Izawa never had a clue, and the group of hundreds of people disappeared silently. The more I thought about it, the more I was afraid, which of the hidden forces on the Valoran continent could have such a great strength to do this.

Izawa stood up, intending to call Fitz over and ask if the fish-people had any rivals for generations, but suddenly he felt as if he heard a sound of Miaoman's piano, looked at the empty streets, and scratched his head, it must be an illusion. But I don't want the sound of the piano to be heard one after another, as if a stylish note has fallen on my heart, and my eyelids are getting heavier and heavier...

"Where am I?" Izawa felt as if he was flying in the air, looking down on Anapos at his feet. "What's going on with the sound of the piano just now? Why did I suddenly appear in the air? Fitz? Izawa looked left and right in disbelief, there was no Fitz, and he tried to get back to the street, but he found that... The body is no longer under its control. Ize really panicked at this time, and shouted loudly: "Fitz! Fitz! There was only a wide open mouth on his anxious face, but not a single sound came out. It's as funny as pantomime.

Gradually, Izawa moved, but he flew down without his control. Flying above an ordinary room in Anapos, Ize's body passed through the roof and into the house like invisible air. There were three fish-people in the room, the male and female hostess and a little fish-man like Fitz, their children, sitting together enjoying dinner. Ize looked at the three fish-men below, the body of the adult fish-man was only a little bigger, but the specific appearance did not change much, it was a sea blue body, big eyes, but he felt a lot stronger.

Izawa felt himself floating on the roof, unable to scream, unable to use his strength, unable to even clench his fists. But how can there still be fish-people here?

Ize watched his father carefully peel a piece of dried fish and hand it to his mother, who coaxed the pouting little fishman to eat with a loving face, and his father looked at them with a smile. Izawa watched silently on the roof, thinking of his parents who were a little sad, what a happy scene.

Suddenly, a mutation startled. Three figures shrouded in black fog appeared in the house as if out of thin air, the mother hurriedly held the child in her arms and covered its eyes, the father only had time to look at it in horror, and looked at the harpoon at the door before he even had time to get up, a circle full of straight claws suddenly appeared under his feet, and then there seemed to be a small dark purple pool under his feet, and the fishman father didn't even make a shout, and disappeared out of thin air. Izawa was stunned, and his outstretched hand slowly stopped in mid-air, looking at his parents, mothers and children who disappeared in an instant.

Then the three of them didn't make a single move, and they also passed through the wall in the same strange way, and arrived in another room, where Ize's body followed uncontrollably. In the same way, the family of three ate warmly, but did not notice the danger coming, and this last supper, without even saying the last word, was swallowed by the three of them shrouded in black fog and disappeared in the underwater city of Anapos!

One after the other, one after the other. Fish people who have lived in underwater cities for a long time no longer have the ability to perceive danger. Everywhere the three of them went, there was not a trace of twists and turns, and the restraints and black holes that silently appeared on the ground devoured this ancient race. Whether it's a fish-man sitting at home eating, or walking on the street, there is no escape from this nightmarish clutche.

Ize stared at this scene painfully, "Don't, don't! The mouth was wide but there was no sound, no matter how hard the arm tried, it couldn't touch anything, and the two wide-open eyes could only cry in their hearts. He used all his strength to shout loudly to warn this endangered race, but he could only open his mouth wide, the facial features on his face were distorted, but he still couldn't make a sound, it looked so funny.

Until the end, the three of them met resistance when they quietly devoured it, it was an old fishman and a fishman who was obviously much stronger, but only the two of them were devoured by the entire fish-man clan.

The three people shrouded in the black mist were speechless, and could only feel their cold eyes staring at the last two people of this race. The strong fishman held the harpoon in one hand and pushed the old fishman back with the other, with anxiety written on his face, "Old patriarch, you go quickly." ”

The fishman known as the old patriarch looked at the three people shrouded in black mist in mid-air, but his face was a little calm, "What if we go, we have forgotten the vigilance that we should have maintained for generations, thinking that with the transcendent security provided by this city built by our ancestors, the people have gradually become complacent. I also forgot about the sea that our ancestors defended against foreign enemies. Comfortable and happy, the disappearance of the fish-man clan is not someone else's reason! The old patriarch burst into tears.

