Xia Qingqing seemed to be afraid that I would misunderstand, so she explained before I could speak: "Among all the secret arts of the fox clan, the fastest to activate is the Charming Soul Technique. When I first encountered Red Hair, I had no time to use other secret techniques and could only use Charm Soul Technique. After Chifa is hit by Charm Soul Technique, it will be much easier to use other secret techniques on him."
"So that's it!" Actually, I don't need Xia Qingqing to explain anything to me, but she has already said it, so I can only pretend to be enlightened.
Xia Qingqing rolled her eyes at me, then turned to Chifa and said a series of weird notes. After a while, Xia Qingqing said: "Chifa said that after he was injured by you, he always wanted to take revenge, so he took advantage of the opportunity to escape. During this period of time, he found many mermaids trapped in iron prisons and released them. Even if we don't come back, he will follow the river to find us."
"It seems! There are many mermaids in the water prison!" I muttered to myself and then said: "Ask him if there are any strange places in the water prison, such as reliefs, stones, or secret doors. Something like that?”
After Xia Qingqing asked, she quickly shook her head helplessly and said, "What did he say that he didn't find anything?"
"Isn't it possible?" I said to myself: "There should be some ruins here?"
I looked at Xia Qingqing: "Let them search again to see if there is anything suspicious."
Xia Qingqing roared, and Red Hair immediately led the mermaids to disperse into the water prison. Xia Qingqing whispered, "What did you find?"
I shook my head and said, "I'm not sure yet. I have to wait until they find the clues I want?"
I just said a word, and all the mermaids swam back one after another, but the other party still didn't notice anything unusual. Did I really guess wrong
Su Zimo pondered: "The water prison is not small. They can swim back so quickly. Is there any place they haven't visited yet?"
Xia Qingqing asked Chifa before saying, "He said that he went to all places. They even went to another place where his companions were conceived, and found nothing."
"What do you mean?" I turned around and said, "Is there another place in the water prison where mermaids can be born? Let him take us there to see it."
After Xia Qingqing gave the other party a simple instruction, Chifa immediately took us to the center of the water prison and soon brought me to an empty hall.
According to the route, when I came down from the cave, I did not pass this hall, but went around the edge. I was still looking up to observe the structure of the hall, and Chifa had already reached out and pointed in the distance, meaning to tell Xia Qingqing that his companion was over there.
I followed the direction of the red-haired finger until I walked to the wall, and then I saw a stone sculpture of a mermaid that was half exposed out of the water. The color of the stone carvings merges with the stone wall. It is difficult to realize that there is a statue hidden here without walking closer. However, the stone carvings are very exquisite, and in many places they are almost famous.
I took out my dagger and scratched the stone carving twice. The stone skin on the top of the statue shattered and fell off along the blade, and a layer of black marble that was as round and transparent as jade was exposed under the stone skin.
"Sure enough, there is something?" Excited, I squatted in the water and groped along the stone carvings on both sides of the wall: "Xia Qingqing, tell Chifa quickly and ask them to open all the iron doors against the wall.
Xia Qingqing greeted Chifa, and the latter led the mermaid into the water. After a while, the sound of the iron gate opening came one after another under the water, but there was still no change in the entire hall.
I couldn't help but frown: "Look again, are there any mechanisms behind those iron doors? For example, bracelets, levers, etc.?"
Red Hair kept diving into the water with the mermaid, and I kept giving orders. I tried everything I could think of and could do, but no matter how I tried, there was no result.
A layer of cold sweat broke out on my forehead: Did I guess wrong? If my previous conclusion was completely overturned, then I would have no choice but to return to the secret passage above the water prison.
It's not that I don't dare to go back the same way, but I feel that there are very important clues hidden in this water prison. Once we give up completely, we don't know how big a circle we should make.
The road to explore the gods is changing rapidly, and the consequences of delaying the opportunity may be unbearable.
Xia Qingqing touched my hand gently: "Don't be nervous. Didn't you say that everything will turn around before the end?"
I took a deep breath and said, "Let's go! Go back to the cave..."
While I was talking, I suddenly noticed that one less mermaid had returned: "Where did that fish go?"
Xia Qingqing gave instructions to Chifa, who quickly swam towards the center of the hall. I saw the other person spinning around in the water for several times and then suddenly plunged to the bottom.
Before I could figure out what was going on, I saw a whirlpool rising under the water. The water on the ground poured into the whirlpool in an instant. I reached out and grabbed the statue by the water, and finally managed to stabilize my body. Several mermaids were caught off guard and were thrown into the whirlpool and disappeared.
The vortex in the center of the hall expanded several times in an instant, making a roaring sound like a cow roaring and swallowing the water crazily. In just a few moments, most of the water in the water prison was swallowed up, and a tentacle like an anemone faintly emerged from the center of the vortex.
