After the two sides had a "friendly meeting", the Qingyu tribe treated him with respect as an expert and welcomed him into the underwater palace like an ancestor. No one who was short-sighted came out to find fault, and no one dared to question his ability to handle this at such a young age. Things like that.
Therefore, sometimes being appropriately public can really save a lot of trouble.
The underwater palace of the Herring Clan is really a bit shabby. It is composed of aquatic plants and grottoes, with air leakage and, uh, water leakage everywhere.
It is easy to attack but difficult to defend and has no strategic value.
Ye Ming found a decent stone to sit on and began to communicate with them about the situation.
The herring spirits originally thought that this expert would first ask about the difficulties they faced, but who knew that this expert would first ask about the income of their clan.
This problem has always been a pain for the herring family.
Now that it was mentioned, there was some silence.
Ye Ming has finally seen what poverty means.
For such a large group, there is no other income except for ordinary herrings with no intelligence to sell their meat.
Really poor jingle.
This immediately made Ye Ming lose all energy.
As a big devil, when has he ever done a losing business?
Did the herring clan want him to suffer this loss?
Ye Ming, who felt extremely bored, casually asked them about the difficulties they were facing.
The patriarch Qin Qingbei spoke about the problem.
It turned out that some time ago, for unknown reasons, many young people from various Shui tribes in the Beizejiang area began to disappear.
Regardless of the huge number of water tribes, there are very few people who can become elites through cultivation. One of the tens of thousands of water tribes is considered good.
The disappearance of these young water tribes is a major blow to the entire water tribe.
All races took this matter very seriously and were on guard.
But this was of no use as the younger generation of the Shui Tribe continued to disappear.
All the water tribes reported this matter to Beize Jiangjiang God Office.
But Lord Jiang Shen has been in seclusion for more than 20 years. At the beginning, he said that he would never come out of seclusion until he transformed into a dragon.
He also ignored this matter.
The various ethnic groups had no choice but to leapfrog the level and report directly to the Goddess Ze Jiangjiang.
But now many places along the Zejiang River are experiencing drought, and it has not rained for several months.
People in many places pulled out the statues of Jiang Shen and exposed them to the sun, and some whipped and buried them alive.
Empress Jiang Shen was very uncomfortable with this disturbance and could only live in the Dragon Palace, unable to deal with the matter.
Although Zejiang Dragon Palace sent other investigators, after some exploration, there was no result, and they finally returned in despair.
The disappearance of the younger generations of various ethnic groups continues and is getting worse.
After hearing what they said, Ye Ming's eyes lit up.
"That is to say, the entire Beizejiang is facing this problem, right?"
"Exactly."
After hearing Qin Qingbei's answer, Ye Ming felt that he would not necessarily lose money on this trip.
The herring clan alone cannot afford the remuneration, but what if the entire Beizawa River victimized aquatic clan pays it together?
After having the idea, Ye Ming felt that he finally had the motivation to support himself in doing things, and immediately asked Qin Qing to give him the list of the missing young people of the Qingyu clan.
At the same time, they began to ask these young herrings one by one what happened before and after their disappearance.
The results obtained were unsatisfactory.
Those herrings disappeared very suddenly. Some of them disappeared suddenly just after they went out to look for food;
Some just turn around and disappear;
Others disappeared for a long time before everyone noticed...
Later, Ye Ming sat on Qing Changzui's back again and asked him to take him to check the places where the herring disappeared.
Maybe it's because it's been a while.
Even though Ye Ming had extremely yin eyes and extremely yang eyes, no special traces were found.
Ye Ming asked for some items that were used by the missing herring to use them for divination.
But this did not yield results, and the hexagram showed a blank.
Through these, Ye Ming can confirm that the murderer must be a very advanced being who can kidnap the herring without anyone noticing.
Moreover, it seems that he committed crimes throughout Beizejiang.
It can be seen that this guy is not only highly cultivated, but also very courageous. He seems not to be afraid of the pursuit of Zejiang Dragon Palace and Beizejiang Water Palace at all.
It’s just that I don’t know what the other party is doing by arresting those young people from the Shui Tribe. Otherwise, we can reverse the process based on the results and find out the murderer.
After circling around the herring clan, no more traces were found. Ye Ming said that he would go to other clans to check.
Qing Changzui immediately expressed his willingness to be a supporting force and carry Ye Ming everywhere.
He is also extremely afraid now. As a young genius of the herring clan, he has been living in fear these days, fearing that he will mysteriously disappear like other young aquatic clan members.
For him, being able to be Ye Ming's mount now would undoubtedly save his life.
Not only him, but also the younger generation of the Qingyu tribe want to be Ye Ming's mount.
In this regard, Ye Ming said, I don't mind the grandeur. We can definitely be more high-profile when doing things.
So, Ye Ming took a group of herrings and headed towards other groups.
The first stop is the neighbors of the herring clan, the bass clan.
For this clan, Ye Ming also used some tricks to suppress them, and then explained his purpose.
Hearing that this expert was here to help, the Bass family was very excited and quickly explained the situation of their injuries.
Well, by the way, Ye Ming also asked about his financial situation.
It was discovered that they, like the Qingyu clan, could only earn income by selling ordinary clan members, and were very poor.
Next, we went to grass carp, silver carp, river shrimp and other groups to check the situation.
Except for the River Shrimp clan, which is slightly rich, the other clans are extremely poor.
But fortunately, there are also wealthy races, such as the piranha clan, known as the "water bandits".
