Mermaid meat?

Just the word mermaid has already made Tsing Yi have a very ominous premonition.

So she asked in a bewildered whisper, "Master, what kind of mermaid is it?" Mo is not - Mo is not the white fish? ”

As she spoke, she glanced under the rocks again, and saw that the white fish had eaten the pieces of meat in only three or two bites, and they were licking their webbed palms greedily, looking unsatisfied.

"Yes and no." Deadwood replied ambiguously.

Tsing Yi was stunned on the spot when she heard this, and before she could confirm it again, a cold dagger was suddenly stuffed into her hand.

"You take this." Deadwood said with a stern expression, "Since the white fish is here, the mermaid must not be far away, in case you encounter a mermaid, you can just use it for self-defense." ”

Deadwood's words were too serious, which made Tsing Yi feel that the cave they were in became more and more terrifying.

So she held the dagger tightly, barely kept her composure, and said, "Master, what is that mermaid?" Really—is it so dangerous? ”

"Mermaid, that is the most evil and terrifying monster that even legends are extremely rare!" Deadwood stared at the group of white fish, first showing an expression of disgust, and then she quickly reined in that disgust, turned her head and explained to Tsing Yi with a serious face, "As the name suggests, a mermaid is a monster with a fishtail and a human body, has Tsing Yi ever heard of a shark?" ”

"Yes." Tsing Yi nodded lightly and said, "I once heard Hu Ji mention that the merman wept into tears, weaved water, and couldn't speak, but he had a natural singing voice. She originally wanted to get one to go back to the inn to play, but the merman couldn't leave the sea, so she had to give up...... However, are mermaids the same creatures as mermaids? ”

"How can it be the same? The shark has fish scales on the face and gills on the chin, and feeds on fish and shrimp on weekdays, so it has always lived in isolation and is afraid of the living. Deadwood frowned slightly, and explained, "Mermaids are different, they are often beautiful, except for the tail of the fish, almost no different from ordinary people. When people who don't know their true nature first see them, they only think that they are very pure and innocent. And mermaids like to live in groups the most, and they love to be close to the living. They always hide in the depths of the lake on weekdays, and when they are on the move, they haunt the riverbank ferries in groups, and if they happen to fall into the water, they will also come to the rescue of those who are drowning......"

Hearing this, Tsing Yi felt that the mermaids didn't seem to be so scary, at least, they were much more normal than these white fish under the rocks.

"Since mermaids like to be close to people and often haunt the ferry, there should be a lot of mortals who know that they have zài, right?" Tsing Yi suddenly asked with some doubts, "Then how can even legends be extremely rare?" And, Master, how do you know that those white fish eat mermaid meat? ”

"Rumors are scarce because those who saw merfolk either died or were transformed into mermaids by them." Deadwood's gorgeous face suddenly distorted, but it quickly changed into a merry smile, and then she continued softly, "I've been chasing merfolk for hundreds of years, how can I not recognize mermaid meat?" ”

After saying this, she didn't say anything more, but watched the group of white fish swimming below with a cautious look.

Tsing Yi silently stared at the side face of the dead wood that was completely different from the previous expression, and his heart turned a thousand times, and there was always a lingering weird feeling.

Then she saw the dead wood suddenly showed a nervous expression, and she didn't know what she saw, so she didn't even have time to explain, so she took Tsing Yi and hid inside.

Tsing Yi felt that his body shook suddenly, and he almost screamed, but the dead wood had already prepared and covered Tsing Yi's mouth tightly.

Tsing Yi turned her head to look at the dead wood, and saw her frowning, her tightly pursed mouth almost tense into a straight line.

Suddenly there was a fierce splash under the rock, and the white fish were not full at all, and they waited for a long time on the edge of the big rock, but no new pieces of meat were thrown out, so they flicked their tails restlessly, and slapped the surface of the water with their tail fins, and began to cry at the same time.

The cry of a baby echoed in the water cave, making it feel more and more creepy.

Hearing the sound of dead wood's heavy breathing, Tsing Yi tried to turn his head to look at the dead wood, and the dead wood's face looked bloodless under the fluorescence of the cave.

And the way she looked ahead, it was like a poisoned knife, with incomparable coldness and viciousness.

"Shh......h Don't make ......a noise," Deadwood leaned close to Tsing Yi's ear and whispered, "I saw a mermaid behind the rock just now, you wait here for me for a while, I'll go and come back......"

Tsing Yi nodded obediently, and then she watched as Deadwood took the ebony box placed on the ground into her arms, and climbed down the rock wall on the side silently.

Tsing Yi held the dagger in his hand and looked around uneasily.

It was empty, and she saw nothing but the mottled rocks and the pillars hanging from the top of the cave.

The white fish below the rocks were still crying, and in the overlapping calls, a crisp sound of water suddenly blended in.

It's like the crisp and loud thrust of something falling from a high altitude into the water.

The sound of the white fish crowing suddenly stopped, followed by the chaotic sound of splashing, and the white fish rushed in unison in the direction where the unidentified object fell.

Tsing Yi had never seen a white fish before, let alone a mermaid. And the dead wood always looks mysterious, and she didn't make it clear, at this time she said that she would go back, but she didn't say how long it would take, what if the mermaid came over during this period?

looked at the dagger in his hand, and then at his wrist, which had no strength, Tsing Yi couldn't help but hang his heart again.

Kurosaburo knew that he was brought here by Shirayu? Will he come to save himself? However, he had a big fight with him before he was in danger, and he was afraid that he was also very angry, and he probably wouldn't bother to save himself......