Izawa finally understood where he had appeared, and he had returned to the day when the Fish-People disappeared to witness the entire disappearance. But I don't know what it is, and why I can return to this day.

The three people in the black mist did not make a sound, and stood quietly in the void, but a circle of sharp claws appeared under the feet of the old patriarch. The strong fishman roared angrily, holding his fork and rushing towards the three of them, "Old patriarch, don't give up, don't we still have a clansman!" "Although the fish-man clan has gone through so many generations of tranquility, the bravery of their bones will not be worn away.

The old patriarch had been swallowed by the black hole for more than half of his life, and a smile appeared on his face as he thought of the last clansman, "Yes, we still have the last clansman." The black hole had engulfed the old patriarch's neck, and the old patriarch struggled to stretch out his hand upward, shouting with the last strength of his life against the endless sea above: "Fitz, you must live!" ”

The strong fish-man had already stabbed the three of them with a fork, and the black mist suddenly surged, and a hideous monster poked out its long fangs from the black mist. "Hmm", without a trace of mud and water, the fish-man was swallowed by the monster in one gulp, and then slowly shrank back into the black mist. And Iza finally remembered the void creatures he encountered in Ionia, the Black Hole, Devouring!

Then the three figures in the black fog stood silently for a while, looking at the empty underwater city of Anapos. A voice suddenly came from the black fog that had not spoken, low and hoarse: "Just now, I seem to have heard that there is another fish that has slipped through the net?" ”

"Yes, you may have misheard. That's exactly what I had in mind. Another voice came out of the black fog, like an old-fashioned erhu, and the voice was highly recognizable. Izawa thought he had memorized the voice.

Although the three of them glanced at each other, got up and flew upward. And Izawa also knows why he came back here. "The two statues at the door."

"Hey, wake up." Fitz looked at Ize, who was sleeping on the ground. "Why are you asleep here?

Ize slowly opened his eyes and saw that Fitz had an urge to cry, touching his cheek, and there were traces of tears not drying. Fitz was saying, "Hey, Ize, you didn't see what a beautiful fish it was, but it ran faster than me, and I chased it...

Izawa hugged Fitz tightly, thinking about the last image he saw: after the three people in the black fog slowly flew away, Ize also thought of the silence of tears flowing from the closed eyes of the two stone statues, and he could no longer protect his people after ten thousand years. The descendants who hate themselves have lost the powerlessness of vigilance they should have, and the powerlessness of watching their own people all be devoured. Izawa understood that they were more heartbroken than they were when they watched this tragedy, but they could only look at it, because it was only two stone statues.

Then, after conveying the final image to Izawa, the stone statue holding the harp lost its last lustre, and its fingers were no longer on the harp. The last rays of light from the stone statue holding the harpoon poured into Fitz's harpoon, and the hand holding the trident had no joints that protruded from the exertion. The two stone statues were completely turned into lifeless stone statues.

Izawa also knew the names of the two stone statues before his death: the Great Warrior, Haishi! Guqin, Sanhua!

Izawa also knew the culprit who caused the tragedy of the Fish-Man Clan, and not surprisingly, it was the Extraterrestrial Clan, the Void Clan. After thinking about it carefully, Izawa decided not to tell Fitz what had just happened to him for the time being. Because, the Void Clan is not something they can deal with now. And where Fitz's people were devoured, life or death. After investigating and understanding this, I decided to tell it.

Fitz was still nagging about the beautiful fish he hadn't caught up, Izawa wiped the tears from his face, pulled Fitz over and looked at it, "Hey, Fitz, your harpoon, do you have a name?" ”

"Does it still need a name?" Fitz waved the harpoon in his hand.

"Yes." Izawa nodded, "In the future, this harpoon will be called the Seastone Trident." ”

Let's call it, the sea stone trident! Ize slowly closed every door and window in Anapos City, and said silently: In the future, I will definitely come back.

