◎The sea is never calm at night◎

"President Wuwu, Zi Teng and I are being chased!" Pastor Ice Cream rushed into the guild crying, scaring Steamed Fish who was joking.

Baili Xi was in the warehouse taking inventory of the guild's supplies. Hearing the noise, he walked past the steamed fish and hurried out of the warehouse: "What happened?"

"President, someone's plotting something behind our backs." The female mage, Zi Teng, pushed open the door and entered, her eyes blazing with anger. "More than ten of us are on the last round of construction work in the wilderness plains. We finally managed to gather all the materials, but suddenly a group of men in black rushed up from behind, knocked us down in a few seconds, and stole all the materials!"

"And... and our equipment was also stolen, and the dragon scales and bones in our backpacks were also taken." Ice Cream became more and more aggrieved and self-blaming as he spoke. "I'm sorry, President. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have brought such important materials with me. If I had known... I should have just left them in the warehouse."

"Dragon scales and dragon bones are excellent materials for refining precious equipment. Last time we slayed the dragon, we managed to pick them up before others. This time, we were planning to take them out to get equipment, but they were stolen by that group of people before we even saw them." Someone chimed in.

"You are a bunch of little bitches. You dare to do it but not to take responsibility. If you have the guts, don't hide your ID and compete with me openly!" Zi Teng, who usually pays attention to her appearance, no longer cares about her so-called image and curses angrily.

Immediately afterwards, other members began to run back from the resurrection point in the open-air hall of Fengyun Tianxia.

Everyone's face was filled with self-blame and unwillingness!

"President, we haven't offended anyone before, so why are we suddenly being targeted?" Ice Cream frowned, puzzled.

"Yes, we have always been very disciplined when doing missions outside and never caused trouble." Luo Pan added.

"Brother Xi..." The more Qingzhengyu listened, the more he felt something was wrong, and he called out to Baili Xi weakly.

Baili Xi frowned: "Yes, I understand."

After a pause, he continued, "Everyone, please count up the amount of property lost, compile it into a single number, and hand it over to Baiguo. I'll compensate you for your losses later."

"President!" Zi Teng was a little unhappy. "We can afford these losses. Isn't the most important thing now to find out who the other party is? And why they are targeting us!"

Baili Xi's face darkened slightly. He was about to speak when a male priest named Bubble Water suddenly stood up with a complicated expression. "President, I know it's not nice to say this at this critical moment, but I suspect our assassins might be from the Blazing Fury."

"Fiery rage?" Zi Teng raised her delicate eyebrows fiercely. "We have nothing to do with him. Maybe they are blind and have mistaken me for someone else!"

Qingzhengyu pursed his lower lip tightly and didn't respond.

Bubble Water looked at everyone and saw that no one spoke, so he continued anxiously, "I heard that Xia Rilihua has always been at odds with Lieyan's Vice President Long Yan, so I think Lieyan's people might be retaliating against us because of her."

"Sparkling water!" Qingzhengyu frowned and interrupted him loudly, "Don't wrongly accuse anyone in the guild without any evidence."

"I... I really don't have any conclusive evidence..." Bubble Water hesitated for a few times and lowered his head.

"Does that mean there is preliminary evidence?" Baili Xi, who always appeared gentle, had a gloomy look on his face. He walked step by step to the front of the sparkling water and stared at him.

"This..." Bubble Water raised his eyelids and looked at the pairs of eyes staring at him. He hesitated for a moment, "I'm afraid that speaking out will be detrimental to the unity of the guild."

"Speak." Baili Xi's eyes were burning, and he ordered him in a rare serious tone.

“This…this…”

Facing the pressure of the president and everyone's gazes, Bubble Water swallowed his saliva, and finally slowly took out a small throwing knife from his backpack and handed it to Baili Xi.

hiss--

Qingzhengyu rushed forward and saw the gilded word "Lie" engraved on the end of the flying knife's handle, and couldn't help but gasp.

Others also came forward and saw the text symbol of blazing rage that was unique to the miracle.

"President, it seems that the people on the opposite side are really Lieyan's people." Zi Teng crossed his arms and smiled coldly.

