Chapter 7: The Mermaid in the Secret Realm

When they were bored one day, Qi Zhiming and Gou Hong climbed high and looked into the distance and found an unbelievable scene.

Several girls on the island were playing in the sea, and the sea showed a huge slightly pink fishtail, and the upper body was covered with a tight thick veil, and the faces were still the same as those girls, still so pretty.

Qi Zhiming and Gou Hong are people living in modern society, and they are atheists through and through. Some characters in magical legends only exist in legends.

But now the situation is real.

Mermaid! Isn't it also a long fishtail in legend? And these mermaids playing in the sea are exactly the same as human women on land. It's like a modern woman who has been trapped on this island and has lived for a long time without embellishment, born beautiful and beautiful in nature.

"Brother Ming, don't think about it so much. The fact that they were able to save us shows that they have no ill will. We're going to have to find a way to go home in a few days, so why bother with that? If it comes, it will be safe. Gou Hong was very open and disagreed.

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The island's mountainside is covered by trees, and the chirping of insects and birds is particularly loud in the silence.

A quiet stream, high and low, winds its way through the ocean. The branches of the stream are aggrievedly joined together on the hillside, crookedly out of shape.

The water level outside the island should be deep, and the sky here is high. The blue sky meets the ocean in the distance, and the sea and sky are the same color, showing a linear plane.

It's really an isolated island, but I don't know what latitude and longitude coordinates it is, and I don't know which country's sphere of influence.

The merfolk seem to be very reluctant to use fire for the two, and do not allow them to hunt the various animals on the island.

Fish and shellfish in the ocean are the food that the mermaids bring to the two of them every morning. It's fresh, like it was just caught in the evening. I haven't seen a mermaid eat, so I only eat raw seafood? This is unknown.

There aren't too many mermaid races here, there are about twenty people, right? When I met on weekdays, I smiled a lot, and I didn't talk much. They were all beautiful, ranging in age from fifteen or sixteen to thirty. No male merfolk have been seen.

The mermaid's dwelling was on the opposite side of the mountainside, far from their dwellings, separated by the stream.

The two never crossed the creek or went to the mermaid's residence. After all, it was a woman's residence, and there was no invitation, although I didn't know what it was like there, and I was curious, but I also adhered to the different rules of behavior between men and women.

The two of them recovered completely, and several days passed without seeing the princess. You can't travel far without alcohol. The place here is already known, there is nothing to do, and life is very boring.

At noon, when the sun is at its fullest, visibility in the water is high.

Qi Zhiming and Gou Hong entered the water from a gentle place and decided to dive down to have a look.

The water temperature decreases as the depth of the dive increases, and even the diving with a rock is extremely hard, but it is actually more than 20 meters underwater. All kinds of unknown small fish chase the bubbles brought by the actions of the two people, swimming around in the bubble bushes, enjoying themselves.

I don't know how deep the wall of the island is vertically downward. All kinds of creatures clinging to the rocks, with shells and husks, flesh and flesh, are slowly wriggling.

It seems that this is an island formed by the movement of the earth's crust, and there is no limestone formed by volcanic eruptions, so it should have existed for tens of millions of years.

There must be similar islands around, right? And it's not too far away, it's just hidden under the sea level, and it's not visible for a while.

Continuing down, there is a cave submerged in the sea. The rocks are abrupt and uneven, with a height and width of about two or three meters.

The two motioned to each other and climbed into the cave one after the other.

Swimming inward in the darkness for a while, the space gradually became wider.

The sea water is no longer overflowing, and the roof of the cave is getting higher and higher from the water, and the roof of the cave can be seen in the distance, where a light shines on the water.

The water is very clear, and the cave wall next to it is full of various marine life. Large and small conch, black mussels, disgusting worms are crawling around. A few long octopuses hide in the green seaweed, swaying freely as the water flows.

The walls of the cave are quite smooth, and occasionally a few small fish swim by in panic, but they can't hide their shapes.

The current flows slowly forward with the surging waves, and it feels like there should be a hole in front of you that is connected.

