"Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh, I'll say it, I'll say everything!"
Hearing the words "withered chrysanthemums" once again, Wang Ke felt an indescribable pain in a certain part of his body.
"Go ahead." Xia Qi said coldly.
"The female deputy said... as long as we open the twelfth pillar, they will be able to gain all the power, and then they will be able to help me pass the level." Wang Ke sniffed and said hesitantly.
Xia Qi frowned. The amount of information Wang Ke revealed was too little, almost the same as what he had guessed.
"Then how did she get all the power?" Xia Qi asked again puzzledly.
"Then I don't know..." Wang Ke looked at Xia Qi with tears in his eyes, and then pleaded, "Brother Xia, you are so generous, please let me go."
The tough guy hesitated and asked Xia Qi, "Should we go to the twelve pillars? What if it's a trap set by the female deputy? Wouldn't we be walking into a trap?"
"Let's activate eleven pillars first." Xia Qi did not make a decision first, but took out the mermaid's skull and activated the eleventh pillar.
Ding Dong! Because you activated the key mechanism of the dungeon, the dungeon will enter the countdown mode!
Instance countdown: 02:00:00
Hearing the system announcement, the tough guy's face suddenly changed: "This, this is forcing us to activate the twelfth pillar!"
Xia Qi raised his head and looked at the shadow of the mermaid that appeared on the eleventh pillar.
The mermaid's shadow had its skull removed and all the bones in its body pulled out, leaving only a soft skin hanging in the sky.
After reading it, Xia Qi felt a little upset: "This is the setting of the game. We can only face it head-on. There is no way out."
"What if we are ambushed, can we defeat it?" the tough guy asked hesitantly. The octopus didn't seem to be a vegetarian. The last time he escaped from the octopus, it was purely because of the small space on the boat. Now they are on the island, which is completely the octopus's territory.
Xia Qi thought calmly for a while and said, "If we don't go, is there any way for us to leave?"
“No…” the tough guy shook his head.
Xia Qi looked up at the sky again. According to the passage of time, it should be dark now, but the sky is very bright now. It doesn't look like the real world anymore.
Activating the twelve pillars is the normal order for players to clear the dungeon. In order to prevent players from staying in the dungeon, the game sets countless conditions that force them to move forward.
If they don't complete the game before the countdown, there's no telling what dangers they'll face.
"Time is running out, let's go."
The eleventh pillar was still some distance away from the twelfth pillar. It took the two of them quite a while to climb to the cliff of the twelfth pillar. As Wang Ke was still dragging them down, Xia Qi climbed up the cliff first, while the tough guy was responsible for escorting Wang Ke under the cliff.
Coming to the twelve pillars, Xia Qi took a deep breath, pulled out the magic wand with one hand, and took out the last box with the other.
In this box, there is mermaid hair.
This was a short piece of silver hair, as smooth as silk to the touch. Xia Qi slowly placed the hair on the twelfth pillar.
“Shua—”
The familiar sunlight came down, but this time, dazzling balls of light appeared on all twelve pillars. They flew up to the sky together, breaking through the heavy clouds, not only dispersing the last thick dark cloud, but also creating a rainbow in the clear blue sky.
"rumble-"
At this time, Xia Qi's feet began to tremble. He held the pillar with one hand and looked hurriedly in other directions.
I saw countless birds flying up from the nearby woods, trees falling to the ground in disarray, and the entire island seemed to be shaking.
During the strong earthquake, Xia Qi raised his head with difficulty to find the source of the vibration. But after just a glance at the center of the island, he held his breath.
Below the rainbow, a white palace slowly emerged from the cracks in the ground, and then rose from the ground. The location of this temple was exactly in the center of the twelve pillars, and it was also the center of the entire island.
Xia Qi couldn't help but twitch his eyes. The female assistant and the octopus should have come for this temple...
As if to confirm his guess, a familiar bald, big black head suddenly appeared in the jungle near the temple, and on that bald forehead, the female deputy was sitting upright.
Looking at the direction the man and the monster were heading towards, it was the temple!
Xia Qi ignored the shaking caused by the earthquake and got up from the ground. He raised his magic wand without hesitation, pointed it at the temple, and shouted: "Love comes too fast like a tornado. You can't escape from the storm without it!" [1]
-True Love Value 1000
True Love Spell: Tornado
Effect: The caster will be transported to the designated location on a tornado.
Time: Effective immediately.
Description: A tornado full of love will take you to your loved one! Be careful not to hurt your waist when riding a tornado.