Fitz quietly followed Izawa to the plaza where he came. Watching Ize bow deeply to the two statues, and learning from Izawa's bow, but Fitz always felt that the two stone statues that had been standing here seemed to be different from the past today, and he blinked his eyes for a long time, but he didn't find anything different.

Then Izawa took out his note, "The undersea city of Anapos." It was named Piazza Anapos. Then he walked to the giant arch guarded by two statues, "This is called the Triumphants, you are here to watch, waiting for the day when your people will set foot on this land again." As he spoke, he walked out into the street again, but did not enter, and stood at the end of the road and slowly wrote in his notebook, "This place is called the Acropolis of Anapos." The day will come when your people will return. When all this was done, Izawa slowly retreated with Fitz, leaving the ancient, silent city alone and waiting for the day when its master would return.

Standing in the square where he came, Izawa took a deep last look: "Anapos will not sink. No matter how many years it takes, I will tell the story here to future generations. ”

———————————————————————————— Ize put away his notes and tightened his backpack, thinking about the last words of the old fish-man patriarch he saw in the image, the Void Clan might also notice the only remaining member of the Fish-Man Clan, so he planned to take Fitz, who didn't understand the world, and walk on the continent together to take care of each other. until I have completed my task ...

"Hey, Fitz." Izawa looked at Fitz, who was still looking at the two stone statues, trying to find out what was different, "Are we friends?" ”

"Yes." Fitz replied without looking up.

"Then you can travel with me from now on."

Speaking of traveling, Fitz was obviously interested, and looked at Izawa with big eyes, "Where to go, where to go?" ”

On the brightly lit Anapos Square, Izawa pointed to the darkening sea below, "For now, let's go to Port Bilgewater." ”

By the time Fitz came out of Anapos in the Channel with Ize, it was already dawn and the sun had not yet come out. Standing on the craggy reef in the crisp sea breeze, Izawa watched the rolling waves crash against the shore, the whistling of the sea echoing in his ears. Returning to Blue Flame Island from Anapos, Ize's face was visibly more melancholy. He had always had a worry in his mind: why and how did the Void find the Fish-Men. During this time, the Void Clan appeared more and more frequently, and in the continent that they had never been to and the races they didn't know, maybe many of them had already encountered poisonous hands, in order to invade the continent to eliminate a force that was unfavorable or may be unfavorable to themselves, which was very similar to Noxus. Ize secretly thought: The Void Clan is isolated in the outer realm, and they have not been on the continent for a long time, but they know the situation on the continent well, will they have joined forces with Noxus...

"Izawa, do you want to eat?" Fiz shouted as he stood in the water, holding his harpoon, clutching the fish he had just caught from the water, and looked at Ize, who was sitting on the reef pensive.

Ize shook his head, already having a decision in his heart. Slowly stood up and breathed a long sigh of relief: "It looks like it's time to speed up the trip." ”

As the sun rose, Ezer and Fitz set out on their way to the port of Bilgewater.

The weather on the island is like a June day, and the child's face changes as it says. The sky was still clear just now, but now it was cloudy, and after a while, it was pouring down. Izawa walked in front with a wide leaf on his head and a bitter face, watching Fitz on the side happily shuttling through the dense forest, and sometimes running over to ask Izawa a few bitter questions.

"Are there all the people out there like you?"

"Well... I can only say that it looks very similar to me, but it is not the same. ”

"Oh, can't you eat it too?"

“。。。 No. ”

The two of them were slowly moving on the way to the port of Biltwater, no, one man and one fish. It was getting dark, and the two of them, who had been on the road for a day, decided to take a break in the jungle. Fiz goes fishing, while Izawa is in charge of finding firewood.

Fitz hasn't come back yet, Ize holds a bunch of branches to clear out a big place and prepares to make a fire, because it has just rained, Ize took out the flint and "rubbed" it for a long time, stunned that there was only smoke and no flames, choking Ize's eyes red.

