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After a fierce fight, Chen Ziyan's side gradually gained the upper hand.

Although their flexibility in the unfamiliar underwater environment is far inferior to that of this mermaid-like creature, this is, after all, a relatively enclosed space with a limited overall size, which greatly limits the opponent's range of activities.

With this kind of strength, it is not difficult for them to suppress the other side.

The monsters saw the situation take a turn for the worse and they were reduced from hunters to prey, so they dared not continue fighting.

So, after leaving behind a few corpses, the remaining monsters used other holes around them to escape.

Chen Ziyan and his men were helpless in this regard. Being able to defeat them did not mean they could catch them. These monsters were indigenous people, and they could not stop them even if they wanted to escape. They could only watch them disappear into the depths of the surrounding caves.

Chen Ziyan had some guesses about the surrounding cave entrances because they came out of one of them.

But now is not the time to explore this, the most urgent task is to make sure we are out of danger.

This was pretty easy to confirm. After all, the space they were in was clear at a glance. After confirming that there was no danger around, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

No one had time to rest and immediately began to check each other's damage.

After all, you are in the deep sea, and a small problem may be fatal. For example, if the diving suit is damaged, you must take it seriously immediately.

After a thorough check, they found that except for Wushuang Gui, who was the special focus and had his diving suit torn in many places, the others had no problems.

[Master Chen, why don't you go back first? Wushuang's diving suit may not be usable.]

After discovering this, Hu Bayi immediately made a suggestion.

Although Wushuang Gui's diving suit was not completely scrapped, it was still in a precarious situation. If he encountered any unexpected situation again, there would be problems.

By that time, there will be no time to regret.

You have to know that this is the deep sea. If there is no protection of a diving suit, you can imagine what will happen.

[It's okay, Wushuang has a special physique, as long as the oxygen equipment is there, it will be fine. ]

Chen Ziyan naturally knew this truth, but he was not worried about the Wushuang Ghost at all, because it was not afraid of this at all.

However, he still explained it briefly. After all, there are so many strange things in this world, and this kind of situation has happened before.

Not to mention the distant past, there is the example of Gu Cai right before our eyes.

In this regard, Hu Bayi did not ask too many questions and directly chose to believe Chen Ziyan.

In fact, he also had doubts in his heart, but now was obviously not the time to think about these things.

As for whether Chen Ziyan's words were reliable, Hu Bayi never doubted it. This was not just a casual chat. How could he joke about matters involving human lives?

After finishing this topic, everyone began to study the spoils, which were the corpses of the monsters.

With the help of the searchlight, they could clearly see the true appearance of the monster.

These monsters are very similar to the legendary mermaids, with densely packed black scales covering their bodies, which sparkle with strange luster under the light.

Their upper limbs have evolved into arm-like limbs, except that they have sharp claws at the front. However, these sharp claws, which are shining with cold light, have obvious joints, which is also the key to their ability to grasp weapons.

Then there is the head. The monster's facial features look like those of a human, but only about two or three points.

At first glance, they look very similar, but if you look closely, you will find that there is a clear difference between the two.

With that ferocious face, he doesn't need any makeup at all when acting in horror movies.

As for the part below the chest ribs, it is completely in the shape of a fish, except that it has no dorsal fin and instead has a bunch of coarse hair, which looks particularly strange.

Through these characteristics, Chen Ziyan can basically confirm that the monster in front of him is most likely a mermaid.

In view of the fact that these mermaids are covered with black scales, Chen Ziyan plans to temporarily call them black-scaled mermaids.

When he told others about his idea, everyone agreed.

Afterwards, Chen Ziyan studied the weapons left behind by these black-scaled mermaids. Although they were just simple bone spears made from the bones of sea beasts and were crudely made, the meaning they contained was profound.

While inspecting the weapons, Chen Ziyan made an unexpected discovery.

Under the corpse of a black-scaled mermaid, there was an ugly and strange-looking fish.

This fish looks similar to an anglerfish, but is much smaller, only a dozen centimeters long. If it hadn't been pressed under the corpse, Chen Ziyan would have found it difficult to find.

When Chen Ziyan saw the tumor at the end of the monster's tail that was flashing with light from time to time, he suddenly realized that, as expected, the bright light he had just seen in the passage should have come from this strange fish.

After realizing this, combined with the things I experienced before, many things naturally connected together.

This strange-looking fish looks like it was used as a trap.

In such a pitch-black deep sea where you can't see your hand in front of you, the light on the strange fish is so eye-catching that it is hard not to attract attention.

The function of this tempting bait is to attract the attention of other creatures on the seabed. Once a creature is lured into the attack range, the black-scaled mermaid, which has been ready for a long time, will attack without hesitation.

After this analysis, it seems that they were not ambushed deliberately this time, but accidentally stumbled into the hunting ground of the black-scaled mermaids.

This is good news for Chen Ziyan and others.

