Chapter 135: Divine Punishment
Hearing that the tough guy Chen opened his mouth and made a male voice, the Great Elder showed a look of surprise.
But she is so heavy that she has run out of oil and lamps, and now she can't take care of anything else.
After hearing Tough Chen's words, the Great Elder's eyes showed a trace of excitement.
"You're curious about this place, so would you like to hear the story of this place? I can tell you what's going on here, but you have to promise me two things. ”
The three of them glanced at each other, and then nodded, it seemed that this was the trigger of a new task.
They were also curious about what was going on here.
And what the hell is the monster out there.
But a sudden loud noise interrupted the conversation.
The closed trapdoor was slammed by the monster outside, and it was blown up by the wind.
Chen Tough Guy and the others hurriedly looked around to see if there was anything that could hold down the trapdoor.
In the end, it was the Great Elder who intervened, and with what little strength she had left, she moved two huge machines from the corner and pressed them against the trapdoor.
A few people are safe for the time being.
"Ahem" was used too violently, and the Great Elder coughed violently again.
The water around her was stained red with her blood.
With these two heavy objects pressing, although the impact is still violent, it is not possible to crash away for a while.
After a violent cough, the Great Elder finally regained her breath, and although her body was still bleeding profusely, she still insisted on speaking.
"We merfolk are the oldest race in this world, and we have been breeding here for hundreds of millions of years.
Merfolk are born with great strength, and when they become adults, they don't even have to make any effort to gain the power to crush all sea creatures, and in the hundreds of millions of years of supremacy, we have ruled the entire ocean. Ahem, ahem. ”
The Great Elder began to cough up blood again, and the trapdoor was still clanging as the monster slammed it.
Tough Guy Chen hurriedly used the recovery technique to restore life to the Great Elder. But he was a warrior after all, and the anger in his body was only enough to cast ten healing spells.
This amount of milk is really a drop in the bucket for the Great Elder.
"We ...... Cough...... Well, back then, we were the royal family of the sea, and the other sea creatures were nothing more than our slaves.
But our rulers are still not satisfied, and they have their eyes on the land above the sea.
However, his plan was not easy to achieve.
Merfolk can breathe on land, but being detached from the sea makes us extremely weak.
The other Sea Tribe's slaves were even more unbearable, and some of them could not even be exposed to land for long periods of time.
Although we have strong strength, the fertility rate of our mermaids is still very low, which leads to the fact that the population has not been large.
And if we want to occupy the land, the first step is to make our people more numerous. ”
The Great Elder's surroundings had been dyed red with blood flowing from his body.
Her eyes began to drift, but she was still telling the story of the mermaid.
"So our rulers decided to change all that, and our civilization was different from what it is now, and what we pursued back then was called technological ......"
Technology? Chen Tough Guy listened with a question mark on his face, although this place is very similar to a modern city, he never thought to hear this word in the Tao game.
Isn't this a fairy game?
"Ten thousand years ago, the rulers started a plan to speed up the reproduction of the race.
At that time, we didn't know that low reproductive ability was the price of our merfolk's strength.
We arrogantly feel that we can rely on technology to solve all problems...... Completely ignoring the elders of the clan, "God will not allow the existence of beings beyond their control".
God? Sooner or later, we will also be worshipped as gods, this is a phrase that our rulers have said, but at that time we felt that what he came out of was the truth, and in the end we chose the wrong path. ”
The three of Chen Tough Guy's hearts tightened, and combined with what they saw outside, they already had a vague guess in their hearts.
"It's called cloning, a technology that can give birth to new life without normal reproduction.
It sounds like the mythical power of God to create life!
As technology matures, we become more and more arrogant, thinking that God is nothing more than that.
But soon we paid the price for our ignorance. ”
"On that day, the golden pillar of light passed through the deep sea and struck straight on the Twin Wisdom Tower, which represented the supreme wisdom of the race, and it illuminated the entire city, waiting for everything to pass.
All the men in the merfolk were turned to dust, which was God's punishment for daring to touch the ants of the God's realm.
At that moment, we trembled with fear, no one knew if God's punishment would fall again, so after the remaining six female elders deliberated together, they finally decided to escape from the holy city and seal it off permanently. ”
"But we didn't realize the seriousness of the problem at the time, and we left here with the remaining women in the Holy City, and the eggs that didn't hatch, and sealed the exit, vowing never to return."
Chen Tough Guy and the others listened to it and gradually became fascinated, and no one noticed the trapdoor of Peng Peng, who had been hit before, and there was no movement at some point.
"But as time went on, we found that none of the eggs that were brought out and the mermaids that hatched were male.
Only then did everyone realize the seriousness of the problem, although the mermaid has a long lifespan, but there is also one that has come to an end.
If we can't reproduce, our race will perish naturally, and in this case I made a decision, which was to seal the remaining fish eggs. ”
"A few hatch every few decades, so that our race can continue until the one that finds a solution.
But this practice is cruel, because many eggs die in the egg membrane before they hatch."
"This has led to the disintegration of our race. The remaining five elders each left with a portion of the merfolk. ”
"Before that, I thought I would never come back here in my lifetime, but I didn't expect it...... Ahem, I actually came back here again, and I still saw ......"
Dao Here the Great Elder's eyes were full of sadness.
Chen Tough Guy and a few people knew that the Great Elder was about to start the story of those monsters outside.
"Those monsters, in fact, are mermaids like us, but they are clones, I called up the experiment log through the net of the Holy City, and found that in the second year after we withdrew, the former cloning laboratory was started again, and new cloned mermaids were constantly produced."
Chen Tough Guy and several people chuckled in their hearts, combined with the mountains of corpses and bones outside, and the injuries of the Great Elder, several people had a terrible guess in their hearts.
"Although these mermaids have some flaws in life, they also have similar endowments as us, if someone teaches them, they will grow up like ordinary mermaids, but unfortunately we withdrew from here early, and no one taught them at all."
"I know from the work log of the cloning laboratory that in the past 300 years, a total of more than 5w4,000 cloned manfish have been born here, but their number is now less than 100 ......."
The Great Elder did not go down, where did the rest of the clone mermaids go, Chen Tough Guy and the others already knew in their hearts.
But it was precisely because of this that the three of them felt a chill down their spines and were afraid.
"They are savage, destructive, and irrational, they only know how to kill and eat, and they are so powerful that if they escape from here, the whole ocean will suffer endless calamity."
"Ahem, ahem...... Whoever you are and what you've heard so much, I hope you'll promise me two things for the sake of not hurting you before......"
"Ahem, the first one will bring the remaining merfolk back and seal this place forever, and the second will tell all the merfolk the news here, so that they can get ready, the protection here can last for 50 years, and after 50 years, we must join forces to destroy the monsters here."
At this time, the sea water around the Great Elder was all stained blood-red.
She struggled to sit up and looked at the three tough guys in front of her.
And the three of them fell into silence