Chapter 157: 47: The Ancient One

Fish running ashore is a rare occurrence, but not that rare. It happens all over the world, and sometimes it's not even worth making the news.

It's just that extraordinary events happen so frequently nowadays, which is more or less an anomaly. The staff of the base will compile what happened here into a file, submit it to the thick file to be verified by the Bureau of Non-Investigation, and then classify it according to the importance. Maybe in half a month, an agent will come here for a tour with the mentality of paid tourism, write a meaningless report, and then go back to where he came from.

It is more likely that they thought this matter had nothing to do with Chaofan and put it aside.

Kai's mentality changed without him even realizing it.

Once he knew and used that knowledge, he could never go back.

Kai picked up a small fish in the tide. He didn't know what kind of fish it was, but he seemed to hear the fish talking to him.

"Eat me, eat me, eat me."

"Let me be your companion!"

"Together we serve the great Ancient One!"

This is the second part of the ceremony.

If there is a fish in the school of fish that can communicate, then by swallowing it, you can become an elder among the worshippers.

Kai showed a greedy look and swallowed the fish into his throat in one gulp, just like he was eating noodles.

"You must be really hungry." A local man who was picking fish nearby said with a frown.

Kai ignored the man.

He continued walking along the beach, away from the fish tide that attracted half of the city, and came to an empty corner. He leaned against the rock, covering his stomach with both hands, puffing up his cheeks, and looking extremely weird.

After a while, he suddenly opened his mouth, a little bit at a time, opening and closing it wider and wider. Slowly, a huge fish mouth that kept opening and closing almost occupied Kai's mouth, which was as wide as he could.

Getting bigger, getting bigger!
The corners of Kai's mouth began to crack, but his eyes became more and more excited and fanatical!
The fish head has appeared, and its strange eyes are looking around, as if a curious soul resides inside.

"vomit--"

Puff.

A big fish nearly one meter long and more than ten centimeters wide was spewed out by him. It lay quietly on the sand, opening its mouth to breathe, its eyes staring at Kai.

Kai put his hand to his chin.

With a click, the dislocated jaw returned to its original shape, and even the bloodstains at the corners of the mouth gradually disappeared.

"Don't worry, don't worry, they will definitely not be able to resist your deliciousness."

Kai picked up the fish and walked towards the bar with a smile.

"Oh, look who it is, Kai, where did you get such a big fish?"

"I heard a lot of fish washed up on the beach. Did you pick them up?"

"I said it was definitely not fished!"

At this time, the bar was occupied by people from the Ami base, and many of them were familiar faces and would say a few words when they saw the big fish.

Kai found the table where Kevin was sitting and slapped the fish onto it.

"It's leaking!" Kevin, who was happily chatting with the girl next to him, almost got angry.

We were clearly being flirtatious and were just about to make an appointment, but suddenly a fish head was thrown towards us, and all our interest was ruined.

"Kai, what are you crazy about!" Kevin complained.

"This fish is a delicacy. If I miss it, I'm afraid you'll hate me for the rest of your life."

Kai patted the fish on the table, and his confident words aroused the interest of many people around him.

"So? Are you asking me to hold the fish head and chew it?" Kevin still didn't understand.

“No need.” Kai took out a folding knife from his pocket and sliced ​​the fish twice. A thin and crystal clear piece of sashimi appeared at the tip of his knife.

"Eat it, I promise, this is the most delicious thing you have ever tasted." Kai tempted.

"Just eat it like that? Without mustard or anything like that?"

Kevin looked puzzled, he couldn't recognize what kind of fish this was. Although it didn't look strange, it was a little too ordinary.

Kai heard this, but did not force it and turned to the crowd of onlookers.

"Who dares to eat it?"

After asking this, someone immediately shouted "I'll do it" and walked out. He picked up the fish fillet, glanced at the fish on the table which was still opening its mouth to breathe, and ate it in one bite.

For a moment, his eyes seemed to glow.

“What a magical smell.”

He stared at the fish, as if trying hard to resist the urge to pick it up and bite it.

"I don't believe it. You must be hired by Kai. Let me have a taste too."

The crowd began to boo.

Kai's smile grew wider.

The knife flashed under the fish's eyes, and its flesh was torn apart piece by piece.

However, it seemed that it did not feel the slightest bit of pain, and one could even see a growing joy in its eyes.

Click.

Its eyeballs were poked out, and Kevin, who had already tasted a piece, sucked it into his mouth with great preciousness, carefully savoring this other-than-human delicacy, then squeezed back into the crowd, wanting to grab another piece, even if it was just a bite.

With Kai as the center, there was a huge crowd of people around.

Everyone who has tasted it will scramble for the incredibly delicious fish meat.

Soon, all that was left of the fish was a pile of debris.

Even every bone was licked carefully.

“So delicious!”

"I thought of my mom, woooo."

“I really hope I can eat it in the future.”

They didn't think it was strange at all that so many people were fighting over this one fish.

Those who haven't tasted it are curious about its taste.

