It was already three o'clock in the morning, and it was difficult to wake up his teammates in the middle of the night. Yu Hanjiang remembered that Xiao Lou had fainted in the afternoon and had not even eaten dinner, so he turned around and found some food from the suitcase that Shao Qingge brought.
He couldn't ask the waiter to deliver the food, so he simply cooked a bowl of noodles for Xiao Lou and added a poached egg.
After a while, Yu Hanjiang came to the bedroom with a bowl of steaming noodles and called Xiao Lou back: "Come and eat something. You haven't even eaten dinner. You must be hungry, right?"
Xiao Lou's mind was filled with messy memories, and he completely forgot about "hunger".
After smelling the aroma of noodles, his stomach growled in response, and the sound of "Gulu Lu" was particularly clear in the quiet bedroom. Xiao Lou rubbed his stomach, coughed lightly and said: "Ahem, I slept for 12 months
Hours later, I’m really hungry.”
Yu Hanjiang raised the corners of his lips lightly and handed the chopsticks to him: "Eat."
Xiao Lou sat down at the table and quickly finished a bowl of noodles. The food warmed up his whole body. He used to be used to living alone, but now he found that it felt good to be taken care of.
Xiao Lou smiled slightly at Yu Hanjiang and said, "Thank you, the noodles are delicious."
While Yu Hanjiang was packing the lunch boxes, he raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "Do you still need to be polite to me?"
Xiao Lou wiped his mouth clean, changed the subject and asked: "Brother Ninth, have you remembered any more clues? Is there anything else besides singing about the person who rescued them on the Zerg planet?"
Yu Hanjiang shook his head: "When Brother Ninth was rescued, he had lost too much blood and was confused. Even the song he thought was an auditory hallucination and heard the voice of heaven. As for other things, he didn't see anything.
He has no memory of what happened after the rescue."
Xiao Lou thoughtfully said: "In other words, there is only one clue about 'singing' at the moment. The fishermen my sister told us can hear singing at sea, is it just a legend?... You can rest first, and we will investigate together tomorrow.
.”
Yu Hanjiang nodded: "Okay, you also go take a bath and sleep for a while."
Xiao Lou's clothes were soaked with sweat and they were really uncomfortable. He simply went to take a shower, put on his pajamas and lay down on the bed.
In a daze, he dreamed again of being locked in a room with countless replica children when he was five years old. Exactly the same faces kept passing before his eyes. Behind the dream, the faces of those children gradually turned into his.
What it looks like now.
Countless faces, with various expressions. Some are smiling, some are indifferent, some are sarcastic, some are hateful, jealous... Countless "selves" are swaying in front of his eyes. Xiao Lou curls up and falls into
He was in a strange nightmare. Yu Hanjiang noticed that his whole body was cold, so he stretched out his hand and gently hugged Xiao Lou into his arms, patting his back gently as if comforting a child.
The warmth from Yu Hanjiang's body gradually calmed Xiao Lou down in his sleep.
He stretched out his hand, hugged Yu Hanjiang tightly as if grasping a life-saving straw, and fell asleep.
When Xiao Lou woke up the next day, he found that his face was pressed against the man's strong chest, his hands were tightly holding the other man's waist, and he was leaning into Yu Hanjiang's arms in a "dependent" posture.
Xiao Lou's ears couldn't help but feel warm, and he quickly broke away from the man's arms and coughed dryly: "I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed that many identical versions of myself were dangling in front of my eyes."
Yu Hanjiang held Xiao Lou's hand and said, "I know. That's why I held you to sleep. I wanted you to have a good rest."
Meeting his soft gaze, Xiao Lou felt warm in his heart, curled up his lips and said, "It's just a nightmare. Let's go, it's time to set off."
The two walked out of the bedroom. Their teammates had gathered in the restaurant. When they saw Xiao Lou, Ye Qi hurriedly ran over and asked, "Professor Xiao, are you awake? Are you feeling better? You suddenly fainted yesterday afternoon and scared me."
Xiao Lou said: "It doesn't matter. I fainted because of a severe headache. It just happened to remind me of what happened when I was five years old."
When the four of them heard this, they immediately walked up to Xiao Lou curiously.
Lu Jiuchuan was the first to ask: "What do you remember?"
