Time gradually passed, and with the help of Alifa, Xiao Zhi's puppet took shape little by little.

Three days later, a puppet appeared, a female puppet only as tall as Xiao Zhi's chest.

She has long pink hair, fair complexion, and delicate and beautiful features. Her eyelashes were as long as feather fans, her eyes were made of purple gemstones, which shone adorably in the light of the shells, her lips were a delicate pale pink, and her cheeks had a faint blush.

The joints of the puppet are movable spherical joints, and Xiao Zhi placed a very tough material as tendons, so that the puppet can move.

According to the aesthetics of the big octopus, Xiao Zhi made pink clothes for the puppets.

The tiered hem is made from the pliable seaweed, a specialty here, and is embellished with another lace-like seaweed. There are also some pearl necklaces and jewelry that Xiao Zhi found in the residents' homes, which he dismantled and rearranged and made into decorations on the skirt, making the whole skirt look full of sweet and dreamy girly atmosphere.

The decoration on the doll's head, hands, including shoes is the same style.

Exquisite! sweet! Cute explosion!

Xiao Zhi put down the tools in his hand and admired his masterpiece.

After three seconds, he couldn't help but close his eyes, and turned his face away in pain: "..."

Sorry, even though he made it himself, he still can't appreciate this style, it feels like the whole doll is bubbling with pink bubbles.

But the big octopus will probably like it.

The dolls are ready, and now is the most difficult part - redeeming Lance.

Xiao Zhi and the big octopus have language barriers. He doesn't know if the big octopus can understand what he wants to exchange for Lance with a puppet. If it thinks that a stupid human makes a choice, the sea monster should have all of them. manage?

Not only might he not be able to get Lance back, but Xiao Zhi himself might even be captured.

But he always had to take a risk. Xiao Zhi felt that the big octopus should prefer this pink girl doll more than the black self and the fierce-looking Lance.

Xiao Zhi glanced at Alifa: "Are Alifa going with me? Or wait for me here?"

Alifa climbed up on his shoulder decisively: "Goo."

That's what it means to go together.

"Okay." Xiao Zhi touched Alifa's head and left the house with the pink doll. There were still a group of colorful small fish behind them. Because of the dangerous big octopus, Xiao Zhi also tried to drive the fish away, but this group of curious guys were not willing to leave at all.

Xiao Zhi had no choice but to take a group of small fish to see the big octopus.

According to Alifa's instructions, the location of Lance and the big octopus is still where they were before. Xiao Zhi carefully used the building to hide his figure and slowly swam over there.

Xiao Zhi quietly stuck his head out from behind the building and looked towards the big octopus.

Lance was still sitting in the same place, with a change of clothes on his body, and there were several small skirts next to him. Perhaps these were all changed by Lance in the past two days.

Xiao Zhi looked sympathetic and whispered, "Lance is really working hard..."

Alifa: "Goo..."

It's so miserable, won't beat Lance when go back this time, Alifa thought very generously.

The big pink octopus on the side is still weaving seaweed with great interest, and the seaweed is still the familiar pink color, and it does not appear to be tired at all.

"Let's go." Xiao Zhi said to Alifa, then clenched the heavy puppet in his hand and swam in the direction of the big octopus.

Sensing that something was coming out of the city, the big octopus looked towards Xiao Zhi's direction. After discovering that it was actually the toy he was thinking of, the big octopus got excited, put down the unfinished skirt in his hand, rubbed his tentacles, and suddenly rushed towards Xiao Zhi.

It hasn't forgotten to grab Lance firmly with one tentacle, and it's just so convenient.

The huge body of the octopus stirred a fierce undercurrent on the seabed, and the sediment on the seabed was lifted up by this movement. Like a sudden storm, it swept in the direction of the city.

The little fish behind Xiao Zhi finally panicked, and they hurriedly swam towards the city of Kernas, hurry up! It turns out that there are such terrifying monster fish outside, don't come out again...

But Xiao Zhi couldn't retreat. He looked at the menacing big octopus, raised his hand vigorously, and raised the delicate and beautiful pink girl doll in front of him.

