Picked up a deep sea lord

The mermaid, who was as cold as a killing god just now, was clinging to Ye Jian's body and acting like a baby, dawdling softly, with the grievance of being bullied written all over her face.

Ye Jian, who was clinging to him, was still soothing him in a gentle voice: "Don't be afraid, I will bully you back."

The members of the explorer team were dumbfounded and stunned...

Then turn around and run away.

Before Ye Jian could make a move, Luo Ling beside him had already moved slightly.

The cold sea set off a huge wave, and the screams of the explorer team only sounded for a moment—then, they all disappeared on the plain.

Ye Jian looked at Luo Ling again.

Luo Ling blinked and blinked: "I didn't kill them."

Ye Jian: "I know."

People in this illusion will not really die, once they are eliminated, they will return to the real space.

Moreover, his mermaid is very good, not the kind of fierce fish.

...But why is this mermaid still clinging to him?

Like an octopus that can't be pulled down.

Ye Jian poked Luo Ling: "The people who bullied you are gone, get up quickly."

Luo Ling: "No, I'm afraid."

The sun was shining, and Ye Jian's body was warm, which was his favorite temperature.

Rub a few more times.

Ye Jian: Uh...so I just want to take advantage of him.

He rubbed Luo Ling's head.

After a while, Luo Ling raised her head contentedly, and took Ye Jian's hand.

The four of them walked forward again. Gu Chuxiao, who was next to him, was dragging his elder sister, terrified in his heart, and his face was dull.

He raised his hand and instantly killed a team of seven explorers. This terrifying man in black is really strong!

But who is he?

Gu Chuxiao tried hard to remember, recalling that there was a little mermaid with black hair next to Mr. Ye a few years ago.

Could it be this one now?

However, the mermaids now are different from five years ago. This is a dangerous and powerful race, especially hostile to humans.

Since he is a mermaid, why would he stay on land and not return to the deep sea?

... Could it be because of Mr. Ye?

Gu Chuxiao couldn't help but sneak a very slight glance at Luo Ling across Ye Jian.

Anyway, fortunately this mermaid is not silver-haired.

I heard that the scariest mermaid king has silver hair like frost...

Ye Jian turned her head slightly at this moment.

Gu Chuxiao looked back very calmly.

I did not see.

A few minutes later, a clear river trickled across the plain.

With the moist cool wind blowing, Ye Jian thought: just right, I can let this mermaid take a dip in the water.

He turned his head, Luo Ling could see his thoughts before he could speak, and said with a little disgust, "I don't want it."

He prefers to stay by Ye Jian's side.

Ye Jian: All right.

He picked a cleaner stone to sit down on, Luo Ling immediately leaned over and pressed against him affectionately.

By the river, under the shade of a tree, Gu Chuxiao asked Gu Mei to lean against the tree, and patted her face: "Sister, get up."

Gu Mei remained motionless.

Gu Chuxiao started to splash water on her face.

Maybe it was the coolness on her face that stimulated Gu Mei, she finally moved slightly and slowly opened her eyes.

Gu Chuxiao was overjoyed: "You finally woke up!"

Then splash water on her face.

"..."

Gu Mei didn't have much energy, and said weakly: "Am I dead..."

Her eyes wandered to Gu Chuxiao's face: "You are dead too..."

Gu Chuxiao: "?"

Gu Mei's eyes wandered again, and moved to Luo Ling who was beside Ye Jian, and found that she didn't know this man.

However, she recognized Ye Jian and said in a daze, "Ah, Mr. Ye... Long time no see... Am I really dead..."

Ye Jian was silent.

Gu Chuxiao shook her shoulder: "You are not dead yet! Be sober! It was Mr. Ye who saved you!"

Gu Mei was shaken upside down by her, and she finally regained consciousness, and slowly sat up straight.

Then he asked with a confused look, "What happened?"

She only remembered that after killing a strange beast, she couldn't control her strength for some reason, and then lost consciousness.

But now, that feeling of being out of control is gone.Except for a little weakness, everything else is normal.

Ye Jian got up, and came to Gu Mei with Luo Ling: "Have you absorbed Ninghejing?"

