Bab 176: Season of the crabs.

"Do you have a picture of the creatures?" She leaned her head over and asked Esong.

"I have a video." He tapped his bracelet terminal and a hologram video depicting the scene of the attack right up to the the moment when Folsom hand was bitten played.

Scarlet had to watch it two times to be sure that her eyes were not deceiving her. Unless she was hallucinating, these were crabs, two times the size of a king crab but still crabs. Or creatures that bore the same resemblance to crabs but were something else because she didn't put them in the water, not even crab eggs and the last time she checked, there was no life in any of the water bodies. She had however dumped two containers full of fertilized fish eggs in the lake but to date, nothing had been hatched. Lately, she had taken to thinking that the eggs probably rotted away or the reaper who sold them to her lied.