Chapter 187
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"...What should I do?" The mermaid leader looked at them quietly.
"Because of a curse from a hundred years ago, I can't leave the sea now."
His pearl was so powerful that even Doroa's pearl could not counteract the curse.
"Do you... have any solution?" The mermaid chief asked this question, and even he himself felt it was a fantasy.
If even he couldn't do it, what could the young people in front of him do?
Lian Yun thought about it and took out the "Water Drop" from his bag.
"Well, I had the good fortune to meet 'it' once in the Elven Forest. It gave me this thing, but I've never known how to use it."
The mermaid leader stared at what she held in her hand, stunned for a long time.
"This... is a gift from it to you?!"
He had never heard of a guardian beast actively communicating with people!
Lian Yun nodded and was about to speak again when he suddenly saw a small red dot flashing on his taskbar.
She clicked on the task, and a panel popped up:
[The Tide (Part 3): Please give the water drop to the mermaid leader to open and make your decision!]
Lian Yun didn't understand, but still followed the system's instructions and handed the water drop to the mermaid leader.
However, at the moment when the mermaid chief received the water drop, a three-dimensional picture frame suddenly appeared above the water drop, wrapped in water and divided into two parts.
"This is?!"
Lian Yun then realized that everyone present could see the picture frame.
However, she was the only one who could see the selected dotted lines sliding outside the two picture frames as her fingers moved.
The left frame contained a picture of a golden earthworm. When Lian Yun's finger moved over it, the frame extended upwards, and a picture soon appeared—
The camera zooms in on the dry and dark land, and a tender sprout is breaking through the soil.
Then the whole land was covered with green.
Then move to the wave pattern in the right frame, which extends upward to create a picture of rising sea water.
Others also saw the changes in the picture frame as Lian Yun moved.
The frame is clearly indicated.
The mermaid leader looked solemn: "It requires your choice."
Lian Yun never expected to encounter this kind of multiple-choice question.
The golden earthworm clearly represents that it will bring new life to the deteriorating land, while on the other hand it means that it will save the sea water that is constantly decreasing due to unknown forces.
Lian Yun has been busy trying to save the soil. Even though there are now methods like irrigating with meltwater from snow mountains and planting sunflowers to combat soil deterioration, this prop is still too attractive to her.
She really wanted to use this power to help herself solve the biggest problem she had always had.
The mermaid leader obviously also knew what Lian Yun was thinking.
He withdrew his gaze from the waves and shook his head: "...Human Lord, I understand you."
If he were to choose, he would...
"bite--"
A loud reminder sounded throughout the hall. The mermaid leader looked up and saw Lian Yun withdrawing his hand. He smiled at him and said, "I've made my choice."
In an instant, the palace began to shake, the surrounding sea water surged, and a response like the cry of a whale came from the distant sea, as if cheering for the choice made by Lian Yun.
"You..." The mermaid leader had a complicated expression, "We only met once."
"That's right, so I didn't mix in any personal feelings. I just made the most correct choice."
"The land is already recovering, and thanks to our efforts, Xincheng has no chance of attacking the land again. Xincheng's interception of the water source, in my opinion, seems more like a desperate attempt to find other methods of attack."
"In this case, choosing to use the ocean to fight them now is to force them to stop their last resort."
The sea water that had once disappeared seemed to seep out from the mud on the seabed, bubbling and surging up.
A few people walked out of the hall and saw a string of bubbles flying towards the water outside the palace wrapped in air. Simple bubbles gathered together in the thousands, reminiscent of a waterfall under a cliff, spectacular and shocking.
"...The Elf Queen was right about you."
The mermaid leader looked outside, his eyes filled with excitement.
He turned around to look at Lian Yun, but suddenly stopped halfway and said, "...Do you feel something is wrong?"
Lian Yun was admiring the wonders of the seabed and was taken aback when he heard this: "Where...?"
Unexpectedly, Lanna also walked closer to Lian Yun and observed his surroundings vigilantly: "It seems that the environment has changed a bit."
Doroya poked her head out from the second floor and waved at the group, full of surprise: "Come up quickly, I... I think I saw a tail!"
They ran upstairs to Doroya's bright bedroom and looked out the window.
Just as Doroya said, outside the palace wrapped in air, everyone saw a long tail extending from under the palace, with a pointed end.
The huge movement that happened in the palace just now was caused by this thing below, which caused the entire palace to move slightly upwards.
"What is that?" Lina asked.
Doroya looked up at the tribe leader with an excited expression: "Is there a monster under our mermaid palace?"
The clan leader: "...Of course not, that's nonsense."
