Escape from the riverbed
While lying in his palm, Yuanli felt dizzy and her stomach was churning to the extreme. Yuanli, who wanted to endure it, suddenly remembered that when she was being swept around by the turbulent current, she vaguely saw the mermaid's tail flapping back and forth. The turbulent current must have been caused by him from the beginning. Yuanli simply couldn't bear it anymore and spit directly on the other side of his palm.
The vomit was carried up by the torrent that had not yet dispersed. She fled frantically as if she was dodging a fatal arrow. After all, she herself felt disgusted.
He controlled her with one hand, and removed the other hand covered with her vomit, flapped his tail, and the torrent he created carried all the vomit away.
"Let's discuss it, fairy. Just ask for whatever you want. As long as you're willing to take me out with you, I can give you anything in return, whether it's my body or my slavery. We mermaids never serve others as slaves."
"I've never been a slave, but I'm still tied up here, aren't I?" After he finished his quick sarcasm, Yuanli noticed the slight change in his expression and said, "I have urgent matters to attend to. I'll discuss the issue of whether to save you after I'm done. Please let me go first."
"No. I've been tied here for thousands of years, and you're the only person I've seen who's managed to survive this long at the bottom of the White Fog River. You're my only hope. If I let you go, and you finish your work and leave, what will happen if you never come back?"
Yuanli was anxious. The bottom of the Baiwu River was so vast. If Hengjin had to rely on herself to save both Yan Ye and herself, it would be time-consuming and laborious, and might even delay Yan Ye's chance to save her.
"What if I untie your chains and you kill me?" Yuanli pretended to be desperate and lay down in his palm. "Since you and I are both worried, I'll just have to wait it out. My companions will definitely come to save me anyway."
She squinted her eyes to peek at his reaction, but he was not anxious at all, but calm instead.
"But the monster you're looking for may not survive long enough to be rescued."
Fearing that he was trying to trick her, Yuanli retorted, "I'm here to look for dropped items, not for people."
"It's a pity the fairy will be disappointed. The White Mist River has been silent for a long time, and just now a demon fell, nothing else." Seeing her open her eyes, he continued: "The fairy saved me, and I helped the fairy save the demon. I still owe the fairy a great favor. You and I are so happy to be together, why wouldn't the fairy do it?"
"Deal. Hand that man over to me first, and I'll save you."
"You swear."
"I swear, if you hand over the monster that just fell into the water to me, I will save you. If you break this oath, I will be struck by lightning and die a miserable death. I have sworn this oath, so give him to me immediately."
The mermaid nodded, held her hands against his chest, and swung his tail desperately. The rapids danced, and the range became larger and larger, until countless bones at the bottom of the river were swept up and piled under the huge rock where he was sitting, and also swept the unconscious Yan Ye to his tail. The moment the rapids stopped, the mermaid vomited blood and became extremely weak. "Can you save me?
"I will keep my oath."
She quickly cast a spell to envelop Yan Ye, forcing out the river water he had choked on. Then, she looked around, but couldn't see Heng Jin. She became anxious and asked, "Where's my other friend?"
"I don't know. My rapids couldn't carry him away. I bet he's conscious and unharmed. Don't worry. The other fish monsters, the other mermaids you saw, don't dare come down to harm him. They're also afraid of being poisoned by the stone fish at the bottom of the river."
"Stonefish?"
"Well, the stonefish has protruding eyes and jaws, and its dorsal fin is jagged, making it look like a jagged rock. It can hide well among the rocks on the bottom of the water, so we call it the stonefish. It's extremely ugly in appearance, moves slowly, and has a very poisonous spine on its dorsal fin, so it's also called the poison fish. Flowers that can cure poison are extremely hard to find in the deep sea, and there are none at the bottom of the White Fog River. The captured sea sirens know this, so they never dare to go to the bottom of the river."
Even though Yuanli still had many questions she wanted to ask, she held them back. She left his palm and floated up, releasing the deliberate suppression and burning the fire to its maximum so that Hengjin could see her location at a glance.
While waiting for Heng Jin to arrive, Yuan Li began repeatedly trying to untie the chains that bound him, but she failed repeatedly. With each failure, Mei Jiao Nan's expression grew increasingly dejected and melancholic. She transformed into a human form and raised the hand tied with the red string of the matchmaker. The string instantly appeared, and she imitated Heng Jin's words that day and said, "One step."
As soon as the words fell, the river surged, and Heng Jin teleported to her and put his arm around her waist. He lowered his eyes and smiled faintly, saying, "My lady, you learn really fast."
"Yan Ye has been found. Do you have a way to untie this chain?"
Heng Jin casually conjured up a sword and chopped down, breaking the chain instantly.
"Thank you so much, benefactor. There's so much commotion at the bottom of the river. The longer we stay there, the more dangerous it will be. We should leave as soon as possible, benefactor."
Heng Jin carried Yan Ye on her back and took Yuanli with her as she swam upstream. Yuanli noticed that the mermaid had not caught up with them. She looked back and saw that he was supporting himself with his hands on the huge rock he was sitting on and shaking his tail desperately, his face full of anxiety. He just couldn't swim with them.
