Once it's magic, Moqi also needs to figure out who casts spells and how they cast them. Generally speaking, such large-scale magic can only be achieved with the help of some kind of medium, the so-called magic props, in addition to a powerful caster.

"The areas where fish are blocked are in the same direction as the topography of the seabed, so if you look at the edge of the seabed, you might find something." Thinking of this, Mochi slowly swam towards the edge of the seabed. Due to the difference in topography, the currents at the edge of the seabed are much stronger than elsewhere. Mochi had to constantly adjust his swimming posture in order to maintain balance in the current.

The edge of the fault is a bare rock, impacted by the current, the rock is devoid of any sea sand and vegetation and the surface is fairly flat. Anything protruding from the seabed would be noticeable, and Mochi soon spotted anomalies at the edge of this oceanic cliff.

A strangely shaped stone was fixed in a crevice in the rock bed, and Moqi took out the stone axe and tried a lot to pry the stone out of the crack.

The bottom of the sea was dimly lit, and he had to rely on the glow of artifact fragments to see what the rocks looked like. The stone blocks have obvious traces of hand-polished carving, and are engraved with intricate patterns and ancient characters in circles. On the back of the stone is a long cone resembling an iron nail structure, which appears to be the horns of some kind of sea creature. With this spike, the stone can be firmly fixed in the crevices of the rock bed and not swept away by the currents.

And the most bizarre part is not in the shape of the stones.

The runes on the stone emitted light at regular intervals, and with this intensity and frequency of flashes, Moqi soon found another stone of the same shape about 30 yards away. Eventually, he swam east along the edge of the seabed, finding many of the same things along the way, all 30 yards apart.

Mochi sped up to try to find the source of the strange stones, and after about forty minutes of swimming, Mochi felt an unsettling strange aura waft from the water.

Mochi slowed down and approached forward from under the trench with great caution. Moving forward against the edge of the cliff at the bottom of the ocean for less than two minutes, Mochi saw the culprit who had turned the ocean into a barren world, the Thornridge Naga.

These evil sea creatures are engaged in some kind of magical ritual.

Four Thornridge Sirens form a cross around an elite naga named Sephiris, instilling power into a massive black stone. The runes and patterns carved on the boulder were far more complex than the stone in Moqi's hand, but Moqi could still see the connection between the two at a glance.

The boulder flickered at the same frequency as the runes of the stone in Moqi's hand.

Mochi guessed that if he destroyed the boulder, the small runestones on the seabed would also fail. However, Sephilis is a level 22 elite, and the other four Thornridge Sirens are also level 21, and these five Naga alone are not characters that Moqi can deal with. Not to mention the Thornridge Walkers who patrol the perimeter.

"Why don't you use a [particularly unstable portal]?" Mochi hesitated.

[Particularly Unstable Portal] is a card that randomly teleports followers, with a chance to teleport legendary followers and a common follower. If it was a retinue that was not strong enough, then not only did Mochi fail to kill Naga, but he also exposed himself; If the teleporter is a powerful follower, then killing Naga will not affect himself and the fishmen in the village at this location; Even if you have a life-saving card, you can't make sure that killing Naga and destroying the barrier won't attract sharks......

After using the [Particularly Unstable Portal], there are too many uncontrollable factors.

After some thought, Mochi still felt that he should not rely too much on luck. Luck is the most unreasonable thing in the world, it can give you supreme glory and wealth, but it can also make you destitute and even lose your life.

What's more, Anvina also specifically told him before leaving, "Don't take risks, come back safely".

Mochi was about to leave for his return when he suddenly heard a male Naga not far away say to his companion, "I seem to smell a strange smell, there seems to be someone else around here......"

Hearing this, Mochi felt his dorsal fin stand up. He forgot that since he could smell the Naga, the Naga could smell his own.

"It looks like it's on the other side of the cliff......" Following the scent of Mochi, the male Naga swam over.

"Suffered! What should I do about this? "Mochi was in the trench at the moment, and the water around him was very fast. In this current, Mochi couldn't swim too fast even if he wanted to.