Xiao Lou looked serious and said in a low voice: "Our speculation is correct. His Majesty copied so many princes and was indeed raising gu. Those 100 five-year-old children were locked in the same room by your Majesty to compete. Only the best ones will survive.
In the end, four survived, including me. Assume that I am No. 1, the obedient Xiao Lou whom Hanjiang saw in His Majesty's Palace is No. 2, and the person who most resembles a prince at the birthday party is No. 3.
, and there is No. 4, which we have never seen."
Lu Jiuchuan's face was full of resentment: "In other words, the other 97 cloned children have been artificially destroyed? This majesty is sick!"
Ye Qi complained: "His Majesty's way of cultivating heirs is really weird..."
Xiao Lou said: "No. 4 Xiao Lou has no clue yet. He may have been hidden by His Majesty, or he may have escaped from the Luoke Empire. Let's go find the invisible man who can sing first. Maybe they have some clues."
Teammates all agreed.
Yu Hanjiang said: "The sea area of the entire blue planet exceeds 50%. The area is too wide. It is better for us to find a means of transportation."
Shao Qingge thought for a moment and said, "I'm going to buy a hover car."
Since the other four people secretly escaped to the Blue Empire and could not be discovered, only Shao Qingge and Ye Qi came to travel openly, so Shao Qingge came forward and bought a large car that could seat up to 10 people.
Hover car.
This car is almost like a "floating house" with very luxurious interior furnishings.
The mainstream means of transportation in the cities of the future world will be hover cars. With developed air traffic, there will be no "traffic jams". Moreover, hover cars will automatically navigate and drive, and there is no need to consider the issue of a driver's license.
Shao Qingge drove back to the hotel to pick up Xiao Lou and the other four, and followed the navigation to the nearest beach.
The beach here is as beautiful as Sun City. The white beach is so clean that it seems to reflect light. The sand is fine and soft. Many tourists play barefoot on the beach, and many people are playing entertainment projects such as sea airships.
Shao Qingge and Ye Qi inquired along the way: "Have you ever heard that invisible people can sing?"
The tourist looked confused: “I’ve never heard of it!”
Ye Qi also asked some innocent children to ask: "Have parents told you that disobedient children will be caught and eaten by invisible people who sing in the middle of the night?" The children looked at Ye Qi like a fool: "Haha
Haha, brother, do you think I am three years old? Only a three-year-old child would believe this kind of story!"
Ye Qi: "..."
The two spent the morning asking around on the beach, but found nothing.
Everyone knows that this is just a legend, just like the fairy tale "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". If you pull someone on the side of the road and ask "Have you seen Snow White?", others will definitely think that you have.
sick.
Even children thought that Ye Qi was sick - only a three-year-old would believe this kind of story, not even a five-year-old.
After returning to the hover car, Ye Qi held his head with a headache: "No one has seen the invisible man who can sing, and no one has heard the singing with his own ears... Is this legend reliable?"
Yu Hanjiang frowned and said, "Check somewhere else."
Lu Jiuchuan leaned on his seat and folded his legs, and analyzed: "The legend is not groundless. I think there must be something in the ocean. However, humans live on land and don't know enough about the mysterious ocean... Ask around at tourist attractions
It’s of no use, why not go find those fishermen who make a living by fishing.”
Xiao Lou also agreed with this idea: "Look for fishermen, they are the ones who know the sea best."
This is the beach closest to the hotel. Shao Qingge drove the hover car here. After hearing Xiao Lou's words, Shao Qingge modified the navigation and drove the hover car to the area where fishermen usually live.
Ye Qi went to the oldest old man in the fishing village and asked: "Old man, have you heard of the legend of the invisible man?"
The old man was basking in the sun and said with a smile: "Who is it? My ears are not very good."
Ye Qi leaned close to his ear, amplified the volume and shouted: "Invisible man from the ocean! We are from out of town. I heard that there are people singing here every night. If you are curious, come and take a look!"
The old man squinted his eyes and said, "Singing? Oh, Lao Zhang's daughter next door likes to sing the most."
Ye Qi looked helpless.
After asking around the fishing village, there was still no harvest. Ye Qi returned to the hover car and said frustratedly: "No one here has heard the singing with their own ears. They all say it is a rumor passed down from generation to generation."
The clues are too vague, and the entire planet's sea area is vast beyond imagination, making it too difficult to investigate.
