"Ao Bai, how big is the Sicilian Sea?" Ji Mo asked curiously, at this time he felt as if he had come out for an autumn swim: the sea breeze was neither big nor small, the sea water was neither cold nor hot, and he slowly swam back at the most natural speed, which was very comfortable.

The little tiger cub Xitu has been safely escorted back to the East Continent of Sicily, and the two have begun to patrol the sealed sea together.

Bai Long replied with a proud smile, "It's very big, our sealed sea is in the middle of the West Sea, the East China Sea and the Sicilian Continent, it looks like the shell of a sea blue crab, and our home is on the head of the sea blue crab." ”

The blue crab, whose shell is an equilateral triangle of ocean blue, lives at the bottom of the ocean, likes to live in groups, crawls very fast, and looks like a blue blanket drifting from a distance.

Ji Mo imagined it for a moment, and smiled with satisfaction, "Wow~ That's really big." Then do you want to come out every day to inspect the sealed sea in the future? Are there a lot of fierce beasts encountered along the way? ”

"Well, a lot. Because the Sicilian Sea has never been guarded by dragons, it has almost become the home of fierce beasts. Ji Mo, don't be afraid, fierce beasts generally live in the deep sea, our current home is next to the island, the environment there is not suitable for the predation of large fierce beasts, and the few small groups of sharks have been dealt with by me. Ao Bai comforted his partner.

The two of them did not choose to return the same way, but after discussing it, they decided to swim all the way back to the island around the deeper sea of the continental shelf of the eastern mainland of Sicily, and observe the sea conditions in the vicinity by the way.

Of course Ji Mo agrees, after all, this sea is his home in this life, he must be familiar with it well, and it is best to grope the past inch by inch in his lifetime to see what the whole picture of the sea he lives looks like.

"You haven't been here yet, have you? I feel that the environment is not bad, fish, shrimp, crabs, seagrass and coral reefs are growing well. Ji Mo thought that Ao Bai was rarely willing to take him to inspect the sealed sea during this time, and immediately cheered up the spirit of 120,000 points, and took out the attitude of scientific investigation to observe and explore the sea areas along the way.

water temperature, normal; Oxygen content, normal; The growth status of each marine biome is normal.

As you move forward through the fish, you keep ticking off the survey form in your mind, and if you have any questions, you will record them first.

Ao Bai has been guarding his partner's side, watching him swim for a while and stop for a while, nodding and shaking his head, occasionally holding sharp pebbles to carve some marks on the shark bone plate he picked up.

"Ji Mo, what are you doing?"

"Oh, I'm recording the indicators of the sea I just swam through, and it's not very accurate, but it's probably correct. Ao Bai, after I go back, I will organize it into a book, find a way to save it, record the general situation of the entire Sicilian Sea, and show it to the children in the future, just take it as a bedtime story, and tell them little by little about our sealing of the sea. Ji Mo said with great ambition.

- I always have to do something for the Sicilian Sea. It's better to find a way to use words and symbols to turn the sea in front of you, as well as the adjacent West Sea, East China Sea and Sicilian continent into books, and when you have children and other sea orcs in the future, you can let them understand the world they live in very much detail and accurately.

Hey! In the days to come, I finally found a goal that requires long-term perseverance!

The Earth Crossing Fish excitedly thought, if there is no lofty goal, what is the point of living in a muddle?

Ao Bai was obviously very interested, he swam over, close to the mermaid, his ice blue eyes looked carefully at the strange and regular marks on the gray bone plate, and spoke very supportively:

"Ji Mo, it would be great if you could do this. We are the only ones in the Sicilian Sea, and there are no older and more knowledgeable dragons and turtles for the time being, and in the future, our children and people may have many questions that will not be answered...... But it doesn't matter, if we can remember it a little bit, one day, this sea will no longer confuse and fear us. ”

Seeing that his partner is so supportive of him, and at the same time has a long-term vision and is so thoughtful, Ji Mo finally knows what it means to have a heart and mind, and a husband sings and a husband follows.

realized that now, they all get along very well, mainly because their personalities are compatible: Ao Bai is down-to-earth, sincere and responsible, and Ji Mo is cheerful and kind, and he doesn't look for trouble.

"Ao Bai......?" After swimming for a long time, Ji Mo suddenly stopped, felt it carefully, and greeted the white dragon suspiciously.

INTERVIEWER Why is the water so cold here?

"I know." Ao Bai's expression also became solemn.

This location is in a very remote corner of the Sicilian Sea: it is still a long way from the island, and after swimming up to the sea to take a look, it is only to realize that the Sicilian mainland in the distance is no longer a lush jungle, but a series of gray-black stone mountains, which look extremely barren and desolate.

"Ji Mo, follow me." The white dragon mobilized the senses of his whole body and slowly explored forward.