The male Naga guard swam to the edge of pitch black and took a look—there was nothing beneath the rock wall, only a bottomless pitch-black abyss.

"Did you find anything?" The companion who was on patrol with him asked.

"Well...... Nothing. The male Naga tightened his snake-like pupils and searched around, seemingly finding nothing unusual.

After carefully checking that there were no other creatures around, the male Naga wriggled his sea serpent-like tail and continued to patrol the seabed.

Hearing the patrolling Naga soldiers leaving, Moqi who was hiding in the crevices of the cliffs also breathed a sigh of relief. The terrain is very steep and the light below is so dark that it is difficult to see a gap above the seabed. When viewed from above, this crack looks like a crack in the rock wall, and there is no hole in it at all. It was only in a hurry that Mochi discovered this hiding place.

After hiding in the crevice for a while, and making sure that Naga hadn't come back to check on it, Moqi came out of it. He swam along the cliffs for a while before returning to the seabed and returning to the village as fast as he could.

After returning to shore, Mochi felt that his body had collapsed, but fortunately he came back without danger. Seeing that the people in the village had already fallen asleep, Moqi decided to tell them what he had seen at the bottom of the sea tomorrow morning, after all, telling these fishmen now would only make the fishmen angry and unable to sleep, unable to solve any problems, and draining their physical strength in vain.

Lying on the soft sand, Mochi decided to make do with it for the night. He was so tired that he really didn't want to go any further. Mochi had just closed his eyes when he suddenly heard the sound of soft footsteps.

Mochi looked up and found that it was Anvina: "Haven't you slept yet?" ”

Anvina said "um", then straightened the hem of her cloak and sat down beside Mochi.

"Didn't you do well in class today? Did the villagers not understand? Or is something else wrong? Seeing that Anvina's expression was not very good-looking, Mochido asked twice.

Anvena shook her head, and then said, "Mr. Mochi, you said that Ahlala's mother gave birth to so many fish-man tadpoles? It's just that she lost one of her children, why is she still so sad? ”

"This one...... I don't know. Mo Qi thought for a while and finally replied truthfully, after all, he is not a parent, he has not experienced the hardship of raising a child by his own hands, and he does not have much say in this issue. He can only answer this question from the point of view of his own understanding -

"Because that's what parents are. Sometimes, when you think they should care about you, they don't care about your feelings. Sometimes, when you think they won't care about you, they shed tears for you. ”

Hearing this answer, Avena was silent for a while, and then continued to ask, "Then will my father be like this?" ”

This question was not something that Mochi could answer, and Mochi wisely chose to remain silent. Two fishmen looked up at the starlight, and the waves gently lapped on the sand.

"Mr. Mochi, I can't sleep." Anvena said suddenly.

"You fall asleep when you lie down, and I can't sleep if I sit all the time." Mochi said angrily.

"Tell me a story." Anvina said in a pleading tone.

Storytelling? That's not something Mochi is good at. Mowch's personal favorite story is that Nobel established a prize in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace, but not in mathematics. As a science student with perfect scores in chemistry and physics in the college entrance examination, Mo Qi is not interested in mathematics alone, and in Mo Qi's opinion, all people who are not good at mathematics have a kind heart.

"Hmm...... Wait, I'm going to think about it......" Seeing the waves glowing green on the beach, Moqi wanted to tell Avena a story about "the waves glow because there are flagellates in the sea", but it doesn't seem to be a story.

What to talk about? Sea? And the white waves?

Pregnant!

"Shall I tell you a story about 'Daughter of the Sea'?" Anvina thought for a long time, and finally said.

Anwena turned her head and said, "Sounds good, Mr. Mochi, tell me." ”

"It was a turquoise sea, and the water was as clear as bright glass. At the bottom of this sea live some creatures called mermaids. Mochi couldn't remember the original version of the story, so he could only tell it in his own words.

"Aren't these mermaids Naga?" Avena interrupted.

