The four people were walking in the dim moonlit woods. They did not hold up torches, but were illuminated by a simple blue stream of water on the head of Jasmine who was leading the way.
Their march was actually quite quiet. Even Siatt, who had horse hooves, did not make a lot of noise when he was not running, let alone Miss Anna, who was wearing traditional Nali clothes.
Although she was not wearing complicated high heels, even wearing ordinary lady's flat shoes to walk on such a mountainous road was very difficult.
She was always moving very slowly and could not keep up with the people in front of her, but she was very strong and said nothing, and just tried her best to follow everyone's pace.
Fisher discovered her embarrassment. Strangely enough, his "Fisher intuition" always felt that Anna was very dangerous when he first saw her, but after getting to know her, he just thought that she was an ordinary lady.
, without any means of resistance.
"The Legend of Fairy Wood"
Apart from her extraordinary beauty, there is nothing else outstanding about Anna.
Speaking of which, she looks exactly like a person from the Western Continent, and she herself once said that she is a human from the Southern Continent. Fisher once saw human beings from the Southern Continent, and they roughly looked like they were wearing grass skirts.
There should be a certain gap between the appearance of people who use natural dyes to draw complicated patterns and the people from the Western Continent...
After suppressing the doubts in his mind, Fisher reached out to her in a nonchalant manner, as long as she could keep up.
"Is this underground river really that far away, Jasmine?"
Siatt looked at the constantly flowing blue water above Jasmine's head. It kept pointing to Lake Nali in the distance without any signs of deviation. This also showed that there was indeed a channel in Lake Nali that could lead back to the sea.
Just go.
They had been walking for more than half an hour, but still found nothing.
"Hmm...I don't know either. I should be able to find out if I walk around a little bit more."
Jasmine poked the blue water on her forehead, which pointed unswervingly at Lake Nali next to her. Fisher took a look at the endless dense forest in front of him, shook his head and said,
"No, this traveling speed is too slow, we must speed up..."
After hearing this, Anna pursed her lips and said apologetically to the three of them,
"Sorry about my question."
"Otherwise, let me carry her on my back, so she can walk faster..."
Fisher glanced at Siatt who spoke in surprise, more specifically, at the not-so-wide body of the horse behind her.
"you?"
As mentioned before, centaurs are actually not as tall as real horses. When Fisher was studying Hiatt, he felt that the back part of her was actually not wide, and it seemed a bit reluctant to be used to carry people.
"Well, if this lady is not very heavy, I can still give it a try."
Siatt had nothing to do. This Anna walked too slowly. She had to take a break after walking a few steps. Although she didn't feel good about her as a lady, after getting along with her for a while, she felt better.
There were no other problems, and it was not a big problem to drive her a certain distance by myself.
"I...let's give it a try."
Anna didn't show any force, and walked slowly to Siatt's side. Fisher helped her climb up on Siatt's body. The horse behind it didn't have a saddle or anything like a saddle, so it was a little reluctant to sit down.
Anna hugged Siatt's waist with some fear. As a result, this intimate move instantly made Siatt's face turn red and she almost ran out.
"Sorry...did I hug you too tightly?"
"It's... not bad."
Fisher looked at the two ladies hugging each other with dead fish eyes. He always felt that this scene had a harmonious feeling, but maybe it was just his appreciation of ladies as a gentleman...
"In this case, let's move forward at full speed and try to arrive as early as possible."
"No problem, hold me tight."
"Um..."
Hiatt raised the horse's hooves in front of him. Jasmine and Fisher were both in good physical condition, so it was no problem to run with all their strength.
Seeing the centaur Siatt taking a deep breath, he rushed forward.
This was the first time Fisher saw this centaur running at full strength. The speed was really like lightning. Even on uneven mountain roads, she could walk on flat ground. It was hard to imagine her running on the grassland.
How beautiful it should be.
Jasmine and Fisher looked at each other and ran quickly to keep up. After all, Siatt was carrying someone on her back. Fisher and Jasmine quickly caught up with her pace, and they could still see the tightly closed
With Anna holding Siatt in her eyes, this speed was really too fast for her.
"Da da da!"
"Wait a minute, the direction has changed!"
Not long after, as they were running, Jasmine beside Fisher suddenly opened her mouth. On her forehead, the pale blue water ring suddenly turned in one direction. She stopped and looked at
The direction the water ring points.
Siatt and Anna also stopped, but before Siatt turned around, Anna covered her mouth and almost dropped it.
"Are you...are you okay?"
"vomit!"
Anna touched Siatt's body and walked toward the nearby trees with a pale face. She was half-bent and almost vomited out all the stomach acid.
She went up and down on the centaur's body, like riding a roller coaster, and the speed was very fast, which was like a strong emetic for Anna, who had no experience at all.
Fisher looked at Anna who was vomiting with some sympathy. Before, he was thinking that it would be cool if humans sat on the backs of centaurs and fought. But now it seems that it would be better to ride a real horse.
