Chapter 17: The Eye of the Array

The four of us held our breath and concentrated, and when the merman climbed into the salt water and slapped the fish's tail excitedly, Zhou Xuanye immediately rushed out, and the big stone where we were hiding was only less than ten meters away from the salt water pit.

When the merman went ashore and had difficulty moving, he immediately panicked when he saw Zhou Xuanye who rushed out, and on his ugly face, he could clearly see an obviously very frightened emotion, and he immediately wanted to climb into the water. But the channel was narrow, and it had taken a lot of effort to climb in before, and it was so easy to get back into the water now.

Without waiting to climb a few steps, Zhou Xuanye had already rushed to the merman, without saying a word, he bent down, pinched the fishtail with his hand, raised his foot and kicked it, with great force, kicked the merman out of the salt water and kicked it to the shore farther away from the water.

Tan Jian and I immediately rushed out to surround this merman, and as soon as it came ashore, its ferocity was greatly reduced, its tail on its lower body kept flicking, and its upper body tried to attack us with its claws, but the movement was a little bigger, and its body would fall backwards, completely unsuitable for the gravity of the ground.

I looked at its struggling appearance and couldn't help but say, "It's out of the water, it won't die, right?" ”

Tan Jian said without being salty; "There are no gills, it should be amphibians." At this time, it was almost dark, Tan Jian took off his dirty gloves, crumpled them into a ball and threw them at me, saying, "Plug it so that you don't shout again at night." ”

At the same time, Zhou Xuanye on the other side took out a waterproof flashlight, took off his clothes, shoes and socks, and wore only a pair of underwear, and jumped into the water immediately. At this moment, the sky will not be dark, and as soon as Zhou Xuanye enters the water, he is interested in the center of the lake, and gradually it only becomes a black spot. I immediately took out my binoculars to look at it, and now I saw it clearly, only to see that after swimming to the center of the lake, he took a deep breath, and the whole person plunged into the water and disappeared without a trace.

I immediately looked at my watch and started the timer.

He can dive for about three minutes at a time, beyond which he may be in danger.

There was only one telescope, and after I looked at it for a while, the thing was directly snatched by Tan Jian.

When the time came, I asked, "Has Brother Zhou come out?" ”

Tan Jian was silent.

I asked again, and he frowned and said, "It's out, it's going down again." ”

It seems that I didn't find it for the first time, after all, underwater search is not an easy task, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and diving has to have a buffer period, and in the absence of oxygen exchange equipment, it is impossible for Zhou Xuanye to support it for a long time.

Sure enough, more than twenty minutes later, he swam to the shore to rest, sitting by the water in his underwear and panting. It was a little cold at this time, I threw my coat to him, Zhou Xuanye put a batch on his body, wiped his face, and said, "The water is quite deep, I'll go back after a while." ”

I said, "How long does it take to swim back and forth?" If it's a short distance, I can also go and help. ”

He shook his head and said we couldn't help with that. After resting for more than ten minutes, he went into the water again, and so on, and it was completely dark. It didn't take long for the merman to be on a stimulant, already a little dying, but as the moon revealed, it began to struggle again, and made a gurgling sound from its throat, and tried to spit out the glove stuffed in its mouth.

When I saw this, I quickly stuffed it again, and on land, the membrane on its eyes was closed, and the exposed eyeballs were blue, and there was only a small black spot on the pupil in the middle.

After this period of time, we don't have the fear of the shark at the beginning, plus it is tied up by us and has no offensive power, Tang Linlin even circled around it, and kept chanting: "Do you say it's male or female?" Where does his little brother or little sister grow? As she spoke, she searched the merman almost all over her body, and finally she found out. However, at the position of the fish's tail, which is about the same as the lower abdomen of a human, there is an area with relatively delicate fish scales, which is slightly convex, and it seems to be wrapped with something.

Tang Linlin stretched out her finger and was about to poke it, but I couldn't stand it anymore, grabbed the collar at the back of her neck, dragged her aside, and said, "If you dare to bang it again, I'll throw you into the water." ”

"You want to take a mandarin duck bath with me?"

"It's to drown you."

