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The waves were beating against the rocks on the shore, and the sound of the tide made the voices spoken at a distance become indistinct.Holding tightly to the heavy rope soaked in seawater, Bailuo dragged the fishing boat back to the shore, and asked her younger sister Bizao to repeat it three times before she understood what she said: "Someone came to ask about the news of the Scale Clan again?"

Bizao lay on the edge of a rock above, put her hands around her mouth, and shouted loudly: "That's right! It's the exorcist that Uncle Sang found to catch the sea monkey! He's still at Uncle Sang's house , would you like to go over and have a look—"

A wooden stake is driven deep into the gap of the reef, and it is covered with shells. The white snail wraps the rope around it several times to fix the fishing boat, and then begins to climb up the reef.The coast on this side has a steep slope, and the sand has been washed away, but the soles of the white snails have long since worn out thick calluses, and they don’t feel pain when stepping on the jagged reefs and shells. Algae around. "How's the matter with the sea monkey?" He didn't mention whether he wanted to see it, but asked his sister first.

"I really caught one! It looks weird, and it's very fierce when struggling underwater, and it will die when it comes out of the water and exposed to the sun." Bizao said enthusiastically, "The lord said that the sea monkey It looks fierce, but it’s actually very timid, let’s chop up the dead sea monkey and throw it into the sea, so the sea monkey won’t come here in the future.”

"Why is he looking for the Scale Clan? Is he trying to resurrect the dead?"

"I only overheard a little bit, and then I was kicked out." Bi Zao stuck out her tongue, "It seems that they are not dead, but they want to treat people."

"Does he know that the people who went to the Scale Clan a few times ago were eaten?"

"I didn't hear this...Uncle Sang should be able to say it?"

Bailuo thought for a while and made a decision. "I'll go find him," he said.

He and his sister climbed onto the reef together.This is a small island in the sea. There are not many people living on the island. They are self-sufficient by fishing, and they also collect beautiful corals and pearl shells, which are used to exchange food, cloth and ironware with occasional merchants passing by.

More than half a year ago, a monkey-like monster appeared in the nearby sea. It would dig through the bottom of the ship and drag people into the sea to eat them.More than ten days ago, Uncle Sang took the coral pearls from various families and ventured out to the sea to ask for help. He brought people back to the island yesterday, and today he said that the matter has been resolved... If it is not bragging, such a great ability, even if there is no When it comes to the Scale Clan, Bailuo also wants to see it.

Maybe... There will be a way to solve the problem between him and his sister...

I rushed to Uncle Sang's house in a hurry, but the exorcist hadn't left yet, and was talking to Uncle Sang in front of the house.Bizao didn't seem to feel any abnormality at all, and ran over with a smile, but when Bailuo saw the figure from a distance, a terrible feeling rose in his heart.His footsteps slowed down unconsciously, and when he finally couldn't bear to stop, he was already trembling, sweating profusely, and almost wanted to turn around and run away.

The man noticed him and looked up at him.The terrifying oppression that only Bai Luo could feel was suddenly lightened, and he almost fell to the ground.Hearing Bizao's footsteps, Uncle Sang turned his head to catch her but failed, letting her scurry into the house, and showed two curious eyes from the window.

"They are the two children I mentioned to you." He sighed and said to the exorcist.It was a man much younger than Bai Luo imagined. Uncle Sang didn't seem to think he was scary, and his attitude was just respectful. "The Scale Race is somewhat taboo here, and not many people know about it. They are also in a special situation..."

The man's eyes lingered on Bai Luo's face and hands for a while, then looked at Bi Zao.Bizao was a little afraid of strangers, so she shrunk down and disappeared.He talked to Uncle Sang again, and then walked towards Bailuo.Bai Luo tried her best not to retreat, and waited for the exorcist to stop in front of him, and asked condescendingly, "Is it your mother? Or your father?"

"...It's mother." Bai Luo muttered.He raised his hand and scratched his cheek: the skin there was extremely rough, as if human skin was covered with a layer of transparent scales.The boy's arm was bandaged and showed a little blood--much darker than usual, almost black.There used to be fin-like things growing there, but he cut them off, although they would grow back soon after each time they were cut off.

Bailuo's father is a fisherman on the island. One day when he went out to sea and encountered a storm, he picked up an injured fish.He hid the half-man, half-fish siren in the cave under the reef, and had him and his sister successively in three years.Later, when the Lin clan was about to leave, his father couldn't persuade him to stay, so he jumped into the sea and died in despair. He and his sister became orphans in this way, and they crawled out of the cave because they were so hungry that they were found.

