The boy named Lin Qi dodged away in terror. He was joking; he wouldn't dare hit Jin Xiangyu.
Looking at their boisterous manner, Shen Zhiyi felt as if such a thing had been a long time ago.
I miss my life on Earth.
Suddenly, she felt a poke on her arm.
Shen Zhiyi looked in the direction where she had been poked.
She discovered it was the same snake that had been bewildered just moments before, now crawling up beside her without her noticing.
The black snake stood upright, staring at Shen Zhiyi for a long time before tentatively placing the tip of its tail on her foot.
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Shen Zhiyi just watched without making a move.
Seeing that Shen Zhiyi did not react, the black snake became bolder and tried to wrap the tip of its tail around her ankle.
Then.
Caught off guard, he was struck by Fox Moon's claw.
With a whoosh, the black snake retracted the tip of its tail, shrank to the side, covered its head with the tip of its tail, and looked at the fox moon that had hit it with a pitiful expression.
It seemed to be questioning why Fox Moon had attacked it.
Fox Moon bared its teeth and communicated with the black snake using its mind.
What are you doing, you little brat? Trying to seduce my master when I wasn't looking?
The black snake cried out indignantly, "I didn't!"
Fox Moon raised its paw, wanting to strike the black snake again, but Shen Zhiyi picked it up.
"What are you doing? Stop fooling around and eat."
Jin Xiangyu and the others had already prepared the meal and were now inviting everyone to eat.
You're lucky, kid!
Fox Moon snorted coldly, then turned around and happily accepted the food.
Jin Xiangyu glanced at the pitiful-looking black snake out of the corner of her eye, then leaned closer to Shen Zhiyi and asked, "Sister, what should we do with this snake?"
"Never mind it, as long as it doesn't bite." Shen Zhiyi said while eating, feeding the fox moon in her arms.
Jin Xiangyu shrank her neck. She was somewhat afraid of this kind of soft-bodied animal, but since Shen Zhiyi had already said so, she didn't ask any more questions.
The black snake stayed to the side, and because it had been beaten by Fox Moon, it didn't dare to make any small moves now.
After eating and drinking their fill, Jin Xiangyu and the others began packing up their things, chatting with Shen Zhiyi as they did so.
"Sister, can we exchange some information?" The boy named Lin Qi approached, his tone somewhat cautious.
Shen Zhiyi put Hu Yue down, and Hu Yue immediately ran over to have a friendly exchange with the black snake.
"Is it possible that I have more information than you?"
"It's okay, we actually know quite well." Lin Qi scratched his head.
They agreed when they arrived on the island that the first thing they would do upon arrival was to check where they were on the same island, and if so, to immediately find a place to meet up.
Then try to avoid other players, avoid conflicts with others, and survive until the end of the dungeon.
They didn't have any grand ambitions; they just wanted to live an honest life.
If it hadn't suddenly rained heavily yesterday, they wouldn't have run into Shen Zhiyi.
"Sister, to tell you the truth, we've found the location of the Sea God, but we don't know how to get there."
Lin Qi was afraid that Shen Zhiyi would worry that they were trying to get something for nothing, so he told her what they knew first.
Shen Zhiyi became somewhat interested.
Since the secrets on the island are related to the goddess and the sea god, wouldn't it be faster to go see the sea god than to search for clues on the island?
Perhaps all the mysteries will be solved once we meet the sea god.
"May I ask, where is the sea god?"
Lin Qi knew that Shen Zhiyi was willing to exchange information with them, so he immediately said, "The Sea God is in Sunset Bay."
"However... I asked the residents of the nearby town, and they said that Sunset Bay and the island are not in the same place. If you want to go to Sunset Bay, you have to go out of the island."
"Moreover, without the protection of the sea god, it is not safe to go out to sea alone, and it is easy to lose one's way."
"The other one is that we don't have a boat."
Yes, they don't have a boat.
Even though they could go out to sea, they didn't have a boat.
“Residents say that only older people know about Sunset Bay; the younger generation has never been out to sea and doesn’t know the way.”
"They also said that the boats in their other four towns were allocated by the central town, and they could not rent out the boats at will without the central town's order."
Shen Zhiyi was somewhat surprised; she hadn't expected that Central Town wielded such considerable power.
Even the ships were allocated by the central town.
"Sister, I also heard that the goddess is not a good person, and that she is related to the sea god by blood."
Several people nearby, hearing their conversation, also came over and joined in the discussion.
"I saw some people in the discussion forum speculating that the goddess is the niece of the sea god."
Shen Zhiyi paused, realizing the relationships involved were a bit complicated.
"The goddess has been active on the island, as if she's deploying something." Jin Xiangyu sat down next to Shen Zhiyi and reached out to touch Fox Moon.
Fox Moon glanced at her but didn't let her touch him.
Jin Xiangyu was somewhat disappointed, but she also knew that Fox Moon was a little fox with only her own personality.
"I don't know much, except that the sea god was injured and lost a section of his tailbone, which is why the sea god has not appeared."
"Another reason is that the sea god was imprisoned by the goddess."
Shen Zhiyi told them what she knew; she wouldn't listen to other people's news without sharing what she knew herself.
"No way, the goddess is so..."
Lin Qi couldn't continue speaking.
If the sea god and the goddess are truly related by blood, and the goddess is indeed the sea god's niece, then the goddess's act of imprisoning the sea god is simply too...
"The goddess has a group of followers, some of whom are capturing female players in South Town, saying they want to use them as sacrifices to resurrect someone."
"They said they would ask for your birth date, and if your birth date matched, you would be arrested. Although I ruined their plan, one of them escaped and we didn't catch him."
Shen Zhiyi recounted the events in Nanzhen, leaving everyone stunned.
They never expected that the goddess would be like this.
"Um... I've never told you this before."
Yang Yu raised her hand timidly and said, "Before I found you, I met a resident of an island."
“The island residents showed me a video.”
That footage was from over a decade ago, showing the sea god bestowing blessings upon the residents during their worship; it was a grand ceremony.
The sea god was accompanied by a goddess.
Yang Yu added, "I asked that resident for the video footage and watched it several times. We both found that the goddess's gaze towards the sea god was terrifying."
"At first I thought I was seeing things, but after looking at it several times, I realized I wasn't mistaken."
"According to that resident, that video was from the fifth year after the goddess came to the sea god's side."
Lin Qi frowned. Why hadn't Yang Yu mentioned this before? "Did you ask the residents for that video footage?"
Yang Yu shook her head. "I wanted to, but she wouldn't give it to me. She said that this kind of footage can only be shown to outsiders, but cannot be kept by them."
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