But Brother Jiu is right. Since the legend has been passed down for so many years, it should not be groundless. Someone must have heard it with his own ears. However, who heard the singing for the first time and where did he hear it?
After so many years, there is no trace left.
Yu Hanjiang frowned and said: "It seems that we can only try our luck after dark and wander around on the sea to see if we can meet an invisible man who can sing?"
But the sea area is so big, even if they drive Chu Huaying's starship to circle the planet, it will take several hours. What's more, the speed of the hover car is far inferior to that of the star ship. It would take three days to drive the hover car to circle the planet.
It must be completed.
Trying your luck? It is indeed possible to get lucky.
But what if you don't hit it? Wouldn't it be a waste of time?
Thinking of this, Xiao Lou suddenly said: "I have an idea."
His teammates looked back at him.
Xiao Lou took out a card and looked helpless: "We can only invite Di Renjie."
Everyone: "………………"
I almost forgot, among the strange character cards that Xiao Lou drew, there was also a magic card that he had never used before: Di Renjie.
Master Di is specially designed to deal with this kind of "confused" situation. Using Di Renjie's skills, the heart-type secret room can directly find a clue, and the diamond-type secret room can eliminate a wrong maze route or solve a mechanism. Nowadays,
It is a comprehensive secret room, and it is most convenient to use Di Renjie to find clues. Unfortunately, this card is a limited skill and can only be used once per secret room.
When Ye Qi heard about Di Renjie, he couldn't help but said excitedly: "Professor Xiao's cards are indeed only Di Renjie's that we have never seen before. How about we invite Di Renjie to come out when it gets dark?"
Xiao Lou nodded: "Okay, let's talk about it in the early morning when no one is around."
Shao Qingge stopped the hover car at the largest fishermen village on the blue planet and waited for dark.
Since the legend of the invisible man singing was spread by fishermen, it must be that the ancestors of the fishermen encountered this incident when they went to sea. Therefore, the probability of finding clues near the fishing village is the highest.
It was getting dark, and the lights in the fishing village were extinguished one after another. When all the fishermen went to sleep and the time came to one o'clock in the morning, Xiao Lou summoned Di Renjie.
The young version of Di Renjie, dressed in ancient official uniform, held a fan in his hand, shaking it while thinking deeply.
Xiao Lou used the skill - Detective.
Di Renjie muttered: "Well, let me think about it..."
Then, with his teammates watching curiously, Di Renjie stretched out his hand and pointed into the distance.
A soft light appeared on the sea in the distance, which must be the location of the clue.
Xiao Lou's eyes lit up, he put Di Renjie away and said, "Everyone, take action."
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【Chapter 438, Uncharted Sea】
Shao Qingge drove the hover car towards the bright light.
It was late at night, the entire sea area was quiet and windless, and the street lights around the coastline were getting further and further away from them.
It was pitch black all around. There were stars in the sky overhead, and those starlights were projected on the sea, like countless diamonds sprinkled on the sea.
Shao Qingge's hover car floated in the air, getting closer and closer to the bright location.
Suddenly, a hurricane blew up around them. The teammates only felt a strong force coming, and their whole bodies suddenly leaned back. Yu Hanjiang hurriedly hugged Xiao Lou's waist: "Be careful!"
Ye Qi was sitting on the sofa. As the hover car was blown over by the hurricane, he rolled to the rear of the vehicle like a ball. Then he heard a loud "boom" in his ears, and the hover car fell directly.
Arrived in the sea!
After a vehicle falls into water, if the escape window is not opened in time, since the water pressure outside is greater than the air pressure inside the vehicle, it will become increasingly difficult to open the window, until eventually all the people trapped in the vehicle will suffocate and die.
Of course Yu Hanjiang knew how to give first aid after falling into the water.
He was strict and quick, and at the moment when the car suddenly fell into the water, he immediately took out the Night Demon Saber, split open the sunroof of the hover car with one knife, and used the Qinggong Pai to take Xiao Lou up into the sky.
As the sunroof was split open, seawater poured crazily into the car.
Ye Qi was caught off guard and was swallowed a mouthful of seawater. He choked and couldn't help coughing: "Cough cough... cough!"
He couldn't swim, and a large amount of seawater poured into his lungs as he coughed. Ye Qi was so uncomfortable that he waved his hands and struggled desperately. Shao Qingge hurriedly swam over, picked him up from the water, and quickly swam out of the hover car through the skylight.
