In the afterglow of the setting sun, the students began to disassemble the stage on the playground, and from time to time there were laughter and laughter. The one-day festival is too short, but it also makes everyone who has experienced it feel like they can't get enough of it.

After listening to Xia Qiu's words yesterday, Liu Lingmei's reaction was unexpectedly calm. But the more she is like this, the more worried Xia Qiu is, because she knows her well, she is timid and likes to think crankily, why did she behave so differently this time.

Liu Lingmei couldn't fully understand what Xia Qiu said, let alone accept it, so she chose to temporarily isolate that part of her memory and not touch it. It took time for her to figure it out, but one thing she knew was that her friend was in great trouble.

Willow Street, the old house. Entering the corridor through the door, there was a sudden noise in the study on the left-hand side, and the black wooden bookcase slid to the side, and a thin boy wearing large glasses appeared behind the bookcase. The boy was Min Euntong, and he was flipping around on the tablet as he walked out of the secret room behind the bookcase, behind which the Super Terminal MM was running in an orderly manner.

After hearing from Dong Muya that her friends from the other world had broken through the two cities in the Strange Array, he was even more impressed by her group of friends. On the other hand, he had to take a long-term view of the investigation of the remaining three cities.

The first to make a gain was the water city of Dongyao, which had always been the one he was most interested in.

Dragons, legendary ancient beasts, are rare animals that combine strength and beauty, and at the same time possess extremely high intelligence. And the Amber Dragon King would give up his divine status for love, adding warmth and romance to this perfect and cold beast, and Shuicheng Dongyao was brought into his heyday by such a legendary Dragon King.

In Min Entong's tablet, the picture he turned to now was the portrait of the Amber Dragon King he asked for from Dong Muya. Compared to the portraits he had searched for, he looked like a foreign movie star, with slightly curly hair and deep facial features that conflicted with the stereotype of the dragon king in humans.

What caught his attention in Dongyao City was probably the history before the Amber Dragon King took over the city. At that time, Dongyao was still a veritable water city, with nothing but a huge lake, and the mermaids who once managed it lived at the bottom of the lake.

After this period of investigation, Min Entong found a record of the period when the mermaid people lived at the bottom of the lake. At that time, they raised thief polyps at the bottom of the lake, which are similar to the polyps in the human world, but as they grow, they will grow along the shelf you built for them, and eventually swallow the shelf completely.

The merfolk take advantage of this property of the thief polyp to build their own colorful cave at the bottom of the lake, which is called the Coral House. It wasn't until the Amber Dragon King took over that they gradually abandoned the coral house at the bottom of the lake and moved to live on the ground. The coral huts left at the bottom of the lake have long been dilapidated and forgotten due to their age.

It is said that in the coral house built by the mermaids, there is a labyrinth that connects to the tunnel that leads to the temple at the bottom of the lake where the mermaid treasure is enshrined, the Fish-inhabited Rock. Legend has it that this piece of fish habitat rock was transformed after the death of the ancestor of the mermaid tribe, and before the Amber Dragon King took over Dongyao, the witch of the mermaid tribe held a worship ceremony in the temple every year to pray for the spirit of the ancestor to bless the mermaid clan with prosperity.

Every 100 years, an unprecedented festival will be held, and the mermaids from all over the world, except for Dongyao, will also gather here to offer sacrifices, and also offer a young mermaid girl to the ancestor as his companion for the next hundred years. The chosen maiden will be taken into the temple at the bottom of the lake by the Merfolk Witch and locked in the room where the Fish Habitat Rock is enshrined. The girl's fate is self-evident, where some god will take them away, and they will only die alone from hunger and cold.

It is a piece of basalt that gets its name from the fish, which is the same as the array material that Min Entong analyzed earlier and found in Dongyao, Shuicheng. The only problem is that the entrance to the temple at the bottom of the lake has been passed down from generation to generation by the merfolk witches, and today, there are no witches among the mermaids, so how to find the path to the temple has become the biggest problem.

Hearing about the bottleneck encountered in the investigation, Qianqi hurriedly wrote a letter to his father, asking him for help to launch an investigation in Dongyao Water City.

The lifespan of the merfolk is comparable to that of humans, so even the oldest of the clan's elders had not yet been born at the time of the last major memorial, not to mention the legendary maze of the path, and even the general flow of the ritual was only vague.

The Amber Dragon King had no choice but to send his men to dive to the bottom of the lake in search of clues, and it would take a long time to find a record of the temple at the bottom of the lake from the ruins, or to find an entrance that might connect to the maze.

Jade Cicada remembers that when she was a child, she would often play hide-and-seek games with her friends at the bottom of the lake, relying on the ruins of the coral houses remaining at the bottom of the lake as cover, chasing and playing with each other for most of the day.

Once, while playing hide and seek, she found a random dilapidated house as usual, and as soon as she hid behind a large mirror in the dilapidated house, she saw different bubbles emerging from her feet.

In fact, it is not uncommon for bubbles to emerge at the bottom of the lake, and it is likely to be caused by the loosening of the underground soil. She subconsciously knocked her hand on the bubbling place a few times, and just thought that she was just suspicious when she was sucked in by a powerful force. She felt herself slip into a downward tunnel, rolling and climbing all the way down, until she finally fell to the ground.

It was a cave at the bottom of the lake that was extremely icy and extremely cold, and when you exhaled lightly, there was a foggy haze in front of you, and the ground under your feet was covered with thick layers of ice, and there were icicles hanging on the top of the cave. The structure of the rock wall in the cave is very peculiar, as if it is a special kind of rock, and there are points of light in the deep blue, making the whole space like a starry night sky, and the milky way-like belt on the top of the cave seems to be guiding visitors along it.