A fierce current of water brushed past Xiao Zhi, but the tentacles of the big octopus did not land on Xiao Zhi.

Xiao Zhi looked up and found that the big octopus's forward movement had stopped. At this moment, he was putting its huge head in front of Xiao Zhi, his eyes locked on the puppet, as if he was looking at it carefully.

As he got closer, Xiao Zhi realized that the big octopus had pink-brown eyes and a round shape. Looking at the puppet so seriously, he felt a little naive.

Xiao Zhi tried to raise the puppet in his hand a little higher, shook it at the big octopus, then pointed to the puppet, and then to Lance who was dragged by the big octopus, indicating that he wanted to. exchange.

Xiao Zhi didn't know if the big octopus could understand his body language, so he waited quietly after finishing the action.

The two sides faced each other for a while.

Suddenly, the big octopus stretched out its big pink tentacles, lightly touched the doll's skirt, and then touched the doll's long pink hair floating in the sea, looking very careful.

After a while, the big octopus also stretched out the other tentacle, which was holding Lance, who was wearing a pink dress and had the words "I'm still turning into ashes" written on his face.

The big octopus put Lance in front of him, and his round eyes kept switching between Lance and the puppet, as if in contrast.

Soon, its eyes seemed to be stuck, and it fell on the doll without moving.

Still this looks good!

It casually threw Lance aside, then gently picked up the puppet with its two tentacles and held it in front of itself. With the action of the big octopus, the doll's hands are lifted up by force, as if to cooperate with it.

The big octopus felt that its heart was about to melt, and it couldn't help rubbing the doll with its huge face, then switched sides, and rubbed again. Fortunately, the doll is made of sturdy stone, and it is still sturdy in the face of such a big scene.

Xiao Zhi saw that the big octopus stretched out two empty tentacles and swayed in the air. This time, the frequency of the swing was more brisk, and he looked so happy that even the tentacles below jumped rhythmically. It seems to be dancing.

Looking at this posture, it probably doesn't like Lance anymore.

Just when Xiao Zhi was relieved, the big octopus suddenly stretched out its tentacles towards him again.

Xiao Zhi was startled, and subconsciously wanted to step back, but this time the big octopus moved very quickly, and the tentacle quickly tapped on Xiao Zhi's forehead, with very light force, and then quickly retracted.

Xiao Zhi only felt a softness on his forehead, but when he reached out and touched it, he didn't find any wounds, which felt a little strange.

At this moment, he heard the system prompt:

"You have gained the favor of Abyss Unodi. Abyss Unodi thinks you are a good person. It and its relatives will no longer actively attack you and allow you to explore its territory."

At the same time, there is also a hint of +5% exploration degree, and a lot of experience. Now Xiao Zhi's exploration degree in this new area is 18%, and there is still 12% left to open the map 30%.

Xiao Zhi was overjoyed, but he did not expect such an unexpected harvest.

The big pink octopus named Abyss Unodi left happily with his beloved doll, like a pink mountain jumping wild on the seabed.

Xiao Zhi turned to Lance who was dressed in pink: "Long time no see."

Lance was about to speak, but saw the playfulness in Xiao Zhi's eyes, he finally remembered his current outfit: "..."

Alifa sneered unceremoniously: "Gugugugugu——"

With a fierce face, Lance stretched out his hand and ripped off the cute seaweed skirt on his body. Coupled with his tall body and thick arms, the action even felt a bit wronged.

This caused Alfa to laugh again.

Xiao Zhi patted Lance's arm: "It's hard work."

Lance scratched his head, a little embarrassed: "It's because you worked hard."

Alifa tugged at Xiao Zhi's shoulder secretly, as if to signal something.

Xiao Zhi understood in seconds, he smiled and asked Lance, "Where's Alifa's baby?"

Lance glanced at Alifa, who was staring at him with empty eyes, and after a while he reached out and took off his head, yes, it was the head. Then he saw him put his hand into the armor on his chest from the neck position, and pulled out a shiny skull from it.

