I am a full-level celestial master, you let me enter the strange talk of rules?

The most terrifying thing is the "kelp" floating in a transparent water tank. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that it was countless strands of tangled human hair!

"Fresh sea dragon gall! Freshly caught!" a fishmonger with half his face missing shouted. In the fish tank in front of him, a dozen strange fish with dragon horns were gnawing on a floating corpse.

It seems that it is normal for dead bodies to appear in fish tanks.

People around me are used to it.

Zhang Yangqing glanced at the market, frowning slightly.

Where is the "vendor selling fresh mermaids" mentioned in rule 7? Is this an important hint?
Or is this the person the rules are telling the Chosen Ones to find?
Perhaps only by finding him can we know how to pass this level and how to solve it.

Then there is Zhang Yangqing's observation of this "area". This should be a special area because, unlike the other two areas, there are many humans here.

All humans in the other two areas have died, and died miserably.

Then all you have to do is find that very powerful fantasy beast.

There are many bounty hunters in this area, which means that they know that there are very valuable fantasy beasts here.

And the bounty hunter must be here to capture the phantom beast.

Zhang Yangqing remembered that the little girl had provided the appearances of five fantasy beasts, namely a strange bird with black wings and a white body, a skeletal pterosaur, a Titan ape, a giant rhinoceros beetle, and a ferocious beast with a lizard tail.

The rhinoceros beetle and lizard monsters have been dealt with, and the remaining three will most likely not appear in the seafood market, because these three do not sound like seafood.

Then the fantasy beasts here must be the other four hidden fantasy beasts, and uncertainty begins to arise.

"The rules may be a hint to me as to what the hidden beast is. The reason why this hidden beast doesn't show up and is disguised is probably because it can't face so many bounty hunters. So this beast must have something valuable. As long as we find a vendor selling fresh mermaids, we should be able to get a clue."

As soon as Zhang Yangqing arrived here, he analyzed everything in detail.

I don’t know if it’s right, but I have a goal.

This is an open-air seafood market. Zhang Yangqing turned around several times but couldn't seem to find it.

These bounty hunters must have just arrived and are very aloof. If you want to get information, you have to find a way to talk to the vendors.

If you want to get information from seafood vendors, you must buy their goods. This is the experience of the world of ghost stories.

Zhang Yangqing casually bought a strange-looking fish from a stall, and the vendor's attitude immediately became enthusiastic.

"Boss, do you have a place that sells mermaids?" Zhang Yangqing asked casually.

The vendor showed a confused expression: "No, this is all regular seafood, there is no such thing as a mermaid."

Zhang Yangqing frowned: "Then is there any special place to sell fish?"

The vendor looked around and said in a low voice, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? This is the only place we sell fish."

He pointed to an alley deep in the market and said, "Go down that street. There's an underground fish slaughterhouse. There are a few butchers who are good at using knives. Tell me your name and you can get a discount."

Zhang Yangqing nodded, thanked him, and walked with his pets in the direction the vendor pointed.

After passing through several dark alleys, an underground passage extending downwards appeared in front of us.

A strong fishy smell hit me in the face, mixed with the smell of decaying internal organs and blood.

Under the dim light, you can see thick black blood stains on the ground.

"That's more like it." Zhang Yangqing raised his lips slightly. If the fantasy beast wanted to avoid being hunted by bounty hunters, this kind of hidden underground place would be perfect.

This kind of eerie place is exactly where crises in the world of ghost stories are most likely to occur. The three monkeys immediately went on alert.

On both sides of the passage are simple fish-killing stalls, where several fish-killers wearing greasy aprons are busy working.

Their movements were mechanical and precise, and they ripped open the stomachs of the strange fish in the flash of their knives.

The entire space was filled with suffocating silence, with only the "dong dong" sound of chopping meat echoing.

When he reached the deepest part, Zhang Yangqing's eyes were suddenly fixed on a strange person.

The man stood in front of the booth in the corner, a cruel smile on his face.

The fish butcher at the stall was currently processing a "mermaid"!
It was a creature with a human-like upper body and a fish tail in the lower half, nailed to a chopping board and twisting in pain.

The fish killer's knife had cut open its abdomen, revealing the organs inside that were glowing blue.

What's even more bizarre is that there is no fear in the eyes of this "merman", but a smile of relief instead.
Zhang Yangqing walked over calmly and pretended to find a fish butcher to kill some fish for him.

He stood beside the black-haired weirdo, looking at the mermaid on the chopping board with interest, and said, "Is that the fish you bought? It looks delicious."

The black-haired weirdo turned his head, revealing an overly pale face, with his mouth grinning from ear to ear: "I sell fish. I kill them and sell them for a higher price."

He poked the merman's cheek with his scale-covered finger. "Look at the fish. How delicious it is."

From this sentence, Zhang Yangqing can be sure that this guy is the vendor mentioned in the rules.

As to whether he is a fantasy beast, further testing is needed.

"Where is your stall? I want to buy one too." Zhang Yangqing pretended to be very interested.

Since he mentioned earlier that it looked delicious, this just seemed like a natural progression.

The black-haired weirdo tilted his head and rolled his eyes weirdly: "Why don't you buy this one?"

Zhang Yangqing gave a meaningful smile: "Didn't you say it? It will be more expensive after the killing."

"Oh, I let it slip." The black-haired weirdo slapped his head in annoyance. He felt very uncomfortable that he had not tricked Zhang Yangqing.

Since Zhang Yangqing was a customer, he said, "My shop is in the open-air fish market. Come with me later."

"Okay, then wait until I finish killing too." Zhang Yangqing maintained his purpose, which was to kill the fish, not to gather intelligence and reduce the opponent's suspicion.

But there was one thing he didn't understand. He walked around the open-air fish market for several times but didn't find anything strange. Did he go to the wrong place?
This area is neither big nor small, and it shouldn't be like this if the fishmonger who started selling fish there didn't lie.

But this is the world of ghost stories, and you may have to meet certain conditions to enter this special place.

After both of them killed the fish, Zhang Yangqing followed the black-haired weirdo and came to a familiar yet unfamiliar place.

What is familiar is that it is the same fish market as before.

What’s strange is that all the fish in the fishmongers’ fish tanks have turned into mermaids!

If Zhang Yangqing hadn't remembered the way, he would have thought he had gone to the wrong place.

As if he thought of something, he looked down at the fish in his pocket.

Sure enough, there have been changes!
(End of this chapter)