The searchlight found a neatly carved expanse of smooth rock.
In front of the rock were chiseled, square frames, reminiscent of ancestral or divine shrines when viewed from a distance.
Task 3 mentioned the merfolk’s faith, he initially thought it was a kind of spiritual belief, but now he realized that the merfolk genuinely worshipped it.
Each shrine was meticulously carved into the wall, not only were they orderly but they also exuded a sense of age.
There were strange inscriptions on the shrines that he couldn’t understand. When he saw these characters, he was momentarily stunned.
The merfolk’s level of civilization was far higher than what scientists believed!
Merfolk had their own written language. If the NPCs from the passage had entered this area, they would have discovered these characters. Writing is a carrier of heritage, and through these characters, they could potentially unravel all the secrets of the merfolk.
Bai Lixin suddenly frowned.
Fortunately, those green-skinned monsters had driven them away.
He had mixed thoughts as he piloted the submarine over, slowly passing by each shrine.
He couldn’t understand the characters on them, and even if he could, the corrosion caused by seawater had rendered them unrecognizable and challenging to decipher.
What shocked him was the merfolk’s determination and patience. This was a hollow rock circle. The rocks were as high as a hundred meters, and every inch of it was covered with these shrines, each engraved with characters. There were hundreds of millions of these square frames.
Bai Lixin suddenly thought of something. [Could the inscriptions on these shrines be the names of individual merfolk?]
As if to verify his speculation, he manipulated the submarine to move backward. Soon, he arrived at the side of the square frames where no characters had been inscribed yet. There, he found fresh inscriptions.
Through the glass, he could even see the fine rock dust that hadn’t been washed away.
Perhaps, this was the purpose of the merfolk who had escaped earlier.
It had engraved the name of its deceased companion on the shrine.
No, it might not be a companion; it could be itself.
With its claws worn down and trapped under the power suppressor, even if it returned to the water, death might be the only fate awaiting it.
Yet, fully aware of this, it still entered the ocean without hesitation.
Fallen leaves return to their roots.
Returning to its kind’s most sacred place, carving its name and quietly awaiting the arrival of death.
If that was the case, where would it go?
Bai Lixin suddenly thought of something and controlled the submarine towards the colossal stone statue from earlier.
He descended slowly from the top, searching meticulously to avoid missing anything.
Finally, at the eye level of the statue, he found a flickering red light.
The statue’s eyes were hollow, covered by a thick layer of seaweed.
If it weren’t for the seaweed moving in the water, revealing a gap, he still wouldn’t have noticed the merfolk’s figure.
The merfolk seemed very weak, having insufficient physical strength in the laboratory, swimming continuously in the ocean, and navigating such a perilous passage.
This journey had consumed all its vitality.
Without hesitation, Bai Lixin immediately put on the diving suit, opened the watertight compartment door, and swam out of the submarine.
He quickly reached the merfolk. Upon reaching it, he discovered that the merfolk was already unconscious.
The mermaid’s face was pale, missing a section of her arm, and the wounds on her arm were irregular, exposing grim-looking bones.
*Sorry for the abruptness here. I finally got a clue that the merfolk who escaped before is female, so I’ll be using “mermaid”.She was probably bitten by the green-skinned monsters while passing through the extremely dangerous passage.
Bai Lixin lifted the mermaid and dragged her into the submarine.
The submarine wasn’t large. After removing the oxygen tube and cap, he began examining the mermaid’s condition.
Merfolk had two respiratory pathways; they used gills in the water and their noses in the air without water.
Now that the mermaid had entered the submarine from the water, even in a coma, her body instinctively completed the transformation of the respiratory system.
Gill slits slowly closed, and the mermaid began to breathe through the nostrils.
Seeing the mermaid’s normal breathing, Bai Lixin secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He took out a healing card from his backpack and used it on the mermaid, but the system gave him a prompt.
[Ding! The target is detected as an invalid target, and the healing card cannot be used.]