After reciting the spell, countless large and small wind rolls suddenly rose from the ground. These wind rolls whistled, and with Xia Qi as the center, they rolled up countless dust and dead leaves on the ground.
Then, the tornado surrounding him grew bigger and bigger, and became a storm that was nearly twenty meters high!
Xia Qi was lifted up by the eye of the tornado and floated in the air. However, the feeling of riding in a tornado was not very good. The air pressure around him made it difficult for him to breathe.
After another half day, the tornado was still growing. Seeing the tornado absorbing the wind slowly and unwilling to leave without a full tank of gas, Xia Qi wiped the sand off his face and shouted at the magic wand: "Go!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the tornado twisted its waist and swept down the cliff with a roar.
“Huff, huff, huff—”
Along the way, the tornado blew down countless trees and damaged a lot of public property on the island with its force.
Xia Qi was riding on a tornado, and he was so anxious that his forehead was blazing with anger. When he came to the bottom of the cliff, he saw a muscular man carrying Wang Ke and running in the opposite direction. Xia Qi raised his magic wand and pointed in the direction of the muscular man: "Bring him in too!"
"Awooo--" The tornado made a sound similar to that of a wild beast, and without hesitation, it swept the strong man and Wang Ke in.
"Ahhh!!!" The muscular man who was forced to hitchhike and Wang Ke screamed in fear at the same time.
Compared with Xia Qi who was sitting in the eye of the storm, the treatment of the tough guy and Wang Ke was very different. The two were rolled up from the bottom to the top by the tornado, and then blown from the top to the bottom. Their clothes were torn to shreds, and their hair was blown into the shape of chili peppers, as if they had been rolled hundreds of times in a washing machine.
Because the tornado was extremely fast, Xia Qi arrived near the temple in less than ten seconds.
After arriving at the destination, the tornado threw Xia Qi and others out without hesitation.
Since Xia Qi was prepared and took care to protect himself when he fell, he just rolled twice and then stopped, and his whole body was not hurt too much.
However, the strong man and Wang Dazhuang fell miserably, especially Wang Ke, who had his hands and feet tied and had a bloody hole on his head.
After Xia Qi got up from the ground with back pain, he said to the system: "The user experience is bad."
Then, Xia Qi glanced at the steps of the temple and found that there was a lot of yellow mucus on the steps.
"Oh no, Octopus and the female deputy might have already gone in." Xia Qi muttered to himself and quickly stood up.
The tough guy was first knocked unconscious by the tornado drum washing machine-style rolling method, and then he was almost thrown to pieces. He finally woke up and saw Xia Qi. He didn't understand the situation at all and asked confusedly: "Why are you here?"
"Without further ado, come in with me!" Xia Qi didn't have time to explain and ran up the steps to the temple.
The strong man quickly got up and followed Xia Qi, and the two of them ran quickly into the temple.
When he arrived at the temple, Xia Qi discovered that this temple was also built of pearl reefs.
The temple is exquisitely decorated and there are many white statues of men. In the sunlight, these statues are magnificent, like holy angels.
However, Xia Qi was no longer in the mood to appreciate it. He ran all the way into the temple. When he came to a large hall with two rows of six pillars in each, he saw the octopus and the female captain.
The octopus and the female captain were standing right above the hall, where there was a white throne made of pearl reefs, and next to the throne was a glittering trident.
The female deputy was just about to grab the trident, but she didn't expect Xia Qi and the tough guy to suddenly appear here, and she was immediately shocked.
"Go stop them!" the female deputy ordered Octopus without hesitation.
The octopus has now returned to its normal size, but unlike before, it has turned from black to red and looks much stronger than before. Its broken tentacle has also grown back.
"You little bastards, I've tolerated you for a long time, now come and die!" After receiving the order from the female deputy, the octopus waved its tentacles and smashed down towards the tough guy and Xia Qi.
Seeing the octopus rushing towards him, Xia Qi took a step forward, raised his magic wand and shouted: "The pain is too beautiful. No matter how humble I am, I want to taste the feeling of being crushed to pieces... My princess, I want to monopolize your beauty!"
True Love Spell: Shattered
Countless fist shadows flew towards the octopus in an instant, but this time, after the octopus was hit by several punches, there was no bump on its head.
The octopus said in a deep voice, laughing proudly at Xia Qi: "I have absorbed the remaining soul of the mermaid. I am no longer the same person I was before. I have become stronger!"
