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Tens of thousands of large fish distributed throughout the Xiangyi waters formed an extensive net under Liang Qu's command, repeatedly "fishing" from shallow to deep, from near to far.

Wherever a discovery was made, the net's nodes would ripple with subtle disturbances.

Over three days, Liang Qu received similar ripples more than a dozen times, but not once was the search fruitful, leading to sheer disappointment.

The cognition of ordinary small fish was limited; during the three days, it was all false alarms and errors, wasting quite a bit of energy.

So much so that Liang Qu began to doubt whether relying on small fish to find a mermaids' settlement was reliable at all, or perhaps the Old Cherdak was senile and had given him false information?

No matter what, he had to make a trip.

The vast and tranquil Great Marsh was as if a meteor streaked across the sky, suddenly pulling out a long white trail in the water.