The light on the roof of the cave was getting closer and closer, and the roof of the cave was sloping upwards, and a clear blue sky the size of a basin could be seen from the light.

It is a shaft, round and about five meters in diameter, with spiraling stone steps spiraling upwards.

The steps were covered with moss and unusually slippery, and I could only be sure that no one had stepped on them in the last four or five days. In a humid environment, the moss can be repaired quickly, and it takes four or five days for all traces to disappear.

"Brother Ming, take a look further ahead, shall we? There's so much incredible going on here. Fortunately, we are not small, otherwise we would have gone crazy. If you don't experience it yourself, you won't believe it if you die!

"You're not dead yet, and it might be even more incredible in the future! It seems that some of the legends of the past really existed! Be careful, brace yourself, don't leave your life here. Let's go, look ahead. Qi Zhiming took the lead in swimming forward.

The water surface is seven or eight meters high from the top of the cave, and there is not much change along the way.

The walls of the cave are cylindrical, like a huge pipe, stretching straight into the mountain. Everywhere you look, it's all hard and intact rock, with no signs of man-made modification. It's like a circular passage in the middle of a boulder.

Gou Hong dived into the cave and tried it, and everything was the same as what he saw on the water.

This is a circular natural passage with a diameter of 15 or 6 meters, formed in the middle of the mountain.

After a tentative journey of about two kilometers, there was a shaft like the one I had seen before. Along the way, I have gone through a total of thirteen shafts, and I have traveled more than twenty kilometers in the cave.

The two of them were tired and a little discouraged, hungry and tired, and they didn't notice anything. If you dig deeper, you don't know how far ahead you are, but now you really can't swim!

During the conversation, there was another light ahead, and the exit should be there!

The exhausted body was full of blood again, but fortunately, the light was not far away. A glimmer of hope ignited by a glimmer of light made the two of them excited.

Traveling in the dark for long periods of time, especially in unknown environments, or in the process of these incredible events, it feels like no accident is impossible. Even if a dragon appears in front of or at your feet, it is not surprising.

If you don't die, you have to live!

The tense nerves were slightly relieved by the light. The fear and depression in my heart were swept away, my strength was restored a lot, and my speed increased, and I swam desperately towards the light.

The glow was a hole narrow enough for one person to crawl through, like the glow of a giant firefly. Shimmering in the pitch-black cavern, bright with green, some dark.

Although it was very strange, there was no room for the slightest hesitation, and the two climbed into the cave in turn.

The entrance of the cave is more than ten meters high from the water surface, and there are stone stairs like climbing mountains on the water side up or down, and the stone stairs on the water surface are zigzag and lead to the cave entrance.

The stone staircase was slippery and covered with moss, but it was unusually dry when you entered the cave, without a trace of moisture.

The cave has a conical structure and gradually widens inward. The four walls are smooth and neat, like a whole boulder, and a large stone hole has been dug out.

The cave is empty, and what you can see is several stone tables and chairs, arranged in an orderly manner in the depths of the cave bottom, where the light is more obvious.

It wasn't fireflies that glowed, it was a stone bead inlaid on the roof of the five-meter-high cave, the size of a fist, not very bright but clearly visible.

Walking slowly, the ground is unusually clean, without a trace of dust.

The tables and stools were placed at the end of the cave, and the stone walls were as flat as a knife cut, shrouded in a thin layer of mist. On the huge stone wall, there are faint portraits of some rivers and trees and several people.

Tables and stools are arranged in circles, which is not unusual. There are three stone tables, each with six stone benches at equal distances, and there is nothing unusual to see.

When I came to the end of the cave, I found that the mist was oozing from the stone wall, but it did not spread, but only permeated the place where the portrait appeared, like a dream. There were no damp droplets on the walls, and the mist was not very wet.

Take a closer look at the portrait.

A small stream meanders from the peak into the blue ocean, and the gently sloping mountain range below the peak is divided in two. On one side there seemed to be two men, with long hair and ragged clothes, climbing towards the peak. On the other side were four or five women, looking at them across the stream, smiling expectantly and expectantly.

