After I lost my job, the country urged me to travel every day

Chapter 257 I'm afraid there will be a dispute

No matter how scared they were, they had to go in. Bai Yaoyao gave each of them a high-powered flashlight that could be used underwater.

Chen Yingjie and Jack led the way, Bai Yaoyao and Luna followed closely behind, and Lu Bai was the last. Several people followed the beam of light and entered the passage leading to the cave one by one.

The passage was very deep and went straight down. It took the group at least 20 minutes to finally see the outline of a room.

Several people walked out of the passage and entered the room one by one. What was surprising was that there seemed to be a layer of nodule between the room and the passage. Water was flowing in the passage, while the room was just like the room on the mainland.

The room was pitch black. Several people were holding flashlights and scanning everywhere. The light of the flashlights broke the darkness of the room, and everyone could barely see the furnishings in the room.

The furnishings in the room are very simple.

On the left side of the door, everyone found a pool of water surrounded by white jade stones. Mist rose from the pool, making the whole room a little damp.

A three-person wide bed occupied a corner of the room, with a blue floral cotton quilt neatly placed on it. Next to the bed, a mottled eight-immortal table stood quietly, with a few yellowed books scattered on it. Jack and Luna were checking if there was any storage space under the table.

There was a large wooden box piled not far to the right of the table, and Lu Bai and Chen Yingjie were rummaging through it.

Bai Yaoyao moved the flashlight to the right across the room, and the beam swept across a painting on the wall. It was a picture of a beautiful woman's back. Against the azure background, the woman in the painting was dressed in flowing white, with long hair like a waterfall. Her left hand was elegantly placed behind her waist, and she was holding a emerald green jade flute in her right hand. Her head was slightly tilted as if she was telling something to someone on the right, but her eyebrows and eyes could not be seen clearly because of a wisp of hair on her forehead.

Bai Yaoyao didn't understand painting, but just from these few strokes, one could tell the painter's longing and love for the person in the painting, which made one feel inexplicably sad.

"Eh?! Why is there a picture of a beauty here?" Lu Bai also raised his flashlight and swept over, shouting in a cheerful tone, "Senior Sister Bai, didn't you say that this is the temporary residence of an old mermaid? Why is there a picture of a young and beautiful human woman? Could it be that the old mermaid is actually eating young grass?"

Bai Yaoyao's sorrow and sadness were instantly broken by Lu Bai's words, and disappeared without a trace. She rolled her eyes at Lu Bai and said unhappily, "Hurry up and find something!"

Lu Bai chuckled, and suddenly stretched out his hand that had been behind his back, and handed it to Bai Yaoyao like offering a treasure, "Hey! Senior Sister Bai, look what this is!"

The light of Bai Yaoyao's flashlight fell on the wooden box in Lu Bai's hand. The surface of the wooden box was carved with intricate patterns that looked like flowers but not flowers, and animals but not animals. It made people dizzy.

Bai Yaoyao took the box, turned it around and looked it up and down, and found that the box was made of some unknown material. It looked like wood but was not, and it was warm to the touch. The most peculiar thing was that the box was tightly closed on all sides, without any locks, and was completely integrated. There was no way to open it.

"Is this it?" Chen Yingjie followed over. "There are some paintings and books in the big wooden box, and this is the only small wooden box."

Bai Yaoyao nodded, "This should be it!"

Shopkeeper Canglan said that it was a peculiar wooden box, and she knew what it was when she saw it.

Jack and Luna quickly gathered around after hearing Bai Yaoyao's words, "Did you find it?"

"Hmm! I didn't expect to get the stuff so easily!"

Before, when I heard everyone talk about the Shadow Mist Reef, they were all terrified, but this journey, although a bit thrilling, was actually not that bad?

Hope the return trip goes just as smoothly!

Bai Yaoyao checked the system time and said, "It's almost evening. Why don't we rest in this room for the night and set off early tomorrow morning!"

Bai Yaoyao's proposal was recognized by several people.

In the secret realm of Mirage Sea, although there is not much difference in brightness between day and night, the ferocity of sea beasts doubles at night. That is why the monks who come here to train have to go to any inn in the Crystal Palace to rest at night. In addition to the fact that the inn is full of spiritual energy and convenient for recovery, it is also because sleeping outdoors at will is very dangerous and can easily lead to attacks by sea beasts.

After eating something, several people meditated or slept.

When Lu Bai saw that Bai Yaoyao did not meditate but fell asleep instead, he felt very strange. He secretly asked Chen Yingjie why Senior Sister Bai did not practice with such rich spiritual energy. When they returned to the sect after the secret realm trial, the spiritual energy was far less concentrated and abundant than here.

She also kept asking Chen Yingjie whether it was because their Longhua Sect was located in some blessed land with abundant spiritual energy that they didn't care about this. Chen Yingjie had no choice but to make up an excuse and said that Bai Yaoyao was too tired from doing the mission during that period, so she took a night's rest.

Fortunately, Lu Bai had a simple personality. After getting the answer, he did not delve into it further, but continued to seize the time to absorb spiritual energy.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, Chen Yingjie's long-developed biological clock woke him up from his meditation.

Lu Bai had changed from sitting cross-legged in meditation to lying on the ground with his arms and legs spread out, snoring loudly. Bai Yaoyao's breathing was steady and long, and it was obvious that she was still in a dream.

Instead, Jack and Luna, who were resting in the pond last night, were nowhere to be seen.

Chen Yingjie's expression was slightly tense. He left the room and walked out along the corridor.

As soon as he arrived at the cave entrance, he saw two mermaids standing beside the coral reef not far from the cave entrance. Jack stared ahead without saying a word, and Luna was behind him, looking like she was about to cry.

Luna: "Jack, you have been ignoring me from yesterday to today. Are you still blaming me for taking the initiative to reveal your spiritual eye talent?"

Jack sighed, "No, Luna, you're overthinking it."

Luna tilted her head slightly, and Chen Yingjie saw a pearl sliding down her cheek. Soon, she turned back and pulled Jack's arm, "Jack, I know you always wanted to find Uncle Jed on your own and didn't want to get involved in the dispute between the two elders. But now the matter is done. According to what the White Immortal has found out, there must be something fishy about Uncle Jed's death!"

Luna paused, as if looking at Jack's expression, and then continued, "Jack, I actually suspected Hai Yu a long time ago. A few years ago, he brought back the news of Uncle Jed's death, and then he went into hiding to heal his wounds. But when he reappeared, he became more and more respected by the Cyber ​​Elders in the tribe. Now it seems that there must be a connection between the two..."

"Stop talking! Luna!" Jack covered his face in pain. He couldn't believe that Uncle Hai Yu, whom his father treated like a brother and who treated him like a teacher and a father, could be the murderer of his father!

He put his hand down, turned sideways and held Luna, "Luna, I don't blame you, on the contrary, I want to thank you. If you hadn't made a prompt decision and asked the White Fairy to bring us to the Shadow Mist Hidden Reef, I'm afraid I would never know the truth. No matter what, after the auction, I will ask the White Fairy to let me come here again. I want to see it with my own eyes and then decide how to deal with it!"

Jack sighed, "This is not only about my father's death, but also about private mining, which is forbidden by the clan. I'm afraid there will be disputes in the clan!"