This skull is round and smooth in appearance, exuding a faint green light, and it looks like the props that appear in ghost movies.

When Alifa saw the skeleton, he was immediately happy, and kept "cooing" on Xiao Zhi's shoulder, urging him to quickly grab his treasure.

Xiao Zhi stretched out his hand to comfort Alifa and asked Lance, "Lance, do you want to go back now?"

Lance nodded: "It's very uncomfortable in the water."

For the heavy Lance, he couldn't enjoy the buoyancy of the water at all. Instead, there was a lot of resistance, which made his movements very slow, and he couldn't run away in the event of danger. He couldn't take off the heavy armor, because it was a companion item after he became an undead, and it was almost a part of his body.

Xiao Zhi nodded, pretending to take out a black diamond-shaped stone from the player's backpack, pretending to have taken the ring from the storage, and handing the stone to Lance: "You and Alifa should go back to Hesse first, this is going back to the trade area. The teleportation stone, the trade area has not yet officially opened, but the teleportation array is already available."

Since we want to plan a trade area, how can we not set up a teleportation array that is convenient for people to come and go? However, after discussing with Milton, Xiao Zhi decided not to connect to the teleportation formation network in the mainland, but to use this exclusive teleportation stone, which could control the number of people going to and from the trade area and facilitate management and monitoring.

By the way... also cut a wave of leeks to ease the financial pressure caused by the construction of Hesse during this period.

Lance took the teleportation stone: "Aren't you going back?"

Xiao Zhi said: "I still want to explore here again."

With Lance and Alpha, it is inconvenient for him to open the address book, check information or contact other players. It is better to act alone when exploring the map.

Lance is a kind ghost, he scratched his head and didn't ask more: "Okay."

Xiao Zhi handed Alifa to Hessen, and Alifa stared at Lance fiercely: "Goo—"

Lance understood in seconds, and returned the skull in his hand to Alifa, who held his precious skull, and then sat obediently on Lance's shoulders.

Lance and Xiao Zhi waved goodbye: "Then let's go first."

Alifa also waved: "Goo~"

In the next instant, Lance used the teleportation stone to leave. Without Lance and Alifa, the surroundings became quiet again, and there were only subtle movements unique to the bottom of the sea.

Xiao Zhi turned around and returned to Kernas City to start a new round of exploration.

After learning from Teague that Kernas has the blessing and protection of the high priests of the Sea Clan, and seeing the effect of this protection with his own eyes, Xiao Zhi relaxed a lot while exploring the city, and his speed also accelerated.

He moved quickly in the city, trying to advance the exploration progress, but this time, he had already walked half of the city, but he still couldn't increase the exploration degree by even 1%.

"Strange." Xiao Zhi pondered, "Could it be that it has reached the upper limit?"

He flipped through the address book and looked it up on the forum. However, although there are many explorer players, not many are willing to share their experience. Some of them are NPCs of other races who have discovered new maps. The opening of many maps is also a matter of hundreds of years ago, so the degree of exploration The news is still vague.

Xiao Zhi can only guess, and there is only so much exploration that can be obtained by exploring in Kernas City.

After a while, Xiao Zhi suddenly came to a place with a slightly different architectural style.

How to put it, this place also belongs to the area close to the center, but the architectural style is somewhat different from the part of the city that Xiao Zhi passed through.

Although the stone used in the building is also of the highest quality, and the layout is designed in a grand manner, it is very perfunctory in terms of decoration, as if completing the task, the exact same pattern is directly used in many places. It's hard to see here.

To put it simply, it is - straight male breath.

Xiao Zhi also saw the symbol of the trident on the gates of these buildings, which reminded him of the Yuan clan. Whether it was the one he had personally encountered or the carvings in the city, the trident belonged to the Yuan clan. Iconic weapon.

He looked at the area. Could this direction be the residence of the Yuan clan?

Teague said that the Yuan clan once lived in Kernas with the Xiyue clan, so it is not surprising that there is an area belonging to them.

Xiao Zhi chose the one that looked the largest and most gorgeous in this building, and planned to start from here.

