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Bloody Lake Demon

At dusk on May 12, 2012, Hurricane "Fisher" made landfall in the port city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

By IversonPublished 2 years ago 13 min read

At dusk on May 12, 2012, Hurricane "Fisher" made landfall in the port city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

At about 9 o'clock in the evening, the vast and dark sea began to be violent and wanton. The howling wind was accompanied by the roar of the sea, and waves bombarded the coast one after another.

In the blue sky villa of Chris Ferrari, the owner of Australia's largest fishing company, on the sea east side of Brisbane, the little owner, Janice Jr., cuddles in fear beside his father, very worried about the safety of his Italian governess, Jenny. Half an hour ago, Jenny took time off to go to town for a date with her boyfriend Powell. At 9:45 p.m., Jenny drove back to the Blue Sky Villa. Today, Jenny always seems to be unable to get rid of a nameless, disgusting and terrifying mood... After backing the car into the garage, she walked down the stone path by the lake to her room. Just as she left the stone path by the lake and turned into the lilac bushes, she suddenly heard a loud bang. Jenny was taken aback, she looked up at the dark night sky, and suddenly felt an inexplicable fear. She instinctively ran into the room.

At 6 am on May 13, the weather was still gloomy. Father Hubert, an old fisherman who lived near the Blue Sky Villa, prepared his fishing rod and basket, and went fishing in the Sun Lake area in the wet morning fog. However, on that day, Father Hubert disappeared, and so did the fish basket, only a broken fishing rod floated on the water...

His family quickly summoned two village police officers and many villagers. More than 10 young fishermen who were familiar with water repeatedly dived and searched, but never found any trace of Hubert's father.

At 9 am the next day, Thomas, the gardener of the Blue Sky Villa, fished out a gray-white cloth from the artificial lake, with a small piece of meat that had been soaked white on it. Chris Ferrari, walking by the lake, suddenly remembered the old fisherman who disappeared outside the fence yesterday.

The old fisherman's son, Blake, recognized at a glance that the cloth was from the old man's trousers, and the younger son, Field, burst into tears.

At 10:30, the salvage crew who heard the news fished out a piece from Sun Lake, which was a severed arm of an old fisherman. 10 minutes later, the salvage crew found that the thick wire door blocking the passage of the lake and sea in Sun Lake had been opened. Chris Ferrari was taken aback: what kind of monster was this when such a thick metal door was knocked open?

Chris Ferrari felt sick at the thought of a man-eating demon hiding in the Lake of the Sun and munching on the corpses of old fishermen all night yesterday. Suddenly he remembered that his only child, little Janice, was swimming in the lake with Jenny yesterday, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Chris Ferrari concluded that the man-eating monster was probably a gigantic white shark or a hammerhead shark.

Two days later, Chris Ferrari hired several workers to venture into Sun Lake and replace it with a stronger mesh steel door, once again blocking the passage between the sea and Sun Lake.

May 26 is a Sunday. Early in the morning, Jenny from Blue Sky Villa came to the Elizabeth Cape Swimming Pool. Her boyfriend, the tall and handsome Powell, had already waved to her on a yacht.

They had a great day. At 7:45 pm, Jenny drove back to the Blue Sky Villa. Thomas the gardener opened the door for her. Jenny smiled and raised her hand at Thomas. Hearing the horn of the car, little Janice walked out of the room and greeted the teacher, shouting, "Miss Jenny, I miss you so much!"

At this time, the bright moon was high in the night sky, and the moonlight was very bright like mercury. Jenny and little Janice were about 15 meters apart, and the branches and leaves of the lilac tree covered the path dark. Suddenly, little Janice saw something moving suddenly behind a large clump of agave about a meter away from him. Little Janice didn't care. But Jenny, by the little moonlight leaking from the branches and leaves, could clearly see a huge black thing moving beside the agave.

"Danger, little Janice, go back!" cried Jenny, who ran over quickly.

Little Janice was stunned by Jenny's stop. He looked ahead in panic. He saw a pair of huge eyes flashing lavender light under a lilac tree far away from him, like two steam lamps, flickering in the dark...

At this moment, there was a sudden sound in the agave leaves, and a huge black thing swooped at him against the ground, as if it had hit little Janice's buttocks in the front jaw. Due to the light body of little Janice, he was fluttered up at once, his whole body was thrown into a bush on the right side of the trail, his head hit the tree trunk, and little Janice immediately fainted.

At this time, the monster swiftly attacked the front left with its head held high, and the lilac eyes had already bitten Jenny's back waist in a flash, and then climbed backwards out of the bushes, then twisted violently, and put the mouth hanging on it again. Jenny's upper body was thrown into the air, and then slammed to the ground. Jenny let out a sharp and painful cry...

Hearing the cry, Chris, Thomas the gardener, and Frost the chef quickly rushed out of the Blue Sky Villa. Under the clear moonlight, they clearly saw that the man-devouring demon in the lilac bushes 100 meters away was not a great white shark. It's a big crocodile that can't be bigger!

