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Published at 18th of April 2023 08:28:13 AM


Chapter 190.2

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The cave was dark, deep, and very narrow, with water dripping from the ceiling from time to time. There was some thin moss on the ground of the tunnel, and the ground was slippery and sticky.

Bai Lixin took out a flashlight from his backpack, and the moment he turned it on, a black shadow flashed past his eyes.

Because of the dripping water, the stone wall was also slippery, and it was difficult to steady oneself when holding on to it.

Bai Lixin’s flashlight shone at the place where the shadow disappeared, but there was nothing.

It seems that the black shadow had been hiding until he came in.

Sweeping the flashlight towards the ground, there are traces of trampling on the muddy and wet moss, and the fragile moss was now lying in pieces on the stone.

The trampled traces stretched all the way into the depths, and at the end, where the light was about to disappear, Bai Lixin found an abrupt shadow lying in the corner.

Because of the distance, it was not very clear, but he could see that it was the outline of a man.

He walked forward while carefully holding the stone wall, and finally saw the man’s appearance clearly.

The man was already dead, his face was pale, and there were several sharp and hideous scars on his face, as if they were made by a wild beast.

His mouth was opened wide, and some liquid continued to come out of it. Weathered cracks appeared at the scratches, and the pupils in his wide-open eyes were constricted.

“Shua—”

“Shua——”

Just as Bai Lixin was observing the man’s body, an abrupt sound rang out in the dark and narrow tunnel.

It was very similar to the sound of creatures like snakes sliding on moss and rocks. The sound was very soft, but it felt close at hand.

Bai Lixin’s shoulders tensed, he stood up while leaning on the wall, and the flashlight quickly swept around him.

However, he didn’t find anything.

There was nothing underfoot, nothing around him.

“Shua –“

The sliding sound rang out again.

This time, it was right next to his ears.

He finally found the source of the sound by relying on the sound that was now close at hand.

The flashlight quickly shone overhead and illuminated a monster with black eyes hanging there, almost facing him face-to-face.

The monster’s body was covered with thick scales like a reptile, but its body had human-like limbs, except that the limbs were longer, thinner, and twisted.

It had a pale face, was about 1.7 meters long, and the top of its head was not bald, it had long hair.

It didn’t expect Bai Lixin to suddenly raise his head, and the monster froze for a moment.

Then it suddenly opened its mouth wide, and a row of thin and dense shark-like teeth appeared in front of Bai Lixin.

The monster stuck out its snake-like tongue and roared at Bai Lixin.

It stretched its hand to grab Bai Lixin.

Bai Lixin was about to kick this little cutie away, but who knew that someone would be faster than him?

The moment the ice wrapped around his feet disappeared, countless icicles appeared before the monster at the same time.

Before the monster could realize where the icicles had come from, they pierced through it and firmly fixed it to the stone wall.

The wizard’s indifferent voice with a noble buff rang out: “It’s still me who matters at the critical moment.”

Bai Lixin: “Yes, yes, you are right.”

A friendly reminder, don’t mess with the blackened guy.

The icicles pierced through the monster’s shoulder blades, causing the monster to let out a fierce roar.

The next moment, the cave suddenly shook.

“Shua…shua..shua..”

The sounds came one after another, coming from all directions.

Bai Lixin shone the flashlight overhead, and he saw the densely packed monsters of the same style quickly climbing over and sliding on the rocks, rushing towards this side.

Bai Lixin glanced at the monster: “If you can’t beat someone, then you can’t beat them. Why are you scaring people? It’s too much.”

Monster: “…”

Roar!

You were the one who scared me first!

The silver-haired wizard looked very disdainful, and with a light wave of the magic wand in his hand, all the monsters stopped moving.

No matter how quickly the monster moved, it would step on the stone crystallizing water on the wall and get stuck.

The silver-haired wizard: “Although I don’t kill, freezing is still possible.”

The voice was flat, and the eyes seemed to glance at Bai Lixin meaningfully.

Do you know what to say next?

“…” Bai Lixin, the full-level duanshui master, said immediately, “You’re too powerful; I’ve never seen such powerful magic, I’m overwhelmed.”

The silver-haired wizard lazily looked away and said, “Let’s go.”

It’s good that you know.

Bai Lixin: “…”

Duanshui is also a science.

*Duanshui refers to being unbiased on both sides and taking care of all aspects.

With the addition of the silver-haired wizard, the road ahead was much easier, and several corpses appeared one after another.

They were going deeper and deeper inside. Bai Lixin felt the angle of inclination, so this cave should lead to the bottom.

The wetter stone walls also verified this conclusion. The sound of water dripping from the roof of the cave became louder, and some sections even had a water curtain.

