In the early morning of the next day, Han Lie quietly left the city with Zhao Yun, Xu Huang, and Xu Sheng, as well as three hundred water and strong archers.

After a day and a night of rapid marching, Han Lie led his troops back to the fishing village again, and there were only nine families left in the fishing village at this time, and the rest of the people followed Han Lie to Licheng last time.

However, this time Han Lie was going to hunt and kill the merman, so he naturally brought back the big pillar that was familiar with the waters, and Xu Sheng's grandfather Xu Bo also followed.

The fishing boats in the fishing village were still there, and Han Lie brought a batch of rafts to use as lifebuoys this time, so they rested in the village for one night, and under the guidance of Da Zhu and Xu Bo, they set foot on the island where the mermaid appeared.

But the result was somewhat unexpected, they were near the sea area guided by Xu Bo and the big pillar, until it was dark, and they didn't find the small island in their mouth that was only five or six zhang in length and width, let alone the shadow of the merman.

At first, Xu Bo also felt strange, but later when he returned to the voyage, he woke up and said: "Childe, it should be high tide in the past two days, and the island is afraid that it will be submerged in the seawater, and it should be at low tide that the island will be exposed to the water." ”

"Yes, yes, what Uncle Xu said makes sense, we have fished in that sea many times, and that island is indeed only exposed to the surface when the tide is low." Da Zhuzi's spirit has been very nervous today, and he will be a little quieter when he returns home, and he will hear Uncle Xu's reminder, so he nodded again and again.

Hearing the two of them explain, Han Lie remembered the law of the ebb and flow of the tide, as well as the time difference, it was obvious that the time when they arrived at that water area today was noon, which was also the stage when the tide level rose at its highest, so it was normal not to see the islands under the tide.

There is the peak period of high tide, and there is also the lowest water level period of low tide, the general time law is that 12 o'clock at noon is the peak period of high tide, and the low tide is generally around 6 o'clock in the morning.

"You have a point, set off in the middle of the night tonight and try to get to that sea area in the early morning." Han Lie thought about it, so he spoke.

In early summer, going to sea in the middle of the night is not only not cold, but cool and pleasant.

After sailing in the middle of the night, at dawn, when Han Lie and the others came to yesterday's sea area, they saw that on the sea surface after the low tide, a desolate island appeared, a small island exposed to the water, and it could be clearly seen that this was a mountain body composed of rocks, covered with moss, with the reason for the low tide, on the small island that was exposed to the water, there were some marine creatures that had not had time to flow into the water everywhere.

When Han Lie and the others stepped on the island, some crabs stranded on the stones crawled sideways towards the sea in panic.

"Hey, there's kelp growing here?" When Han Lie walked on the island, he found a kelp plant in a stone crevice, although this thing is not delicious, but in this era of scarcity of dishes, if it can be transplanted and planted, it can not only generate income, but also feed many people, especially in the year of famine, cooking a pot of kelp soup is enough for many people to survive the famine.

The reason why Han Lie was surprised was that he remembered the history of Chinese people eating kelp, it didn't seem to be long, and the history of planting was not long, at least in the Han Dynasty two years ago, no one ate kelp, as for the species of kelp, whether it was because of whether there was growth in the domestic sea, Han Lie had no way of knowing before, but although the kelp in front of him had just grown less than half a foot, Han Lie was sure that it was definitely a kelp.

"Lord, is there anything strange about this seaweed?" Zhao Yun on the side saw Han Lie squatting on the ground, looking at this green seaweed with a surprised expression on his face, and hurriedly asked.

"This is called kelp, which can be used to make vegetable stews, and it is nutritious, although it cannot be used as a staple food, but it is rich in iodized salt, which can supplement the salt of the human body, well, it is probably like this." Halfway through Han Lie's speech, he found that Zhao Yun and Xu Huang were full of doubts when they heard it, and only then did they realize that the knowledge they said was indeed too advanced for the two of them at the moment, so he stopped and said with a smile: "Anyway, this thing is good, if it can be planted on the sea surface of Licheng, it will be of great use in time." ”

"Then dig it up." Xu Huang learned that this thing could be of great use, so he immediately pulled out the ring head knife on his waist and prepared to dig up this kelp.

