Chapter 328: The Legend of the Mermaid
On the afternoon of the fourth day, Ma's Siif informed him that the ship would set sail early tomorrow morning, as the cargo was being shipped faster than expected.
It was a very refreshing morning, the clear sky was full of dark clouds, the salty sea breeze was gently blowing, bringing up the naughty waves hitting the beach, looking from afar, the calm sea was like a mirror, blue and immaculate, experienced sailors asserted that this hearty weather was the perfect time to go to sea, if you were lucky, you could sail downwind and enjoy the tenderness of the sea for a week, as for a week later, only God knows, the sea is always changeable, when it is gentle it is like a mother, When brutal, it is more vicious than the devil.
"Hey, hey, hey......"
On the other side of the wharf, the shirtless, stout sailors were shouting and carrying wooden boxes on the deck, with smiles on their faces, and their mood was as cheerful as the weather at the moment, for a sailor who has been adrift on the sea for many years, there is nothing more important than good weather.
The whole wharf is in full swing, everyone wants to take advantage of the good weather in the past few days to sail, so they are particularly hard, the noisy and chaotic, sweaty scene, far away from a few kilometers away can also be felt.
However, on the beach not far away, there is a person who is in the opposite mood of the weather at this time.
"Hurricane, storm or something, just come one, it can blow for ten days and a half and a whole year, isn't this a normal thing for you?" I crouched weakly on the beach, gazing at the calm sea and clear sky from afar. I can't wait for dark clouds to cover the sky at once, and huge waves to roar the shore in an instant.
"Stop talking stupid."
The little ghost pressed her plump breasts against my back and playfully brushed my face with her fingers. I've been racing for a long time, but I'm really not in the mood right now.
"Hey, I really envy the jellyfish. You can float in the water without any worries. I squinted.
"You still envy Bai Yun, don't you?"
"Huh? How do you know? "Damn, you can guess that way. Could it be that this little guy is a prophecy specialty?
"Because your mind is simpler than that of a jellyfish, and your personality is more loose than that of a white cloud......" The little ghost leaned his head up, biting my ear and uttering conclusions that I was powerless to refute.
"My lord, the goods have been loaded and can be sent out at any time." Far away. Masif waved at me enthusiastically, but in my eyes he smiled and brandished his sickle like a grim reaper.
"If you choose to go by land now. If you go around the entire Twin Seas to reach Kurast, it's still too late. I said to myself.
"But aside, the forest is not much safer for you than the sea, is it?" The little ghost instantly broke the luck I had just raised, yes, I'm a road idiot, I'm really sorry for everyone. "Is it the first time you take a boat?"
Stepping onto the deck after Masif, he asked with a smile.
"Hmm...... Well, it's the ground. ”
I focused my full attention on my feet, moving cautiously, as if the deck below was a labyrinth of traps. Just one wrong step and it will explode.
"For first-time boat riders. You may be a little uneasy, but don't worry. As long as you treat it calmly, the sea will definitely not be as terrible as you imagined, and soon adults will see its beauty, whether it is a gentle sea or a roaring sea, it is so fascinating......"
With an intoxicated expression, Masif said that a person who does not like the sea cannot truly overcome the sea.
Is it? It wasn't me alone, everyone who was on the boat for the first time would be like this, haha, I see, I was relieved, and my two stiff thighs were finally able to show my true self at the moment - and I began to tremble.
"However, the courage of an adventure like an adult who has been through a lot of battles is naturally not comparable to those civilians, so how can he be afraid of a mere voyage?"
After a pause, the horse in front of him slapped the horse slightly, but he didn't know that he had hit the muzzle of the gun.
"That'...... Of course, we've seen a lot of corpses and mountains and sea of blood, haha, ahaha......"
His feet suddenly stiffened, and he took a stiff gait like a man, you old bastard, why don't you make it clear once, make me almost ugly, be careful that I burn your boat.
"Alright, my lord, this is your room, I wonder if you are satisfied?" Entering the first floor of the ship through a separate entrance, Maschif opened the door to the first room at the head of the house, and made an exaggerated gesture of please.
"Yes, I'm sorry for you."
When I looked inside, it was quite refreshing, and there was even a wooden window that could be opened.
"Is this your pet, my lord?" Masif said, pointing to the dead dog that had followed.
"Uh......, yes, aren't pets allowed?"
