A quarter of an hour later, along the banks of the Yu River......

The main Hokuriku river, which is about 80 meters wide and more than 20 kilometers long, has its source in the mountains west of Drehem, and the water resources of the You River are abundant and nourish the villages and towns along the river. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The first stop of the trip was the narrow stone bridge that connected the banks of the Yu River, because Shoey suggested going to Nord territory to inquire about the news, and was led by Joshim, who had not spoken much.

After stepping onto the bridge, Natsuhiko rode past Xiao Yi and found that she was not wearing any weapons, so he reminded: "This kind of journey is always dangerous, you should bring some self-defense weapons." ”

"I've brought it!" she said, pulling out a three-edged stabbing sword from behind, "this is what Uncle Kai gave me." It's both a sword and a gun, like this!"

She spun the grip, and a short stick immediately stretched out from the hilt, and the bayonet sword became a short spear.

"It's really a good thing, will you use it?" said Xia Yan.

Xiao Yi snorted: "Don't underestimate me, I'm Uncle Kai's apprentice!"

"As long as you can protect yourself......" He shook his head and walked to the front of the line without saying goodbye.

As they walked along the wide deck of the bridge, large enough to pass a squad of cavalry, to the middle of the stone bridge, a pack horse somehow fell to the side of the bridge in terror, lost its balance and fell into the water. Although he did not know what had happened, he dismounted and jumped into the water from the bridge to fish, he swam to unload the pack horse's luggage and throw it onto the bridge, and climbed up the rope thrown by his companions, and when he was about to whistle the horse in the water to swim to the shore, the horse was dragged to the bottom by some person or thing, and in the blink of an eye a large pool of blood floated on it.

Everyone was attracted by the sudden abnormal situation, and came to the bridge to look at the water, but unexpectedly, two solidified water balls suddenly flew out of the blood-filled water, and flew towards Xiao Yi and Xia Yan on the side of the bridge at the same time, one of the water balls was chopped by Xia Yan, and the other water ball hit the target quickly in front of her and blocked it with a scabbard.

"Get out of the way! Looks like some guys here don't welcome us!" he motioned for Shoey to step back, and he gripped the hilt of his knife in a posture of drawing a knife. With a wave of moon shadows, the sword qi went straight through the bottom of the water, and the two strange shadows rushed out of the water and jumped directly onto the bridge deck......

At the moment when everyone was stunned, only Xiao Yi shouted excitedly: "Brother Xia Yan! I didn't expect it to be true! There are really fish people in Youhe!~"

She pointed to the figures in the middle of the bridge, two half-fishmen, with light blue hard scales covering most of their skin, and a strong tail behind them, waving their front paws at the bridge and baring their fangs, which still had the remnants of biting their prey between their teeth.

Before they could act, Mo Cha and White had already opened their bows and shots, and the fish-man who was shot through the head by the arrow was still alive, and spat out a water balloon from his mouth to attack, and after everyone dodged, the water ball hit a cargo horse behind him, knocking the horse to the ground in an instant, which shows that the water balloon has extremely strong attack power.

Due to the impression from a distance, they thought that ordinary weapons might not have hurt the fish-man, so they retreated and used long-range weapons to strike, but Joshim rushed forward, and the moment the two swords were unsheathed, they had already rushed behind the fish-man, and red blood splashed all over him. The fish-man who had his chest cut off did not fall, and Josim's attack did not stop, he immediately swung his twin swords and slashed back, but the scales on the fish-man's back were even harder, and they bounced off Josim's double-wielding blow, and the long tail with sharp tail fins swept away, and Josim immediately rolled backwards and jumped up to avoid the left and right sweeps of the two spiny tails, and they also turned around at this time, targeting Josim.

"Their scales are too strong, we have to use stabs!" As soon as the Ten Guards finished analyzing, several flying needles in their hands hit one of the fishmen in the back, and a few arrows fired by Mocha and White hit the other, just in time to relieve the immediate crisis for the suppressed Joshim, and he swung his twin swords to cut off the forelimbs of the fishmen.

"Your triangular gun can effectively pierce their bodies, go together?"

"Sure enough, Brother Xia Yan, you still have to ask Miss Ben for help!hahahaha!~"

When Natsuhiko pulled out his sword and rushed to the fishman to stab the blade into the fishman's back, twisting the handle of the knife to cut the internal organs, Xiao Yi also ran and pierced the body of the other fishman from behind with a triangular gun.

After cleaning up the two fishmen who appeared out of nowhere, Xia Yan gave Xiao Yi a thumbs up and praised, "Good job! If you were taught by Instructor Kai, then you shouldn't have to do this bit of kung fu." ”

Xiao Yi crossed his hands and said in an arrogant tone: "Although I didn't finish Uncle Kai's training, he didn't dare to underestimate me!~"

Xia Yan laughed, shook his head and left, and said as he passed by Joshim: "What a powerful dual-wielding kung fu, sure enough, my team members are not fuel-efficient lamps." ”

Josim didn't answer, but simply put his twin swords back into their scabbards, and jumped into the river to wash the blood from his body, despite the danger lurking. Mo Cha quickly threw him a towel from the suitcase and reminded him, "Gray-haired boy, don't take it lightly, maybe you will be eaten by them too!"

"Thanks, brunette boy, as a Nord, I'm not afraid of anything. He quickly washed the blood from his leather coat and climbed onto the stone bridge.

