Two enormous fish swam frantically, as though slowing down would mean instant death.
Which, in fact, it would.
"Old Wang, go faster!!" A man who looked to be in his thirties kept glancing back at the gathering black mist, his face filled with anxiety. By now, the mist had already taken half its shape.
"Quit nagging! Don't distract me!" Old Wang snapped back. Sitting cross-legged on the ground, he strained to control the enormous fish beneath him, trying to squeeze out just a little more speed.
Sometimes, that little bit made all the difference.
The enormous fish were already fast, surging hundreds of meters forward with every sweep of their tails.
Now their tails spun like blazing wheels beneath the water, driving them more than a thousand meters forward with every blink. Their speed was extraordinary.
The black mist the Anomaly had become continued gathering behind them. By the time it had fully taken shape, the two enormous fish had carried the twenty-odd people on their heads more than ten kilometers away.
An Anomaly over a thousand meters tall slowly emerged from the water. It had a round head with two legs resembling horse legs growing from the top, and eyes nestled among the sharp teeth where its hooves should have been.
The legs on its head bent slightly, directing the eyes among their teeth toward where the group had fled. It remained motionless. Through the sharp teeth on its soles, its eyes could still be seen glowing scarlet.
Those formerly savage, blood-red eyes now held an almost human thoughtfulness, as though it were considering something.
"Squawk."
It floated on the water for an unknown length of time before slowly moving across the sea. But it did not head in the direction Ling Yun and the others had taken. It