"Snort!" only to hear Zixia sneer, and said gloomily: "Why does Meiyi want to survive underwater?"

"What a strange question you asked!" Kazama said crisply, "If you don't go into the water and don't pass through the spider-like waterway, how can you go to the ancient elven kingdom that has disappeared in the world?"

"Hmph!" Zixia was very disdainful: "As long as Meiyi is willing, she can turn that waterway into an authentic channel in an instant!"

My mind was in a mess, thinking about who was more credible, Xiao Nai or Shadowless Hand, where could Luo Ying go if she entered the water alone, how to solve my sewerage problem...... There were all kinds of things, and they were in a thousand heads, when they suddenly heard Zixia's sonorous half of the words: "...... The waterways have become tunnels!"

I came to my senses all of a sudden, pulled Zixia off my shoulders, held it in my arms, was very excited, and asked in a trembling voice: "Say it clearly, what 'waterway becomes an authentic way'? I am a hundred willing!"

"Meiyi!" A cool and greasy little hand put on my wrist, Xiao Nai looked up at me with a gray but still beautiful little face, her eyes were transparent, but there was a sense of unfocused, she spoke to me, her tone was very sincere, but it always seemed a little insincere.

"Well, Xiao Nai, you say, I'll listen. I patted Zixia and turned my attention to Xiao Nai first.

"It's not like there's no way, Meiyi. Xiao Nai slowed down and lowered her voice, appearing calm and self-controlled, but ...... Her hand on my wrist betrayed her.

Her fingers were cold, subconsciously bending and spasming, her nails digging into my flesh, and she, unaware of it, was all her strength in managing her facial expressions, and she wanted me to see her as calm, friendly, and trustworthy.

But one hand, broken work.

In the split second when I felt pain in my wrist, I chose to trust the Shadowless Hand, which told me with its fingers that the respirator, "poisonous".

I looked at Xiao Nai calmly, and my heart was already galloping.

"Actually...... I'll go back to Mizusawa immediately, and I can always find some unfinished soothing potion from one of my sisters and sisters, so that you can ......" Xiao Nai's words were both considerate and reasonable, with her stretched eyebrows and eyes, and her self-conscious attitude, I really couldn't find any flaws-

— except for her hands.

Instead of looking at her face, I lowered my head and looked intently at her hand, her increasingly tight hand on my wrist.

"Oops, I'm so sorry, Meiyi!" Xiao Nai suddenly reacted, let go of my wrist at once, and apologized urgently.

"It's okay-" I smiled, shook my hand, leaned close to her ear, and whispered idly, "Tell me, Xiao Nai, the poison of the Breathing Elixir should not be an ordinary poison, but requires the full cooperation of you and your eldest aunt, is that so?"

"You...... Kindness...... What are you talking nonsense......" Xiao Nai's body flashed back suddenly, as if she was burned by what I said, and her face was very calm.

"I've proven myself...... You still don't believe me?" Xiao Nai kept her distance from me, shrugging her shoulders slightly, clenching her fists, her body was full of guard, and her face was calm and ...... Some regrets.

I am even more convinced of my own judgment, because, at such a time, if I have been wronged, shouldn't it be a look of hurt, grievance, or even anger?

"Your eldest aunt has turned into a bubble and died without proof, but," I turned my voice up to a state of emotionlessness, because Nai is very smart, and I don't want to be taken by her before I get an answer and let her fool her again (God knows, I don't want to be so thoughtful and calculating!).

I continued: "Do you remember what she said to you before she melted herself, 'You have a heavy burden and cannot shirk it', how can a person like her, who is so old, well-informed, and endured humiliation and burden, say that she melts and melts, unless—she has arranged everything, and she trusts that you will follow her arrangement, step by step, so that even if she is in vain, she will have no regrets." ”

Xiao Nai gradually flattened her shrugged shoulders, straightened her neck, her eyes were firm, and her short curls against her scalp outlined the lines of her beautiful little head.

Alas, I sighed inwardly, and my face was calm and silent.