“…… It's scary every day. ”

I didn't bother to pay attention to her, and Tan Jian watched the movement in the lake, it was already dark at this time, and at this time in normal times, Xiao An's little ghost had already slipped out and floated around, but this time, let alone floating, there was no reaction at all.

Tan Jian said that it was injured by the Si Ghost Sword, and it took a long time to recover, but we don't have anything on hand to make offerings, so we can only wait until we go back to Shenzhen.

At this moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew in the warm valley.

The wind came suddenly, it looked very weird, blowing a lot of sand, hitting Xuan'er, almost blinding people's eyes.

"Phew, it's windy." Caught off guard, Tang Linlin scraped a blade of grass into her mouth.

Tan Jian squinted, and his windbreaker was blown to the sound of hunting: "Demon Wind, it seems that he has found the formation eye." As soon as the words fell, I saw that the originally calm lake was also rippled by the wind, and as the wind increased, the lake even rolled up waves, lapping the shore one by one, but Zhou Xuanye didn't even have a personal shadow.

The whole lake was dark and swarthy, and there was not a single ray of light shining through.

This means that he is still underwater!

I felt a tug in my heart, ignoring the wind-blown grass and rocks, and squinting at the movement of the lake.

At this moment, a faint halo finally came out of the water and swam in the direction we were. But halfway through the swim, it sank again, and after a while, it floated up again, and began to change its position, not swimming towards us, but in the direction of the current.

I immediately realized that Zhou Xuanye was physically exhausted, and he had been in the water for too long. Without saying a word, I quickly took off my shoes, socks, clothes and pants and jumped into the water, heading towards the light source in the water. Even though the place was as warm as spring, the cold water of the lake was beyond my expectations when I went into the water on this big night, and I couldn't help but shiver.

At this surge, I struggled to swim to Zhou Xuanye's side, and then I realized that the flashlight was in his mouth, and he grabbed something in his hand. That thing looked a little heavy, making Zhou Xuanye's movements not so flexible.

The bandage that bandaged the arm turned pale blood, and the wound should have been opened. I kind of regret that I shouldn't have done that hard.

At that moment, I took the heavy thing in Zhou Xuanye's hand, and took a general look, it was an object about 30 centimeters long and more than 20 centimeters high, the material was like some kind of jade, and I didn't have time to study the specifics.

This thing is quite heavy, after I took it, it greatly reduced Zhou Xuanye's burden, he could finally control himself, and immediately took the flashlight off his mouth, thanked me, and the two of us began to swim to the shore.

When he climbed ashore, Zhou Xuanye's whole body froze, the skin on his body was miserable and white, and he was trembling all over.

Tang Linlin, this girl, is quite reliable this time, and immediately handed over her clothes and pants, saying, "Put them on quickly, let's find a place to shelter from the wind." ”

Zhou Xuanye sneezed, and said while dressing: "The formation eye has been obtained, this formation should have been opened, let's quickly find a way." ”

I said, "What about this merman?" ”

Tan Jian glanced at it and said, "Someone will take care of the aftermath." "I know, he's talking about the people of the Feather Gate.

The wind is blowing more and more, and our only tent has been scratched by Zhou Xuanye with a sword long ago, and at this moment, we have to find a place to shelter from the wind. The terrain around the lake, we have already touched it many times, there is no place to dodge, now, we can only go forward, if this formation has been broken, then there should be other roads.

At that moment, everyone walked against the wind, and more than an hour later, a new road appeared in front of us.

It was on the right side of the valley, where a narrow valley road stood out, and we had passed through this area twice during the day, when it was still a cliff.

"This thing of formation is really amazing." I couldn't help but sigh.

"It's just that you can shelter from the wind inside, so go inside first." Zhou Xuanye said. He didn't look good, after all, he had been frozen in the water for too long.

The whole valley road is only about four meters wide, and there are towering cliffs on both sides, and when I look up, it is so dark that I can't even see the stars, and somehow I have a sense of foreboding, and it seems that it is not a wise decision to walk into such a valley road.

But Tan Jian and Zhou Xuanye didn't seem to have any other feelings, there were more shrubs growing here, and Tan Jian began to collect firewood, intending to make a fire to keep Zhou Xuanye warm.