The life of the Taiping Imperial City came to an end, and Captain Akang and his party of four once again embarked on the operation of going south to find the brain reader.

In the blue sky, the sun shone its blazing light, shining on the white sand below the sea, and the direct and reflected light warmed the whole sea in a white and dazzling way, making it impossible to open your eyes.

Swimming and moving forward, jumping out of the water from time to time to do somersaults, smiling heartily, it seems that there really is no trouble in my heart. Perhaps the world of mermaids was created by the Creator without any intention of preparing them with any troubles and pollution.

"Kiki, Lingji!" The captain followed behind and shouted: "Aaron and I have both summoned our respective pets to patrol the surrounding sea area for a few nautical miles in advance to prevent a sneak attack by Dubin and his gang, and now we need to take a break." ”

Lingji understood that it was her turn to summon jellyfish to patrol the perimeter. In order to learn the lesson of being hunted by other dangerous enemies before, the captain made an appointment with someone who could summon the favored pet, and took turns to summon the favored pet to patrol in front and around to arrange eyeliner. As soon as you find a dangerous enemy, you can take immediate action tactics to make your advance safer.

"Hey!" Kiki sighed: "I'm really useless, I can't help in this area until now." ”

"It's okay, I'm here." Lingji replied briskly, and then lit up the empty white eyes, summoned the nearby lantern jellyfish, and arranged the eyeliner.

The whole team continued to move forward, but within a few seconds, Lingji, who had begun to swim, stopped moving forward and settled there. As if he had noticed something bad, his expression began to become solemn.

Aaron and Captain Akon, who were swimming ahead, didn't seem to notice anything unusual. And Kiki turned her head to look at Lingji's expression, and could almost feel the murderous aura bursting out of her body, a strong and powerful murderous aura. In the midst of her doubts, Lingji swung her tail vigorously, and a lightning bolt scurried behind Aaron, slamming a punch into the back of his head.

"Oops!" Aaron's eyes were full of gold on the spot, and he was confused. It's almost somersaulted in the water.

"What's going on?" The captain asked curiously.

"What's going on, what's going on?" Aaron hugged the back of his head and shouted inexplicably, "Is there a mistake?" ”

Lingji didn't seem to have enough after a heavy punch, and she was about to throw a second punch. was pulled by Kiki behind him: "What's the matter, Lingji?" Let's make it clear first! ”

"I saw, no, I sensed that about a nautical mile ahead, there were more than 10,000 or so electric rays attacking my pet jellyfish."

"Ahh Is there such a thing? Aaron was not convinced: "Why don't I feel that there are so many electric rays in front of me?" As he spoke, Aaron lit up his eyes and sensed it.

"More than 10,000 electric rays attacked my few dozen lantern jellyfish. You still don't admit it! Lingji puffed out her cheeks and got angry: "You dare to say that your pet is not an electric ray?" ”

In Aaron's eyes, the truth was passed back. He touched the back of his head and said:

"You, I heard you're a top student. You must not have figured out what is the difference between the two types of fish that look similar, electric rays and stingrays, right? It wasn't my pet electric ray that attacked the jellyfish first, but a stingray that evolved from sharks 180 million years ago. ”

"But, this fish is too much like an electric ray." Lingji was puzzled.

"Wait a minute, there's another situation." Aaron also found some information: "It's a strange mermaid, it should be the stingray pet owner who is there directing the stingray to attack the jellyfish." ”

"How so?" Captain Akon sensed that something was about to happen: "Jellyfish will stick out their spines to attack their prey, and stingrays use their tails in the same way as scorpions on land. Moreover, the toxicity is violent, and if the number of jellyfish is at a disadvantage, it will definitely suffer. ”

"No, I'm going to have to go see what's going on." Without waiting for the captain's consent, Lingji threw off her tail and swam as she rushed to the strange battlefield ahead. In the battlefield ahead, there was a message that the lantern jellyfish was stung, and one after another, not only stinging the lantern jellyfish, but also stinging the heart of the lantern jellyfish's pet lord Lingji.

"Lingji, don't be too impulsive, what should I do if there is danger?" Kiki didn't feel comfortable chasing after her.

