Chapter 39: Beneath the Water
Yun Zhi was surprised to find that Xie Wei was descending at an unusual speed after going down, not like the speed in the water, but more like the speed of falling in the air.
Yun Zhi put his mind at ease, nodded at Qing'er Baiyu, and jumped down with his eyes closed.
As Xie Wei expected, there was not water below, water should be a trick, Yun Zhi found that she could breathe normally, she opened her eyes tremblingly, and found that she was slowly falling.
Yun Zhi was a little surprised that Xie Wei could find out about this, he should have observed the situation discovered by the other guards, but he didn't expect that his cultivation was not high, but his mind was quite detailed......
It didn't take long for Yunzhi to stop falling and stand firmly on the ground. Xie Wei stood not far from her, and then Qing'er and Ye Baiyu also fell down together.
This place is completely different from the scene when viewed from above.
They were in a large cone-shaped cavern, dark and gloomy, with no fingers to see, and the only source of light was a white glow from the top in the middle of the cave. The light fell, illuminating the huge white ball floating in the middle of the air, which shone in the darkness, as if it was like the brightest night pearl in the dark night, guiding the direction of the lost wanderer.
It was the white ball they had seen before, and it was now placed there, surrounded by a circle of guards guarding it.
Yun Zhi and the three of them secretly hid to the side, and Yun Zhi found that there were not only guards who had just fallen down in this cave, but also other people dressed in various costumes, men, women and children, and even mothers with babies, these people looked like civilians.
Not far from them, there was a road to the outside world, from where people kept coming in and guards going out.
She was right, Yun Zhi thought to herself, they would definitely be able to get out from that way, and when they went out, they found a place to hide casually for 7 days, and this trial would be over.
Yun Zhi briefly talked to the others, and was ready to take them out of that way.
The road to that road was so smooth that no one suspected that they were behaving strangely, and there were even civilians who offered to greet them.
When they reached that intersection, the crowd suddenly erupted in huge cheers, and everyone squatted down, Yunzhi and they didn't have time to react, and for a while, the four of them were still standing nearby.
Yun Zhi subconsciously looked towards the place where the cheers were coming from, and saw that the originally pure white ball in the middle had become transparent at the moment, and there was a person hidden in the ball.
To be exact, it is a mermaid with a fishtail on the human body.
He looked unusually fragile, with a strand of his body untouched, his hands crossed in front of his chest, his eyes tightly closed. The ears are slender like fish fins, the blue scales on the tail are shining, the bare skin looks like it can be blown apart, and the inky black hair is scattered casually on the side, and a few strands fall in front of him, as if it is his last protection for himself.
This is the most beautiful man she has ever seen, even more beautiful than Fucang Shenzun, Yun Zhi was stunned on the spot for a while. It turned out to be a merman, and he looked similar to Yunzhi and them, could he be an earthly merman?
I don't know if I felt Yun Zhi's eyes, and the merman opened his eyes suddenly.
At a glance, he saw the cloud branch standing.
The moment he saw Yun Zhi, a shocked look appeared on his face, and he couldn't help but cry. Tears turned into pearls and fell into the ball that trapped him.
Soon, as if they had completed some ritual, the others stood up one after another, and Yunzhi and the others hurriedly followed to hide themselves.
At this time, Yun Zhi felt that the bag that was originally hanging quietly on her waist suddenly shook, Yun Zhi opened the bag with one hand, and an emotionless female voice came from the bag: "The target has been found, the trial mission update: save me home." ”
The other exotics didn't react as if they hadn't heard, but the three of Qing'er looked at Yun Zhi one after another, and Qing'er whispered, "Master, did you say that just now?" ”
Yun Zhi shook her head and pointed to the bag, and the three of them understood what she meant.
The place of trials is the real world, and the trial mission is also a real prayer of an earthly person. The Immortal Alliance will not do meaningless things, and the trial tasks are selected from the thousands of prayers in the world. In this way, the disciples of each family can not only be tempered during trials, but also help others and accumulate their own merits.
The Immortal Alliance will not be involved in the affairs of other worlds, Yun Zhi remembers that there are shark people in the ocean, and like Yun Zhi, they are all black-eyed and black-haired, and they can also practice and live in the dust with people.
Combined with the sentence at the beginning of the previous trial task prompt, "Tears fell in the South China Sea and finally returned, and many parties made a wish for me", the four of them knew in their hearts at the moment that their goal in this trial was to rescue the merman and take him back to the earth.
But their initial goal was to stay in the Trials Land for only 7 days before abstaining from the trip......
Yun Zhi felt that the merman's gaze had been fixed in their direction, and she looked back and saw that the merman was indeed watching her. Seeing Yunzhi looking at her, the merman gently winked at her three times with her left eye.
Suddenly, a wonderful feeling welled up in Yun Zhi's heart, she felt that she had been through so much before, just to meet him for this day.
Looking at his sad expression, Yun Zhi seemed to empathize with his emotions as well, and she suddenly had an idea in her mind, no matter what, she had to save him, she didn't want him to be trapped here, and more importantly, she wanted to talk to him and want to know his name.