This building has a tall door, but now the door has fallen, probably caused by the impact in the cataclysm. After entering, there was a hall, which was in chaos. Tridents fell on the ground. Xiao Zhi looked at the wall. There were still some fixing brackets on it. Probably these tridents were originally fixed on the wall.

He looked at the tridents on the ground and found that their surfaces had scars of varying degrees, all of which were obviously battle-hardened, and some were even broken, but were carefully repaired.

Xiao Zhi thought, maybe these belonged to the strong people of the Yuan clan. After they died, they were placed here for future generations to pay their respects. Other races on the road also have such traditions, especially the warlike races.

It seemed that this was a very important place for the Yuan clan, and Xiao Zhi felt that he had come to the right place.

He continued to move forward. After passing through the hall, there was a long corridor. There were many rooms on both sides of the corridor. Xiao Zhi went in and took a look. Part of it looked like a training room, and the other part was probably used for medical treatment and meetings.

At the end of the corridor is a closed door, which is still strong even after the great cataclysm.

Xiao Zhi tried to push it, and found that it didn't move at all, and there was no lock on the door, only a mysterious magic circle was depicted. The back of the door should be an important place for the Yuan people. Maybe there are hidden explorations or hidden tasks, but how do you get in?

This magic circle should require a special method to open, but Xiao Zhi didn't see any special items along the way, and even if he got it, he didn't know how to use it.

Xiao Zhi thought for a while, then tentatively rubbed a small fireball and threw it on the door.

The moment the fireball touched the door, the magic circle on the door flickered, and then the fireball disappeared as if swallowed. At the same time, a rapid bell sounded throughout the building, as if to warn that someone had invaded an important area.

If it was a thousand years ago, there must have been a large number of Yuan clan holding tridents aggressively charging towards Xiao Zhi at this moment, but now, a thousand years later, there is only Xiao Zhi in the entire city of Kernas.

Knowing that the formation on the door was for calling the police, Xiao Zhi was relieved. He just stood in front of the door where the alarm kept ringing, and started throwing fireballs towards the door.

The more smashed, the more intense the alarm bell rang.

Unfortunately, even if it rang the bell, no one would come to rescue it.

While Xiao Zhi smashed the door with a fireball with great fanfare, he casually opened the address book water forum to see what the players have done recently.

Xiao Zhi watched with great interest the daily fight posts of Shang Shan Ruo Shui and Ares, and couldn't help but admire the language skills of the brothers and sisters in the history department. This kind of praise and derogation without swearing in the whole process is really amazing. People couldn't help feeling sympathy for everyone in the mecha system.

Finally, the last series of fireballs hit the closed door.

This time the formation flickered for a while, but the fireball did not completely disappear. The tall and sturdy gate let out a final whimper and collapsed.

What appeared in front of Xiao Zhi was not a room, but a long, downward passage. It was pitch black without any light source, like a wide open mouth.

Xiao Zhi took out the soul lamp again and entered it carefully.

The passage was dead silent, and no marine life could be seen. Xiao Zhi went all the way down the passage and felt like he had been swimming for a long time. To be honest, being in such a narrow and dark environment all the time made people feel quite depressing.

Although... maybe half of the credit comes from Hessian's specialty soul lamp, the faint green light of a dozen, as if everything followed the scene of the ghost movie.

But this is a special product of its own, and it can be thrown away, so let’s make do with it.

Finally, the space in front of me finally became wider. What appeared in front of Xiao Zhi was a small altar, with some luminous gems inlaid around the altar, so that it wouldn't be pitch black.

There is a high stone table in the middle of the altar. On the table is a stone statue with long arms. The stone statue emits a slight white light, which looks a bit holy.

Xiao Zhi observed the surroundings. There were also many stone statues on the surrounding walls. Without exception, these stone statues were of the Yuan clan. They were of different ages and appearances, but they all held tridents in their hands, and they all exuded an aura. A feeling of bravery.

Probably the most famous warriors in the history of the Yuan clan.

After checking the surrounding environment again, Xiao Zhi approached the stone statue carefully.