Everyone who has eaten it has a deep aftertaste.

Something is wrong, but I can't tell what's wrong.

Kai touched his belly and smiled. It was the companion that was taking effect, interfering with their normal cognition.

Today, Kai has become a big star among them, and they all want to know when they can eat such fish again.

"It will be available soon, very soon." Kai responded to everyone, feeling the constant feedback, his eyes sincere.

A group of people hung out in the bar until the evening. Kai was forced to drink countless bottles of alcohol, but he didn't look drunk at all.

In the end, he helped the almost unconscious Kevin onto the boat and returned to the base together.

"Water, water!"

Kevin was awakened from his sleep. His intense thirst made him get up and run to the water dispenser.

But when he got to the watering hole, he found that he was not the only one there.

"Strange, is everyone so thirsty?"

Kevin drank a bottle of water and asked in confusion after recovering a little.

"Maybe you drank too much. I told you not to drink so much."

Kai's voice came from the side, he was still wearing swimming trunks.

"Kai, what have you been doing?" Kevin quickly put aside the fact that he was thirsty and became curious about Kai's body.

"Swimming. I find it very comfortable to swim a lap every morning." Kai smiled mysteriously. "I think you will soon fall in love with swimming too."

Kevin shook his head. They had swimming as part of their daily training, so why did they have to go swimming before dawn?

Kai didn't say much. He believed that it wouldn't be long before the other party would become thirsty for sea water like him.

After a day of training and mission, Kai got two more fish like yesterday from somewhere.

For a moment, people were quite excited and all wanted to have a piece of the sashimi.

The cafeteria became extremely lively.

"What are they doing?"

"He said he wanted to eat sashimi."

“Is that thing really that delicious?”

"I don't know, why not give it a try?"

"You can try it if you want. I'll eat the hamburger."

Some people joined in out of curiosity. Whenever he met new people, Kai would cut off a big piece for them with a smile on his face.

As for the latter, once they have tasted it, they will never forget it. Whenever they think of it, their hearts will itch.

As time went by, more and more people ate the fish and became more and more obsessed with it. Even the chef could hardly eat his own food after eating it, and waited for Kai's sashimi feast every day.

Kai also went from one or two at the beginning to eight or ten now.

Even so, it is still a drop in the bucket for this base of more than a thousand people.

In the office, the staff officer was savoring the deliciousness of the fish while writing at the bottom of the report as usual: Everything is normal.

But every morning, more and more people wake up and drink water.

Some people couldn't wait and followed Kai's example to swim and secretly drink sea water.

The amazing thing is that sea water actually tastes so good.

Kevin woke up earlier than usual that day.

Being extremely thirsty, he picked up the water cup beside him, only to find that it was already empty.

He had no choice but to get up, kick off his slippers, and walk to the water room.

Just as the companion approached, he seemed to hear some noise outside.

He slowed down, stood on tiptoe, and approached gently.

Under the bright moonlight, a huge fish was spewed out from Kai's mouth that didn't look like a human mouth, one, two.
Is this how all the fish we eat these days come from?!
He was so frightened that the cup in his hand dropped to the ground.

Clang.

Kai turned his head, and the moonlight shone on his face, allowing Kevin to see clearly that it was not a human face, but a strange face with fish eyes, fish mouth and fish gills.

What a nice view.

The thought flashed through Kevin's mind.

Yes, it is a perfect face.

How ugly the human face is in comparison.

Kai was not panicked when he saw Kevin. Instead, he walked up to him casually and said gently, "Don't worry. Soon, you will be able to get rid of this disgusting human skin like me and become a worshiper."

"I, can I really do this?" Kevin asked stupidly.

Kai handed him a small mirror.

Kevin carefully put his face in the picture slowly. He was afraid that after seeing such a perfect face, he would see his own inferior appearance.

However, his facial features seemed to be getting closer to Kai's appearance.

Look, I have gills on my neck too!

How beautiful!
"Eat, the more we eat, the more perfect we will be."

Kai held a fish that he had just spit out and handed it to Kevin.

Kevin's eyes became eager. He had never enjoyed the luxury of having a fish all by himself.

"Really, give them all to me?" He couldn't believe it.

"That's right, eat it, and let us welcome this glorious evolution as soon as possible. The eternal Ancient of Days is watching us." Kai handed the fish to him, walked back to the bucket, and continued to spit fish into it.

Kevin's smile was filled with madness. He held the fish and took bites of it one after another.

“Delicious, so delicious!”

"Yes, yes, we are not human, we are beyond human!"

The mornings come again and again to this remote island.

In the base, more and more soldiers were swimming early in the morning.

Their eyes became more and more strange.

They even began to communicate with each other using words that did not sound like human language.

Kai brought back more and more sashimi.

Even at bases on other islands, he could be seen.

The staff officer took a big bite of the bloody fish belly, savoring the delicious taste that he could never tire of. With a smile that he himself was not aware of, he added at the end of his daily report:

Everything seems normal. Sir, would you like to try our special sashimi?
(End of this chapter)