Chapter 98 Fish Rock

In the afterglow of the sunset, the students began to disassemble the stage on the playground, and there were laughter from time to time. Only one day's cultural festival is too short, but it also makes everyone who has experienced it feel unfinished.

After listening to what Xia Qiu said yesterday, Liu Lingmei's reaction was unexpectedly calm. But the more she is like this, the more worried Xia Qiu is, because she knows her well. She is timid and likes to think nonsense. Why does she behave so differently this time?

Liu Lingmei could not fully understand what Xia Qiu said, let alone accept it, so she chose to temporarily isolate that part of her memory without touching it. She needs time to figure out the whole thing, but one thing she knows is that her friend is involved in great trouble.

Yangliu Street, old house. From the gate into the corridor, there was a sudden sound in the study on the left. The black wooden bookcase slid aside, and a thin boy with big glasses appeared behind the bookcase. The boy was Min Entong. He dialed back and down the tablet computer and came out of the secret room behind the bookcase. The super terminal MM behind him was running in an orderly manner.

After hearing from Dong Muya that her friends from another world had broken the two cities in the array of Qilie, he looked at her group of friends with more new eyes. On the other hand, he has to think about the investigation of the remaining three cities from a long-term perspective.

The first to gain is Shuicheng Dongyao, which has always been the one he is most interested in.

Dragon, the legendary ancient mythical beast, is a rare animal with both strength and beauty, and at the same time has extremely high wisdom. And the Amber Dragon King will give up the divine book for love, which adds warmth and romance to this perfect and cold mythical beast. Shuicheng Dongyao was brought into its heyday by such a legendary dragon king.

In Min Entong's tablet computer, the picture he now turns to is the portrait of the Amber Dragon King he asked for from Dong Muya. Compared with the portraits he once searched for, he looks like a foreign movie star in this portrait. His slightly curly hair and deep facial features conflict with the inherent human impression of the Dragon King.

I'm afraid that what attracted his attention in Dongyao City was the history before the Amber Dragon King took over the city. At that time, Dongyao was still a veritable water city. There was nothing but a huge lake wave, and the mermaid family who once managed it lived at the bottom of the lake.

After this period of investigation, Min Entong found the record that the mermaid lived at the bottom of the lake. At that time, they cultivated thief coral worms at the bottom of the lake, which are similar to coral worms in the human world, but this kind of worm will grow along the shelf you built for it and finally devour it completely.

The mermaids take advantage of this characteristic of the thief coral worm to build their own colorful caves at the bottom of the lake, which are called coral houses. It was not until the Amber Dragon King took over that they gradually abandoned the coral house at the bottom of the lake and moved to the ground to live. And the coral houses left at the bottom of the lake have long been dilapidated and forgotten by everyone.

It is recorded that in the coral house built by the mermaid, there is a path connecting the tunnel leading to the temple at the bottom of the lake, which is dedicated to the treasure of the mermaid. It is said that this fish rock was transformed by the death of the ancestor of the mermaid family. Before the Amber Dragon King took over Dongyao, the mermaid witches held a worship ceremony in the temple every year to pray for the spirit of the ancestor to bless the prosperity of the mermaid family.

And every hundred years, an unprecedented ceremony will be held. In addition to Dongyao, mermaids from all over the world will also gather here to offer sacrifices, and will also present a young mermaid girl to his ancestors as his companion for the next hundred years. The selected girl will be brought into the temple at the bottom of the lake by a mermaid witch and locked in the room dedicated to Yuqiyan. The ending of the girl is self-evident. No god will take them away, and they will only die alone because of hunger and cold in the end.

This is named Yuqi is a basalt, which is the same as the array material in Dongyao, Shuicheng, which was analyzed by Min Entong before. The only problem is that the entrance to the temple at the bottom of the lake has been passed down from generation to generation by mermaid witches. Today, there are no witches in the mermaids. How to find the path to the temple has become the biggest problem.

Hearing about the bottleneck encountered in the investigation, Qianqi hurriedly wrote a letter to his father and asked his father to carry out an investigation in Dongyao Water City.

The life expectancy of the mermaid is comparable to that of human beings, so even the oldest elders in the clan have not been born at the last large-scale memorial, not to mention the legendary path, even the general process of the ceremony is only vague.

The Amber Dragon King had to hope to send his men to sneak to the bottom of the lake to find clues. It would take a long time to find the records of the temple at the bottom of the lake from those ruins, or to find the entrance that may be connected to the path.

Yu Chan remembers that when she was a child, she often played hide-and-seek with her friends at the bottom of the lake. They relied on the ruins of the coral houses left at the bottom of the lake as a cover and chased and played with each other for most of the day.

Once, while playing hide-and-seek, she found a broken house at will as usual. As soon as she hid behind a big mirror in the broken house, she saw different looking bubbles emerging from her feet.

In fact, it is not uncommon for bubbles to emerge at the bottom of the lake. It is likely to be caused by the loosening of underground soil. She subconsciously knocked a few times with her hand on the bubbling place, and as soon as she thought she was just suspicious, she was sucked in by a powerful force. She felt that she had slipped into a downward tunnel at that time, rolled and climbed all the way down, and finally fell to the ground.

