Chapter 3337

Looking at the appearance of this water area, Xia De would not be surprised even if a water ghost drilled out of the water in the next moment.

Ai Li obviously didn't want to go into the water here, but fortunately, their destination was indeed not here. Walking towards the right hand side along the calm cave inner lake, after reaching the side edge of the cave, he noticed a passage like a crack.

The gap was less than a finger wide, and even if someone noticed it in the dark, they wouldn't care, but this was the entrance to the spring.

Xia De chanted the ancient spell in the local Fatum language softly, and then the crack expanded to a width sufficient for an adult to pass through. Xia De and Ai Li walked in together; the internal passage curved slightly, but it looked like a natural passage inside the mountain.

There were faded murals on the walls on both sides of the passage, and after walking along the passage for less than half a minute, he saw the cold pool at the end.

Although this spring was also connected to the water system inside the snow mountain, it was not connected to the cave lake outside. Although it was called a "spring", in fact, the water would not gush up from the ground; the source of the spring water was the water droplets falling from the rock crevices from the stalactites above, and the water droplets flowing down from the rock wall at the end of the passage.

These water flows gathered into the "spring" less than two meters deep below, and then continued to seep into the mountain through the cracks at the bottom. And this "spring" would keep a full state in any season, and when the Fatum people came to fetch water, as long as they didn't take too much, the water here would not be exhausted.

When following Xia De towards the spring, the unicorn was obviously a bit uneasy. This uneasiness did not come from the deep darkness in the cave, but from those faded murals on the walls of the narrow passage.

The murals depicted the process of the Fatum people discovering this place and fetching water here. But besides that, there was also the process of the Fatum people putting corpses into boxes and then throwing them into the water.

"Don't worry, the boxes containing corpses were thrown into the lake outside, we don't take that road."

Xia De comforted Ai Li softly; as for the reason why the Fatum people did this, it was said to be some kind of ancient custom. Only the corpses of the Great Elders would be handled this way; for example, after Elder Harald died, he would be put into a special box and then thrown into the lake outside.

Xia De didn't know what Claire, who dived yesterday, thought, only remembered that she was quite disapproving when describing this custom.

Two silver-white light balls flew to the side of the spring, and when Xia De took the cat that was taking a nap out of his pocket, the curious unicorn had already lowered its head and drank two sips of cold water.

"Mia, wake up."

He bent down and put the cat beside the water pool, hoping that it could learn Ai Li's movements. But the cat looked at the spring and then turned to look at Xia De, and then ran to Xia De's feet again.

Xia De then remembered that Little Mia rarely drank raw water. It either drank goat milk, or drank warm water after boiling like Xia De, and would only drink it together if it saw Xia De drinking raw water under very few conditions.

So Xia De had to sit down beside the cold pool, took out a glass from his pocket, and drank a sip in front of Little Mia. Then he signaled the cat to go to the spring to drink water, but the cat's amber eyes just stared at the water glass in Xia De's hand.

"I knew it..."

The cup refilled with water was placed in front of Little Mia, and the cat then grabbed the cup and went to lick the water inside with patter~ patter~. Because he didn't know how much Little Mia needed to drink to "improve intelligence," or rather didn't know if this spring was useful to a cat that was already smart, Xia De sat there boredly watching the cat drink water, thinking in his heart that he would leave after it didn't want to drink anymore.

The unicorn Ai Li was very interested in the water here, of course, it might also be a bit thirsty, so it drank a lot. Xia De was not worried that their arrival today would affect the efficacy of this spring; the elders said that as long as the overall ecology of the snow mountain was not destroyed, and the "All Souls Festival" was held every year, everything could be restored.

Both Ai Li and Little Mia were drinking water, and the thoughts of Xia De sitting beside the spring also became a bit scattered. He first thought of the distant Karas Mountain, the date of pushing open the door of the Silver Moon Library, which could only be used once a year, was this Saturday; then thought of the story of the ancient god told by the maid, which might be related to the Chosen One ceremony.

And then thought of the last key to be used tomorrow morning, and Mr. Mortis to be met tomorrow. And from this thought of the guys who mastered three angel-level destiny relics seemed to act a bit slowly, and hadn't heard much about them in the past week.

"Speaking of which, last time I found a snake skin at the bottom of the Lower Spring..."

Xia De looked at the spring beside him, only although the spring was not deep, probably because minerals were dissolved in it, the bottom could not be seen at the edge of the spring.

"Will there be snake skin here too?"

