“Pah.”
After the girl turned into bubbles and disappeared, a small black box fell into Xia Qi's arms.
Because the surroundings were so messy, Xia Qi stuffed the box into his backpack first.
Just after the girl disappeared, the system reminder sounded.
Ding Dong! Route progress +10%, total progress 90%!
"What?!" Xia Qi couldn't help but gasp.
Did he choose to disappear at this time specifically to point him in the right direction
Could it be that he couldn't wait any longer
Just as Xia Qi was struggling in that spot, another scream rang out.
"Ah, this time it's not skeletons, it's a group of monsters!"
Tony was screaming in despair at the bow of the boat. He raised his hand and pointed in horror at the shadow that suddenly appeared in the air.
Xia Qi stared up into the sky, and saw shadows with human bodies and fish tails suddenly appear in the rolling black fog, as if countless mermaids were riding the wind and waves and rushing towards them.
As the group of mermaids got closer, Xia Qi could see clearly that they were not a group of living mermaids, but a group of mermaid skeletons and mermaid corpses that were dead beyond death!
Unlike the human pirate skeletons that appeared last time, this group of mermaids included skeletons, as well as half-dried or rotten corpses. The first group to board the ship were a dozen bloody mermaid corpses.
These merman corpses had no hair or eyes. Their pale or ulcerated skin covered their skulls, and their empty black eye sockets were emotionless.
The skin of these mermaids, which had turned white from blisters, was covered with many scars from being scratched by knives, which were densely covered on their bodies like spider webs. Black and yellow pus was constantly flowing out of the black wounds where the skin and flesh were turned over.
The fish tail on the lower half of the mermaid's corpse was also a bloody mess. After these fish tails fell on the deck, the deck instantly turned into a sea of black pus, and even the air was filled with a sour and fishy smell.
"How disgusting!" Tony took a step back and pulled his cooking artifact teammate back towards the fishing boat.
At this moment, a mermaid nearly two meters tall suddenly jumped forward and pounced towards Tony with a scream!
"Ahh! Let me go!"
Tony was suddenly knocked to the ground by the mermaid. He was horrified. The mermaid seemed to have gone mad. It opened its mouth, revealing a mouthful of broken fangs, and bit his face. In a short while, several pieces of flesh on Tony's face were torn off, and blood was all over his face.
Seeing his teammate being bitten terribly, the male player with the cooking artifact raised his foot and kicked the crazy mermaid away, then pulled Tony up, and the two of them cooperated to release the fishing boat.
However, as there were more and more mermaids on the boat, the remaining mermaids once again rushed towards Tony and the male player with the cooking artifact.
"Get out!" Tony suddenly had a folding fan in his hand. He waved the fan with peach blossoms painted on it at the mermaid. The fan shook out a gust of wind carrying peach petals, instantly making the mermaid's peach blossoms bloom.
All the players gathered on the deck to launch the fishing boats, some launched them late and some launched them early. The first one to slip into the water was Xia Qi. After he started rowing, Tony and the male player with the cooking artifact jumped down.
Both of them suffered a lot of injuries. Tony's face skin was almost gone, and the male player of the cooking artifact was stabbed several times in the chest.
Apart from that, the rest of the players are in even worse shape.
The young master didn't know what happened. There were several cuts on his chest and injuries at the corners of his eyes. He didn't know if he could still see. At this time, he was weakly lying on a fishing boat, letting the strong man row the boat hard.
The female player who lost a teammate had her entire arm torn off by the mermaid. With one hand shaking, she rowed the boat with difficulty beside Xia Qi. It seemed that she could not even keep her body steady and was about to fall into the water.
Xia Qi held the magic wand in one hand and stretched out the other hand towards her, shouting anxiously: "Come to my boat!"
His fishing boat was originally prepared for him and the girl. Seeing that the girl had turned into a bubble and flew away, his boat could still carry one more person.
"Thank you, thank you." The female player rowed the boat to his side, threw her bag over, and then slowly climbed onto Xia Qi's boat.