I covered my forehead and said with a headache, it's not that I want to take it, but I don't know why, as long as it's far away from the dead dog, it will automatically teleport to me, damn, will I be entangled by this dead dog in the rest of my life? Maybe it's better to just make it into dog broth and eat it. Book*****
"No, that's fine, it's just that adults better be careful, you know, the sailors on the ship are rough men, if they get caught, then ......" Mathef stopped talking, but he couldn't understand the meaning of the matter, if they catch you, you just wait to recover the dog bones.
"Okay, I see, I'm not going to let it get out there, oh yes, there are a few rooms next to me, is there anyone living there?"
"No, my lord, these rooms are specially prepared for such adventures for adults, but this time there is only one adventure for adults, so the others are empty."
I nodded, it turned out that this was the so-called VIP room, and I just passed by and saw another entrance, and from time to time sailors entered and exited from it. It was probably where they lived, and it was said that the sailor's room was in a terrible condition, damp, dark and stuffy.
Ma'sif had something else to do, and after a rough description of the layout of the whole ship. Soon after, I walked around the room a few times, feeling a little used to it. I couldn't help but sit still and walked out and came to the boat. At this time, the sailors were putting up anchor and hoisting their sails, ready to set sail, and I stood on the bow of the ship, with my arms outstretched, and the sea breeze blew in front of me. Facing the vast expanse of the sea, I just want to shout.
Ha. Actually, the sea is not as scary as I imagined, especially for an adventure as powerful as mine.
A few hours later......
"Vomit ......"
Lying on the bed without any image, I was like a dehydrated sea fish, constantly fanning the fish gills one by one, only to feel that the internal organs were churning with the gentle shaking of the room, and the stomach seemed to have something flowing backwards, choking in the throat but unable to vomit, only retching.
"Love...... Alice, I'm ...... I'm dying, you're going to ...... Take good care of yourself......"
I limbly stretched out my hand to the little ghost next to me. It's like a dying person lying in a critical room and confessing his last words.
"Didn't you say you're used to it? Besides, it's not so exaggerated, right? "Stick a cold, damp cloth towel to my forehead. The little ghost's silver eyes were full of trouble.
"How can a guy like you, who floats in the air all day long, understand the horror of land?" I sat up from the bed.
"That's right. It's like people who have never been on the battlefield can only play pistols after all, and people who have not experienced interstellar warfare can only fight planes for a lifetime. ”
"I don't know what pistols and interstellar warfare are, but you seem to be in good spirits, so I feel at ease." The little ghost yawned and slipped into the necklace with a thud.
Wait...... Wait, I'm really dying, it's true, it's just a flashback phenomenon, don't leave me alone!! With a groan of pain, I fell back on the bed, moving my gaze to the dead dog.
This guy was even more exaggerated, with four shaggy feet spread out, his belly pressed to the ground, and he kept exhaling, looking like he was dead and alive, as if he was going to hang up a few seconds before I did.
Shame, what a shame, at this time Leona was also depressed in her heart, her dignified dragon princess, actually seasick, if you say that the face of the entire dragon clan is not there, no, it's not like this, as the most noble princess of the dragon clan, how could this kind of thing happen, according to the blue dragon's classics, the land is the natural enemy of the dragon, and it is true, it is not because of this princess, it is definitely possible......
"Haha, dead dog, look at your current appearance, wasn't it very spirited before?"
Seeing the posture of the dead dog, my heart suddenly balanced a lot, and even the strength seemed to have recovered a little, and I couldn't help grabbing its pair of rabbit-like ears and shaking them in the air.
"Gaga...... Whoa—"
Leona only felt that the sky was shaking, and the internal organs that had been tossed seemed to be reversed, her stomach was churning violently, her anger rose from her heart, her eyes flashed with a golden light, and her front paws dug into someone's throat at a lightning speed.
"Vomit—"
One man and one dog fell down again, only to feel that after a toss just now, the feeling of churning and nausea seemed to have expanded tenfold.
"Today's ......, vomit-, ...... for the time being ...... temporary truce, vomit-"
"Gaga...... Quack
So the man and dog reached an agreement, and peace was finally restored to the Dark Continent......
After a few days, I finally got used to it, and was able to jump around on the deck of the ship, and the dead dog seemed to be not to be outdone, and also came to life, and ran to the bow of the ship and barked at the sea, as if to demonstrate, but a wave came and almost swept it into the sea, and the dead dog was so hard that he faced the sea more than 20 times a day, and it became a fixed course. *****
As experienced sailors have said, the weather has been fine for more than a week away from Rogoin. Even a single white cloud is rare to see, and once again they speculate that the cloudless weather will continue for at least five days, as if it were thrown at a leopard in a row. It's rare to see it once a year.
