Seeing that Yuma Aragaki and Ningning Mizuno entered the grotto, Li Xuehao followed quickly. Although he was not a mermaid clan, his speed was faster than the two of them. He quickly caught up with them and advanced together with them.

In the grottoes, the dark and dark environment did not become an obstacle for Yuma Aragaki and Ningning Mizuno. They are mermaids. Perhaps on land, their eyes are like ordinary people and need light to see things clearly, but in the sea, their eyes emit a faint blue light, which allows them to see everything around them even in the darkness.

In the grotto, the cold environment made the two of them tremble slightly, but they did not retreat at all, especially for Yuma Aragaki, this was her former home.

But now this home has long been deserted. Apart from the cold sea water, there are white bones paved everywhere under the cave.

Yuma Aragaki and Ningning Mizuno immediately discovered it. They felt sad when their bodies were shocked. They knew very well what the bones meant.

Yuma Aragaki sneaked down, as if she wanted to see the miserable bones clearly, perhaps her parents were among them.

Unfortunately, the scattered bones were almost the same, but there were differences in size and thickness, but this was obviously not enough to make her recognize whether there were her parents.

Looking at the white bones, the sad atmosphere slowly spreads with Aragaki Yuma as the center. She did not cry, but the faint blue tears surged out of her eyes, like crystal clear pearls in the sea.

Li Xuehao was not far behind her and caught one of them. Legend has it that in fairy tales, mermaid tears have magical effects and are even related to immortality. He felt that there was indeed something special in his tears. He couldn't help but move and put the tears into the storage ring. The remaining tears floated outside the grotto with the flow of the sea water.

"Yuma." Ningning Mizuno swam to Yuma Aragaki and hugged her gently. Although she was not as sad as Yuma Aragaki, she also felt that she was in the same way as Yuma Aragaki, because these dead people were once her fellow tribe.

"Ningning..." Yuma Aragaki shrank her body in her arms, wanting to cry, but she couldn't cry at all. Judging from the desolation seen at the scene, no one has been here for a long time, and the white bones scattered everywhere told her even more cruelly that her tribe and parents might have all died.

Li Xuehao also came to Yuma Aragaki. Compared with her and Ningning Mizuno, she was more than 1.8 meters tall and looked much petite in front of the two. He patted Yuma Aragaki on the shoulder and said in a deep voice: "Miss Aragaki, in addition to us, there is an uninvited guest here."

"...what?" Yuma Aragaki didn't react at first. After realizing what he was saying, he quickly looked around in shock.

Ningning Mizuno also turned her head and looked left and right. The hundreds of meters of space in the cave was almost completely hidden under the gaze of the two mermaids, but there was no one else in the entire space except them.

"On there." Li Xuehao pointed in a certain direction. There was a corner of the cave. There was a sunken pit in the corner. Although it was not deep, it was still easy to hide a living thing and not be discovered.

"What is it?" Yuma Aragaki suppressed the grief in her heart, and looked into the distance, but still couldn't see anything.

"Go over, look." Mizuno Ningning said, swam over there first.

Li Xuehao quickly stepped forward and stopped her behind: "No, just here." You know, the hidden living thing is not a kind-hearted person. Although he is here, it will not hurt the two of them, there is no need to go over and scare the other party.

Li Xuehao casually sucked a longan-sized stone under the cave, and bounced it gently, and shot it into the sunken pit.

"Puchi!" He didn't use much force and didn't want to kill the other person in one go, but the other person still felt the severe pain and suddenly came out of the sunken pit.

It was a strange creature, more than three meters and five meters long, covered with bright red scales, a fish's head and fish fins, but its body was like a snake, and even its tail was the tail of a snake. Moreover, there were a pair of human-like arms on the neck below the head and under the ribs. It was gray-black, extremely thick, and had a kneaded muscle, which was completely comparable to two or three arms of an adult man.

The pointed fish's mouth was covered with sharp inverted hook-shaped serrations, which looked extremely ferocious and extremely cruel.

"It's them, it's this kind of thing... that killed my parents and tribe members!" Yuma Aragaki recognized what this strange creature was at the first time, with fear and resentment in her eyes.

Ningning Mizuno was also startled and couldn't help but retreat to Yuma Aragaki.

In fact, Yuma Aragaki didn't need to be said at all. Li Xuehao also recognized the identity of the strange creature in front of him. It was exactly the same as the sea monsters that Yuma Aragaki once painted him that attacked the mermaid settlement, as if he walked out of the painting.

"Hiss~~hiss~~" The sea monster sucked his tongue, stared at the three people in front of him cruelly and fiercely. His tongue was like a snake letter, but it was not thin and long, but very thick and flat, as if it was covered with barbs, which looked very cunning.

It was obviously intelligent and did not rush forward immediately, perhaps observing the weaknesses of several people. Moreover, since it had been hiding from the moment it heard the movement outside before, at least its intelligence level was not low, because the purpose of hiding was likely to be to launch a sudden attack.

Li Xuehao felt the aura of the sea monster. He originally suspected that these sea monsters were probably specially trained by someone. If they were really like what he guessed, then there would definitely be the mark of that person or something else on them.

Sure enough, under the cover of his spiritual consciousness, he noticed a trace of spiritual energy from the sea monster. Although it was very faint, if it weren't for deliberately sensing it, it might not have been able to detect it at all, but it was indeed spiritual energy.

This seemed to confirm his speculation that the sea monster that attacked the mermaid settlement was cultivated by some monk who was comparable to him.
Chapter completed!