Just as Xia Qi held her hand and was about to help her sit steadily, a white wave suddenly exploded in the water, and a mermaid with a festering face jumped out of the water, opened its mouth ferociously, and bit the female player's neck!
The mermaid left a trail of blood in the air, and then fell into the water with a "splash".
The female player didn't even make a sound before she disappeared. In an instant, several blood-red bubbles floated up from where she fell into the water.
Watching a person die in front of him, Xia Qi's right hand trembled. In fear, he quickly put the magic wand into his left hand, and held the oar tightly in his right hand to block in front of him.
Xia Qi widened his eyes and thought, the skeletons were obviously not allowed to go into the water, so why can this group of mermaids go into the water
Xia Qi stared at the water.
“Swish—”
The sound of splashing water sounded behind him. Xia Qi suddenly raised his right hand and swung the oar backwards.
The oar hit the thing behind him. There was a loud "bang" and the mermaid that jumped up behind him was knocked back into the water.
Xia Qi carefully identified the sounds of water splashing around him, and then viciously "pa, pa, pa", and pa" hit several merman corpses that came out and tried to bite him.
As the fight went on, Xia Qi suddenly discovered that none of the mermaids that jumped out of the water were mermaid skeletons, and the more ferocious and stronger the mermaids looked, the less dried out and rotten their bodies were.
Compared with Xia Qi's battle alone at this time, the situation of the other players was even more tragic.
Because they set out too late, they were accidentally surrounded by a group of mermaids with rotting corpses. The area they were in had unilaterally turned into a bloody massacre site for the mermaids.
“Bang!”
After once again slapping a mermaid away with a paddle, Xia Qi fell into confusion.
If he keeps fighting like this, there will be no end to it. He will eventually run out of energy...
Thinking of this, Xia Qi suddenly had an idea and looked into the distance.
Not far away, I saw that the captain had turned into an octopus, with his female deputy on his bald head. The two of them were swimming deeper into the fog, and they didn't seem to intend to come back.
At this time, Xia Qi noticed that the female deputy was holding a very familiar fish tank in her hand. The fish tank was sparkling with light and looked like the pearl fish raised by the captain.
"Pearl fish?"
An idea suddenly came to Xia Qi's mind. The last time he handed in a task, he had secretly taken away two pearl fish.
At present, the two pearl fish are still placed in his backpack, filled with water from a garbage rum bottle.
Without thinking, Xia Qi reached into his backpack and took out a pearl fish. Sure enough, after he took out the pearl fish, after a long time, no mermaids emerged from the water to attack him.
Pearl fish is really useful!
It is not known whether this pearl fish is the companion fish or partner of the mermaid, but it can actually confuse the mermaid's corpse.
Xia Qi put the bottle of rum in his arms, then followed the direction of the octopus and rowed forward hard.
Compared to Xia Qi who was leading the way, the players behind also showed their magical powers in order to escape. They were seriously injured, but they fought their way out of the group of rotting mermaid corpses and stayed far behind Xia Qi and the captain.
Everyone rowed the boat desperately for nearly a whole day, and the number of mermaids chasing and biting them gradually decreased.
Night fell again and the sea became calm again.
The octopus in the distance suddenly stopped.
Seeing this, Xia Qi also put down his oars, took out a bag of cooked shells, and began to replenish his energy.
Because the captain turned into an octopus, he swam very fast and Xia Qi had to exert a lot of effort to catch up with him. After a whole day, his arms were extremely sore and he was almost paralyzed.
After eating the shellfish meat and drinking the water, Xia Qi finally had time to count the pile of things in his hands.
Because the female player was carried into the water by the mermaid, the boxes in her backpack also belonged to Xia Qi. Now, Xia Qi had a total of 6 boxes in his hand.
These 6 boxes belong to the male player in the first room, the female player in the second room, the macho man, the female player who was just taken away by the mermaid, the girl, and himself.
Apart from the fish tail of the male player in the first room and the tail fin of the female player in the second room, Xia Qi opened them one by one. The remaining items in the boxes were:
In the macho box, there is a mermaid’s anal fin;
The box of the female player who was just taken away by the mermaid contained the mermaid's nails;
As for his box and the girl's box, they contained the mermaid's eyes and the mermaid's silver-white hair respectively.