"You look around and see if there's any kelp." Han Lie commanded, and then said, "Be careful not to hurt the roots, it's best to wrap this piece of mud and wrap the roots and pick it up together." With that, Han Lie leaned over the stone wall, probed his hands into the cracks in the stone, and carefully took out a puddle of sea mud with kelp, and said, "Hurry up and bring a leather bag and wrap it." ”

To Han Lie's surprise, in the upper left corner of this small island with a radius of only a few meters, they actually dug up more than a dozen kelp, and just as Han Lie was busy working, a sergeant's shout came from above the island: "Fish monsters, there are fish monsters." ”

Hearing the shout, Han Lie rose to his feet, reached out and pulled out the Seven Star Treasure Knife tied to his calf, and shouted, "Prepare the fine iron arrows." ”

"Aang!" When Han Lie arrived at the upper left, he saw that ten zhang away, on the turquoise calm sea, a white snake more than one zhang long, as thick as a thigh, with a three-inch horn on its head, spat red letters and let out a long groan.

And when Han Lie took a closer look, he found that under the writhing snake body of the white snake rolling in the water waves, there was a half-human and half-fish fish monster entangled, at this moment, the mermaid, although covered in blood, was obviously not dead, and a pair of arms covered with fish scales were still entangled in the body of the white snake snake.

Just as Han Lie and the others were looking at the scene in front of them in shock, another mermaid suddenly appeared in the seawater, this mermaid was obviously a mermaid, with long black hair, bulging chest covered with a silk robe, and a pair of jade-like arms, holding a little mermaid like a baby.

"Whew...... ......Huh, "The mermaid with a baby in her arms, her expression is very human, at this moment she obviously found Han Lie and the others on the pirate, the mermaid swimming to the shore like a flying fish, kept making strange screams in her mouth, although she didn't understand it at all, but looking at its expression, Han Lie suddenly understood this mermaid, and she was asking for help like them.

"You asked me to save your loved ones?" Han Lie frowned and opened his mouth to ask.

Strange to say, although this mermaid couldn't speak, she understood Han Lie's words, and she nodded again and again, holding the child in both hands, and bowed in the water.

"Save people, Zilong sees the right time to release arrows." Han Lie looked at the white snake that was wrapped around the sea with another merman who was obviously a man, and threw off his robe and plunged into the water.

"Quick, protect the lord." Xu Huang grew up by the Yellow River since he was a child, and his water nature is also quite good, and when he saw Han Lie entering the water, he immediately pulled out the ring head knife he wore on his waist and jumped into the water.

As Xu Huang went into the water, the twenty sergeants with good water on the shore drew their knives and jumped into the water, Xu Sheng held a water spur, although he fell into the water one step behind Xu Huang, but he was very good at water, but he surpassed Xu Huang in a blink of an eye.

And Zhao Yun on the shore, this will naturally also pull up the divine arm bow on his back, and the iron arrow has been aimed at the white snake, when the head of the white snake snake poked out of the water, Zhao Yun did not hesitate to shoot out with the bow.

"Whoosh!" The divine arm bow and iron arrows grazed the head of the white snake and shot through, although it was dodged by the alert white snake, but still shot off a few scales on the white snake's body.

"Aang!" The white snake that was attacked, raised its head in anger and let out a long groan again, this long groan, there was a faint bit of legendary dragon power, and the originally calm water suddenly rolled up in the wind and waves.

"Damn, this isn't the legendary dragon, is it?" When Han Lie heard the long groan of the white snake, his eardrums shook, and he muttered in some surprise.

Although surprised, Han Lie did not hesitate at all, when he saw that he was close to the white snake, he immediately dived, drilled into the water, and reached the bottom of the white snake, he did not hesitate to wave the seven-star treasure knife in his hand.

Although the resistance in the water was very great, but Han Lie's knife swing, it was a killing move in the knife technique 'Cold Snake Spit Letter', a powerful move coupled with a sharp seven-star treasure knife, originally thought that it was a safe move, but it turned out to be Han Lie's surprise, the seven-star treasure knife in his hand just pierced into the white snake's snake body and it was difficult to enter, when he swung the knife again and stabbed at the body, he found that the scales on the white snake's body, all of them were the size of thumbs, in the blue water, it actually emitted a faint white light.

"Go back, this is not a snake, but the legendary white Jiao." Just when Han Lie realized that the situation was wrong, the snake tail in his hand whipped and directly knocked Han Lie out of a zhang away, the snake tail like an iron whip, the strength was only no less than three hundred catties.

When Han Lie's shout fell, he saw that the angry Bai Jiao opened his mouth and bit the arm of the merman under him, and with a flick of the snake's head, he directly tore off the merman's arm to the shoulder, and his body more than a foot long rose into the air, and his long tail whipped above the water, forming a whirlpool, and Xu Sheng and Xu Huang, who had just approached, were directly swept into the bottom of the water.

(Well, to clarify, this book will not become a mythological novel, these plots are just some ancient legends attached to it, so it should be regarded as a golden finger for pig's feet.) I hope that book friends who like this book can collect and support it, and it is good to have a recommended ticket, I am grateful. ）