In the quiet waters near the Mermaid Island, the female deputy was leaning on the reef, enjoying the gentle waves and cool sea breeze. Suddenly, several hurried footsteps sounded nearby.
"Lady Daisy, the messenger from the royal city has brought you a visiting letter. Please have a look." The maids ran over to deliver the letter very tactlessly.
The female deputy had just finished serving Xia Qi today and was already very angry. She wanted to have some quiet time, but late at night, the maids actually bothered her with official business.
"No! I'll watch it tomorrow!" The female deputy frowned and slapped the water angrily.
A maid wiped the sweat from her forehead and explained hurriedly: "Lady Daisy, the messenger from the royal city said that this is an urgent letter about the Sea King. If you don't read it, you will regret it in the future..."
"What?!"
Hearing this, the female deputy jumped out of the water and instantly landed on the reef.
Without waiting for the maid to hand over the letter, the female deputy snatched the letter from the maid's hand without even wiping the water off her hands.
"hiss!"
The female deputy tore the envelope into pieces roughly, unfolded the letter and began to read. After reading only half of it, her eyes widened unconsciously, and her expression changed from shock to ecstasy.
"How is that possible!"
Looking at the contents of the letter, the female deputy couldn't believe it. She murmured and read the contents carefully twice.
"Good, good of you, Xia Qi! No wonder you can't take out the trident!" After confirming the contents of the letter, the female deputy couldn't help but laugh out loud, then gnashed her teeth and said viciously, "This time God is against you, don't blame me for being ruthless and ungrateful!"
The maid stared blankly at her female deputy who was crying and laughing at the same time, and couldn't figure out what she was thinking.
"Go and spread the word quickly. Immediately block the entire island and arrest Xia Qi and all the players!" The female deputy raised her head and smiled exaggeratedly. Her white teeth reflected a cold light in the moonlight.
"Ah?" The maid looked at the female deputy in disbelief, and said in a daze, "But, isn't Xia Qi the Princess of the Sea..."
The Queen of the Sea possesses the trident and her power over the ocean is equal to that of the King of the Sea.
"What Princess of the Sea! If he can't take out the trident, he's not the Princess of the Sea!" The female deputy gritted her teeth and said, "He lied to me, he can't take out the trident at all!"
After sending one of the maids out to arrest the person, another maid asked, "Then... what should we do with this envoy from the royal city?"
The female deputy thought for a moment and sneered, "Send people to the edge of the Sea Country and welcome them in with the highest etiquette of the Sea Country."
Since the envoy from the royal city wanted to capture Xia Qi alive, she might as well do him a favor and send Xia Qi out of the Sea Kingdom.
After the envoy from the royal city left the Sea Kingdom, she would send someone to assassinate Xia Qi on the way. This way, she could save herself a lot of trouble.
"I'm so tired, can you take a break and let me breathe?"
On the surging water, four people wearing octopus helmets were swimming forward desperately.
Xia Qi came out of the water, spit out a mouthful of seawater, turned his head to look at the Mermaid Island, which had become the size of a grain of rice under the distant starry sky, and said, "It's already very far away. Since you feel uncomfortable, let's take a rest and catch your breath."
Ding Xiang moved the fastest, lifting the helmet on his head a little bit: "Huh - comfortable! I'm almost suffocating."
Xia Qi had no intention of staying there any longer, and urged, "Let's continue on our way after we take a breath. We'll try to reach the edge island in the second half of the night."
"Ha, the brains of those sea monsters are only as big as fists. I don't think they can catch up with us so quickly." Ding Xiang said indifferently.
Xia Qi had already swam a long way, but he was still following reluctantly.
Sister Hong was swimming in third place. Seeing that Xiao Ou and Xia Qi were almost at the same speed, she looked thoughtful.
"Xiaohong, you are the best. You know how to wait for an old man like me." Ding Xiang said leisurely.
Sister Hong turned her head and rolled her eyes at Ding Xiang: "You are younger than me. Aren't you ashamed to call me Xiao Hong all day long? By the way, do you think Xiao Ou's physical fitness is similar to Xia Qi's?"
"Yeah." Ding Xiang said belatedly, "I feel so frustrated as a high-level player. I am not up to their passing level at all."
Sister Hong: “…”
She had seen super players and high-level players before, but not all high-level players were at this level...
Xia Qi and Xiao Ou seemed to have been trained before. Their physical fitness and speed could definitely catch up with Uncle Shu Li who had captured her.
