To be continued

Xia Tian felt that he had been manipulated by the system.

When he was teleported to the vicinity of the mermaid sea, his whole body was teleported to the vicinity of a deep sea, and he has been pouring water since he was conscious. Not enough to watch.

"I, I, Gulululu." Xia Tian struggled several times, but couldn't complete a sentence. He felt that he might be the first person in history who was drowned by the system trap as soon as he passed through.

[Host, do you need help? ] The system in his head suddenly uttered a voice, but the low-key tone in the past sounded like a voice from heaven at this moment.

need!

A large amount of water poured into the nasal cavity as soon as he opened his mouth.

See if the situation is good, he will drown if he doesn't need it!

[However, if I am mobilizing the water breathing technique, I need certain authority. ] The system's voice still didn't fluctuate at all, as if it didn't care about the life and death of the person in front of it: [So host, how about doing me a little favor? ]

...

The deep and dark deep sea is undoubtedly terrifying to human beings, because no one can know what will suddenly appear from the deep sea in the next moment, maybe when you turn your head, what greets you is the bloody mouth of deep sea species .

Starting from the deep sea all the way downstream, Xia Tian has encountered countless fish skeletons along the way. The white and cold bones bring a terrible coldness in the dark deep sea, and the algae-green ribbons float on the seabed with the water waves. , No one can see clearly what is hidden in the bottom of the sea.

If possible, he would like to lie on the beach by the sea and bask in the sun leisurely, instead of looking for the hidden mermaid palace in the unknown deep sea.

And all of this is completely different from what is written in the fairy tale book. Shouldn't western fantasy creatures like mermaids live in resplendent palaces?Why is he looking for it in the extremely realistic dark deep sea now? He has deep-sea phobia! ! !

If it wasn't for the fear of making bright lights in the deep sea to attract the big fish that prey, Xia Tian really wanted to use an illumination technique to illuminate the entire deep sea area.

"Ow!"

As a result of being distracted in the deep sea, his leg hit an unknown object again.

Xia Tian has accidentally bumped his legs many times in the deep sea along the way, basically all of them were animal corpses or something.This time, he didn't want to pay attention to it at first, but when he touched it, he heard an extremely dull voice.

This is the sound that belongs only to metal objects.

"Could it be that this is the mermaid's palace?" When Xia Tian lowered his head, he realized that what he bumped into just now was just a small raised decoration, and obviously, the large building was still buried under the seaweed cover.

The way down is undoubtedly unknown. Xia Tian tried to tear off the seaweed stuck to the building while going downstream, and the building that lost its metallic luster was exposed.

He now knows why there is no host who wants to go to this place, so he temporarily delegated it to him. Finding no one is not an excuse at all. The truth is that this dead sea and the same dead palace will definitely not have that host. want to go.

However, the task in this place coincides with the fact that he wants to get the tears that have not yet been turned into pearls from the mermaid tribe. What's more, the system also said that this task will be included in his quota of assistants. Such a "rich" condition is really difficult reject.

Hehe, if he refused, he would turn into a dead body in the deep sea and drown.

Finally reached the bottom of the palace, the floor below was already occupied by algal green seaweed, Xia Tian didn't want to be entangled to death by seaweed, so after making sure he kept a certain distance from the seaweed at the bottom, he pushed The heavy palace gate in front of him.

The dilapidated gate could no longer see the patterns carved on it. After Xia Tian pushed open a gap with great effort, countless air bubbles emerged from the opening. Afterwards, as the gap became bigger and bigger, the door was pushed open even bigger. Until it reaches a gap where one person can enter.

"The mermaids are a kind and gentle race. They are very helpful and often help people who have been shipwrecked to bring them back to shore. Their beautiful singing can heal the soul..."

Xia Tian read the mermaid science information given by the system again outside the door, emphasizing on kindness and meekness. After reading this silently three times, he slowly moved his body and swam into the palace in the crack of the door.

Such a kind and docile race should not set up any deadly traps in their own palaces, nor would they raise piranhas?

Xia Tian comforted himself in this way, but the door behind him made a desperate sound when he entered - it closed spontaneously, and it seemed that it could not be opened from the inside.

Xia Tian: "..." He wouldn't have strayed into some sea monster's lair, right...

