Seven kilometers west of Waiheke Island, fifty meters below sea level, is a shark man settlement.

The leader of the shark people swimming in the seawater, Yeger, led a dozen tribesmen, and after exploring the surrounding seabed, pointed to a flat undersea shelf and said, "Here, it's very good, grazing." ”

Several shark people carefully placed a huge net of seaweed on their backs on the ground.

The remaining shark-men inserted hundreds of round sticks made of strange wood into the soil of the seabed in turn to form a circle with a diameter of 100 meters.

Then, these ferocious sea creatures slowly lifted the seaweed nets that had been woven and tied the ends of the nets to the bottom of the round sticks to create a simple but practical large-scale breeding cage.

Yeger looked at the finished breeding shed and nodded slightly: "Now, catch fish fry and graze." Next year, harvest. ”

One of the clansmen swam up to Jeger, scratching his shark fin and saying, "Food, no, starvation." Is it okay, grazing, etc., preferred, predatory?"

Jeger thought for a moment, nodded and agreed to the proposal: "Predation, yes." But, control, rations. ”

"It's pitiful that after thousands of years of reproduction, your brains are still the size of sardines. ”

The sudden laughter made the sharks turn around angrily and look in the direction from which the sound came.

Dressed in a well-tailored seal skin suit, holding a jewel-encrusted alloy trident in her hand, Rita led several mermaid warriors to swim slowly in front of Yeger.

Jeger opened his round eyes, glared at Rita, and shouted, "You guys!"

Rita waved her hand nonchalantly, "Crossing the line, listen to what you're talking about, isn't it a normal thing to visit your newly moved neighbors?"

Ye Ge opened his mouth and was about to speak, when he suddenly remembered something, and quickly turned around and gestured to his people.

The sharks reacted, swam in a panic, and blocked the breeding shed that had just been built with their bodies.

Seeing this scene, Rita said angrily and funny: "Do you think that I will be interested in these broken logs and this broken net?"

Jeger gritted his teeth and said, "Mermaids, thieves, liars!

Listening to the other party's accusation, Rita did not get angry, but smiled quite generously: "Yege, look at your people, they are all hungry and dried." I know that when you fled the Black Plague, you didn't bring any food with you. So, what can I steal from you, what can I deceive?"

Jeger raised his head and said, "Occupy, fertile, sea. We, here, are barren. ”

Rita said with a smile, "In the language of the landers, this involves a first-come, first-served statement. We found the dragon god before you, so we can naturally apply for a better sea area. However, it is the beginning of spring, and in a month or two, there will naturally be more fish here......"

Jeger nodded unconsciously.

Rita rolled her eyes and said, "However, the question is, can your people survive this month or two? I heard that this migration, your people have more than 6,000 people, and a large part of them are pregnant female sharks, and it is a question of whether they can give birth to healthy children due to lack of food." ”

Rita's words caused the sharks to look at each other, and among them, some of them began to whisper to each other.

Hearing the worries of the clansmen in his ears, the restless Jeger yelled, "Mermaid!

Rita beckoned, and a merfolk warrior swam up and placed a cylindrical object wrapped in a casing into the former's hand.

Rita glanced at Yeger, flicked her wrist, and threw the round intestine in her hand at the Shark-Man Patriarch.

The inexplicable Yeger grabbed the round intestine, and the heaviness of his hand and the smoothness of the touch made him ask, "This, what?"

"This is the food that the merchants of Twilight City invented and produced specifically for mermaids. The outer layer of flesh film comes from a skin sac called "blood worm", which is used to wrap things, which can block liquid and air, and play a role in preservation and storage. ”

Looking at Yeger, who looked confused, Rita talked eloquently: "As for the ingredients in this, the merchants of Duxi City first mixed fish, squid, shrimp, crab meat, seaweed, and condiments together, stirred thoroughly, then dehydrated, then sterilized at high temperature, and finally compressed the volume and stuffed into the casing. ”

"Such a seafood round sausage is divided into three types, the large one is forty centimeters long, which can meet the nutritional needs of an adult for a day, and the medium one is twenty-five centimeters......"

Finding that Yeger still had an expression of obedience, Rita rolled her eyes, sighed and said, "In short, this thing is rations, you can eat it." ”

Jeger stared at the sausage in his hand, a look of vigilance.

Behind him, an older shark-man swam over and proposed, "Patriarch, I'll come." ”

Rita said in a loud voice like an idiot, "Don't worry! there's no poison in there, if you don't want to eat it, just give it back to me!"

Jeger glared at Rita, threw the sausage directly into his bloody mouth, chewed it twice, and swallowed it.

Ten seconds passed.

The shark-men looked nervously at their patriarch and saw that the latter was standing motionless, his eyes glazed and his mouth wide open, as if he had been enchanted.

"Mermaid!

The irascible shark man picked up the bone stick beside him, waved his fins, and yelled to attack Rita and his party.

Jeger finally moved.

"Stop!"

The Shark Man Patriarch immediately stopped his men's irritable behavior, looked at Rita and said hesitantly, "Sausage, delicious, very." ”

Rita smiled and said, "How delicious is it?"

"I, after birth, sausage, the tastiest. ”

The evocative expression on Yeger's face made Rita smile triumphantly.

Pulling out a piece of jammed sausage from between his teeth, Yege carefully put it in his mouth, closed his eyes and savored it for a while, then asked, "Sausage, how, exchange?"

Rita lifted her white, slender palm and beckoned behind her.

Soon, the four mermaid warriors struggled to carry a large stone box, slowly swam in front of the shark man, and placed it in the open space in front of Jeger.

Yege lifted the heavy top lid of the stone box with one hand, and the box was full of seafood and sausages, making him swallow unconsciously.

"There are 200 large seafood sausages here. Rita turned the trident in her hand and said in a voice full of kindness, "Take it, this is our gift to our neighbors." ”

Jeger squinted at Rita and asked in a deep voice, "Gift? mermaid, what do you want?"

Rita shook her head: "We are neighbors, not enemies, these represent friendship and do not need your return." ”

"Merfolk, don't trust. Jeger gritted his teeth and said, "We, no, fooled! gifts, don't! exchange, yes!"

Rita scoffed, "Swap?

"We, the warehouse, have fish!"

"Okay, then let's settle the score! In the market of Twilight City, a kilogram of fresh fish is worth 5 copper stars, and I count a fish as 20 copper stars. For large seafood sausages, one is 90 bronze stars. There are a total of 200 sausages in the chest, and the value is 18,000 bronze stars, which is converted into 900 fish!"

Rita stretched out her hand to Yeger as she spoke, and said slowly, "If you don't believe what I say, you can go to Waiheke Island, find a random merchant in Dusk City, and ask me if this account is wrong?"

"900 fish?"

Yeger froze in place, his fins trembled slightly, and he whispered, "We, the fish, are not enough." ”

Rita's face showed an 'I know' expression: "Think for yourself, Jeger, your people are starving, and your food will only last for a week at most. ”

After a moment of silence, after some struggle, Yeger gritted his teeth and roared in a low voice: "Gift, I want it!"

Rita clapped her hands and laughed, "That's right. ”

Watching the sharks carry the stone box down, Rita said to Yeger again, "Now that the gift has been accepted, I want to invite you to my clan as a guest, do you agree?"

Faced with the mermaid's invitation, Jeger stopped the dissuasion of his people, looked at Rita and said, "Let's go." ”