[Friendly reminder: The healing card is applicable to players or humanoid NPCs. The target you are currently locking onto is a humanoid monster, and its use is not allowed.]
‘A humanoid monster?
System, open your damn eyes wide and take a good look. How can something so beautiful be a monster?!’
Bai Lixin slowly furrowed his brow.
If the healing card doesn’t work, does he have to watch the mermaid die in front of him?
The Escape System’s voice echoed in his mind: [Master Bai Lixin, how about trying the Mermaid Heart?]
[The Mermaid Heart was obtained from the ancient merfolk and might have a better healing effect on them.]
Bai Lixin’s eyes lit up: [Right, the Mermaid Heart! How could I forget about this prop?]
He quickly took out the Mermaid Heart necklace from the innermost part of his backpack. The moment he held the Mermaid Heart in his hand, the introduction of the Mermaid Heart appeared in his mind.
[Mermaid Heart, a precious treasure obtained from ancient merfolk. An S-level healing growth-type prop, currently grown to the full level 10.]
[Friendly reminder: The Mermaid Heart is currently on cool down and can only be used for healing. The resurrection skill cannot be used.]
The last time the Mermaid Heart was used was during the resurrection of Hongyue.
After resurrecting Hongyue, the Mermaid Heart entered cool down, and he hadn’t taken it out again.
As time passed, he had forgotten about its existence.
Bai Lixin quickly put the Mermaid Heart necklace around his neck. After silently reciting “Use the Mermaid Heart for healing” in his mind, a faint white light began to emanate from the black pearl.
The next moment, the entire body of the red-tailed mermaid also began to glow.
The arm that had been bitten off by the green-skinned monster started to grow back at a visible speed, and in just a moment, a brand new arm had emerged.
Simultaneously, other wounds on the mermaid’s body began to heal. These crisscrossed wounds seemed to be from getting scratched by those rugged rocks.
The shed scales also grew back, and the mermaid’s skin regained her healthy color.
Bai Lixin watched the healing effect of the Mermaid Heart with satisfaction. He observed the mermaid’s expression with tense shoulders.
Merfolk were always sensitive. If, during the healing process, it suddenly opened her eyes and saw a strange human, it would instinctively resist and struggle.
This was just a submarine, not land. If not handled properly, the mermaid might damage his submarine. Then he might as well just turn around and write his name on the shrine.
Therefore, even in treating the mermaid, he was extremely cautious.
During the healing process, the mermaid indeed opened her eyes.
Bai Lixin suddenly became nervous, but the mermaid just glanced at him silently, then looked at her healing body.
The next second, pearls rolled out of the mermaid’s eyes, falling to the floor of the submarine and scattering everywhere.
Bai Lixin: “?”
Moved to tears?
Why is this different from what he imagined?
Was the mermaid’s personality originally like Sister Lin?
“Yiya yiya yiya.” The mermaid weakly opened her mouth, chattering in a language Bai Lixin couldn’t understand.
Bai Lixin casually replied, “Hmm, okay, okay, I saved you, and you’ll get better.”
The tears flowed even more from the red-tailed mermaid: “Yiya, yiya!”
Bai Lixin: “?”
‘What did you say?
Can this mermaid understand what I’m saying?’
Bai Lixin tentatively pointed to himself. When he waved his arm, the Mermaid Heart on his neck swayed with his movement. “Can you understand what I’m saying? If you can, nod your head.”
The red-tailed mermaid continued with “Yiya, yiya, yiya” for a while but didn’t nod.
Bai Lixin: “…”
Okay, he understood.
The mermaid wasn’t responding to him earlier, she was just overly excited.
The healing from the Mermaid Heart quickly ended, and the white light disappeared from both the Mermaid Heart and the red-tailed mermaid. However, Bai Lixin didn’t relax because of this.
His gaze fell to the mermaid’s wrist, where two conspicuous and abrupt metal bracelets were present.