After laughing confidently, the octopus raised another tentacle and pressed it down towards Xia Qi.
“Bang!”
Xia Qi rolled sideways on the ground to avoid the attack of the octopus tentacles, and the red tentacles instantly created a hole in the ground where he had just stood.
"Xia Qi, I'll stop him! Go get the trident!" A knife suddenly appeared in the muscular man's hand, and he shouted and chopped at the octopus.
Xia Qi gritted his teeth and threw the silver knife in his hand towards the octopus. While the octopus's tentacles were injured, he rolled on the ground and rolled out through the gap between the tentacles.
The tough guy blocked the octopus from behind, so Xia Qi was able to get behind the octopus. He turned around and shouted to the tough guy, "Be careful!"
Then, Xia Qi hurriedly ran towards the throne. When he arrived in front of the throne, he found that the female deputy was holding the trident motionlessly.
"What's going on?"
At this time, the female deputy held the trident in her right hand, but her eyes were tightly closed, as if she was in a deep sleep.
Xia Qi was stunned for a moment, with worry showing on his brows.
It seems that in order to obtain the trident, one must pass some test
After staring at the trident in front of him for a while, Xia Qi gritted his teeth, stretched out his right hand without hesitation, and grasped the trident.
The moment Xia Qi's hand touched the trident, his eyes suddenly went dark.
After a dizzying moment, when Xia Qi opened his eyes again, he found himself floating in the air in a transparent posture.
Beside him, there was a female deputy.
However, the current female deputy looked different from the one outside. Her entire body was covered with blue scales and she had two gills on her neck. Xia Qi looked down and found that the female deputy had no fish tail. She looked like a monster that looked neither like a mermaid nor a human.
When the female deputy saw Xia Qi coming in, her face immediately turned fierce.
The two didn't look at each other for long before the world spun around again. The scene in front of their eyes changed and they were back on the familiar sea.
“Boom boom boom!”
There were dozens of human sailboats all over the sea, with cannons and countless arrows firing madly towards a place not far away.
The target of these artillery fire and arrows was very accurate, which was a group of mermaids riding on whales.
The sounds of cannons, horns, and fighting between the two sides were heard everywhere. The humans laughed wildly and vented their anger towards the mermaids.
The mermaids struggled to support themselves, but were no match for human artillery. Xia Qi watched helplessly as the mermaids were blown into pieces by artillery fire, or had their heads blown off by gunfire.
Before he could finish seeing the tragic scene in front of him, the scene in front of them changed again.
At this time, in front of them was a huge iron cage with a spiral staircase on the side.
Xia Qi walked up the blood-stained stairs and came to the second floor of the iron cage.
On the second floor, countless mermaids' tails were hanging from the top of the iron cage beams. Those tails had long lost their once beautiful colors. Their scales and tail fans had been stripped off, leaving only bare pink tail flesh.
Xia Qi was pushed forward again, and on the next level, he saw the ripped-open body of the mermaid, with its internal organs thrown randomly on the ground, piling up into small hills.
Going up one more level, he saw countless hanging bloody heads with their eyes gouged out and their heads shaved.
Xia Qi felt a sharp pain in his heart. He turned to look at the female deputy, but found that she had cold eyes and was looking at everything in front of her with an expressionless face.
"Hehe, do you want to ask me why I brought you to the island?" Standing under countless bleeding heads, the female deputy said to Xia Qi.
"Why?" Xia Qi clenched his fists tightly.
"I am the descendant of mermaids and humans, and I have retained this memory." The female deputy said indifferently, "After our mermaid clan was slaughtered, the resentment lingered for a long time. I collected the resentment of my clan members and used it to sacrifice to the Sea King. The resentment turned into fragments of the Sea King's body. Through the fragments of the Sea King's body, I opened the way to the Mermaid Island."
She is the product of the union of a mermaid and a human. She has no fish tail but human legs.
Perhaps it was the resentment of the mermaid that was at work. She naturally hated humans and tried every means to take revenge on them.
While sailing, she met an octopus. In order to continue her revenge, she and the octopus collected the resentment of the mermaids and caused them to form fragments of Aquaman's body.
"You want to inherit the trident and become the new Sea...Sea King?" After figuring out the female deputy's motives, Xia Qi asked coldly.
Originally, after the twelve pillars on the island were untied, the resentment of the mermaids could be resolved and they could return to reincarnation.