"Ahem, yes. I don't think so. Ize coughed twice and cursed.

"Brother, why don't you try this."

Then I saw a ball of flocculent thrown over, and Izawa caught it and said, "Thank you." ”

"Wait, who?" Izawa threw away the things in his hand violently, remembering that he was the only one with Fitz who hadn't come back yet, the person who had just talked...

Izawa looked back sharply at the few dark shadows standing where the sound came from, and it was difficult to see in the dim light of the trees.

"Dark Shadow... Izawa furrowed his eyebrows and clenched his fists.

"This little brother is still as fierce as before."

"yes."

"yes."

"yes."

A few figures in the dense forest came out with such inexplicable conversations. Ize suddenly smiled: "Wang Baoqiang! ”

"Is it Wang Baoqiang?"

"It's Wang Baoqiang."

"yes."

"yes."

At this time, several people who appeared in the dense forest were dressed in the same costume as the Noxus team at Nanwu Academy, and they had invited Izawa to join the so-called: treasure hunting team!

Out of the same interest in treasures, Ize still has some affection for this group of people.

"How did you end up here?" Izawa said as he secretly blamed himself, after some time ago in Ionia Black Nos was a little suspicious, and when he saw the man in black, he thought it would have something to do with Noxus.

"This little brother, don't you know that where there are treasures, there are us?" The treasure hunt team said as they walked over to Izawa to help light the firewood, "Call me Number One." ”

"I've heard it, I've heard it...

As he spoke, Fitz had already returned with a harpoon, which was full of skewers of fish that were still bouncing.

"Wow, that's a fish-man?"

"It's a fishman!"

"Can you sell it for a lot of money?"

"It can be sold for a lot of money!"

The four members of the treasure hunt team watched Fitz bounce over, their eyes shining with gold, and looking at Fitz was like seeing a big bag of gold coins.

Izawa sighed helplessly, stopping the four people who were about to get up and jump, "That's my friend." ”

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Bang bang. ”

Branches burned, making firecrackers, and several people sat around the fire eating Izawa's grilled fish. Izawa looked at the four of them strangely, "Don't you even take off your towels when you eat?" ”

"Do you need to pick it up?"

"Don't need to put it?"

"No, I don't."

"No, I don't."

“…”

Forget it, Izawa had a black line on his face, and changed the subject again, "You guys are also going to Bilgewater Harbor?" ”

When it comes to Bilgewater, several people are obviously serious. Number One sat up straight and asked Ize, "Aren't you?" ”

"Me too."

"Going to the Pirate Fair?"

"A pirate fair?"

Izawa looked at Number One puzzled, "What pirate fair?" ”

"You don't know?"

"I don't know."

"I thought you were one of the same people." Treasure Hunt Team No. 1 looked distressed, "Every once in a while, Bilgewater will hold an auction. Whether it is looted by pirates or fished from the sea, there are also many treasures from far and wide with their own treasures, which will appear at this fair. There will be treasures, weapons, all kinds of curiosities. It's a rare event. ”

"What about time?"

"Three days from now."

Izawa took out his map and looked at it in the dim light of the fire, "We still have a day's journey, and we should be able to reach Bilgewater." It's too late. "Ezawa and Fitz spent the night in the woods with the Treasure Hunt team, and since the targets were in the port of Bilgewater, the Treasure Hunt team walked with Izer on the road to Bilgewater at dawn.

From the moment they first saw Fitz, the eyes of the four members of the treasure hunting team did not take their eyes off Fitz, their eyes flashed like a cat smelling fish, and Fizz was furious, blinking with big eyes and threatening to wave the trident in his hand.

Ize sighed silently, "Don't bother Fitz's attention, even if you let you sell me, you won't sell it." ”

Treasure Hunt Team No. 1 stared at Ize for a while, and said in an incredulous tone, "Could it be that this is a love affair across races?" ”

"It's a love that crosses races."

"I think so."

"Yes."

The four members of the treasure hunting team sang and said in harmony.

Izawa stroked his forehead, and didn't pay attention to the four people who had left him speechless.

