The police car drove along the long street with flashing lights. The hotel receptionist and security guard who had been questioned gathered in the lobby to talk about what had just happened in the room.
"Luckily no one was killed. If accidents happened again, I wouldn't dare to work here anymore."
"I just heard from the police that he was playing with that thing."
"What is that? But I heard they are all supporting roles in a crew."
"It's that kind of stuff, these young people are playing with ghosts!"
"Can ghosts play games?? I've never even seen one... How do you play?"
"It's not what you think!! What kind of thinking!"
"Oh, that's dirty!"
The two women at the front desk spat at the three security guards on duty. A cold wind blew in from outside the open glass door. The slight chill made several people shiver. They subconsciously looked towards the corridor of the guest room where the wall lamps were dim. They heard faint sounds of bells in return. They hurriedly pretended not to hear anything and squeezed to the front desk, lying down and pretending to sleep.
Ding ding…
The sound of a faint bell floated to the stairwell, and footsteps walked silently on the red carpet. After a moment, the lock of a door turned, and it slowly opened with a creak, and then closed gently.
The lights came on in the dark room, and the figures of Lu Liangsheng and the Taoist priest appeared in the air. Walking past the scattered bedding, pillows, and cups, Old Sun looked around the room and curiously looked at the scholar over there: "Old Lu, what did the ghost say? Why did he ask you to come here in person?"
"Mermaid scales."
Lu Liangsheng took out from his sleeve the scale given to him by the little mermaid he rescued that year. After so many years, it was still as crystal clear as it was at the beginning. Looking at the scale lying quietly in the palm of his hand, he glanced around and then closed his eyes.
"That ghost was killed by his companions. The cause should be the mermaid's scales... This place is close to the East China Sea. I don't know if the little mermaid is still alive."
The words suddenly stopped, and the scattered consciousness seemed to sense a faint demonic power. Lu Liangsheng opened his eyes, raised his hand, pulled the TV off the wall, threw it away, looked at the small squares embedded in the wall, pried one of them open, untied the wires, and suddenly a green scale fell out from it and landed in the Taoist's palm.
"Yes... it's a little smaller than the one in your hand."
Lu Liangsheng took it and put it together with his own. "A mortal accidentally got a mermaid scale. One of them became greedy and the other refused. In the end, he was killed in this room. Before he died, he might have realized the danger and hid this scale."
With this said, the whole confusing matter became clear. The Taoist thought about it and it did seem to be the case. After all, during the Sui and Tang dynasties when they lived, mermaid scales were difficult for ordinary people to obtain. Only close relatives or those who died and were washed ashore could obtain them.
Thinking of this, Old Sun clapped his hands and suddenly became interested. He put his phone into his sleeve and said, "I know a little about mermaids. They rarely interact with humans. If someone in the tribe dies, the body will slowly decompose in the sea water. It is impossible for them to be washed away by the sea water."
He stroked the short beard on his chin and narrowed his eyes. "Then there is only one possibility. The mermaid was being hunted down and could not care about the dead mermaid. The scales on her body fell off and were washed to the beach by the waves. They were accidentally obtained by two people. One of them took the scales, and the other wanted to keep them for himself, so this happened!"
After sorting out the causes and consequences, Lu Liangsheng nodded, clenched his hands, and looked out the window at the city lights with an expressionless face.
"The mermaid from the East China Sea and I, Lu Liangsheng, have a good relationship. If that little mermaid hadn't saved me, I wouldn't have been able to enter the Guixu Land. Regardless of whether she is still alive or not, I must protect her people from this disaster."
When the voice rang out, he turned around and walked straight through the closed window, leaped into the night sky, and turned into a stream of light and flew to the east.
"That's your karma, not mine. Sigh, who told me to be so loyal and righteous?"
The Taoist spread his hands and looked back at the blinking old donkey, who spit at him, and then they both streaked across the night sky in a flash of lightning.
…
Wow!
