"The master and the others must have been delayed by something. They will definitely return," Sizhi said, sounding half-convinced even to himself.
More than a hundred years ago, when the master and those who had left with her had not returned for twenty or thirty years, they realized the master might have encountered danger. From being worried and scared to trying many methods, they sent members of their clan to search for their whereabouts...
They ventured both underwater and on land, of course mainly focusing their search beneath the sea. Unfortunately, decades passed with no results, and instead, many of their members were lost to the bellies of fish. They still couldn't find any news of their master.