Chapter 419

"Princess Lei Qianya, what's wrong? If you can't bear it, let Duo Luo Xi temporarily replace you."

Supporting the princess, Xia De hurriedly gave a suggestion in the rain.

"No, our souls are connected. Even if I go to Tobesk, this curse will still..."

She was clearly holding Xia De's arm to stand firm, but at this moment she actually took a step forward. Xia De immediately tightened the fishing line of the fishing rod, and then actually felt a powerful force pulling him to move forward as well.

This did not look like Princess Lei Qianya's power; she walked forward very slowly; this instead looked like the fishing line was not only connected to Princess Lei Qianya, but also connected to something invisible.

"What's the situation?"

Xia De used his shoes to resist the soft beach, stretched out his right hand, and pressed it on the top of the princess's wet long hair:

"Silver Moon!"

The silver light spilled from his palm, not dazzling. But when that holy silver light shone on Princess Lei Qianya's face, black smoke actually emerged from the swollen fish-man tattoo:

"Princess Lei Qianya, quick, Curse-Breaking Stone!"

People shaking one by one passed by the two, and after bumping into Xia De, they took the initiative to take a detour.

Xia De hurriedly reminded, and the princess, who was slightly more sober, raised her hand to touch the ruby on her right ear. Following the slender red silk ribbon she pulled out, the ugly fish-man tattoo actually started to move.

"Oh!"

Princess Lei Qianya felt the pain, but endured it and just groaned. She guided the red silk ribbon at her fingertips, trying to entangle the fish-man tattoo moving on the skin surface. But the tattoo was very flexible, actually moving along the skin of the face, trying to move toward the front of the heart through the neck.

Xia De was shocked; if the tattoo moved from the face to the front of the heart, he would have no way to touch it.

"What am I thinking?"

Scolding himself in his heart, Xia De took the initiative to untie the fishing line wrapped around Princess Lei Qianya's wrist:

"Princess Lei Qianya, sorry."

The hand shining with Silver Moon light pinched Princess Lei Qianya's neck, forcing the tattoo to be unable to pass. The left hand held the metal fishhook and pierced into Princess Lei Qianya's right cheek, penetrating the fish-man tattoo.

"Oh!"

The red-haired girl grabbed Xia De's arm hard, and Xia De gritted his teeth and held the fishing rod with both hands:

"Princess Lei Qianya, hold on."

"It's okay, you move fast a... oh!"

Before she finished speaking, Xia De had already raised the fishing rod, and the fishing line drove the fishhook to peel off from Princess Lei Qianya's face. What was peeled off together was not only blood and skin, but also that blood-red fish-man tattoo.

It was not flat; after absorbing the blood on Princess Lei Qianya's face, it already had thickness.

After being 'hooked' out by the fishhook, that small blood-red fish-man fell on the beach, constantly rising and struggling, but because it did not take the bait actively, it could not trigger the characteristics of this fishing rod.

Princess Lei Qianya flicked the red silk ribbon at her fingertips, tied the tattoo firmly to the fishhook, and finally couldn't help but sob.

"It's okay, it's okay."

Reaching into his pocket to take out a test tube filled with water, after endowing that water with the power of gluttony, Xia De dripped the water gently on Princess Lei Qianya's face.

It was just that Princess Lei Qianya's face had just healed, and Xia De actually felt the pulling feeling from the fishing rod again. Looking up, the fish-man tattoo that was still struggling on the ground actually flew up and pointed straight at the giant mermaid corpse that was fighting with the church and academy ring-warlocks on the distant coastline.

"There's such a good thing?"

Xia De originally intended to return to the sea to approach that corpse, and now that he had an item to point the way, and this thing even actively provided force to pull him forward, he could even save some physical strength.

"Princess Lei Qianya, how do you feel now?"

Xia De held the fishing rod with both hands, his body leaning slightly backward to resist the pulling force of the tattoo on the fishhook.

"I..."

The red-haired girl covered her right face and touched it a few times gently:

"Is there really... on my face..."

"... not a single trace, still as beautiful as ever. I guarantee it with Mia. I'm asking, can you still feel the curse now?"

"No."

She shook her head immediately; although she was still standing in the blood rain, the curse spread by the rain had almost no effect on ring-warlocks.

"Good, you go back to the mansion first."

"Okay, where are you going?"

She looked at Xia De in the rain; although there were many, many people passing by them and walking toward the ocean, at this moment she only had Xia De in her eyes.

"I still have things to do."

Xia De looked at the distant coastline, an excited expression that Princess Lei Qianya could not understand at all on his face; the thing he craved was very likely there:

"I never do risky things, you can rest assured about this. Rest assured and wait for me to come back; I will completely end the mermaid curse, so you don't have to worry. After the Lengshuigang matter is settled, I think we can finally meet in Tobesk; perhaps we can spend an afternoon talking about political topics, or after you disguise yourself, go for a walk with me to stroll the cat on the tree-lined path in the university district; the sunset in the evening there is very beautiful."