This family is very domineering and very wealthy.
Originally, Ye Ming wanted these guys to offend him so that he could take advantage of them.
Unexpectedly, these guys knew Ye Ming's reputation and behavior in advance, and they were all so well-behaved that they gave Ye Ming no excuse to attack.
Instead, they complained that the young geniuses of their clan had suffered extremely serious losses, and they were considered the greatest losses among all clans.
Afterwards, Ye Ming's large army-like team arrived outside the Beize River Water Mansion.
Since Lord Jiang Shen went into seclusion in Shuifu, only some of Lord Jiang Shen's cronies were taking care of the daily affairs. For other tribes, they were completely left alone.
Lord Beize Jiangjiangshen himself is a carp master, and he had already cultivated into the Golden Carp more than a hundred years ago.
Over the years, he has been working hard to transform into a dragon, almost completely ignoring foreign affairs.
And the carp descendants he sat down on, had embezzled almost 90% of Beizejiang's wealth, and all of them were too fat to look good.
There is no doubt that this time the young genius disappeared, and the carp family also suffered heavy losses, even worse than the piranha family.
After Ye Ming learned about this, he couldn't help but feel a little happy.
Finally met a big player and could get enough benefits.
After hearing that an expert was investigating the matter, the steward of the Shuifu Palace personally came out to greet him and invited him to enter the Shuifu Palace.
After communicating with the steward for a while, Ye Ming was very satisfied. The carp family is extremely rich. If this thing can be done, they can make a lot of money!
After confirming that he could make money, Ye Ming's enthusiasm for doing things suddenly increased several levels, and he communicated with the manager of the Shuifu Mansion in detail.
The steward of the Water Mansion is well-informed and told Ye Ming that there are many spirits that can come and go without a trace in the waters, but there are very few that can hide from the people of Beizejiang and Zejiang Dragon Palace.
Among them, there is one type of aquatic species that is the most suspicious, and that is the whitebait clan.
This clan itself is very weak and has always been at the bottom of the water clan.
But there is one skill that is very impressive, and that is its ability to hide.
Even the most common whitebait can hide in the water with its almost transparent body.
A very small number of those silver fish have become refined through cultivation, and their ability to hide their form is even more superb. Sometimes, even if they are right next to you, you may not be able to detect it.
In the Beize River, a successful silverbait appeared decades ago.
This is also the reason why Bei Zejiang and the people from Zejiang Dragon Palace gave up the pursuit.
Such an existence can only be found by a being like Jiang Shen who can mobilize the power of a river.
For other people, even if they are face to face, they may not be able to find each other.
"Does the steward mean that the silver fish is the murderer?"
Ye Ming asked directly.
"It cannot be confirmed that it is him, but he is undoubtedly the most suspected."
The steward said and explained,
"Based on time, the silverbait spirit's lifespan is almost over. It's not surprising that she would rob a young aquarist at this time."
"So, that silverbait spirit wants to use evil methods to seize the essence of the young aquatic tribe to extend its life?"
Ye Ming asked again.
The steward nodded and said:
"This is very possible. After all, so far, no aging aquarium has been harmed by it."
"So you just give up on this matter and let it continue to be arrogant?"
The steward was silent for a while and then said:
"The opponent's success or failure will only be in the recent period.
Regardless of success or failure, no aquatic tribe should be harmed by this in the future.
Besides, even if we want to look for it, we may not be able to find any trace of him unless Lord Jiang Shen or Empress Zejiang takes action..."
"To act when neither Jiang Shen nor Zejiang Empress could take action, this person's timing was really good!"
After Ye Ming said this, he continued to ask the steward of Shui Mansion about other matters.
The stewards were very cooperative and answered whatever was asked.
After asking all the questions, Ye Ming took Qing Changzui and others out of the Shuifu area.
Qing Changzui said: "Sir, what have you gained?"
Ye Ming did not answer his question, but asked instead:
"Don't you think it's strange?"
"What do you mean, sir?"
"Shui Mansion's reaction is a bit strange."
"What's weird?"
Qing Changzui didn't understand what Ye Ming meant.
"I'm just an outsider, Shuifu is the official Beizejiang government.
Now, I am an outsider who is so dedicated, but they don't care or stop me.
It's like I'm convinced that I can't solve the problem in the end, which is weird, don't you think? "
"Uh~~"
Qing Changzui didn't know how to answer.
But I heard Ye Ming say again:
"Yidi Shuifu should be the most concerned about its own authority. What I am doing now is actually mocking and provoking the official authority of Shuifu invisibly, but I have not received any resistance at all.
Is this really normal? "
Comparing his feelings, if someone was conducting a large-scale investigation in his Yanhua Mansion, he would be involved in it no matter what, otherwise he would not be able to save face.
But Beizejiang Water Mansion's reaction was really wrong.
Most people may not be able to see it, but Ye Ming, as a local city god, is very clear about the normal reactions that all parties should have.
Because of this, he was very sure that there was a problem with the Beize River Water Mansion, which might be related to this incident.
However, some things still need to be verified.
Ye Ming immediately wrote a letter in a secret language and asked the Qingyu people to secretly send it to Xinjun Lake.
In order to prevent accidents, he wrote more than a dozen of the same letters, entrusting them to different people and sending them through different routes.
After Qing Changzui helped arrange the letter delivery, he asked again:
"Sir, what's the next step?"
Ye Ming smiled and looked at the water bottom in the distance:
"Of course I'm looking for silver fish essence."
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