At this time, Xiao Yi was explaining the legend of Yuhe to everyone, and although they were not interested, she insisted that everyone listen to her, otherwise they would not leave.

"It's not a mermaid! It's a half-fish man! The history of this river dates back to prehistoric times, and there is a goddess who guards it and an ark that survives natural disasters!"

"Isn't there still Santa Claus and reindeer......" In order to stop Xiao Yi, Mo Cha replied with a smirk.

She was very angry about this, and for a moment she was confused, and yelled at Mo Cha: "Who said that! What I said is true! As long as I shout, a goddess will come out immediately!!"

Before the echo dissipated, a small whirlpool began to appear on the nearby water surface, Xia Yan immediately became vigilant, lest it be the second wave of attack by the fishmen, so he swung a sword qi to penetrate the whirlpool on the surface of the river, but led to a mysterious woman wearing a hair ornament and a white dress, floating on the river surface with the splash stirred up in the whirlpool.

"Tristan is a big fool!I said there is a goddess!!" She looked very excited, and hurriedly ran to the bridge, closest to the position of the mysterious woman, and shouted: "It's finally officially met, I'm so happy!~"

Unlike Xiao Yi, who was excited, Xia Yan didn't have a good impression of this "goddess" in her mouth, and immediately raised the Crescent Moon Knife and used his fingers to draw a cold light on the blade, swinging a powerful moon shadow, who knew that the woman on the river raised her arm, and the river instantly became turbulent, forming a huge water wave, canceling out the sword qi and continuing to rush towards Xia Yan on the stone bridge.

"Veil River God!!Please don't hurt my friend!!"

This was Xiao Yi's voice, who stood in front of Xia Yan at the last moment and shouted at the river god, hanging her arms from the other side, and the huge wave of water also crashed back into the river, only to sprinkle a "heavy rain" on the stone bridge.

This sentence made everyone scratch their heads, and Josim was also puzzled, and they discussed: "Isn't this the Yuhe River, why did it become the Weir River?"

The river god came to the bridge from the water, looked at Xiao Yi with her beautiful eyes, and said, "Little girl, you are a kind man, and you know me and believe in my existence as much as the two people before me, and I regard this state of mind as a kind of respect and worship, and as a demigod of the world, I can offer you a secret that you want to know the most, but it must be within my power." ”

"We need to know where the five mysterious gems are located, which are owned by the Holy King of the Holy Kingdom. ”

"You offended me, for this girl's sake, I won't punish you, and I won't retreat!"

Xia Yan, who preemptively asked the question, was angrily reprimanded by the river god, and he had to step aside, knowing that he was wrong.

Xiao Yi looked at everyone's eyes, and understood what to ask, she asked the river god: "We really need to find the Saint King's elemental gem, please give me a clue!"

The river god closed her eyes, and after a few minutes of contemplation, she opened them again and said to the people on the stone bridge, "Unfortunately, there is only one elemental gem within my grasp, right in the upper reaches of the Vir River, at the end of the Motvia waterway!"

"Looks like we just need to head up the river, let's go. After knowing the location, Xia Yan and the others prepared to leave.

The river god motioned for them to stop and explained: "The Vir River is not an ordinary river, the fish-people have been extinct in the river for hundreds of years, but their appearance here means that there is a problem with the source of the river, the Motvia water vein. ”

"That is, we have to deal with these fish-people on our way upstream, right? And there's a problem, we don't have boats. Since he really didn't know how to get to the Motvia waterway, Shibei asked uncertainly.

"As the little girl said, there is indeed an ark in the Vir River, which helped the inhabitants of Hokuriku survive terrible natural disasters in the first year of the Common Era, and I can make an exception to lend you a small boat on the ark!

She made a gesture to the river in the direction of the river behind her, and after about five minutes, a wooden rowboat finally floated from the river to their eyes, and the river god pointed to the dinghy and explained, "This is the only lifeboat left on the ark, it can only seat three people, you decide who to go to." ”

As the crowd was left undecided, she added, "I cannot leave this river because of the duty of the gods, so I have entrusted you to go to the Motvia waterway, where the fish-men live, to investigate why they crossed the line and broke into the Vir River." ”

"Okay, leave it to us, we'll find out what the problem is for you!~"

Xiao Yi agreed unceremoniously, and in desperation, Xia Yan had to take over the conversation: "Okay! This task must be carried out by someone who is good at water, who else will go with me except Joshim?"

Shibei thought for a while and shook his head: "I'm not good at water, so I'll stay." ”

Tea is also reluctant to go to the waterways in order to fight the fish-people, and when White decides to be a third person, Shaw jumps into the dinghy before him and picks up the oars.

"I must go! After all, I promised to come down, and I refuse to defend it~"

"Cut...... This tomboy ...... It looks like the three of us went together, and the three of you are waiting for us here!"

Natsuhiko also jumped on the boat, and due to the heavy weapons on his body, the boat gradually sank into the water, and the Ten Guards stood on the edge of the stone bridge and reminded, "You can't bring your steel sword, otherwise Josim won't be able to get on the boat." ”

"There's really no way, save it for me!"

He took the chopping rock out of his backpack and threw it to the Ten Guards, who were barely able to stand on their feet with the force of the impact, which made the Ten Guards take several steps back. The dinghy finally stabilized, and Joshim jumped aboard, took the oars from Shoy, and began rowing upstream......