I fixed my eyes on the mermaid in the pool, and she fluttered her eyes and said, "Actually, people in the past didn't call us mermaids, but mermaids." ”

"Shark man?" I said with wide eyes, "Shark oil is ......"

I pointed at her, but I didn't dare to say it, for fear of angering her.

But it didn't seem that she was angry, she nodded and said: "That's right, when the fishermen caught us in the past, they would hand it over to the government, and the government would send us to a special place to boil mermaid oil and use it for lighting the lamp, which would not be extinguished for ten thousand years." ”

My face twitched slightly, and I said, "Won't you explain it to them?"

"How do you explain it? The merman doesn't even say what you say. The mermaid asked rhetorically.

"Then how can you say that?" I asked, surprised.

"Zhao Tuo, the lieutenant of Nanhai County, had not yet established the Nanyue State at that time, and the Nanhai County of the Qin State was erected, he was ordered to set up an army dedicated to capturing the mermaids, and the captured mermaids were generally sent directly to the Qin Imperial Palace, but when I was captured, Zhao Tuo left me out of curiosity. The mermaid said.

"Why did you leave you, is there anything special about you?" I asked rhetorically.

"Actually, I'm nothing special, just because I'm a female merman, they generally catch male mermaids, because females are relatively rare, and bear the task of breeding offspring, will be in the deep sea, generally not too shallow, only adult males who come out to catch food will be caught, but I am very curious about the outside world because of my playfulness, so I secretly followed the fishing team to set off, but I didn't want to meet Zhao Tuo's fishing team, unfortunately I was caught. The mermaid thought for a while, then looked up at me and said: "Zhao Tuo is curious, why the merman will have the upper body of a person, but the back half of the body of a fish, and can live in the water for a long time, they have dissected a lot of our merman, in fact, we merman have lungs, but our lungs are more special, can absorb air from the water, after the lungs enter the water, the oxygen in the water is sucked out, and then the rest of the water is spit out, and this action has been repeated." ”

"Then why didn't he kill you, but kept you?" I asked curiously.

"Didn't I say it, because I was a female merman, not only a little smaller, but also with a beautiful woman's face and figure, and then Zhao Tuo wanted to know, can we learn to speak, write, communicate, etc. like ordinary humans, because I was very scared when I was arrested, and kept calling my mother, mother! The mother in the merman language is the same as the human language, in fact, it is not only the merman race, but also in many ethnic languages. Mom's pronunciation is the same as that of humans, so Zhao Tuo left me and treated me as an experiment, he raised me as a human being, asked someone to teach me to speak, write, sing, dance, and even asked a wizard to teach me witchcraft, I didn't expect me to know everything. The mermaid took a deep breath and said: "Actually, I was afraid that they would kill me to boil oil, so I redoubled my efforts, plus I was originally smarter, so I quickly learned, after learning, I danced and sang to Zhao Tuo, and became an alternative dancer, once there is a major festival, he will let me dance in the pool for everyone to watch, and I have become Zhao Tuo's biggest bargaining chip with other princes and kings, because only he Zhao Tuo has piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, can sing and dance, and can speak the beauty of the merman." ”

I see, but it's one thing whether her explanation is credible or not, and what I want to know is why she's here, and why has she survived so long?

I looked the mermaid up and down and first asked, "Why are you here?"

"Funeral. The mermaid sighed and said: "I am Zhao Tuo's favorite dancer, when he died, he named me to accompany the funeral, and it was not a burial, but a burial, because the dead mermaid can't dance, so he made such a ban and sealed me here." ”

"And how did you get to live until now? More than 2,000 years, you have to give me an explanation?" I see how it answers this question.

"I don't know the specifics. The mermaid shook her head and said: "But you have to be clear, the life span of aquatic creatures is generally long, the thousand-year-old king is 80,000 years old, and the life span of our mermaid clan is not short, because I am young, and no one has told me how many years we can live, but before I was captured, the oldest of the elders in our clan was already more than a year old." ”

"Well, even if you have two thousand years to live, how did you survive, didn't you eat or drink?" I asked again.

"Yes, don't you see that there is not a single fish in the lake? They were all eaten by me, but I found that even if I didn't eat, I wouldn't feel hungry, and it was strange that the old people in our clan would get older as they got older, but I never changed, and I was like this when I was buried, and I am still like this now. She even took the initiative to express her doubts.

I frowned slightly, looked at the pillars around me, thought for a while, and said, "Maybe it's because of these six pillars and formations, didn't you say that the water in this pool is dust-free water? ”

"Maybe that's the case. The mermaid nodded.

"There is another question, how can you look exactly like Xia Mengping, since you have already said it, you might as well talk about this problem. I took my twin swords and looked at her intently.

"You're persistent. She thought for a moment and said, "It's okay to tell you, it's disguise, and there is disguise in witchcraft, and I can change my appearance as I want." ”

I remember that the patriarch of the Wu clan in the past disguised himself as a Yueyang Dao person to deceive me, so I know that the Wu clan has witchcraft.

But the disguise technique doesn't even know Yuelan, how can she be?

"Is this hard to learn?" I asked casually.

"Well, it's hard. The mermaid nodded and said: "And it is generally not passed on, it is passed down from generation to generation in the hands of the tribal leaders, because of my particularity, so Zhao Tuo ordered the leader of one of the tribes to pass on the witchcraft to me without reservation, and threatened the lives of his entire clan, so he passed it on to me without reservation." ”

"Proof it to me. "I don't believe she's transfigular.

"Well, okay, you wait. She nodded, then plopped and dived into the water again.

I stood on the top of the steps and waited to see how she could prove it.

Three minutes later, the water came out with a thud.

The moment I came out of the water, I was stunned and frightened.

(End of chapter)