He was already very familiar with the mermaid's hair, but after seeing the blue eyes, Xia Qi almost threw the box in his hand away.
Xia Qi didn't dare to stare at the eyes in the box. He held the edge of the box tightly, as if he wanted to break the box on the spot.
Xia Qi frowned and murmured in a low voice: "Why, why do you want to give me eyes?"
"What do you want to tell me?"
Although he kept expressing his doubts, his eyes could not answer his questions.
“Pah.”
Xia Qi closed the box again and stuffed it into his backpack.
After putting the box into his backpack, Xia Qi realized that tears were welling up in the corners of his eyes.
He sat alone on the boat and it took him nearly 30 minutes to adjust his mood.
Looking at the dark night sky, Xia Qi shook his head and sighed silently.
He packed up his belongings and prepared to go to bed.
Worried that he slept too deeply at night, Xia Qi took out a silver knife and cut a wound on his palm.
At this moment, the octopus half exposed its head from the water and swam towards Xia Qi leisurely paddling its tentacles.
Xia Qi clenched his injured palm and looked coldly at the octopus beside him: "What do you want to do now?"
Still want to continue making trouble
"I'm not going to do anything tonight," the Octopus told him in his captain's voice.
"Aren't you going to offer sacrifices?" Xia Qi said coldly.
Xia Qi didn't believe that the octopus wouldn't cause trouble. Maybe the other party was targeting him and would throw him to the mermaid Shadow as a sacrifice as soon as he fell asleep.
"Oh, you cute little rascal, you actually know everything!" The octopus regained its original voice and said to him with a grin, "Although the sacrificial ceremony has not been fully completed, we are very lucky. The Soul of the Sea has pointed out the direction for us!"
Xia Qi looked at the dark and cunning octopus in front of him with suspicion. From what he had just said, although the sacrificial ceremony was not completed according to all the methods, it somehow achieved the octopus's ultimate goal.
So, they will now go to a place, which is the destination that Octopus has been planning for a long time.
Thinking of this, Xia Qi couldn't help but sneer. The octopus was really cruel. For its own purpose, it actually used their lives to perform sea reclamation sacrifices...
After the octopus finished speaking, he immediately used the captain's voice and said excitedly: "I am really a lucky man blessed by God!"
Octopus was talking to himself, and Xia Qi didn't bother to pay attention to him. At this time, the female captain reached out and patted Octopus's head, saying, "Can you keep quiet and let me rest for a while?"
"Humph! If you think I'm noisy, then go into the water and be quiet!"
The octopus complained and swam away chirping.
Watching the octopus finally leave, Xia Qi put away the silver knife and no longer planned to cut his palm.
It seems that it is no longer necessary.
Sure enough, after a whole night, Xia Qi was not hypnotized by the familiar song, but for some reason, he felt that the man seemed to be getting closer and closer to him.
It was a windless night and Xia Qi slept lightly for a while. After hearing the gentle sound of water, he woke up again.
There was no gray fog on the sea surface in the early morning, and the sky turned into the familiar azure blue again. In the distance, an octopus with a female assistant on its head was paddling its tentacles and swimming forward continuously.
Xia Qi ate a few bites of food, then picked up his oar and rowed to catch up.
After a while, Xia Qi saw a black island in the distance under the blue sky and white clouds.
The island was shrouded in black fog. Above the island, countless shadows of mermaids were hovering. These shadows kept screaming. Even from a long distance, Xia Qi could hear the thick anger and resentment in the shadows, which made people feel heavy.
Moreover, in the black fog directly above the island, there were two balls of green flames, like a pair of eyes full of hatred, looking down at them coldly.
Looking at this ball of fire filled with amazing resentment, Xia Qi's heart began to pound.
After seeing the island, the octopus sped up, and Xia Qi had to grit his teeth and paddle hard to keep up with the octopus.
The mermaid's island looked very close, but it was actually very far away. It was 30 minutes later that Xia Qi saw the shore of the island.
