Paintings of Terror

Zhu Haowen tightly held the hot music box with both hands, and gently closed the lid, shutting the monstrous sound of waves in the box.

At this time, between the water ripples carved on the box cover, a dragon with wings appeared. This is a dragon that can draw the ground with its tail. Its long body maintains a dancing posture, and its huge wings Drawing a few arcs of sea ripples is like a miracle.

Its mission in this world is probably to protect the sea from being attacked by the raging fire in the sky.

Therefore, when the box was fully opened to it, it seemed to have heard some kind of fateful call, and then resolutely handed itself over to this small box. The pair of wings still carry the remaining flames that were used to extinguish the sky fire.

Ying Long willingly turned himself into a pattern on the box cover.

Qin Ci looked at the patterns of the "Eight Monsters of the Sea" slowly gathering on the lid and around the box: starting with the Suanni, then the Divine Clam, followed by the Strange Fish, the Spirit Turtle, the Divine Elephant, and the Pegasus, until just now there were more This incredible Yinglong.

"I didn't expect that there are dragons in the eight monsters." Zhu Haowen planned to go back and check the information about the eight monsters.

Qin Ci said with emotion: "The eight sea monsters are not just as simple as patterns. In my opinion, they are like totems of life. They are guarding this sea area with their lives and souls."

Now there are seven sea monsters, and I don't know where to find the last one.

The flames in the sky were getting lower and lower, and the distance between the fire and the sea was only about seven or eight stories high.

The seawater began to heat up, and some fish and shrimp that couldn't stand the temperature ran for their lives as if it was the end of the world, as if the seawater was about to be heated to a boil, and they would eventually be boiled in one pot and become a delicacy dedicated to Vulcan.

"Time is running out. The only NPC we meet here is Monk Hai, but now Monk Hai's life is uncertain." Qin Ci has completely submerged in the sea, and the temperature on the sea surface has begun to make people unable to adapt. a feeling of.

Zhu Haowen couldn't bear this overwhelming sense of doom, he completely submerged himself in the water, and swam to a deeper sea area, at this time he spit out a bubble to Qin Ci: "Some of these sea monsters are destined to meet us, Some were found under the guidance of the Dragon Lady, and some were found after being reminded by other sea monsters... We only have one last hour left now, and we can't just wait."

Qin Ci also spat out a bubble: "Why don't we go find Dragon Girl again?"

"After the dragon girl gave us the dragon tendons, she limped into the depths of the pine forest." Zhu Haowen thought for a while, then spit out a small blister, "Shall we go to the big pine tree to try our luck?"

Qin Ci nodded, and the two quickly swam towards the big pine tree together.

After swimming on the bottom of the sea for a while, the two of them surfaced and continued to swim forward. After a while, they saw the familiar pine forest. .

The fire clouds spraying heat waves in the sky were getting lower and lower, and soon some flames touched the top of this big pine tree—the height of this tree can almost connect the fire and the sea at this moment.

The top of the big pine tree was burning, and Qin Ci was a little anxious: "What to do, this big pine tree has become the fuse instead, and it will soon lead the fire down!"

Zhu Haowen felt that the water on the sea surface was getting hotter and hotter, and he could only sink into the sea again at this moment. When he saw the scene under the sea water, he hurriedly pulled Qin Ci's ankle above him and pulled him down.

It turned out that this giant pine was so tall that it stood up to the sky, and part of its trunk was actually under the water. Qin Ci spit out a blister in surprise: "It's so strange, when we met the dragon girl, she was obviously sitting under the pine tree to mend clothes." , At that time, the land under the pine tree was above the water surface, how could it sink to the bottom of the water now?"

Zhu Haowen had several guesses in his mind, but they all felt that there was no basis, so he didn't say anything at all.

The two swam around the pine tree, and there was an old woman on the other side of the tree. The old woman was sitting under the tree in the water as if she was on land—because it was so sudden, neither of them felt surprised. .

Even at the bottom of the sea, it can still be seen clearly that this old woman is the dragon girl who gave the dragon tendons to the two of them earlier.

Dragon Girl is not mending clothes now, but is sitting under the pine tree in a daze, occasionally looking up at the burning pine tree, with a sad expression on the bright world of flames on the water.

Zhu Haowen and Qin Ci swam slowly over, neither of them making a sound.

On the contrary, Long Nu looked at the two blankly, and slowly spat out a blister: "If I had repaired my son's clothes earlier, he would not have been burned to death that day."

"Your son..." Qin Ci watched Zhu Haowen smash the dragon girl's blisters, but he could also hear the dragon girl's voice.

"Have you ever seen that winged fire dragon? That's my son trying to extinguish the sky fire." The dragon girl's gray eyes no longer showed any interest, "But now, my son died in the sea of ​​fire and he can't come back. .”

