Ye Zhihan felt the girl's movement from behind him approaching, but he didn't dodge. He just said, "Maybe it will be as dark as this place. I've never been there either."
The Suma Continent was plagued by demons and fiercely divided by ethnic factions. Naturally, cultivators like them rarely set foot in the ocean. Ye Zhihan was eagerly anticipating the opportunity to venture into the abyss during the Crossing the Border Trials. To this end, he had prepared a fin-tail jade suitable for underwater breathing.
"What if I can't swim? Should I wait for you outside or hide in your shadow?" Ming Luo asked worriedly.
"If you stay here alone, you'll be attacked by the other contestants. I'll take you down with me." Ye Zhihan had no intention of abandoning her. "Then just follow me."
"Okay...it will be troublesome if we meet someone like Muli." Ming Luo agreed somewhat helplessly. For some reason, Ming Luo has been very timid since she was a child. She is not afraid of cockroaches, mice or caterpillars, but she is most afraid of unknown things. She is very afraid of endless darkness and the vast ocean. The unknown is always full of horror, and there may be many terrible Cthulhu monsters in the deep sea.
Her mother was always extremely tolerant of Mingluo's timidity, and she always took the blame for Mingluo's timidity on herself. Furthermore, as Mingluo grew up, her mother always reminded her that if she subconsciously felt something was dangerous, she should never touch it, which indirectly amplified Mingluo's instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm.
Thinking of her mother's gentle smile and the soft light in her eyes, Mingluo felt lost. She hadn't been home for many days. Her mother must be very worried. Before riding the shared bike, she even called her mother to say she wanted to go home to eat shredded potatoes...
Mingluo couldn't help but tear up when she thought of her mother making shredded potatoes for her when she got home. She had been missing for so long, hadn't her mother thought she was dead? She tried hard to stop herself from shaking with sobs, and gently wiped away the tears with her sleeve, hoping Ye Zhihan hadn't noticed anything was wrong.
"We'll be there soon." Ye Zhihan's steady voice pulled Mingluo out of the sadness of missing his family.
Mingluo secretly raised her sleeve to wipe away her tears and turned her head away. As expected, the underground river became wider and the warm sun outside could be seen not far away!
Mingluo swept away his gloomy mood and looked expectantly at the light coming in from outside.
"Darkness can cause depression," Ye Zhihan said suddenly, "and seeing the light will make you feel much better."
Alas, as expected, my crying just now was noticed. Mingluo didn't want to show his weakness in front of others, so he grinned and said, "Yes, we are finally out!"
Maybe because he spent too much time in the dark river, the western sky was already filled with golden and pink clouds. The setting sun was hidden behind the clouds, as if it had given the clouds a golden edge. The orange light fell on his body, and Mingluo felt extremely comfortable.
The evening breeze, carrying the scent of the ocean, caressed the girl's face. She looked at the man with his black hair tied up beside her. Unlike the recent solemn and murderous aura around him, Ye Zhihan, immersed in the warm orange sunset, gave people the feeling of a hermit who didn't care about worldly affairs. However, the cold frost in his eyes still made people feel cold.
Ye Zhihan might be the most handsome man Mingluo has ever seen. His handsome jawline makes people unable to take their eyes off him. Unlike the tenderness and femininity of young boys, he is obviously just a teenager, but he exudes a sense of vicissitudes of life that comes from experiencing loneliness.
But beyond this lonely coldness, Mingluo could feel the warm kindness.
Such a person, no matter who stands next to him, will be eclipsed...
Ming Luo suddenly felt something was unreal. She took a few deep breaths of fresh air and asked, "Ye Zhihan, are we going to the bottom of the sea?"
"Well, hold on to me." Ye Zhihan gently put his arms around the girl's slender waist, then rushed into the vast ocean.
Ming Luo, who had never had close contact with a boy, didn't care about being shy at all. She quickly hugged Ye Zhihan's thick body and held his clothes tightly in her hands. Now her scalp was almost blown off by the rapid impact!
Just as he was about to fall into the water, Mingluo closed his eyes in panic. However, the pain he had imagined coming towards him did not exist. Instead, he felt a soft floating sensation all over his body, and even the feeling of being wet did not exist.
Ming Luo opened her eyes curiously, only to see Ye Zhihan's slender and bony hand covering her forehead, as if to prevent the impact of entering the water from causing harm to her.
Seeing that Mingluo had opened her eyes, Ye Zhihan pursed her lips and silently withdrew her arm, but her other hand was still tightly holding Mingluo's small hand, and in her hand, there was an ice-cold fin-tail jade stone.
"There is only one piece of fin-tail jade, and we can only keep it like this underwater." Ye Zhihan pulled Mingluo's little hand. He felt like taking advantage of the little girl, and his earlobes turned red again.
"Okay!" Ming Luo gently shook Ye Zhihan's hand in response.
Ye Zhihan was already feeling a little flustered because he thought he had taken advantage of the girl. Ming Luo's handshake made his entire face turn red. He couldn't help but wonder if this girl was really interested in him.
Ming Luo looked at the bright white halo surging around her with curiosity. The vague touch made her feel very comfortable, just like the foam covering her body when taking a bath.
However, after seeing the dark deep sea below her feet, Mingluo no longer felt comfortable. In such a deep sea, if there were any Cthulhu tentacle monsters, she would have nowhere to run. "Ye Zhihan, are there any monsters in the sea on your side?"
As Ye Zhihan pulled Mingluo down to the sea, he recalled his knowledge of the ocean and replied, "The ocean is the most magical place on the Suma Continent. Practitioners rarely set foot here. It is said that there is a highly developed aquatic civilization under the ocean. However, this is just a space created by the Suma elders. It shouldn't be that complicated. As for the monsters..."
Before he could finish his words, he felt the girl's hand stiffen slightly. Not wanting to scare Mingluo, he continued, "Elder Suma won't make things too difficult for the contestants."
Even with Ye Zhihan's words, Mingluo still couldn't let go of her worries. Even if the monster was a piece of cake for Ye Zhihan, it could still kill her in a moment. Mingluo stared wide-eyed at the darkness around her. Even if one or two beautiful little fish spitting bubbles swam towards her, it couldn't ease the fear in her heart.
What's worse is that Ming Luo always feels that something is staring at her from behind, which makes her hair stand on end.
Ming Luo's sense of crisis has always been very accurate. She pretended to be at ease and followed Ye Zhihan into the dive, then suddenly turned around. However, after she turned around, she saw nothing. Was she really scaring herself?
Ye Zhihan also turned his head sharply following Ming Luo's action, but unlike Ming Luo, he did not see nothing. Instead, he noticed some silver threads and several transparent ribbon-like floating objects floating in the water.
"Oh no, we have entered the territory of the dark silk jellyfish!" Ye Zhihan immediately pulled Ming Luo's hand and swam quickly to the outside of the silver line.
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