Unlike the turbulent sea surface, the sea below is quite calm.
After Xia Qi jumped into the underwater world, sea water instantly squeezed in from all sides, pouring into his ears and temporarily blocking his hearing.
As he gradually descended, he felt his chest becoming more and more stuffy and his head became heavy.
The pressure brought by the deep sea also made his movements very slow. In addition, his legs were wrapped in a fishtail skirt, so he had to wave his arms very hard to swim downwards.
"Gudong, gudong."
Xia Qi held a seaweed pill in his mouth and blew out a long string of bubbles.
The fine bubbles continued to float upwards and finally disappeared at the top of the sea.
“Hula—”
At this moment, the bubble he floated up was instantly shattered, and a tall mermaid shadow fell into the sea with a "bang", stirring up countless white waves and foam.
Judging from the direction from which the mermaid's shadow appeared, Xia Qi thought that it must be the girl falling.
Just when he was worried whether the girl's skirt would affect her movements, he saw the girl above him just lower her waist, and the bright blue fish tail on his lower body slid down gently, leaving a beautiful arc in the sea.
In an instant, he landed in front of him.
His swimming skills seemed to be much better than his, Xia Qi was secretly surprised.
The girl stretched out her hand to Xia Qi, motioning him to hold her and move forward. Xia Qi waved his hand, rejecting her kindness.
He has to adapt to the underwater environment by himself and it is impossible for him to always be led around by someone.
Seeing Xia Qi trying to swim in his own way, the girl spread her fish tail and circled around him.
The water pressure seemed to have no effect on him at all, he was as agile as a bird in the sky, he circled around him again and again, looking very happy and seemed to be enjoying the feeling of being in the water.
He didn't know if it was Xia Qi's illusion, but he always felt that the scales on the girl's fishtail were somewhat different from his own fishtail skirt. In the dark environment, the scales on the girl's fishtail glowed with a faint halo, like a child's blinking eyes. With every swing of his fishtail, his fishtail would drag a beautiful, star-like fragmented light in the water.
Xia Qi stared at his tail for a while, and didn't even realize that he was distracted. However, he quickly came back to his senses and carefully observed the girl's movements in the water.
Xia Qi tried hard to imitate her movements and swung his mermaid skirt. Unfortunately, after nearly five minutes in the water, he still didn't learn how to swim like the girl.
"Forget it." Xia Qi thought to himself, if he delayed any further, he might not be able to complete the task.
Xia Qi raised his hand and pointed in the direction of Pearl Reef.
Unlike the dark reefs exposed on the sea surface, the underwater pearl reefs emit a white glow and are easy to spot.
The girl understood what he meant and led him towards the Pearl Reef.
They arrived near a pearl reef.
This pearl reef grows very freely and has very strange shapes. Some look like branches, some look like mushrooms, and there are clusters of flowers growing in patches. Judging from the shapes formed by their whiskers, they look very much like chrysanthemums blooming on land.
The girl seemed to like the chrysanthemum-shaped pearl reef very much, and grabbed Xia Qi and asked him to shovel it quickly.
Xia Qi: “…”
Considering that destroying the Chrysanthemum Pearl Reef would have a bad implication, Xia Qibai waved his hand at him to express his refusal to destroy the Chrysanthemum.
Then he swam to a pearl reef that looked like a small mushroom, took out a shovel and slowly started shoveling.
The pressure of working underwater is quite high. After Xia Qi completed the task, 40 minutes had passed unknowingly. Now, he only had 1 hour and 20 minutes left.
He also has a mission to get 10 pearl fish.
Xia Qi suddenly realized that he had not seen any pearl fish when he was digging the pearl reef just now.
Where did the pearl fish go
Xia Qi frowned. The female deputy said that there would be pearl fish near the Pearl Reef. In addition, the pearl fish was snow-white all over, so he would definitely not miss it if a pearl fish passed by him.
At this moment, several shadows suddenly appeared not far away. They looked very much like the other players in fishtail skirts, but they were so fast that they flashed past the Pearl Reef, and even Xia Qi couldn't see who they were.
Looking at their bizarre speed, Xia Qi was secretly shocked. Were those people just now really the players wearing fishtail skirts
Although Xia Qi is not a professional swimmer, he believes that he has a pretty good swimming ability and physical strength. Just now, these "fishtail skirt players" were as fast as birds underwater, which is not like normal humans.