Mo Qi glanced at Anvina, relieved for a while and continued: "Don't think that there is nothing but sand at the bottom of the sea, there are many strange flowers and trees, and there are many fish like flying birds flying among these strange flowers and trees. In the middle of the woods, in the deepest part of the ocean, stands a magnificent palace. The walls of the palace are made of coral reefs, and the roof is made of black mussel shells that open and close with the roof, and each shell has a huge pearl inside. Any pearl can be used as an ornament in the queen's crown. ”

Anvina hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Mochi, you can't talk about Nashata, right?" ”

"Do you still want to hear stories?" Mochi glared at Anvina fiercely before continuing: "The queen of Aquaman has been dead for many years, and only his old mother is the only one in the family to take care of the six beautiful princesses. And the youngest princess is the most beautiful ......."

Hearing this, Anvena suddenly interrupted Mochi, Mr. Mochi: "Mr. Mochi, that ...... Can you change it a little bit and replace the little princess with the second princess? ”

Mo Qi was silent for a moment, then continued: "And the second princess is the most beautiful one. ”

Anvena nodded in satisfaction.

Mo Qi shook his head and continued, "The second princess's skin is as smooth and delicate as rose petals, and her eyes are as blue as the deepest sea. However, like other princesses, she has no legs, and the lower half of her body is a fish's tail. ”

"Look, I'll just say it's a Naga!" Anvena struck Mochi on the shoulder, startling Mochi, but she immediately realized her gaffe, "I'm sorry, please continue." ”

It's really hard to communicate with these natives of Azeroth.

Mochi calmed down and continued to tell the most well-known fairy tale on the planet. From the appearance of a statue of a prince in the garden under the sea, to what the princess's sisters saw and heard on the sea when they were 15 years old, and finally to the "second princess" who arrived on the sea to save the prince who was shipwrecked.

Anvina's expression became sad again when she said that the prince had mistaken another girl for a savior, and that the second princess had taken a witch's medicine and could not speak. Mochi began to regret telling her the story.

The second princess came to the prince's palace, and when the prince asked who she was, the second princess could only look at him with her deep blue eyes tenderly and sadly. In order to get the prince's attention, the second princess endured the severe pain in the soles of her feet and presented one beautiful and gentle dance after another for the prince.

Every night after dark, she stood in front of the marble platform and saw her family waving to her in the distant ocean. But she really couldn't bear to leave the prince, so she wouldn't go near the sea.

The second princess and the prince were happy together every day, but the prince never thought of marrying her. Until one day, the prince sailed to a neighboring country, met the princess of the neighboring country, and suddenly realized that the girl was the girl he had seen on the beach. After seeing the girl, the prince decided to marry the girl who had saved his life.

"When the other sea princesses learned the news, they exchanged their long hair with the witch for a dagger, as long as they killed the prince with this dagger, and then let the prince's blood flow to the mermaid princess's legs, the mermaid princess could regain the fishtail, and live for another three hundred years......"

At this point, Mo Qi suddenly hesitated, because the story was really a sad ending, and Anvina's expression became more and more sad, as if she was about to cry at any moment. Moqi is not good at coaxing children and women, especially when they cry, Moqi has a headache when he thinks about it.

"And then?" Anvena asked worriedly.

"Later......" Mo Qi thought about it and finally decided to change the ending, "Later, the prince recognized the second princess before the wedding, and it was they who jumped into the sea with that dagger. And with that dagger, he killed the witch, and the second princess regained her voice and legs, while the prince also found the best wig maker in the kingdom and made various styles of fashionable wigs for the sisters of the second princess...... The second princess and the prince eventually lived happily ever after, and their children were the first generation of fish-men in Azeroth. ”

"Ah...... In this way, it always feels like your previous story and the final story are not on the same level. Anvena grumbled.

"Definitely! The final happy ending is obviously stronger than the previous bland narration. Mochi patted his chest and said.

Avena pouted and lay down, no longer arguing with Mochi.

After a long silence, Mochi suddenly heard Anvina say softly, "Thank you, Mr. Mochi. ”