The female deputy was worried that activating the pillars would affect the octopus's absorption of resentment. She originally planned to kill Xia Qi, but they later discovered the ruins of a temple on the island. The female deputy suspected that the temple was hiding the Sea King's artifact - the trident.
So she adjusted her strategy, turned to cooperate with Wang Ke, and asked Xia Qi to activate the pillar.
"I am the descendant of the mermaid, and the position of Sea King should have belonged to me!" The female deputy opened her mouth angrily and showed her small fangs to Xia Qi.
She and the octopus had tried many times to take the trident out from the throne, but failed. She didn't expect Xia Qi to come and snatch the trident from her.
Xia Qi was stunned for a moment and asked, "Then the Sea King... has never existed?"
"The Sea King is an ancient god, he has fallen long ago!" The female deputy explained to him patiently, "What you saw was the resentment of the mermaids, not the Sea King at all."
Xia Qi pursed his lips and suddenly said, "I don't believe it. He has always been here."
“Hahaha!” The female deputy couldn’t help but burst into laughter. “The ancient god died a long time ago! If he were still alive, why didn’t he care about his people and let them suffer?!”
Xia Qi was speechless for a moment.
"Why doesn't he come out! He is an irresponsible god!" the female deputy cursed.
Looking at the crazy look of the female deputy, Xia Qi shook his head.
No, Aquaman isn't like that.
In the eyes of the mermaids, Xia Qi saw all the resentment of the mermaids, but he also saw the deep pain of the mermaids.
He loved his people deeply, and he suffered the same pain as his people.
Therefore, he left this island behind, hoping to resolve the resentment of the mermaids and free them. At the same time, he also let the mermaids combine with humans to produce descendants of humans and mermaids, hoping that they would live in peace with humans...
Xia Qi and his female deputy were arguing loudly. At this time, the scene changed again and the two of them came to a small room.
This small room seemed to be a slaughterhouse, with eighteen sets of torture instruments and dismemberment knives placed everywhere. On the long table in the middle, lay a dying little mermaid.
Blood dripped down the long table to the ground, forming a pool of bright red blood below. On the long table, the little mermaid was skinned all over, without a single piece of good meat. What was even more horrifying was that his eyes were gouged out, and he was looking at Xia Qi with empty eyes.
The female deputy's eyes were filled with hatred. She pointed at the little mermaid and said, "Humans peeled our skin, dug out our eyes, shaved off our hair, and took our bodies to the market for auction! Look at how pitiful he looks! You humans all deserve to die!"
Looking at the miserable appearance of the mermaid, Xia Qi's eyes became moist. He did not care about the blood on the little mermaid. He stretched out his hand and carefully picked up the fragile mermaid.
The little mermaid seemed to hear his words and whimpered in his arms.
Xia Qi tapped his forehead with his chin, choked up, and whispered, "I'm sorry."
Along the way, the resentment of all the mermaids seemed to be telling him their sadness and sorrow. Until he saw a skinned little mermaid here with his own eyes, Xia Qi was deeply shocked again.
He felt sorry for being human.
"I'm sorry," he whispered again.
A crystal tear slid down from the corner of his eye, ran down his cheek, and fell on the mermaid's cheek.
At this moment, the blood-covered little mermaid suddenly said, "Start..."
Hearing this familiar voice, Xia Qi was stunned.
A dazzling white light emanated from the mermaid in his arms. In the dazzling light, a new layer of skin gradually grew on the little mermaid's skin. The bloody and severed fish tail gradually grew longer and began to grow gorgeous scales.
Then, the man's facial features appeared from the blurry face, and finally became as handsome as he once was.
The mermaid stretched out her white and slender hand and touched Xia Qi's cheek. She looked at him lovingly, with deep joy in her blue eyes.
The merman raised his lips and said to him: "Congratulations on passing the Trident test. You are the new Sea King."
After the mermaid said this, the female deputy screamed: "No!!!"
Along with the female deputy's scream, the scene in front of Xia Qi's eyes distorted again. When he opened his eyes again, he and the female deputy reappeared in front of the throne.
Xia Qi felt the trident in his hand trembling. He followed his instinct and pulled the trident from the ground.
“Pah.”
Xia Qi shook the trident in his hand and found that it was not as heavy as he had imagined.
"Why!!! You are a human, why can you own a trident!" Seeing Xia Qi holding the trident in his hand, the female deputy suddenly went crazy, her whole face twisted with jealousy.
Xia Qi's face darkened, and he shouted at the mad female deputy: "Because you don't deserve it. You want to get the trident just to satisfy your own selfish desires!"