If it weren't for the troubled times, I was a human being, she was a fairy, I was the reserve army of the blood clan, and they hated the blood clan to the bone, maybe, we would become good friends, maybe too.

"And this 'arrangement' can only be implemented on the reciprocal agent. I was sure.

Xiao Nai's eyes flashed with a hint of panic, but she remained silent and looked at me without blinking.

Everyone gradually gathered around, and subconsciously stood by my side, except for Luo Ying, who had disappeared into the water.

At this moment, he has turned into a fish, and he does not know where he is swimming.

"This potion is your eldest aunt's configuration, she is so thoughtful, of course she would not be stupid enough to add an instant poison to it, otherwise, when the first person to drink it falls, how can she trick the rest of the people into drinking it willingly?" I said as I cleared my mind as I saw a glimmer of light in front of me in a long, dark cave—yes, it should be.

"Hmph," Xiao Nai finally let out a chuckle, "Please continue, Meiyi." ”

"So, your eldest aunt didn't add poison to the Elixir she had prepared at all. I affirmed.

"Huh?" I heard Kazama's confused voice.

The corners of Xiao Nai's mouth originally had a disdainful smile, but when I said this, his face turned pale, but the smile was gone.

She added something else. "I said clearly.

I stared at Nai's face, and at the moment, there was no expression on her face.

"How can we drink the elixir with peace of mind, transform into a fish, and then accompany you to find the ancient country of elves and bring back your aunt, your aunt has made a thought: not only to use us, but also to make us die a good death after the deed, your eldest aunt is really racking her brains!"

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Kakai and Kazama standing beside me. Two girls, the same flourishing, flower-like figures, but, one blood, one human, one has eternal life, the other is getting old, will you remember this moment, like a budding flower, life will bloom to the end in the next moment, beautiful, and then, as if it never existed, retreat into the darkness, or, wither—oh my God, what am I thinking?

"What did she add?" Xiao Nai looked at me and asked lightly.

"I don't know — but, you know. I didn't dodge her gaze.

"I repeat, the breathing potion you drink is not poisonous. This is the last time I'll say it, believe it or not. Xiao Nai no longer looked at me, and his eyes habitually looked at the water.

"Of course it's not poisonous—but if something your eldest aunt added to the Elixir came across something that you would let us take in the future, I'm afraid we'd all burp. I said it clearly, and I could feel the short, sharp ferocity in my tone.

"So, don't say anything, take it out—that thing, the one that you will one day make us drink or eat when we have full trust in you, and then mix it with the reciprocal already in the body of the people to produce the poison, should be in your baggage. I was unceremonious, and my voice began to get sharper.

Xiao Nai looked at the water, motionless. His face was like a transparent crystal, as if he felt compassion for his ability to reflect the future.

Silent.

Silent.

Jicheng suddenly approached, and whispered in my ear: "Good intentions......, reasonable! That's amazing!"

Kazama walked directly in front of Xiao Nai, stretched out his hand, and said nothing.

Xiao Nai still looked at the water, her face calm.

"Take it out. Kazama finally lost his breath, and there was displeasure in his voice.

Xiao Nai didn't move, as if he hadn't heard it.

Kazama's impatient temper, no longer talking nonsense, reached out to pull the burden on Xiao Nai's shoulders.

Xiao Nai's shoulders shrank, and the burden slid off her shoulder, she raised her hand, threw it far away, and threw the burden into the water.

Huahai stepped forward and stood side by side with Kazama, his face uncertain, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

At a glance, I saw that Nai's burden was floating on the water, and a white arm stretched out from under the water, about to grab the burden and sink into the water.

"Old wither!" I snorted, plucked the hairpin from my head, and threw it at the baggage.

The green snake withered up and fell a few times, and then wrapped the burden that Xiao Nai threw into the water, threw it at my feet, and obediently transformed into a hairpin, don't go back to my hair.

Looking back, a Mizusawa fairy was half-hidden and half-appeared on the water, with an anxious face, looking at Xiao Nai on the shore worriedly.