Fortunately, he had the silver-haired wizard.

The silver-haired wizard had natural control over water because his body was a thousand-year-old ice.

With a wave of the magic wand in his hand, these curtains of water obediently turned into ice crystals that parted in the middle, opening like a window curtain and making a passage for Bai Lixin so he wouldn’t get wet.

The silver-haired wizard hardly spoke throughout the whole process. He was like the most conscientious guardian, patiently guarding his master, obscure but indispensable.

In the live broadcast room.

[Wuu, I’m about to be moved to tears by the silver-haired wizard. He must be hurt that God Xin didn’t have just him in his heart. Such a good silver-haired wizard, why was he forced to blacken? ]

[As a result, after being blackened, he still couldn’t bear to hurt his master. God Xin, you can give this servant to me if you don’t want him. I don’t dislike him at all. ]

[The drought dies, and the flood dies. Well, I died laughing. You want the silver-haired wizard as your servant, but you didn’t ask God Xin what the silver-haired wizard means to him. ]

[Some people have three, and some people have not had one since birth. Alas, is this the difference in the world? Sure enough, the sorrows and joys of human beings cannot be shared. ]

[I bet on the silver-haired wizard among these three! Silver-haired wizard, I am optimistic about you, go for it! Wuu, he is so obedient, so pitiful. ]

[??? Sister, do you have some misunderstandings about the words “obedient” and “pitiful”? Or is there some misunderstanding about God Xin? ]

[Bai Lixin: You pity them, but no one pities me. After all, it is I who must pay the ultimate price.]

They walked for a while and heard a small conversation coming from the front.

The voices were familiar.

The two looked at each other and quickened their pace.

The chatter ahead grew louder, and they saw a group of old acquaintances as they turned around the rugged, potholed cave.

The people in front also turned their heads when they heard the sound. The bearded captain frowned, then quickly relaxed his brows and said with a shrewd smile, “The wizard, and… the lovely young master.”

“Aren’t you uninterested in this place? Why are you here again?” His vulture-like bloody eyes swept back and forth between Bai Lixin and Dijia, and then he smiled, “Did you suddenly change your mind, wizard?”

The expression of the silver-haired wizard didn’t even change a bit: “I suddenly want to see the legendary mermaids for inspiration.”

Bearded captain: “Just interested in the mermaids? You don’t care about the treasures and the mermaid heart that can grant any wish.”

The silver-haired wizard was about to say “not interested” and had just opened his mouth, but then he looked at Bai Lixin, who was beside him.

Bai Lixin shook his head, and then the silver-haired wizard said, “Not interested.”

The hostility hidden in the bearded man’s smile finally subsided. “Then let’s go together.”

“Ahead is the Mermaid Palace, and we are preparing to cross the bridge.”

He has not fully trusted this mysterious wizard, but he was not particularly vigilant either. After all, with the two previous cooperations, this wizard was indeed not interested in treasures. And he had just lost a lot of brothers, one more enemy was not as good as one more friend. Fighting was not feasible at the moment.

The bearded man glanced at Bai Lixin and said, “I think this young master is quite fragile, you should take good care of him later.”

Bai Lixin didn’t retort but nodded obediently and shrank behind the silver-haired wizard.

Ahead was a fast-moving inland river or a sea river.

There was a narrow wooden bridge over the inland river that could only accommodate one person.

There was a strong wind on the turbulent inland river, and the wooden bridge was blown left and right. It looked very dangerous.

The bearded man looked at the wooden bridge in front of him, then at the more than twenty sailors around him, and asked, “Who will go first?”

Everyone looked at me, and I looked at you, and finally, a strong young sailor stood up and said, “Boss, let me go first.”

The bearded man glanced at him and then nodded to another person, saying, “You two go together, and when you get to the other side of the bridge, tighten the rope from the opposite side.”

The other person happened to be the young man’s rival, and the two often fought in private.

He was not afraid that they would cooperate to cut off the rope after crossing the bridge and stealing the treasure for themselves. No matter how you look at it, there was only one way back. If they wanted to take it all alone, they must be prepared to remain trapped with no way back.

The two sailors understood the bearded man’s calculations; their expressions changed, and they looked at each other with vigilance and hatred.

The two quickly reached the other side of the river, one after the other. They restrained each other, so they didn’t make any small moves and quickly supported the rope with their bodies so that others could quickly cross the river.

The second wave to cross the river was the captain and his advisor.

Although the current was turbulent and the wind resistance was great, they crossed the river safely under the supervision of the bearded captain. It was not until Bai Lixin and wizard Dijia crossed the river that the bearded captain put away his flickering eyes. He opened his mouth and said, “Keep going.”