Yu Hanjiang put down Bai Lingka, and Shao Qingge grabbed the white cloth. Yu Hanjiang pulled hard and pulled the two of them out of the sea.
Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci could swim, so they hurriedly held their breath and climbed out of the hover car.
Almost the moment they climbed out, the metal suspension car sank into the deep sea at a speed visible to the naked eye. Only then did Lu Jiuchuan discover that there was a huge whirlpool nearby!
Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help but cursed: "Fuck! Did Di Renjie point us to a clear path or a dead end?! If we hadn't reacted quickly enough, we would have almost drowned..."
Xiao Lou said: "Everyone, run quickly and be careful to avoid the hurricane on the sea!"
A hurricane on the sea like a tornado swept toward them. The hurricane was like a terrifying black whirlpool, and was about to swallow them up. Lu Jiuchuan's expression changed and he decisively summoned Suzaku.
The big bird spread its flame-like wings and flew into the air carrying Lu Jiuchuan.
Yu Hanjiang threw the Bai Lingka to his brother, and Lu Jiuchuan took it, tied Tang Ci with a white cloth and hung him up to fly forward. Yu Hanjiang used the Qinggong card to hug Xiao Lou and ran forward, while Shao Qingge took out the teleportation card to hug him
Zhuyeqi teleports 50 meters at a time.
Ye Qi was choked by the sea water and his face turned red. Shao Qingge patted his back gently and asked in a low voice: "Are you okay?"
"It's okay, cough...let's go!"
The six people used their fastest speed and flew into the distance in an awkward manner, narrowly avoiding this wave of hurricane!
It was pitch black all around, and it was impossible to see what was on the sea with the help of the stars in the sky, but Xiao Lou always felt that there seemed to be a lot of things floating in the nearby sea...
He took out the Night Pearl.
Seeing the sea illuminated by night pearls, Xiao Lou suddenly felt a chill running down his spine: "Look at the sea!"
The teammates looked back - they saw the wreckage of countless ships scattered on the surrounding sea, as well as many white human bones! Among them was a ship, floating crookedly on the sea, and the wood on it had rotted due to age.
A large amount of blood stains on the wood and people's torn clothes can be vaguely seen.
Ye Qi's eyes widened: "This is... a restricted area at sea?"
According to legend, certain sea areas are places where humans cannot set foot, because people who enter there are unlikely to come out alive. There is also the so-called "Devil's Triangle" in the movie, and all ships sailing to that area cannot avoid the fate of sinking.
Judging from the large number of shipwrecks around them, they accidentally stepped into the restricted area of the sea today. They were able to escape alive because of these powerful cards.
The light designated by Di Renjie is exactly at the whirlpool in the center of the sea.
Xiao Lou took a deep breath: "What exactly is there?"
Lu Jiuchuan said: "Could that whirlpool be the entrance to the underwater world?"
It's a pity that none of them are professional divers. If they dive to the bottom of the sea and don't breathe for a minute or two, they can barely survive. Over time, they will only be drowned. They can't rush to investigate the whirlpool, right?
Xiao Lou looked at Yu Hanjiang: "What should I do?"
This was the first time that he had no idea. Although Di Renjie helped them find the key sea area, how on earth would they get down here? It would be great if Liu Qiao was there. Xiao Lou remembered that Liu Qiao had a fairy tale card called "Mermaid Princess" in his hand.
, can turn the whole team into mermaids, not afraid of sea water.
Just as I was thinking about it, a strange singing sound suddenly came from the sea.
Everything around was silent, leaving only the ethereal, clear singing voice, like a call from eternity, singing softly in everyone's ears. Everyone couldn't hear what she was singing, but the voice was very soft and beautiful.
Just like the sound of nature.
Lu Jiuchuan's expression changed - this was exactly the song he heard before he fell into coma on the Zerg planet.
There wasn't even a soul around, and I didn't know where the singing came from.
The singing continued, as if there was some magic, calling them...
The six people gradually became a little confused, as if they saw a large garden appearing in the whirlpool on the sea, and a road leading to the depths of the sea of flowers. This was a more beautiful landscape than a mirage.
Yu Hanjiang pinched his legs hard and shouted in a low voice: "Everyone, please cover your ears, this sound can confuse people's hearts!"