"Okay, let's be careful." The mermaid whispered to her companion and followed the white dragon closely.

As they progressed, the sea became cooler and cooler, and the surrounding fish, shrimp and crabs slowly disappeared and lost a trace of life.

Good Sicily、How could a small piece of such a sea suddenly appear? Both of them were in a heavy mood.

Eventually, the white dragon and the merfolk were stopped by a large, deep trench in front of them.

"I don't know what is in here, the cold snap is coming out of the trench." Ji Mo stood on the edge of the bottomless trench, feeling that he was about to commit a fear of heights, and he always felt dizzy that he wanted to fall headlong.

Ao Bai didn't understand why this was the case, in terms of age, he was just an adult dragon who had just transformed into a successful adult.

"Ji Mo, I can't feel what's inside." Ao Bai cautiously leaned into the abyss to feel it, but found that there was no smell of living creatures inside.

Looking at the white dragon's actions, Ji Mo didn't dare to make a sound, but just tightly grabbed one of Ao Bai's claws - be careful, don't fall in!

The two of them clearly felt that the water here was calm, except for a cold, piercing stream of water that continued to flow from the crack.

"Ao Bai, be careful, let's take a few steps back before talking." Ji Mo dragged the white dragon back and forth: the unknown abyss is always terrifying, who knows if a sea monster will rush out of it in the next second, or suddenly turn into a life-killing whirlpool that eats people?

The heart of the earth crossing the fish is fluttering, and his brain can't stop: Bermuda? Sea monster? Alien base? Mayan civilization? Which world does the trench connect?

Ao Bai retreated according to his words, he definitely didn't know the wonderful speculation in his mermaid's mind at the moment, he was just very puzzled:

"Ji Mo, don't be afraid, there will be no more powerful beings in the ocean than dragons, otherwise the king of the four seas today will not be a dragon. I've seen a lot of trenches before, but this one is a bit strange, it actually creates cold snaps? ”

Ji Mo's thoughts were a little more complicated: "Ao Bai, apart from the cold snap we encountered today and on the way to the Sicilian Sea before, have you seen or heard of this situation anywhere?" ”

Bai Long shook his head slowly: "No." In fact, I asked Ao Mu at the beginning, and he said that Xihai had just appeared. The sea areas suitable for marine orcs are warm, otherwise the females and cubs will not survive at all. ”

INTERVIEWER Is it possible that the environment of the world is slowly changing in the other direction? They swam back and forth around the trench many times, but to no avail.

"Has it always been like this? Have you heard of any strange legends? Uh, I mean, do the turtle people in the East China Sea know the cause of these phenomena? Ji Mo thought to himself, those turtles who don't know how old they are, they can't see anything after living for a long time!

Ao Bai said helplessly: "If the orcs of the turtle clan see it, they will generally say that it is the sigh of the sea god." ”

Poof~ Come on, God stick, this is ......

The corners of Ji Mo's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay, the sigh of the sea god!" Since the great sea god is busy sighing, let's go first, don't disturb his old man. ”

It took a lot of time and couldn't find out what the reason was, staying next to the trench and freezing too much, Ao Bai and Ji Mo left worriedly, preparing to come back after a while to observe and see if this cold snap was intermittent or persistent.

In the evening after they left, the trench, which had been deep and calm, suddenly tumbled violently, and a large stream of sea currents gushed out, stirring the nearby sea surface for a while, and the icy and biting current was mixed with a lot of branches, green leaves, and grass clippings, which were sprayed out by the trench, and then slowly returned to the coast of the Sicilian mainland with the currents and monsoons.

*****

By the time they returned to the island, the sunset had covered the entire Sicilian Sea.

"Tired? Do you want to go home and sleep for a while? Ao Bai looked at the mermaid lying on the fine sand on the bottom of the sea and asked gently.

Ji Mo closed his eyes for a moment before he replied lazily: "I'm not tired, it's just that my tail is sour." ”

Ao Bai immediately reached out to grab his partner's tail and gently kneaded his lower back.

"Hey~ Okay! Let's go find something to eat, and rest early today, there are still many things to do tomorrow. Ji Mo withdrew his tail, stood up in a mermaid posture, and swam in the direction of the reef.

Ao Bai followed, "Okay, what fish do you want to eat today?" ”

"When I look at it, I actually feel like most fish taste the same." Every time Ji Mo fishes, he is very embarrassed to see all kinds of fish swimming in the coral reef: eating and eating is the taste of seafood.

"Do you still want to eat barbecue?" Ao Bai asked with a smile.

Ji Mo shook his head, "I'm too hungry today, it's too troublesome to barbecue, let's eat fish and shrimp." "It's not easy to grill fish, and it's disappointing to be hungry and grilled so hard to eat.

