The searchlight found the front and saw a flat rock with neat carvings.
The front of the rock has been carved out, and there are small square frames on the top of the rock. Looking from a distance, it looks a bit like a shrine for worshipping ancestors or gods.
The third task mentioned the belief in mermaids. He thought it was just a spiritual belief, but he didn't expect that mermaids were worshipping them seriously.
The shrines are carved into the wall one by one, which are not only neat and uniform but also have a sense of age.
There were strange words engraved on the shrine that he could not understand. When he saw these words, Baili Xin was stunned.
The level of civilization of mermaids is far higher than what scientists think!
Mermaids have their own language. If the NPCs really entered this sea area through the passage, they would definitely find this language. Language is the carrier of inheritance. Through this language, they will be able to completely crack all the secrets of the mermaids.
Baili Xin's brows suddenly frowned.
Fortunately, those green monsters drove them away.
Baili Xin had a lot of thoughts in his mind as he drove the submarine over the shrines one by one.
He couldn't understand the words on it. Even if he could, the words had been corroded by sea water and had long been unrecognizable, making them very difficult to identify.
What shocked him was the mermaid's perseverance and patience. This was a hollow rock circle. The height of the rock was a hundred meters high. At that time, it was full of such shrines from top to bottom, and each shrine was engraved with words. There were hundreds of millions of square boxes.
Baili Xin suddenly thought of something. Could it be that the names of the mermaids were engraved in this shrine
As if to verify his conjecture, he maneuvered the submarine backwards, and soon he came to the square frame on the side that had not been engraved with words. There, there was a brand new handwriting.
Through the glass he could even see the fine rock dust that had not yet been washed down from above.
Perhaps this was the reason why the mermaid who just escaped came here.
It has the names of its dead companions engraved on it.
No, not necessarily a companion, it could also be his own.
With its sharp claws worn down and trapped in a force suppressor, even if it returns to the sea, perhaps only death will be waiting for it.
But knowing this, it still dived into the sea without hesitation.
Fallen leaves return to their roots.
It returned to the most sacred place of their clan, carved its own name, and then found a place to quietly wait for death to come.
If so, where does it go
Baili Xin suddenly thought of something and controlled the submarine to swim towards the huge stone statue where he had just come from.
He moved slowly from the top to the bottom. This time he searched very slowly for fear of missing something.
Finally, he found a flashing red light where the statue's eyes should be.
The eyes of the stone statue are hollow and have long been covered with a thick layer of seaweed.
If the water grass had not revealed a gap due to the movement of the water, he would not have noticed the mermaid until now.
The mermaid looked very weak. She didn't replenish her energy in the laboratory, and after entering the ocean, she had to keep swimming and pass through such a dangerous passage.
The journey to here has consumed all its vitality.
Without any hesitation, Baili Xin immediately put on his diving suit, opened the waterproof partition door, and swam out of the submarine.
He quickly swam to the mermaid, and when he swam over, he found that the mermaid was actually unconscious.
The mermaid’s face was pale, and a section of her arm was missing. The wounds on her arm were uneven, and white bones could be seen above the hideous wounds.
I think he was bitten by the green monster when passing through that extremely dangerous passage.
Prisin picked up the merman and dragged him into the submarine.
The submarine was not big. After he took off his oxygen tube and hat, he began to study the mermaid's situation.
Mermaids have two sets of breathing methods, using gills in water and noses in waterless air.
Now that the mermaid has entered the submarine from the water, even though she is unconscious, her body instinctively completes the transformation of the respiratory system.
The gills slowly closed and the mermaid began to breathe through her nose.
Seeing that the mermaid was breathing normally, Baili Xin secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He took out a healing card from his backpack and used it on the mermaid, but the system gave him a prompt.
Ding! The target is detected as an invalid target, and the treatment card cannot be used.
Friendly reminder, the treatment card is applicable to players or humanoid NPCs. The treatment card that you are currently targeting, humanoid monsters, cannot be used.
Humanoid monster
System, open your dog eyes wide and take a good look. This is so beautiful, how can it be a monster? !
Baili Xin's frown slowly furrowed.
The treatment card won’t work. Is he going to have to watch the mermaid die in front of him
The voice of the escape system sounded in his mind: Lord Baili Xin, do you want to try the Mermaid Heart
The Mermaid's Heart was originally obtained from mermaids, so perhaps it will have a better healing effect on mermaids.
Baili Xin's eyes suddenly lit up: Yes, the Mermaid's Heart, how could I forget about this prop.
As he spoke, he quickly took out the Mermaid Heart necklace from the innermost part of his backpack. The moment he took the Mermaid Heart in his hand, the introduction of the Mermaid Heart emerged in his mind.
