A Blood Red Top Hat

Chapter Twenty Øne: Beta

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The door creak open, like all other doors, unused for a long period of time.

Blue. The first color I saw, of course, it's located underwater, the Tierney's Aquarium.

"Through mermaids' eyes? What'd you think that means?" Leaping asked as sge took a look around the building, the large glass windows that shows into the blue.

"What happened to the fish that live here?" Leaping added, she let out a hand and touches the glass tank that once held the colorful jellyfishes.

"I don't know." I shrugged as I finish the sentence, "but first, what does the mermaid's eyes mean?"

Leaping shrugged again, but soon realized something and her eyes lit up.

"Mermaids are creatures who live underwater."

I raise an eyebrow, "I know that."

"No,no,no let me finish." Leaping waved her hand to signal me to shush.

"They could get along with other dangerous fishes like sharks."

I stared at her for a while, and she stared back, "you know, let's go back to camp, we have things to back up."

I finally stopped staring and step back to the door, Leaping did too. And that done, we slowly walk back to the camp.

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"Wretched what dark magic you use?" Mythical gasped as she sees the cleanness of the hut and the comparison between when we first reached here.

"Guys, we needed to solve a puzzle." Leaping said, "the mermaid puzzle?" Eagle asked, Leaping nodded and Eagle nodded back.

"Any clues?" Leaping asked, some of them shrug but Wretched-

"It could mean the deep water camera that ajhq once put them there."

"Wretched. How. Did. You. Become. So. Smart!?" Leaping seems like she's almost crying.

"What?" Eagle questioned. Seems like she can't connect the dots.

"The riddle says 'Only the mermaids could ever seen, that could mean the cameras, it's underwater like the mermaids, and it won't be damaged by the shark."

And now Eagle's face lights up, "So you believe we could find more clues by looking through the cameras?"

Wretched nodded happily as how Eagle gets his strategy, "I believe we still have a few hours before sunset, we could down go and investigate."

The team exchange a look again, and immediately start to work. Going to Tierney's Aquarium.

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Blue. Again, through the screens in the aquarium, the dark blue fills the screen like a night sky and the refection of the scales of the fish are the stars. The whole screen is the same instead of one part, left bottom of the screen.

"A Beta is all you need, standing tall not deciding to flee."

New riddle.

"Great, another riddle, who wrote these?" Leaping starting to stress out of not able to find the missing team.

"This riddle is a bit harder..." Wretched sat back and thinks.

(Who could guess this riddle? Hint, it's a place in crystal sands.)

"Beta?" I talks to myself.

I don't know.