I stared at the burden on the ground, there was a piece of cyan cloth on the outside, I don't know what kind of fabric, waterproof is certain, Xiao Nai carried it, out of the water into the water, and was thrown into the water again, but the burden was not soaked at all.

I hesitated.

Are you sure you want to open this baggage and look at it?

If my speculation is correct, then we just don't accept and don't take anything that Xiao Nai gave us, then what the elder fairy added to the breathing agent is like dynamite without a lead, which will never detonate, so do I still insist on opening this burden and checking if there is "something" arranged by the elder aunt and carried by Xiao Nai?

"Do you know why the eldest aunt wants to dissolve herself?" Xiao Nai looked at me and suddenly asked, with a sad smile on her face.

My heart moved, and I didn't speak. Yes, the elder fairy can arrange the mechanism of the reciprocal potion, and then wait patiently for Xiao Nai to bring the fairy aunt back, and then with Xiao Nai's cooperation, she will take care of us together, it doesn't have to turn into a bubble, why did she do this?

In fact, I occasionally thought about this section before, but I had a faint feeling of unease, so I simply put this matter aside, but I didn't expect Xiao Nai to take the initiative to mention it.

"It's for you. Xiao Nai stretched out his finger and pointed it firmly at my face, like a strong light, so that I couldn't open my eyes.

I subconsciously flashed to the side with a weak heart.

"She's discovered your secret—" Xiao Nai said coldly, looking at me.

"Meiyi—" Brother's voice sounded behind him.

"Shhhh

It's disrespectful to my brother to do this, but this time, I don't want to bother him in any way.

Forget to look at me quietly, neither stopping nor encouraging, there is a sense of certainty that everything is under control.

"When she wanted to tell you this secret in person, there was a mysterious power that you had seen with your own eyes just now," Xiao Nai's face showed a look of awe, and her voice lowered slightly: "That power instantly brought the eldest aunt to the sky and sewed her mouth ......"

"I know. I whispered.

I mean, I actually know who did it.

"And what you don't know," Xiao Nai gasped softly, and her voice became lowered, "While the mysterious power sewed the eldest aunt's mouth, it also wrote three words on her cheek: 'secret', 'death', and 'beneficial'. ”

"Secret", "Death" and "Useful"?

I quickly put the three words together in my mind, but I thought more that the Shadowless Hand was able to sew the mouth of an older fairy in such a short time, and write three words on the latter's cheek—what was the origin of the Shadowless Hand?

"Really, why didn't I see those three words, when your eldest aunt fell from the sky, and saw that her mouth was sewn and there was no writing on her face?" Kazama asked curiously.

Xiao Nai didn't pay attention.

Kazama asked the wrong person. The shadowless hand, I'm afraid that in the world today, only I know its existence, it uses the shadowless finger to scratch the cheek of the old fairy, of course, the person who is scratched knows what it writes, and no one else can see it.

These three words...... I don't understand. "I'll be honest.

After some permutations, I realized that I really didn't understand.

The Shadowless Hand has always been weird, and it is impossible to evaluate its actions and intentions.

"When you cut open the mouth of the eldest aunt that was sewn up, and the eldest aunt entered the water, at that time, she was already determined. Xiao Nai's tone gradually became sad.

"What mind?" I asked. Actually, I think I already know.

"The eldest aunt sank into the water, and the sisters gathered around her, and she told everyone that she was threatened, carried into the air, and sewn up her mouth, but that power also told her through 'secret', 'death', and 'benefit': keep it secret and die, and this power will one day help the Mizusawa fairy!" Xiao Nai said in a sad tone, but spoke loudly.

I was so shocked that I almost threw the zombie cat in my arms.

"Secret", "death" and "beneficial", it turns out that this is the interpretation!

My most immediate reaction was: how is that possible!

But, do I have better associations and interpretations?

The best way for the older fairy to keep this secret is to make her give up her life directly. In return, Shadowless made a promise to protect the Mizusawa Nymph.

It was not surprising that she agreed to do so, given the scheming and fierce character of the older fairy.

The question is, what kind of secret—about me—is it that makes this shadowless hand nervous to such an extent?