Compared with the always cold mother and father who is only obsessed with mother, Bai Luo has more affection for the people on the island who left him and his sister to raise him even though he doesn't like him.He didn't want to be a monster, so he repeatedly cut off the fins, although he trembled with pain every time.He was only thankful that his sister was different from him, she had no scales or fins, she looked like a normal human little girl.

But... not long ago, he found the granulation of the newly grown fins at the elbow of Bizao.

Thinking of this, Bailuo mustered up a little courage. "Are you looking for the Scale Race?" He looked at the demon master and asked nervously and expectantly, "If I tell you about them... can you, can you stop these things from growing back on me?" gone?"

"If you get rid of them completely," the exorcist said coldly, "you won't be able to catch as many big fish as easily as now."

Bai Luo opened her mouth, thinking about the meaning of his words in a daze, and slowly figured it out. "Then, let's just take off my sister." He said that without much thought.

The exorcist glanced at him, then nodded silently.Bai Luo was so happy that he almost jumped up, lest he would change his mind again, he quickly poured out all the things he knew about the Scale Clan, including the situation of the people who came to look for the Scale Clan a few times before.

There are also rumors of sea monsters in other places, most of them are called sharks, who can spin yarn and weave cloth, and cry tears into beads.However, although the scales they heard here also have human bodies and fish tails, they are more mysterious creatures. It is said that they live under the vortex on the bottom of the sea leading to the underworld, and can bring the souls of the dead back to the world from the underworld, bringing them back to life.

Believed in this legend, I really went through untold hardships to find people from the Lin clan. I have seen many white snails grow to such a large size.But...he really doesn't know if the Scale Clan can really revive the bones, he has only seen his mother gnaw on the bones, and they are quite clean.

He is half of the Scale Clan himself, and he knew where the settlement was, so he lured outsiders there, but the Scale Clan didn't regard him as a traitor, and even helped him drive away the fish when they met at sea.He was a little moved at first, but then felt... Maybe the Scale Clan thought that he was doing the same thing all along, that he was attracting food to them...

Bai Luo told the truth about the danger of the Scale Clan, and the result was as expected: the man had no intention of retreating at all.After fulfilling his promise and making the granulation around Bizao's elbow shrink and disappear, he refused Uncle Sang and others' offer to keep him, and he couldn't wait until the next day to leave.

Bizao huddled listlessly in his brother's arms.She felt extremely uncomfortable. Just now, her blood seemed to have turned into a living thing, and a part of her was running away in fear, and finally hid tremblingly... Bailuo coaxed her carefully. Not long after the exorcist left, suddenly Feeling wrong, put down my sister and ran out.

"...the storm is coming—!"

It will take some time for the most experienced fishermen to notice, but the white snail has already smelled the breath of the storm.He hurried to the beach, praying that the boat to get rid of the demon master hadn't set off yet.Panting, he climbed to the top of the reef bank, looked down, and saw that the boat and people were still on the shore, he was relieved at first, and then he was taken aback when he saw clearly.

It was a ship he had never seen before.Narrow at both ends, small and narrow, as delicate as a toy that can be held in the hand.Such a thin wooden boat, let alone a storm, might be smashed to pieces by a slightly bigger wave.Knowing that people who are not familiar with Hai will often underestimate the threat of Da Hai when he loses his temper, Bai Luo hurriedly ran there. "Hi!" he cried, "can't go to sea now..."

As a result, when he was about to run to the side of the boat, Bai Luo realized that he had misidentified the person.The person sitting on the boat was not the exorcist, but also a stranger like the boat.The boat was covered with plain cloth, and the white snail was only seen once at the merchant's place, and the lustrous silk satin, which was regarded as a treasure, was used casually to lay the bedding, and it seemed that it was not worried about being wet by the sea...then The man was only a little older than him, wearing moon-white clothes, leaning lazily against the side of the boat.

The boat has no sails or oars, and is more like a treasure chest, floating on the slightly turbulent sea.When Bai Luo ran over, the man seemed to be talking to someone, but Bai Luo didn't see another person.When he ran close, the man noticed it, turned his head in surprise, and smiled at him as if he knew Bai Luo.

"What's wrong?" The man looked at Bailuo and asked softly, "It's in a hurry... is it my sister's hand?"