When Chris and the others ran in a panic, the alligator with Jenny in his mouth got rid of the shackles of the lilac bushes, turned its huge body for most of a circle, and then began to crawl towards Sun Lake again. Chris Ferrari, who came to his senses, remembered that there was still a rifle in the house, and he hurried back to the house to get the gun.

However, it was too late, and the salty crocodile ran towards the shore of the lake at a very fast speed. When she was about to reach the lake, Jenny, who woke up, hugged a heather tree with both hands. However, when the salty crocodile swung its neck, the teacup-thick heather tree was uprooted. The cunning demon took advantage of the situation and let go of its mouth and threw Jenny and the heather tree into the lake together. "Bang", the salty crocodile jumped into Sun Lake, and the lake caused a big wave. Jenny struggled on the lake surface for a while, suddenly sank to the bottom, and the heather tree popped out of the water a few seconds later...

Chris Ferrari, who came with a gun, could only stare blankly at the calm lake with Thomas, the unarmed gardener, and Frost, the chef. Chris Ferrari was so angry that he picked up his gun and fired a round into the lake, and the crisp sound of gunfire cut through the night sky.

An hour and a half later, Dr. Kelleher, deputy director of the Department of Biology of the University of Brisbane and an expert on salty crocodiles, and Colonel Broughton, deputy chief of Brisbane Police, led seven special police officers to drive 140 kilometers and rushed to the Blue Sky Villa.

Dr. Kelleher judged that the crocodile was about 8 meters long from the crawl marks under the lilac tree and by Lake Sun. The doctor claimed that this was the largest crocodile he knew, and if he could be caught alive, it would be of great significance to Australians studying the Darling River crocodile in Queensland. Colonel Broughton immediately deployed 15 additional police officers from Brisbane Police to strengthen the fight against the crocodile.

At 9:53 p.m., except for the four police officers who continued to monitor Sun Lake with guns, the rest came to the Sun Lake embankment with the Doctor and Colonel Broughton. The two special police officers put on their diving equipment and dived into the sea. People gathered on the embankment and watched the lake with apprehension. Five minutes later, two divers emerged one after another and said in unison: "The steel door is not broken." After some urgent negotiation, everyone agreed on Dr. Kelleher's battle plan - drain the Sun Lake and destroy this man-eating troll!

Three hours later, five trucks came from the city, filled with sacks of gravel. At 4:5 a.m., the city government sent another cement mixer and two truckloads of cement and gravel. Soon, the evenly mixed cement blocks filled the semicircular seawater steel grid posts. At dawn, the mixture formed a large solid body, airtight blocking the seawater from entering Sun Lake.

At 7:55 in the morning, hundreds of powerful pumps arrived. At 8:20, the power cord pulled out of the villa was connected to the pump, and the motor roared immediately.

At 3:15 a.m. the next day, all the suction pipes of the powerful pumps were concentrated in the two deeper lakes with stagnant water. As the water surface dropped rapidly, more and more fish jumped in the water. Half an hour later, the two pools were completely bottomed out, and the pumping work was completed. Countless writhing fish were piled up at the bottom of the pool on the west side, and several huge Darling catfish jumped around. Except for the unknown situation under the densely grassy pond on the east side, the entire bottom of the lake is clear at a glance. Where is that heinous salty crocodile?

Everyone looked at each other.

Dr. Kelleher and Colonel Broughton directed the police to drive the crowd back outside the cordon, and then added the police in charge of the cordon. At this time, the city of Brisbane reinforced more than 30 soldiers with live ammunition. Everyone understands that the real battle will start after dawn...

The sky is getting brighter. The dried-up Sun Lake was shrouded in a lavender mist. Dr. Kelleher stayed up all night, still in high spirits, commanding 30 soldiers with aK-47 rifles and flamethrowers with Colonel Broughton, carefully searching the center of the lake in skirmishes. The dry pool full of aquatic plants is a key target.

Colonel Broughton walked in front of the soldiers with a gun, and as he approached the deep pool full of water plants, Colonel Broughton ordered everyone to lie down. He then threw several grenades into the deep pool. The deafening explosion continued for several minutes.

However, there were no crocodiles rolling and struggling in the pool. Colonel Broughton and the soldiers were splashed with mud. The silt in the lake was uneven, with clusters of aquatic plants and beating fish everywhere. All this is often nerve-wracking, and from time to time someone shoots and spews flames into the pool.

The grueling search continued until 10:35 a.m., when the entire Sun Lake was carefully searched. As Colonel Broughton led the soldiers up the cloister path on the other side of the lake, some even wondered: Did the demon mysteriously fly into the sky? The Doctor sat down slowly on the last stone step of the lakeside stone steps near the trail, put his hands on his cheeks, and fell into thought.

Powell, covered in mud, came to sit beside the doctor.

"Powell, all the silt on the lake bed, wherever there was a hint of suspicion, bullets were fired, or the flames burned hard for a while. Isn't that so, Powell?" Dr. Kelleher murmured, clearly caught in some kind of confusion. "Doctor," Powell, who had been with a heavy heart since losing Jenny, clamped the flamethrower hard on his knees, "If there really isn't one in this lake, then..." "No! It's here, it's in this bare lake bed!" Dr. Kelleher shook his fist excitedly and said firmly, "So, where else hasn't been searched?" Powell asked in confusion.