However, he also mentioned: "Let's go to the sea for dinner, pick a few fruits by the way, and look at the sea in the wind." After Xitu's introduction and demonstration, Ao Bai finally believed that the ** round fruits on the beach were indeed edible.

Ao Bai pulled the mermaid by the hand, kissed it on the cheek, and said teasingly: "Sometimes, I really don't know if you are a mermaid or a land orc female, and I always like to stay on land." ”

- Did Ao Bai notice anything? Does he know that I'm not the original Ji Mo?

The fish crossing the earth suddenly became nervous, and they were absent-minded in the process of fishing, and they accidentally made the sea fish look very bad.

"Here you go, drink, you're going to eat at least all of them today." Ao Bai pointed to a few fish and shrimp placed on the nearby reef and told his partner as he handed him an open coconut.

Instead of going straight back to the sand, they sat on a reef on the edge of the lagoon, where the water still spilled up from time to time.

This is Ji Mo's favorite way of life of "sitting by the sea, blowing the sea breeze and eating fish and shrimp", but he is in a heavy mood today - the feeling of carrying a big secret is too uncomfortable, and he wants to sue Sù Ao Bai, but he is worried that the other party will not accept it.

Ao Bai, in fact, not only am I not a mermaid, but I am not even a member of your world, my hometown is on Earth......

No, no, no, this is too much like a joke, Ao Bai will definitely not believe it.

"Ji Mo, why don't you eat it? Don't like this fish? Ao Bai patted his partner who was looking into the distance in a daze.

"Oh, oh! I eat it, this fish is delicious. Ji Mo came back to his senses, hurriedly conjured up the sharp nails of the mermaid clan to cut the fish on the side, and drank a few sips of coconut water and dug a few pieces of coconut meat from time to time, looking very busy.

Ao Bai continued to eat his own with confidence, and both of them swam all day, hungry.

Until he finished eating, swam a few laps together to eat, and returned home, Ji Mo still didn't find a suitable opportunity to speak.

During the final break, Ji Mo first lay on the clams bed and closed his eyes to recuperate, his tail stretched out, shaking the clams little by little, and his urge to confess was getting stronger and stronger.

Ao Bai habitually practiced his ability to control the flow of water before going to bed, and generally chose to be in the open sea not far from the coral reef, and when he came back, Ji Mo still did not fall asleep, and as soon as he entered the house, he saw the clams bed shaking gently.

"Ah~!" Ji Mo was in deep thought, and suddenly the whole fish was picked up, startling him, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Ao Bai's eyes that made his scalp tingle.

"Ji Mo, are you waiting for me?" Ao Bai asked happily, and he lay down with the mermaid in his arms, placed it on top of him, and instinctively began to stroke it up and down with both hands.

- Oops! I forgot that I was going to fall asleep first......

The red alarm in the mermaid's heart flickered and shouted frantically, lying motionless on Ao Bai's body: it really didn't mean that he deliberately avoided intimacy, it was really too difficult for Bailong to be satisfied, and it was basically useless to start shouting stop, so that Ji Mo couldn't get up the next day to do things; Restraint, or should be restrained, indulgence in hurting the body!

"Why did you come back so early today? How's the ability to master? Ji Mo struggled to find a topic to talk to, praying that he could divert his partner's attention.

Ao Bai held the back of his partner's neck and kissed it passionately, not caring about answering at all: They have just started to do it, and it is difficult for the dragon orcs who have just met the taste to control their needs. And when he came back before, Ji Mo was already asleep, and it was difficult to wake him up.

"Hmm~ Ao Bai ......" Ji Mo was quickly suppressed, sighed and thought: Forget it, then once every two days.

"Are you waiting for me? I'm sorry, but I'll definitely try to come back as soon as possible in the future. Ao Bai's voice was filled with a joyful smile, and his hands moved quickly.

……

After a long time, Ao Bai hugged his mermaid and pampered the other party's back, "Ji Mo, tomorrow I will go out very early to inspect the sea area on the west side of the Sicilian continent, you have a good rest at home, I will come back early." ”

Ji Mo hadn't fallen asleep yet, "I'll go with you, and the two of them will also take care of it." ”

"No, you also saw it today, the sea there is a bit abnormal, I don't feel at ease with you." Ao Bai objected as gently as possible.

Ji Mo endured it for a long, long time, and finally saw that Ao Bai had closed his eyes and his breathing had stabilized, and then he mustered up the courage to ask in a low voice:

"Ao Bai, if I wasn't a mermaid, would you still be willing to be with me?"

Who knows, Ao Bai, who seemed to be asleep, suddenly opened his eyes, and there was a smile in his eyes: "Okay Ji Mo, you are a mermaid now." Why can't I sleep? ”

Ji Mo was frightened enough, and asked weakly, "Aren't you already asleep?" ”

"No, I'm wondering why you haven't slept yet."

