Chapter 102: Seven Seas

David's heart tightened, and he almost subconsciously turned around.

He had only one thought at this point

Escape!!

The fact that the other party was able to escape from the wrath of the sea god, and to be able to appear in front of him in such a grand manner, it was clear that he had great confidence in his own strength, and at this time, he couldn't have a second thought except to escape.

However, before he could turn around, he was imprisoned by a force in his limbs, and then, when he wanted to open his mouth to call for help, he couldn't even open his mouth

Finished

There was only one thought left in my head.

Mu Yan came to David, didn't say anything, snapped his fingers, and the two sea elements got up from the beach with a splash, and Captain Jones on the left and right stepped into the sea.

Seeing his movements, David rose up with a glimmer of hope

Underwater, he can call the ghost ship over and attract the attention of the sea tribes, maybe

"Wrecking that ship is just a thought for me, and I promise it won't make any more waves."

As soon as David's thoughts arose, he heard such a cold sentence, so he decisively dismissed the thought.

At the same time, he felt like he could speak again.

"Don't do anything to my boat, anything else is fine."

This sounds rather urgent.

Mu Yan smiled, "Talk about conditions? Oh, it depends on whether you have the capital or not. ”

"Of course I have the money." David said coldly: "Didn't you keep me alive just to get information out of my mouth?" Whether it's Bailang Bay or the Moby Dick Islands, I know more than you do, and you may be interested in the Sea Clan, and I promise you won't find a second human who knows as much about the Sea Clan as I do. ”

As he spoke, David pondered, trying to add weight to himself by taking the Poseidon's anger on his head.

Mu Yan suddenly stood still, turned around, and looked at him for a long time.

"I kind of understand why Andrew is looking for you, if nothing else, just this improvisation and blind confidence are just like the director. But I have a suggestion, I hate that fat man, so please be more restrained and be a little more respectful to me. ”

"Ha" David sneered indifferently: "I'm really a person who doesn't know what convergence is, but Your Excellency, since you have something to ask, why don't you be more direct?" ”

"Listen, Davy Jones."

Mu Yan's voice suddenly turned cold, approaching David.

The two were very close, and the latter saw the indifference in each other's eyes that seemed to freeze their souls.

"I'm polite to you because I'm highly qualified and have nothing to do with you. Don't feel like you're important to me, you've been a dead man to me since you accepted Andrew's request to set your sights on the Jackdaw, understand? You're alive because I'm merciful enough. And, don't think that the destruction of that ship I am talking about is physical

"And, most importantly, don't think I'm pulling information from you."

He stretched out a finger, and a trace of green ghost fire came out of his fingertips, swaying without any effect even in the sea.

"I'm better at getting out of the mouths of dead people than I am at living people, you know?"

David felt a chill spread all over his body, not only from the ghost fire in front of him, but also from fear. What little pride he had left was shattered.

It was a trembling of the soul, and it was what he held dear that was truly threatened

The crew of the ghost ship is one with the ship, it is the soul and the all are one, in other words, the soul of the crew is fused into the soul of the ship, and the crew is fearless of any damage, because the ship's injuries can be compensated by devouring other ships, but now, the other party has proved that he has the means to hurt the soul.

Necromancer!

A pang of unease welled up in David's heart, and a familiar face flashed through his mind.

After saying that, Mu Yan returned to his harmless expression, as if the person just now was not him at all.

"Where did we just go, Mr. Jones?"

"Speaking of Andrew Jones"

"I know, next, what's going on with the sea tribes of the Moby Dick Islands?"

"Yes"

David is a strange person, he doesn't care about his life at all, and what really makes him succumb is the ship.

So as long as he makes a fuss about that ship, he will be forced to comply, but once the information he asks for involves that ship, he will put on a posture of wanting to kill and listen to the respect, and he will not disclose the slightest information.

