Chapter 1702: The Tragic Water Grotto
Letting Aragaki Yuma and Mizuno Nene wait for him by the beach, Li Xuehao found a place where no one was and dived into the sea. The reason why he didn't bring them was because it was more convenient for him to move alone, and the speed was also fast, after all, the time to come out was limited, and he had to go back later, and it would be slower to bring two "drag oil bottles", even if they were mermaids.
Li Xuehao is already familiar with walking in the sea, and he has had such experiences several times before. He has a trick to avoid water, and he doesn't have to worry about the sea water getting his clothes wet.
Of course, he didn't look aimlessly, he locked a wisp of breath from Aragaki Yuma's body, and then unleashed his divine sense with all his strength and moved through the seabed.
As long as the divine sense senses that there is the same aura or similar aura as that of Aragaki Yuma, it should be the place where mermaids live. However, this method requires luck, because God knows exactly where the mermaid colony is and how far away, and if you find the wrong direction, it will be no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.
The direction Li Xuehao chose was to the west, because the west was in the middle of the vast sea, which was farther away from the land, and there should be a greater chance of encountering an uninhabited island.
Presumably, the settlement of the mermaid clan will definitely not be very close to the human world, otherwise it would have been discovered long ago, so staying away from the land is the most correct choice.
He had been sneaking for about a hundred nautical miles, which was only a matter of more than ten minutes for him, and finally made him notice a trace of aura similar to that of Aragaki Yuma.
Li Xuehao's heart moved, and he suddenly sped up and dived towards the direction he perceived.
More than thirty seconds later, he arrived at the place where he sensed the breath.
It is indeed an island, it does not look very large, only a mile or two in radius, and the two sides of the roundabout are polarized, with calm beaches on one side and cliffs with rough waves on the other.
Thinking that the mermaid settlement that Aragaki Yuma said was under the cliff, Li Xuehao did not hesitate to come to this side of the cliff located on the island.
At the bottom of the cliff, there is a huge grotto, which is submerged almost ten meters below sea level. At this time, the direct sunlight is on the other side of the island, and there is a cliff block, so there is no sunlight at all, so the grotto under the sea looks very dark and gloomy.
Before Li Xuehao entered, he had already felt the cold breath in it, but this coldness was not because there were ghosts in it, but because there were many creatures slaughtered here, and some of them may have become ghosts, but because they were trapped in this grotto and couldn't get out, they all dissipated in the end.
And the dissipated evil qi gradually condensed together, and it became a cold breath, that is, yin qi.
This is probably the place where mermaids live.
Li Xuehao sighed in his heart, judging from the sense of his divine sense, there were no living creatures in it, not even underwater creatures such as fish, shrimp and crabs, because the thick yin qi was not suitable for the survival of living creatures at all, and presumably the creatures in the sea did not dare to approach here because of this.
Of course, this little bit of yin qi was nothing to him, he sneaked in from the mouth of the grotto, and the dark and secluded environment was not hindered at all, he could see clearly.
The grotto is about 100 meters wide, and it has penetrated deep into the underground of the island, and there are many artificial traces in it, which seem to have been hewn out.
The chiseled marks are rough and obviously not made by a machine, so it is likely that the mermaids who originally lived here carved out their habitat.
It's just that now this habitat has been abandoned, and under the grotto, there are a lot of white bones. These white bones are very special, the upper body is a human skeleton, and the lower body is a fish bone. That's right, it's a mermaid's!
Li Xuehao took a closer look, most of the white bones were incomplete, missing arms and legs were the most normal among them, some even had no heads, or a large section was missing in the middle of the waist and abdomen, judging from the fracture of the bones, it seemed to have been bitten off by something jagged.
This tragic scene can be imagined how ferocious the sea monsters that attacked the mermaid colony at that time, as Aragaki Yuma said, those sea monsters used mermaids as food.
I just don't know if there was a mermaid who escaped at that time, and if so, where did the mermaid go in the first place? Was it killed and eaten by the sea monster that chased after it?
In Li Xuehao's mind, since Aragaki Yuzhen could "escape from the tiger's mouth" at that time, there should be other "fish that slipped through the net", but I don't know where to go, after all, the sea is so big, and it should not be difficult for mermaids living in the sea to find a place to avoid the sea monster.
After inspecting the cave for a while, Li Xuehao didn't find anything, and he sensed it with his divine sense, but he also didn't perceive anything abnormal.
It seems that Aragaki Yujin is going to be disappointed this time, the mermaid settlement has already become a ghost, and her hope of finding her parents and family is doomed to fail.
Coming out of the grotto, Li Xuehao quickly returned to the beach, Aragaki Yuzhen and Mizuno Ningning had been waiting for more than half an hour, and the two of them had already waited anxiously.
Li Xuehao did not withdraw the stealth formation, and spoke directly beside them: "Miss Aragaki, I have found it." ”
"Find, did you find it?" At first, he was startled by the sudden sound around him, but after hearing the content, Aragaki Yuma's body trembled with excitement, "Zhenzhong-kun, where is it? Take me quickly!" At this time, he didn't even care about etiquette, and looked around, just wanting to go there immediately.
"I'll take you now. Li Xuehao sighed again, she was so excited and happy now, she hoped that she would not be too sad when she saw that ghost-like scene later.
Riding the flying sword, Li Xuehao arranged a stealth formation for Aragaki Yuzhen and Mizuno Ningning, and took them to the land of mermaids from the air.
It's already marked, so you don't have to worry about getting lost.
The speed in the sky was much faster than the speed in the sea, and it was only less than half the time before it came to the sky above the nameless island.
Li Xuehao lowered his flying sword and was about to take Aragaki Yuzhen and Mizuno Ningning into the sea, when he suddenly stared at the direction of the grotto under the water, and he clearly sensed that in the grotto, which was originally empty, there was actually a living creature that was moving, swimming around in the grotto, as if looking for something.
"Manaka-kun, I remember, this is it!" When she arrived at the edge of the cliff, perhaps seeing a familiar scene, Aragaki Yuma also completely remembered, and couldn't wait to dive into the water first, and as soon as she reached the sea, she turned into a mermaid two and a half meters long, and quickly swam towards the grotto.
Mizuno Nene was not slow, and transformed into a mermaid to follow behind Aragaki Yuma.
Li Xuehao frowned slightly, he clearly sensed that perhaps he heard the movement outside, and the living creature looking for something in the grotto was completely quiet and hid in one of the corners.
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