The strange guard of Mantis Shrimp was too enthusiastic, so enthusiastic that even Wu Xiangwang could hardly bear it.
After all, he had been to so many cities, but this was the first time he was received like this by the strange captain of the guard guarding the city. The captains of the guards in other cities either treated him as a great enemy or warned him not to cause trouble, as if he was a real disaster.
But God knows he's really an honest man! He hates getting into trouble the most, so it's always those who provoke him first!
These strange guard captains had a profound misunderstanding of him.
So, it turns out the strange guard captain of the three central cities is the most knowledgeable and confident! Not only does he not look at him with tinted glasses because of his bloody wanted poster, he even greets him warmly and actively invites him to take on the mission, urging him to get things done.
This is probably the confidence of the guard captains of the three central cities!
Wu Xiangwang was stunned for a moment and then smiled. They actually asked for such a request. It would be unworthy of their enthusiasm if he didn't do something seriously!
Then the captain of the Mantis Shrimp Guard heard the human adventurer's particularly sincere answer:
"I never thought something like this would happen in Ocean City. It's so heartbreaking!
But don't worry, Captain! Helping Ocean City retrieve the Ocean Gem is the unshirkable responsibility of every adventurer who comes to Ocean City! I will do my best to find the Ocean Gem and prevent it from falling into the hands of outsiders.
Captain Mantis Shrimp was very satisfied. This human was indeed different from other adventurers. He was fearless and neither humble nor arrogant. He seemed to be very sensible.
He is worthy of being wanted by seven outer cities at the same time.
However, the difference between the outer city and their central city is not a little bit. Just talking about the levels of monsters between cities, the fourth-level sea monster in the Ocean City can fight to the death with the sixth-level sea monster on land.
A level five sea creature can easily defeat those monsters that come down from land and cannot swim.
Human adventurers are even more vulnerable to them.
It is a huge joke for humans to want to get the Bloody Wanted in the Ocean City. Forget about the Bloody Wanted. First, they should adapt to how to walk and live in a city covered with sea water!
"Very good, very good. I look forward to you bringing back the ocean gem. Are you here alone? Or are you with a companion? Come on in, I'll arrange accommodations for you. Since you're so sensible and we're so compatible, I'll book you a very comfortable hotel!"
Wu Xiangwang was almost flattered: "Captain Pipi, you are the most generous guard captain I have ever seen! The other guard captains tremble when they see me."
The Mantis Shrimp's strange guard captain laughed heartily. "Hahaha, that's because they're inherently weak! We sea people believe in strength! Even though we're all captains of the guards guarding the cities, believe me, even the captains of the guards of the seven cities above me combined wouldn't be enough to punch me."
Captain Pipi Shrimp raised his ferocious-looking fist. "Haha, destroying a level seven monster with one punch isn't even my best achievement."
Wu Xiangwang's eyelids twitched slightly. He had no doubt about this. After all, mantis shrimps also had a place in his "Handbook of Strange and Fierce Creatures."
The book even gave the mantis shrimp a special *, and noted after the * that the rainbow mantis shrimp was also in the "Handbook of Weird and Cute Creatures" because it was truly bizarre.
But Wu Xiangwang thought that it was because the brother named Gou Fuguier probably had a deep and special love for Mantis shrimp.
However, being able to burst a water tank with one punch, or traveling faster than the speed of sound, if one were to transform in a strange world, that would be a very powerful ability indeed.
Well, the abilities of the colorful mantis shrimp and the giant-toothed ant are similar, so let's suppress it first and see what happens later.
Afterwards, Wu Xiangwang and his friends were arranged by the weird captain Pipixia to stay in front of a small detached building.
It was not until this time that Wu Xiangwang and his companions truly set foot in this underwater city and felt the splendor and magic of this crystal city.
It was a really special feeling—
Various kinds of fish swim around you. Although they don’t look very good and have the common problem of deep-sea species growing haphazardly, at least their colors are gorgeous and their bodies are very flexible.
The strange sea creatures were also swimming around in the city. They jumped from one roof to another, splashed around in the sea water, and occasionally spit out a big bubble from their mouths.
"Oh my god! Is that a mermaid? Their fish tails are so beautiful!" A female adventurer among the other adventurers who followed Wu Xiangwang into the city exclaimed, while many male adventurers couldn't take their eyes off them -
The one swimming past their eyes was a genuine "mermaid", with a surging chest, a thin waist, wide hips and a fish tail. Her appearance was weird, but more towards the level of beauty acceptable to humans.
It is a kind of inhuman and brutal beauty.
One of the mermaids suddenly spun around and swam to the side of a male human adventurer, stretching out her fingers as if to touch the man's face.
The male adventurer also had a lustful look on his face, but in the next second, his palm suddenly sprouted sharp teeth that pierced the man's head. The male adventurer immediately activated his defense and stepped back in response.
Both sides were moving quickly, and the human adventurer was even a level six high-level adventurer. But after one blow, the strange mermaid's nails remained intact, but five deep scratches were made on the diamond-like head of the level six human adventurer!
The male adventurer's expression instantly changed, his earlier relaxed expression gone. If he were to face this strange merman in a life-or-death struggle, he might not be able to defeat the fish.
The strange mermaid wagged its tail at the human adventurer. It was barely considered a weakling, but it couldn't play the bubble popping game anymore.
He had popped many people's bubbles in the head like this before.
Not until this wave of strange mermaids left did the nervous adventurers finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"...Ocean City...it truly lives up to its name as the central city."
I originally thought that if they worked hard to pass through the seven main cities and upgrade to level six or even level seven, they would be considered quite powerful and able to control their own destiny.
However, after arriving at this underwater city, they realized how wrong they were.