Before the wind and waves rose, the hull shook inexplicably, as if being pushed.The man smiled even wider, and he didn't know who he was saying to: "Okay, I know you won't make any mistakes..."

Bailuo saw him smile just now, as if the surroundings that were rapidly dimming with the approaching storm were suddenly illuminated, then she recovered from her daze and hurriedly said: "Hurry up to the shore! The rainstorm is coming It's gone!" As he said, he was going to grab the side of the boat, trying to drag the boat ashore, and at the same time he didn't forget to ask: "Did you see a man in black? He should have come to the seaside, hasn't he already?" Starting? If you go to sea in this weather, you will definitely die! I have to find him and come back..."

He stretched out his hand, but caught nothing, and the boat was gently pushed by the waves, and slipped away from under his hand. "Don't mind your own business," said a dark voice behind him.Bailuo turned her head abruptly, and saw the demon extermination master in black appearing behind him at some point, staring at him with a displeased expression.Bai Luo couldn't help stammering: "But the storm..."

The people on board showed helpless expressions. "Yun Zheng." He called softly.The exorcist, who was quite polite to Bailuo before, passed by him with a dark face, stepped on the water and got into the boat, and sat down at the stern next to the man.Bailuo's eyeballs were about to fall off, seeing that fragile boat deflected slightly, and left the shore as smoothly as if sliding on the ice.

The boy in white waved his hand at him, and said from afar, "Go back quickly! You'll get sick if you get caught in the rain—"

Bailuo wanted to say something, but the sky that had become cloudy in just a short moment had already rained.The surface of the sea became turbulent—but whether it was wind, waves or raindrops, it seemed as if they didn’t exist around the boat. That small piece of sea seemed to belong to another world, and the wind was always gentle and the waves were calm.

Bailuo was stunned for a while, then turned around and climbed up the reef when the waves rushed to her feet.He didn't feel the wind or rain all the way, as if there was a transparent cover blocking him, until he climbed up safely, only to be staggered by the sudden violent wind.He wiped the rain from his face, and tried his best to look towards the sea, trying to find the boat - it was quite conspicuous in the stormy sea, because the wind and waves were giving way to it...

A gleam of light in the darkness of the sky, separated from the waves like a mountain, fluttered away gradually, and disappeared at the end of his vision.

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Lu You lay on Yun Zheng's shoulder and yawned sleepily. "Arguing with children..." There was sleepiness in his voice, but also a smile.Yun Zheng grabbed his waist and half hugged him, turned his head and kissed his eyelashes, and refused to comment on the teasing.

Already quite restrained!He thought to himself, he didn't have much time in the first place, but he had to be divided by that kid who appeared suddenly...

Just after this thought flashed by, Yun Zheng felt a slight heaviness on his shoulders.When I went to look again, Lu You, who was still talking to him just now, had indeed fallen asleep.There was still a bit of a smile on his lips, his eyelashes covered a small shadow, his eyes were closed and he looked obedient and quiet, as if he was just leaning on his shoulder for a nap when he was extremely sleepy.

However, Yun Zheng knew that he might not wake up again for a day, a few days, or even a whole month.

He gently touched Lu You's sleeping face, restraining the urge to kiss him.Although Lu You made it clear that he didn't mind Yunzheng kissing him, touching him, or even hugging him when he was asleep, Yunzheng never did that.With this kind of childish stubbornness, he seemed to want Lu You to feel a little guilty because of this, so that he would be able to wake up from the dream earlier.

Although he knew in his heart that this was just a useless delusion.

The first time this happened was more than two months after he and Lu You went down the mountain.Although they could travel thousands of miles a day, they were not in a hurry at that time, so they walked slowly, experiencing the customs and customs along the way.In the south of the Yangtze River in winter, there is only a little thin snow, which is lightly covered with bluestones on the road and black tiles on the roof, which is heart-warming and elegant.Lu You liked that small town, so Yun Zheng and him stayed for a few more days, wanting to wait for a lantern festival before leaving.

Then, not long after they got up that morning, Lu You suddenly said that he was a little sleepy.Yun Zheng thought that he didn't sleep well at night, and just wanted him to eat something before going to sleep for a while, when he collapsed—still breathing, with body temperature and heartbeat, but he couldn't wake up no matter what.What Yunzheng felt at the time was not fright, but a kind of calm despair of "it's finally here".He thought it was Lu You who left this world, leaving him only a shell that lost his spirit.

