"Be careful, there seems to be something living here, spying on us uninvited guests." Rogge lowered his voice and said to Tully and Catherine beside him.
The two girls looked around after hearing the words, and also discovered those strange red eyes, but when they looked directly at those eyes, they ducked into the darkness and disappeared.
"This place is a bit weird." Tully's eyes scanned the surrounding streets. On the walls of the houses covered with seaweed, there was no sign of life except for the gently swaying algae. There were no hermit crabs or corals on the ground. There is no trace of even plankton like krill.
"Wait here for a moment." Tully asked the great white shark to stop at the intersection, jumped off the shark's back, and swam toward the nearby streets with its tail wagging.
Rogge, who stayed in place, stared at Tully's back and said to Catherine beside him: "Get your weapons ready, honey, we may need to deal with all kinds of unexpected troubles."
Catherine nodded slightly when she heard the words, took out the two silver muskets that Rogge had given her from her waist and prepared them.
On the other side, Tali carefully swam to the second-floor window of a house next to the street. She stretched out a pair of jade hands to hold the window sill covered with seaweed. The wooden window sash and window frame had long been decayed, and now only a square shape was left. Tali peeked inside the window to carefully observe the situation inside the house.
The room shrouded in darkness was in a mess. The wooden furniture had long rotted after being soaked in sea water for hundreds of years. Only the metal vessels and pottery still maintained their original shape, but most of them were covered with rust and silt and were piled messily in the corner. .
Tali stretched out her left hand, pointed her jade finger gently at the ajar door opposite, and moved her finger in her direction. The door was pulled away from the door frame by a stream of water, and slowly collapsed backwards. A dark corridor appeared in Tully's sight.
"It seems like there's nothing here..." Tully glanced at the empty corridor and turned to leave.
Suddenly, a black shadow rushed across the corridor, creating a torrent in the water and smashing a pottery pot standing on the ground. The broken pottery pieces were scattered in the swirling water.
Tali keenly caught the movement of the water. She quickly turned back to stare at the corridor in front of her, her eyes staring at the pottery fragments floating in the dark water, watching them scattering silently on the ground, and the thing that smashed them into pieces. But it has disappeared without a trace.
"What the hell was that thing just now?" Tully muttered to herself, full of surprise. At first she thought it was Alice, but she also felt that Alice wouldn't be that fast. But if it wasn't Alice, what could it be? Is there some kind of monster?
Thinking of this, Tully couldn't help but feel cold for a while. She was considering whether to call Rogge into the room to find out what was going on. Suddenly, a strange voice came from the street behind her: "Yo yo yo, this is not our saint." Lady Tully?"
Tali suddenly looked back and saw a strong male high-level mermaid holding a long-handled harpoon, floating on the street not far away.
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He had long seaweed-like dark green hair, his skin was a layer of grayish blue, and there was an undisguised evil smile at the corner of his mouth.
"You are..." Tully stared at him for a moment, pointed at him suddenly and exclaimed: "Sel, why are you here!"
"Not only me, my brothers and sisters are also here! Come out, little ones, and meet the lovely sister Tully!"
Seer smiled wildly and stretched out his arms, and a large group of weird-looking mermaids appeared from the windows and roofs on both sides of the street. They had wild looks and fierce and deceitful eyes. They looked like a group of eating animals. A monster that doesn't spit out bones.
"I understand, you have been hiding here because the elders did not allow the tribe to approach this restricted area, so you used this place as a hiding place!" Tali pointed at Seer with the guardian staff in her hand and said sharply.
At this time, Roger and Catherine, who realized that something was wrong, also left the shark and swam to Tully. Not far away, Roger saw Seer and the fierce-looking mermaids behind him, and softly asked Tully about their identities. .
"These guys are felons who were exiled by the elders or escaped from prison. They worked together to form a pirate group. The pirate leader Seer, who was headed by them, was nicknamed the 'Crazy Shark'. He led people to rob and kill fishing and merchant ships in nearby waters. The crew caught and ate them.”
"The elders have sent troops to hunt down these villains many times, but they have never been able to trace their lair!"
After hearing Tully's words, Rogge looked back at the group of mermaids opposite, and felt that they were indeed very similar to those cunning fraudsters and vicious murderers in the underground taverns in the human kingdom.
However, Seer didn't take Tully's words seriously. He sneered and retorted: "It's unfair for Miss Tully to say this about us. Didn't you also violate the elders' prohibition and come here? Isn't this a crime? ?”
"I'm here to hunt down Alice, the temple guardian who escaped here. Please hand her over to me as soon as possible!" Tully had already concluded that Alice must be in contact with Seer and others because she dared to escape here. So he ordered without hesitation.
"Oh, I almost forgot!" Sel said with a salivating smile: "Little Alice, come out quickly, haven't you told your sister Tully about the relationship between the two of us?"
Before she finished speaking, Alice's figure floated out from behind Seer. She glanced coldly at Tully's glaring eyes, and gently nestled her body in Seer's arms.
"That's right, I have been a member of Seer for a long time. That's why your pursuit team has never been able to catch them! Originally, if I could become a guardian, I could provide more help to Seer and the others. Unfortunately, It's a good thing that you ruined it!" Alice glared at Tully bitterly and said.
"Alice, you disappoint me so much!" Tully shook her head angrily.
Alice sneered contemptuously and said: "However, since you followed here, you are asking for your own death. You can't even think of leaving here alive today!"
"You're right, honey, we can't let her and the two-legged land creatures she brought here tell others the secrets here!" Seer smiled sinisterly and waved his left hand hard, and the mermaid pirates around him They swarmed up and rushed towards the three of them.
Upon seeing this, Tali waved the guardian staff, summoning several low-level mermaid soldiers from the spinning water, and started a fierce battle with the mermaid pirates. However, these low-level mermaids were far less strong than the mermaid pirates, and they were easily outnumbered. He was quickly defeated.
Upon seeing this, Tali angrily took action in person, chanting a spell to summon a high-speed rotating vortex in front of her. The mermaid pirates who rushed forward were caught off guard and were instantly sucked into the rapidly rotating water. The large vortex was like a powerful meat grinder, quickly killing them. The mermaid involved was crushed into pieces, and its broken scales were scattered in all directions.
"Kill her!" Cell, who lost the first battle, roared angrily, and several mermaid pirate knights riding tiger sharks flew out from behind him.
They avoided the large whirlpool blocking the way in front, detoured over the houses on both sides, and launched a flank attack. Four Tiger Shark Knights rushed towards Tully, while the remaining two rushed towards Rogge and Catherine behind.
"Kill them, I'll be right back!" Rogge said to Catherine beside him, spit out the cigar butt in his mouth, turned around and swam towards the intersection behind him.
Seeing that Rogge had left her and swam away, Catherine couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. When she looked again, two tiger shark knights had already rushed forward, and the tiger shark opened its big mouth to bite him.
"Don't, don't come here!" Catherine, who was frightened out of her wits by the tiger shark's huge mouth, hurriedly raised the silver musket in her hand, pointed it at the approaching tiger shark knight, and pulled the trigger. Twenty silver bullets shot out like a rainstorm. The trumpet-shaped muzzle poured out, instantly beating them into a sieve including people and fish.
At the same time, the remaining four tiger shark knights pounced on Tully from four directions. The tiger shark opened its mouth, revealing teeth as sharp as the harpoon in the pirate's hand, and bit the mermaid fiercely.
Tali hurriedly opened her arms and cast a spell to create a churning countercurrent around her, pushing the Tiger Shark Knight away. Unexpectedly, a huge creature suddenly rushed out from behind, and its sharp head hit her slender waist.