Bai Ya pondered the meaning of her words for a moment, and couldn't help but shake his head. The girl was afraid of the danger of Lan Po, but hid it in her hair, and she didn't know what to think. Count her lucky, with thick hair. If it comes into contact with the skin, I'm afraid it's not a good thing.

At the moment, the situation was calm, and he finally had the leisure to take a closer look at the opponents just now. There are indeed not many people, less than ten, and I think there are still people patrolling outside and have not yet returned. Miss Quan's face was the most immature of them all. It is estimated that because of this, she did not go out on a parade with other mermaids, but stationed at the place of residence.

The orange-tailed mermaids beckoned everyone to come to their side, and they formed a loose circle at the edge of the sea. The middle-aged woman faced Bai Ya and said bluntly:

"We still can't trust you. But—you are very strong, and you are very powerful, and I admire you very much. ”

"I admire you, too. Your straightforward and honest personality reminds me of a friend. Bai Ya also responded calmly.

I don't know how Jun Aoyan is doing now.

A few sharks pouted and muttered to themselves, while others didn't care. Bai Ya ignored their reactions and continued to talk to the orange-tailed merman:

"I'm here for this amber. Now that the thing is back to its rightful owner, I was going to leave. But just now, I heard from you, what other treasure is there? That's too...... Ritual weapons? ”

"Artifact?"

There was a commotion of confusion among the sharks. The orange-tailed merman replied on their behalf:

"I don't know what kind of artifact you're talking about. The treasure we speak of is the treasure of our clan, a pearl about the size of a baby's fist. ”

Bai Ya had heard the legend of the merman's tears, but because of this, he was quite surprised.

"Can your tears condense beads of this size?"

"Not really." The orange-tailed mermaid pondered the wording, "If you want to break it down, it's an unformed dragon ball. There is a mysterious legend about Dragon Ball. Are you interested? ”

"Do you think I have a choice now? That's it. ”

The orange-tailed mermaid smiled:

"If you're interested, you're better aware. After all, it's a long story. ”

The story begins long ago.

Thousands of years ago, this place was not connected to the outside world. There are not many merchants in the kingdom who travel in all directions, and they are not very prosperous, and only the land with abundant water and soil can rely on farming. As an ordinary corner of the vast sea, the residents of the seaside can only rely on the water for draft, and have been fishing for generations.

The experience of our ancestors has been accumulated over generations, and fishermen have created special nets that can sink deeper into the sea and hunt for more abundant catches. This net is full of thorns, and once the prey crashes in, even if it is not trapped to death, it will have to die of breath and have no power to escape.

Not only ordinary fish, but even dragons may not be immune.

On the day it all began, a fishing net caught a dragon. He was too young to stumble into this terrible net. His slender body was not enough to break free, and the more he struggled, the more his epidermis was pierced and pierced, cutting and scarring. Until he was exhausted, he could not escape, and was dragged out of the sea by the fishermen in despair and thrown into the boat.

His only remaining hope is his friend, a mermaid girl. She quietly followed the fishing boat, climbed up before the fishermen knew it, and her nimble fingers quickly pulled out the spikes, untying the net that was wrapped around the dragon's body, despite the fact that she was drenched in blood. The girl wanted to save her friend so much that she never stopped moving even when the fisherman's footsteps approached.

The half-man, half-fish mermaid was a rarity, and the fisherman was overjoyed and pounced greedily at the girl with his net. She struggled to resist while holding the little dragon, but never gave up. She had fled to the bow of the ship, but danger was imminent. Before another fishing net entangled, she raised her arms and tossed the dragon back into the sea.

The little dragon is free. And the girl was caught in a snare and trapped on the edge of the land. The fishermen laid their nets on the seashore to enclose a body of water, and locked the mermaid in this small space, not forgetting to cover the roof with thorns and cut off all her survival.

The girl understood that she could not escape. At night, she told Xiaolong, who secretly came to visit, about her fate. She said goodbye to the dragon, for the next day she would be taken away by the fishermen to a place thousands of miles away from the sea. There, the fishermen would present this rare merman to the monarch in exchange for the fame of Lilu.

The dragon whined and circled the nets for a long time. By the time he stopped, he had made his decision. He plucked out a piece of dragon scales and handed it to the girl.

"If he wants to be rich and prosperous, you will give him my dragon scales. Even if you can't beg him to set you free, ask him to take you out of here later. ”

The girl did so. This was a beautiful thing that the fisherman had never expected, and he agreed to the girl's request:

"As long as you give me dragon scales, I will not sacrifice you to the king."

The dragon also learned about this, so every day before he left, he would leave his scales for the girl. On the second day, she traded with the fishermen for another day, and she could still see her hometown. The fisherman was never satisfied, and tried to force the girl to hand over all the dragon scales, but the girl kept her mouth shut, saying that it was her own spell, and that she could only conjure one a day, and nothing more. The fisherman retreated and demanded that she hand in one dragon scale every day. Otherwise, he would take her to the king at any time. E-Book Workshop

Such days went on for more than a year. This year was enough for Xiaolong to grow, but every time they met, the girl would find that his stature had not changed in the slightest. She knows the reason very well-dragon scales, which is the cultivation of dragons. Day after day, Xiaolong turned her newborn, original cultivation into condensed scales, and pulled it off with blood, just for her to survive for a while. And because of this, he will not be able to grow, and even if it lasts for a long time, it will be difficult to produce new scales, and he will even die because of it.