A group of six people walked silently in the dense forest of Blue Flame Island, and no one spoke, and the atmosphere was a little awkward. After a long time, Ize couldn't stand this atmosphere a little, and began to chat with each other, "You four, don't you ever show your true face?" ”

"Really?"

"That's who we really are."

"Yes."

"Yes."

Izawa looked at the four of them painfully, "You guys, can you just answer me." ”

"Okay."

"Okay."

"Okay."

"Okay."

“。。。。”

Ize, who was completely speechless to the treasure hunting team, ignored them anymore and walked resolutely on the road without looking back.

The four members of the treasure hunt team gathered together and muttered quietly, "If we catch that fishman, we will definitely sell it for a good price." ”

"Take it by surprise."

"Unprepared."

Only one person objected, but said, "I don't think I can sell it, and it might be a little more to lock it up and travel around the Valoran continent." ”

“。。。。”

It was getting dark, and the time passed in the noise of the group, and the port of Bilgewater was getting closer and closer.

Izawa raised his eyes to look at the sky, then looked down at the map, and said, "Let's get here first today, if the map is correct, we will arrive at the port of Bilgewater tomorrow morning." However, he didn't pay attention to him, and the eyes of the four members of the treasure hunt team never took their eyes off Fiz along the way, and Fiz waved his fork viciously to look at the strange four. Izawa sighed, "You four, don't you care if we're going the wrong way?" ”

"Isn't it you?"

"There's you, there's you."

"With you, it's all right."

"We believe in you."

The four of them didn't look at Ize from beginning to end, and Ize finally broke out, roaring with fire in his eyes, "I'm an explorer, not a tour guide!" ”

"Oh, he said he's not a tour guide?"

"No, it's not."

"Does it make a difference?"

"It makes no difference."

“。。。” Ize was sure that he had lost his temper, and folded his hands and bowed to the four of them, "I'm sorry, four big brothers." It's my fault to get angry with you, and I'll lose if I'm serious. ”

"He said it was his fault"

"What's wrong with him?"

"There's nothing wrong with him."

"That's his fault."

"Fitz, go fishing!" "Four of you, two to collect firewood, two to clear the clearing!" I'm going to sleep, and no one is allowed to call me until dawn! Izawa's face darkened, and he felt that he was about to explode if he said one more word to these four living treasures.

"He said he was going to sleep, didn't he eat?"

"If you sleep, you sleep, if you don't eat, you won't eat."

Treasure Hunt Team No. 3, with a happy face, his eyes shining, "He said he wanted to sleep?" ”

The rest of the treasure hunt team suddenly realized, "Then we can do it!" ”

"Gon !!" Izawa shouted with all the strength of his life.

Tonight is destined to be sleepless...

"Chirp." Early in the morning, a few birdsongs in the woods woke up several people.

Izawa exhaled a deep breath of the fresh air in the woods in the early morning with a dark circle under his eyes, watching Treasure Hunt Team No. 1 staring thoughtfully into the distance, his fists clenched, Ize leaned in front of his face curiously, "What are you looking at?" ”

Treasure Hunt Team One didn't speak, but pushed Izawa's head away and continued to look into the distance. Izawa turned behind Number One to follow his gaze, "Nothing." ”

"Nothing." Number One spoke.

"And what are you looking at?"

"It's nothing, Yindang's day has started again."

“。。。。”

Izawa counts himself, no matter what this group of people are doing, don't be curious, if you are serious, you will lose! Carrying his package and determined to hurry, Izawa couldn't wait to fly to Bilgewater Harbor right now and say goodbye to the group right away.

On the island in August, the weather is hot and sultry. The sweat soaked the clothes and stuck to the body, which made me feel very uncomfortable. Izawa: They quickened their pace.

As he walked, there was a burst of waves in his ears, and Izawa ran forward happily, plunging out of the dense forest, and his vision suddenly brightened. Ize ran out of the dense forest in a steep cliff, and below the cliff and in the distance, blocks of stone buildings stretched from land to sea, densely dotted on the blue sea, and in the distance, you could see barges shuttling like shuttles, which seemed very blurry, only a little black shadow moved.