The Mermaid's Heart is a precious treasure obtained from an ancient mermaid. It is an S-level healing growth item, and has now grown to the maximum level 10.
Friendly reminder: The Mermaid's Heart is currently on cooldown and can only be used for healing, and the resurrection skill cannot be used.
The last time the Mermaid's Heart was used was when it resurrected Red Moon.
After resurrecting Red Moon, the Mermaid Heart went into CD and he never took it out again.
After a long time, you forget its existence.
Baili Xin quickly put the Mermaid Heart around his neck and silently said "Use Mermaid Heart to heal" in his mind. Then a faint white light began to appear on the black pearl.
The next second, the red-tailed mermaid's entire body began to glow.
The arm that was bitten off by the green monster began to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a new arm grew out in just a moment.
At the same time, other wounds on the mermaid's body began to heal. These wounds were criss-crossed and were probably caused by the scratches of the rugged rocks.
The fallen scales grew back, and the complexion of the mermaid's skin became rosy.
Baili Xin looked at the healing effect of the Mermaid's Heart with satisfaction. He observed the mermaid's expression, his shoulders slightly tense, and he was always in a state of tension.
Mermaids are always sensitive. If they suddenly open their eyes and see a strange human during treatment, they will instinctively resist and struggle.
This is just a submarine, not land. If he doesn't handle it well, the mermaid will destroy his submarine. He might as well not go back and just turn around and write his name on the shrine.
So even when he was treating the mermaid, he was very cautious.
During the treatment, the mermaid indeed opened her eyes.
Baili Xin suddenly became nervous, but saw that the mermaid just looked at him silently, and then looked at his healing body.
The next second, pearls flowed out from the corners of the mermaid's eyes, fell onto the floor of the submarine, and rolled everywhere.
Baili Xin: “?”
Moved to tears
Why is this different from what he imagined
Are all mermaids’ personalities similar to Lin Daiyu
"Ah-ah-ah-ah." The mermaid opened her mouth weakly and spoke in a language that Baili Xin could not understand.
Baili Xin replied casually: "Yeah, okay, okay, I'm here to save you, you will be fine."
The red-tailed mermaid shed more tears: "Aiya, aiya!"
Baili Xin: “?”
What did I say
Also, can this fish understand what it is saying
Baili Xin pointed at himself tentatively. When he shook his arm, the mermaid heart on his neck swayed left and right with him. "Do you understand what I say? Nod if you do."
The red-tailed mermaid made “aya aya aya” for a long time but didn’t nod.
Baili Xin: “.”
Okay, he got it.
The mermaid wasn't responding to him just now, it was just very excited.
The treatment of the Mermaid Heart was quickly over, and the white light disappeared from the Mermaid Heart and the Red-Tail Mermaid, but Baili Xin did not feel relieved.
His eyes fell on the mermaid's wrists, where two metal bracelets were conspicuous and abrupt.
This is the limiter that limits the mermaid's power. As long as this thing is on it, it will not survive long in this ocean.
After thinking for two seconds, Baili Xin slowly reached out for the bracelet.
Although he knew that the red-tailed mermaid couldn't understand him, Baili Xin still said, "Bear with it for a moment. I'll try to bite this thing. It might hurt a little."
He placed his hand on the bracelet of the red-tailed mermaid, but the red-tailed mermaid did not resist at all and let Baili Xin do whatever he wanted.
Baili Xin thought about it and took out a piece of cloth from his backpack and stuffed it into the mermaid's mouth.
Although the mermaid didn't understand, she didn't resist and let Baili Xin continue to do whatever he wanted.
Looking at the well-behaved and obedient red-tailed mermaid, Baili Xin wondered if he was a weird uncle.
Afraid that the mermaid would bite him, Baili Xin stuffed the cloth into its mouth and began to apply force to the bracelet.
He is very strong, and the first time he still chose to try to see if he could pry it open directly.
But as soon as the fingers applied force, the red-tailed mermaid began to twitch all over in pain, the whites of her eyes rolled upwards uncontrollably, and she even foamed at the mouth.
The voice of the escape system sounded in my mind: Lord Baili Xin, you can't take it off so forcefully. There is a needle in this bracelet, and this needle is connected to the central nervous system of the mermaid. If it is taken out forcefully, the bracelet will stimulate the central nervous system. The mildest case will faint, and the worst case will die.
Baili Xin finally gave up and took off the bracelet.
He used the Mermaid's Heart again on the mermaid who was in pain, and the mermaid quickly recovered in a moment.
Baili Xin took the cloth out of the mermaid's mouth and looked at the mermaid lying on the ground. He gently stroked the mermaid's beautiful fiery red hair and said to her, "It's okay, it doesn't hurt anymore. I won't help you remove the bracelet yet, don't be afraid."