The ancestors of the mermaid tribe must have considered various factors when choosing the location. How could they build a palace where there are monsters?
The other mermaids in the palace also opened the windows on the second floor and looked at the tail from afar.
Lanna suddenly said, "If this is the tail, then the other side..."
A few people thought of something, and the mermaid leader took them to the room opposite.
"...No." Lian Yun frowned. Although she didn't see the monster's head, she always felt that there must be something at the other end.
Lian Yun told the mermaid leader about her premonition, and Doroya offered to take her down to take a look.
Doroya took Lian Yun to the dividing layer, her legs transformed into a fish tail, and she pulled Lian Yun, who had adapted to breathing in the water again, downstream.
For some reason, it seemed that no light source on the seabed could illuminate the area below the palace.
Lian Yun took out the molten crystal from his backpack, which made the surroundings less dark.
Relying on the faint light, they soon saw a huge cave entrance. It was still pitch black inside and they couldn't see their hands in front of them.
Lian Yun nodded to Doroya and went in first. Doroya hesitated outside the cave for a while and then followed him in.
The two swam a short distance before suddenly hitting a wall.
"It's a dead end..." Lian Yun sighed secretly in his heart.
But Doroya beside him suddenly grabbed Lian Yun's hand, pulled it back, pointed at the wall in front of him, and spoke in a language that Lian Yun could not understand.
Lian Yun sensed something and tried to light the way ahead with the molten crystal, but was frightened by a pair of huge eyes that suddenly reflected light.
The diameter of the round eyeball is as long as an arm, so you can imagine how huge this monster is.
Lian Yun pulled Duo Luoya and ran, but before she reached the cave entrance, she suddenly heard a familiar voice -
"Lord, why are you leaving without saying hello?"
Lian Yun suddenly stopped, turned around as if he sensed something, suppressed his panic and met those eyes.
She actually read a smile in those eyes.
"You really made the right choice."
Lian Yun didn't run or get closer. She let go of Doroya's hand and signaled her not to worry.
Lian Yun now completely recognized the source of this familiar voice.
"You are 'another system'." Lian Yun said.
The monster-like system seemed to agree with her statement.
"...Does your system allocate carriers based on their capabilities?"
If so she understood why it appeared in this form.
The system "laughed" and actually opened its blood-red mouth and spit out tongue.
Lian Yun: "Are you a snake turtle?"
"Who came up with that name? It's so ugly." The system's smile froze. "Although my current form is indeed a snake...it doesn't matter. Now that you've found me, I'll be able to leave here soon."
"I don't understand. Perhaps you could explain it more clearly?"
"Oh, of course. I just wanted to tell you that you made the right choice. You chose to save the ocean... Only I can deal with him."
"Him? Is it Shinjo?"
"Xincheng?" the system repeated. "He's always changing his name. Who knows what he's called now?"
"Indeed." Lian Yun glanced up and down at his huge head. "Is this how we're going to talk? My companions are still waiting for me."
"I can't wait to leave either, just wait..."
After the system said this, the surroundings trembled again. She watched it slowly shrink, from a size that filled the entire hole to a small snake as thick as a finger swimming towards her.
It swam to Lian Yun's wrist, spun around a few times, and coiled into a comfortable position, resting its head on its body. "Let's go."
Lian Yun: “…”
Lian Yun returned to the palace and pointed at the small snake coiled around his wrist: "It said it can lift the curse."
Patriarch: I don’t understand.
The system spat out its message to the patriarch: "Hey, I remember you."
The patriarch took a step back.
"You haven't forgotten me, have you? What about Hamk? You should remember this name. Hamk's request back then was because of me. Have you forgotten?"
Hamk!
The patriarch will never forget this name.
He is the man known as the "Second Son of God" on land.
But few people knew his name at that time, and no one mentions it now.
The mermaid leader looked at the system: "...Are you a sleeping turtle?"
Hamk's initial condition was that he wanted those sleeping turtles.
"Well, from your perspective, it is. But Hamk only really wants me. He's just afraid you'll notice something's wrong, so he wants all of them."
"Thanks to him being too greedy in the end, you cast a spell to move the other sleeping turtles, allowing me to hibernate as well."
Lian Yun was puzzled: "Hamke? Since he is the Son of God, wasn't he chosen by you?"
"Yeah, I didn't choose the right person. I had no choice but to leave him. Otherwise... Hamk is a very ambitious and capable person. Even I was bewitched by him when I was with him."
The system let out a short sigh.
"If you meet him, you'll know."
Lian Yun was stunned: "...He is still alive?"
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