Chapter 255: Meet the Patriarch
After the merman man brought Zhang Yunxian to Ming Yang, he retreated.
At the gate of the tall and magnificent palace, only the two of them were left looking at each other.
"In the hundreds of years since I can remember, no outsider has ever been able to find a place for our merman remnants to escape from the world, but you can actually find this place? The Apocalypse really has some ability!" Ming Yang said expressionlessly.
Zhang Yunxian arched his hand: "Young Master Ming has praised it falsely! I took the liberty to come to the door this time, in fact, I came to borrow something from the nobles! If it wasn't for the urgency, I wouldn't disturb the peace of your people without permission!"
"Borrow something?" Ming Yang was a little strange, "Didn't you come to Xingshi to ask for the crime because I sent Qingying to kidnap you last time?"
Zhang Yunxian smiled slightly: "The young master misunderstood! Speaking of the last incident, there is a debtor, and the culprit Zhao Yang has been destroyed by me, you all know this, I am not the kind of person who does not know proportion, and I don't like to be troublesome, this time I really came to ask for your family!"
"Tell me first, how did you find this position?" Ming Yang did not become closer at all because of Zhang Yunxian's friendliness, and his handsome face still had a cold expression.
"It's just some small insect carving skills, not enough to worry about!" Zhang Yun explained with a smile, "Since you know that I am the Apocalypse, of course you should also know something about my skills!"
He himself is a person who doesn't like to be verbose, and most of the time he takes care of other people's emotions when it comes to socializing with others.
Generally, when the other party respects him, he will respect the other party more, but if the other party does not look down on him, he will only be more cold to him.
Ming Yang's indifferent attitude just now had already made Zhang Yunxian's heart very unhappy, if it weren't for the sake of medicine, he would have slapped his ass and left, and as soon as he was angry in his heart, he naturally spoke not very respectfully.
When Ming Yang heard his words, he frowned a little uncomfortably: "There has never been any friendship between our merman remnants and the Apocalypse, so it's a bit unreasonable for you to come to us to borrow something, right?"
"What's the matter? Young Master Ming hasn't even asked me what I came to borrow, so he is in such a hurry to refuse me?"
"Since the birth of our merman remnants, we have been living in seclusion in this underwater city for generations, never having any intersection with the outside world, except for you, no other human beings have ever found here, I don't pursue your trespassing, it is already an extrajudicial favor, you still want to borrow something from us? Hmph! Human beings, sure enough, are a group of greedy low-level creatures!"
When Ming Yang talked about human beings, his extremely contemptuous and disdainful tone was exactly the same as Li Yang of the Tianfeng Relic Clan.
Zhang Yunxian finally understood why the two of them became friends, and sure enough, things gather like and people gather in groups.
As for their dog-eyed attitude towards people, as well as an inexplicable sense of superiority over themselves as a remnant, they are really exactly the same.
Zhang Yunxian's face gradually turned cold: "Young Master Ming, since you have never dealt with human beings, why do you have such great prejudice and hostility towards us?"
Although this young master has not had any contact with human beings, in the thousands of years of history of my merman race, among my people, because of their naïve illusions about human beings, they deceived them, and finally ended up in more than 80 cases, not a hundred, but more than 80 cases, our merman race is kind by nature, and never wants to seek revenge from humans, do you still want to instill in us the hypocritical concept that human beings are noble races?"
Ming Yang's words made Zhang Yunxian a little embarrassed.
Indeed, even in the many legends circulating in human society, most of them are based on the indifference of human feelings to contrast the loyalty of the 'mermaid' or 'merman' to their feelings.
"May I ask the young master, how many members of the merman remnant clan are there at present?" Zhang Yunxian pondered for a moment and asked.
Ming Yang didn't understand why he suddenly cared about this problem, but he still replied coldly: "One hundred and thirty-six! What's wrong?"
Zhang Yunxian was slightly stunned when he heard this.
Because he remembered that Fang Yao seemed to have said before, even in the last era before the birth of new humans, compared to other races at that time, the human race belonged to a particularly rare race, but now, how could their number exceed that of the Tianfeng Relic Clan, and the Spirit Disciple Relic Clan?
More than 100 people, the number does sound small, but compared to other bereaved families, this can be regarded as a prosperous person, right?
However, Zhang Yunxian thought for a while, combined with Ming Yang's words just now, he quickly figured out the key to this, and there should be two main reasons:
First, the merman clan lives at a depth of more than 2,000 meters under the sea, and the living environment in their enchanted world should be the least changed among all the remnants in thousands of years.
Second, the special structure of the merman clan's body makes it impossible for them to learn to integrate into human society like other remnants, they can't do without the ocean, and they can't completely turn their fish tails into legs, so last time Qing Ying said that the clan rules of the merman remnants clearly stipulate that they can't leave the enchantment world without special reasons.
