Chapter 829: Fate is unpredictable
Although Alfonso is not responsible for taking care of the Red Sea Tree, it is still no problem for him to take Thor into the Red Sea.
The timing of entering the Red Sea this time was quite coincidental. When Sol and Alfonso came down, the schools of mermaids did not lie lazily on the seabed, but gathered around the roots of the Red Sea trees, gnawing on something with their sharp teeth.
If you look closely, you can see brown rhizomes hanging on the roots of the tree like tree tumors.
The expressions of these mermaids are very strange, they look very enjoyable, as if they are enjoying a feast.
As Thor and his companions passed by, none of the mermen paid any attention to them.
Thor let Kate go and whispered to him, "Let's split up and search. If you find someone with a similar smell, call me."
Kate nodded. He was not as sensitive to the blood of the Blue Scale Clan as Thor. If Floco was not inconvenient to possess him at this time, it would actually be the fastest to ask him to come and search together.
At present, Thor and Kate can only try to find other mermaids with Blue Scale blood based on the clues left by Floco.
Alfonso didn't look for them. He stopped where the tree roots were densest and watched every move of Sol and Kate.
The red sea trees are very important strategic resources, which are related to the future of the entire Nephrite continent. Naturally, he would not let Thor stay alone under the sea.
Of course, don't worry too much.
The uniqueness of the Red Sea and the Red Sea trees has attracted the attention of the entire arbitration tribunal.
If the situation gets out of control, even Lord Flim of the Arbitration Court will rush over at the first opportunity.
Alfonso watched over Sol and prevented him from causing any trouble, but in fact he was also protecting Sol.
Sol knew that Alfonso was watching him, and although he was nominally looking for the atavistic mermaid, he was actually searching for his own target.
There were thousands of mermaids gathered under the red sea trees. Thor only swept for a few days before sinking to the seabed to see if there were any mermaids who had escaped.
Kate searched for her target by smell near the tree roots.
Thor swam deeper and deeper, approaching some distant canyons and caves.
Alfonso's eyes were fixed on Sol, and he unconsciously clasped his hands together.
Thor didn't know that Alfonso above him was inexplicably nervous and was just searching in some places where there were few fish.
He was looking for a mermaid with Floco's bloodline. This mermaid might be trying to escape from the Red Sea just like the mermaid possessed by Kate, and might appear in a hidden area on the edge of the Red Sea.
Even if they cannot escape because the entire Red Sea Tree is under strict control of the Arbitration Tribunal, they will most likely try their best to get rid of the influence of the Red Sea Tree's roots on them.
Suddenly, while passing a place covered with heavy roots, Thor vaguely felt a strange spiritual power.
But that mental power flashed away, as if the abnormality that Thor just felt was just his illusion.
But Thor knew that he was absolutely right.
He stood on the tree root where the mental fluctuations had just appeared and stomped the ground lightly with his feet.
The result of the mental investigation showed that there was indeed a gap below, which was very narrow, but large enough for a thin person to pass through.
Just as Thor was about to lift up the tree roots to take a look, Alfonso came down from above.
"Did you find anything?"
"There might be mermen down here, too."
Alfonso took the initiative to step forward, directly uncovering large pieces of tree roots and bringing up mud and sand from the seabed.
The noise was quite loud.
Thor raised his eyebrows slightly, but did not stop him.
"There's a mermaid down there." Alfonso looked down and said to Sol, "Do you want to go down and catch that mermaid?"
Thor smiled and said, "I'll go take a look and be back soon."
Alfonso didn't make any other movement this time, just waited there.
Thor swam down and saw a mermaid lying on a rock.
This mermaid has several green scales on its tail, which obviously is related to the atavistic mermaid.
But when Thor scanned the other party's spiritual body, he found that the other party's mental power fluctuations were somewhat different from the hidden mental power he had just discovered.
The mermaid just now should have run away.
Thor did not search any deeper. Even if he did, he would probably only find one or two ordinary mermaids at most.
The extremely hidden mental power just now must have disappeared.
Now that we can’t track the target, we have basically lost it.
Thor grabbed the mermaid he found and crawled out of the crack in the ground.
The mermaid did not resist. She looked as stupid and foolish as other mermaids, with no initiative.
"There's one hidden here." Thor showed the mermaid he had pulled out to Alfonso.
"There are too many mermaids here. They might have been squeezed down. And they don't know how to get out."
The mermaid that Thor brought out was very thin, even thinner than other mermaids.
If Thor had not already figured out that the mermaid in front of him was not the one he had just discovered, he would probably have agreed with Alfonso's view that it was a mermaid that was squeezed down, couldn't find a way out, and was starved to death.
Alfonso looked down and saw a palm-sized green scale on the tail of this unusually thin mermaid.
"Congratulations, you found your target among so many mermaids."
Can Thor say that his real target is not the atavistic merman? No, so he took the merman who became the scapegoat back.
When leaving the Red Sea, Thor also brought back some roots and tubers of the Red Sea Tree. After all, how can one study mermaids without the cooperation of the Red Sea Tree? Unfortunately, if one wants to take a complete Red Sea Tree away, one must apply to the Red Sea Tree Maintenance Team of the Arbitration Tribunal, and then temporarily withdraw part of the seal maintenance of the Red Sea Tree, so that a non-destructive transplant can be performed.
The leader of the maintenance team is naturally Roye, a third-level wizard who loves the red sea tree very much.
But Royer wasn't there.
Thor had no choice but to settle for the next best thing. He chose a branch with stronger vitality and prepared to go back and stick it in the water to try.
Sitting on the return boat, the mermaid Kate huddled in a corner holding the atavistic mermaid who had just been captured.
Although the two mermaids have different bloodlines, they belong to the same species after all. With Kate's comfort, the new captive can feel more at ease.
Giving Kate a look, Sol turned around and asked Alfonso who was driving the boat.
"Does this mermaid have a name?"
Alfonso was concentrating on driving the boat, not even glancing at the new mermaid. "You were the first to discover him."
Sol turned around and saw that the newly caught merman was a male. According to Alfonso's usual naming method, "Let's call him Quartz for now."
The mermaid with a new name moved, and was held tightly in Kate's arms again.
The way back is still dim, just like the difficulties Thor is facing now.
"If you can't find or solve the cause of the mermaids' illness, you may have to accept Roye's plan to create a new royal family and transform mermaids."
Alfonso said, "I don't have much hope for Roye's plan. A new royal family? If blood fusion was so simple, the Tribunal would not have allowed the current Eternal Night Royal Family to exist for so long."
A sigh sounded in the dark flowing water.
"The fusion of bloodlines cannot be achieved by calculations and formulas. Sometimes, it is as unpredictable as fate. And fate cannot be created."
(End of this chapter)
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