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Chapter 317 Clan Chief, Please Wait

Multicolored light burst forth in the darkness of the deep sea, piercing the long-silent gloom and illuminating the surrounding waters for miles around like a fairyland.

Not far away, in the caves of the merfolk tribe, some merfolk who had just fallen asleep were awakened by the sudden bright light. They squinted and peeked out of the caves, looking blankly at the source of the light to the north.

Inside the stone temple on the west side of the tribe, the walls are carved with murals depicting fish-men mating.

Inside the stone hall, more than twenty female fish-men lay sprawled on the ground, the air thick with the primal energy of life.

The merman leader walked slowly through the crowd, his gaze sweeping over each body, a muffled whisper escaping his throat: "May there be more children..."

Suddenly, a blinding light streamed into the stone hall through the skylight.

The light bathed the walls and floors in a beautiful and magnificent color.

The merman leader shuddered and abruptly looked up in the direction of the light source.

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It hurriedly left the stone hall and rushed towards the direction of the light source.

Above the ruins of the underwater city, once the light illuminating the seabed faded, a huge crater remained, filled with a large amount of silt carried by the backflowing seawater.

As the turbulent undercurrents passed through the area where Qin Ziwen was located, they suddenly slowed down, as if smoothed by an invisible hand, and the water flow became gentle.

Qin Ziwen's clothes fluttered gently in the water.

Lorne's face flushed red, and he crossed his arms, trying to calm the undercurrent of emotion.

It secretly glanced at Qin Ziwen's back, its eyes still filled with lingering shock.

Who could have imagined that such a large underwater city would simply disappear like this?

It could see everything clearly from beginning to end.

It's like taking out a card, and then "whoosh," a huge city just disappears with a buzzing sound!

Lorne looked at Qin Ziwen with a hint of awe.

Qin Ziwen stroked the cards in his hand.

On the front of the Wonder Card, the previously blank area now features an image of an underwater city.

Judging from its appearance, it is the same murloc city that was just added to the card.

[Wonder Card] Ruins of the Abyss

[Construction Requirements] Deep Sea Core, Abandoned Undersea City (Completed), Aquatic Wonders *99
When the merman leader rushed over, he saw this scene of the seabed overflowing.

Such a big city!

Gone? !
It turned to Lorne, stunned.

Lorne nodded silently.

That's right, it's here.

The merman leader fell into deep thought.

Although the merfolk tribe no longer lives in the city and has moved outside.

But these relics passed down from our ancestors suddenly disappeared.

It didn't exist in its generation.
It gazed at Qin Ziwen with a complex expression for a moment, then finally turned its head away, preparing to leave.

"Chieftain, please wait."

Qin Ziwen called out to it.

Upon hearing the sound, the merman leader stopped in his tracks.

"Do you have any other rare items?" Qin Ziwen asked Pula to repeat the question.

After hearing this, the merman leader's face turned ashen.

"no!"

It practically spat out those two words through gritted teeth, then hurried away without looking back.

Qin Ziwen rubbed his chin, and couldn't help but wonder if he had gone a bit too far.

They kidnapped the most talented murloc from the tribe, took away the cards they had accumulated over the years, looted a huge pile of the artifacts they had painstakingly cultivated, and finally emptied the entire ruins left by their ancestors...

After the merman chieftain left, Mogu approached, holding out his hand with two red cards lying horizontally in his open palm. "Master, these are the cards that dropped from the Thousand-Eyed Serpent after we hunted it," Mogu said softly.

Qin Ziwen was somewhat surprised; he hadn't seen it at the time.

Of course, it's possible that it was blocked.

Qin Ziwen wiggled his toes and leaped up a short distance in the water, just level with Mogu. He patted Mogu on the shoulder and said, "You've worked hard."

He took the card from Mogu.

[Function Card] Level 1 Insight, [Function Card] Level 1 Guild.

After putting away the cards, Qin Ziwen led everyone back to the fishman tribe.

When the merman chieftain was found,
Looking at the humans who had come looking for him, the merman chieftain said in a low voice, "There really isn't any white jade coral left. If you want some, you'll have to wait. A few in the gardens are almost ripe, but it will take some time."

After listening to Pula's translation, Qin Ziwen said, "No, that's not it. I'm here to talk to you about something else. I hope we can reach an agreement on cooperation in other areas."

Qin Ziwen took out two function cards. "These are the two cards that dropped from the Thousand-Eyed Serpent after we hunted it. Since we hunted it together, I think you should have one too."

"You can keep the card." After hearing this, the merman chieftain did not ask for the card. "It's useless to me; we can't use it."

If they were usable, these cards would have been used long ago and wouldn't have been kept until now.

Qin Ziwen pointed to the temple at his feet: "Sir, I've always been curious about how these buildings have managed to survive since the Abyss of Metamorphosis is no longer in your tribe."

As far as he knew, if the head of the homestead died, the buildings within the homestead would also fall silent.

“It’s a card. There’s a special kind of card that allows buildings to exist independently, but we don’t have that anymore,” the murloc chieftain said.

Having received the answer, Qin Ziwen suddenly understood.

If it's a magical card, then it makes sense.

“You don’t want the cards, but I think we can establish a long-term trading relationship,” Qin Ziwen said to the murloc chieftain.

The fish-man tribe can produce aquatic wonders, and since they live underwater, they hunt various aquatic creatures year-round.

In addition, there are quite a few merfolk in the tribe, so Qin Ziwen felt that he could leave an anchor here.

The anchor point, originally set in the island's urban village, can now remain in the fishman tribe.

It's more secluded and safer here.

He heard Pula relay Qin Ziwen's thoughts.

The merfolk chieftain was quite interested in Qin Ziwen's suggestion of a long-term trading relationship.

After learning the purpose of the anchor point, the murloc chieftain pondered what it could be used for.

"We can provide weapons and armor." Qin Ziwen was confident that the weapons manufactured by his ordnance bureau would be highly praised.

Because the weapons were mixed with some ghost metal, and they were also made using advanced buildings.

Its quality far surpasses that of the Murloc tribe's native weapons.

As for what they can give up.

Qin Ziwen looked around the entire merfolk tribe and smiled slightly.

Population is a precious resource.

Fishmen are people too.

When the gap between the two "civilizations" becomes large enough, it's like a siphon effect.

Lower civilizations will naturally move closer to higher civilizations.

Unaware that he had been targeted by human traffickers, the merman leader thought it over and over again and decided that the deal should be fine.

"I'll take you to choose your tribesmen, but you can't choose from the sacrificial tribe. We need to prepare for the next coming of the Grim Reaper," the merman chieftain said frankly.

It summoned a large number of murlocs.

The open space of the tribe was densely packed with fishmen.

One by one, the strangely shaped, deformed fishmen stood on tiptoe, curiously watching the man standing next to the chieftain.

(End of this chapter)