Seeing that Xia Qi and Xiao Ou had swam far away, Sister Hong ignored Ding Xiang and swam forward quickly.
"Xiaohong, wait for me—" Ding Xiang shouted, paddling vigorously in the water with both hands, complaining, "Old people's bodies just don't work well."
But after a while, he felt that his swimming speed had slowed down. He swam hard for a while, then he realized that it was not that he was swimming slowly, but that there was something wrong with the sea water.
Waves from behind hit the back of his head one after another. The nearby sea surface seemed no longer calm, but became unusually turbulent. The cold wind whistled over his head. Ding Xiang turned his head belatedly and looked behind him.
After just one look, he took a sharp breath.
"Oh my god... what is that?" Ding Xiang's mouth opened into an O shape instantly.
I saw a huge, round head appearing in the sky not far away. At this moment, the giant head was waving eight fat tentacles like pillars, like a moving island, and was arrogantly attacking them.
This time, without Xia Qi's reminder, Ding Xiang swam towards the three people like crazy, as if he had an electric motor installed, and screamed as he swam: "Xia Qi, Xia Qi! Help!"
After hearing Ding Xiang's shouting, Xia Qi and others also discovered something was wrong.
Looking at the familiar black shadow under the night sky, Xia Qi paused and asked, "How did the female deputy find out so quickly?"
However, now he was not worried about how the female assistant found them. He only had one thought in his mind: "Swim faster!"
The others were all veterans of the escape game. They knew the importance of escaping without much explanation and just swam forward.
After running desperately for a distance, Xia Qi stopped again. He found that not only did they not distance themselves from the octopus, but the octopus was getting closer and closer to them, as if it knew they were there.
He had once experienced being knocked unconscious by an Atlantic salmon in the sea water and guessed that nearby marine life might be controlled by an octopus.
Xia Qi took out the oil paper bag without hesitation, took out the flare inside, and fired one into the sky.
“Bang!”
The flare exploded into a rose-shaped firework in the sky, instantly lighting up the entire starry sky red. At the same time, the octopus seemed to be stimulated as well and pounced towards them frantically.
They saw the huge bald black shadow growing bigger and bigger, like a big ship coming towards them against the wind and waves, as if it was going to crush them to pieces.
The octopus helmet had obviously lost its concealment function, so the four of them simply took off the octopus helmets and swam forward with all their might.
“Ahhh!”
Ding Xiang was the one closest to the octopus. Seeing that the octopus was about to attack him first, he was immediately frightened.
He was now filled with regret, regretting why he had been lazy just now. If he had worked harder...
Unfortunately, now they are soaking in the sea water and no one can save him, not even Xia Qi.
Just when he was filled with despair, Xia Qi shouted at him from a distance: "Ding Xiang, hold on!"
“Woo woo woo.”
Feeling the pressure coming from behind, Ding Xiang used all his strength to swim forward desperately. Sister Hong was worried that he would faint from exhaustion, so she suddenly threw a colorful rope to him.
This colorful rope seemed to be elastic, neither loose nor tight, just the right amount to pull him forward.
Ding Xiang drank a lot of water. When he got closer to Sister Hong, he found that Sister Hong was also pulling a rope, which seemed to be connected to Xia Qi and Xiao Ou in front of her.
He burst into tears instantly. Even at this time, his teammates did not give up on him.
Ding Xiang swam while crying. Even though his legs and hands were almost numb and his eyes could not see clearly, he still relied on his instinct to swim forward in the direction of the rope.
"ha-"
The roar of the octopus was getting closer and closer. Ding Xiang seemed to be able to hear the octopus's gasping, and his heart was in his throat.
Suddenly, a vulgar and eerie voice sounded above his head: "My little baby, here I come."
"Bang."
Suddenly, there was a loud bang on the sea, and a huge force came down on his head. Ding Xiang choked on the water and dodged sideways instinctively.
However, although the tentacles did not hit him, they created a huge splash of water, and the rushing sea water poured over Ding Xiang's head, instantly pushing him into the sea.
Fortunately, he was still holding Sister Hong's rope in his hand. He drifted a long way underwater in a daze. He struggled constantly and swam back to the surface of the sea.
Before she could get out of the water, a large black shadow appeared above Ding Xiang's head. After seeing him, the black shadow suddenly lowered its head and stared at him with a pair of yellow eyes that seemed to be filled with pus.
After being locked into this pair of disgusting giant eyes, Ding Xiang was so frightened that he even forgot to close his mouth. He had only one thought in his mind: he was finished.