The mermaid blinked her big, bulging eyes and looked at herself, without a trace of fear in her eyes.
Baili Xin: “?”
Mermaids have suffered so much harm from humans, can they still accept humans
Are they really kind or are they just too generous
Baili Xin's eyes fell on the mermaid's beautiful big tail. He stroked his chin, secretly wondering whether he should kick the mermaid's tail hard when he let her go, to let it know how treacherous people are.
So as to avoid being captured by humans in the future.
While he was thinking, his eyes met the mermaid's bright and sparkling eyes again.
Baili Xin: "..."
What are you looking at? You should be more careful.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. Baili Xin stood up and kicked the mermaid's tail.
As a result, the red-tailed mermaid was not angry. Instead, she gently moved her body to give Baili Xin a better kicking position.
Baili Xin: “?”
help me.
Could this be the stupid roe deer in the marine circle
"I haven't figured out a way to take out the bracelet yet," Baili Xin thought for a while, "Well, you go back first, and a beautiful blue-tailed mermaid will come to find you in the future. It will take you to me, and then I will take out the bracelet for you, understand?"
The red-tailed mermaid's face flushed slightly. He slowly sat up from the ground, suddenly hugged Baili Xin's body with both hands, and kissed him on the face.
Baili Xin was horrified.
Help, he's not clean anymore.
The mermaid husband thought he would die if he knew he was kissed by other fish.
I saved you, but you want to harm me
Go down!
Baili Xin didn't hesitate any longer. He directly opened the isolation cabin door and kicked the mermaid into the sea.
After that, he closed the hatch without mercy.
After sinking in the sea for a while, the red-tailed mermaid began to swim happily. It did not leave as Baili Xin had expected, but circled around Baili Xin, and it seemed that it had no intention of leaving at all.
Baili Xin was overwhelmed.
He no longer paid attention to the red-tailed mermaid, whose enthusiasm was mixed with silliness, but returned to the driver's seat and drove the submarine back to the place where the mermaid was worshipped.
He first came to the place where the red-tailed mermaid's name was and wrote down the mermaid's name.
When he returns, he will give it to Dijia, asking Dijia to find the mermaid according to the name and take off the bracelet.
Just when he was about to move on to look somewhere else, the mermaid came again.
It swam to the glass of the submarine, and started tapping on it and pointing upwards, as if it wanted to show Baili Xin something.
Then the mermaid began to swim upwards.
Baili Xin did not hesitate and quickly controlled the submarine to catch up.
He followed the mermaid's tail and continued to dive upwards. After he surfaced about three hundred meters, something appeared again on the stone wall where there was nothing originally.
This time, it is no longer a series of shrines, but a series of murals.
He didn't know what the murals were engraved with, but looking at the exquisiteness and angularity of the murals, he guessed correctly that it was some kind of special metal.
Only that kind of thing could leave such deep marks on the rock.
Like the shrine below, these murals have shown varying degrees of wear and tear due to the passage of time and the erosion of sea water. However, the difference between paintings and words is that even if our words are not mutually intelligible, we can still understand a piece of history passed down to us by our ancestors through intuitive and vivid pictures.
This is why there were murals and epitaphs in the ancient cemeteries.
The red-tailed mermaid was in the mural for a while, and finally stopped at one place.
It patted the murals and looked at Baili Xin, as if it wanted Baili Xin to see the murals.
Baili Xin shone the searchlight on the wall, and a simple yet serious mural appeared clearly in front of him.
Baili Xin has complicated feelings towards mermaids. Maybe it's because he was a mermaid in the ancient mermaid dungeon before. When he saw the mermaids for the first time in this dungeon, he had a natural liking for this group of mermaids.
Of course, it could also be that they are beautiful and he just has a fondness for beautiful things.
Regardless of the reason, it is an indisputable fact that people are psychologically more inclined towards mermaids.
Because it was a mural, it was not a very complicated mural, but it presented a story in front of him with just a few strokes.
In the first painting, there is only one mermaid.
In the second painting, there are several more mermaids around the mermaid.
In the third painting, a giant fish appeared in front of several mermaids. The mermaid held a harpoon in her hand and stabbed the ugly fish.
The mermaid's body was covered with thorns and looked a bit like a bloated pufferfish.
After looking at the first three paintings, Baili Xin roughly guessed that this should be the history of the birth of mermaids.
At first there was only one mermaid, but later there were more and more mermaids, and they became a group. From the third picture, he learned that mermaids had learned to use tools a long time ago.
However, these pictures are too simple, and the mermaid’s head is just a stickman with a circle and two dots. Fortunately, a tail is also drawn.
It was thanks to the tail that he knew it was a mermaid.