Not only is it safe, but it’s also more stylish.
He ignored Anna and stood with Jasmine on the edge of the cliff in the jungle on the roadside. Looking in this direction, he saw that hidden by the mountains in the distance, a river like a jade belt passed through the dense forest and headed towards the distance.
Go to the ocean.
This is no longer within the scope of Saint Nali, and the river is quite far away from Lake Nali. But since Jasmine’s hair ring turns here, it means that there is an underground river under this location connecting Lake Nali and Lake Nali.
There is a river in the distance, but the problem is, how can we find the specific entrance?
"Let's search the area to see if we can find the entrance to the underground undercurrent..."
"Need not..."
Anna came back with a white face, obviously she had almost vomited. She looked at the surrounding dense forest, then her nose twitched slightly, and she said to Fisher,
"I can vaguely smell the smell of water and rocks, right here. The unique smell of the cave is definitely unmistakable."
It wasn't her who said that Fisher had almost forgotten that Anna had a very sharp nose. She could even smell her own scent through the faint scent of perfume that Lisa White gave her.
Fisher asked her to lead the way, and Anna followed the smell. Fisher could still vaguely see the watchtower built by the royal family on the distant mountain peaks, and they surrounded the entire area of Lake Nali.
Don't let anyone get close.
But it's night now, and they are very far away from there. Even with any detection magic, they can't be found.
"It should be right here..."
Anna's voice ended their search, and they followed her for a distance. Soon, a huge piece of stone appeared in front of Fisher's eyes. She pointed to a gap between two large stones and said so
Looking at Fisher and the others, they said.
The gap between the stones was very narrow, probably large enough for a person to pass through. Under the moonlight, the space inside was pitch black. Fisher and the others would never have been able to discover this hidden location if Anna hadn't reminded them.
When they reached the top of the underground undercurrent, the hair ring on Jasmine's head basically stopped moving and pointed in the direction of the underground, so Fisher couldn't determine whether there was a real undercurrent underneath.
"Let's go and see..."
There was no other way, Fisher could only squeeze into the gap in the stone first.
But the troublesome thing is that the cane that Renee gave him was thrown away, so he couldn't use lighting magic to check the nearby situation. However, Jasmine who was following him had the ability of night vision, so she could see in the narrow place.
After walking a few steps through the damp cracks in the ground, Jasmine suddenly pulled Fisher behind her.
"Fischer, there is a slope ahead."
Along the shining ring of water on Jasmine's head, Fisher looked down and found that the space in front of him had become much wider. A huge slope made of gravel led directly to the underground.
From somewhere, a gust of cold wind with chill came by chance, which made Fisher realize that the space below was probably very large.
"There is a very large cave down there..."
Fisher and Jasmine turned back to make sure Anna and Siatt were following. In the darkness, Fisher could only vaguely see the shadows of the two of them. After confirming that they had followed, Fisher
Then you continued to move forward.
"Crash..."
The further down you go, the more obvious the sound of water flow becomes, and the surrounding space becomes wider. Air seems to be blowing from all directions, reflecting that this may be an extremely complex underground network, but in the darkness, Fisher also
I could only follow the location of the sound of water, and occasionally check to see if the person behind me was lost.
"Please hold hands so as not to leave..."
Fisher turned around and was about to give this instruction. The four of them were Fisher, Jasmine, Anna and Siatt in order. Fisher looked back along the dim blue light of the water and counted the heads.
Jasmine...
Anna..
Hiatt...
And...huh?
While counting, Fisher suddenly discovered that there was a figure following Hiatt. That is, in the darkness, there was another person suddenly behind him?
Fisher's heart beat faster for a second, and he suddenly stopped. He stared in the direction of Siatt, but he could only vaguely see her figure and the shadow behind her. He couldn't clearly see what was behind her.
Who is it?
"Don't move yet..."
Fisher's voice suddenly sounded. When Jasmine also noticed something was wrong and looked back, her gaze was better than Fisher's. When she saw the figure behind Siatt, her little face froze and she subconsciously pointed
Hiatt shouted,
"Hi...Hiat! There is a woman behind you!"
"Female...woman? Ooohhhh! There is a ghost!
"
Fisher didn't even have time to stop him. Siatt behind him was so frightened that his face turned pale. He subconsciously raised his horse's hoof and kicked the figure behind him. Fisher didn't know whether the kick hit him, but now they were
On a huge slope, with that fierce kick, the entire team's center of gravity began to tilt.
"catch me!"
Fisher secretly screamed, and tried his best to hold the three of them up so as not to fall, but the rocks under his feet had been filled with moist water vapor and became extremely slippery. Even if he wanted to hold them up, he couldn't.
Unable to do so, I could only watch as my body fell out of control towards the dark space below.
"Ahhh, Fisher!"