Fu Cang, who was dressed as Xie Wei, naturally knew what was going on, and the merman used the shark clan's unique secret technique on Yunzhi: the charm technique. Those who fall in love with the mermaid will obey their words.
Xie Wei's mana is limited now, and he can't solve this bewitchment technique for Yun Zhi, so he can only take Yun Zhi away when the merman is trapped and can't do anything to Yun Zhi.
So he said to Yun Zhi: "Master, let's leave quickly." ”
Yun Zhi's eyes were full of mermaids at the moment, but reason told her that this was a good time to leave. But she saw that the ball that trapped the mermaid had changed again, and she hesitated for a moment and said, "Why don't you wait, they seem to be performing some kind of ritual, and I wonder what they are doing." ”
The ball gradually descended and finally landed on the ground, leaving only a thin skin that seemed to shatter at the touch of it. The merman still maintained his posture, hanging motionless in the air, but now he closed his eyes and had no expression.
The two guards closest to the ball glanced at each other, nodded to each other, and each took a short knife and walked towards the merman. At this moment, everyone was silent, and the place suddenly became unusually quiet, except for the footsteps of the guards.
Then, the scene that Yunzhi will never forget appeared.
The two men stood next to the merman, each holding one of the merman's shoulders. One of the guards wiped the knife on his hand with his clothes, and then slashed horizontally at the place where the merman's body and the fish's tail merged.
Bright red blood gushed out, staining his beautiful blue scales red, and the merman just closed his eyes tightly and didn't say a word.
Then, the guard aimed at the merman's navel again, plunged the knife straight in, and then forced, the knife slashed down from the top until it reached the fishtail, cutting the merman's tail through the middle, as if splitting the fishtail in two.
The knife didn't penetrate deeply, so there wasn't much blood, but everyone could see the flesh and skin that had been turned over.
Then, with a flip of his knife, he made another round cut around the fish's tail.
At this time, the other person skillfully bent down and pulled the fish skin out with force, and with a tearing sound, a disgusting smell of blood came to his face, and a whole fish skin with flashing fish scales appeared on his hand.
They...... He was skinning the merman alive......
At this moment, the crowd suddenly erupted in cheers, and all the people here were filled with happy smiles on their faces, and the two guards let go of the merman, who lost his support and fell straight to the ground, motionless.
The skinning guard carefully held the skin of the fish with a smug face, and the others stared at the skin with a look of excitement like a good harvest.
No one cares if the mermaids on the ground are dead or alive.
Yun Zhi looked at the merman covered in blood in a daze, and it didn't take long for the merman's tail to begin to grow fish skin little by little, and the merman still had his eyes closed, but his fists were clenched, and his whole body was trembling, as if he was ten thousand times more painful.
Yun Zhi felt a heat on his face, and when he touched it with his hand, it was tears.
She actually cried......
Yun Zhi remembered the rules of the quest in the Land of Trials, how painful he must have been in order to turn his strong thoughts into prayers and transmit them through the foreign world to the earthly world......
The ball quickly condensed again, and it slowly floated to where the merman was, devouring him little by little, and finally floating back into the air. The merman has changed to the posture of being trapped in the ball again, with his hands crossed and his eyes closed, and even the position of his hair is exactly the same as before.
The guard, who had just held the fish skin, folded the fish skin, then walked to the bottom of the white ball, bowed deeply to the white ball, and then began to chant.
I saw that the white ball suddenly glowed with a strong green light, and when the green light faded, a man in black wearing a cloak appeared from the white ball, and finally slowly fell to the ground.
It turned out to be the man in black they had just seen.
The man in black walked up to the guard and took off his cloak, underneath which were exotic maidens with two golden braids that reached to the ground.
She doesn't have wings like other outlanders, and she's almost the same size as an earthly human.
The most eye-catching thing is her face, regardless of the green pupils as beautiful as jade, her face is engraved with dense words, and even her original appearance can no longer be seen, which is very terrifying.
The corners of the girl's mouth were downward, her face expressionless, and she looked around quietly. She has a powerful aura in her body that no one can ignore.
Seeing her, everyone began to squat down and salute again, and shouted loudly, Yun Zhi reacted this time and hurriedly squatted down together.
And this time, the cry is far more violent than the last time, and it is wave after wave, and there is no intention of stopping at all.
The girl nodded slightly to the guard, then pulled out one of her gold hair and put it on the fish skin, closed her eyes and chanted the words, the fish skin gradually emitted a blue light, which continued to shrink and change, and finally turned into a blue water drop the size of a dragon's eye, suspended in the air.
The blonde girl took out a transparent bottle from the pocket she was hanging on, and with a wave of her hand, the water droplets flew into the bottle on their own.
Another cheer.
Yunzhi was still looking at the merman, but she suddenly felt a burst of gaze, and she turned her head to see the blonde girl looking at her.
Yun Zhi suddenly became nervous, could it be that she had discovered her disguise?