And five days later, even if there is a violent storm, it doesn't matter. Because by that time we had reached the first stop of the route, the island of Cordoves.
Speaking of this island of Cordoves. The sailors seemed very excited, many of them were born there, and not only them, but even the sailors of the ships that traveled between Rugoin and Kurast, a large part of them came from the island of Cordoves. For this reason, Cordoves is also known to many as the home of sailors.
The ale wine is the best in the world, and the seafood is the most delicious in the world. The people there are some of the most enthusiastic in the world, and the sailors spat at me as if the only island in the world was a real paradise, but if you look at it objectively, there are relatively few monsters there, and it is indeed a pretty good place to settle.
However, what really makes Cordoves famous is not the name of the Sailor's House or the paradise, but the legend of the mermaids that is rife on the island. More than 1,000 people have claimed to have witnessed the appearance of mermaid fields on the island of Cordoves. Many of them are foreigners, which prevents rumors that the island's residents are using them to increase the popularity of Cordoves. There, indeed, there are mermaids.
As for why mermaids are so concerned about this, on the one hand, of course, they are beautiful women, this is an undoubted fact, otherwise they would not be called mermaids, but anyone who wants to get mermaids, I don't think any of them go for their beauty, which is somewhat different from fairy tales, and the purpose is more towards cruel reality - legend has it that drinking the blood of mermaids can lead to immortality.
Immortality is a lie, even angels and demons have a lifespan, how can a mere mermaid blood make people immortal? However, although it cannot make people immortal, it is true that it can cure all diseases and prolong life, which is enough to make people crazy, and even some adventures cannot resist the temptation - of course, they are nothing more than unproductive adventures.
"So, has anyone ever taken the blood of a merfolk?"
"I don't know. ^^^^" Masif shook his head.
"If you don't get it, you can't tell why, and if you get the blood of the mermaid, it will definitely not be made public."
nodded, after all, Huaibi is guilty.
After four days, we finally saw the outline of Kodovis Island from a distance, a small island of dozens of square kilometers, inhabited by about 30,000 islanders, and a large number of foreigners, of course, most of them are going to the legend of the mermaid, as long as they get a drop of mermaid blood, then they can lie on the pile of gold coins for the rest of their lives, and the huge profits have attracted the gold panning that has come one after another, so that the whole Kodovis Island is mixed with people and snakes, and there will be no more tranquility in the past.
The boat would be parked here for about three or four days, giving me plenty of time to walk around the island and even try my luck to see what the legendary mermaid looked like.
Ma Xifu smiled and said to me: If it were you, my lord, maybe you could meet the legendary mermaid king, the golden mermaid, which is the most noble and beautiful cunzài, and of course, the most important thing is that her blood is the most precious of all mermaids.
I shook my head as I watched the crowds panning for gold, and immediately lost interest - even if there were real mermaids, they would have been scared away by these people a long time ago.
I didn't stay at the hotel in the bazaar, it was too chaotic, and the whole bar was filled with a smell of sweat and fish, which, combined with the lack of ventilation, felt like a canned pickled fish.
Under the guidance of a sailor named Gak, I went to a more remote forest, and settled in the house of an old woodcutter, who had thought I was a gold digger and refused to let me live, until Gack heard the news and rushed to explain that the old woodcutter was terrified—in the eyes of the civilians of these small places, adventure was something that could be pinched to death with a single finger, and no one dared to kill anyone.
"My lord, please go inside, please go inside."
The old woodcutter seemed to be afraid that I would be unhappy and slaughter his whole family, so he hurriedly cleaned up the best room for me, prepared the best meals, and looked back, ha, it turned out that his family had quietly left, and he was the only one left to serve, am I really like that kind of cruel and tyrannical person? But that's fine. Whatever he thinks, I'm not too busy to take care of a stranger's feelings, just leave some money when I leave.
While eating, I asked the old woodcutter curiously. Why is there such an aversion to gold panning, isn't Cordovis trying to find an exhibition? Gold panning has brought a lot of trouble, but it has also created more benefits for the island of Cordovis.
"Those guys are crazy. They have been deceived by money. The old woodcutter stomped the ground and replied angrily.