After all, judging from the performance of those black-scaled mermaids just now, these guys obviously live in the form of groups. If this is really a deliberate ambush, then their current situation is not good.

It is very likely that you will be attacked again in the next second.

If this situation really happens, Chen Ziyan and his team will have no other solution in the short term except to retreat to the sea surface.

After all, they were limited in number, and even if their overall combat power was stronger, they could not resist the continuous attacks. If it was just an accident, then even if more black-scaled mermaids would be attracted later, they now had a chance to breathe.

As long as there is time, we can come up with a solution.

Just as Chen Ziyan was thinking about what to do next.

Wang Kaixuan suddenly nudged Hu Bayi with his elbow. When Hu Bayi looked at him in confusion, he motioned for him to stand in his position to look at the corpse of the black-scaled mermaid not far away.

Although he was a little confused, Hu Bayi still did what Wang Kaixuan thought out of his trust in him.

And when he looked at the corpse of the black-scaled mermaid from a new angle, he immediately understood why Wang Kaixuan asked him to do this.

The black-scaled mermaid has some tentacles growing on its lower jaw, but no one paid attention to this before.

After all, in the mysterious ocean, especially in such deep sea areas, the appearances of creatures are strange and varied, and they grow in all kinds of bizarre shapes.

Not to mention some inconspicuous tentacles, even if these black-scaled mermaids had tentacles, they could accept it.

People in their line of work are all knowledgeable and have a much higher threshold for this kind of situation than normal people.

But the situation is different this time, because from this angle, the tentacles on the face of the black-scaled mermaid corpse are just scattered. If you ignore the body below and only look at the head, it actually gives people a feeling of being a spider.

Hu Bayi was not unfamiliar with this, because he had seen a similar scene before when he was outside.

It was just a quick glimpse at the time, so I mistook it for some spider-like marine creature.

But now with the evidence in front of him, how could he not know that what he saw at that time was a black-scaled mermaid, but he did not see the whole picture, which led to the idea that the other party was similar to a spider.

This also means that the deep-sea giant snake is driven by the black-scaled mermaid.

When Hu Bayi told others his guess through the writing board, he quickly gained everyone's unanimous agreement.

However, this also means that if they continue to explore, they are likely to encounter a double attack from giant snakes and black-scaled mermaids.

No one would be naive enough to think that the giant snakes controlled by the black-scaled mermaids would simply drive away prey instead of directly joining in the hunt.

But we have all seen the world and have encountered many dangers in the past, so we will naturally not be deterred by this.

If we continue to move forward, where should we go?

It’s just exploration, but there has to be a rule, so Hu Bayi raised this point at the first time.

What do you think?

Chen Ziyan did not express his thoughts immediately, but asked for other people's opinions on the writing board.

After a brief silence, Bai Er, who had been following the team silently, took the lead in expressing his thoughts.

[Continue to go deeper and enter the entrance of the passage opposite. ]

His idea was very simple. Even though the various spaces on the seabed were connected to each other, there must be a core.

The place where they came in should be the outermost space. By choosing a relative entrance, even if they cannot reach the core directly, they will definitely be able to shorten the distance.

Moreover, he didn't see the bronze artifacts he was looking for along the way. He suspected that they were all collected there by the black-scaled mermaids.

When Bai Er explained his reasons in concise sentences, Chen Ziyan and the others couldn't help but nod.

They also felt that it made sense and that this would indeed make it more likely to achieve the goal of this trip.

No one was indecisive, so after discussing it, everyone decisively agreed with Bai Er's opinion.

Fearing that they might stay too long and cause unnecessary accidents, after a short rest, Chen Ziyan and his companions entered the pre-selected passage.

After entering the passage, the familiar murals first caught everyone's view.

However, they soon discovered that the murals in this passage were painted with more delicate techniques than those in the one they came from.

It’s just that the contents of the two are similar, and you can barely understand them, but you can’t decipher the deeper meaning.

Despite this, Chen Ziyan still kept in mind the murals he saw along the way.

He had a hunch that perhaps the contents of these murals would be useful in the future.

As they continued to go deeper, everyone was surprised to find that the originally narrow passage was gradually becoming wider.

This change lifted their tense spirits.

Because judging by past experience, the current situation is likely to have reached a critical point.

Even if the area ahead is not the core area that everyone is looking for, it will definitely not be a simple cave like the one where they encountered the black-scaled mermaid before.

However, this did not affect everyone's mentality. Everyone knew that the more times like this happened, the more they needed to remain calm and composed.

It’s strange to say, it’s been a while since those black-scaled mermaids escaped, but there’s no trace of them until now.

This is slightly different from what Chen Ziyan and others had expected.

But if you think about it carefully, this is actually a good thing. If the black-scaled mermaid doesn't appear, it will save a lot of trouble.

In this way, the crowd's pace gradually increased.

But what they didn't expect was that after walking for nearly twenty minutes, they still couldn't get out of this passage.

Except for the increasing width of the channel, no changes occurred. (End of this chapter)