They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 43 The Fishman Sells Fish
But there was something that puzzled Ria.

He was so close to the back of the car that he couldn't smell the slightest fishy odor.

After the rain stopped, the fish-scaled creatures on the grass gradually disappeared, as if they were growing in reverse. The animals that had supposedly lost their lives came back to life as if nothing had happened.

Birds reappeared in the sky, and ants, snakes, and rats crawled on the ground once more.

Even the mule from before strangely used its limbs to prop itself up from the ground and look around.

By this time, Ria had spotted it from several hundred meters away; the mule was happily grazing on the ground.

Before Ria could even feel happy, the next second, just the next second—

A gigantic, extraordinary creature appeared out of nowhere, swallowed half of its body, and then dragged its remains into the ground.

He lost that gray mule completely.

Why do you suddenly look so pale?

“It’s nothing.” Ria silently offered a silent tribute to his mule and eighty Swarth in his heart, while also politely greeting the ancestors of the extraordinary beings for eighteen generations.

Nothing is more cruel than losing something, getting it back, and then losing it again.

Seeing that he had stopped talking, the driver assumed he was worried about the heavy rain and slowly explained to him.

"That's how the rain is here. When it rains, it corrupts and mutates life, creating all sorts of horrifying real scenes. But no matter what happens when it rains, everything will return to normal when the rain stops."

"So what you just clipped in was..."

"They love the fish food."

Can I see the fish?

"Not yet. We must get going as soon as possible. It rains quite frequently here. It may be sunny one moment and then suddenly it's pouring rain again the next."

"……I see."

Lia continued to lean against the back of the carriage, looking at the stars. He wasn't unaware of the driver's strange behavior, but from the moment he saw the "driver," the "driver" had also been watching him.

Rather than having a complete falling out with the other party, it's better to hitch a ride in their carriage, saving myself the trouble of walking so far and facing all sorts of strange phenomena brought on by the heavy rain.

If he wasn't mistaken, the coachman was also a kind of extraordinary being. He was indeed very good at imitating humans, and from the appearance, he imitated them quite well, but there were still considerable loopholes in his words and actions.

The driver said he was speeding up to avoid the rain, but what Lia saw was the exact opposite.

It longs for the next downpour.

The scales that were picked up with tongs have probably turned back into ordinary creatures by now. When it rains again, all you need to do is lift the roof of the car, and it will be full of "fish".

Coincidentally, this carriage features a design with an openable roof.

And where do the extra fish come from?

He is one of them.

As darkness fell, the only sounds on the desolate plain were the clatter of hooves, whips, and the friction of wheel bearings, all mixed with the sound of the wind.

"It's going to rain again soon; the rain here really comes on its own."

"Just use an umbrella."

As he spoke, Ria was about to open the long umbrella he was holding, but the coachman grabbed him with lightning speed.

Ria's arm was gripped tightly by an inhuman force. The other person's nails gradually grew long and sharp; if they exerted just a little more force, they could pierce Ria's skin and reveal something unimaginably interesting. But they didn't.

The coachman grinned at Ria, his smile growing increasingly ferocious. His teeth broke through his gums, becoming long and sharp, and his two canines grew rapidly, extending beyond his jawbone to the trapezius muscles at both ends of his shoulders.

"I have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Welcome to my cargo pile, to the fish community."

The rain poured down from the clouds in an instant, completely engulfing Ria and the coachman. At that moment, silvery-white scales began to grow on the coachman's body, covering him layer by layer like hard armor, and huge fin bones broke through his clothes behind him.

"Chirp... chirp..."

The fisherman's hat was bursting at the seams by the enormous body of the supernatural creature, whose face and neck had seven gills that opened and closed erratically, its pupils were like needles, and its body emitted an unimaginable stench.

Fishman!

This was the first word that came to Ria's mind.

On the other hand, in his own body, sickly fish scales began to grow in the places where the rain had soaked him. These things sprouted from deep within his skin, about to assimilate him into another "fish".

The horses pulling the carriage at the front received the same treatment as the mules before. The roof of the rear carriage opened automatically, releasing a different kind of fishy smell. The sound of fish rubbing against each other in the water constantly tormented Ria's brain.

"You could have just obediently let yourself get soaked in the rain, but I had to do it myself."

With that, the fish-man shoved Ria into the back of the truck, locked the door, and continued on his way to Grani town in the pouring rain.

He sat outside the carriage and cracked his whip. The horses, covered in fish scales, opened their eyes, which belonged to aquatic fish, and continued to gallop wildly.

"This time we caught a fish that turned out to be a human. The diners will definitely love it. I can just imagine the sound of money jingling in their pockets."

"Splash! Splash!!!"

"By the way, in order to make more money, I can only say that this whole truckload of fish are 'humanized fish', hahaha. Who can tell if I'm telling the truth or not? Anyway, they all taste the same."

If you just add a bunch of non-existent benefits to these bighead carp, such as beauty enhancement, kidney tonification, and life extension, and also give them the gimmick of being able to eat them indoors on rainy days, plenty of fools will come and give you their money.

The fish-man was so engrossed in his fantasies about the future that he almost had two large holes poked in his lips by his fangs. He then retracted his fangs, raised his webbed toes high, and increased the frequency of his whipping. The two "horses," driven by his will, ran faster and faster.

……

Inside the rear compartment at this moment.

A pair of light blue pupils opened first.

Following closely behind were countless golden "spots of light".

Ria opened his eyes, and all the scales growing on his body were kicked off by the golden eyeballs on his body.

Embedded within flesh and blood, they coldly observe the inferior, monstrous "fish" around them that are trying to seize their host.

"Hey!"

For a moment, the "fish" were on high alert and tried to get away from Ria, but because the space was too small, they could only keep bumping into the inner wall of the vehicle and sliding down one after another.

Lia casually grabbed a bighead carp and pinched its head a few times with her other hand. When the leather of her glove brushed against its eye, the eye even shrank back slightly, covered by a translucent white membrane.

That's probably the eyelid of this "fish".

"Let's make a deal."

(End of this chapter)