Well, out of the way.

Ji Mo looked at Ao Bai's eyes and asked, "Ao Bai, I'm thinking, if I wasn't a mermaid, would you still be willing to be with me?" ”

Suspiciously, he patted his partner's tail and reminded him, "But, you're already a mermaid, look at your own tail." Ao Bai didn't think it was too strange, because his mermaid always had different ideas in his head, and he often made himself stunned and then laughed himself.

Ji Mo glared, a little frustrated, and then changed his words, "I mean, if I am not a mermaid in this world, my home is on the earth." ”

Ao Bai frowned and thought for a while, and slowly shook his head: "I haven't heard of it, but it doesn't matter if that's okay, it's enough for me to know that you are my mermaid now." ”

Traversal Fish was stunned for a moment, feeling that the development of the situation was completely off, and he said sneeringly, "Don't you mind? ”

Ao Bai said with relief: "I know that you are not an ordinary mermaid, and other merfolk dare not approach me at all...... Okay Ji Mo, don't worry, we've already been married, it doesn't matter where you were before, go to sleep. ”

Ga? That's it、Accepted? Don't ask a few more questions?

The Earth Crossing Fish, who had already prepared countless explanations, felt extremely depressed, and he originally thought that tonight would be a sleepless night, and the two of them would have a violent conflict.

Since you don't ask, forget it, hum~ You didn't ask if you had a chance, it's really a dragon with no curiosity at all...... Ji Mo felt that this matter was settled, so he flicked his tail and fell asleep with peace of mind.

Ao Bai opened his eyes again, quietly put his forehead on the mermaid's, and thought contentedly: You must be the partner arranged by the sea god for me, not earthly at all, I know you are joking.

*****

The Orc tribe of the Eastern Continent of Sicily.

In the past two days, Weeser has found that his partner Rui has a lot of trouble, they have been partners for a long time, they already have two cubs, and they have a very tacit understanding with each other.

"Rui, what's wrong with you? Is there any trouble that you can't sue me? Wiese asked worriedly.

The leopard orc Rui was originally a very taciturn character, but now he actually sighed rarely and looked sad, "Wei Ze, it's nothing. ”

After a long time, he told his partner: "Wize, if you go to see Qingzhe, remember to remind him to take good care of Xitu's little cub." "Don't let him get any closer to the Holy Lake, he will be expelled from the tribe and thrown into the Holy Lake to feed the dragons.

Wiese disagreed: "Xitu is a very sensible cub, and the last time he got lost was just an accident, you know? Now Qingzhe is completely taken care of by him, even the priest is boastful, he often runs to the priest because of Qingzhe's illness, and never complains, how rare! "Our little leopard spends his days making trouble: fighting with other little orcs and making little females cry, which is far worse than Chituna.

Rui opened his mouth, but he couldn't tell the truth, so he could only figure out a way in his own heart.

On this day, it was Rui's turn to lead the little orcs of the tribe to the dense forest to teach them to hunt, Xitu has always been very hard-working and talented, and the warriors of the tribe often praised him - on the other hand, of course, it was also because of sympathy for the little tiger cub that he had lost the care of his beast father.

After all the orcs had dispersed and gone alone to try to catch the small prey, Rui quietly summoned Xitu to a hidden corner in the deeper part of the forest.

Xitu didn't know that the white dragon aura on his body couldn't completely cover up the incident, and he was very grateful to Rui, because after the beast father left, Vize and Rui gave their family a lot of help.

"Xitu, has your mother and father been better these two days?" Big eyes to small eyes for a long time, Rui finally said the opening remarks.

"It's getting better, Father Rhea." Xitu respectfully replied that since the beast father left, Rui offered to be Xitu's second father and take care of him until he reached adulthood.

Rui thought for a while and said sternly: "Xitu, you are still a cub now, why don't you obey the rules of the tribe and sneak into the dense forest?" If you can't come back, what will happen to your mother and father? ”

"I'm sorry Father, I shouldn't have sneaked into the jungle, never again."

Rui suddenly asked, "Are you really just going to play by the Sicilian Sea and then getting lost when you return to the tribe?" ”

Situ kept his promises, even if it was his trusted and respected father.

"Yes, Father, it was dark at that time, I was very scared, I got lost in a hurry, and in the end I didn't know how to find the way back to the tribe." Xitu didn't dare to look at Rui's eyes, and squinted slightly as if he was afraid and afraid.

Rui was very anxious, but he couldn't tell the secret of the Sicilian continent and the holy lake dragon, so he could only sternly lower his voice and reprimand the little tiger cub:

"You're lying! Hetu, do you think I don't know where you're going? ”