It is these two objective reasons that have endowed the remnants of the mermaid with an unparalleled stability in the matter of reproduction and survival over the ages.
Therefore, they have the opportunity to surpass the other remnants in terms of population.
"Okay, one hundred and thirty-six!" Zhang Yunxian clapped his hands and said, "Dare to ask Young Master Ming, these one hundred and thirty-six people, can their conduct be the same?"
Ming Yang said: "What you said is really funny, how is this possible? There is a saying that 'a dragon gives birth to nine sons, each of them is different'! Not to mention that there are more than 100 people, how can it be that everyone is the same, whether it is temperament or moral conduct, of course, there are differences between people!"
"What the young master said is right! That's the truth! Do you think that there are only more than 100 people in the remnants of the merman clan, and they are all good and bad! Do you know how many human beings there are now? Take Huaxia as an example, that is as much as 1.5 billion! Young master, think about it, among these 1.5 billion, even if the probability of those who are corrupt is only 1 in 10,000, then the number of them is 150,000! And what you just said and what you have read in the historical records is only a few dozen examples! How can you have such a deep prejudice against the entire human race just because of these dozens of bad or wicked people?"
"You...... What are you...... Strong words!" Ming Yang's face suddenly turned red and white, he felt very flustered, the opinion he had been convinced of for a long time had almost fallen apart and crumbled in this instant.
I have to say that what Zhang Yunxian said is indeed very reasonable and very convincing.
At this moment, in the palace behind Ming Yang, there was a hearty laughter: "Hahahaha! Yang'er, you have grown so big, it is the first time that you have been said to be speechless, right? Okay, bring the Apocalypse in! Blocking people at the door is not the hospitality of our merman remnants!"
Ming Yang sighed a lot, took a few steps back a little reluctantly, stood sideways, and said to Zhang Yunxian: "Please!"
It seems that he respects the one who speaks inside, and he doesn't even seem to have the courage to say a word.
Zhang Yunxian very politely rushed in the direction where the voice came, and hugged his fists to thank him: "Thank you, senior!"
After speaking, he was not pretentious, and walked in with great strides.
The roof of the palace is too high, about ten meters, the corridor is very long, and the floor is covered with high-grade Persian carpets, which are embroidered with some patterns of the sun, moon and stars, and the color is very simple black and white.
"Apocalypse! What a talent, such a terrifying cultivation at such a young age!
In the hall of the palace, in the wide stone chair high up, a middle-aged man who looked a little similar to Ming Yang sat there with his waist straight, and watched Zhang Yunxian walk in front of him with a smile in his eyes.
"Let me introduce myself, my name is Mingmeng! I am the current patriarch of the merman remnant clan!" he bowed slightly.
"Regarding my name and meaning, I don't think I need to explain it to Patriarch Ming again, right?" Zhang Yunxian also nodded, which was considered a return gift.
"No, as the saying goes, 'whoever comes is a guest'! Just now we didn't entertain well and neglected you, the Apocalypse!"
When it comes to speaking, Ming Meng is much gentler than his son Ming Yang.
Zhang Yunxian is this temper, people respect me for one point, and I recognize three points!
"Patriarch Ming is polite, it's good to say something, I'm not so small-bellied!"
Ming Meng said 'um', pointed to the chair in the hall and said, "Sit down and talk! Just now Yang'er kept telling me that you came to Xingshi to ask for guilt because of the last time Qingying kidnapped you! So his attitude is a little not very correct, and please don't go to your heart, don't be weird." ”
Zhang Yunxian hurriedly shook his head and said: "Don't blame! Don't blame! Although the Ming patriarch can rest assured, I came to you, and I didn't mean to embarrass you at all, but I heard that there is an elixir in your clan that can give birth to bones, so I wanted to ask you for something, and I didn't have any other thoughts." ”
"Oh, you're talking about our 'Wan Zhen'!"
The name 'Wanzhen' suddenly popped out of his father's mouth, and he said in surprise: "Is it 'Wanzhen' developed from thousand-year-old or even 10,000-year-old pearl grinding powder?
When Zhang Yunxian heard the words pearl powder, he understood that this 'Wanzhen' was indeed the elixir he was looking for!
"Please also ask the Ming patriarch to give me medicine!"
"You might as well tell me what you borrowed this elixir for?"
Zhang Yunxian thought to himself, if he told the truth, in order to resurrect the Lingzong of the Lingjiao Relics, he was afraid that when Mingmeng heard this explanation, he would be reluctant to lend 'Wanzhen' to himself, after all, the relationship between the eight relics has always been very delicate, and he didn't know if there was any grudge between them.
If it is just such an inch, if there is any old enmity between the merman remnant clan and the spirit disciple remnant clan, then I am afraid that it will be self-defeating, but it will delay the resurrection plan of the spirit martyr.
He thought for a while, and finally said: "Don't hide it from your father and son, patriarch, I borrowed 'Wanzhen' to save a person who is very important to me......