The waves hit the beach and reefs layer by layer, and the cold moonlight reflected on the undulating and twisting sea surface. In the blue and dark color, Lu Liangsheng lightly descended from a large rock by the sea, listening to the sound of the waves. He made a gesture with his fingers in his sleeves and swept his eyes to the sea level in front of him.
—Searching for the gods!
Hmm? There is no sign... This is the first time that the Soul Searching Technique doesn't work. This technique came from Master, and he used it several times when he was in the Nascent Soul and Slashing Void realms. No monster, evil spirit, or even human being within a hundred miles could escape.
Behind them, lightning flashed rapidly from afar. The Taoist climbed on the old donkey's back, his face ashen. He retched to one side and waved his hands.
"Let me rest for a while before leaving..."
"I'll go take a look first. You, Master, and Old Donkey can come over later." Lu Liangsheng looked at the sea level, thought for a moment, and leaped up again, dragging a long tail of light. Looking down, he saw a large island soon, on which many buildings and cruise ships could be seen.
"Look further ahead."
As he murmured, the figure flying to the east suddenly stopped, his eyes cast towards the island below, he turned around and rushed down, with a loud bang of the water waves exploding.
A column of water splashed high up and hit the beach. In less than two breaths, the sea surface broke open again. Lu Liangsheng stood on the beach surrounded by steam, looking at a scale between his fingers, which still had bloodstains on it. His eyes gradually turned cold.
At this time, several lights came from behind and a few foreign voices were heard, which roughly meant to ask: "Who's over there, put your hands on your head and turn around." The next second, in the interweaving flashlights, a figure surrounded by white mist suddenly shook and disappeared in an instant. When it reappeared, it was already suspended above the sea, walking forward on the sea water.
Strands of hair were floating on the sea, and the surface was undulating. Lu Liangsheng stepped over the sea water, reached out his hand into the water and picked up a corpse. Water curtains dripped along the lifeless arms and hair. The scholar stroked the woman's hair and looked at the pale and bloodless pretty face. Extending down was a long tail with many scales falling off. There was a huge bloody hole in the abdominal cavity connected to the fish body, and the undulating waves behind it could be seen.
It was obviously pierced by a fishing weapon.
Lu Liangsheng took out the scales he had just picked up from the sea and placed them in the mermaid's webbed hands. He then stroked her slightly closed eyes, and the scales turned into specks of starlight and dissipated in the scholar's arms.
"I owed your people a favor back then, it's time to repay it."
Looking at the stars drifting towards the sea and gradually disappearing in the waves, Lu Liangsheng retracted his gaze, raised his face, slowly closed his eyes, and a vertical line appeared between his eyebrows, emitting a light blue light.
The moonlight in the night sky reflected the man's face, and the silver light seemed to be magnified, spreading rapidly on the sea, far to the east, and west of the Japanese island, several large ships dropped square devices, and invisible ripples spread in the water. Figures walked on the side of the ship, fully armed, holding harpoons in their hands. A bearded man stood at the bow, holding a night vision telescope, watching the waves splashing on the sea in the distance, and vaguely saw countless fish tails swaying and flapping, as if the water had become extremely hot, unable to dive, and could only jump on the water surface.
"Mermaids~ What beautiful creatures from legends! Capture as many of them as you want. They belong to us, dead or alive."
Japanese words came out of Zhang Qi's lips, and the huge harpoon beside him was aimed at the past. The man threw the telescope to his assistant, walked over to the weapon, held it with both hands, aimed at that side, and said: "Order the Fujisan and Ojima, shoot indiscriminately, bring back the spoils, and the Shouming Zaibatsu will grant us huge wealth!"
The moment he pulled the trigger, he roared into the intercom.
"Fire!"
There were three large ships sailing side by side. There were three consecutive bangs on the bows of the cannons. Three black shadows dragged ropes across the moonlight, flew away into the distance, and crashed into the sea, splashing high waves. The churning water was mixed with pieces of blood.