"Port Birgewater! We're here. Izawa exclaimed.

"Oh, we're here."

"Oh, it's here."

"Oh."

"Oh. It's time to arrive. ”

The treasure hunting team didn't care about Izawa's excitement at all, and struck. Ize was already surprised by this, and ignored the fact that the four of them looked at Bilgewater under the cliff, and said with a frown; "The port is really still going to take the waterway, how are we going to go down now?"

"Click, click."

There were a few metal collisions next to Ize as he spoke, and he turned his head to look at the four members of the treasure hunt team who took out a few wing-like things in their hands, "What is this?" ”

"He just asked how to go down?"

"Fly down."

"He also asked us what we were holding in our hands?"

"I don't know about improvised aircraft, so I'm not a qualified explorer."

"Uhhh Izawa scratched his head, "I'm very satisfied with your answer this time. ”

Saying that, the four of them had already equipped the improvised flying machine on their bodies, as if they had an extra pair of wings out of thin air. Treasure Hunt Team No. 1 beckoned to Izawa and motioned for Ize to hug him. And over there, there was another dispute.

Treasure Hunt Team 2: "I'm going to carry it." He pointed to the little fishman.

Number Three: "I don't usually see you working so hard, but I don't need to do it this time." ”

Four: "Who knows what kind of heart you two will have, in case you kidnap my fish-man again." So saying, he stepped forward to Rafizi.

Treasure Hunt Team No. 123 pointed at No. 4 in unison: "You have revealed your purpose. ”

。。。 Then the three of them chatted on the side, "rock-paper-scissors." In the end, it was the second who carried Fitz.

"Whew."

The improvised aircraft spewed out two blue flames, and the One slammed on the ground, carrying Ize down the cliff and flying towards the port of Bilgewater below.

Although Ize has seen a lot of various flying machines in Piltover, but to be honest, it is the first time to ride an aircraft like this, the wind whistling in his ears is blowing violently, Ize slightly squinted eyes are blown by the tears of the wind, lying tightly on the back of No. 1, patting the goggles on his head and asking: "Do you need to bring my goggles, you must see our landing point clearly, don't fall into the water, and don't smash other people's things." ”

"Hmm." Number One shook his head, "I have a mask. ”

Fitz, on the other hand, was smaller, so he sat directly on the second shoulder. After getting along for the past few days, Fitz also knew that these people had "bad intentions" towards him. Seeing No. 2 suddenly look around sneakily, Fiz deftly gestured with the trident and pointed at No. 1 Nunu, motioning for him to follow.

As he spoke, the straight-line distance from Bilgewater Port was getting closer and closer, and the No. 1 aircraft was obviously shaking, and Izawa looked frightened, "Big brother, what's going on, I don't want to fall to my death." ”

No. 1 struggled to control the aircraft to adjust its position, "It may be that the two of them are overloaded together, you hold me tight." ”

Izawa hugged No. 1 tightly, looking at the ground that was getting closer and closer, and even a figure could be seen, but the shaking of the aircraft became more and more violent, and Ize almost roared. Ize's arm clutched tightly on One's chest, and Ize's hand shook violently as the aircraft shook violently. "Huh?" Izawa's hand leaning tightly on One's body touched a pendant from One's neck that hung down to his chest. Number One was still trying to control the direction, but he didn't feel Ize's movements, and he couldn't see Izawa's expression behind him. Izawa grabbed the pendant twice with his hand casually, and finally confirmed his thoughts, and said secretly in his heart: "It turns out that you are a member of that organization." Long time no see, Meggie Pendant! ”

However, the aircraft did not change in the slightest under the efforts of One, and it was about to crash to the ground under the violent shaking.

One: "We... Jump. ”

Izeza: "Do you want to jump?" Then you jump first. ”

Number one: "... You're on my back. ”

Finally, Ize shouted out, and as he jumped off the improv, "Bilgewater, I'm coming!" ”