But not so.Lu You only slept for most of the day, and woke up without any abnormality in the evening.He didn't know that he passed out suddenly, and he was startled by the sudden change in the environment around him.In his sense, only a blink of an eye had passed, thinking it was still morning.

Lu You had already forgotten the anomaly before going down the mountain, but this time he remembered it again.The two suddenly lost interest in playing, just as old man Yun sent a message to ask Yun Zheng to go over to help deal with a big monster, and they went there together.On the way, Lu You "fallen asleep" again, and that time he lost consciousness for a day and a half.

Next, it will be three days, five days... more than ten days... one or two months...

Old man Yun had never seen such abnormal symptoms before. He used various methods to check for a long time, and ruled out poisoning, Gu, curse and sorcery one after another. Finally, he reluctantly came to a conclusion: it might be the damage to the soul.But let him take medicine and stay in the recovery formation, that kind of situation still happened.

Lu You did know a somewhat similar disease, the so-called "Sleeping Beauty Syndrome". Patients would fall asleep without warning, and could sleep for more than ten days at a time... This is the first time I saw it while watching the news in the world. Yes, I will always remember it because it is very interesting.At first, he wondered if he was just unlucky, and it was rare for him to be able to spend more time in one world without restriction, so he suffered from a strange disease. Another thing happened.

... There was a crack in his soul.

What did the system say in the first place?

"As long as the injury does not cause the situation to worsen before healing, you don't need to do anything and you will slowly recover."

——As long as you don't get hurt before you heal.

He thought of the time when he crossed the catastrophe.The first six catastrophes were blocked by Yunzheng, and the sixth catastrophe almost killed him; the eighth catastrophe destroyed most of the contract chains summoned by the system, which was God's contract for human souls to become "chosen people" , was severely damaged by the thunderstorm related to the rules of heaven, and the system has never been launched since then.

The seventh... The seventh tribulation thunder, he survived by himself.

He didn't feel any special pain at that time, and he didn't hear anything abnormal like a "cracking sound".But he briefly lost consciousness.Does that count as "hurt"?

In order to prevent Yunzheng from feeling guilty for no reason, Lu You did not say this guess, but only told Yunzheng that he had been injured before coming here.Yun Zheng seemed to believe it, and what he was looking for after that was a way to restore his soul, no matter how complicated it was, he had to find it and use it.Some of those methods have no effect, and some can work, but the effect is very weak, and they are always treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.For a whole year, Lu You didn't have an attack at all, and they all thought it was all over, but the next time, he slept for seven months.

... The body is a big monster, and you won't feel so stiff even if you have been sleeping all the time. In Lu You's feeling, time has become a leap forward, and you will suddenly take a big step forward.Yun Zheng became more frustrated and courageous, until later he became a little crazy, and almost tried those extremely evil sacrifices that would consume a lot of blood and souls of living people - he was beaten up by the old man Yun who came back in time, and he finally returned. It was too late to come back to God and stop it.

...Although he lost control of his emotions at the time, the tentacles that appeared suddenly and destroyed a large area of ​​houses still frightened old man Yun a lot.Although he had already seen that this apprentice was not human, he had not expected this kind of development...

I don't know what kind of inspiration old man Yun got this time, and later he brought them the rumor of the scale clan.As long as there are creatures in the sea, they are more or less dominated by Yun Zheng, but he has no idea of ​​the existence of "Scale Clan".Even the smallest possibility is worth trying, and in the end they found it.

Judging from the current progress... Not to mention whether the Scale Clan is as magical as the rumors say, it is worth visiting just because they do exist but Yunzheng can't sense them.

The Underworld, the Underworld... Could it be that they are not his subjects because they actually live under the Underworld, not in the sea?

The wind and waves at sea are not blocked by the barrier, but consciously softened when approaching.Yun Zheng saw a piece of sea in front of him, the color of the sea was extremely dark, as if there was a bottomless hole underneath.When the boat reached the middle of the sea, it sank into the water without a sound, without any waves splashing.

Yun Zheng embraced the man who was peacefully asleep in his arms, and saw that his clothes and sleeves were filled with sea water, as if being blown by a very gentle wind, and floated up together with the loose black hair.All sounds seemed to be silent.They sank into the sea together with the boat, and a group of jellyfish emitting fluorescent light gathered, illuminating the darkness that was getting deeper and deeper into the bottom of the sea, as well as the figures of fish tails that were rising towards them from the darkness and came to meet them.

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