The doctor put his hands around his head and thought hard for a long time. After about 10 minutes, the doctor stood up suddenly and pulled Powell up with both hands; "Quick, come ashore!" Dr. Kelleher hurriedly pulled Powell and ran up the lake bank: "Powell, you Good question!" Dr. Kelleher flushed with excitement, "There was no search under the steps we were sitting on just now! Of course, there are those steps on the other side!" "What?!" Powell screamed up to the sky.

Powell quickly ran down the steps, jumped into the mud below, turned sharply, flamethrower at the flat end, and sprayed violent flames into the crevice between the last two steps - Powell shouted loudly: "Burn you devil!"

The blazing flames spewed for a long time, and the stone steps were baked by the fire to explode cracks, and many rubble blocks flew away; however, there was still silence under the cracked stone steps. Powell picked up the flamethrower again and sprayed flames for more than 10 minutes, but there was still silence below the stone steps: the people who quickly turned around were watching Powell's violent behavior, until Powell suddenly turned around and walked towards the opposite side.

Powell trudged through the silt with difficulty. After about 15 minutes, he finally reached the lower stone steps on the other side, and spewed flames into the cracks of the steps.

Suddenly, several TV reporters standing by the steps that Powell had sprayed heard a strange sound, like a whine of pain, like a low growl, and it came clearly from under the stone steps, "Ah! Ah!" The reporters screamed in surprise and ran towards the shore one after another. All the people on the stone steps also heard the strange cry and ran ashore one after another.

Powell, holding the flamethrower flat, waded through the silt again and again, approaching the original stone steps step by step. "Powell, don't come near!" Colonel Broughton waved his hand desperately. However, no one could stop him from taking revenge.

The situation was extremely urgent. Colonel Broughton immediately jumped off the lake bed first, and more than a dozen soldiers and police officers also jumped down, risking their lives to protect Powell and encircle and wipe out the salty crocodile that would appear in an instant.

With a loud bang of "horn", with the violent movement of the bottom stone steps, the second stone steps flew into the air and split into three sections, and the third stone steps collapsed and collapsed. Almost at the same time, a dark salty crocodile suddenly jumped out of the quagmire. Its two shovel-like front claws danced in the air, and its ugly head happened to pounce towards Powell... When it landed, the salty crocodile's beak was still half a meter away from Powell, but when it landed Immediately after its hind legs landed, it jumped forward lightly, and its huge mouth bit Powell's left leg in an instant. Powell screamed and fell heavily into the mud.

At this moment, Colonel Broughton led the gunmen to fire violently at the salty crocodile. The bullets and blazing flames made the salty crocodile's tail hit violently from side to side, and the splashed silt was as dense as raindrops. Several special police officers carrying Na130 anti-tank sniper rifles also jumped down and fired a large number of dense bullets to hit the hard crocodile skin. The salty crocodile howled in pain and rolled from side to side... However, the salty crocodile did not relax the bite of Powell in its mouth. Its eyes squinted fiercely, its upper and lower palates twitched violently, biting Powell's left leg inch by inch.

The great feat: Powell was so painful that he almost fainted several times. His whole body was covered with blood and mud, and his face was covered with black lake mud, but his eyes were always wide open, staring fiercely into the eyes of the salty crocodile.

What is particularly interesting is that Colonel Broughton bent back and forth, left and right, as the salty crocodile rolled, hoping to quickly aim at the heart of the salty crocodile. However, the demon seemed to know his mind and always pointed his back or side at the colonel cunningly.

Half an hour later, the exhausted crocodile lay down. It must have a moment to breathe. Opportunity has come! Powell lay in the quagmire, opened his eyes with difficulty, raised the weapon in his hand flat, and pointed the muzzle at the crocodile's mouth and eyes. He pulled the trigger hard, and a blazing flame shot at the crocodile's head. The severe pain made the crocodile open its mouth wide, and helplessly threw out the biting leg in its mouth.

Powell huddled into a ball, dragged the bloody injured leg, and rolled quickly in the silt until it rolled far away from the salty crocodile. Colonel Broughton and the gunmen immediately fired violently at the head and chest of the salty crocodile, causing the salty crocodile to jump and roll in great pain. After 10 minutes, the one-of-a-kind salty crocodile finally stopped moving.

After the crocodile war, Powell, who was covered in blood, was carried into the ambulance by people. The reporters showed their skills and took pictures of the salty crocodile from all angles. The female reporter of Brisbane TV picked up a tape measure and measured the salty crocodile from beginning to end more than a dozen times, and finally shouted excitedly: "Ah, not counting the part where the tip of the tail was knocked off, this salty crocodile is 8.15 meters long!..."

An exhausted Colonel Broughton found Dr. Kelleher under a clump of lilac trees. The doctor closed his eyes and murmured, and the colonel came closer to hear him say, "What a devil incarnate..." The colonel's eyes warmed, and tears flowed down...

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Hi, I'm from Spain and love writing.

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