Feasibility of Mermaids Infiltrating Qilin

Someone has entered this place.

Su Xingze followed the scent of blood and stopped when he sensed someone approaching. He made no move to avoid them, unsure whether he or the person was in greater danger.

Su Xingze stopped to find out the origins of these people and to make some preparations.

After all, if he were to appear before ordinary people without doing anything, it would be a catastrophe for them.

The premise is that the people who appear here are truly ordinary people.

The group entered from a low-lying muddy pool by the water. There was an abandoned path along the edge of the pool, which Su Xingze guessed was the original entrance to the ancient city. He just didn't know what had happened here, or if a major earthquake had occurred, causing the ancient city to sink underground and become a submerged underground city.

There were more than a dozen adults entering the ancient city, and strangely enough, they also brought several children, all of whom were quite young, the youngest looking only six or seven years old.

Su Xingze secretly observed the group of people. They were wearing retro gray-black clothes with no sense of style. Even though these clothes looked dowdy, they made the people look tall, long-legged, and full of energy.

It was unclear what they had been through, but each of them had some wounds, and Su Xingze could see that their wounds were still bleeding. The blood mixed with water flowed to the ground and gathered into a small, light pink puddle.

Beneath the pool behind the group, sinister and twisted creatures kept trying to approach, coveting these rare prey. However, they seemed to be afraid and could only watch from afar, not daring to get close.

The newcomers noticed this as well. The man in the lead glanced back at the puddle, calmly wrung out the water from his clothes, and gave instructions to the people behind him.

"Treat the wound as soon as possible, don't waste any more time."

The others followed his instructions, opening the small fish skin pouches they carried to speed up the treatment of the wounds.

Su Xingze smelled the lingering scent of blood. The blood of these people all smelled quite sweet, but the sweetest scent came from the wounded child in the crowd.

The child looked to be seven or eight years old. He had several bloody marks on his arm, which looked like knife cuts, unlike the marks on the other people's bodies that looked like they had been bitten by something.

interesting.

Su Xingze moved closer, suddenly becoming interested in the purpose of this group's visit.

kindness?

Su Xingze moved a little closer, feeling somewhat surprised.

They are descendants of the bloodline.

From the lingering scent of blood they exuded, Su Xingze recognized these people, but for the moment he couldn't confirm what bloodline they belonged to.

The only certainty is that this is a group of blood relatives, and this information is being passed on to Su Xingze through the blood that is floating in the air.

Su Xingze did not choose to approach this group rashly. Now that he had discovered their bloodline identity, his previous plans were no longer applicable.

He maintained a distance that was neither too close nor too far, secretly observing these people from the shadows.

He watched as the group of blood descendants ventured deeper into the ruins of the ancient city. He saw that when faced with swarms of bloodthirsty monsters, these people did not hesitate to grab a child, ignore the child's fearful cries, and ruthlessly slit the child's wrist. The gushing blood drove back the monsters that kept surging up.

The wound was too big; the child was bleeding uncontrollably, and his face was frighteningly pale.

The child wouldn't live much longer. Su Xingze saw his life force rapidly dissipating as his blood flowed away, and those closest to the child naturally noticed as well.

They did not abandon the child, intending to make the most of him before he died.

Having followed this group of people all the way, Su Xingze roughly learned about their origins.

The group of people who entered the ancient city were surnamed Zhang. They all came from the same family and their purpose in coming here was to retrieve the lost ancestral token of their family.

A strange family. This was Su Xingze's initial impression of the Zhang family.

The Zhang family gave the child some simple treatment to stop the bleeding, rested for a while, and then continued on their way with the other children.

Finally, they arrived at what appeared to be the edge of this ancient city, where an ancient ship was stuck in the mud. Here, including the weak child, three children had all died from bloodletting.

The Zhang family seemed to have failed to achieve their goal, as several strange corpses and snakes emerged from the boat, interrupting their plans. After several members of the Zhang family died, the remaining members, along with the two surviving children, fled back the way they came.

In an effort to drive away the corpse and the snake, one of the Zhang family members stabbed the child in his hand without hesitation. The snake and the corpse were afraid of the child's blood, which bought them a lot of time.

The Zhang family fled all the way and finally entered a building that was half-submerged in silt.

He remembered that this was one of the places he had sensed before, places that possessed a strange aura.

Su Xingze flicked his tail a few times and silently emerged from the water. His flowing, pearly tail fins spread out in layers, like a long, flowing gauze dress. As a mermaid with a large tail, his movements in the air were no different from those in the water.

Perhaps he was limited by his race when he was alive, but now he is an irrational being, so it's normal for a mermaid to be able to fly.

Su Xingze flew into the half-collapsed building. Apart from a child's corpse lying by the well, Su Xingze did not find a single member of the Zhang family.

Su Xingze surveyed his surroundings, finally fixing his gaze on the child's corpse on the ground. He twitched his tail, and the layers of thin gauze-like tail fins dispersed like mist.

He leaned closer to smell the child's blood, then dipped his jade-like finger in it, tasted it lightly, and finally discerned the bloodline of this group of blood descendants from the residual information in the blood.

He is a descendant of the Qilin bloodline.

Upon learning that the Zhang family members possessed the bloodline of the Qilin, Su Xingze suddenly felt a deep sense of bewilderment.

The Qilin is a benevolent beast. Its descendants, influenced by their bloodline, may not become great saints, but at least they all possess a kind heart, are mostly gentle in nature, and are extremely protective of their offspring and cubs.

However, these descendants of the Qilin bloodline are different; they are ruthless and cold-blooded towards the cubs in their clan.

Su Xingze has never liked to define a person's character based on bloodline, but the fact that a descendant of the Qilin bloodline is so cold-blooded and cruel is completely beyond his imagination.

This group of people with the surname Zhang and the bloodline of the Qilin seemed to have completely mutated.

Putting aside the speculation about the mutated Qilin bloodline, Su Xingze waved his hand, and the soil beneath the child opened its mouth wide, swallowing the child's corpse.

In mid-air, Su Xingze coldly watched the cracked earth reappear. The child's corpse and bloodstains on the ground disappeared as if they had never existed.

He then slowly descended, his tail tip gently touching the well opening in front of the child's body. As if repelled by something, the silt was forcibly opened, revealing a dark hole.

Upon entering the port, Su Xingze followed the scent of the Qilin blood.

The well led to a stone hall filled with mud. As soon as he emerged from the mud, Su Xingze heard sounds of fighting coming from the depths of darkness, and the air was thick with a complex smell.

The smell of blood, the stench of decay, the stench of mud...

The increasingly strong stench of blood completely overwhelmed other smells, foreshadowing the fierce battle inside.

A faint ringing sound could be heard...

Su Xingze looked up and saw a pile of strange insect corpses on the ground, and then a corpse lying in the mud. Judging from its posture, it must have been attacked from behind.

The stench of blood grew stronger, and Su Xingze encountered another half-rotten humanoid creature, two meters tall. Around this creature was the corpse of a member of the Zhang family whom he had seen before.

It was described as a humanoid creature because it emitted a putrid stench from within, green liquid flowed from its body, and it had many fresh wounds on its body. Su Xingze could smell the lingering scent of Qilin blood on these wounds.

The Qilin is believed to ward off evil and disaster, and its blood is no exception, containing magical power.

The humanoid creature on the ground was clearly not ordinary. It seemed that the Zhang family members had used Qilin blood to enchant it and kill this creature that resembled a combination of a zombie and a ghoul.

The sounds coming from afar gradually faded, eventually turning into silence.

Su Xingze continued walking forward, and he finally saw what had happened to the Zhang family.