This is a beautiful woman with a slender fish tail, which is closer to the legendary mermaid. But she was wearing a self-cultivating battle armor, and she also held a sharp trident in her hand, which made her look not as soft and moving as a mermaid at all, but instead showed a heroic spirit all over her body.

Xiao Zhi glanced at the item description, which read: Goddess Xifa, the guardian icon of the Yuan clan, is the supreme treasure of the Yuan clan.

Supreme treasure? and was left here...

Xiao Zhi vaguely felt that this might have something to do with the Yuan clan's unwillingness to go ashore and insisting on staying at the bottom of the sea to find Kernas City, and perhaps even the change of the Yuan clan had something to do with it.

But Teague didn't mention the news related to the guardian icon at all, whether he didn't know, or whether it was a secret of the Yuan clan, even the Xiyue clan who were the sea clan did not know.

Feeling that this thing might be related to the degree of exploration, Xiao Zhi carefully stretched out his hand and tried to touch the icon.

At this moment, Xiao Zhi's heart suddenly felt a sense of crisis. At the same time, he also felt the subtle change in the water flow. He understood that the situation was not right, and Xiao Zhi jumped up and left the original standing position.

After dodging, he took the opportunity to look down, and saw a stone statue appeared there at some point behind the position where he was standing. This stone statue looked familiar, the ones he had seen on the wall before, Xiao Zhi quickly glanced in the direction of the wall, and sure enough, a vacancy had appeared.

The stone statue of the Yuan clan below looked flexible and didn't look like a rigid stone statue at all. He raised his head and glanced at Xiao Zhi, then clenched the trident in his hand and suddenly rushed over.

Xiao Zhi was not polite to him either, and when he raised his hand, a series of undead fires attacked him.

The attack speed of the stone statue of the Yuan clan is very fast, and each attack is ruthless and accurate, as if it is a replica of a battle-hardened warrior.

Almost every time, the trident rubbed Xiao Zhi's vital point and was narrowly avoided by him. Xiao Zhi dodged the opponent's attack like a hurricane. The movement in his hand kept moving, and the fireballs were continuously fired, almost linking the city together. Firewire.

But the stone statue does not know pain and is fearless. Even if the surface has been corroded by the fire of the undead, his movements are still fierce.

Moreover, in the face of the stone statue, stun the fireball does not work, because this thing will not be dizzy at all, and the flames of thorns cannot be summoned in the deep sea, so it is difficult for Xiao Zhi to restrict his movements.

The attack and defense of the two sides were constantly exchanged. The trident of the stone statue left a hole in Xiao Zhi's body, and Xiao Zhi's undead fire also melted his surface into mottled.

Suddenly, Xiao Zhi captured the movement of the stone statue's tail every time it moved, which was a necessary movement for the fish to move forward in the water. The fish tail of the stone statue is not light, which makes his speed much slower than the previous Yuan clan. Although this effect is not great in a small space, it is slow after all.

Xiao Zhi paid attention to the movement of the stone statue, and at the moment of his next displacement, the fireball target in his hand turned and pointed directly at the opponent's tail that seemed a little stiff.

After the intense firelight passed, the tail of the stone statue made an overwhelmed crunch and shattered.

The body of the stone statue also fell down, and Xiao Zhi took the opportunity to throw another series of fireballs towards the other side. Trident in his hand.

The speed of the trident was fast, and it stabbed Xiao Zhi's head fiercely.

"click"

The statue finally shattered.

The trident also wiped Xiao Zhi's cheek, leaving a deep scratch on his face.

Xiao Zhi reached out and touched his face, and said with emotion, "What an awesome guy."

If it was the original warrior of the Yuan tribe who was re-engraved by the stone statue, he might have been shot in the head.

At this time, the subtle fluctuation of the water flow came again, Xiao Zhi looked in the direction of the fluctuation: "Isn't it, come again? Do you know how embarrassing wheel battles are?"

The newly ended stone statue was quiet and unaffected by the rhetoric.

If I hit you, I will hit you, and I don't care if I'm ashamed or not?

They aren't human anyway.

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Asen: ...you even pluck my wool?