These were limiters restricting the mermaid’s power. As long as this thing remained on it, it wouldn’t survive for long in this ocean.
After pondering for two seconds, Bai Lixin’s hand slowly reached for the bracelets.
Although he knew the red-tailed mermaid couldn’t understand, Bai Lixin still spoke, “Bear with me. I’ll try to remove these things. It might hurt a bit.”
He placed his hand on the mermaid’s bracelet, but the red-tailed mermaid didn’t resist at all, letting Bai Lixin do as he pleased.
After thinking for a moment, Bai Lixin took out a piece of cloth from his backpack and stuffed it into the mermaid’s mouth.
Even though the mermaid didn’t understand, it didn’t resist either, allowing Bai Lixin to continue his actions.
Seeing the obedient and cooperative red-tailed mermaid, Bai Lixin couldn’t help but feel like a weird pervert.
Afraid the mermaid might bite him, he immediately started exerting force after stuffing the cloth into her mouth.
He was strong, so the first attempt was still an attempt to see if it could be easily broken.
However, as soon as he exerted force, the red-tailed mermaid started convulsing in pain. Her eyes rolled upwards, and foam even came out of her mouth.
The Escape System’s voice echoed in his mind: [Master Bai Lixin, you can’t force it like this. There’s a needle inside this bracelet connected to the mermaid’s central nervous system. If forcibly removed, it will stimulate the central nervous system. Mild cases lead to fainting, severe cases lead to death.]
Bai Lixin finally gave up removing the bracelet.
He used the Mermaid Heart again on the somewhat pained mermaid, and in a moment, the mermaid quickly recovered.
Bai Lixin removed the cloth from the mermaid’s mouth, looked at the mermaid lying on the ground so obediently, and gently stroked the mermaid’s beautiful red hair, soothingly saying, “It’s okay, it doesn’t hurt anymore. I won’t help you with the bracelet for now; don’t be afraid.”
The mermaid blinked her big eyes. There was no fear in her eyes.
Bai Lixin: “?”
After receiving such great harm from humans, mermaid can still accept humans?
Are they truly kind or just too forgiving?
Bai Lixin’s gaze fell on the mermaid’s beautiful tail. He touched his chin, secretly contemplating whether he should give her tail a good kick to let it know how treacherous human hearts can be when releasing it later.
To prevent being captured by humans again in the future.
While contemplating, his gaze met the mermaid’s bright and shimmering eyes.
Bai Lixin: “…”
What are you looking at? Pay more attention to yourself.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. Bai Lixin stood up and kicked the mermaid’s tail.
As a result, the red-tailed mermaid not only didn’t get angry but gently moved her body, giving Bai Lixin a better position to kick.
Bai Lixin: “?”
‘I need help. Could this be a silly deer in the ocean circle? ‘
“I haven’t figured out a way to remove the bracelet temporarily,” Bai Lixin thought for a moment. “So, you go back for now. In the future, a beautiful blue-tailed merman will come to find you. It will bring you to me, and then I’ll remove the bracelet for you. Understand?”
The red-tailed mermaid’s face blushed slightly. Slowly getting up from the ground, it suddenly embraced Bai Lixin’s body, and then “smooched” him on the face.
Bai Lixin was shocked.
Help, I’m not clean anymore!
If his merman husband knew he was kissed by another merfolk, he might die.
I saved you, and you want to harm me?
Get down!
Without further hesitation, Bai Lixin directly opened the isolation chamber door and kicked the mermaid into the sea.
Afterward, he ruthlessly closed the chamber door.
After sinking in the sea for a while, the red-tailed mermaid swam happily. It didn’t leave as Bai Lixin expected but kept circling around Bai Lixin, showing no intention to leave.
Bai Lixin was at a loss.
He no longer paid attention to this overly enthusiastic red-tailed mermaid but returned to the driver’s seat, driving the submarine back into the merfolk’s sanctuary.
First, he went to the place where the red-tailed mermaid’s name was and noted down the mermaid’s name.
