Chapter 137 The Underwater Labyrinth
The ethereal voice echoed throughout the underwater labyrinth, seemingly within reach. Su Tinglu felt that the voice was right beside her, or rather...
It was right behind me.
Su Tinglu was so frightened that she dared not move.
I couldn't breathe.
Or rather... she was breathing with the help of an oxygen tank, and now the oxygen in the tank has stopped being used up.
Her heart pounded violently in her chest, and a chilling breath seemed to penetrate her wetsuit and slowly seep into her nostrils, as if to contaminate her entire being.
Su Tinglu's heart sank to the bottom, and she turned around almost uncontrollably.
His neck was stiff, as if a machine was being forcibly twisted.
Her hands unconsciously clenched into fists, her gaze fixed straight ahead.
...
There was nothing there.
The mermaid from just now has disappeared.
Only a wisp of blood mist seemed to linger on the seabed.
Blood mist filled the surroundings, a pale blue, very blue, the same color as the sea, but Su Tinglu could still distinguish the blood mist from the sea.
She breathed a sigh of relief.
She was terrified; she thought the angel mermaid had actually discovered her.
However, even if the angel mermaid discovers her, she probably won't kill her, right? After all, the angel mermaid isn't a mutated mermaid.
She patted her chest and turned to look for the Mermaid Heart, but a pale human face lunged at her the moment she turned.
Her heart was pounding, and Su Tinglu's mind was almost blank. A golden light blinded her, and everything in front of her turned black.
What's this? !
Su Tinglu felt her life force rapidly draining away. She gripped the feather duster tightly and swung it forward, a cold liquid covering her entire body, and her vision cleared again.
Next, Su Tinglu saw...
An angelic mermaid was shattered in two before him, its head torn in half, and his feather duster was covered in blood and filth.
The angel mermaid revealed her white teeth and smashed the glass bottle she was holding straight down to the ground. Strangely, the glass bottle did not shatter due to the pressure of the seawater, but instead fell straight down as if it were on land.
A prompt appeared next to it.
[Special glass bottle: Handcrafted by the mermaids, it is an important container for holding aquamarine fuel.]
It seems that a special material was used.
In the world of survival, anything is possible. Su Tinglu continued to look at the dead angel mermaid.
But the next moment, she was stunned!
Just moments ago, the message was about an angel mermaid, but now it has changed to a mutated mermaid!
What's going on here?!
Su Tinglu went forward to check on it, and the angel mermaid lying on the ground suddenly opened its eyes, which turned into an eerie emerald green and reached out to grab her.
The pale fingers sprouted sharp fangs, and with a somersault, it looked at her like a zombie.
"Please, all those who seek to live, die!"
The angel mermaid slowly transformed into a mutated mermaid, flicking out its long tail. It crushed the succulent shell in its hand and threw the crushed shell straight at her.
That's terrifying, absolutely terrifying!
Before Su Tinglu could figure out what was going on, the golden light on the angel mermaid's body dissipated, turning into dark green scales.
I'm going to kill you!
The angel mermaid floated over, and Su Tinglu quickly dodged, waving the feather duster in her hand.
The feather duster brushed against the mutated mermaid's arm, and a voice suddenly rang in her ears.
[Congratulations, survivor! You have activated the underwater maze's defense mechanism. We request that you obtain the Mermaid's Heart.]
Oh, Su Tinglu understands.
It turns out the mutant mermaid wasn't a real mutant mermaid; it was a virtual representation created by this underwater maze.
It's just a level designed for challenge.
Su Tinglu swung the feather duster in her hand and slashed open the angel mermaid's heart.
However, the mermaid's heart that I had imagined did not appear; instead, something the size of a stone appeared.
A prompt appeared next to it.
[Legend has it that when an angelic mermaid transforms into a mutated mermaid, her once vibrant heart turns into a heavy stone. While this allows the mermaid to continue living, it causes her discomfort as it blocks her chest.]
[Note: It seems that only mermaid tears can restore the mutated mermaid heart, which has turned to stone, to its original form. Of course, mermaid tears alone are not enough; we also need spiritual liquid, which possesses all the energy for purification.]
Su Tinglu understood.
The mutated mermaid in front of her seemed not to have expected Su Tinglu to make a move directly, and was immediately enraged. Su Tinglu, however, did not care about this and simply stood still.
The enraged mutated mermaid wanted to kill Su Tinglu, but just as it was about to get close, Su Tinglu splashed its exposed heart with spiritual liquid taken from its storage space.
"Aaaaaaahh ...
The moment the spiritual liquid touched the mermaid, she let out a painful howl. Su Tinglu then remembered the pearl she had found in the sea and took it out of her storage space and threw it out.
The moment the pearl touched the mutated mermaid, it mingled and melted with the spiritual liquid. The angel mermaid, who had already become a mutated mermaid, lost its emerald green scales and replaced them with scales that radiated golden light.
Is this... about to turn into an angel mermaid again?
Could it be that my guess was wrong, and these mermaids are real, not virtual creations from a challenge?!
But Su Tinglu soon realized that her guess was correct.
As the angel mermaid slowly transformed into an angel, she straightened up from the ground, radiating a dazzling light. A pale blue heart gradually transformed from her chest cavity into a tiny speck of light and entered Su Tinglu's body.
Is this the heart of a mermaid?
Su Tinglu opened the storage space, but did not see the Mermaid Heart.
Where did they go?!
The voice of the ocean survival manual rang in my ears again.
[Current Mermaid Heart collection progress: 1, 9 more to go!]
Oh, I see!
Isn't this a bit like collecting items while clearing dungeons?!
Su Tinglu understood and continued exploring.
The bottom of the underwater labyrinth is covered with seaweed, and you can occasionally see a few scattered seashells.
These should just be the most ordinary things in the survival world, so Su Tinglu didn't see the prompt.
She continued forward, when she suddenly heard the sound of rushing water behind her. As soon as she turned around, a hand was placed on her shoulder.
But there was clearly nothing behind him.
Su Tinglu looked ahead and saw another mutated mermaid, just like the one before, rushing towards her.
The same hissing sound came from his throat just now.
Su Tinglu turned her head and saw a sharp claw.
She pierced the other person's heart directly and took out spiritual liquid from her storage space to splash it on him.
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