However, as it got closer, the island gave him a growing sense of oppression. It was like the mouth of a giant beast, seemingly about to swallow him in one bite.
Finally reaching the coast, Xia Qi stopped the boat.
Ding Dong! Route progress +10%, total progress 100%!
Xia Qi let out a long breath.
The mermaid and the girl had been guiding him here, and this time, he finally reached his destination.
The moment he stepped onto the shore, he saw the figures of mermaids circling in the sky, and suddenly they swooped down towards him in groups.
This time, it was the souls of the mermaids who came to stop them, rather than the physical corpses and skeletons of the mermaids.
Compared with the corpses and skeletons of the mermaids, the souls of these mermaids still looked ugly. They were all missing limbs, and some even had no tails. They formed a mermaid wall in front of Xia Qi, not only blocking his way, but also grabbing at him one by one, like a group of evil ghosts just crawling out of hell.
There were so many disgusting merman souls surrounding him that Xia Qi felt it was difficult to breathe.
He suppressed his nausea and raised the pearl fish in his hand, and the group of evil spirits retreated a distance.
However, the evil spirits still blocked his way and prevented him from leaving.
Xia Qi raised his head and looked at the octopus that was excitedly climbing up the hillside, and murmured in a low voice: "One is not enough, add another one?"
He took out another pearl fish, but it only made the group of evil spirits retreat a little bit.
"Do you really need a tank of fish..." Xia Qi frowned. It was already this time, where could he get a tank of fish for the evil spirits to watch and play with
As long as Xia Qi took a step forward, this group of evil spirits would block in front of him. Xia Qi had no choice but to go back to the beach and start catching pearl fish.
Fortunately, there are some pearl fish in the shallow water. However, Xia Qi did not bring a fishing net or fishing gear. If he wanted to catch fish, he could not use a sharp wooden stick to poke them, so he could only catch them with his bare hands.
Xia Qi rolled up his trouser legs and stood in the cold sea.
Looking at the pearl fish swimming around in the water like free birds in the sky, Xia Qi spread his hands helplessly, feeling a little at a loss.
This group of pearl fish are so slippery that it is not realistic to catch them with bare hands.
Xia Qi took out the magic wand of true love again and pondered the spell in his mind. However, after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't figure out how to use the spell to catch fish.
He did collect a lot of spells with lethal power, but he didn't have any spells for catching fish.
Xia Qi stood in the water, looking at his system backpack, and fell into deep thought.
After a while, when Xia Qi saw the bottle of forgotten pink perfume in the corner of the backpack, he suddenly remembered that this thing could have a charming effect on the enemy.
"It seems... I can only try to see if the perfume has any effect on the fish."
Although Xia Qi was very resistant to Margaret's perfume, he had to use it in this special situation.
Item name: Rose Love Perfume (bound).
Effect of use: Spraying the perfume on your body can have a charming effect on the enemy.
Other notes: This bottle of perfume with rose top notes and sandalwood amber base notes can make you have a fatal attraction to him/her!
Xia Qi frowned helplessly, took out the Rose of Love perfume with disgust, and sprayed a little bit on his right fingers.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he put his finger into the sea water, the nearby pearl fish rioted.
Under the light blue water, countless white spots of light rushed towards him. He was like a lighthouse at night, attracting the attention of all the pearl fish.
The fish gathered in groups around him, noisily gathering around him and constantly getting close to the skin of his calves. It was the first time that Xia Qi was surrounded by so many fish, and he felt his legs itchy as he stood in the water.
For some unknown reason, he felt like he was having a foot massage.
Xia Qi took a small wine barrel from the boat and easily scooped up dozens of pearl fish in the water.
That should be enough this time.
Xia Qi carried the wine barrel, walked out of the water again, and walked towards the direction of the mermaid evil ghost.
This time, the mermen and evil spirits did not come forward to harass him. Instead, they silently made way for him and looked at him with awe.
Xia Qi walked along the path the octopus had taken. When he climbed up a small hill, a breeze brushed past his ears. There seemed to be a whimpering sound in the wind, as if calling his name affectionately.
"Start..."