Although the sun at the summit is red, there is no trace of temperature. Mountains and rocks, trees, grass, a few simple strokes of the outline, make the picture clear and vivid, showing the wonder of Danqing.

"Master, master, master, master! Brother Ming, why does it look like the island we live on? As he spoke, Gou Hong reached out and brushed the portrait so that he could see it more clearly.

Qi Zhiming didn't have time to stop it, and the picture in front of him changed to two men standing on the edge of a cliff, facing the churning waves below. As the next picture appears, two men stand on the surface of the sea, with huge waves rolling in the distance, but there are no waves under their feet!

One after another, the images appeared, then disappeared again, until finally nothing appeared again, and the two of them stopped.

The stone wall was blank, all the images were gone, and the fog had disappeared.

There was nothing to be found in the cave anymore, and the two of them only wanted to scold their mother.

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Out of this cave, go down the stairs into the water, and at the bottom of the water, there is still nothing unusual.

Swimming further, I came across several shafts and it didn't take long to get out of the cave.

When they floated to the sea, they found that the two of them had swam from the cave to the confluence of the mountain stream and the sea, which was already the western end of the island.

"Damn, I've been tired for most of the day, and I haven't gotten anything!" Gou Hong was whining.

The warmth under the sun, the fatigue of the body suddenly hit, Qi Zhiming and Gou Hong lazily lay in the grass and fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was already dusk, and I hunted some game indiscriminately, and hid to barbecue and wrap my belly.

When he returned to his residence, he saw a figure turning around in front of the stone house from a distance. Qi Zhiming saw clearly that it was the unruly mermaid princess, and shouted mischievously, "Ah"!

The princess was so frightened that she stumbled and almost fell.

After the princess saw that it was Qi Zhiming, she rushed over and punched and kicked.

"Alright, alright. Intimacy doesn't look at the place either! Don't you see anyone else there? Let's go back to the house. Qi Zhiming said, grabbed a small fist and dragged it into the house.

The princess looked around and found Gou Hong not far away, and her face turned red. As soon as he turned his head and tasted what Qi Zhiming had just said, he felt that something was wrong, and he was furious again, "Affectionate, affectionate, right?" Back to the house, back to the house, right? As he spoke, he hit and kicked, bitten and twisted.

"I'm sorry, I didn't see that. I'm going back to sleep! I slept so well that I couldn't hear anything, and I slept until dawn. Hehe, I'm so sleepy! After Gou Hong finished speaking, he staggered back to the house exaggeratedly.

"Alright, alright. Look at your bite, it looks like I've done something to you! After Qi Zhiming finished speaking, he let go of the princess's little hand and rushed to the house at once.

"What are you doing today? I came twice and didn't see you. Tell me, where did you go? The princess asked curiously.

"I said girl, it's all night, isn't it okay for lonely men and widows to be together? Even though you saved me, you can't force me to make a promise, right? Qi Zhiming cowered in the corner of the stone bed exaggeratedly.

"You bastard! You're mad at me, beat you to death······", the princess angrily stepped forward and thrashed.

The mermaid may have a great ability in the sea, but on land, it is no different from an ordinary woman. Afraid of fire and not afraid of light, clothes can change with themselves, turn into silk when encountering water, and go ashore for neon clothes, tearing can not be broken.

"Ahh I'm going to explode. If you don't go quickly, then don't go! "Qi Zhiming is really about to explode.

A normal young man has been guarding such a little Lori for a long time, and that is really a huge temptation. But the benefactor's benefactor could not be chaotic, so he had to drive away the temptation.

"You're cute, stay! I let you be my husband, I like you too! The princess looked determined, as if the matter had been decided.

"Princess, you'd better go back first, we're not getting along with each other now. You're still young, and what I said before was unintentional, just to make you happy. We can't be husband and wife, let your elders explain it to you! Okay, I'm tired, good night! After Qi Zhiming finished speaking, the princess ran away crying.

After going through so much, my heart has become numb, and it is difficult to cause my heart to move again, and there is nothing more grief than heart death.