"No!" Nalan Zhao exclaimed urgently. It was so dangerous outside; how could he let Shen Zhiyi go out alone?
Shen Zhiyi turned back and smiled at Nalan Zhao, "I'm going to check the situation on the sea. I'll be right back."
"We can't learn much just by looking at the instruments on the control panel. We have to go out and take a look to find out what's going on down there."
Chen Peng also stepped forward, saying, "I'll go with Zhiyi, and I'll keep an eye on her."
Nalan Zhao frowned deeply, and he had a particularly strong bad premonition that something bad would happen if Shen Zhiyi went out.
"Okay, I'll be right back." Shen Zhiyi left the control room and went down to the deck.
She approached the railing at the edge of the deck and looked down.
The water was pitch black, with only occasional fish leaping out of the water due to the waves.
Shen Zhiyi observed that these fish leaping out of the water seemed a little strange.
Their eyes looked a little red, as if they were bloodshot.
At that moment, Shen Zhiyi noticed out of the corner of her eye that a different color had appeared on the water near the hull.
Shen Zhiyi wiped the water from her eyes and tried to open them wide to look over there. She discovered that there were several fish that had lost their lives due to the collision with the hull of the boat!
The fish seemed to have lost their minds, frantically ramming the hull and injuring themselves.
Shen Zhiyi's heart skipped a beat. There were already many fish around, and if the smell of blood got out, wouldn't the uncontrolled fish also come this way?
That will be even more troublesome!
Shen Zhiyi turned around, wanting to tell Chen Peng what she had seen, but unexpectedly, a huge octopus appeared nearby!
It attached itself to the ship's hull, extended its thick tentacles, and flew swiftly toward Shen Zhiyi.
After successfully trapping Shen Zhiyi, they immediately dragged her into the sea.
"Zhiyi!" Nalan Zhao, who was in the control room, naturally saw Shen Zhiyi being dragged away by the octopus, and he shouted.
If he weren't afraid of angering Shen Zhiyi, he would have dropped everything and followed her right now.
But he knew he couldn't do that.
Chen Peng, realizing what was happening, rushed to rescue Shen Zhiyi, but the octopus was too fast, and Chen Peng didn't have time to make a move.
Only Black Wolf rushed over quickly, leaped off the edge of the deck, and fell into the sea with Shen Zhiyi.
Shen Zhiyi's first reaction upon falling into the sea was, "Oh no, I should have listened to Nalan Zhao."
The black wolf waved its claws and swam resolutely toward Shen Zhiyi.
The moment it got close to Shen Zhiyi, it was taken into Shen Zhiyi's pet space.
The octopus dragging Shen Zhiyi swam swiftly in the water, its destination unknown.
Fortunately, Shen Zhiyi had not removed the water-repelling beads from her body. Although she was in a bit of a mess, she was not in any danger.
However, the tentacles wrapped around her body too tightly, making her very uncomfortable. Gradually, the huge temperature difference in the sea caused Shen Zhiyi to faint.
After the octopus took Shen Zhiyi away, the fish surrounding the boat stopped ramming it, regained their senses, and scattered in all directions.
The sea, which had been raging with wind and rain, gradually calmed down, and in the end, only a light drizzle was falling on the surface.
It was as if nothing that just happened had happened.
Nalan Zhao stopped the boat and rushed to the spot where Shen Zhiyi had just been.
He clung to the railing, but Shen Zhiyi had long since disappeared from the sea.
Chen Peng wiped the rain off his face and looked at Nalan Zhao with remorse, "I'm sorry, I promised to protect Zhiyi, but I still..."
Nalan Zhao did not reply, but simply stared at the sea without saying a word.
The little dried fish also rushed over, and when the boat rocked violently, it was hit on the head and didn't see what had just happened.
By the time it realized what was happening, the zookeeper was already gone.
"Awooo!" Nalan Zhao, where's the zookeeper! Where's the beast's zookeeper!
The dried fish went crazy and started poking at the motionless Nalan Zhao.
"Awooo!" Didn't you tell the animals you'd always protect the zookeeper?! Why is the zookeeper gone?! Tell me!
The dried fish started crying as it called out.
For the first time, I felt so useless. At this critical moment, not only could I not protect my zookeeper, but I also made her disappear.
If the zookeeper comes back, it will definitely behave and stop making a fuss.
...
When Shen Zhiyi woke up again, she was on a beach.
And sitting next to her was a person.
"Awake?" The aged voice drew Shen Zhiyi's attention.
Shen Zhiyi quickly sat up and looked warily at the old man next to her.
The old man curled the corners of his lips and laughed, "I saved you, after all, and you look at your savior like that?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Zhiyi rolled her eyes right in front of her. She had seen shameless people before, but she had never seen anyone as shameless as this.
"You'll save me? Didn't you send the octopus to capture me? What are you pretending for?"
Shen Zhiyi slowly stood up from the ground.
The smile on the old man's face vanished instantly.
"Young man, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want." The old man stared intently at Shen Zhiyi.
Shen Zhiyi patted the sand off her body, looked up and met the old man's gaze, "So? Why did you capture me, Jingya?"
The last two words were in an affirmative sentence, not an interrogative sentence.
The old man was silent for a moment, then asked, "How did you know?"
"Besides you, I can't think of anyone else who would go to such lengths to capture me." Shen Zhiyi rubbed her arm again; the place where she had been bound by the octopus tentacles was still throbbing with pain.
"You are very clever, but I don't like clever people." A scepter appeared in the old man's hand without him noticing.
She used the scepter to support herself as she stood up.
"Are you interested in making a deal?"
“Okay.” Shen Zhiyi looked at the old woman in front of her with great interest, wondering what interesting things she would hear from her.
Jingya snorted coldly. As expected, she was a coward who feared death! But it wasn't for nothing that she had Siren stake out there for so long; she finally managed to bring her back!
"Kill the Sea God and let me become the new Sea God. I can make you a goddess, second only to the emperor." Jingya began to paint a rosy picture for Shen Zhiyi.
Shen Zhiyi gave me the look of an old man on the subway looking at his phone, "I'm not a local, how could I be your goddess?"
Jingya paused, realizing she had forgotten that.
"Then let's change it. I can give you half of the mermaid clan's treasures. What do you think?"
No, I want it all.
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