The red rainwater made his clothes and face look unusually strange, but Xia De still said with a smile, the fishing line in his hand controlling the struggling force of the tattoo with a tight and loose motion:

"How can I say such things before doing big things?"

He joked about himself.

"Xia De, you... be careful."

Until the end, she could not say words to stop Xia De; Xia De pulled the fishing rod hard and smiled at the princess for the last time:

"Go back quickly."

"You must be careful."

"Of course... if I can't come back, let Duo Luo Xi take care of Mia, and write a letter to Miss Gao De. The ruby ring your mother gave me belongs to you; all my remaining property will be divided equally among the four people in our group and Mia."

Although there was still a drop of divinity on his body, Xia De still wanted to guard against the worst result.

He did not think this was pessimistic, but instead felt happy for this moment.

As an outsider with no family, the young student Sack Hall died alone in a rental apartment; if it weren't for Xia De's appearance, no one would even be able to inherit his estate; but Xia De, whose hometown was further away and could never go back, was able to find friends to inherit his estate.

"Xia De, you..."

Before Princess Lei Qianya finished speaking, the fish-man tattoo dragged Xia De forward. He followed the tattoo forward in a very funny way, stumbling with big strides, crossed those shaking people walking toward the sea in front, screamed, as if tripped, and dived into the sea headfirst. After poking his head out of the water a few times, he never appeared again.

This did not look like Xia De following the tattoo forward, but instead like he was dragged into the sea alive.

The blood rain stained the princess's clothes red; she wanted to laugh at this time, but felt a bit sad:

"Xia De Suren Hamilton."

She turned to pick up the umbrella, calling Xia De's name softly in her mouth. With her back to that blood-red sea, she walked toward the mansion of Aurora Manor; at this moment, no one could see the princess's expression:

"How many secrets do you still have?"

Xia De in the sea did not know what Princess Lei Qianya was thinking now; in fact, he was not swimming at all, but was purely dragged forward in the water.

The flesh and blood of 【Desire】 allowed Xia De to maintain good vision underwater; not long after entering the water, he saw those people who entered the sea because of the sea return.

They "floated" in the water in an eerie posture. Eyes wide open, in a praying posture. Seawater flowed through the corpses, making a buzzing sound in the corpses, but they clearly did not open their mouths. This was the ritual base array of the large-scale ritual "Sea Return" in the ocean; every person who voluntarily sent themselves back to the sea was a part of the base array.

And when Xia De passed them, they would try to capture Xia De. Xia De therefore also saw that most of the corpses had traces similar to fish-men. This made him have more guesses:

"The mermaid curse is more than I imagined, not only because the rain can also spread the curse, but also because, most of the indigenous people of this city actually have fish-man blood... Sea Return, send back to the ocean where the ancestors lived."

Grabbing the fishing rod and flying forward in the sea, five minutes later, when Xia De vaguely saw the color of the water in front suddenly deepen, he realized that the huge mermaid corpse was right in front of him.

"How big is this thing?"

Just the part that Xia De could see underwater, the seabed space occupied by the lower body of that mermaid was even more huge than the largest sea monster Xia De could imagine.

He always thought he didn't have so-called megalophobia or thalassophobia, but when he looked at the behemoth entrenched in the ocean getting closer and closer underwater, and it was still squirming, Xia De couldn't help but feel uncontrollable fear in his heart.

At first, he could rely on closing his eyes and imagining the cute cat at home to alleviate that increasingly fearful feeling. But as he got closer and closer to that huge mermaid corpse summoned from the deep abyss of the sea by the Ringed Shushi, even if he closed his eyes, Xia De felt that he could clearly "see" the more specific appearance of that thing.

The corpse had already decayed; the part at the seabed followed the ocean current, continuously flowing green and black terrifying pus into the water, forming slender water currents flowing into the seawater. In the lightless seabed, the patterns on the surface of the corpse were vaguely visible. The raised scales were rotten, but the patterns were unusually clear.

Borrowing the faint light, one could see that they were spirals, spirals that were connected to each other. Small spirals formed large spirals, and large spirals formed even more huge spirals.

Accompanied by the strange sound of the seabed, those spirals emitted scarlet light in the lightless seabed, like opened eyes, with a strange power that attracted souls. Xia De closed his eyes; just by perceiving those patterns with his spirit, he actually had the illusion of being unable to control his body.

"Just the patterns of the corpse actually have this kind of power?"

Fortunately, Xia De did not have to endure for too long; he did not approach the deep-sea giant corpse underwater, but was taken by the blood-red tattoo hooked by the fishhook, directly rushing toward the upper part of the water surface.