Chapter 125

Upper body human, lower body fish, called a mermaid.

Then what about a fish head plus a human body?

[Race: Fishman]

The eyes protruded like turbid glass balls, the body was covered with irregularly embedded scales, and three bright red gill slits were distributed behind the ears, opening and closing rhythmically with breathing.

Their palms, which had webbing, held simple weapons like fish forks; obviously, they had not low intelligence, and the traps outside were also highly likely their handiwork.

Three diving Puji were surrounded by a group of such fishmen in the center of the hall.

Lin Jun didn't let the Puji run away after detecting these fishmen; 2.5 Puji exchanging for more useful information was very cost-effective.

The strange thing was that they surrounded the Puji but didn't attack, just staring at the Puji with dead fish eyes, not knowing what they were waiting for.

Speaking of which, the three stone discs under the stone statue were altars, right? Waiting for an auspicious time to hold a sacrifice?

It just so happened that one could be used for one Puji...

Lin Jun didn't intend to let these Puji self-destruct; the ruins used as territory by the fishmen had a certain exploration value, and self-destructing at will might cause a collapse.

Clearing rubble underwater was much harder than on the ground.

In his perception, another late-arriving fishman appeared outside the hall.

The other fishmen actually gave way one after another.

An aged individual whose wrinkles were several times those of other fishmen swam over slowly; it didn't hold a fish fork like other fishmen, but a staff—a fishman spellcaster!

The fishman's IQ was actually so high!

Lin Jun pulled up its panel; he didn't expect it to even have a name.

[Name: Gugulu]

[Level: lv35]

[Fixed Status: Blessing of Neferela (Wise One)]

[Skill: Water Magic lv7, Mental Magic lv6, Mana Storage lv6...]

[Title: Wise One (Intelligence attribute doubled)]

Wise One!

What was this Blessing of Neferela, could he put one on Little Black?

Speaking of which, this was the second "blessing" Lin Jun had seen; the last one was the "Church Blessing" on Inanna.

However, compared to the Church Blessing that provided Light Element Affinity lv4 and Light Magic lv4, the blessing in front of him that directly gave the Wise One title was obviously even more powerful.

Who was this Neferela, how was she even more awesome than the Church?

Uh... a god?

The moment this thought popped up, Lin Jun immediately wanted to cut off the connection with these three Puji and never come down again.

For no other reason, this thing called a god was too strange and completely belonged to the unknown field; Lin Jun didn't want to get involved at all, at least not now.

But Lin Jun forcibly stopped this impulse; it was just a blessing...

Inanna, who was blessed by the Church, didn't see the Church paying attention to her at any time; this fishman hiding in the dungeon shouldn't be watched every day either.

And, that Neferela hadn't been confirmed to be a god yet.

"Outsider, I don't know what you hope to find by entering this place?"

!!!

The staff in the old fishman Gugulu's hand was shining with magic light.

Telepathy?

Lin Jun was a bit surprised by the spells the old fishman knew.

Unlike the fishman's ugly appearance, the voice in the old fishman's telepathy was gentle and intellectual.

If he forgot its fishman identity, just listening to the voice in the telepathy, Lin Jun would even brain-fill it as a white-haired old man in a library.

This was the [Wise One]!

He didn't know if he could get this title, would his voice also be able to become like this?

This kind of smart old thing guessing that the Puji could talk didn't surprise Lin Jun; after all, the first hurdle to enter here was to open the mechanism door.

After a little thought, Lin Jun gave up the option of playing dumb and answered:

"I have no intention of disturbing you; breaking in here was just an accident.

I am looking for possible cracks at the bottom of the water; I don't know if you have any clues."

If they could communicate, they could cooperate; on this point, this group of fishmen was even easier to approach than the tree demons. The tree demons had Little Black's grudge in front of them, while the fishmen in front of him had no previous enmity with him at all.

And regarding the cracks, Lin Jun and the fishmen's interests should be consistent; as long as this fishman leader wasn't an idiot wearing the [Wise One] title, he should be able to understand the pros and cons.

Sure enough, the fishman Gugulu answered: "Cracks? There were some, but they disappeared long ago."

There were some and they disappeared, that probably referred to the magic tide period.

"Are there none now?

The cracks I'm talking about might not be very big; even a small opening less than a palm wide is possible.

Have you discovered any places where the water flow is very strange, or any other abnormalities recently?"

Hearing this, Gugulu turned his head to look at a fishman beside him who was a size larger than other peers.

The two fishmen made some "gurgling" sounds; it seemed to be their language?

Since there was a language, would decomposing a fishman corpse be able to obtain a "Fishman Common Language lv1"?

A few minutes later, Gugulu said: "At least within our range of activity, none have been discovered."

"May I ask, what is your range of activity?"

"Going out of this building, most of the bottom of the water is." Gugulu didn't hide it.

That range was quite large.

To be honest, looking for cracks until now, Lin Jun felt that there was a high probability that there were no cracks in the seventh layer, but it was better to be safe.

"Since that's the case, I'll go look elsewhere."

The Puji tried to return the same way, and the fishmen didn't mean to block them.

"Wait," Gugulu suddenly telepathed, "Let them help look for the cracks together."

Under Gugulu's signal, three fishmen, including the large one just now, followed; Lin Jun didn't refuse.

After leaving the ruins, the three fishmen took the initiative to swim in front and fully demonstrated their skills for underwater survival to Lin Jun.

They always maintained a triangular formation, skillfully shuttling through the undercurrents and accurately identifying underwater paths.

When sporadic monsters lunged out from rock crevices and sand piles, the cold light of the fish forks always arrived before the roaring.

And when facing more troublesome predators, the fishmen would suddenly change their swimming rhythm,

And those monsters that could truly bring danger, they would use water grass to hide, or hide in the complex terrain of rubble and ruins, waiting until the crisis left.

Along the way, although there was no communication, the fishmen protected the Puji very well.

The three Puji didn't even have much chance to use their skills; following behind them gave Lin Jun the feeling of following behind the tree demons in the sixth layer.

After more than ten hours of exploration, Lin Jun had almost finished touring the bottom of the water, and indeed no cracks were found.

Watching the three fishmen return to the ruins and the gate slowly close, Lin Jun always had a strange feeling.

How should he put it, it was just too friendly.

If it were him seeing outsiders breaking into his home, stripping them naked and throwing them out would be considered having a good temper.

This group of fishmen was actually willing to help look for cracks together.

Of course, the reason must be with the old fishman Gugulu; the fishmen obviously listened to it, and the reason it was friendly must be because of some considerations.

But it wasn't a bad thing after all.

Perhaps he should communicate more with them; next time, maybe he could try asking about the ruins and their beliefs?

The three diving Puji didn't go back to the water surface; without [Mana Storage], a whole day of exploration had consumed their energy.

In fact, if it weren't for the fishmen helping the Puji save a lot of energy, they would have starved to death much earlier.

The three diving Puji stopped moving not far from the ruins and disappeared from the fungal network.

Not long after, a fishman found the three Puji corpses that hadn't been eaten yet and brought them all back to the ruins.