The jade cicada involuntarily walked in the direction guided by the Milky Way, and after a while, it was frozen all over and its lips turned purple. She remembered that she had finally crept into a room, and in a trance she saw a black rock embedded in a huge crystal, and she froze unconscious and collapsed.

When she woke up again, she was already lying on the shore, surrounded by her playmates, who had just thought she was dead, and wept one by one, and now they saw that she was all right, and they all shouted and laughed.

"First time I've seen a drowning merfolk!"

"It wasn't drowning, she just fainted in the water."

"That's motion sickness!"

"Hahaha......"

She only remembered the kids she was playing with at the time jokingly saying these words. She was too young to believe what she had described at the bottom of the lake, and gradually she herself chose to forget about it and never talk about it again.

And now, when she heard that the Demon King Fox and Qianqi were looking for clues about the temple at the bottom of the lake, she thought of the cave she saw at that time. But running directly to the Amber Dragon King is unfounded, I'm afraid no one will believe her, in order to prove that her memory is correct, she must find the broken house at the bottom of the lake again, as long as she can find it, no one will say that it is just a fantasy from her childhood. Although he knew that the young man who was the demon king fox already belonged to him, Jade Cicada still couldn't stop his urge to help him.

She changed into clothes that made it easier to move in the water, and reminisced about the waters she had played in as a child, diving to the bottom of the lake, trying to find the houses that she used to hide in the past.

At the bottom of the lake, the light is refracted by the lake layer by layer and becomes soft, and the underwater creatures are wrapped in a layer of fluorescence, especially the aquatic plants that dance with the water waves, which are very beautiful. Jade Cicada carries a lamp made of night pearls, which is made of metal wires around the night pearls one by one to form a circle, and then circles at the top to form a handle that is easy to handle. The light of the Night Pearl becomes stronger in the dark, so it is suitable for underwater use.

Jade Cicada found a dilapidated house built by thieves and polyps, and suddenly felt that this was near the cave where she had fallen into the cave when she was a child, so she searched for it one by one. Suddenly, a black shadow flashed out of a broken door, and the jade cicada subconsciously covered the lamp in her hand with her clothes, and then hid behind a ruin to watch.

The shadow looked around and swam in one direction. The sixth sense tells Jade Cicada that the dark shadow must be related to the temple at the bottom of the lake, so she decides to follow the black shadow to find out. The shadow chose to go ashore in a sparsely populated place, found a set of clothes left there behind a rock on the shore and changed into them, and walked in the direction of the market.

When the light on the shore was sufficient, the jade cicada recognized that although the man was also a mermaid, he was a new face, and he felt even more strange. She followed him all the way to a hotel in the market, which was the largest in Dongyao, and the owner was also a mermaid slave trader, and he had a lot of money. The hotel is full of guests, and there are outsiders staying every day.

Fortunately, the boss of the catfish essence has always coveted the beauty of the jade cicada, although there are many mermaid slaves who are resold by him every day, but with the appearance of the jade cicada, the figure and talent are still rare in a century. On weekdays, the jade cicada feels disgusted when she sees his fat and big face, and the flat mouth that spits foam when she speaks, and she avoids his overtures. But today, in order to find out the clues of the mysterious person just now from him, she had to pretend to be smiling.

"Big Catfish!" Jade Cicada walked to the front of the counter with a smile and said to the catfish essence inside.

"Hey, isn't this a little jade cicada, a rare guest! You don't come when you are usually invited, so what's wrong today? ”

As soon as the catfish spirit spoke, not only was her mouth bubbling, but the two whiskers on the corners of her mouth were swinging up and down, and she almost didn't spit it out when she saw the jade cicada's stomach go straight up, but she still had to force a happy face and continued: "It's not like I haven't seen Big Catfish for a long time, do you miss you!" Look at you, business is getting better and better! ”

"No, business is too good and annoying, and I still can't keep busy after recruiting a few guys. If you want me to see, Sister Jade Chan shouldn't go to the song and dance division in the palace, why don't you come and be the boss lady for me! The catfish spirit said as he stretched out his big fat hand to take the hand of the jade cicada and touched it.

Jade Cicada pretended to bow her head shyly, but she didn't want to look at his face anymore, and then asked: "The person who just walked in, I seem to have seen it somewhere, but I can't remember it for a while, who is that person?" ”

"Which one?" The catfish spirit touched the jade cicada's crisp hand again and asked.

"It's the one in gray just now, who belongs to the same merfolk clan as me."

"That's a big supplier of mine, and I bring a lot of mermaid slaves from outside every year." The catfish spirit deliberately lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "If you want to say that person really has no conscience, he earns all the money of his own clan, and he earns so much peace of mind." ”

"Not really! So did he come alone? Jade Cicada asked.

"No, there are two more with me, but they don't talk much!" The catfish essence rolled his eyes as if he had some taste, and asked, "Sister, why are you interested in him?" Although there are not many mermaids who are as rich as him, how can such a person be worthy of his sister, if you want to say that you can really be good to you, you have to be ......"

"Oh, big brother catfish, I suddenly remembered that I still have something, so I won't tell you yet! I'll come back to you next time! ”

The catfish spirit wanted to go on, but was interrupted by the jade cicada. She pulled her hand out, smiled back mischievously and walked out of the hotel, leaving behind the fat catfish essence with crispy bones behind her for a long time.