It was another damp tunnel, and after only a few minutes of walking, colorful lights gradually appeared in front of everyone’s eyes.

Ecstasy flashed in the eyes of the pirates, and they accelerated the speed of their feet, scrambling to be the first to reach the end.

However, they still remembered who was the boss, and they suppressed their desires one after another to make way for the bearded man.

After turning a corner, they quickly saw a colorful palace. The colorful lights came from this palace.

On both sides of the palace stood two charming women. They were wearing very thin clothes, and the simple cloth only covered the parts that should not be exposed.

A group of people immediately stared.

The two women smiled slightly and walked up to the pirates, their slender waists shaking. Each of them held a wreath in their hands, and said in unison: “Welcome, respected guests, to the Mermaid Palace.”

The eyes of the sailors looked greedy, but the bearded captain immediately woke up from his lust, drew his sword from his waist, and pointed at the two women vigilantly, “What kind of monsters are you two?”

In the eyes of an ambitious and man greedy for wealth, women were just a foil.

In his view, wealth is a necessity, and women are just the icing on the cake. With wealth, you can get any kind of woman you want.

The two women backed away in fear, the blood on their faces faded instantly, and they trembled as they stared at the sword in the bearded man’s hand.

One of the women was a little more courageous: “Young warrior, please don’t be so rude.”

“We are just the welcoming maids of the mermaid palace, we don’t have any malice. Our princess told us that guests were coming and told us to come out to greet them.”

“I didn’t expect you to be so rude.”

The girl felt aggrieved as she spoke, her eyes turned red, and tears fell. The crystal-clear tears slipped from the corners of her eyes and turned into huge pearls.

The priceless pearls just fell to the ground like water.

The bearded captain looked at the pearls and was completely dumbfounded this time.

He gulped, hugged the crying maid in his arms, and comforted her in a soft voice: “Little beauty, I was wrong just now, don’t cry, don’t cry, it breaks my heart.”

As he spoke, his hands dishonestly moved around the charming maid.

The maid laughed through her tears and didn’t run away, she just burrowed into the bearded man’s arms and whispered: “Master Warrior, you looked so mighty just now. After I saw it, my heart beat so wildly it almost popped out of my mouth.”

“Really?” The bearded man laughed, “Then let me touch it and see if your heart is really beating.”

Bai Lixin and Dijia glanced at each other.

At this time, the other maid looked around the group of people, and her eyes suddenly fell on the silver-haired wizard.

Silver-haired wizard: “…”

Don’t even try.

Perhaps aware of the silver-haired wizard’s rejection, the maid searched for the target again and then walked up to the first officer/advisor, who was second only to the captain.

After hanging the garland in her hand around his neck, the maid burrowed into the advisor’s arms like a water snake.

There were only two maids, and the people next to them are jealous.

The advisor hugged the soft maid in his arms, looked at the pearls falling on the ground, and asked: “Do you drop pearls when you cry?”

The maid was very shy: “We are all mermaids, and the tears of mermaids are pearls.”

Advisor: “Don’t mermaids have tails?”

Maid: “In the water, our lower body is a tail. Once we leave the water, we will lose the tails and have human legs.”

The advisor looked at the mermaid maid in his arms with satisfaction: “Then are you willing to follow me back to the ground? I will treat you well.”

The maid’s cheeks flushed, and she smiled even more shyly, “It is our honor. The mermaid palace is very difficult to find, you need to go through the strange fog and the terrifying Skeleton Island, and you also need to go through mountains and rivers, so those who can find the mermaid palace are the most powerful warriors.”

“We like the strong and the warriors. Not just the two of us, our little sisters were also waiting for you eagerly, and it is our honor to marry you.”

The eyes of the other sailors who were watching by the side suddenly lit up, and they asked eagerly: “You mean there are other mermaids? Are they good-looking mermaids like you who can spit pearls?!”

“Of course,” the mermaid in the bearded arms smiled with embarrassment, “we two are not good-looking, our princess is the most beautiful mermaid in the world. Our other sisters are also better-looking than us. We are not afraid of your jokes, and the reason why we came out to welcome you so actively is that we were afraid that you would look down on us after entering.”

“Master Warrior, you will not throw me away, right?” The mermaid looked up at the bearded man, her eyes filled with longing.

The bearded man swallowed hard and said, “Of course not.”

He wanted the mermaid, and he wanted the mermaid princess too.

There is also the mermaid treasure and the mermaid heart that can grant any wish, all will belong to him.

He licked his lips greedily, and the bearded man gave an order: “Hahaha, let’s go, everyone! Go in and enjoy our spoils!”





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