The captain of the Mantis Shrimp Guard chuckled at this time: "Humans, don't take us sea creatures' weirdness and those land rubbish seriously."
After saying that, Mantis shrimp left strangely, leaving everyone standing in front of the beautiful small building that looked like a crystal snail shell and looking at each other in surprise.
"...Alright, everyone, let's go back to the house and rest for a while. Once you've rested, we can go our separate ways."
After entering the city, everyone's mission is the same, but the methods of completing the mission must be different. Everyone has his or her own way of getting information. They live in adjacent small buildings and can easily pass information to each other.
Everyone agreed, so Wu Xiangwang and the others walked into the small building, which was a circle larger than his snail-shell hut and was made entirely of crystal.
Wu Xiangwang carefully observed the small conch building and determined that it should be a real conch shell with spatial capabilities. It is very likely a strange shell of a conch. However, because it has been in this city for a long time, the entire shell has been affected and transformed by energy. The shell material on the outside has gradually changed into crystal, and now it has a beautiful crystal glass feeling.
In fact, all the houses in the entire ocean city are like this. They are not natural crystals but are gradually becoming crystallized. The crystallized city can easily reflect light, so this underwater city is so dazzling and beautiful when viewed from a distance.
Wu Xiangwang thought about the mission that required him to find the ocean gem within a month, otherwise the entire Ocean City would be plunged into eternal night. Then he thought about the overall appearance of the city, and he knew that the ocean gem might not be the azure blue color like the sea that he had imagined. It might be an extremely bright and brilliant gem.
Because only such a gem can give this city enough power and illuminate the land in the dark deep sea.
Thinking of this, Wu Xiangwang couldn't help but look at Lin Yuan. This guy was holding a conch teacup and drinking water bit by bit, looking very natural.
"So the ocean gem is a part of your body?" If it is this thing, where on earth could it be so bright and shining?
Lin Yuan put down the conch shell teacup, thought for a moment, and smiled. "I'm not entirely sure, but after arriving in this city, I feel very comfortable and energized. If I were to fight the sea creatures here, they would still be vulnerable."
Don't forget each other and turn your lips up, don't show off and you will die.
"But from what I know, the three cities and the three treasures have existed for a long time. Longer than when I arrived."
Wu Xiangwang immediately understood what Lin Yuan meant. If the ocean gem was entirely composed of the energy cut off from Lin Yuan's body, then this ocean gem should not exist for more than a hundred years.
But it is obvious that the Ocean City and the Ocean Gem have been in this world longer than Lin Yuan has been, so the Ocean Gem is likely to be only related to Lin Yuan, and the energy object transformed from Lin Yuan's severed body is likely to be some other existence.
This means they have one more thing to look for, but Wu Xiangwang is not particularly anxious. The fact that Lin Yuan feels comfortable in this city means that he must have power here.
And that power is very likely to be with the ocean gem, so looking for the ocean gem should also be considered as looking for Lin Yuan's power. As long as the ocean gem is found, many things should be found together.
"Then let's go and find out some information about the ocean gems?" Shang Chong was very enthusiastic about the task. After all, the one-month deadline and the eternal night caused him a certain amount of psychological pressure.
No one wants to be buried at the bottom of the sea forever.
The others nodded as well.
"Generally speaking, the first thing you must do after something is lost is to go to the scene and check it out. We can always find some clues at the scene. After all, there will be traces of what was done." Wang Xiao said.
"You can also ask about the strangeness of the sea creatures around the crime scene, ask if there are any witnesses, whether there were any unusual phenomena when the ocean gem was lost, or if there were any suspicious life forms seen."
"Yes, now my mushrooms can capture stronger negative energy. Maybe we can find it at the crime scene."
"Amitabha, the Taoist priest and I also have some special tracking methods."
So everyone didn't waste any time and prepared to go out directly to find the place where the ocean gems were placed.
When they pushed the door open and went out, they saw other teams getting ready to go. They looked at each other and left together.
Five minutes later they found the spot where the ocean gem was kept.
That's right, it was that fast, they didn't even need the sea people from the Ocean City to guide them strangely -
After walking along the main road of Ocean City for three minutes, they observed that the strange sea creatures walking on the street would look in one direction with worried eyes from time to time.
Following their gaze, everyone saw a hovering green dragon hanging high above the city in the center of the Ocean City.
It was probably a dragon. After all, apart from the fact that it did not have golden antlers and its head seemed a bit small, it looked like a majestic dragon overall.
The body of the giant green dragon was circling, and the head of the dragon seemed to connect with the tail at the end, but both the head and the tail were slightly tilted upwards, as if guarding something.
The green dragon hovering above the city was so eye-catching. Even though it was not shining brightly at the moment and was out of tune with the architectural style of the entire city, it was impossible to ignore it as long as you looked up.
Even though no sea creature explicitly said that was where the sea gems should be, everyone understood that it was the first crime scene they were going to investigate.
So the question is, now that the crime scene has been found, how are they going to investigate the scene?
Under countless strange circumstances and in full view of the public, are we going to climb a dragon?!
Compared to other people who looked at the dragon with frustration and were confused about where to start, Wu Xiangwang looked at the dark blue dragon and always felt that this giant dragon gave him a subtle and indescribable sense of familiarity.
He looked at Lin Yuan.
The latter put on a smiling poker face as if revealing nothing.
Until Wu Xiangwang reached out and poked this usual pretentious king: "So, are you being used as... a serving tray?"
Wu Xiangwang accurately captured someone's slight stiffness.
"Don't talk nonsense. That's not me!"
Wu Xiangwang nodded, "Yeah, no, no!"
So this time, not only do we have to steal the gems, but we might even have to steal the gem lamp holders as well.
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