At first, Mu Yan was in a bad mood because of the curse and Lao Xu, and he didn't plan to grind with the other party for too long, and what he said at that time was not a cruel thing, he was indeed ready for soul searching, and he was ready to forcibly ask for his memory, and he didn't hesitate to annoy Calypso again Anyway, he was already angry, and he didn't have a lot of debts.

But gradually, after he calmed down, he didn't want to do it anymore.

After all, there is still some resistance to soul searching. This is inhumane after all, so far, Mu Yan has never used it once, and the only time he wanted to do it to the remnant soul of Paul V, he was preempted by Teacher Glazer.

However, David was also interested, in addition to his own origins, other information was given a basket, enough for Mu Yan and his crew to digest for a while.

The most critical issue at the moment is the fortification of the Sea Clan.

A few days ago, under David's erroneous information, the Chasia garrison on the border had withdrawn, but a few days later, they actually returned, and this time it was even more powerful, it seemed that not only the Chasia Sea, but also the people from the other six seas came.

At present, the border on the western side of the Chasia Sea is tightly blocked, with a depth of more than 6,000 meters, and the defense line has been advancing westward, coming to the vicinity of the Moby Dick Islands. Not to mention a ship the size of the Jackdaw, not even a single sea mosquito can fly through it now.

And they weren't just defending like they used to, but any human ship that came close to the Moby Dick Islands was slaughtered, and not a single one was left alive.

Hearing this, Mu Yan couldn't help but feel difficult.

Did this group of seafood people take the wrong medicine? Unprecedentedly united?

Although they serve the god of the sea together, the seven seas are not monolithic.

As mentioned above, the Sea Clan is essentially a complex society governed by Naga, Sirens, and all kinds of seafood people, but most of them are dominated by Naga and Sirens, and the seafood people, as "native creatures of the sea", are inferior to shark riders.

This is like the multi-ethnic co-governance of the United States, even if Congress gives a seat to the Indians for politically correct purposes, its influence is ultimately very limited, let alone far less than that of whites, even less than politically correct blacks.

On the other hand, the sirens with the oldest, purest and oldest bloodlines are not as influential as those Naga who are despised by them, and only two princes of the seven seas are sirens, and the other five princes are all Naga.

So, in the end, it's still the size of a fist.

With Davy Jones's cognition, it is natural that he cannot understand the origin of this complex relationship, but Mu Yan, who has communicated with Comrade Lao Xu, the ancestor of all Naga, has a deep understanding.

When Calypso failed to eliminate the Naga newborns from the Sea Clan, a new idea came up with her, and she planned to train them as followers and then eradicate them.

However, things took a turn for the worse as the first Naga newborns were raised.

What turnaround? That is the "law of true fragrance" that intelligent life is destined to be inescapable of.

Half-breeds tend to combine the strengths of both parents, especially the first batch of Naga, who inherited the excellent soul power from Lao Xu, and are born with a magical affinity, which is even more rebellious than the elves.

The power of faith that a believer can provide depends to a greater extent on whether he is strong or not, in addition to whether he is religious or not. There is no doubt that the first batch of 77 male Naga, or the Ancestor Naga, almost all of them are white-robed mages, and in the water they are called tide hunters, and the higher form is the ascenders.

What Mu Yan didn't know was that these 77 people mixed spells and witchcraft, creating a precedent for ascenders

As a result, the power of faith provided by these 77 people when they first came of age was comparable to that of a race, and finally it grew exponentially, and soon became a force to be reckoned with, giving Calypso a taste of sweetness at once.

In this way, she simply did not kill, not only that, but also gave them a better environment, supported and cultivated their power, selected the strongest to become divine servants, priests, etc., and allowed them to intermarry with other capable sirens, so as to improve the overall population structure of the sirens, and had long forgotten her original intention of maintaining the purity of the population.

Before that, her priests were chosen from among the sirens.

