Feasibility of Mermaids Infiltrating Qilin

Time flies when you're busy.

Since the first tomb raiding training, the clan's training programs have become increasingly intensive.

They began to learn how to use firearms and explosives. That's right, this seemingly closed and ancient family actually trained its members to use firearms and explosives.

Of course, the tribe mainly focuses its training on demolition, so that tribesmen can use bombs to escape if they are trapped in the tomb.

Guns and explosives were very primitive in that era. Su Xingze was only curious about what guns were like now. After using them once or twice in training, he lost interest in guns and was extremely perfunctory in every class.

Even with such casualness, his marksmanship was among the best of all the teenagers; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say he hit the bullseye every time.

The training days were busy and fulfilling, and in the blink of an eye, three years have passed.

When Zhang Shenglin turned thirteen, it marked the beginning of a period of unbridled freedom for him and his fellow teenagers.

For this day, the Zhang family youths have been training for more than a decade and have conducted arduous tomb-entry rehearsals for three consecutive years.

From the first closed training session in the tomb, the Zhang family's boys would be sent into the tomb every so often to get used to the cold, dark underground environment and the endless traps and poisonous insects.

That's right, the first encounter with snakes and insects was just an appetizer, simply to let the boys experience what it's like underground.

From their second visit onwards, the tomb chamber not only contained snakes and insects specially bred by the tribe, but also corpse beetles, traps, poisonous gas, and even, on one occasion, rice dumplings.

This was also the first time Su Xingze had seen the special products of this world. After seeing them, Su Xingze said that these rice dumplings were somewhat similar to the zombie mutants, but they did not have the same bizarre appearances and abilities as the mutants.

The only good news was that their teacher, Zhang Ruifeng, was no longer suitable to teach them due to an accident, and the clan replaced him with another teacher.

After their final training session before being released into the wild, this group of Zhang family youths gathered at the training ground.

After several years of intense training, the Zhang family boys have shed their impetuousness. Standing there, they look exactly like a group of cool-faced teenagers, exuding an imposing aura.

Of course, this is just a superficial observation. It's just that the teenagers have gradually become more reserved after these years of grueling training, but their personalities remain the same. For example, Zhang Shengchun is still as gossipy and energetic as ever.

"Shenglin, Xingze, do you want to come with us when you let your animals roam freely in the wild?"

When Zhang Shengchun arrived, Su Xingze was lying on Zhang Shenglin's lap with his eyes closed, resting.

The new martial arts teacher at the clan school is a bit too responsible. Even Su Xingze, who usually slacks off, is dragged out to be supervised during training, which has led to a significant increase in his exercise intensity over the past two years.

It's not that you can't use illusions to cheat, but who knows what's wrong with this new teacher? His mental resistance is unusually high. Ordinary illusions have no effect on him, and extraordinary illusions can easily drive people insane and turn them into his puppets.

The new teacher was quite good, especially since he didn't have the same prejudice against the children as the other members of the Zhang family. He had no choice but to give up his idea of ​​controlling the child with illusion magic.

As for cognitive interference, this ability cannot be used casually, otherwise you might get struck by lightning. Because of Zhang Ruifeng's incident, the world's consciousness is now very wary of him.

This new teacher was arranged by the clan to replace Zhang Ruifeng.

More than two years ago, under the gradual contamination of the eerie atmosphere, Zhang Ruifeng experienced severe auditory and visual hallucinations, and even encountered attacks from evil and strange entities.

Although the clan later confirmed that it was just his hallucination, this hallucination existed between reality and illusion, and any harm suffered in the hallucination would become real.

Zhang Ruifeng's hallucinations became increasingly dangerous. In order to find a way to cure him, he went down into the tomb with his clansmen, but in the end, he suffered a mental breakdown and was brought back by his clansmen.

He didn't die, but he went insane.

Sometimes Su Xingze admired the Zhang family for their ability to resist the invasion of pollution with their own willpower, but in the end, they just lost all their rationality and became madmen.

If an ordinary person were to come into contact with those corrupt and bizarre powers, they would undoubtedly degenerate into a monster.

Perhaps this is related to the training they received from childhood. Even if he looked down on Zhang Ruifeng, he had to admit how strong Zhang Ruifeng's will was.

Su Xingze yawned lazily, glancing at Zhang Shengchun and Zhang Heshan beside him.

"you?"

Perhaps mistaking his intention to agree, Zhang Shengchun's eyes lit up, and he told him about his small team without hesitation.

"There are me, Heshan, Jingshan, and Zhang Yexuan. If you include the others, there will be six of us."

