Ye Chuqi was still smiling as she told San San, "He's taking quite a while to turn around this time. If he's feeling all right, let him swim around in the sea a little longer. Better that than coming out rashly, scaring someone, and getting beaten up by other people."
Big Black Fish had now formed a subtle connection with the space, which allowed him to communicate with San San from a distance. However, that distance depended on both his strength and the strength of the space, so it could not be too great. He had only barely managed to contact San San after swimming close to shore. Upon hearing Ye Chuqi's advice, he hurriedly hid himself in deeper waters again, afraid of being discovered.
After another short wait, a noise came from the entrance. Ye Chuqi ducked into the bushes, where her dusty appearance made her genuinely difficult to spot.
Three people emerged from the entrance, all dressed like ordinary people, with no distinguishing features. Anyone who could move freely through the Town Office and find this hidden place was no ordinary person to begin with.
"They're adventurers." Ye Chuqi frowned as she watched the way they moved. "I keep feeling that the danger Herman mentioned might involve more than just sea beasts."
The sight of those three gave Ye Chuqi a feeling she could not quite describe. Beyond the sense of danger and something subtly amiss, she also felt that she was missing something crucial that would tie all the clues together.
"There's something about their scent that feels very familiar." Yet all three had completely stripped away their identifying traits. Even their faces were so ordinary that they would vanish into a crowd, and their blank expressions revealed nothing further. Only the way one of them moved