The fishing boats have completely shaken off the smell of land, and the salty smell of the sea is blowing in their faces. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ye Shuo stood on the deck, looking out at the vast expanse of blue. In the distance, the water and the sky are lined, the clear blue sea, and the smoke and clouds are rolled up for thousands of miles.

Mermaid Island in the East China Sea, this is the destination of his trip.

According to the half-demons, the spirit of the moon jellyfish can be found there, but it is also a place full of dangers and thorns.

The unknown distance, the unknown journey, and a group of unknown companions all seem to indicate that this road will never be as smooth as it seems.

This matter has to start when Ye Shuo was still on the shore.

At that time, he had just arrived at the dock, which was not large, but it was bustling and bustling. There is a lot of traffic and people coming and going. The loading of the loading, the unloading of the unloading, is in an orderly manner.

Boats of all sizes leaned against the docks, and the sounds of bargaining were heard, mostly people who had traveled far away from the sea renting boats.

At first, Ye Shuo was also a little at a loss, after all, ordinary people don't want to go to Mermaid Island in the East China Sea, right? How can I find a boat to go to Mermaid Island? Listening to the bargaining, he had a flash of inspiration, then I'll rent a boat too!

However, as soon as he mentioned Mermaid Island, and even as soon as the word mermaid came out, all the boatmen were busy shaking their heads and waving their hands, as if it was taboo to listen to more words.

These boatmen avoided this, but there was no shortage of good people in the business trips. In the midst of everyone's gossip, Ye Shuo also heard a lot of rumors.

Some people say that there are water ghosts wandering in this sea, which are undead who died in the water, and they are deeply resentful, and they can only be reincarnated unless they find another substitute ghost. There have been many fishermen who have gone to sea and died mysteriously, and it is said that they were caught and eaten by water ghosts.

It is also said that the mermaids there are particularly ferocious, devouring and skinning people, or pulling people into the water, not eating them or biting them, just to see humans suffocating in the water and then dying.

For these rumors, Ye Shuo chose not to believe them.

Isn't there even a lot of rumors that are spread out of the word? What's more, those who do good things quarrel in the end. Just because the versions they said were different, in order to prove that their rumors were the most reliable, they actually fought in public.

It's really unreliable. Ye Shuo shook his head.

The farther south you go, the bigger the boats, and the quieter the bargaining. There are boatmen on the big ship, working separately and in an orderly manner.

It looks like a bigger boat is better. Ye Shuo looked at these big ships, most of them were two or even three stories high, with wide decks, and they could indeed withstand the wind and waves better than small boats.

"This ...... Captain?" Ye Shuo picked a captain who looked kind as much as he could, and asked, "Well, I want to rent your ship, okay?"

The captain, chubby and round, dressed in a blue skit, with his trousers rolled up, was lying comfortably basking in the sun on the deck of his cabin.

"Huh, what are you talking about?" said the fat captain, his eyes half-squinted.

"I said-I want to rent your ship--I want to go to sea-" Ye Shuo thought that maybe the captain had bad ears, so he said in a big voice.

"Young man, why are you talking so loudly?" The fat captain plucked out his ears and glanced at Ye Shuo angrily, "I want to rent my boat, my ship is very expensive!" After speaking, he looked Ye Shuo up and down carefully.

Because Ye Shuo had been imprisoned and dirty, he changed into a new dress before leaving. It's clean and clean, but it's the clothes of Helian Mansion.

"In the past, which of the people who rented my ship didn't wear gold and silver, why did you dress like a housekeeper?" the fat captain pointed at Ye Shuo's dress.

"Or is it true?" the fat captain suddenly thought of something, "you rented a boat for your master? Okay! Okay! Then let me go and talk to your master!"

"It's not. It's me renting the boat personally. Ye Shuo replied.

"Personally, then I have to pay a deposit, how about a thousand spirit stones?" Obviously, the fat captain didn't take Ye Shuo in his eyes at all, and deliberately opened his mouth, just to make him retreat.

"Yes!" Ye Shuo didn't have any other ideas. Refreshingly took out the storage ring, and in an instant, a large number of spirit stones fell on the deck.

Looking at so many spirit stones, the fat captain's eyes narrowed again, his eyes were already small, and he smiled happily, as if he didn't have them, "I can't see it, little brother, you're quite rich!"

The fat factory director took out a package, stuffed the spirit stone into it little by little, and asked, "Then little brother, where are you going to rent a boat?" If it's too far, I'll have to add money." ”

"Uh, this ......" Ye Shuo hesitated for a moment, and finally cautiously tested: "Captain, have you ever heard of a mermaid island in the East China Sea?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the fat captain's hand with a spirit stone suddenly stopped. His neck stiffly twisted towards Ye Shuo, and he hesitated slightly: "You...... You're going to Mermaid Island?"

"Ah, no, no," Ye Shuo hurriedly waved his hand, "I'm just out of curiosity, out of curiosity, just ask." ”

"Out of curiosity, don't pretend!" the fat captain resumed his action of loading spirit stones, "Do you know how long I've been on this boat? Twenty years! Twenty years, how many people I've seen like you, who have eaten the heart of a bear and a leopard, and whose hearts are so big that they have no boundary, for what mermaid, what mermaid island to go, and all of them have gone and never returned!"

"Then, if you don't want to rent it to me, can you return the spirit stone to me?" Ye Shuo was helpless for a while, he knew that this would be the result when he said the destination.

Hearing this, the fat captain looked at the spirit stone in the package, and seemed to be a little reluctant.

"Little brother, it's very dangerous there, you don't know it! Look at my ship, there are so many shipwright brothers, I have to think about them, don't I?" So, ......" The fat captain struggled for a moment, "One price, one hundred thousand spirit stones! I'll sell this ship to you!"

With these 100,000 spirit stones, the fat captain himself has no bottom in his heart.

Although he was worried that this almost outrageously high price would directly scare the buyer away, Ye Shuo had given a thousand spirit stones so readily before, and out of the instinct of a businessman, he suddenly couldn't resist the greed for money, and raised the price fiercely.

"Okay!" Ye Shuo couldn't hide the happiness on his face. He was still thinking that if he couldn't charter a ship, he might have to go to the shipyard and have someone build one for him.

The fat captain didn't expect Ye Shuo to be so generous, and the refreshing "Okay!" made him stunned for a moment. When he came back to his senses, he immediately replied in a loud voice: "That's good, that's good, little brother, you must not regret it! I'll bring you a boat deed, you wait here, don't go away!" After taking a few steps, he couldn't help but turn around and admonish: "Don't go!"

"Fat third brother, do you want to sell the boat?" suddenly shouted the captain of a ship next to him.

The fat captain suddenly felt like someone had poked his backbone, and his smiling face, which was originally as bright as a flower, instantly withered: "Second thin man, what are you talking nonsense, how can I sell the ship?"

The second thin man smiled maliciously: "Fat third brother, I heard it with my own ears!" Then, he leaned his whole body on the railing of the boat and shouted at the fat third brother's boat: "The fat third brother is going to sell the boat!"