Gradually, the opposite sex in the sea tribe hid, and their reproduction and population continuation no longer relied on the fluorescent seabed, because of the male and female mating, the sirens did not have to die after giving birth, they seemed to be able to accept the soul from Heru, and the population began to proliferate.

The tail of the sirens and naga does not depend on the deck

In addition to the competition for spouses and a series of power and position struggles, the core is the attribution of the "priesthood", which is also the beginning of the original simple sirens on the road of no return.

Since then, various conflicts and discord have arisen within the Sea Clan.

It must be emphasized that the area of the sea at this stage was only one-twentieth of the total area of the seven seas today, because the original sirens lived almost exclusively around the fluorescent seabed, so with the slow growth of the number of people today, the area of the sea area also began to slowly expand. Soon, this expansion was met with resistance from the natives, such as the Seahorse Man, the Octopus Man, the Shark Rider, etc., all of whom were natives of the sea, blood relatives and evolved n-shaped intelligent creatures living together.

The pace of external expansion and the unanimous attitude towards the outside world masked the intensifying conflict within the Sea Clan, and together with their shared belief in Calypso, all internal friction was masked.

With the expansion of numbers and sea areas, the sea tribes began to come into contact with the wider world, and when they encountered other sea creatures, they either enslaved or domesticated, and when they encountered humanoid creatures, they formed alliances or slaughtered In this way, the sea tribe civilization began to mature and sound more and more like their close neighbors, human civilization.

If Fortson saw this scene and saw that those simple, kind, and soft sirens had become what they are now, I don't know how he would feel

Perhaps only the wild sirens exiled to Bailang Bay still retained the way he had first seen them, and they were banished as "barbarians".

There is always an end to expansion, probably since more than a thousand years ago, that is, the late period of the human city-state, the expansion of the Sea Clan has basically stopped, not because their conscience is now or tired, but at this time, the internal contradictions have expanded to the point where they cannot be transferred and eased, just like a barrel, only one spark is needed to detonate!

Finally, an assassination incident in the Strait of Salayev became the fuse of the Sea Clan's civil war, and a protracted war began in the two most powerful seas of the Sea Clan, and the other five seas were also swept up in 66 succession, and finally the entire Seven Seas were turned into a pot of porridge.

The war lasted intermittently for nearly 300 years, to be precise, the discordant war situation remained for 300 years, and there were only a few major battles in total, more friction and conflict, and the Cold War. But in this process, the Seven Seas forces were reshuffled, and the entire Sea Clan population was also reduced by 15.

As for why it stopped in the end, because Poseidon woke up.

Just like a hard-working parent who took a nap after work, only to wake up to see their children in the living room making a fuss and beating their heads, Calypso's current believers were 15 less, their faces turned green with anger, and in a fit of rage, they removed all the priests of the Temple of the Tides!

The forces of the Seven Seas were silenced, and the princes were divided like children who had done something wrong, kneeling before the shimmering path outside the Temple of the Tides to be punished.

However, this time, Calypso can be regarded as a wise man, knowing that it is better to block than to be sparse, so he simply slapped his thigh and took the initiative to hold a joint military exercise in the seven sea areas.

"Aren't you going to fight! Then hit! Give me a hard beating, from now on I will only have two priests and one priest by my side, and the quota will be reserved for the top three of the joint military exercise, and the last three will lose my favor, and as for the seventh place, I will not even be qualified to send guards to the Temple of the Tides! ”

The goddess's original words were probably written down as oracles.

The military exercise is held every 100 years and lasts for three months, and the scale is unprecedented. Because of the rules and divine power of the goddess, the dead sea clan during the entire military exercise will not really die, but only go out, so there are actually no casualties.

As soon as the news came out, the seven seas were like chickens and blood, and they no longer engaged in civil wars, but began to recuperate and recharge, waiting to crush their opponents in joint military exercises, and finally have the opportunity to let their royal cronies become the goddess's close attendants.