When he returns, he would hand it over to Dijia, and Dijia would find this mermaid by name and remove the bracelet later.
Just as he was about to continue elsewhere, the mermaid came again.
It swam to the glass of the submarine, banging on the glass while pointing upwards, as if wanting Bai Lixin to see something.
Then the mermaid began swimming upwards.
Bai Lixin didn’t hesitate, quickly controlling the submarine to follow.
He followed the mermaid’s tail, continuously ascending about three hundred meters. On the originally barren stone wall, something appeared again.
This time, it wasn’t individual shrines but murals.
He wasn’t sure what material the murals were carved from, but judging by their delicacy and sharp edges, he guessed it should be some kind of specialized metal.
Only that kind of thing could leave such profound marks on rocks.
Like the shrines below, these murals had undergone varying degrees of erosion from years and seawater. However, the difference from writings was that, even if the writings don’t mutually connect, one could still understand a piece of history passed down by ancestors through intuitive and vivid images.
This is also why ancient tombs have murals and epitaphs.
The red-tailed mermaid stayed in the murals for a while, finally stopping in a certain place.
It patted the mural and looked at Bai Lixin, seemingly wanting him to see these murals.
Bai Lixin projected the exploration light onto the wall. A simple but sincere mural appeared clearly in front of him.
Bai Lixin’s feelings toward merfolk were complicated. Perhaps because he had played a merfolk in the ancient mermaid copy before, when he first saw merfolk in this copy, he naturally had a kind of innate fondness for this group.
Of course, it could also be because they were beautiful, and he just had a liking for beautiful things.
Regardless of the reason, the psychological favoritism toward merfolk was an undeniable fact.
Due to the murals, there weren’t very complex scenes. Instead, with just a few strokes, it presented a story before him.
In the first painting, there was only one merfolk.
In the second painting, several more merfolk appeared around the original one.
In the third painting, in front of several merfolk, a huge fish appeared. The merfolk held harpoons and thrust them toward the ugly-looking fish.
The searchlight found a neatly carved expanse of smooth rock.
In front of the rock were chiseled, square frames, reminiscent of ancestral or divine shrines when viewed from a distance.
Task 3 mentioned the merfolk’s faith, he initially thought it was a kind of spiritual belief, but now he realized that the merfolk genuinely worshipped it.
Each shrine was meticulously carved into the wall, not only were they orderly but they also exuded a sense of age.
There were strange inscriptions on the shrines that he couldn’t understand. When he saw these characters, he was momentarily stunned.
The merfolk’s level of civilization was far higher than what scientists believed!
Merfolk had their own written language. If the NPCs from the passage had entered this area, they would have discovered these characters. Writing is a carrier of heritage, and through these characters, they could potentially unravel all the secrets of the merfolk.
Bai Lixin suddenly frowned.
Fortunately, those green-skinned monsters had driven them away.
He had mixed thoughts as he piloted the submarine over, slowly passing by each shrine.
He couldn’t understand the characters on them, and even if he could, the corrosion caused by seawater had rendered them unrecognizable and challenging to decipher.
What shocked him was the merfolk’s determination and patience. This was a hollow rock circle. The rocks were as high as a hundred meters, and every inch of it was covered with these shrines, each engraved with characters. There were hundreds of millions of these square frames.
Bai Lixin suddenly thought of something. [Could the inscriptions on these shrines be the names of individual merfolk?]
As if to verify his speculation, he manipulated the submarine to move backward. Soon, he arrived at the side of the square frames where no characters had been inscribed yet. There, he found fresh inscriptions.
Through the glass, he could even see the fine rock dust that hadn’t been washed away.
Perhaps, this was the purpose of the merfolk who had escaped earlier.
It had engraved the name of its deceased companion on the shrine.
No, it might not be a companion; it could be itself.
With its claws worn down and trapped under the power suppressor, even if it returned to the water, death might be the only fate awaiting it.
Yet, fully aware of this, it still entered the ocean without hesitation.