It was an extremely icy cave at the bottom of the lake. There was a foggy haze in front of it. There was a thick layer of ice on the ground under its feet, and there were icicles hanging on the top of the cave. The structure of the rock wall in the cave is very strange, as if it is a special rock. There are light spots in the dark blue, making the whole space like the starry night sky, and the galactic-shaped belt at the top of the cave seems to guide the visitors along it.

The jade cicada involuntarily walked in the direction guided by the Milky Way. In a short time, it was frozen all over and its lips turned purple. She remembered that she finally walked into a room and saw the black rock embedded in a huge crystal in a trance. She was so cold that she lost consciousness and fell down.

When she woke up again, she was already lying on the shore, surrounded by her playmates. They just thought she was dead and cried into tears. Now when they saw that she was fine, they all shouted and laughed.

"It's the first time I've seen a drowning mermaid!"

"It's not drowning. She just fainted in the water."

"That's water sickness!"

"Hahaha..."

She only remembers the children she played with at that time saying these words like jokes. At that time, she was too young to believe what she described at the bottom of the lake. Gradually, she chose to forget what happened at that time and stopped talking about it.

Now, when she heard that the demon king fox and Qianqi were looking for clues about the temple at the bottom of the lake, she thought of the cave she saw at that time. But she ran directly to the Amber Dragon King and said nothing. I'm afraid no one will believe her. In order to confirm that her memory is correct, she must find the broken house at the bottom of the lake again. As long as she can find it, no one will say that it was just a fantasy in her childhood. Although he knew that the teenager who was a demon king fox had already belonged to him, Yuchan still couldn't stop his impulse to help him.

She changed into clothes that were convenient for moving in the water. She recalled that every time she played in her childhood, she dived to the bottom of the lake and tried to find the shabby houses she used to hide when playing hide.

In the world at the bottom of the lake, the light becomes soft after being refracted by the layers of the lake, and the underwater creatures are wrapped in a layer of fluorescence, especially the water grass that dances with the water, which is very beautiful. Yu Chan held a lamp made of the night pearl in her hand. This kind of lamp is circled by a metal wire around the night pearl one by one, and then circled it into a handle at the top for easy lifting. The stronger the light of the night pearl is in the dark, so it is suitable for underwater use.

Yuchan found a broken house built by a thief coral worm. He felt in a trance that it was near the cave he had fallen into when he was a child, so he searched for it one by one. Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed out of a mutilated door. Yu Chan subconsciously covered the lamp in his hand with his clothes, and then hid behind a ruin to watch.

The shadow looked around and swam in one direction. The sixth sense told Yu Chan that the shadow must be related to the temple at the bottom of the lake, so she decided to follow the shadow to find out. The shadow chose to land in a sparsely populated place, took out a set of clothes left there behind a rock on the shore, and walked towards the market.

With sufficient light on the shore, Yu Chan recognized that the man was also a mermaid, but he was a new face, and he felt even more strange. She followed him all the way to a hotel in the market, which was the largest one in Dongyao. The boss also traded mermaid slaves and was rich. There is an endless stream of guests in the hotel, and foreigners check in every day.

Fortunately, the catfish spirit boss has always been greedy for the beauty of the jade cicada. Although there are many mermaid slaves sold by him every day, it is still rare in a hundred years with the appearance of jade cicada. Usually, as soon as Yu Chan saw his fat and big face, he felt disgusted when he talked to him and spit out foam, and he avoided his goodwill. But today, in order to find out the clues of the mysterious man from him, she had to pretend to smile.

"Big Brother cat" Yuchan walked to the front of the counter with a smile and said to the catfish spirit inside.

"Oh, isn't this a little jade cicada, rare guest! You don't usually invite me to come. What's wrong today?

When the catfish essence spoke, it not only bubbled in its mouth, but also the two whiskers on the corners of its mouth swung up and down. It almost didn't spit out, but it still had to be happy and continued: "It's not been a long time since I've seen Brother Neon. Do you miss you?" Look, your business is getting better and better!"

"No, the business is too good and annoying, and I'm still too busy to recruit several guys. If you want me to see, Sister Yu Chan, don't go to the song and dance department in the palace. Why don't you come and be the boss's wife for me!" As the catfish spirit spoke, he stretched out his fat hand and pulled the jade cicada's hand and touched it.

Yu Chan lowered her head pretending to be shy. In fact, she didn't want to look at his face any more. Then she asked, "I seem to have seen the person who just walked in, but I can't remember it for a moment. Who is that person?"

"Which one?" The catfish spirit touched the crisp hand of the jade cicada again and asked.

"It's the one in gray just now, who belongs to the mermaid family like me."

"That's my big supplier. It brings me a lot of mermaid slaves from outside every year." The catfish spirit deliberately lowered her voice and said mysteriously, "That man really has no conscience. He earns money from buying and selling his own race, and he still makes so much peace of mind."

"No! Did he come here alone? The jade cicada echoed and asked.

"No, there are two accompanying people, but they don't talk much!" The catfish's eyes seemed to have turned back and asked, "Sister, what are you interested in him? Although there are not many mermaids as rich as him, how can such a person be worthy of a sister? If it can really be good to you, it is..."

"Oh, big brother cat, I suddenly remembered that I have something else to do. I won't talk to you now! I'll come to play with you next time!"

The catfish spirit wanted to say more, but was interrupted by the jade cicada. She pulled out her hand, looked back and walked out of the hotel with a mischievous smile, leaving the fat catfish essence with crispy bones behind her for a long time.