Exhausted and in complete despair, Ding Xiang closed his eyes helplessly and fell straight into the water, waiting for death to come.
“Bang!”
Just at this moment, a dazzling red light flashed, and a rose-colored firework exploded on the octopus's face, burning several disgusting blisters on the ugly black flesh.
"Ahhh!" The octopus was so angry that it waved a few tentacles and shouted at the location where the fireworks were launched, "Who hit me?"
"It's me." Xia Qi's voice sounded not far away, and it sounded unexpectedly arrogant. "Captain, aren't you looking for me?"
"Ah, I'm so angry! Don't think I don't dare to hit you!" The octopus was so angry that he sprayed out a ball of thick black liquid on the spot. He didn't care about Ding Xiang in front of him, and rushed towards Xia Qi, screaming.
Seeing the octopus rushing towards him, Xia Qi made a gesture to Xiao Ou, and they both took a breath and sank into the water.
When the octopus arrived at their previous position, it found nothing.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
The octopus slapped the nearby water, trying to use its tentacles to knock the two out.
"Xia Qi, come out!"
The octopus struggled in the water for a while, but found that his efforts were in vain. He became angry and changed his tune, whining, "My little baby, come out quickly!"
He found that growing bigger was a wrong decision as it affected his vision too much.
The octopus searched the area chaotically several times as if it was rummaging through a trash can. After a while, he found that not only did he not find the person, but there was a bunch of messy colored threads stuck to one of his tentacles.
"What the hell is this!"
The octopus fished around in his other tentacles and discovered that they were all tangled in colored threads as well.
While the octopus was playing with the colored thread, Xia Qi and Xiao Ou in the water could no longer hold their breath, so they swam up together and took a deep breath.
"So you are here!"
Even though the noise they made when they showed up was very small, the octopus keenly caught it. The octopus laughed viciously and raised its huge tentacles, ready to smash down on the two.
Just as he raised his tentacles, he unexpectedly found that the tentacles became uncontrollable and actually smashed down in another direction.
“Bang!”
The tentacles instantly smashed into the empty sea surface, creating a useless splash of water. The octopus was horrified and let out an angry cry: "What did you do to me!"
"Hahaha..." Xiao Ou poked his head out of the water. His purple bangs were soaked by the sea water, leaving three thick hairs on his forehead. With his exaggerated fringe hair, he laughed at the octopus, "This is one of China's national intangible cultural heritages - brocade weaving skills! Stupid octopus, you should have a good taste of the power of Tianxing Mountain!"
Xia Qi: “…”
Unlike other people who put useless props in the last compartment of their backpack, Xiao Ou put the brocade prop he hated the most in the last compartment.
When he first entered the Tianxing Mountain dungeon, his mother forced him to learn many skills in just a few days in order to make him the most hardworking bride in the village, including the most difficult brocade weaving technique.
Originally, Xiao Ou thought that he would never use the brocade props again in his life, but he did not expect that his brocade props would play a huge role as soon as he arrived at the Blue Sea Mermaid Pearl copy.
"Oh! You guys are going too far!" The Octopus felt very wronged, as if he was back to the day when he was beaten up by Xia Qi's ten fists.
After absorbing the residual soul of the mermaid, the octopus has not encountered an opponent for a long time. He even proclaimed himself the overlord, causing fish and crabs to jump around in the entire ocean.
Now only the female deputy can order him around.
Unexpectedly, he was tricked by Xia Qi again today when he just came out of the mountain.
Xiao Ou and Xia Qi worked together, pulling the colored string and spinning in circles nearby. They restrained the octopus' tentacles so tightly that there was almost no place for them to rest.
Although they couldn't kill the octopus, they could restrict his movements.
"Damn, Brother Xia, have the helpers you mentioned arrived yet?" Xiao Ou couldn't help but complain.
The two had been busy for most of the day and were almost exhausted, but the octopus showed no signs of exhaustion and was still struggling in the water. If they continued to struggle, they would be finished.
"It's almost time." Xia Qi estimated the time in his heart. They were actually quite far away from the edge island. He was not sure whether the dragon could see his flare.
Xia Qi tightened the rope in his hand and swam in the opposite direction, allowing the colored thread to wrap tighter around the octopus.
"I'm really dying..."
Little Ou Bixiaqi was the first to lose strength. He spat out a mouthful of sea water and slowly sank into the water.
Just when only half of his head was left, a flash of fire shot up into the sky over the sea in the east, like a dazzling rising sun. Immediately afterwards, a roar that resounded through the sky came from afar!
"roar!!!"