The captain and Aaron looked at each other, and could only follow to see what was going on. When a pet is stabbed, it hurts so much that the pet owner usually can't stand by and watch it happen.

Like dense fallen leaves tumbling in the wind, schools of stingrays block out the sunlight shining below the sea, creating a large shadow. After the arrival of the four captains, one of the mermaids in the middle scattered the stingrays left and right, revealing the true face of Lushan. It is a middle-aged mermaid with yellow-black skin and a tall and sturdy physique. He looks a lot like Shark Dubin, except that he's younger.

"Hey! Who are you? Captain Akon asked the man.

After a while, the school of stingrays gathered behind the man, forming a wall of fish. All lined up squarely and neatly, with a well-trained feel.

"I'm the stingray pet master, who are you?" The man's words were serious, not hostile or angry.

"I'm Akon, the pet owner of the lantern anglerfish. They are Aaron, the pet owner of the electric ray, and Lingji, the pet master of the lantern jellyfish, why did you attack the lantern jellyfish? ”

"Humph! Those jellyfish captured my teacher, Dr. Zhuo. I couldn't think of a way to get the pet owners of the jellyfish to let my teacher go, so I attacked the jellyfish to lure their pet owners out. ”

"Nonsense, even if the lantern jellyfish have a second pet owner, I can sense that these jellyfish are not doing these things." Lingji argued unconvinced.

"Oh! Wait a minute. The captain remembered a question and asked, "Just now Lingji mistook a stingray for an electric ray, is it possible that you mistook other jellyfish for a lantern jellyfish?" Jellyfish all look a little bit alike. ”

"This ......," Ah Zhong said hesitantly, "Of course, the jellyfish that captured Dr. Zhuo are bigger than the jellyfish here." Like a male lion in a jellyfish population. ”

"Lion's mane jellyfish!" The captains spoke almost in unison.

"Oops! Sister Lingji, do you know how wronged I was by eating your punch? Aaron exclaimed, holding the back of his head with one hand.

Lingji smiled embarrassedly, but thought to herself: "Look back and see how I cleaned up that stingray pet master stupid." ”

"By the way, who is Dr. Zhuo? Why was he arrested? The captain asked.

Ah Zhong looked at the four of them, and felt that they didn't look like bad guys. So he replied:

"Doctor Zhuo is one of the very good doctors in the Taiping Imperial City. It is the pet owner of the neon spiny acanth, which is known as a clean fish. She has studied the microorganisms and bacteria in the sea, and she found that my pet stingray has many useful substances in its body that can treat cancer, so she asked me to work with her to research these useful drugs for the benefit of the world. How can such a compassionate doctor be caught in front of me by such a huge jellyfish, and how can I calm the anger in my heart? So I summoned more than 10,000 stingrays......"

After calming the scene down a little, Captain Akang asked, "When Dr. Zhuo was entangled in a jellyfish and captured, you tried to save her. What is the specific process, can you talk about it? ”

"I saw the big jellyfish entangled the doctor at that time, and I took on a fighting form, and two poisonous stingers stretched out from my two hands and stabbed them on the cap of the jellyfish cap. Then it was thrown aside by the jellyfish, and the place where it was stabbed by me healed in an instant. It is immune to stingray venom and has a strong regenerative ability. Ah Zhong replied.

"In that case, what is the jellyfish doing with Dr. Zhuo? They shouldn't need a doctor. It is more likely that there are seriously injured people among the people behind the scenes, and that the injured people are important to them. The captain analyzed.

"It seems to make sense, there was a battle in the imperial city not long ago, is it normal to have injured people? So doctors must be in high demand! Lingji agreed with the captain's analysis.

"Ah Zhong, tell us what happened before Dr. Zhuo was arrested?" Captain Akon continued to ask questions.

"Dr. Zhuo usually spends most of his time working in the Imperial City, and occasionally sends out to land to purchase medicinal herbs. She has a beautiful white sailboat, which she usually uses to transport medicine to the vicinity of the sea. The medicine that had been sealed in a jar in advance was thrown to the bottom of the sea, and I gathered a school of stingrays to form a transport team to transport the medicine to the imperial city.

