"Girls, please calm down," Rogge walked up to Alice with a smile, looked around at the mermaid priests surrounding her and Serena, pointed Alice's hand at him and gently held it, "Miss Alice's I admire your integrity, but I have a question for you.”

Alice stared at him coldly, and without fear she squeezed the hand of Serena who was frightened behind her. She heard Rogge ask: "Can you tell me why the nail of your right index finger is broken?"

Rogge's question made everyone present stunned. They all focused their attention on Alice's index finger. As Rogge said, there was a chip left by a nail there.

"I don't know. Maybe it was accidentally broken in the rush on the day of the crime?" Alice replied calmly.

After hearing this, Rogge smiled slightly and said, "Can you explain again why your nails broke inside the body of the sea cucumber?"

He raised his left hand and attached a broken nail to the root of Alice's broken nail. It fit perfectly and was exactly the same color. Everyone present was stunned, while Roger stared at Alice's eyes with a scrutinizing gaze. There was a trace of surprise that could not be concealed.

"I just found this in the meat of the sea cucumber's mouth. If I guessed correctly, it was when you put the sacred object into the sea cucumber's mouth that you used too much force in your hurry and accidentally pierced your nails into the sea cucumber's meat. , the stinging sensation causes the sea cucumber to contract its muscles, making it impossible to pull out the nail, so you have to break the nail..."

As Rogge spoke, he pulled Alice's hand in front of him, reached out to take off the cigar from his lips, stared into her eyes and said: "You are right, Miss Serena was wronged, you are the mermaid clan The mole, Miss Alice!”

"Alice!" Serena couldn't help but scream after hearing Rogge's words. Tully on the side was also caught off guard by the turn of events and stared blankly at Alice in front of Rogge.

Alice stared at Rogge across the smoke, and after a long time, she suddenly showed a mocking smile: "I didn't expect that after all my tricks, I lost to my own nails in the end!"

"Alice, why are you doing this!" Tully asked, eyes widening in surprise.

Alice glanced at her and sneered: "It's very simple. If the lost sacred artifact cannot be recovered, you will lose the qualifications of the guardian, so you have to go out to search, and 'they' promised me to solve it on land." You, then the position of guardian belongs to me!”

"You bastard!" After hearing Alice's words, Tully was furious. She stepped forward and pointed the guardian staff at Alice, gritting her teeth and angrily yelling: "Just to become a guardian, you can ignore the safety of the sacred artifact. , He even doesn’t hesitate to take advantage of his own sisters!”

"Hmph, the sacred weapon is only related to the safety of mankind and is meaningless to us! As for Serena, she is my best 'accomplice'. This stupid girl has been helping me wholeheartedly, although she does not know that she doing what!"

Alice sneered and glanced at Serena beside her, and said to Roger: "That's why I defended her just now. I hope to disturb or even drive you away and keep this silly girl for the time being. She still treats me." Useful, but I obviously underestimated you, Mr. Demon Hunter!”

Alice's words were like a sharp knife piercing Serena's heart. She shook her head in pain and backed away. She couldn't believe her ears. Her eyes were clouded by sad tears, but only Alice's contemptuous expression was reflected. sneer.

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"Alice, tell me, who is the person behind the theft of the sacred artifact?" Seeing this scene, Tully stepped forward angrily and asked.

Alice stared at her with a pair of beautiful dark blue eyes and sneered: "I won't tell you unless you kill me, but then you will never know!"

"I will find a way to make you talk, I hope you won't regret it, Alice!" Tully gritted her teeth with a gloomy face, turned back to call the mermaid soldiers, and ordered them to take Alice to prison.

Suddenly, Alice's squid suddenly spurted out a large amount of ink, and the surrounding seawater was instantly dyed pitch black. Tully hurriedly cast a spell to disperse the surrounding black water, and the mermaid soldiers also swarmed up to control the crazy squid, but Alice had already Take the opportunity to escape.

"Alice, don't even think about escaping!" Tully glanced bitterly in the direction she was escaping from, chanted a spell to summon a giant great white shark, and asked Rogge and others to sit on the back of the great white shark. He jumped up and chased in the direction where Alice escaped.

The giant shark's tail swayed left and right in the water, but its speed was faster than that of a human war horse. The rocks and corals on both sides of the seabed quickly retreated. The oncoming fish were attacked by the shark, and they rushed away in panic. scattered.

"She's in front!" Tully, who was sitting behind the shark's dorsal fin, quickly saw Alice's back. She was swaying her long fish tail and moving forward quickly. The rapid approach of the great white shark made her feel the trembling of the water. She looked back and saw her pursuer.

"Stop, Alice, you can't escape!"

Tully's voice reached Alice's ears along with the ripples of the water. She turned around and glared at Tully bitterly, turned around and dived deep into the sea. When Tully came to her on a great white shark and dived When he reached the position, he couldn't help but stop the shark.

"What's wrong? Why did you stop?" Rogge, who was sitting behind her, asked in surprise.

"That's a restricted area. The elders strictly prohibit members of the mermaid tribe from entering there." Tully pointed to the seabed below and turned back to Rogge.

Roger and Catherine looked in the direction Tully pointed, and saw a large-scale building complex vaguely visible on the dark blue seabed, like a mysterious and quiet underwater city.

"What kind of place is this? What's in it?" Rogge looked at this silent city. Everything in it seemed extremely quiet. There wasn't even any marine life activity around it. It was as silent as an undersea ruin, full of weirdness and gloom. .

"The name of this city is Artis. It once stood on the Icewind Strait and was a bridge connecting Ice Island and the continent of Euroland. Artis was once one of the principalities of the Human Empire. Ice Island was once owned by Artis. Territory, the Magic Castle of Light and the Mage Tower on Ice and Snow Island were built by King Atis.”

"But no one expected that one day two hundred years ago, Artis suddenly disappeared into the vast ocean. According to records, a huge explosion occurred on the seabed at that time, and the elders of the clan felt strong magical energy. the spread of.”

"They speculate that King Artis, who is obsessed with magic, may have discovered some source of ancient magic power. These unstable ancient magic powers were unearthed without authorization, causing devastating consequences."

"No matter what, no one knows what happened at that time. All we can see is the ancient city of Atis lying quietly on the seabed. The elders said that it still exudes terrible magic power to this day, so it is forbidden to The tribesmen entered the ancient city."

Tully's words made Roger and Catherine look at each other. They didn't know much about this ancient city called Artis, and they couldn't guess what was hidden inside. However, Tully's words put a troublesome question in front of them: Should we go in and hunt down Alice?

"Tali, I think we have to take this risk. This is related to the whereabouts of the holy artifact and the true identity of the mastermind behind it. If we give up chasing Alice, it may be even more difficult to find out the truth from other directions! "Roger thought for a moment, then raised his head and said to Tully.

"It seems that's all!" Tully looked into Rogge's determined eyes, thought over and over again and made up her mind, commanding the great white shark to dive quickly towards the ancient city of Artis.

The great white shark quickly entered the ancient city and swam between the ruins wrapped in seaweed and oyster shells. Roger noticed that many buildings still maintained their original appearance and had not completely collapsed into rubble, indicating that the land was sinking as a whole. Into the sea.

"What kind of power can make an entire piece of land sink into the sea?" Rogge thought to himself while looking around the silent ancient city. Suddenly, he noticed a few pairs of strange red eyes emerging from the windows of the buildings on both sides. A gloomy and sinister light flickered in the darkness.