However, Xia Qi didn't have time to care about others for the time being. He had to catch the pearl fish quickly to complete the task.
He was worried that the girl didn't understand what he meant, so he raised his hands and gestured to him: Let's go find the pearl fish.
Unexpectedly, after he finished demonstrating, the girl actually nodded.
"Do you understand?" Xia Qi showed an expression of disbelief.
The girl nodded again and patted her chest, as if saying to him: Wait here for me, I will go find it.
Without waiting for Xia Qi to make any further moves, the girl suddenly swam away with her tail. When she stopped, Xia Qi was horrified to find that the distance between them was now more than five meters.
Xia Qi: “…”
The girl's lightning speed was even more terrifying than the few "fishtail skirt players" who had just swam past.
Xia Qi shook his head helplessly. He planned to wait here for a few minutes. If the girl didn’t find the pearl fish, he would go out to look for it.
After shoveling the girl's share of the pearl reef, there was only one hour left.
Xia Qi was getting a little anxious waiting there, so he decided to go look for the girl.
At this moment, he suddenly licked a hint of blood from the sea water.
"Something happened?" Xia Qi was slightly startled. His intuition told him that something strange happened in the water.
In the game, although it is easy to encounter danger when going to the scene of the incident, in order to pass the level, you must have more information.
Xia Qi swam towards the smell of blood without hesitation. He passed through numerous pearl reefs and came to a relatively empty place. When he saw a figure in front of him, he hid behind a chrysanthemum-shaped pearl reef, then stretched his head out to look forward.
In front of him was a seaweed forest with a few luminous jellyfish growing in it, allowing Xia Qi to vaguely see the scene in front of him.
In a long piece of seaweed, a person who looked like a "fishtail skirt player" was surrounded by a group of other "fishtail skirt players". The person being surrounded had his hands and feet bound by the seaweed and seemed to be struggling desperately.
Xia Qi frowned slightly. Why was this person bound by algae
Why didn't the onlookers save him
At this moment, a tall "fishtail skirt player" suddenly swam out from the crowd of onlookers. He held something that looked like a trident in his hand and gestured in front of the bound person.
Just when Xia Qi was puzzled, the man holding the trident suddenly thrust the trident forward fiercely, instantly piercing the throat of the "fishtail skirt player"!
Xia Qi was instantly choked by the water and a long string of bubbles came out of his mouth.
Xia Qi didn't expect that he would make a noise when he was frightened, so he quickly covered his mouth. However, when he tried to suppress his cough, it was too late.
The man holding the trident suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of Xia Qi. His pair of dark green eyes were extremely fierce, and there seemed to be poison in his gaze.
At that moment, Xia Qi felt as if he had been shot through by a sharp arrow. He didn't bother to hide his tracks and quickly turned around and ran.
Xia Qi waved his arms vigorously and swam desperately in the Pearl Reef.
Because of the darkness, he lost his direction after swimming for a while.
"Gudong, gudong."
Although it was so quiet underwater that no one could feel anything, Xia Qi felt his heartbeat getting faster and faster. The man holding the trident seemed to be nearby, looking for him everywhere.
He hid behind a huge pearl reef, holding on to the reef wall beside him with his right hand, praying that he would not be found.
However, misfortunes never come singly. When his heart was about to jump into his throat, the seaweed pill in his mouth became smaller and smaller. When the pill was only 1/2 its size, the seaweed pill suddenly stopped emitting oxygen.
Xia Qi bit the seaweed pill in disbelief, and after confirming once again that it had lost its effect, he cried out in his heart, "Not good!"
"Oops!"
There is something wrong with this seaweed pill!
Xia Qi tried hard to hold his breath, not caring whether there were pursuers behind him, and swam upstream with the two-kilogram coral reef in his hand.
Since he had already dived into a relatively deep sea and was still a long distance from the surface, he might not be able to make it back to the surface.
With a ruthless heart, Xia Qi threw away the coral reef in his hand, spread his arms and swam upwards. At this moment, a silver-gray fish as tall as an adult rushed towards him and knocked him more than ten meters away.
If he was not mistaken, the fish that had just hit him was an Atlantic salmon.
Xia Qi's head was buzzing due to lack of oxygen. He tried hard to swim upstream again. Somehow, a male salmon with red and purple spots appeared near him!