Ice Cream saw the coldness on Zi Teng's face and couldn't help but shiver all over.

"I will investigate this matter and give you an answer."

This wasn't the time to explain; the more he said, the worse it would get. Baili Xi left a message for everyone and hurriedly left the guild.

The sailboat finally reached the other side of the sea, and Xia Li stopped under the deck, motionless.

The transformation card lasts for one hour, and she still has several minutes to transform back into a human, so she is not in a hurry.

She heard the men on the deck walk down and drop anchor, and the sound of footsteps gradually faded away. Only then did she pull the fish head out of the sea.

It was already past 6 o'clock in the evening, and the dusk light shining on the Saye continent made it look even more desolate and bleak.

There were no demons around, so Xia Li immediately transformed and followed the footprints along the coast.

After walking a few steps, she suddenly heard the sound of the waves lapping behind her.

The tide shouldn't be rising at this time. Xia Li turned her head and found that the sea level of the Evil Tooth Sea was rising at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Not knowing what had happened, she plunged into the depths of the forest before the sea water rose to her feet.

The sky gradually darkened, and there seemed to be a fire flickering in the center of the deep forest.

It happened to be the direction the demon hunter was heading. Xia Li crouched down, trying to avoid the dry branches on the ground, and quietly approached the fire.

"May Saya bless the demon clan!"

"May Saya bless the demon clan!"

…

The uniform sound reached my ears from the firelight.

Xia Li stopped behind a big tree and peeked out.

The demon hunter from earlier had already walked into the group. He took off his cloak, and the firelight outlined his tight and upright figure.

boom!

A heavy hammer flew out and almost hit the demon hunter, but the flame flickered and the body outlined by the flame remained motionless.

"A loser doesn't deserve to come back. You should be buried in the Sea of ​​Evil Teeth."

A burly demon came out from the shadows, picked up his sledgehammer, and glared fiercely at their returnee.

"There is a new warrior in the Xia continent. It was she who stopped the dragon." The demon hunter's voice was very calm, as if the curse just now had never happened.

"Warriors? Are there warriors among humans? Hahaha!"

When that person smiled, the people around him burst into laughter.

The Demon Hunter looked at her, not affected by the scene at all, and continued, "She is an alchemist."

The laughter stopped abruptly.

"What did you say?!" The man's face turned cold and he grabbed the demon hunter's chest and asked.

The Demon Hunter's face showed no expression: "Morgan's first disciple, Xia Rihua, is an alchemist."

"Wasn't Morgan kicked out of the royal city a long time ago? Why is he still accepting disciples?"

Judging from the tone, the man holding the sledgehammer seemed a little afraid of Morgan.

Xia Li continued to prick up her ears.

"The new queen reapproved Morgan's residence permit three months ago, so he began to accept disciples." The demon hunter explained calmly.

"Then...how many disciples does he have now?"

“One.”

“Pfft, hahahahaha!!!”

A new round of laughter erupted from the crowd.

"I thought he was so amazing, but he only accepted one? Hahaha! Is one person worthy of being compared to us, the Son of Saye?"

The laughter never stopped.

Xia Li hid behind the tree and squinted her eyes.

The Demon Hunter said nothing more and chose an open space to sit down alone.

The circle of demons surrounding the fire, after a short rest, began a new round of strange rituals.

"May Saya bless the demon clan!"

"May Saya bless the demon clan!"

Xia Li discovered that every time they shouted, the tide on the shore would surge up a little.

Ding~

Amidst the demons' uniform prayers, a crisp ding sound like a string of wind chimes blew away the demons around the fire.

"who?!"

“Who’s there!”

Xia Li secretly cried out in alarm. She blocked Mantian Feixue but did not block the other people, which resulted in the demons hearing the message someone sent her just now.

I hurriedly opened the friend system and prepared to turn off the sound.

Suddenly, ding~

The big head of the steamed fish flashed back and forth in the darkness.

Xia Li quickly dragged it to the blocked list. When she looked up, she was shocked to find that a demon was looking into her eyes.