Everyone suddenly came back to their senses. Xiao Lou immediately took out the team voice earphones and gave them to everyone. The six people covered their left ears with one hand and pressed the bump on the right earphone with the other hand. The singing was no longer audible, and everyone's consciousness was restored immediately.
wide awake.
Ye Qi said: "I seemed to have hallucinated just now?"
Lu Jiuchuan said: "This song is indeed somewhat magical. I remember when I heard the song on the Zerg planet, I thought I was seeing heaven. That must be an illusion!"
Tang Ci whispered: "A sea creature that can sing? Is it the legendary mermaid?"
Xiao Lou was stunned, and suddenly thought of a rumor: "That's right! As early as in the "Book of Mountains and Seas", it was recorded that there is a kind of shark from the deep sea. The upper body is human-shaped, and the lower body has a fish tail. The shark likes to sing the most.
, and very
It is good at using magical songs to confuse people's hearts. As long as someone in the passing ships hears the shark's song, they will be intoxicated in the song until they die. The shark often uses its songs to trap passing ships and kill humans."
When Ye Qi heard this, he suddenly realized: "I know about the sharks. In Xianxia games, there are often settings where the sharks sing... The sharks in the ancient Chinese legend are actually the mermaids in the Western fantasy legend, right?!"
Xiao Lou nodded: "Yes, they are the mermaid tribe of the deep sea!"
Thinking of the fairy tale card [Mermaid Princess] that Liu Qiao once drew, Xiao Lou suddenly had a strange premonition. He said: "Perhaps, Xiao Liu, Senior Gui and Lao Mo, the identity assigned this time is not a human being, but a deep sea
The mermaid tribe!”
Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help but said: "But if they are on this planet, why don't they respond when we open the Peach Blossom Spring? Can't we teleport on the same planet?"
Xiao Lou guessed: "It's possible that the mermaid can't go ashore, or it's possible that the deep sea environment blocks the card summons?" He paused and said, "Of course, I'm just guessing. I can't tell whether Xiao Liu and the others are here.
Sure."
Yu Hanjiang's face was serious: "If Liu Qiao and the others are really the mermaid clan, it is very likely that the mermaid clan is a separate plot line, and some things have happened that they need to solve."
Shao Qingge rubbed his temples helplessly and said: "The question now is, how do the six of us enter the sea area of the mermaid tribe?" He looked at Ye Qi, whose face was red from being choked by the sea water and his hair was wet: "Xiaoye
Neither Professor Xiao nor I can swim, Captain Yu, although you can swim, but the place where mermaids live is the deep sea, and humans can’t go down there, right?”
The problem is stuck in an infinite loop.
With Liu Qiao, everyone can transform into a mermaid and not be afraid of the sea water.
But the problem is that they can't find Liu Qiao now?
Tang Ci said solemnly: "My drone can't go into the sea... I should have made a mechanical submarine if I had known earlier."
Shao Qingge suddenly had an idea: "Can I buy a submarine with money?"
Lu Jiuchuan couldn't laugh or cry: "Mr. Shao, money is not everything. Submarines are military controlled equipment, and ordinary people will definitely not be able to buy them. If I were in the Luoke Empire, I might be able to use my authority to get one, but now,
Tang Ci and I both escaped... We are not familiar with this country."
Six people were suspended on the sea, looking at each other.
After a moment of silence, Xiao Lou suddenly thought of a way. He patted his forehead hard: "...there is a connection between the two minds?! How could I forget this?"
Ye Qi's eyes lit up: "That's right! Telepathy can invite teammates to establish spiritual communication channels. If Liu Qiao is on this planet, we can definitely connect with her and have her respond to us!"
Xiao Lou immediately summoned Qin Guan, opened the "Heart-to-Heart Communication", and invited Liu Qiao to establish a connection.
After sending out the invitation for a moment, I received a response.
A familiar girl's voice sounded in my mind, with a hint of doubt: "Professor Xiao?"
Hearing this voice, Xiao Lou was really happy!
He hurriedly asked: "Xiao Liu, where are you? We are now in the sea area of the blue planet. I haven't seen you since entering the Qth secret room. Are you with Senior Gui and Lao Mo?"
Liu Qiao: "..."
My mind suddenly became silent.
Xiao Lou asked doubtfully: "Xiao Liu?"
Liu Qiao's voice sounded again: "Professor Xiao, what are you talking about? Didn't we just meet?"