Gu Mei let out an "ah" in a daze.

Her thoughts were still a little stagnant, but Gu Chuxiao next to her suddenly realized something: "Is there something wrong with Ninghejing?"

Ye Jian nodded, and said bluntly, "Condensation and crystals contain pollution."

"what?!"

All of a sudden, sister Gu Mei's reaction was the same as Chen Rao's before, full of shock and disbelief.

"...Wait, aren't Ninghejing distributed by the forbidden area?" Gu Chuxiao hurriedly said, "What are they trying to do? Are they deliberately harming us?"

"It's not clear yet," Ye Jian looked at Luo Ling beside him, "However, that's why he and I came here."

Gu Chuxiao was dumbfounded, she was not a watcher, so she did not absorb Ninghejing.He followed his sister to the Twilight Garden, and as soon as he entered this space, he was separated from the other members of the Thorn Squad.

If Mr. Ye hadn't appeared in time, then she would have been...

Gu Mei also thought of this, she was terrified immediately, and grabbed Gu Chuxiao's hand tightly.

They didn't have much deep feelings for the forbidden land, they had just experienced a real life and death, so they knew who was lying to them and who was telling them the truth without Ye Jian saying anything.

Unexpectedly, after many years, Mr. Ye saved them again.

As much as Gu Mei hates the forbidden area now, she is as grateful to Ye Jian as she is to thank him again and again.

Ye Jian: "No, the pollution in your body has been removed, so there shouldn't be any problem."

"However, it's better for you to leave here as soon as possible."

Gu Mei nodded, and said happily: "Fortunately, I am the only one in our team who has absorbed Ning Hejing. I want to find my team members first, and then leave here immediately."

Ye Jian: "Okay."

"There are people from us outside the Twilight Garden, after you go out, you can contact them."

He asked Luo Ling to turn on the communication bracelet, and gave Gu Mei the contact information of Tang Bucheng and Cheng Zhu.

Gu Mei was taken aback.

Tang Bucheng, Cheng Zhu?

She had heard of these two people, both of whom were in charge of B-level cities.

What kind of power is behind Mr. Ye who can easily mobilize the two city leaders?

... No wonder, he dared to come here to investigate the forbidden area.

Gu Mei immediately felt relieved, but then she remembered something and said, "By the way, Mr. Ye."

"During the time when I lost consciousness, I was in a trance, as if I vaguely saw a dark ancient tree, guiding me there."

Ye Jian paused: "What kind of ancient tree?"

Gu Mei tried hard to recall: "That ancient tree is very strange. It is black from the leaves to the branches. It is ugly, but it is also extraordinarily huge."

"I don't know why, I obviously don't want to get close to it, but my body can't control it, and I keep walking towards it."

Fortunately, Mr. Ye appeared in time and held her back.

Ye Jian was silent.

He still remembered that five years ago, he and Luo Ling entered an a-level nest.After straying into a certain illusion, he saw a dark ancient tree with strange yin and yang, and had a conversation with it.

A few days ago, when he and Luo Ling left the deep sea, the gods reminded him that the collapse of the dark ancient tree was one of the conditions for the Twilight Lake to reappear in the world.

But now, Gu Mei, who had absorbed Ning Hejing, actually directly sensed the existence of the pitch-black ancient tree.

In the hospital before, Tang Bucheng asked those secondary infected patients cured by him. When they were in a coma, they simply slept and dreamed nothing.

Gu Mei, who was also a second-time infected person, was summoned by the pitch-black ancient tree—Ye Jian guessed that it was probably because she was in this illusion that contained divine power.

That dark ancient tree may also be related to the fall of the gods.

Ye Jian said, "In your dream, did that dark ancient tree appear here?"

Gu Mei hesitated for a while, then said, "It seems... that direction."

She pointed forward.

Ye Jian turned to that side and said, "Thank you, it was a great help."

Gu Mei suddenly felt a little embarrassed: "No, it's not a help."

Half an hour later, her physical condition recovered and she was able to walk and dance normally.Ye Jian also said goodbye to the pair of sisters, took Luo Ling's hand, and walked with him in the direction Gu Mei pointed.

