Splash! Splash!
Gurgle! Gurgle!
The figure in the Black Pool seemed to be drawing closer. Only after Luo Bin tossed out seven or eight glowing spheres enchanted with Levitation could Harry and Ron make out part of it.
It was thin as a stick, with limbs like a stick insect's: spindly, with jutting joints.
Its hair looked about six feet long. As it swam, the hair trailed behind it like a mass of giant waterweed.
"Is... is that a person?! Weird. Why do the clothes hanging off it look familiar?"
Harry wanted a better look, but he dared not approach the pool. He could only push his glasses higher up his nose.
How could they not look familiar? Black hair, black knitted dress—that was Salasha Forgini's signature outfit!
"Ah! It... it's climbing out!"
Claws with cold, pale skin like dead twigs gripped the edge of the Black Pool. Two chopstick-thin legs snapped sharply upward.
Splash! Splash!
It bent its back the wrong way to crawl out of the Black Pool, then scuttled toward the three of them like a black spider, using both palms and soles.
"What the hell? A Water Monkey? Has... has it mutated?"
Ron scrambled up a Stone Pillar on all fours, swinging his iron rod wildly. About two blows in ten struck the creature that looked like a Water Monkey.
Luo Bin stood in front of Ginny, Fawkes, and the rooster, watching the Water Monkey's every move. The moment she came at them, he would swing his custom weapon with all his might.
Even if one blow did not kill her, it could still take off a piece of her equipment—a withered hand or a shriveled arm!
When the Water Monkey could not catch Ron, she turned her attention to... Harry Potter.
Crack! Crack!
She seemed