Yellow-brown pupils, prominent brow bones, rough and wrinkled skin, and a huge mouth with protruding fangs.

She is an orc among the demons, skilled in using heavy weapons such as hammers and iron axes. Once injured by the weapons in their hands, she will either be beheaded or split into two parts.

Before the opponent's axe came down, Xia Li ducked and dodged, running to a darker place.

The tree trunk hit by the axe made a cracking sound, and the orc pulled the axe out with force, and the trunk was directly cut in half.

"Humans are here!"

The orc shouted, and his companions rushed over with heavy steps.

Xia Li secretly cried out in alarm. The enemy was numerous and powerful, and they were all power-type enemies. If they faced them head-on, she, a fragile alchemist, would be no match for them at all.

But this trip cannot be without gains, Xia Li quickly observed the surroundings, then flew to the outer circle of the fire, and while the demons were not paying attention, she quickly slipped into the inner circle of the fire, then reached out and took something away.

Then he drank the last bottle of purple potion in his backpack, and the wind blew in his ears with his footsteps.

The demons behind her, especially the orcs, could not catch up with her at all.

Apart from the demon hunter who kept shooting arrows and posed a certain threat to her, everything else was not worth mentioning.

The small sailboat used by the demon hunter was still on the shore. Xia Li rushed over, took out a big knife and cut off the anchor.

The wind was strong at night. After the sails were raised, the boat disappeared in front of the demons like a fish that had been freed.

"Damn it! The humans got away!" The orc was so angry that he beat his chest and stamped his feet.

"It's okay. This is the Revenge Sea. The sea is never calm at night. That human will definitely die in the sea!"

In the dark, human eyes are just decorations.

Xia Li sat on the deck. The only thing that allowed her to determine the direction back to the royal city was the compass provided by the system to the player.

Nergal Highlands is southeast of the Revenge Sea, and she is now maneuvering the sails in the right direction.

The sea was calm and nothing happened, so Xia Li decided to lie down for a while to restore her stamina.

She is now level 17 and has an endurance value of 260 points. If she doesn't do anything important and eats three meals a day on time, 260 points will be more than enough.

It's a pity that she was busy with important things all day and didn't have a good meal.

Her endurance value quickly dropped to 50 points, and the system warned her.

If it drops to 30 points or below, the system will force the player into a rigid state and unable to move until the endurance recovers to more than 20%, and then the system will unlock control of the character.

Xia Li lay on her back, gazing at the starry sky, while stuffing some not-so-palatable fruit into her mouth.

She picked up the fruits randomly on the road, and she didn't even know the variety. The taste was also very ordinary, and it tasted like chewing wax when she ate it.

Fortunately, one fruit can increase her endurance by 5 points. After she ate 6 of them in a row, the system finally unlocked the warning to her.

Xia Li turned over tiredly, her head felt dizzy, and she soon fell asleep.

She didn't know how many minutes she had napped before she was awakened by a roar from the sea.

The calm sea surface was suddenly blasted by a violent wind, rolling up layer after layer of black sea water!

Water quickly accumulated in the boat, and Xia Li quickly turned the drain valve on the boat to drain out the excess water.

But the waves were rolling more and more violently, and the drainage speed of the drain valve was far behind the amount of seawater rushing in.

Soon, Xia Li felt the plank beneath her feet getting heavier and heavier...

Crash!

Another huge wave came towards us, and this time the sailboat was directly overturned by the wave!

The boat is upside down on the water. If a person is trapped under the boat, it would be as difficult to get out of the sea again as to climb out alive after being hit by a huge rock.

Xia Li knew very well that she had not yet learned the skills of diving and swimming, and she must not suffocate to death in the sea. So when the boat flipped, she was like an acrobat stepping on a rolling cylinder, maintaining her center of gravity all the way, and finally stepped steadily on the upside-down bottom of the boat.

It was not until then that she finally saw what was causing the huge waves.

An extremely huge evil-toothed fish!

It was dozens of times larger than the one she saw when she came here. Half of its body was exposed in the sea, and a pair of gray-white fish eyes were staring at her, shining strangely in the darkness.

It's an elite monster fish!

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