Deep in the sea, the silence was frightening, but Xie Qi was fearless and swam forward with all his might.

When they finally reached a place far enough away from the land, Xie Qi slowly closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and began to concentrate on gathering his strength.

Only tiny wisps of blue light emanated from his hair and every pore on his body. At first, they were just a few faint spots, but gradually they became more and more numerous, eventually converging into a brilliant blue light that spread out in all directions like ripples.

The marine creatures living nearby seemed to sense some kind of call and rushed towards the direction where Xie Qi was.

Among them are huge whales, colorful fish, and various strange-looking deep-sea monsters.

However, these creatures, which should have been free, have undergone terrible mutations and become ugly and distorted due to long-term erosion by ocean pollution.

But when they touched the blue light emitted by Xie Qi, they seemed to be gently soothed. The restlessness and anxiety of all creatures subsided instantly, and were replaced by a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere.

Xie Qi opened his eyes and looked at the poor creatures in front of him, his heart filled with pity. He gently waved his hands and flicked his tail, and the bodies of these marine creatures suddenly flashed, and then gradually dimmed.

After completing this series of actions, the marine creatures gathered together and swam quickly in all directions like liberated prisoners.

As they slowly departed, a faint, almost invisible light could be clearly seen glimmering from them, a light like the stars in the night sky, mysterious and captivating. This was the powerful purifying energy bestowed upon them by Xie Qi, imbued with endless vitality and hope.

From now on, no matter where they swim, they will purify the sea water. Whenever they encounter garbage in the ocean, they will cause a small vortex of sea water, which will draw in the pollutants and completely crush and degrade them.

And when they encounter other marine life, this purifying ability seems to be contagious and can be passed on to those originally ordinary marine life.

However, this purification method cannot be achieved overnight. It may take a long time, even years or even decades, to restore all the oceans on the earth to their former purity and clarity.

One day, exactly one month after Xie Qi left the land, he suddenly felt the presence of other mermaids.

Xie Qi asked doubtfully, "948, are there any other surviving mermaids besides me?"

"Impossible." 948 was also very surprised and replied quickly.

Hearing this answer, Xie Qi couldn't help but frown and asked doubtfully, "But... why did I hear the mermaid's call just now?"

"Wait a moment, let me check what's going on." 948 said as he hurriedly started to check.

After a while, 948 exclaimed, "What is this?! Why are there so many mermaids on land?"

After hearing 948's words, Xie Qi's heart suddenly trembled, and an ominous premonition came over him. He quickly cast his gaze in the direction of the land, as if he could see the danger hidden within the vast sea.

Almost without hesitation, Xie Qi struggled to surface from the sea and swam quickly towards a small island not far away.

Soon, he landed on a small island and skillfully reached out from under a large rock and took out a plastic bag.

Xie Qi then took out a cell phone. However, when he saw the dozens of missed calls displayed on the screen, his heart tightened.

Without any hesitation, Xie Qi immediately called back, but disappointingly, the first few calls could not be dialed through.

Finally, on the last call, the call went through.

"Xia Xie? Is it really you?" Shen Jinghua's slightly surprised voice came from the other end of the phone.

Xie Qi hurriedly asked, "What happened? Where is Jiang Ze and the others?"

Shen Jinghua replied anxiously: "Jiang Ze went to rescue you! Did you escape?"

Xie Qi was full of suspicion and asked in confusion, "What do you mean by escaped? I've been in the sea since I left. How could I need to be rescued? Did you make a mistake?"

After hearing this, Shen Jinghua suddenly realized what was going on and his face turned pale: "Oh no, we've been deceived by the Wang family! This is really troublesome!"

Afterwards, Shen Jinghua told Xie Qi what had happened recently.

Not long ago, the Wang family released two videos online. The protagonist in the first video was a mermaid with a blue tail.

I saw that the mermaid was trapped in an extremely large ornamental fish tank.

It can be clearly seen in the video that in just one week, the water in the fish tank, which was originally turbid and full of impurities, has become crystal clear!

Once this video was released, it was like a bombshell dropped into the crowd, instantly causing an uproar and shocking everyone.

In another video, the mermaids were enraged and killed many humans. The Wang family announced that the mermaids had returned to the world to avenge the harm done to them by humans.

However, due to the video shooting angle and distance, the mermaid's face was not clearly presented in front of the camera.

In addition, due to the distance, Jiang Ze and his friends were unable to recognize that this mermaid was not the Xie Qi they were familiar with.

But despite this, everyone knows very well that in the entire world, Xie Qi is the only one who has the ability to purify seawater.

Therefore, after seeing the video released by the Wang family, almost everyone subconsciously thought that Xie Qi had unfortunately fallen into the hands of the Wang family.

Afterwards, the Li family received a text message from the Wang family, which clearly stated that if Jiang Ze did not go to the research institute obediently, the Wang family would not hesitate to conduct an anatomical experiment on the mermaid.

Faced with such a threat, Jiang Ze naturally could not sit idly by. So he went to the Wang family with Shen's eldest brother Shen Yanhua.

At this moment, Xie Qi was rushing towards the land at an astonishing speed.

"948, where did the mermaid come from?!"

At this time, 948, who had already found out the truth, quickly responded: "Host, the Wang family conducted a carpet search in the Shen family and found your eggshells, scales, and even the detailed research data on your hair that Shen's father had done in the laboratory."

The Wang family used these and successfully extracted the mermaid's DNA gene through scientific and technological means.

Then, they carried out a very horrific experiment in a crazy way, using humans as experimental subjects, fusing mermaid genes with human genes to create a new species, which is now the artificial mermaid.