Introduction to the work "Searching for Scales in Mountains and Seas: Red-tailed Mermaid and the Hunting Path"
In the mountain forest on a rainy night, the young man Alang broke into the stream to collect life-saving herbs and encountered a strange fish that was dying - its red tail was like a burning coral, its head was decorated with silver hairs, and its wounds were oozing with golden blood. He wrapped the fish and put it in a bamboo basket. Unexpectedly, this rescue actually revealed the secrets deep in the mountains and seas.
The fish disappeared the next day, leaving only a warm-glow pearl (a treasure formed from the mermaid's tears). The withered herbs in the basket were stained with pearlescent light and could actually reduce the fever of a child with high fever in half an hour. It wasn't until Chizhu, a girl in red, appeared under the moonlight, with water plants still hanging on her tail fins, that Alang was shocked to realize that he was saving a mermaid in the South China Sea who was being hunted by fish hunters.
Mermaid beads can nourish vegetation and warn of danger. Water-avoiding beads allow people to breathe in the water. The red jade pendant in Batu Caves is the key to returning red beads home. But crises come one after another: the fish hunter Tiecha approaches, the stream is blackened by miasma, the greedy drug dealer sets a trap for the mermaid bead, and the dragon-locking net is about to entangle the red tail of the red bead at any time.
In order to protect the red pearl, Alang carries the mermaid bead and the demon-suppressing commander's token, and accompanies her to go into the cave to find the jade pendant, break the net to save the same people, and use the water-avoiding beads to purify the poisonous stream. He grows from an ordinary boy to a guardian who dares to block dangers. When the jade pendant points to the waves of the South China Sea, the mermaid beads illuminate the sailing ship, and the red tail cuts through the water, this adventure in the secrets of the mountains and seas truly begins - it turns out that the most touching adventure is never the encounter with fantasy, but the encounter with a person who is worthy of protecting with all his strength.
