's hand, as if thinking about something.

After waiting for a while, the woman in the water completely walked out of the water and slowly walked towards the village. During the process, her body passed straight through the little genius brother and sister who were standing there in a daze. The moment her soft and pale flesh touched the two people's bodies, it turned into a white mist.

When her figure reappeared behind the little genius brother and sister, her body solidified again from the mist.

It took a long time for the little genius brother and sister to break free from their depression. Haverson looked at his hands, and he couldn't figure out whether the monster he had just seen was an illusion or reality.

"Brother, let's...let's go find Miss Millie Tang quickly. Something happened."

Roselis' voice was dry, and it seemed like she had to work hard to regain the ability to speak.

The two men quickly found the hidden lifeboat and rowed towards the "Dog Riding Rabbit".

……

Catalina slept very uneasy tonight. To be honest, it was not entirely her fault. This shabby house was leaking everywhere and there were only two beds, which were given to the youngest child and a frail old man.

She could only sleep on the table that was put together every night. Without straw, the corners of the table were too hard to bear, and with straw, the straw sticks would always prick her neck and make it itchy.

Looking at the hole in the ceiling above her head, Katarina was still thinking about tomorrow's plan.

The letter still has to be delivered. Mr. Lin Brown said that there is very important information that needs to be sent out as soon as possible. In order to protect her safety, Lin Brown will personally monitor and protect her from a distance tomorrow.

"Maybe something big will happen tomorrow."

Thinking of Lin Brown's words, Katarina planned to find an excuse to send the children to a house on the edge of the village in the morning and hide them there, and then...

Catalina noticed that there was suddenly a milky white mist floating in front of her. It was strange. There had never been any weather changes in the village, so why was there suddenly fog?

Catalina propped herself up and sat up from the table. She caught a glimpse of a pale woman's face vaguely appearing in the corner of the ceiling along with the mist.

"Get up! Get up quickly!"

Catalina screamed and called out to the sleeping children. She had no idea what was happening, but she knew she had to run out of the house as far away as possible.

Katarina's scream alerted the woman. She did not roll her eyes, but lowered her head slightly and looked at the screaming girl in front of her.

A tin plate on the floor of the shack flew over, passed through the woman's body and landed on the wall.

Katarina picked up whatever she could find and threw it at the monster in front of her. The monster could enter the room silently, so it was unrealistic to wake up all the children and take them away.

The girl just wanted to attract the monster's attention as much as she could and use herself as bait to buy a way out for the old people and children in the house.

Catalina ran out of the room without even having time to put on her shoes. As she ran, she pulled out the whistle tied around her neck. This copper whistle was standard equipment for sailors on the ship. Liu Yonglu gave it to the girl a few days ago and told her to blow the whistle whenever there was danger.

A sharp whistle suddenly broke the silence of the night. The villagers lit torches and walked out of their homes. The cursing stopped abruptly the moment they saw the monster, followed by a series of door slamming sounds.

The devil appeared! He appeared before him again in broad daylight.

The villagers lit all the torches and candles they could find, trying to illuminate their homes as much as possible, and then they huddled in the corners of their homes, shivering.

Catalina didn't know where she was going. She just ran forward madly out of instinct. Her heart was beating wildly in her chest. The fog was still spreading towards her. The girl wanted to look back at the monster but she didn't dare.

Run, keep running forward. At this moment, there was only one thought in the girl's mind.

As Katarina was running, she suddenly heard a series of footsteps and heavy breathing around her.

Is the monster catching up?
Katarina glanced slightly to the left and saw that it was Mr. Feng running beside her with big strides.

"Don't...don't run away, you unlucky kid, you were born in the Year of the Rabbit...I...can't even...catch up with you."

Liu Yonglu pushed the girl hard onto the straw pile beside the alley, then squatted on the ground and clapped the black stone in his hand.

(End of this chapter)