In the past. The island of Cordoves is a small and peaceful place, poor and poor, but the people are unusually rich, and at that time, in the quiet of the night. You can even hear the singing of mermaids in the distance, but this qiē has changed with the appearance of the gold rush. The merfolk have disappeared, the islanders have become greedy, and now Cordovis Island is like a giant garbage dump.
Oh, it turns out that the old woodcutter is a conservative, I have neither disagreed with his statement, and certainly will not deliberately agree with it, and those islanders who have made a lot of fortune after the arrival of the gold rush may have their own set of theories, but in the final analysis, they are just different ideas. There is no such thing as a clear right or wrong. If I had to choose, I would still prefer the old woodcutter. Blizzy is blessed.
Seeing that I showed a slightly agreeable look, the old woodcutter suddenly became energetic, this is terrible, his own ideas even the adventurous adults feel right, people have such thoughts, for example, you aspire to become a salted fish seller, a beggar ran over and said that you have a future, you will blast him away, if the national leader personally comes to say that you have a future, then the effect is different.
The old woodcutter seemed to immediately regard me as half a confidant, and the respect and fear at the beginning were much lighter, and he said a lot of his own opinions, anyway, I was idle and bored, so I listened to it, and I should have an in-depth understanding of the worldview of a civilian old man, and under the table he fought with a dead dog, ah, and bit my thigh, and watched me twist your ears into twists.
After spraying for more than two hours, the woodcutter was refreshed, how long had no one been willing to listen to his nagging like this, if he hadn't been able to think of the identity of the other party, he would probably have opened the altar to worship the wine immediately.
Before leaving, the woodcutter gave me a message of friendship, through the forest of the mountain in front of me, about an hour away, to the edge of the island, the beach is unusually desolate, and there will be monsters in the forest, few gold panning dares to go, so there may be mermaids.
The old woodcutter told me that when he was young, when the island of Cordoves was calm and peaceful, he could occasionally hear the mermaid singing in his home, but now he hadn't heard it for more than ten years.
I didn't take the woodcutter's words to heart, but after two days of wandering around the island, Masif told me that I could only sail the day after tomorrow, and I was disgusted with the greedy smell of gold panning that pervaded the island of Cordoves, and I suddenly had a touch of elegance, and it was not bad to find a quiet place to take a nap, and soon I thought of what the old woodcutter had said, and the deserted beach he had spoken of.
I thought of it, followed the direction pointed out by the woodcutter, I walked all the way in the forest, maybe some people say that I am going to get lost again, but you are wrong, now I can learn to be obedient, and I have summed up some experience, when walking in the forest, don't walk around the tree, a straight line, no matter what is in front of you, all of them will be ruined.
So, after a crackling movement, the dense forest appeared in a small path, this path seemed to be some kind of huge creature stepped out, along the way, even the giant tree hugged by the three people was broken hard, for a long time, this mysterious and terrifying path became the topic of the islanders, and even rumored that a giant dragon appeared on the island, for a moment people were panicked, even the most afraid of death gold panning, did not dare to step into this terrifying path.
The old woodcutter said that there are monsters in the forest, because I saw a lot of corpses along the way, many of which are human, presumably it should be those who are not afraid of death to pan for gold, making such a big noise, these monsters naturally will not be unable to hear, for a while, dozens of dwarfs with various kitchen knives and spears in their hands came out of the jungle, if it is an ordinary adventure, in this environment may really be caught off guard by them, but what ......
I'm not on an ordinary adventure.
After clearing out the dwarf tribe along the way, I finally came to the deserted beach that the old woodcutter had mentioned, and the strangely shaped boulders towered over the beach, and the waves gently pushed and pushed it, and it really looked a bit like the environment where mermaids would appear.
I casually found a flat boulder, stretched lazily on it, kicked the dead dog that wanted to climb up again, and squinted my eyes in the afternoon sun.
In the dream, a beautiful girl with a beautiful purple hair, a beautiful face, and an incomparably noble temperament pounced on me viciously and bit my thigh.
"Wow......"
When I woke up from the dream, the sun had already sunk for half a day, and I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead - it was good to dream of beautiful women, but it was not pleasant to dream of being beaten by beautiful women.
When I turned around, the dead dog was lying next to me in a large shape, as if he had some kind of dream, and the dog's mouth was hooked, and it was cute and a little weird......
Just as I was about to kick it down, the subtle and moving song that seemed to sublimate the soul not far away came to my ears leisurely.
Recently, I made a little adjustment, Xiao Qi's state is not too good, if today's chapter drags on for more than ten seconds, it will be tragic again.