Devil's Playground

Lin Yu frowned after listening to the quest prompt from No. 18 male servant, "The quest didn't mention the quantity."

"That's more than one." Joe glanced at Lily, who was squatting next to the little mermaid's corpse and couldn't put it down. "Don't touch it, quickly extract the stem cells and fill the illustration book!"

"No, it will destroy..."

"Stop talking nonsense!" Joe interrupted coldly.

Lily took out the extractor helplessly, and after a moment of hesitation, she raised the little mermaid's arm and inserted the extractor under its armpit.

There was almost no light in the jungle, and few people dared to take out lighting tools. Lily could only complete this series of actions gropingly.But the beach is not dark. Before the little mermaid is lured into the jungle, several people see the true face of the little mermaid clearly under the moonlight.

The word "charming" really couldn't be used to describe that face, but "scary" would be more appropriate.Although the eyes of the little mermaid are big and round, they have no eyelids like the fish on the earth, let alone the eyelashes that humans are used to. The skin is wrinkled and the mouth is very big. At first glance, it looks like a staring toad , there is no sense of beauty at all.

Yang Jin couldn’t see why such a mermaid was worth being obsessed with. The conch beside him seemed to have the same doubts. Curiously, he squatted beside Lily, stretched out his hand, and poked the little mermaid’s cheek twice, and then quickly He shrank back and made a retching sound.

"This thing is as disgusting as the slime of Elegy!" Conch raised his finger to show everyone the slime on his hand.

——My slimes aren't that slimy.

Yang Jin was holding the slime in his hand to play with as a bouncy ball, when he heard the conch analogy, he couldn't help but twitched his lips.

"Beware of poison." Lin Yu grabbed Conch's wrist and cast a purification technique on his fingers.

While speaking, Lily had finished extracting the stem cells, put the little mermaid's body into storage, and then injected the stem cells into the detector, while saying solemnly: "This body belongs to me, you are not allowed to snatch it!"

"Who cares about it!" Conch rolled her eyes.

"Wait." Joe interrupted suddenly, "My task completion is still zero, how about you?"

The others also hurriedly called up their respective memory light screens, and soon discovered the same result.

"Could it be that the little mermaid we caught is neither female nor male?" Conch asked suspiciously.

"Or the sample required by the task must be an adult fish." Lin Yu turned to look at the beach.The little mermaid over there was still playing happily, and didn't realize that he was missing a companion at all, and the adult mermaid not far away didn't come to look after them.

"Or we should try the strength of these mermaids." Lily continued.

"How?" Joe asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Well……"

Lili was racking her brains to find a solution, but Lin Yu suddenly raised her hand and waved it in front of them, "Hush, those mermaids found that the little mermaid is missing."

The other four people turned their heads again, and they saw that the group of little mermaids had become a mess, some of them were running around like headless chickens, looking for something under the reef, and some of them ran to the other side The adult fish appears to be calling for help.

"Footprints." Yang Jin reminded in a low voice.

Although the little mermaid didn't disturb its companions when it chased the slime, its feet left a string of obvious footprints on the sand.

"hide."

With Joe's order, the five people quickly dispersed into the bushes further back.

Several adult fish quickly rushed to the beach where the little mermaids played, and it didn't take long to notice the string of footprints.

But the subsequent development was somewhat beyond the expectations of Yang Jin and others.Several adult fish chased along the footprints to the edge of the jungle and stopped. Then you looked at me, I looked at you, and made a conversation-like muttering sound, then turned around and drove the other little mermaids back. up the village.

Yang Jin and the others waited in the woods for a while, but they still didn't wait for the mermaid's second search, as if they had given up on the lost little mermaid.

"Don't look for it anymore?" Conch asked depressedly, "Could it be that the mermaid we caught has no parents and no one wants it?"

"It may also be that they are unwilling or unable to enter the forest." Lin Yu also frowned, but still stared at the mermaid village over there.

"Then what should we do?" Conch asked, "Hurry up and think of a way, I don't want to wait like I was just now."

"At present, waiting is the best choice." Lin Yu said, "Even real fish have to sleep and rest. Since these mermaids are active at night, their sleep time is during the day. We can wait until dawn—— They enter the village when they are fast asleep."

"In that case, we'd better find a place to spend the night first," Lily said. "Otherwise, when they fall asleep, we'll be sleepy and exhausted."

"...Go to find an open space in the woods." Qiao said indifferently.

The open space in the woods was limited, and because he didn't want to make too much noise and attract the attention of the mermaids outside, Joe didn't ask a few people to set up tents, but only asked them to take out their sleeping bags, and then arranged the order of the night watch.

Yang Jin, who was the weakest in the team, was assigned to the first shift, which was the easiest. After sitting for two hours leaning on the tree trunk, he handed over the job to Lily, and then put the slime back in the training room. Get into sleeping bag.

In the early morning of the next day, Yang Jin opened his eyes without anyone waking him up. He was taken aback for a moment and then hurriedly sat up, only to find that except for the last watchman, Joe, who was sitting by the tree with his eyes open, everyone else They were all still sleeping in their sleeping bags.

Before Yang Jin could ask, Qiao had already made a silent gesture to him, signaling him not to wake others up.