"I'm going to kill you!" Having failed to inherit the trident, the female deputy pounced on Xia Qi with bared fangs and claws.
Before Xia Qi could use the trident to stab her away, suddenly, a mermaid shadow appeared behind the female deputy. The mermaid shadow just stretched out her hand and patted her shoulder. The female deputy flew out of the temple backwards in an instant as if she was riding on a tornado of love.
“Ahh—” The female deputy’s voice became smaller and smaller, and finally gradually disappeared.
Seeing that the female deputy was gone, the octopus also stopped its actions instantly.
When the octopus saw clearly that there were two people standing in front of the throne, he didn't even bother to kill the strong man lying on the ground. He was so scared that he rolled out of the temple in a hurry.
Silence once again returned to the temple.
The black shadow of the mermaid slowly floated in front of Xia Qi. His blue eyes were no longer fierce, but became exceptionally gentle, like the purest sea water.
He said in a heavenly voice: "You don't have much time left. Only one minute left."
This time, the two finally talked face to face, and Xia Qi didn't know what to say to him.
What to say
Say thank you for pretending to be my teammate and sticking with me all the time
Or thank you for the food, or for the dream you created that led me here
Or maybe…
Looking at his calm face, Xia Qi held back for a long time before uttering a few words: "You have suffered."
Although the mermen were fallen ancient gods, they bore the resentment of all the mermaids. Xia Qi only saw some sporadic memories in his dreams, but his heart could no longer bear it.
Xia Qi couldn't even imagine how much torture he had endured.
"Thank you."
After the mermaid Black Shadow finished speaking, he walked towards him, held his hand, and gently touched his forehead with his lips.
Then, the mermaid raised Xia Qi's right hand, pointed the tip of the trident at his chest, smiled and said to Xia Qi: "Come on."
Xia Qi pursed his lips and tears flowed from the corners of his eyes again.
Countdown: 00:00:03
"Don't be afraid." He leaned close to Xia Qi's ear, wiped away his hot tears, and whispered softly.
Xia Qi's right hand kept shaking, however, the mermaid held his wrist tightly and thrust the tip hard into her body.
"I love you."
At the last moment, Xia Qi heard his ethereal voice again.
After he finished speaking, Xia Qi felt that the person holding him was getting lighter and lighter. He looked up and saw the mermaid gradually falling apart in front of him, and then turned into beautiful blue bubbles.
Ding Dong! Congratulations to the survivor Xia Qi for successfully completing the game!
Ding Dong! Congratulations to the survivor Xia Qi for killing the "Blue Sea Shark Pearl" dungeon boss. The game has entered the reward settlement...
The scene in front of him began to distort in a familiar way, and Xia Qi's eyes flashed with an image of humans and mermaids living in harmony on the coast many years ago.
They lived together freely and seemed to be indistinguishable from each other.
In the blue sky, the mermaid smiled, then he raised his head and looked at Xia Qi who was flying farther and farther away.
His eyes seemed to penetrate countless spaces and looked in his direction.
"My love, this world is dark.
But I am willing to wait in the abyss, waiting for the moment when you come to me.
Until the darkness is dispelled and light returns to the world.
I will meet you again in the blue sea..."
Amid the heavenly singing, Xia Qi's vision blurred again. He felt as if there was a black hole at the back of his heart, which sucked him out from where he was in an instant.
After Xia Qi left, the temple collapsed. Amidst the ruins, beautiful blue bubbles flew into the sky, flying towards the freedom in the distance.
The bubble continued to fly, and finally flew into a black abyss once again.
In the huge net of light, the illusory white figure seemed to become clearer. He stretched out his hand anxiously to catch the flying bubble.
Last time, he gained Xia Qi's guilt, and this time, he vowed to gain his love.
So, he happily opened the message brought by the bubble -
Props: Xia Qi's Mercy
Figure: “…”
The figure froze for a moment.
mercy
What does mercy mean
"Impossible, there must be something wrong with the sensor!" The figure said gritting his teeth. Because of anger, the light net near him began to tremble, and countless electric lights flashed.
"By the way, I also have a pink conch of memories." The figure suddenly remembered something and took out a pink conch from his arms.
In the Blue Sea Mermaid Pearl copy, Xia Qi picked up this conch. In the memory in the bubble just now, Xia Qi had said something to the conch.
So, the figure once again happily turned on the loudspeaker of the conch—
"You are ill."
Xia Qi's cold voice came out clearly from the conch.