As she walked, Ye Jian shook Luo Ling's hand.

Luo Ling obediently said: "Brother, what's the matter?"

Ye Jian: "I'm hungry."

Luo Ling: "Oh—"

He had been prepared for a long time, and pulled out a handful of red sea fruits like a magic trick.

Ye Jian took it.

Luo Ling did another trick and took out a piece of jerky that Ye Jian liked that they bought on the way here.

Ye Jian blinked.

Where did it come from.

Shake, shake, shake.

Luo Ling who was dangling by him: "..."

He suspected that if he was a little mermaid now, he would definitely be picked up and shaken by his Ye Jian.

No, it cannot be smaller.

Luo Ling began to change the subject: "Brother, eat quickly."

Ye Jian: "Okay."

He found a place to sit and eat with the mermaid.

While eating, Ye Jian was thoughtful: "I didn't seem to be hungry or sleepy before."

Five years ago, he always felt that he was different from human beings, an alien.

And now, he seems to be closer to a human being.

A dark color flashed across Luo Ling's eyes, he had already noticed Ye Jian's change.All this was because of the difference between Ye Jian and him, because those people took Ye Jian away from him.

But now, Ye Jian had returned to him.No matter what it turned into, it was his Ye Jian.

Luo Ling looked at Ye Jian who was sitting next to her and was eating quietly, silently concealed the darkness in her eyes, and said as usual, "Is brother a little sleepy?"

"If you're sleepy, just sleep for a while, I'll hold my brother."

Ye Jian shook her head: "Forget it, that would be a waste of time."

Luo Ling: "No way, I can hold my brother and move on!"

Ye Jian imagined that scene, and the arc of shaking her head became faster.

In the past, he was the one who carried this little mermaid around, but now he was going to be carried by this big mermaid... It always felt weird.

So don't.

Luo Ling was silent.

Ye Jian was still shaking her head.

Luo Ling: "?"

Luo Ling suddenly felt a little resentful: "Does my brother despise me!"

Just as Ye Jian was about to say something, she saw the mermaid approaching him without saying a word, and its cold breath fluttered against his ears like a light feather: "Obviously when I'm on the bed... my brother is still very willing."

Ye Jian: "?"

Luo Ling rubbed his face lightly: "Is it true that brother will only be willing when he is on the bed?"

Ye Jian: "???"

Have you stopped talking about fish again?

Ye Jian met Luo Ling's eyes with a smile, and was expressionless for a second: "Yes, I still remember that time, you lied to me many times."

Luo Ling: "..."

Oops, why bring this up again.

Luo Ling was a little cautious immediately, trying to change the subject: "Brother——"

"It's useless to call me brother." Ye Jian was still expressionless, "If you hadn't lied to me, I wouldn't be sleeping with your fish tail every day."

"And later, when I found your wound, you told me it was a birthmark and it didn't affect you."

"You kept hiding it from me and refused to tell me. So at that time, I didn't dare to touch your tail casually because of your wound!"

Luo Ling: "..."

Is my brother angry?

He secretly observed Ye Jian's expression, and found that there was no emotion in those black eyes.

... so are you angry?

Anyway, let's be kidding.

So Luo Ling lowered her eyes obediently, and said softly: "Brother, I'm sorry, I—"

Before she finished speaking, Ye Jian coldly interrupted: "I don't want to hear your apology, I don't want to hear it."

Luo Ling: "!"

Ye Jian was really angry!

The mermaid immediately became listless: "Then, why is brother willing to listen to me?"

Ye Jian looked at him, a very, very faint smile flashed across his eyes.

Then he said fiercely: "I won't listen to your apology."

"—Unless you become a fish and let me touch your tail!"

Luo Ling: "?"

Ye Jian poked him: "Change quickly."

Luo Ling: "??"

Ye Jian was very unreasonable, and said loudly, "I want a small fish! I want to touch the tail!"

Luo Ling: "???"

——A moment later, a little mermaid nestled in Ye Jian's arms with aggrieved eyes, its tail drooping and its tail fin curled up... Ye Jian pitifully touched its tail.

All voluntary.

happy face.