The above is what I learned from David's perspective, but after Mu Yan learned about this history, the only feeling was that this was a ghost made by Garden.

First of all, the timing is exactly right. The Duke and his old man and I were in the midst of the Sea Clan's civil war, and then Calypso was furious and dismissed all the priests, wasn't this a ruse by Garden to get Ertus?

Think about it carefully, if it weren't for being fascinated by the blue face of Gaydon, how could the sea god ignore the government for more than three hundred years, and he couldn't care about how his followers looked at it, and the Duke made it bad.

However, these jokes aside, David's understanding of the Sea Clan was far beyond his expectations, especially when the other party said something like "it seems to be calm, but in fact there is an undercurrent", which made him impressed.

Indeed, the contradictions on the surface of the seven seas have been suppressed and have been peaceful for more than 700 years, but the beams formed during the military exercise have nowhere to be vented, but will be deeper and more intensified, which may not be expected by Calypso.

Having said that, back to the original question, it is not difficult to guess why there are so many sea tribes in the Moby Dick Islands at this time.

This year is the 147oo year of the Sea Clan, and there are only three months left before the 7th Joint Military Exercise, and the participating armies in the seven seas are almost ready, so it is very likely that this is a military parade, or a show of strength between each other, and Mu Yan just happened to bump into it

Well, probably because of that, right?

Mu Yan solemnly introduced the head of the guard who has been missing for many days, Captain David Jones, to the crew. The sailors welcomed his return with loud applause, and the latter also had to squeeze out an embarrassed but polite smile in response to all this.

Then, Mu Yan took him into the cabin.

A few days ago, taking advantage of a ventilation effort, the entire cabin was isolated by Mu Yan with an enchantment, so the whole thing was dry. The two walked behind the water curtain, and as soon as David looked up, he saw a row of towels hanging from the wall and a very absorbent blanket under his feet.

He squatted down and touched it, it was the belly skin of an undersea demonic beast, which could store a large amount of water, countless times better than a sponge, and even Turing's palace might not be able to afford this thing But here, it's just a carpet?

As if seeing David's surprise, Mu Yan casually explained: "There are a total of sixteen cabin entrances, which is to prevent them from getting the deck wet when they come down. ”

"But what's the point?" David couldn't help but ask, he still hadn't said half a sentence.

When he saw the ship, he understood that Barbossa's fate was the same curse as the ghost ship, and they would soon become his own crew.

Mu Yan smiled, did not answer, but wiped his head with a towel, changed into a pair of shoes, and walked down.

The two of them descended to the third floor and down the aisle to the stern of the boat, where there was literally an ice room, where the temperature was very low and where fresh fruits and vegetables were stored.

David looked at it all with the same hellish gaze.

Without waiting for him to speak, Mu Yan smiled.

"Do you want to ask, what's the point?"

David kept a straight face and didn't say anything.

"So your crew doesn't need to eat, do you?"

David didn't answer.

Mu Yan said to himself: "My crew doesn't actually need it, but I think they need it because this is the rhythm and characteristics that "people" have. I know that they are not human now, but I will still make them abide by human habits, eat three meals a day, eat and sleep on time, and make them fully prepared for the day when they return to the 6th place. ”

David laughed disdainfully and whispered, "Back to 6 places? Forget it, what the sea god can't do, why can you do it"

"Is that why you gave up?" Mu Yan narrowed his eyes and sneered in the same way: "So you give up on them with peace of mind, repeatedly use their immortal characteristics, and make them accept the fact that they are no longer human in their hearts, and finally become such a monster?" ”

David jerked his head up, as if trying to retort. But Mu Yan's sharp gaze made him speechless.

The two were in a stalemate for a moment, and finally Mu Yan chuckled and knocked on a board in the depths of the ice room.

"Okay, let's take a look at this, it has something to do with you."

David frowned and stepped forward, and suddenly it was a coffin! 11

。 Sogou