Not long ago, she was ordered to go to land to purchase medicinal herbs, and she was in a hurry. I didn't know what was going on, because the time of the trip wasn't as usual, and she told me she didn't know what was going to happen in the Imperial City either. But she always felt that something was about to happen, and set off the day before the carnival in the imperial city.

Because he was not at ease, Dr. Zhuo's procurement task was only about half completed, and he set sail to catch up. There was no bad weather on the way, and we quickly returned to the designated meeting point. And because of the rush of time, my stingrays were not fully assembled on time.

At this moment, a dark shadow suddenly appeared, jumped out of the water and jumped onto the deck of the sailboat. If you look closely, it is a female mermaid dressed in black, although there are many wounds on her body, but she feels that the injuries are not very serious. She did not give her name, but only asked the doctor to treat her injuries. The doctor is benevolent, and Dr. Zhuo did not refuse. Later, while he was not on guard, the doctor was pushed from the boat into the sea, and the woman in black jumped off with him. In the sea, both of them transformed into mermaid forms, and the woman in black asked the doctor if it was a mermaid doctor, and after Xiao Zhuo confirmed his identity, several large jellyfish appeared and entangled the doctor.

Seeing that this was not good, I immediately got up to rescue the doctor. You must know that not all mermaids can fight with physical strength, and mermaids, who are doctors, do not have excellent fighting abilities. What I didn't expect was that a mermaid who looked a little like me led a group of sharks, and I had to deal with a group of sharks that were more troublesome than jellyfish.

The scene was chaotic, and the pets under my command were far inferior to the sharks, and they were torn apart by the sharks. I'm no match for the pet master who commands sharks, he's so powerful. I watched Dr. Zhuo being dragged into the deep sea by jellyfish, and the stingrays I could summon in a short period of time became less and less......

The sea was so muddy with sand and the flesh of the stingrays that his vision became blurry and he couldn't see anything clearly. Suddenly, I felt a force moving behind me, and when I turned around, a great white shark's stiff head had hit my back, and I didn't know anything about it.

When I woke up, the bad guys were gone, and only a few stingrays were left. I began to gather more stingrays and search the nearby waters for the doctor's tracks, but the sea was so big......"

Ah Zhong shook his head with some sadness and helplessness.

"Don't be upset, you've done your best. Your pet is gentle and not fierce, and usually likes to live in the sand of the shallow seabed. It's like a hermit who has no quarrel with the world, and it's good to be able to do this. Captain Akang comforted him and continued: "The injured mermaid in black should be the lion's mane jellyfish's pet master jellyfish enchantress. And the one who looks a little like you alone is definitely the shark Dubin. They come premeditated and prepared, so they will catch you off guard. ”

"I can't wait stupidly, I'm in a hurry, so I summoned more than 10,000 stingrays to attack the jellyfish......" Ah Zhongqing said eagerly.

"Summoned stingrays and saw jellyfish, and beat them up without distinguishing the species!" Aaron interjected with some displeasure.

Ah Zhong was silent, and he couldn't think of any good way to find a doctor.

Analysis of various details, the captain has not yet come to many conclusions. In the midst of silence, a swaying shadow of a ship fell overhead from the water, the shadow swayed with the water, and an anchor with a chain hung not far away.

"Is that ship up there the Doctor's?" The captain asked Ah Zhong.

"Yes."

"Let's go and see what's on the ship, maybe we'll find some clues." The captain took on the form of a terrestrial humanoid and floated upward.

Several people boarded the ship one after another, and the white sailboat was not much different from the sailing boats used by terrestrial humans. The hull painted white, the mast white, the sails, everything is plain white. Like an angel in white guarding this sea, dancing in the wind above the sea.

Bypass the warehouse at the bottom of the ship, which is where medicines and food are stored. Come to the ship's forward control room, a simple office with pens, paper and candle lamps on the desk. On the walls are nautical maps, ordinary cups displayed in the corners, nothing is ordinary.

There was a booklet on the table, and the captain looked at Ah Zhong and asked, "Do you mind if I look at the contents?" ”

"It's a shopping list, look."

