RPAGF Chapter 317 Good soup needs to be simmered slowly, and a good show needs to be waited for.
Chapter 317 Good soup needs to be simmered slowly, and a good show needs to be waited for.
Xu Yiyi paused in her diving motion, her eyes filled with a hint of doubt.
"Aren't you going to tie a rope? What if you get swept away by an undercurrent when you go into the water?"
A-Yue sounded very surprised. Seeing Xu Yiyi's skillful movements, it seemed that she had never taken any safety precautions when going into the water in the past.
As she was thinking this, a hint of anger flashed in A-Yue's eyes.
"You really don't value your life at all, jumping into the water like that. What if you really encounter danger?"
A-Yue crossed her arms, her tone carrying a hint of reproach.
"Alright, alright, I'll tie the rope right away."
Seeing that A-Yue seemed about to continue speaking, Xu Yiyi quickly tied a rope around her waist, interrupting her before she could finish her sentence.
With a splash, the seawater felt like a cold wall, enveloping Xu Yiyi the moment she jumped in.
She had never set foot in the waters near the Blackwater Ocean.
It's too deep; sunlight can only penetrate a few feet before it's plunged into impenetrable darkness.
The water was colder than near the sea, feeling like countless tiny needles piercing through the skin and into the bones.
She gently exhaled a string of bubbles, feeling the water flow into her nasal cavity.
The sea turtle followed silently, but Xu Yiyi didn't feed it as soon as it entered the water, as she usually did.
They just kept diving deeper.
The deeper it is, the darker it becomes.
In a daze, all that remained around her was the sound of her own heartbeat and the occasional soft thud of a sea turtle rippling the water.
Every now and then, a school of fish would pass by, and Xu Yiyi would look around.
Suddenly, a sea turtle appeared out of nowhere and gently bumped into her.
"You scared me."
Xu Yiyi patted her chest, her tiny, beady eyes staring intently at her.
After swimming around her once, it swam to the left.
A corpse suddenly appeared before them.
The man floated on his back in the water, his robes billowing out like rotting sea anemones as the current rippled through the water.
In just one night, its face had been gnawed away by the fish, leaving it unrecognizable. Its eyes were empty, and its lips had disappeared, leaving only its white gums.
It's Gao Haoming.
Xu Yiyi stared at him, silently calculating the direction of the tide in her mind.
Just as I was about to swim forward to check, I was stopped by the sea turtle.
"What? Is there danger?"
Xu Yiyi couldn't help but ask a question, looking around warily.
It's so deep here that the places where the sunlight doesn't reach are incredibly dark, and you can't see your surroundings at all.
It instills a sense of inexplicable fear in people.
The sea turtle, naturally unable to speak, circled around Xu Yiyi once, then swam over to Gao Haoming and gently nudged his sleeve with its claw.
Suddenly, a black sea serpent with gold stripes darted out from the sleeve.
Xu Yiyi's pupils contracted, and she quickly retreated.
Then he quickly drew his dagger.
Before she could even engage the sea snake, the sea turtle had already started fighting with it.
"I'm going now, I'm going upstairs."
Xu Yiyi shouted, then swam towards the surface of the water like a fish.
The surrounding darkness was quickly left behind, and with a splash, Xu Yiyi emerged from the water.
"Come on up first!"
Xu Yiyi grabbed A Yue's hand, then used the edge of the boat to flip herself onto the boat.
Water droplets trickled down her hair and the hem of her clothes, forming a small puddle on the deck.
"How's it going? Did you find it?"
A-Yue handed over a dry cloth, and Xu Yi nodded.
He reached out and took the dry cloth, wiping the water off his face.
Once his breathing had calmed down, he whispered, "We found one, the big one you mentioned."
"Is he really dead?"
"Judging from the ferocity of the fish here, his face was completely eaten away in just one night."
Xu Yiyi wrung out the water from her hair and looked towards the distant horizon.
"But I only saw one."
The water was deep and dark, and looked fraught with danger.
Xu Yiyi didn't dare to stay any longer.
"What about the other one?"
She shook her head. "They're probably gone too."
A sea breeze swept by, and the ship swayed gently.
The sea turtle also surfaced at this moment, slowly paddling along the side of the boat, stretching its neck and staring at them.
"Let's go back first."
"Aren't you going to Eagle's Beak Island anymore?"
Xu Yi looked at the sky; the clouds were rapidly piling up.
“It looks like it’s going to rain. If we go any further in that direction, it could be very dangerous if we happen to encounter a downpour.”
A-Yue didn't ask any more questions, grabbed the oar, and turned the boat around.
By the time the small boat returned to Ping'an Town, the sky had completely darkened.
The streak of light I saw this morning has long since disappeared.
"Our timing is perfect, it's just that you can't go swimming anymore."
A-Yue watched the rope jump ashore and tied the small boat up.
Xu Yiyi looked back and saw that the sea turtle was still there.
His neck was stretched out very long.
Xu Yiyi stepped onto the dock, her clothes soaking wet, and walked straight to the other side.
"Sixth Uncle, please give me some fish and shrimp."
Xu Yi jumped up and shook the water out of her ears.
"Didn't catch anything in the sea?"
Xu Yue could tell from Xu Yiyi's soaking wet clothes that they had gone out to sea again.
"The weather was bad, I thought it was going to rain, so I came back quickly."
Xu Yiyi explained, carrying the fish basket given to her by her sixth uncle back to the small boat.
The sea turtle immediately popped its head out.
"It is indeed quite greedy; it doesn't want to leave until it gets something to eat."
As she spoke, A-Yue took the fishing gear off the boat.
"Eat."
Xu Yiyi sat on the small boat and tossed the fish over.
The sea turtle caught it precisely and ate it.
"Why does it eat everything? Has it become an omnivore?"
Xu Yiyi said with some puzzlement, "This is clearly a green sea turtle. It should be eating grass by now that it's grown so big."
But this thing in front of me eats everything, including all kinds of fish, shrimp, jellyfish, and sea urchins.
There's nothing it won't eat.
"I'm going back first. Don't stay outside after you've finished feeding them, it's going to rain."
……
"okay!"
Xu Yiyi replied with her back to A Yue.
At the dock, Xie Yushu and Wei An sat at a wonton stall, engrossed in eating.
Ah Yue suppressed her doubts and looked around but couldn't find anything wrong.
After the others left, the two of them looked up.
"Tell me straight, who are we really looking for all this time?"
Xie Yushu crossed his arms, his tone somewhat impatient.
He followed them out time and time again, and apart from seeing Xu Yiyi and her siblings living better and better in town, he didn't know anything about missions or contact persons.
There wasn't even a trace of them.
"What's the rush?"
Wei An slowly took a sip of soup, the steaming white mist blurring the scar on his left eye.
Good soup needs to be simmered slowly, and good shows need to be waited for patiently.
Xie Yushu chuckled lightly, "I've already come to Ping'an Town four times. The person you're waiting for isn't already gone, is he?"
Wei An's eyes flashed with malice, creating a tense moment.
He then let out a faint laugh.
"To tell you the truth, the person we're waiting for is the gang's top leader."
Xie Yushu looked puzzled upon hearing this.
"Isn't the boss here?"
Wei An glanced at him sideways.
"It's different! I'm talking about the real boss of the gang."
Wei An said, enunciating each word clearly, "No! It should be called the old leader, our former leader."
"He retired from the gang more than 20 years ago, so of course you wouldn't know since you just joined."