Chapter 1 (1/2)

It was a hot and humid summer.

After so many years, Rand had already become incapable of telling what specific day it was, but he could be certain that it was an abnormally hot and humid summer day.

The air was exceptionally humid and stuffy and even the fierce sea winds did not make Rand feel even a little better. A lot of salt was mixed in the wind and it blew against his skin. When he came out of the car, he was barely able to speak before his dry and clean clothes very soon became heavy and sticky, as was his hair and clothes.

”d.a.m.n it.”

Rand took off his gla.s.ses and laboriously wiped his lens clean with a handkerchief.

A tiny droplet from a sea wave splashed up onto his lense, covering his lense with a smudged stain, making his lenses just as blurred as they were before even after he wiped them clean.

”Hey, you better be careful.”

He remembered that crude voice. Rand narrowed his eyes and looked down below, and Luis Noah was right in the middle of advancing towards him and calling out for him. Of course, with Rand's eyesight, he can currently only see the vague shadow of Luis.

”Put on your gla.s.ses, moron!” Rand's action of squinting was really too obvious. Similarly, his overly awkward behavior also made Luis's manner of speaking become slightly cruder. ”It wouldn't be nice to fall off the reef and onto your honorable head.”

The coastline of the Blue Moon Coast is covered with reefs of various types. At the same time, it has been unceasingly eroded by the huge continuous sea waves. Almost all of the reefs are exceptionally slippery. If he really lost his footing and fell down, it would lead to a very troublesome situation.

And Rand... Luis's eyes fell on the little pretty boy's body: high-end custom and handmade s.h.i.+rt, Italian leather shoes.

For G.o.d's sake, does he actually know that he is here for gathering news?

Considering Rand's ident.i.ty, Luis coldly as well as hatefully put forward a reminder.

Rand knitted his brows and clumsily put his gla.s.ses back on.

Now, the impatience filling out on Luis's face became a bit clearer. He was carefully and cautiously climbing up from the other side of the reef. The camera hung around his neck occasionally knocked against the rocks.

Rand wanted to call attention to this a bit, but in the end, he remained silent.

Interacting with the other party these days has made him thoroughly aware of the other person's impatience and disdain in regards to him.

Okay then, this is understandable.

Rand was forcibly squeezed into the newspaper by Vincent Sievers, his older brother, that ”big shot” of the legends. Up until that point, there had never been a journalist with experience of fewer than ten years in the entirety of the Denny's Investigative News Office. They are very proud of this— even though the circulation of this newspaper is only one-tenth what it previously had— Moreover even after it has been bought by Vincent, this kind of haughtiness still exists.

Perhaps this is why the circulation of Denny's Investigative News Office is only one-tenth of what it was before.

Of course, it is impossible for Rand to disclose an a.s.sessment of his brother in front of people. In fact, he must admit that his entering into the newspaper did indeed cause a lot of trouble for others... Just like before.

Rand's awkwardness and sluggishness have always caused him a lot of trouble in the past. In spite of him having a pretty good appearance, his black curly hair, beautiful green eyes, and pale skin makes him look more like a recently graduated college student and not a former librarian who spent five years idling away in a small town and was now a rookie journalist.

”Should we still go on with it?”

During the act of him being lost in thought, Luis had already been gasping for breath as he finally climbed onto the reef where he was. Rand looked at the other person's dusty face and opened his mouth to ask with some apprehension.

Luis gave him a tremendous eye roll.

”Continue? Are you insane? I didn't see anything under this... d.a.m.n, I should have known what kind of virtues these ignorant villagers have—Even if they saw a luminous kite they would exaggeratingly think that it's a UFO!”

”But before they provided a photo of the mermaid beforehand...”

Rand spoke in a whisper.

He and Luis did not show up at this coast for no reason. Residents from a small town near the Blue Moon Coast had recently streamed a video onto the Internet— a huge mermaid was sitting on the reef and then the instant the waves. .h.i.t, in an unfathomable movement, it jumped into the sea.

The video quality was considerably fuzzy, but it still sparked to a burst of very few discussions over the Internet (Of course, only merely ”very few”).

Prior to this, Denny's Investigative News was forced to relocate to a small city less than 100 kilometers away due to being unable to pay the expensive lease expenses for the costly office building. Also, the entire newspaper is being revised, adding various sensational news and even Horoscope Predictions in an effort to recover from its increasingly declining circulation.

To sum it up, two poor b.a.s.t.a.r.ds were sent here to conduct an investigation.

These two poor b.a.s.t.a.r.ds are naturally Rand and Luis.

Luis is quite dissatisfied with this, and Rand knows that. The reef where the mermaid was on in the video is really on the part of the reef on the other end of the coast, and Rand's lamentable movement and coordination ability has forced him to stay on the level side of the reef.

He can't even take basic photos, as for gathering news...