Although this thought had no basis, it was not easy to walk over, and Xia De felt that he had better search for it. After all, one more snake skin meant one more opportunity to search for candidates.

But diving into the spring to fetch water last time was to purify the spring, and this time he was a bit embarrassed to drill into the spring where others fetched water. So after thinking for a moment, Xia De sitting on the ground emitted silver light all over his body.

In the azure blue eyes of the unicorn and the amber eyes of Little Mia, the silver light gradually shrank towards the ground, until it turned into a silver cat. Xia De cat pushed away the other cat that leaned over:

"Mia, Ai Li, you wait for me here, I will be back soon."

After speaking, he extended his claws to test the perception of the spring temperature in such a form, and then the silver cat jumped into the spring.

"Meow woo!"

And the cat that always hated taking a bath also followed in without thinking, and the pure white holy beast thought about it, feeling that they went to play in the water and left it alone. So Ai Li also probed its head into the water, and seeing that both cats were fine, it withdrew its head and waited quietly.

"You..."

Xia De of course noticed Little Mia followed down, and felt both angry and moved in his heart. Last time at the Love Lake, this cat jumped into the water to save him, so Xia De knew that it could not only swim but even breathe underwater.

So Xia De cat waited in the water for Little Mia, and after the latter approached, it really wanted to drag Xia De ashore. Xia De tried hard to explain in the water, before continuing to swim down, and the cat of course followed with its little claws flapping.

The distance of two meters was not very long even for a cat of small size, and the two cats soon approached the bottom of the spring. Breathing underwater must involve drinking water, and Xia De cat didn't feel any reaction to this strange liquid, but the orange part of Little Mia's orange-white fur was actually glowing faintly.

So Xia De cat was a bit looking forward to what this would eventually lead to, and then somehow thought of last night's "nightmare", but waited for a few minutes, Little Mia seemed to just be glowing.

It then turned around and prepared to explore the bottom of the spring first, but at this moment, the sound of talking came from outside the water surface above:

"You Fatum people really know how to hide things."

"Hmm?"

Xia De cat was startled, thinking someone had also come here, but immediately realized that it was Luweiya's voice just now. The fire seal showed that the purple-eyed girl should clearly be in Tobesk now, so Xia De understood, this time in the spring, he actually heard the voice from a non-existent space-time again:

"Again? How is this snow mountain... Is the power of the ancient god of destiny really so overbearing?"

【Perhaps, because the connection of destiny between you is too heavy.】

The voice this time was clearer than last time, as if Luweiya and Claire were really standing outside. Xia De cat noticed that a purple faint light lit up on his right front paw, which was the noble "destiny" rune given by the long-haired girl in the dream; it seemed that it strengthened this connection.

"The spring itself is here, we didn't hide it, just didn't tell outsiders."

This was Claire's voice; although there was still a barrier in her tone when talking to Luweiya, this time her tone no longer had the fear and uneasiness of last time. It seemed their relationship was progressing very well.

"I brought you here, now can you tell me what you want to do with this spring water? Could it be that there is something under this spring too?"

The Claire of the past life looked at the problem with the same train of thought as Xia De.

"Of course not, I just want to confirm some things. On the way up the mountain just now, I told you that the key for candidates of destiny to become protagonists is not to lead others to kill a certain monster or complete a certain test; they need to make themselves appear more dazzling."

The two people of the past life must be at the edge of the spring at this moment, and Xia De protected Little Mia behind him while listening, preventing Luweiya from launching an attack again later.

"Remember the key story last week? Using that stone zither to play wonderful music; I remember you were moved to tears at that time, Claire."

"That was just sand in my eyes... What does this have to do with us coming here this time?"

Xia De cat's ears moved; "stone zither" and "music" also seemed to be key scenes.

"I just want to tell you, don't be too entangled in the results in the story of destiny; the process is outstanding enough. The secondary goal of this trip is to look at the murals here, and then try to see if you can communicate with your ancestors to see if they can provide some effective information.

The main goal is to try to find clues to the upper spring through this 'Middle Spring'. Didn't your grandfather also say that the upper spring currently used for preparing snow mountain water is not the real upper spring; the real spring located at the mountain peak disappeared inexplicably 1200 years ago."

"Upper spring? What is Luweiya looking for spring water for? Does this also have to do with the Chosen One?"

Xia De cat's ears moved again, and then felt something touching his ears; turning his head, he really saw Little Mia had reached behind him at some point, and the cat was attracted by the ears moving back and forth.

(End of chapter)