Fallen leaves return to their roots.
Returning to its kind’s most sacred place, carving its name and quietly awaiting the arrival of death.
If that was the case, where would it go?
Bai Lixin suddenly thought of something and controlled the submarine towards the colossal stone statue from earlier.
He descended slowly from the top, searching meticulously to avoid missing anything.
Finally, at the eye level of the statue, he found a flickering red light.
The statue’s eyes were hollow, covered by a thick layer of seaweed.
If it weren’t for the seaweed moving in the water, revealing a gap, he still wouldn’t have noticed the merfolk’s figure.
The merfolk seemed very weak, having insufficient physical strength in the laboratory, swimming continuously in the ocean, and navigating such a perilous passage.
This journey had consumed all its vitality.
Without hesitation, Bai Lixin immediately put on the diving suit, opened the watertight compartment door, and swam out of the submarine.
He quickly reached the merfolk. Upon reaching it, he discovered that the merfolk was already unconscious.
The mermaid’s face was pale, missing a section of her arm, and the wounds on her arm were irregular, exposing grim-looking bones.
*Sorry for the abruptness here. I finally got a clue that the merfolk who escaped before is female, so I’ll be using “mermaid”.She was probably bitten by the green-skinned monsters while passing through the extremely dangerous passage.
Bai Lixin lifted the mermaid and dragged her into the submarine.
The submarine wasn’t large. After removing the oxygen tube and cap, he began examining the mermaid’s condition.
Merfolk had two respiratory pathways; they used gills in the water and their noses in the air without water.
Now that the mermaid had entered the submarine from the water, even in a coma, her body instinctively completed the transformation of the respiratory system.
Gill slits slowly closed, and the mermaid began to breathe through the nostrils.
Seeing the mermaid’s normal breathing, Bai Lixin secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He took out a healing card from his backpack and used it on the mermaid, but the system gave him a prompt.
[Ding! The target is detected as an invalid target, and the healing card cannot be used.]
[Friendly reminder: The healing card is applicable to players or humanoid NPCs. The target you are currently locking onto is a humanoid monster, and its use is not allowed.]
‘A humanoid monster?
System, open your damn eyes wide and take a good look. How can something so beautiful be a monster?!’
Bai Lixin slowly furrowed his brow.
If the healing card doesn’t work, does he have to watch the mermaid die in front of him?
The Escape System’s voice echoed in his mind: [Master Bai Lixin, how about trying the Mermaid Heart?]
[The Mermaid Heart was obtained from the ancient merfolk and might have a better healing effect on them.]
Bai Lixin’s eyes lit up: [Right, the Mermaid Heart! How could I forget about this prop?]
He quickly took out the Mermaid Heart necklace from the innermost part of his backpack. The moment he held the Mermaid Heart in his hand, the introduction of the Mermaid Heart appeared in his mind.
[Mermaid Heart, a precious treasure obtained from ancient merfolk. An S-level healing growth-type prop, currently grown to the full level 10.]
[Friendly reminder: The Mermaid Heart is currently on cool down and can only be used for healing. The resurrection skill cannot be used.]
The last time the Mermaid Heart was used was during the resurrection of Hongyue.
After resurrecting Hongyue, the Mermaid Heart entered cool down, and he hadn’t taken it out again.
As time passed, he had forgotten about its existence.
Bai Lixin quickly put the Mermaid Heart necklace around his neck. After silently reciting “Use the Mermaid Heart for healing” in his mind, a faint white light began to emanate from the black pearl.
The next moment, the entire body of the red-tailed mermaid also began to glow.
The arm that had been bitten off by the green-skinned monster started to grow back at a visible speed, and in just a moment, a brand new arm had emerged.
Simultaneously, other wounds on the mermaid’s body began to heal. These crisscrossed wounds seemed to be from getting scratched by those rugged rocks.
The shed scales also grew back, and the mermaid’s skin regained her healthy color.