Seeing Joe's gesture, Yang Jin shrugged his shoulders, simply sat in the sleeping bag, turned his hand and took out a carton of milk, drinking while looking at the beach outside the jungle.

The mermaid’s village is no longer lively at night. The cauldron where some kind of food was cooked last night is still outside, but the firewood below has been extinguished. There are rows of dried fish on the wooden shelves not far away. .Both the adult fish and the little mermaid have disappeared without a trace, and the shack looks very quiet, only two shadows can be vaguely seen shaking in the small wooden house that looks like a sentry tower.

After Yang Jin drank the milk, Conch also woke up.Qiao glanced at the time, then at the mermaid village over there, and got up to shake Lin Yu and Lily who were still sound asleep.

Lin Yu's hypoglycemia seemed to still exist. After being shaken awake, she lay down in her sleeping bag for a long time before waking up.Lily was not much better than him, she sat up quickly, but then changed her clothes in front of several big men, and was suddenly awakened by Joe pouring half a bottle of mineral water.

"Go behind the tree and change!" Joe ordered coldly.

"Sorry, I'm sleepy." Lily scratched her head, not angry, grabbed her clothes and went behind the tree.

Both Lin Yu and Conch slept with their clothes on, which saved Lily from such troubles. After waking up, they simply washed their faces with mineral water, and then swallowed a nutritional capsule one by one, and gnawed bread by the other.

When Lily came out from behind the tree, the other four had already finished their breakfast and put away their sleeping bags.

"Fortunately, there are no mosquitoes here, and I can sleep well even while camping." Lily said casually while packing her things.

"It seems that there are no flies." Lin Yu answered.

"What does this mean?" Conch tilted her head and asked.

"I don't know, I just find it strange." Lin Yu shrugged, "But since this world is created and abnormal, it's not surprising whether there is anything or nothing."

"Then you are still talking nonsense." Conch rolled her eyes.

"I just said something casually, and you continued the topic yourself!" Lily choked immediately.

"Shut up." Joe suppressed in time, "Wake up your head first, and then prepare to catch the mermaid."

"I'm very clear-headed, just talk about tactics!" Conch urged.

"Let's talk, let's talk." Lily also waved her hand.

Qiao turned his head to look at Lin Yu, saw that he also nodded, and then said: "There is no strategy, I will go there by myself in a while, and you stay in the forest. If everything goes well, I will naturally use the memory to bring the mermaid back; if I was discovered, and you can judge the next move based on my reaction."

"How to judge?" Conch asked impatiently.

"See how strong those mermaids are - if they are not very powerful, then come and help; if they are too strong for me to handle, then give me a chance to escape; if they are strong enough to kill me instantly, then run for their lives. "Joe said indifferently.

"...Understood." Conch twitched the corners of her mouth, and the others nodded and shrugged their shoulders.

After everyone returned to their normal state, Joe got out of the jungle, and then disappeared in front of several people in a flash.

Yang Jin was taken aback, but then he found that there was a piece of blur in the front vision, a bit like a dirty piece of the monitor, and looking down, a series of shallow footprints were moving extremely fast. The speed spread forward, which was obviously the trace left by Joe.

—Invisibility?

Only then did Yang Jin understand why Qiao had the guts to sneak into the village alone.

The string of footprints quickly spread to the bottom of the sentry tower, and then stopped there.

Yang Jin couldn't help being a little nervous, and Lily and Conch beside him didn't talk anymore, obviously not much more relaxed than him.

Their waiting did not last long, but the result was not what they expected and hoped for.

It was less than a minute before the footprints stopped under the sentry tower, and a piercing scream suddenly erupted in the sentry tower. The next moment, all the mermaids in the village rushed out, all of them holding sharp weapons and wearing armor on their bodies. The same ornaments, obviously ready to be invaded long ago.

"Trap!" Conch immediately stood up, took out the sword and shield, and wanted to rush forward.

"Wait!" Lily and Lin Yu stretched out their hands at the same time, pulling him back.

"Look again..." Lin Yu was about to speak when Qiao jumped off the sentry tower with his left arm hanging unnaturally, obviously seriously injured.

Lin Yu immediately let go of the conch, and then cast a spell, casting a ball of white light on Joe's body.

Conch also rushed out immediately and went straight to where Joe was.

But the distance between the conch and Joe was far greater than those mermaids, and the weapons in the mermaid's hands could be thrown. As soon as Joe jumped off the tower, a few mermaids threw the harpoons in their hands and went straight to Joe's back.

Hearing the wind blowing behind his ears, Joe didn't dodge, but speeded up, and at the same time shouted at the conch in front: "Go back! Lily, the ice wall!"

Before Joe finished speaking, a long ice wall stood up behind him, intercepting most of the harpoons, only one harpoon was too fast, and it passed through the ice wall before it erected , Piercing Joe's heart.

At the moment when the harpoon was about to hit, Joe tried his best to dodge to the right, and finally avoided the vital point, but the harpoon still touched his left shoulder and took away a large piece of flesh, causing his left arm to be injured even more. hurt.

Lin Yu hurriedly released another healing spell, and Conch also rushed to Joe's side, picked him up without thinking, turned around and ran back.

Seeing such a thrilling scene, Yang Jin came up with an inappropriate thought: If those murlocs threw the harpoon again, then Joe would be turned into a meat shield.