The salmon was very "unsighted" and hit him again.
Will this group of fish ever be finished
Xia Qi secretly swore in his heart that as soon as he got ashore, he would use a harpoon to harpoon them all and stew them all in one pot!
Unfortunately, the fishes could not hear Xia Qi's inner threat, and instead gathered more and more around him. As long as Xia Qi swam upstream, this group of annoying salmon would block his way and prevent him from continuing to swim upstream.
At this moment, a salmon about 2 meters long suddenly appeared from nowhere and hit his lower abdomen hard.
"puff."
Xia Qi exhaled his last breath, and a long string of bubbles exploded above his head.
In just a moment, without oxygen, his eyes went dark, he became confused, and fell uncontrollably.
Although Xia Qi was sinking, he still had a trace of consciousness. Just when he thought he was going to die, suddenly, a shadow of a mermaid ran towards him at an extremely fast speed.
The imagined burial at the bottom of the sea did not happen. Instead, a figure came to his side, put an arm through his waist, and hugged him gently.
The figure's other hand held the back of his head, forcing him to move closer.
Xia Qi opened his eyes with difficulty, and he could only vaguely see the blurry face of the mermaid.
The merman looked at him tenderly with his blue eyes, which seemed to contain affection as deep as the sea, as if they could accommodate everything about him.
Xia Qi's whole body was limp and he could only let him play with him.
The mermaid slowly approached his face, and when it was only half a finger's distance away from his face, the mermaid suddenly lowered its head and bit Xia Qi's lips hard without hesitation.
His impatient look was like a long-hungry beast.
"Mmmmm--Pfft."
After a sudden gulp of oxygen, Xia Qi felt that he was finally alive.
However, even with the oxygen, he still didn't feel very good. At this moment, the mermaid was holding the back of his head tightly, forcing him to lift his head up and forcing him to bear the air he was passing through!
Xia Qi struggled a little, but he didn't expect that although the other party's movements seemed gentle, the strength of his grip was very strong, clamping him in his arms like an iron clamp.
At this time, in the deep blue and quiet sea, a dark blue halo was cast from above and fell on the tall mermaid and Xia Qi.
The mermaid's gorgeous fish tail swayed gently, and she held a black-haired young man in her arms, so that her seductive back was slightly curled up. They leaned their heads against each other intimately, and the mermaid's silver hair curled up the young man's flying black hair, and their hair kept intertwining and entangled in the water.
Soft seaweed danced around them, white coral reefs bloomed for them, schools of colorful fish swam hard, jellyfish as bright as little blue lighthouses glowed desperately, and all the underwater creatures vied with each other to show their most beautiful side, tightly surrounding the kissing couple and turning this originally quiet underwater world into the most beautiful dream.
After a few seconds, Xia Qi felt that he had recovered his strength. He raised his hand to push the other person's shoulder, but accidentally touched a piece of skin that felt like fish skin.
The other person's skin has a strange touch. Although the shoulder is a human shoulder, it feels slippery and smooth like silk...
This touch is definitely not human skin!
Just as Xia Qi was horrified, he suddenly heard a series of reminders from the system in his mind.
True Love Value+999
True Love Value+999
True Love Value+999
…
Although he earned countless true love points at one time, Xia Qi was shocked and frightened when he was forcibly kissed on the head by a monster that came from nowhere.
"open!"
He struggled hard, but he didn't expect that the more he struggled, the harder the other party pushed, so that his neck was a little uncomfortable. He frowned and bit the other party's lower lip lightly, trying to make the other party loosen up.
The smell of blood quickly filled his mouth, but the other party showed no sign of letting up. The mermaid's eyes were fixed on him, and the corners of her eyes slowly turned red.
Xia Qi took the opportunity to take out the magic wand of true love from the system backpack and raised his hand to point it at the other person's temple.
At this moment, the other party seemed to become irritable, pinching his mouth and taking a breath back suddenly. Xia Qi didn't even utter a word, and the oxygen in his mouth was instantly sucked away by the other party.
"Hmm."
The sudden lack of oxygen to the brain made Xia Qi see stars, and in just a moment, he fainted again.
Looking at the young man in his arms who stopped struggling and whose head slowly tilted back, the mermaid was stunned for a moment.
Feeling dizzy