The captain picked up the booklet and opened it, which was full of shopping lists of medicinal herbs. The handwriting is neatly written: "Dr. Zhuo must be a beautiful lady who is attentive and delicate." He pursed his lips and muttered.

Flipping through the many blank pages at the back, a page with a simple sketch drew the captain's attention: "Is this a self-portrait of Dr. Zhuo?" ”

The captain handed over the picture and asked Ah Zhong to identify: "Yes, it's the doctor's appearance." ”

The drawing was not finished, it seemed to be in a hurry, and the general outline was drawn, a sketch with a finger stretched out and pointing in a certain direction. There is nothing unusual in the whole picture, like a dumb riddle that tests the detective's intelligence.

At a loss, the captain raised his head and saw a small wooden platform sticking out of the wall behind the desk, and a small clay sculpture looked familiar. The small clay sculptures are also not finished, just like in the pictures, and the time seems to be relatively rushed, as if they are all shaping the same image. But the hand on the sculpture is more delicately kneaded, and the person who made the sculpture deliberately worked on it.

After all, the captain had some detective experience, and said slowly: "Ah Zhong, has Dr. Zhuo always driven the boat alone?" Are there any other deputies? ”

"The ship is not big, she can handle it herself, she is a capable little captain, and there is no deputy." Ah Zhong replied.

"Then she, as a captain, does she have such a note as a captain's diary?"

Ah Zhong hesitated, he hadn't heard of or seen this kind of note: "I don't know much about this." ”

"Terrestrial humans sail ships, and captains generally keep diaries. As a carrier of experience, it is left for future generations to learn or remember, so that future generations can know the story and life at sea. Dr. Zhuo incarnated as a terrestrial humanoid, went to land to buy medicine, and piloted a ship designed by a terrestrial human, would he also have a diary? The captain analyzed.

The small sculpture was shaped in a hurry, and the hand on the sculpture that was pointed at made Captain Akon subconsciously look in the direction of his finger. It was a wall opposite, sparsely hung with a few landscape paintings. Colorful trees, white waterfalls, green forests, beautiful castles...... The captain walked over and removed the painting that the sculpture was pointing to, and unwrapped the clasp behind the frame. A letter appeared, and the onlookers next to him cast admiring glances. opened the envelope and unfolded what Dr. Zhuo had no time to say:

"When I read this letter, perhaps I have already encountered something that makes it impossible to estimate life and death.

A few days ago, my superiors suddenly issued me a purchase list. The formalities did not follow the normal regulations, but only urged me to hurry up. The amount of drugs purchased in the list is larger and more than before, which seems to make me worry about returning later. So I suspect that something is going to happen in the Imperial City and transfer me out.

Therefore, if the person who sees this letter can be trusted, he can go to the imperial city to move the rescue soldiers to come to the rescue, and remember that the rescue must not alarm the black-robed elders in the city. ”

The content of the letter is very brief, and the general content is to ask someone who is destined to move the rescue soldiers for Dr. Zhuo. But Captain Akon frowned at the last sentence of the letter. Because before leaving the Imperial City, a black-robed patriarch had just passed away, and as far as he could remember, there should be only one black-robed patriarch left in the imperial city. Are these two patriarchs that Dr. Toh is referring to? Was she trying to protect the patriarch? Or is there some other reason?

Ah Zhong anxiously asked the captain, "What does the letter say?" How is Dr. Toh? ”

"What the letter says, combined with my judgment, is that Dr. Zhuo's life is not in danger for the time being." The captain replied.

"Why?" Ah Zhong asked, "How can you see it?" ”

The captain replied: "

First, Dr. Zhuo is a doctor, and it is likely that he was arrested only to save the injured, and there was no political purpose involved, so there was no reason to kill her.