"What is that?" Su Zimo had just started to exclaim. A dozen tentacles as thick as hemp ropes had already risen into the air, forming a net in mid-air to cover a mermaid who was still struggling desperately. The victim only struggled for a moment, as if he had lost consciousness and was dragged into the whirlpool by his opponent.
"Let's go!" I saw a ripple of water rushing out from the center of the vortex, heading towards us in the opposite direction. I knew the other party regarded us as their next target.
Xia Qingqing and I were not only standing in the water, but we couldn't even identify the direction of the opponent's attack. There was no need to take action against the enemy. The only way was to turn around and escape.
Xia Qingqing and I only moved a moment before being blocked back to our original positions by the water rushing from the front.
Although the water in the cell is not deep, how huge is the cell? All the accumulated water rushes to one place with such force that it does not break the bank. Xia Qingqing and I could barely keep our bodies steady, let alone rush against the current.
The two of us persisted for a moment, and a fatal crisis lurked under the waves and pounced on us. Just as I was about to turn around, two figures suddenly appeared behind Xia Qingqing and I.
Puppetry!
Just as I reacted, Su Zimo in the distance had already shouted sternly: "You go, I'll cover you... Tell Zixuan to go into seclusion."
Before Su Zimo finished speaking, the two puppets were dragged into the water with a huge force, and went straight into the vortex and walked backwards.
Su Zimo grabbed the two puppets again, bit the tip of his tongue and sprayed blood on the surface of the puppets: "You guys leave quickly! I can't hold on for long..."
Blood flowed from the corners of Su Zimo's mouth, and his eyes were covered with a layer of death-defying gloom. Although Su Zimo's puppetry skills are exquisite, they are not inexhaustible. When the puppets in her hands are exhausted, we will have no choice but to die.
Su Zimo knows very well that even if we escape immediately, we may not be able to outrun the monster in the water. Her sacrifice may only delay our death, but she is still determined to do it. She just wants us to bring out a sentence Go ahead
I don't have time to analyze Su Zimo's current state of mind. The only thing I can do is to keep blocking Xia Qingqing behind me. I stretched out a pair of flying claws from my backpack and looked up at the top of the cave. That was our only way to survive.
The flying claw I use is different from Sui Xin. Her flying claw is a weapon, but mine is a special mechanism claw given to us by the research institute. It is specially used for escape. Even if it is buckled on a smooth wall, as long as it touches the back The machine lock can also dig a hole in the wall, allowing the machine claw to be fixed on the wall.
"Su Zimo, help me block it for a while." I roared with both arms, and two flying claws shot into the air at the same time.
After the claw tip of a steel knife cut into the wall, I tightened the rope behind the flying claw. The tiger claw-shaped blade instantly cut into the stone.
But contrary to expectations, my flying claws were not fixed on the wall, and directly scratched the wall, and fell from the air with the collapsed loess.
My claw missed, and the crisis in the water suddenly approached. Su Zimo's two puppets took action again, but this time, the opponent's tentacles directly penetrated the two puppets, and they exploded in front of me with two pairs of dummies. .
I was still holding the flying claws with both hands and had no time to fight back. Xia Qingqing suddenly pushed me aside, pulled out Pan Ying and blocked the two puppets pushed by the tentacles.
"Get away!" I was almost scared out of my mind by Xia Qingqing.
At the critical moment, two puppets appeared in front of Xia Qingqing at the same time. Their tentacles suddenly came from the opposite side. After penetrating the dummies again, they pushed forward a few inches like sharp arrows before stopping in front of Xia Qingqing. down.
Before Xia Qingqing could raise the palm of her sword, the tentacles suddenly brought the four puppets back and pulled them into the vortex.
Before I could breathe a sigh of relief, Su Zimo said with a pale face: "Wang Huan, leave quickly, my puppet is gone. Xia Qingqing..."
Su Zimo didn't finish her words, but I could tell that she wanted Xia Qingqing to use Chifa and the others to continue blocking the underwater monsters and buy me time.
Xia Qingqing said nothing but stood in front of me with a sword in her hand: "Huanzi, leave quickly!"
Xia Qingqing is not the real Qingqiu Demon Fox after all.
The Qingqiu Demon Fox only pursues its goals and does not hesitate to sacrifice any puppet, even if those people have followed them wholeheartedly for many years.
Xia Qingqing couldn't do this. Even if the red hair she controlled was just a spirit, she was not willing to let him die in this way. The so-called life-and-death acquaintance created through emotional deception will make Xia Qingqing feel guilty.
He cannot play with people's emotions and become a true demon fox.