After thinking about it, Zhu Haowen still showed the box to Longnu.

Looking at the totem of Yinglong on the lid of the box, the dragon girl's eyes gradually brightened, and even crystal tears dripped down, and those teardrops slowly melted into the water like bubbles.

"You guys are almost collecting all the eight monsters of the sea," Long Nu raised her head and spat out a blister, "the last one is still missing."

Qin Ci Blister: "So we come to beg you again, I hope you can give us some pointers, if we can gather the eight sea monsters earlier, this fire can also recede one day sooner."

The dragon girl looked up at the big pine tree that was burning all over her body, and smiled: "Maybe this is fate."

The big pine tree was burned by the sky fire, and now it has turned into a huge fire tree. Some things dripped from the tree continuously. Even if those things fell into the water, they were not melted, but rather weighed sinking.

Zhu Haowen reached out his hand to catch a drop, it felt like thick honey, he twisted it with his hands, thinking it should be turpentine.

Some of these drops of pine resin are big and some are small, those big drops are almost as big as a person's palm, and the small ones are only as small as a small raindrop.

Qin Ci suddenly spit out a blister anxiously: "Where is the dragon girl? Why is the dragon girl missing?!"

In such an instant, the dragon girl disappeared.

The giant pine tree trunk in the water is like an illusion, while the burning fire tree above the water is even more like an illusion.

Zhu Haowen seemed to have discovered something suddenly, he didn't have time to pay attention to the bubble that Qin Ci spit out, but rushed straight to the bottom of the sea.

Qin Ci followed closely behind, and the two of them, one in front of the other, were like two arrows shooting into the water.

After a while, Zhu Haowen stopped his downward rush, as if he caught something in his hand.

Qin Ci didn't have time to spit out the blisters, so he stared at Zhu Haowen and asked the other party's purpose for doing so with his eyes.

Zhu Haowen, with an expression of disbelief, spread out his palms, showing Qin Ci what was in his palms.

Qin Ci looked over and saw a piece of turpentine in Zhu Haowen's palm, but he still didn't understand it for a while.

Zhu Haowen spouted a bubble of water: "Look carefully, what's inside?"

Qin Ci took this pine resin and relied on the firelight on the water to illuminate it. He saw that the whole body of this pine resin had the color of diluted Pu-erh tea, and it felt very hard. I don’t know how it condensed itself so quickly. .

In the center of this turpentine, there seems to be something faintly. Qin Ci looked carefully, and it was actually a person——a young woman in ancient costume, with a fairy-like high ring bun, and wearing fairy-like clothes , the sleeves of the clothes are fluttering, and the colorful practice is curling up.

"This is..." Qin Ci spat out a faint blister with difficulty, because everything was so miraculous that he really didn't know how to express it in words.

Zhu Haowen blistered: "This is the Dragon Girl, and it's what the Dragon Girl looked like when she was young."

Qin Ci observed carefully, and then saw a pair of dragon horns from the fairy's head.

Could it be that a drop of turpentine fell into the water just now, wrapping the dragon girl up?In this way, it turned into an amber.

Why did the dragon girl turn herself into an amber?

Zhu Haowen's eyes were complicated, and he slowly put the amber inlaid with the dragon girl into the box.

Soon, the box glowed with an azure blue light.

On the lid of the box, next to the dancing Yinglong totem, the dragon girl sat there in a young image, bowing her head and mending clothes.

Unexpectedly, the last thing of the eight monsters of the sea is actually the dragon girl.

"It takes a thousand years for a piece of turpentine to condense into amber." Qin Ci spit out a blister after a while, "Could it be that we just rushed into the water, which spanned a thousand years?"

At some point, all the flames on the water disappeared.

The two slowly swam upwards. The fish and shrimp who were running for their lives in panic a few minutes ago now regained the comfort they should have had.

Above the sea, there is a long-lost tranquility and coolness.

"The waves are calm and the golden scales are swimming! The sky is bright and blue!" Qin Ci couldn't believe the scene in front of him. Those fires in the sky seemed to have never happened before. It seemed that the peace here had lasted for hundreds of thousands of years. , even tens of thousands of years.

Zhu Haowen: "It's all over me..."

Qin Ci: "..."

Once the eight sea monsters are assembled, they can really suppress the fire of the sky and preserve the sea.

It turns out that this is not just an empty talk.

Zhu Haowen held that strange music box in his hand, and every totem on it could make people appreciate it for a long time.

It's a pity that the two of them don't have much time and mood to appreciate these.

Zhu Haowen opened the music box, and the sound of huge waves resounded again. Accompanied by these sounds, was a small fragment lying quietly at the bottom of the box.

Qin Ci picked up the fragment, and saw a wave of the sea deeply engraved on the broken wood.

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