Second, before the incident, Dr. Zhuo had a premonition that something was happening, so he left this letter. At the end of the letter, it was mentioned that the black-robed patriarch would not be allowed to find out about the matter, and it was possible that the patriarch would be in danger if he knew about it. Not to mention which patriarch she wants to protect, if the bad guys behind the scenes are coming to the patriarch, they will naturally not be in a hurry to kill the doctor. ”

Ah Zhong seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, I hope the captain's analysis is correct. He asked, "So what do I do next?" What can I do to save my teacher? ”

"In this way, you first rush back to the Taiping Imperial City to ask for help, there will definitely be a way for capable people there to sense Dr. Zhuo's location information, and you can help rescue at that time." But there is one thing, according to the doctor's instructions, you must not alarm the elders in the imperial city, and if you accidentally alarm, you must also prevent the elders from leaving the city, because Dr. Zhuo's judgment that the enemy is here to capture the patriarch. ”

"Okay, I hope you're right, captain, I'll go back to the city to find reinforcements right away. So what are you going to do next? Ah Zhong asked.

"Our team has a jellyfish pet who has just been teased by you, and she can help find those lion's mane jellyfish. Let's divide into two ways, let's go first! The captain replied.

"Okay!" One of them dived into the air, left the sailboat, and disappeared into the sea.

Captain Akon and the four of them returned to the sea and moved forward on their way to search for the lion's mane jellyfish. This time, Lingji used her ability to summon more lantern jellyfish, expanding the search range and wandering to the front.

Aaron couldn't wait for an apology from Lingji, and he didn't want to make people feel like he was too calculating. Leaned over to Kiki and started talking:

"Kiki, thank you!"

"Thank me for what?" Kiki is a little unsure of her intentions,

"Thank you for sparing me a second punch?"

Kiki understood and smiled: "It's nothing, no thanks!" ”

Looking at Lingji in front of her, her shoulders trembled, and she seemed to be snickering when she heard the conversation.

"Na! When I have time, I'll tell you, how to distinguish rays? Stingrays and manta rays. They all look alike. "Aaron doesn't usually talk much, but today he talks a little too much, and he is serious.

Captain Akang had some indescribable emotion in his heart, he wanted to find an elder to ask the secret of the Labyrinth Enchantment of the Pope City, why did it appear in Kiki's memory? A patriarch was murdered for reading the brain. Then the task of tracking down the whereabouts of the brain reader began. And when he encounters the mermaid doctor who is trying to protect the patriarch, what will happen to the only remaining black-robed patriarch in the imperial city? There seems to be some secret behind the doctor, why should she prevent others from alarming the patriarch? If the black-robed patriarchs are gone, what is the most likely outcome? One thing after another dragged a string of question marks, making him feel confused for a while.

How passive and unsuccessful it is to wait for the answer to finally come out on its own. And before it happens, God knows how many disasters you didn't expect.

The opponent is a person who hides deeply, with quite an amazing IQ and planning ability. can control whales, if he is also a whale pet owner, why can't Liu Lianna and Han Xiaoxiao, who are also whale pet owners, feel this person's resonant brain waves? And if you are an excellent animal trainer, a whale eats nearly four tons of fish and shrimp a day, according to the rules of the bait training method of the animal trainer on land, how many fish and shrimp should be used for taming animals? The possibilities of such a training method are too slim.

Gurus, who discovered the key issue, is missing, and all the clues are incomplete. Maybe we should change our minds and catch an enemy to ask for clarification. Perhaps the slain Kuraken was also motivated by his desire for the truth to use the world's controversial device, the Brain Reader, but unfortunately he was killed by the traitors in the city.

If his opponent was just trying to keep his secret, he could have smashed the device, but he chose to risk his life to take it. It can be seen how important the instrument is to them, and the function of the instrument is to interpret the secrets in the human brain.

If the opponent can control the whale, he must have a certain ability to read the whale's mind. Maybe the opponent can also read other people's minds, or call it the skill of mind reading. But maybe not fully proficient, otherwise what would he do if he took the brain instrument?

Before he died, Kuraken said that the brain reader was locked, what did he want to lock? He understands that the use of such a device is highly controversial, so it can be assumed that he added a lock to prevent the instrument from being used incorrectly. What a visionary veteran, but who can unlock it?

Dr. Zhuo wanted to protect the patriarch, and theorized that she should not have known about the small fighting in the Imperial City during her time when she was sent out to buy medicine, and the subsequent murder of Kulaken. But because of the haste of the dispatch, her sixth sense instinct told her that something was happening, so she had to protect the patriarch. There were still two elders in the city at that time, one was Kulaken and the other was Quylon.