"Ghost!
"
"Well!"
For a moment, no one said a word in the dark cave except Fisher. The three ladies screamed one after another as if a chain effect had been produced, and they slid towards the depths of the cave while shouting.
In the weightlessness, Fisher tried his best to grab the people he could to prevent them from sliding to other places. This also ensured that when he fell, he would hit the ground first to prevent them from being hurt. However, he fell in mid-air.
, Fisher only caught one woman, and he didn’t know who it was.
The screams continued, and Fisher and his group fell along the darkness for who knows how long, and then Fisher suddenly felt a substantial contact behind him.
"thump!"
The sound of falling water sounded at the same time, and Fisher and his group fell straight into a certain water. The water flow was basically stagnant, and it was more like a quiet pool. The sound of falling water was heard everywhere, symbolizing that all four people landed at the same time.
"Fisher!"
Jasmine was still very conscious, and the sound came from a little distance away.
At this time, Fisher was still holding a soft body in his hands. The lady's body was trembling and hugging him. Fisher struggled to identify it and found that he was holding his own body like an octopus in his arms.
It's Anna.
"Where's Siatt?"
Since Anna was still there, Fisher kept floating and shouted to Jasmine.
"She...she sank! She can't swim!"
After that, she suddenly flipped over in the water and swam towards the bottom in an attempt to retrieve Siatt. Fisher, who was floating, vaguely saw the water bank in the distance, so he decided to hold Hiatt first.
Let's talk about it after Anna goes ashore.
"Well..."
Feeling Fisher start to move, Anna immediately hugged Fisher with even more fear, fearing that she would be thrown off by his movement. It was obvious that this guy didn't know how to swim.
Fortunately, the distance to the shore was not far. Fisher arrived at the shore after swimming for a short time, and climbed out of the water with Anna in his arms.
"We're ashore, it's okay."
"Um..."
"..So, you should let it go."
In the darkness, Anna, who was soaked all over, realized belatedly that she was still holding on to Fisher's soaked clothes. The next second, she quickly let go of her hand and let Fisher stand.
Get up.
"Feel sorry."
Her face looked a little unnatural, and even her cheeks began to heat up a little, but fortunately it was too dark here and no one could see her expression.
"Jasmine!"
"I'm coming!"
Fisher had just called Jasmine, and Jasmine emerged from the cold pool in front of him like a mermaid, holding Hiatt, a centaur who had been frightened to the point of losing consciousness. Fisher gave a hand and moved Siatt up.
, at least the four of us are fine now...
However, who was the figure I saw behind the slope just now?
Fisher did not continue to think, because after Jasmine came ashore, the entire cave seemed to have touched some kind of switch and became alive. Lights of the same color as the fluorescence on Jasmine began to spread along the ground, like fireflies.
Similar light sources gradually illuminate the entire cave.
"Is it lit up?"
Following the light, Fisher looked around and realized that this was a cave darkroom that was not spacious. The pool in front of him looked extremely dark. He didn't know the specific depth and geometry, let alone where it led.
.
The four of them stood on the shore, and when the light gradually spread to the stone wall behind them, twisted and obscure patterns appeared one after another, which looked similar to pictures and words.
Anna hugged her soaked body and sat there without moving. She just followed Fisher who walked forward unconsciously and looked at the words on the stone wall in front of her...
Yes, Fisher concluded that this is a kind of writing, but it is not human, more like some kind of sub-human civilization...
"Hey, this is the writing of our whale race!"
Next to him, Jasmine, who was squatting next to the unconscious Siatt, lightly patted Siatt's flat chest, and then a mouthful of water spurted out from Siatt's mouth, but who knew who was coming out with the gulp of water?
And whether there was her soul or not, Fisher felt a little scary when he saw the force of Jasmine's slapping.
"Cetacean writing?"
Wait, a race that lives in a deep sea trench can actually leave their own writing here?
Could it be the text left by Jasmine's aunt Muxi? This seems to be explainable?
"What does it say?"
Jasmine walked slowly to Fisher's side and read it word by word. However, after just reading the first few words, her expression suddenly became a little strange, and she looked at the person next to her with a somewhat unspeakable expression.
Fisher.
"What's wrong? Does this involve the secrets of your whale race?"
"No...no! That..."
Jasmine's face turned slightly red, then she covered her face and translated with some embarrassment,
"The first sentence is written..."
"'Ah ha ha ha ha, some coward was scared, I won't tell who it is'..."
Even if Jasmine said it in a very low voice, Fisher and Anna could still hear how bad the character of the whaleman who recorded these words really was.
In other words, was the shadow I saw on the slope left by this whale race? It could be a phantom, a relic, or it could be magic or a blessing from that whale race?
There is no other purpose, just to scare you once?
Isn't this a mental illness?
The cave suddenly fell into an awkward silence, and for a while the only sound was Siatt's breathing that was close to lamentation.