Bai Lixin watched the healing effect of the Mermaid Heart with satisfaction. He observed the mermaid’s expression with tense shoulders.
Merfolk were always sensitive. If, during the healing process, it suddenly opened her eyes and saw a strange human, it would instinctively resist and struggle.
This was just a submarine, not land. If not handled properly, the mermaid might damage his submarine. Then he might as well just turn around and write his name on the shrine.
Therefore, even in treating the mermaid, he was extremely cautious.
During the healing process, the mermaid indeed opened her eyes.
Bai Lixin suddenly became nervous, but the mermaid just glanced at him silently, then looked at her healing body.
The next second, pearls rolled out of the mermaid’s eyes, falling to the floor of the submarine and scattering everywhere.
Bai Lixin: “?”
Moved to tears?
Why is this different from what he imagined?
Was the mermaid’s personality originally like Sister Lin?
“Yiya yiya yiya.” The mermaid weakly opened her mouth, chattering in a language Bai Lixin couldn’t understand.
Bai Lixin casually replied, “Hmm, okay, okay, I saved you, and you’ll get better.”
The tears flowed even more from the red-tailed mermaid: “Yiya, yiya!”
Bai Lixin: “?”
‘What did you say?
Can this mermaid understand what I’m saying?’
Bai Lixin tentatively pointed to himself. When he waved his arm, the Mermaid Heart on his neck swayed with his movement. “Can you understand what I’m saying? If you can, nod your head.”
The red-tailed mermaid continued with “Yiya, yiya, yiya” for a while but didn’t nod.
Bai Lixin: “…”
Okay, he understood.
The mermaid wasn’t responding to him earlier, she was just overly excited.
The healing from the Mermaid Heart quickly ended, and the white light disappeared from both the Mermaid Heart and the red-tailed mermaid. However, Bai Lixin didn’t relax because of this.
His gaze fell to the mermaid’s wrist, where two conspicuous and abrupt metal bracelets were present.
These were limiters restricting the mermaid’s power. As long as this thing remained on it, it wouldn’t survive for long in this ocean.
After pondering for two seconds, Bai Lixin’s hand slowly reached for the bracelets.
Although he knew the red-tailed mermaid couldn’t understand, Bai Lixin still spoke, “Bear with me. I’ll try to remove these things. It might hurt a bit.”
He placed his hand on the mermaid’s bracelet, but the red-tailed mermaid didn’t resist at all, letting Bai Lixin do as he pleased.
After thinking for a moment, Bai Lixin took out a piece of cloth from his backpack and stuffed it into the mermaid’s mouth.
Even though the mermaid didn’t understand, it didn’t resist either, allowing Bai Lixin to continue his actions.
Seeing the obedient and cooperative red-tailed mermaid, Bai Lixin couldn’t help but feel like a weird pervert.
Afraid the mermaid might bite him, he immediately started exerting force after stuffing the cloth into her mouth.
He was strong, so the first attempt was still an attempt to see if it could be easily broken.
However, as soon as he exerted force, the red-tailed mermaid started convulsing in pain. Her eyes rolled upwards, and foam even came out of her mouth.
The Escape System’s voice echoed in his mind: [Master Bai Lixin, you can’t force it like this. There’s a needle inside this bracelet connected to the mermaid’s central nervous system. If forcibly removed, it will stimulate the central nervous system. Mild cases lead to fainting, severe cases lead to death.]
Bai Lixin finally gave up removing the bracelet.
He used the Mermaid Heart again on the somewhat pained mermaid, and in a moment, the mermaid quickly recovered.
Bai Lixin removed the cloth from the mermaid’s mouth, looked at the mermaid lying on the ground so obediently, and gently stroked the mermaid’s beautiful red hair, soothingly saying, “It’s okay, it doesn’t hurt anymore. I won’t help you with the bracelet for now; don’t be afraid.”
The mermaid blinked her big eyes. There was no fear in her eyes.
Bai Lixin: “?”