Don't......

Suppose the senator to be protected is Kuraken, who is dead. But if the patriarch to be protected is Quiren, wouldn't Quiren be in trouble......

Captain Akon let out a sigh and put those assumptions aside. The thing at hand is to read the brain machine, and there is an unpredictable kidnapped doctor.

"Captain has been discovered." The lantern jellyfish summoned by Lingji sent back a message: "In the deep sea to the southeast half a day's away, there is a lion's mane jellyfish swimming around with a mermaid entangled. ”

"What does she look like?" The captain asked.

"Jellyfish have average eyesight, but you can feel the white skin and scales of the entangled mermaid, and the silver shawl hair, which bears a high resemblance to the self-portrait on the white sailboat."

"Okay, let's chase after it." The captain instructed Aaron: "Aaron, you should also work hard, and summon the rays to come to the vicinity to guard and escort us." When I get into the low-light area of the deep sea, I call in the anglerfish to provide the light. ”

"Understood, Captain." Aaron commanded.

The small team turned into hunters on track. Although it is half a day's sea journey, both the tracking party and the tracked party are moving, so it is not possible to catch up in half a day.

Stingrays like to live in shallow and sunny waters, where they have their beloved white sand beds, and can hide in the sand and wait for their prey to appear. It's a pity that such a comfortable living environment and beautiful scenery can only leave a little memory of the rush of the captain and his party, and then they are thrown behind.

Swim farther and deeper. The water temperature is also getting lower and the light is getting darker. I don't know how far I swam, but in a dark submarine valley, the lion's mane jellyfish and the entangled Dr. Zhuo were nowhere to be seen.

The four of them carefully surveyed the terrain in that unfamiliar valley, and the light was not clear. Captain Akon lit up the luminous device on his forehead, illuminating the narrow passage of the surrounding valley floor. Because the small space is not enough to swim too much, let the pets wait in a higher and wider place. The team of four swam down the narrow valley floor alone.

Suddenly, everyone felt an undercurrent surging from ahead. Like the cold wind blowing from a cave on land, it's cold and attention-grabbing. Following the direction of the undercurrent, I suddenly found that not far ahead, there was a cave entrance leading below. The entrance is wide enough for two or three lion's mane jellyfish to enter at the same time.

The captain swam to the front, exploring the path while illuminating more space around him. He couldn't sense that Dubin's gang was hiding nearby, as if it was a sign of safety. The space in the cave gradually became larger, and seeing that the captain was not in any danger, Aaron, Kiki, and Lingji also followed into the depths of the cave.

At the bottom of the cave, a huge lion's mane jellyfish emerged from a dark corner. Before I could fully see it, I heard giggles:

"Welcome," said the jellyfish enchantress, who sat on the lion's mane jellyfish's cap, with a smile, "Do you know what it means to invite you into the urn?" ”

The captain suddenly felt an unusual sound and dark flow outside the cave behind him, and when he turned around, he had no time to react, and a huge stone had pressed against the entrance of the cave to seal the way out.

"Hahaha......" The jellyfish enchantress laughed wildly.

And between her and the four captains, a large net fence stretched out from the ground.

"You're here again, great, hahaha......"

The captain was very annoyed, and now he had fallen into the trap again. What is the black hand behind the scenes trying to do? What is the use of the four people trapped in the cage against the mastermind behind the scenes?

"Try to push the stone away." The captain said to the other three. So the four of them pushed up the stone back to the entrance.

"Listen to my command, I'll count to three and work together." The captain shouted, "One, two, three!" ”

The four of them exerted force at the same time, and the stone rumbled and shook. Through the crack in the stone that was pushed open, the captain saw that a mermaid with exaggerated muscular arms outside had brought a second, larger stone and pressed it up, and the hole was once again tightly blocked. With the strength of the four captains, they can't withstand the ugly-looking enemy team member outside, with a pear head and a pear body.

The jellyfish enchantress on the other side of the fence smiled more exaggeratedly and forgetfully.

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