[The sea monster is ferocious, with hundreds of sharp teeth in its mouth, and its bite force is extremely terrible. It can bite off strong steel bars. It likes to eat bloody fresh food. It is used to biting the food and killing it slowly. . ] The system said: [Take the science popularization of Kraken, you are welcome. ]

I thank you all...

As far as the eye can see, there are objects covered by seaweed that cannot see their original appearance clearly, like Egyptian mummies. If you are not careful, a living creature will appear and eat the person who strays into it under the disguise of seaweed.Above the two aisles extending to the left and right in the palace, there is a staircase that also faces upwards.

"Sir-monsters shouldn't be able to build palaces with great effort, they usually live in sunken ships, haha..." Xia Tian comforted himself in this way, while carefully choosing an upward staircase to walk.

The stairs above directly lead to the direction of the second floor. A huge portrait hangs in the center of the second floor, and countless large and small portraits around it extend to both sides in a row.

Perhaps because of the height, the seaweed didn't stick too much to the portrait. Xia Tian cleaned up a relatively small picture frame, and a somewhat blurry image appeared in front of him.

It seems to be a young boy.

Xia Tian came to this conclusion after observing for a long time. The serious fading and the adhesion of seaweed made the image in the painting blurred and distorted, and it was no longer possible to see the appearance of the finished painting.

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, a piece of silver metal fell out from the back of the picture frame. The color of the metal reflected silver light in the deep sea. When Xia Tian picked it up, he found that it was actually a well-preserved key.

2A-311

This is the number engraved on the key, which is obviously a key to the door.

I am on the second floor now, should I try to open it according to the room number written on the key?

Xia Tian tightened the key in his hand, but after struggling for a while, he walked towards the direction of 2A in the corridor. Anyway, he will check this room sooner or later, no matter what is in it, there will be no chance Drowning feels terrible, right?

There are many rooms in the corridor, many house numbers are corroded and blurred, Xia Tian can only count while walking in, finally when he reached the room at the end of the corridor, 311 arrived.

but...

Xia Tian squatted down and took his own key and tried to align it with the keyhole. How could he insert the key into the keyhole full of seaweed...

Reluctantly cleaned up the seaweed in the keyhole, Xia Tian was planning to insert the key in the form of trying, but the wooden door was pushed open spontaneously as soon as the key was touched.

It turned out that the wooden door was not locked at all...

He is really stupid...

Maybe it was because of being continuously frightened into anger, Xia Tian no longer cared about the danger of being discovered, when he went in, he directly used the light technique to throw a small ball floating in the air.

Even though his night vision is good, he can see clearly in the dark, but the dark green scene is never as warm as the warm orange, and people will go crazy if they don't see the sun for a long time.

The space inside the door is not very large, and the light emitted by the small balls floating in the air quickly illuminates everything in the room clearly. This is a simple living room.The fish scales shimmered under the light, and a young man was lying weakly on the bed in the living room.

"Uh..." Realizing that the young man was struggling to open his eyes to look at him, Xia Tian retreated back to the door panel, stared at each other for a long time before stretching out a hand and waving it, twitching the corners of his mouth to make a gesture A disobedient smile said: "Hi..."

The young man rolled his eyes, his pale eyes reflected a warm orange light under the light, he stretched out his hand in the direction of Xia Tian, ​​and said with great effort: "You... good."

After he finished speaking, he coughed, and the graceful lines on his shoulders fluctuated up and down with his movements, and the smell of blood spread in the sea water.

"Are you okay?" Of course, Xia Tian also smelled the smell of blood in the air. The young man's weak appearance almost reduced the threat to him to below zero in an instant, so he hurried over to remove the blood in his body. The light element and the water element are gently transported in together.

Looking at the silver-gray fish scales under the boy's waist, he was already sure that this was the mermaid he was looking for. If the boy died like this, he didn't know when he would be looking for one.

"Thank you..." The young man meekly leaned against Xia Tian's thigh, feeling the gentle strength slowly conveyed from his back, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, his slender eyelashes drooped down slowly, he seemed to be enjoying this very much A feeling of being wrapped in warmth.

The original pale body slowly turned bloody, Xia Tian finally breathed a sigh of relief, just about to take back his hand, but saw the young man took his hand and put it next to his cheek, rubbing his expression attached.

Human body temperature really has a fatal allure to low temperature animals.

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And 3k at 10pm, I crawled back into bed to catch up on sleep.

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