Thinking about it made her heart more and more frightened.

After staring at the only sharp weapon in her hand for a moment, she exhaled deeply, trying to make herself strong again.

Deadwood must have a way to get rid of those merfolk, didn't she just say it, she's been hunting merfolk for hundreds of years.

As if he had a backbone, Tsing Yi gradually calmed down again.

It was suddenly much quieter under the rocks, except for the scattered tails of the fish slapping on the water, except for the small sound of the white fish feeding on their food.

Tsing Yi endured it, but she still couldn't help it, so she tried her best to slowly rub to the edge of the rock quietly and secretly look at the situation under the rock.

Who knew that when I looked at it, I was surprised.

Somehow, the white fish who were a little restless were floating motionless in the water with their bellies facing up, and the rest of the white fish didn't seem to notice the abnormality of their companions, and were still gnawing on the pieces of meat there.

Before Tsing Yi could squint and carefully distinguish what the piece of meat was, a white fish that was munching suddenly stiffened, and then fell back so weakly, and in an instant, it also turned its belly, and let the water waves carry it up and down slightly.

Then, she witnessed a particularly terrifying scene: after eating the meat in their webbed palms, she saw two white fish continue to lick their empty webbed palms, they seemed to enjoy shaking their heads and tails a few times, and then stretched out their long forelimbs with sharp claws, grabbed their companions floating around them with their bellies, tore them hard, and tore off a large piece of pink and white crystal fish meat from each other's bodies, and stuffed them into their big mouths full of sharp teeth and chewed them with a roar.

The white fish that had been torn off a large piece of flesh had no reaction at all, as if it was dead, and the wound that had been torn off did not ooze a trace of blood, just soaked in the river water in vain.

"Vomit—"

Seeing this, Tsing Yi couldn't help but retract his head, covered his mouth and retched.

They eat their own kind! Although the law of the jungle eats the strong, she also understands the truth of natural selection, but cannibalism among the same race...... This is completely beyond the scope of Tsing Yi's acceptance.

Wait—didn't Master Deadwood feed himself a slice of white fish meat before? Has that white fish ever eaten the same kind? What else has it eaten? Could it be that it has eaten people, too?

Thinking about this, Tsing Yi vomited more and more, but she had vomited clean in front of her, and her stomach was empty at this time, and there was nothing to vomit out, and she retched for a long time, but she only vomited a few mouthfuls of sour water.

Tsing Yi, who felt that he couldn't vomit anything, stopped gagging, sat up dizzily, and reached out to wipe the few tears squeezed out by vomiting.

She pressed her chest, gasping and unconsciously began to think carefully about the events before and after the appearance of the white fish.

Something is wrong, as if something is wrong.

For the past two days, she always felt hungry and inexplicably longed to eat fish, and then when the new moon arrived, the terrain outside the inn changed, and a river suddenly appeared at the door.

Deadwood said that the river was called the Wakasa River, and it was rich in white fish that were rare to see in a hundred years. Then Master Gao caught a white fish to cook for himself......

Then she went crazy and wanted to eat fish, and the master stopped her, and fed herself fish—wait, what kind of fish did she feed herself at that time?

Qingyi, who couldn't think of what kind of fish the fish was, unconsciously bit her nails, she now felt a mess in her mind, she felt that the white fish was too weird, and she felt that the deadwood master was also a little weird, and then thought of the mermaid poison that she had inexplicably hit, and she didn't know whether it was really solved or fake now, and she suddenly wanted to reach out and pull out her hair.

"Can't be in a hurry-can't be in a hurry-" Realizing that he was messing up there, Tsing Yi hurriedly reached out to hold his head and began to whisper self-hypnosis, "There must be something wrong with something, think about it seriously-"

But at this time, she was too flustered, so the scene in her mind was like a mess, and she couldn't figure it out. Tsing Yi thought about it again and again, and decided to try to work backwards from the recent events.

First of all, Master Deadwood said that he had been chasing mermaids - mermaids and white fish were mixed together, mermaids were dangerous, and white fish ate themselves - a large number of white fish emerged from the Wakasa River - white fish was the antidote to mermaid poison, so the master caught a live white fish and fed it to the mermaid poison himself to eat - the master was splitting a white fish - Master Gao got a white fish - he was poisoned by a mermaid - Shuoyue, the Wakasa River appeared ......

Wait, is there something missing? By the way, the master told herself before the symptoms of her poisoning appeared that she had waited a hundred years to catch the white fish...... And as soon as she went crazy, she immediately recognized that it was mermaid poison......

Speaking of which, she began to want to eat fish on the eve of the New Moon...... In other words, at that time, or earlier, she had already been poisoned by mermaids!

So the question is, how did the mermaid poison in her body come about? How did mermaid and mermaid venom appear in the inn, which few people in the world know? It seems that except for the master, she has never heard anyone mention mermaids...... Is white fish really the antidote to mermaid poison? What is mermaid venom? At last...... Why the hell did the Master go after the merfolk?

Tsing Yi pondered it several times, only to feel that her brain was not smart enough, and everything she thought of was very confusing, but she still found one thing in the end, that is, the dry cleaning of the dead wood master and the white fish and mermaid was very large, and the attitude before and after was a little abnormal.

Then an inspiration flashed in her mind, and she suddenly remembered what happened before she fell into the river.

At that time, the master suddenly said thank you to herself, and then she was pushed down the river! Could it be that the person who pushed himself was the master of the deadwood?

Tsing Yi, who recalled this scene, suddenly froze there.

"Tsing Yi—" A familiar voice suddenly came from under the rock.

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