The girl's heart was like a knife, and she persuaded Xiaolong countless times to give up and stop making such sacrifices for her. The dragon always stubbornly rejects her. He said that he owed her that he had stripped the scales and that it was not enough to pay it back.

The girl knew that she probably couldn't persuade him. But if you lose too many dragon scales, a dragon's life will run out of oil. She thought and thought, and begged him to bring her shuttle. At the very least, she could knit a garment for him.

The dragon promised her, but he was gone for several days and never returned. The girl couldn't hand over the dragon scales, and the fishermen's patience gradually wore out. At that time, people may not know that the mermaids shed tears into beads, and the textile skills are unparalleled in the world. He only threatened to give her as a tribute to the king. The girl begged bitterly, saying that she was ill, and that once she got better, she would be able to continue to perform the spell on him and transform more scales.

Before the fishermen's patience wore out, the bruised dragon returned.

He handed a shuttle to the girl. The moment she took it, she guessed what was going on.

It's not her shuttle. The little dragon couldn't find her handsome, so he stole it from the other mermen. But what he didn't know was that the shark people's shuttles were mostly made of the bones of their relatives, and they were their most precious and precious things. So, the angry merman clashed with Xiaolong and taught him a hard lesson.

The dragon didn't say, and the girl didn't break it.

The sun rises and the moon sets, and with each sunrise, the dragon's scales will be missing, and the cloth in the girl's hand will spin a new inch. Before the dragon's cultivation became unsustainable, she finally knitted clothes for him. Once he puts it on, he becomes a merman and can live as a merman.

Finally, one day, he plucked out all the dragon scales he could use.

Fishermen are no longer poor boys who make a living from fishing. Relying on the windfall of dragon scales, he built a magnificent house, married a wife and took a concubine, and was so unhappy. He knew that many people were jealous of him and wanted to eat flesh and bones. So, when he found out that the merman could no longer send the treasure, he had a brilliant idea - an idea he had already given up.

One night, the drunken fisherman walked to the seashore, sat on the shore, and laughed triumphantly at the captive merman:

"You're going to see the king soon! Go to see the world - go to the glorious and rich days! I give it to the king...... Hiccup, repair a book, and offer a merman. But the king wants to reward me, and make me a great official...... No one dares to touch me anymore, haha, otherwise the monarch won't let them go! ”

The girl is still leaving, and she is going to be sent to a deep palace far away from the sea as a rare thing.

Sent closer to death.

The underwater dragon also heard. His eyes were red and his eyes were splitting, and he wanted to rush out and beat this shameless villain until he died in agony...... But the dragon can't do it. He lost the dragon scales, not only did he have no cultivation, but he was even just a merman at this time. As long as you take off this garment, you are likely to die on the spot.

This night, it passed too fast. He didn't seem to have been talking to the girl for long, and the morning light couldn't hold back any longer, spilling over the horizon. The early morning glimmer shines through the sea, and the two look deeply at each other through a huge net.

The dragon's throat choked. Suddenly, he reached out and covered his face.

"What's wrong?" The girl was worried, "Don't be sad, I know, this day will come...... Or are you not feeling well? What the hell is wrong with you? ”

His abdomen sank, his throat rolling slightly, and he lifted his face. Holding it in the palm of his hand was a white and flawless bead.

"This is the last thing I can give you." He shoved the dragon ball into the girl's hand, "The fishermen only want money, they don't care about your life or death, once they get what they want, they will probably go away and bury their names." If you are afraid of trouble with the king, give them this in exchange for anything...... Let them bring you new seawater, new food every day! ”

The girl shook her head and wanted to say something, the fisherman had already received a messenger sent by the imperial court. The dragon had to turn away.

He hid under the water, watching her be stuffed into a luxurious box with a pitiful amount of seawater. The girl understood that she was away from the sea, and her life was short. And when he suffers, the fishermen will be rewarded, and the king will be opened.

She didn't want these people to get their wish, and she couldn't do what they wanted.

Humans are so arrogant that they regard other races as playthings, and they forget that sharks also have a proud backbone.

The girl took out the little shuttle, gritted her teeth, and plunged deep into her beautiful fishtail.

It hurts, it hurts so much that it hurts my heart and lungs, like a soldering iron churning in my body, and cold ice fills my intestines. She never stopped, trembling viciously and cutting open the long tail inch by inch. When the tip of the shuttle finally cut the last bit of flesh connected to the tail fin, it snapped with a soft sound.

The girl also collapsed inside the box, and the pain caused her to lose consciousness.

When I opened my eyes again, I don't know how long it had been. But she should still be on the road, for it was still dark and she was still in a small box. Only a little breathable glimmer of light shone from above, and the holes were so small that even if you put your eyes together, you couldn't see the outside world. She tried, and now she doesn't have the strength. It's better to say that being shocked by the fact that she is still alive at the moment has consumed too much of her remaining energy.

After a long time, she struggled to stand up and looked at her ruined tail.

…… What did she see?