None of the mermaid's previous features are reflected in the mural.
After looking at the third painting, he continued reading.
The fourth painting shows mermaids sharing their captured prey. In this picture, there are not only male mermaids, but also female mermaids and child mermaids.
The fifth painting shows a group of mermaids standing there, each holding a short spear in their hands, as if they are holding some ceremony.
What is this doing
The mermaids seemed to be kneeling down.
Baili Xin looked at the fifth painting. Was it kneeling down to worship their beliefs
When Baili Xin wanted to look further, he found that some of the paintings at the back were already blurry.
He controlled the submarine to swim continuously and soon passed the blurry area.
He quickly reached the back, crossing the corroded mural.
The story is almost coming to an end, and a heroic mermaid appears out of nowhere, holding a harpoon in his hand and raising his hands high like a weightlifting champion.
All the mermaids crawled in front of it and surrounded it.
Behind this mermaid, a shape similar to light is drawn to highlight its uniqueness.
It seems that this was the leader of the mermaids at that time.
Perhaps this is the belief of mermaids.
The red-tailed mermaid moved again.
Baili Xin hurried to catch up, and saw that this time the red-tailed mermaid began to dive downwards.
Because of the pressure, Baili Xin didn't dare to dive too fast and could only follow slowly behind.
Soon he followed it to the place where the shrine was at the beginning. It stopped at the top of the shrine and pointed at the badly corroded name on the top of the shrine.
In fact, the higher up the shrine is, the more severe the corrosion becomes.
A reasonable guess is that the higher you go, the longer it will take.
It refers to the very first name of the shrine.
It showed itself the mural above, and then pointed out the name to itself.
Does it mean that this name is the name of the mermaid in the mural
Baili Xin quickly took out his phone from his backpack and took a picture.
Although it is very likely that this is the name of "Faith", the name in the shrine has long become messy, and nothing can be seen except a few lines.
Although I don’t know why the mermaid wants to help me, this is indeed a very crucial clue.
He just thought so.
The system's voice sounded in my mind.
Ding! Congratulations to the player, there is progress in Task 3. Please check the system task list for details.
Upon hearing this, Baili Xin opened the system task list and saw that the progress of the third task, finding the mermaid's faith, had increased from 0 to 30.
With the progress of 30, Baili Xin lowered his head and his eyes fell on a few lines on the mobile phone screen.
Reverse search is correct.
The voice of the escape system sounded in my mind: Lord Baili Xin, it’s time for you to go back.
The backflow of seawater appears twice a day, and the second time will appear two hours later. If you miss this time, you can only wait until tomorrow at noon. By then, Dr. Ole will find that you are missing.
Baili Xin put the phone in his backpack and said, "Okay, let's go back now."
After saying that, he flashed the searchlight twice towards the distance as a farewell to the red-tailed mermaid.
Then he began to drive the submarine back in the direction he came from.
On his way back, he saw the big whale again.
For several hours, it continued to eat.
The escape system saw this and said: This is the dry rice fish, the dry rice soul? How can it eat so much
Baili Xin: Whales are too huge. In order to support their daily consumption, they need to eat continuously. There is no other way.
Practice makes perfect, and in two hours, they quickly returned to the other side of the cave.
Not long after Baili Xin arrived, the return flow began.
It is still a whirlpool and still extremely dangerous.
Having had this experience once, he was obviously much more calm this time, and even had the leisure time to observe the situation around him.
In the water-filled cave, the green monsters huddled together in the entrance of a stalactite.
They seemed to be very afraid of water and huddled there without daring to move.
However, although it seems so, when small fish rush over, they will reach out their hands to catch them and even put their heads into the water.
However, they did not stay in the water for long, and soon retracted their heads.
The red-tailed mermaid was injured just now, probably because of this.
But there's still something strange.
This is the deep sea area, and these green monsters obviously cannot breathe in water. They are more like land creatures.
How could land creatures appear in the deep sea
Brought down by crustal movement
But if that's the case, as the species evolves, the green monsters should be able to evolve gills to breathe in water, right
But they didn't.
With this doubt, Baili Xin quickly rushed out of the passage and entered the safe waters.
It was dawn when he returned to the institute.
Baili Xin used the invisibility skill card and sent a private message to Xia Chi.
Soon Xia Chi opened the door of the institute under the pretext of morning exercise, and Baili Xin naturally returned to the institute.
Xia Chi: Brother, you're finally back. I was worried about you the whole night and couldn't sleep.
Baili Xin silently looked at the marks on Xia Chi’s cheek: Oh, I believe it.
Xia Chi: How did you come back? In a submarine? Where is the submarine
Prisin: Where else? In my backpack, of course.
Xia Chi:
Awesome!