Chapter 185: Turmoil in the Fishing Village on the Magic Continent 7
“Grandma, did you see these fish monsters when you were at the Witch Hospital?”
“The laboratories are separate. I only know they also came from the Witch Hospital.”
Sang Chu: “Huang Jun, I’ll ask you again, how did your father and the others escape?”
“Heh, escape what? My father and some of my uncles and elder cousins were failures, so they were directly thrown here. They said many wizards would be coming soon, so they told everyone to make a gap in their magic arrays at home, rendering them ineffective. During the Cold Attack, when wizards are at their weakest, they should release the fish monsters to eat those wizards. As long as they eat enough, they can return to their original forms.”
Luo Cheng was stunned when he heard this. He widened his eyes and said, “This, this sounds like a lie!”
Huang Jun laughed hysterically: “How could we not know it’s a lie? But what can we do? Besides believing them, what else can we do? Everyone in the fishing village is related in some way, and everyone has relatives who have turned into fish monsters. We just cover for each other like this.”
Sang Chu: “Shi Feng is the one monitoring you?”
Huang Jun suddenly looked at Sang Chu, and after a long while, slowly nodded: “Yes.”
“Wei An, can these people still be saved?”
Meng Wei An walked to the corpse of the fish monster, looked for a long time, and shook his head in Huang Jun’s expectant eyes: “If they had just turned into fish monsters, perhaps there would be a way. But they have eaten too many wizards, the curse is too strong, there’s no way.”
Even if Grandma Yun Xiang were willing to help them cleanse the curse from eating mermaid meat, it would be useless. The curse from the wizards before their death had already penetrated their bones, and they could not be saved.
When Huang Jun heard this, he collapsed onto the ground as if he had lost his soul.
Chao Hai: “Well, well, perhaps, perhaps our mentor will have a way. Our mentor is a Level Five pharmacist. How about, how about you come with us to Bai City? I will definitely try my best to help!”
Sang Chu looked at the arrogant young boy who had vied with her for the guest room earlier. Chao Hai, upon meeting Sang Chu’s gaze, couldn’t help but take a step back, but he still mustered his courage, puffed out his chest, and looked up at Sang Chu, tilting his nose: “You, what are you looking at me for? I, I’m telling the truth!”
“I know, but even if your mentor is a Level Five pharmacist, they can’t solve the virus of the wizard’s curse.”
Looking at Huang Jun, Sang Chu said softly: “You have two choices now. One, give all these fish monsters to me, and I will help you bury this matter, ensuring no one finds out. Two, I will kill everyone, including you ordinary people and the fish monsters, and then burn this place down, ending it all.”
Luo Cheng: “You, are you a murderer?”
Tian Meng: “Exactly! It’s fine if you kill the fish monsters, they deserve it, but what crime have these ordinary people committed!”
Chao Hai ran to Huang Jun, spreading his hands to shield him: “No indiscriminate killing of innocents! The Dean said that we wizards are here to protect ordinary people, to protect the weak, and we cannot misuse magic to do evil. You, you are not worthy of being a wizard at all!”
Sang Chu stepped over him and looked at Huang Jun behind him, directly asking: “What is your choice?”
“You, you can take them all away.”
Huang Jun himself knew that these fish monsters were becoming more and more uncontrollable, but the passing wizards were no match for them. They could only be eaten one by one, with no ability to resist.
And his father no longer recognized him. During the day, the fish monsters could only hide at home, and they came out at night. But if this continued, once the number of arriving wizards decreased, the people who would be eaten would be the ordinary villagers.
His own death didn’t matter, as he had nothing left. But, but there were so many ordinary people in the fishing village.
Chao Hai: “You, how can you do this? He is your father! Didn’t you want to save him? I already said our mentor can save lives, and we are from Bai City, a second-tier high-level city!”
Sang Chu: “Since you’ve made your decision, move aside.”
“Okay.”
Huang Jun crawled to the side with weak hands and feet, his eyes never leaving his father. He thought that once Huang Jun moved away from Chao Hai, he would stop talking, but this stubborn child still blocked him, even shouting at Huang Jun: “Are you even his son? To let someone kill your own father, I look down on you!”
Sang Chu’s eyes narrowed slightly, and in an instant, she appeared beside Chao Hai, grabbing the back of his neck and forcing him to look closely at the fish monster:
“Look carefully, is this still human? Can you still see any trace of humanity on him? You say Huang Jun is unfilial, but what right do you have to judge him? Did you raise this monster, or did you live with this monster? You know nothing, so why are you judging him! The hardest choice is for him, between his father and the villagers. And you, you are just a passerby who has only seen the monster once!”
Chao Hai: “I, I, I…”
The smell from the fish monster was strong. He started to feel nauseous just by getting a little closer, but Sang Chu pushed him even closer:
“If our group hadn’t come here today, you and your friends would have been eaten by this monster too. Do you still think he is innocent? Do you still think Huang Jun’s choice was wrong? The fish monster eats people, leaving nothing behind. Even your parents and siblings wouldn’t know where you went.
They would only know you are missing, and they wouldn’t even know where to look for your remains. And such things happen every day, young boy. Kindness and good intentions are not for monsters; they are for the living. The moment he turned into a fish monster, he died. No matter what kind of person he was in life, it’s not an immunity pass. If you truly want to do something for him, then bring the evil wizard who turned him into this to justice, instead of pleading for him here and letting him make mistake after mistake!”
Chao Hai’s mind was reeling from Sang Chu’s words. He had never thought about it this way before. He only knew that he came from a high-level city, and after his training, he would be able to participate in the assessment for intermediate wizards. He pleaded for the fish monster because he felt the fish monster was pitiful, having turned into a monster and being abandoned by his son.
But he hadn’t considered whether he and his few weak companions could restrain him and prevent him from making mistakes if he brought him to Bai City.
He hadn’t considered how many people the fish monster had killed before, how many families he had ruined. Although he didn’t want to do it himself, it was true, as this person said, he had already become a monster.
“I, our mentor…”
“Don’t bring your mentor into this. I’m from Rose City, and I have no solution. Do you think Bai City, a mere second-tier city, has any solution?”
