But just then, a sudden change erupted!
A wave dozens of meters high appeared without warning on the calm sea. In the blink of an eye, it reached the shore and swept more than a dozen unprepared hunters into the ocean. In an instant, the white foam was stained with blood.
"Can that wave smash people to pieces?" Sun Hang's eyelid twitched. "No, that's not it. There's something hidden inside the wave!"
"Detected a memetic response from an anomalous entity!" shouted the hunter carrying the equipment. "Comparing it against the database... Found it! I found a matching frequency! It's... Category C-25, the Eight-Headed Serpent!"
There was a tremor in his voice, and Sun Hang could clearly feel the unmasked fear behind it.
"Wasn't the Eight-Headed Serpent's activity range around the Fusang Sea? How did it appear here?" the Fisherman said blankly. "Didn't the observation posts set up around the Tsushima Strait detect its movements?"
"There's no time to dwell on that! Everyone, fall back now! Don't fight it anywhere there's water!" The hunter carrying the monitoring equipment ran as if his life depended on it. "That thing can control water currents, and it can spread deadly poison through the water. Touch it, and you die!!"
Before he could finish speaking, two spiraling columns of water shot out of the sea, piercing through the two hunters nearest the beach.
The seven or eight hunters standing beside them were splashed by the scattered droplets. At first, they showed no obvious reaction, but seconds later, they collapsed to the ground, their limbs convulsing violently as black blood seeped from their nostrils and ear canals.
"Run!" the Fisherman shouted at Sun Hang. "The Eight-Headed Serpent can come ashore, but once it leaves the water, its danger drops drastically!"
The remaining hunters all turned and