"Heshan and I have obtained part of the mechanism diagram of an ancient Tang Dynasty tomb. We will go directly to that tomb to complete the mission, and we can allocate the rest of our time as we wish. We can go wherever we want, as long as we return to our clan territory by the end of the year."

For these teenagers who had lived in the Zhang family's territory since childhood and had never left the Zhang family's land, the outside world held a strong attraction for them.

If it weren't for the fact that letting children roam freely in the wild is truly dangerous, with people dying every year during this activity, these teenagers, who yearn for the outside world so much, would probably wish they could start doing so several years earlier.

Zhang Shengchun assumed Su Xingze would agree without hesitation, given their favorable terms, familiarity with each other, and the presence of clues about the ancient tomb and some of its mechanisms. Anyone willing to participate in the release would be willing to accept.

"I reject."

“You agree, then we…” Suddenly realizing he meant to refuse, Zhang Shengchun’s eyes widened. “You refused? You actually refused my invitation!”

Zhang Shengchun's face was filled with disbelief, and he even looked somewhat aggrieved, his clear eyes filled with questions.

Aren’t we friends?

Su Xingze coughed, then sat up and leaned on Zhang Shenglin's shoulder. Zhang Shenglin adjusted his position to make him more comfortable.

Zhang Shengchun turned his attention to Zhang Shenglin: "Shenglin, what do you say?"

"I'll listen to Aze."

Zhang Shenglin wasn't very interested in Zhang Shengchun's invitation. He had been listening to the little merman talk about his plans for the wild for the past few days, and he knew that the little merman wouldn't travel with any member of the Zhang family for the plan to succeed.

No matter how good Zhang Shengchun's offer was, he wouldn't agree.

"I was so stupid!" Zhang Shengchun said with a look of resentment in his eyes. "I was actually stupid enough to ask you."

He should have known that this person, whose eyes were only on Zhang Xingze, wouldn't give any other answer.

Zhang Shengchun came over full of confidence, but left dejected.

Even Zhang Shengchun, who was on good terms with them, was rejected, and the other teenagers in the clan school wouldn't bother coming to make trouble for them, so the two of them became a completely isolated area.

Seeing that it was almost time, Su Xingze stood up, brushed the grass off his clothes, and turned to look at the boy standing behind him.

The thirteen-year-old boy was slender, probably because all his nutrition was used to grow taller, and he looked rather thin.

But Su Xingze knew that these were all appearances. In reality, Zhang Shenglin's thin body contained great power. He might not be able to kill a tiger with one punch, but a tiger would definitely be brought down after three punches.

Su Xingze smiled and extended his hand to Zhang Shenglin: "Shenglin, let's go home and pack our things."

Zhang Shenglin lowered his head slightly to meet the little mermaid's smiling blue eyes, reached out and grasped the little mermaid's hand, and a faint smile curved his lips.

Three years have passed, and the little mermaid's height has hardly increased. Three years ago, he was only a little shorter than him, but now he is almost a head shorter.

Zhang Shenglin was so concerned about the little mermaid not growing taller that he became flustered, but fortunately he soon learned the reason from the little mermaid.

The purer the bloodline, the slower the growth rate of the offspring. He didn't know how pure the little merman's bloodline was, but just by looking at the little merman's appearance, he knew that the bloodline purity was not low.

In fact, Zhang Shenglin's growth rate is much slower than that of normal people. However, because he is in the Zhang family and surrounded by people of bloodline, this difference is not noticeable. But once he leaves the Zhang family, he will find that any 13-year-old boy outside is actually taller than him.

Su Xingze and Zhang Shenglin were not in a hurry to go home. They both knew that after this release, they would not return to the Zhang family. Su Xingze had been planning for this day for a long time.

The Zhang family's defenses were extremely tight; the boys couldn't leave their ancestral lands at will. Even going to town meant they were still under the Zhang family's watchful eye. Only when the boys were allowed to roam freely would the Zhang family permit them to leave—this was their opportunity to escape the Zhang family's control.

Su Xingze's plan was that as soon as they left the Zhang family, they would go directly to a place far away from the Zhang family, find a tomb and simply pretend to die in the tomb, in order to escape from the Zhang family.

They were never going back, so the two didn't rush home.

The Zhang family is where Zhang Shenglin grew up. Although there may not be many happy memories left for him here, it still holds special significance for him.

Su Xingze and Zhang Shenglin strolled through the Zhang family mansion, looking at this cold, austere, high-rise ancient house with appreciation for the first time.

This was supposed to be a slightly melancholic farewell trip, but if you ignore the fact that they accidentally stumbled on a young couple's date, this silent goodbye would have been perfect for them.