After receiving such great harm from humans, mermaid can still accept humans?
Are they truly kind or just too forgiving?
Bai Lixin’s gaze fell on the mermaid’s beautiful tail. He touched his chin, secretly contemplating whether he should give her tail a good kick to let it know how treacherous human hearts can be when releasing it later.
To prevent being captured by humans again in the future.
While contemplating, his gaze met the mermaid’s bright and shimmering eyes.
Bai Lixin: “…”
What are you looking at? Pay more attention to yourself.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. Bai Lixin stood up and kicked the mermaid’s tail.
As a result, the red-tailed mermaid not only didn’t get angry but gently moved her body, giving Bai Lixin a better position to kick.
Bai Lixin: “?”
‘I need help. Could this be a silly deer in the ocean circle? ‘
“I haven’t figured out a way to remove the bracelet temporarily,” Bai Lixin thought for a moment. “So, you go back for now. In the future, a beautiful blue-tailed merman will come to find you. It will bring you to me, and then I’ll remove the bracelet for you. Understand?”
The red-tailed mermaid’s face blushed slightly. Slowly getting up from the ground, it suddenly embraced Bai Lixin’s body, and then “smooched” him on the face.
Bai Lixin was shocked.
Help, I’m not clean anymore!
If his merman husband knew he was kissed by another merfolk, he might die.
I saved you, and you want to harm me?
Get down!
Without further hesitation, Bai Lixin directly opened the isolation chamber door and kicked the mermaid into the sea.
Afterward, he ruthlessly closed the chamber door.
After sinking in the sea for a while, the red-tailed mermaid swam happily. It didn’t leave as Bai Lixin expected but kept circling around Bai Lixin, showing no intention to leave.
Bai Lixin was at a loss.
He no longer paid attention to this overly enthusiastic red-tailed mermaid but returned to the driver’s seat, driving the submarine back into the merfolk’s sanctuary.
First, he went to the place where the red-tailed mermaid’s name was and noted down the mermaid’s name.
When he returns, he would hand it over to Dijia, and Dijia would find this mermaid by name and remove the bracelet later.
Just as he was about to continue elsewhere, the mermaid came again.
It swam to the glass of the submarine, banging on the glass while pointing upwards, as if wanting Bai Lixin to see something.
Then the mermaid began swimming upwards.
Bai Lixin didn’t hesitate, quickly controlling the submarine to follow.
He followed the mermaid’s tail, continuously ascending about three hundred meters. On the originally barren stone wall, something appeared again.
This time, it wasn’t individual shrines but murals.
He wasn’t sure what material the murals were carved from, but judging by their delicacy and sharp edges, he guessed it should be some kind of specialized metal.
Only that kind of thing could leave such profound marks on rocks.
Like the shrines below, these murals had undergone varying degrees of erosion from years and seawater. However, the difference from writings was that, even if the writings don’t mutually connect, one could still understand a piece of history passed down by ancestors through intuitive and vivid images.
This is also why ancient tombs have murals and epitaphs.
The red-tailed mermaid stayed in the murals for a while, finally stopping in a certain place.
It patted the mural and looked at Bai Lixin, seemingly wanting him to see these murals.
Bai Lixin projected the exploration light onto the wall. A simple but sincere mural appeared clearly in front of him.
Bai Lixin’s feelings toward merfolk were complicated. Perhaps because he had played a merfolk in the ancient mermaid copy before, when he first saw merfolk in this copy, he naturally had a kind of innate fondness for this group.
Of course, it could also be because they were beautiful, and he just had a liking for beautiful things.
Regardless of the reason, the psychological favoritism toward merfolk was an undeniable fact.
Due to the murals, there weren’t very complex scenes. Instead, with just a few strokes, it presented a story before him.
In the first painting, there was only one merfolk.
In the second painting, several more merfolk appeared around the original one.
In the third painting, in front of several merfolk, a huge fish appeared. The merfolk held harpoons and thrust them toward the ugly-looking fish.