Yuanli returned and carried him up. She thought that he was too tall and heavy for her to carry, but he was much thinner than she had imagined.
As they approached the ice surface, many sea monsters surrounded them and attacked them frantically, but they soon discovered that the sea monsters were mainly attacking Yuanli.
While they were dealing with the siren's attacks, they were searching for the hole in the ice. The ice was too thick to break, and the shadow of the phoenix feather coffin was hard to see on the ice.
A weak voice came from his back: "I'm sorry to have caused trouble for you, benefactor. They are all coming for me."
"Aren't you a mermaid? Singing to seduce you should be even more effective. Why don't you try to charm them?" After a flash of thought, Yuanli muttered to herself, "If it worked, you would have escaped long ago. What nonsense am I talking about?"
"Well, after those sea monsters were captured, Jiang Qian pierced their ears, making them deaf."
The mermaid's attack was completely random. It rushed towards Yuanli and the others, swinging its tail wildly and slapping the ice. The sound of it hitting the ice gave Yuanli an idea. She began to deliberately lure the mermaid to attack her. She found the right moment and quickly dodged so that the mermaid's attack could hit the ice with all its strength, making a loud noise.
Soon, the ice surface cracked and melted into pieces, and many pieces fell and sank. Yuanli had a hard time carrying him to avoid it. Heqi entered the water with Bingpo in his hand and brought Yuanli and Misame out together.
Floating in mid-air, Heqi refused to leave. The mermaids beneath her feet leaped out of the river like crazy, transforming into their ugly true forms. The mermaids' captivating singing voice rang out. The mermaid quickly bit her finger and tapped her forehead, instantly waking Yuanli up.
"Please lower your head, I can't reach you."
Heqi glanced at Yuanli, and when he saw her nod, he raised the arm that was holding the mermaid, and then lowered his head enough to let him touch some blood.
"He's gone to collect his feathers. We have to wait a little longer. I don't know what's so good about collecting a single broken feather. He's such a petty bird."
"You have a sharp tongue but a soft heart. You knew exactly why he wanted to take back the feather, and you just wanted to scold him."
"It's not a sharp tongue but a soft heart, it's pure hatred." He looked down at Yuanli with dissatisfaction on his face, pouting slightly, and questioned: "Sister, are you on my side or his? Why do you only speak for him?"
"Sister, of course, stands by you unconditionally. What I just said was a compliment to you for having a sharp tongue but a kind heart, right?"
He Qi thought about it and felt happy again. "This fish, sister, is a little skinny, but it's just right for me to feed Roubao. It has a lot of bones and is very crunchy when chewed. Roubao will love it."
The mermaid instantly showed a frightened expression when he heard this. He looked at Yuanli pitifully, shook his head repeatedly, and begged in a low voice: "My benefactor, please don't, save me!"
"This isn't for eating! This is... this is..."
Yuanli was still thinking about what to say when Heqi suddenly looked at her with resentment and said, "Sister really doesn't love me anymore. She won't even give me a small fish."
"This is my adopted servant. He's already taken me in as his master and works like a slave for me to repay me. It would be a waste to eat him! He doesn't have much meat on him, so don't let the fishbone prick his mouth. I'll get him something more nourishing some other day."
"If you are short of servants, I have well-trained servants in my palace. They are more skilled and would be more comfortable for you to use. This one has no legs and is inconvenient to carry. I'd better use it to feed Roubao."
"If I raise him, he'll have legs. It's not that I'm short of servants. I have Xiaobai and Xiaozhu to take care of me, which is enough. I just think he's very special. Think about it, there are so many mermaid servants. It would be prestigious to bring him out, right? Besides, look at how good he is. This rare red hair, so long and curly. Look at how white and tender his skin is. Look at his figure. Although he's thin, he has pectoral muscles, abdominal muscles, and biceps. His tail is so long and big. When I raise his legs, they will definitely be long too. He'll be tall and handsome. How wonderful."
The more his sister praised him and the more she wanted him, Heqi became more playful and wanted to tease her more.
He Qi glanced at him sideways. "Those abs of his are from starvation, right? As for the pecs and biceps that sister mentioned, I don't see them either. Let's eat them. I heard mermaids are delicious. I'll grill them, sprinkle some of my secret spices on them, and share them with sister."
The mermaid was so scared that his eyes were filled with tears. He clasped his arms slightly and bowed to her, looking at her with pleading eyes, muttering frantically, "Save me."
He had lived for so long, and his people were still waiting for him. Yuanli couldn't bear to eat him. She made up her mind and said to Heqi, "Sister, I'm telling you the truth. Please don't laugh at me."
"How could I possibly laugh at my sister?"
"You know, I don't have any special hobbies. Apart from gold, silver and treasures, I just like handsome men. He is really good-looking. He is my favorite, Hao Heqi, so please give him to me~"
"Do you like him that much?"
Heng Jin's questioning suddenly came from behind, mixed with dissatisfaction and anger.
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