Ye Sheng and Captain Bert stood side by side, and they could clearly see that the hole was a regular jagged mark. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When he saw this hole, Captain Bert was stunned for a moment.

Memories instantly pulled him to that dark and rainy night, when the ship was silently swallowed up by the waves, leaving him and a handful of other sailors on the lifeboat.

The merman was long gone, and Denton's desperate cry of 'Father, father-' still rang in his ears.

He woke up from the ship in a cold sweat during countless nightmares, and his soul was condemned by deep remorse.

It would have been nice if Denton hadn't been brought to the ship by then......

"Captain, what's wrong with you, Captain?"

When Captain Bert came back to his senses again, he noticed the worried look in the first mate's look at him, and then remembered that all these years had passed, so he said in disguise: "It's okay, this hole is indeed very similar to the traces left by the attack of the merman." ”

However, the previous long period of distraction made Ye Sheng sigh slightly, and Captain Bert obviously remembered something.

"I don't think the merman did it, if I'm not mistaken, there was a trap like this at the bottom of the Black Pearl earlier, maybe there should be pirates nearby."

Captain Bert's conclusion was not verified by the sailors' reconnaissance afterwards, and the Black Pearl found a rare peace.

But this peace was not long in coming, and they unexpectedly encountered the mermaids when they were only a day's journey from Watch Island.

They were stuck in the middle of the road while the Black Pearl was sailing, and it looked like they were ready to do anything at any moment.

The ship was forced to stop moving.

These mermaids look half-human, half-fish, with faint scales on their cheeks, which look like they are covered with scales, but in reality they are just an illusion.

The water column held them in mid-air, and the lower half of the waist, starting from the waist, was covered with blue scales with a silver glow, which gave the already beautiful fish-man a strange charm.

The moment he saw the merman, Captain Bert's eyes were a little red, and the knots in his heart over the years seemed to be knotted now, so almost subconsciously, he immediately ordered: "Twelve gunners are in place......

The mermaids naturally sensed the movements on the deck, and they sensitively felt the malice of the humans on this ship, and just as they were about to start defending themselves, a human who was different from the people next to them stepped forward.

"Captain Bert, no need, the merman has no ill will." Ye Sheng immediately interrupted Captain Bert's order and persuaded him, "Don't turn a small matter into a war. ”

Captain Bert glanced at him as if he had re-acquainted Ye Sheng this time, and although he no longer gave orders, he still snorted coldly: "Don't tell me that I will have peace talks with the mermaids in the future, I won't agree." ”

"No, it's not a peace talk." Ye Sheng shook his head, looked at the first mate on the other side who was comforting Captain Bert, and said directly, "It's about clearing up some misunderstandings, right, first mate?" ”

The moment he was mentioned, the first mate's face changed: "Heavenly Favorite, what do you mean, captain, he slandered ......"

Captain Bert on the side looked at the first mate with complicated eyes.

"I never thought of why you betrayed the fleet."

On the Black Pearl, many sailors were still working, and Captain Bert's words caused them to be in an uproar.

"What, our first mate turned out to have thrown himself into the merman?" "Liar, the first mate is not that kind of person." "The captain must have made a mistake."

The first mate's expression was very stiff, but he still wanted to quibble: "It must be that this Heavenly Favored One said something to you, why do you just believe in the Heavenly Favored One and not believe me." ”

"No, this is what Ye Sheng and I agree on." Captain Bert shook his head slightly, and looked at Ye Sheng with some confusion, he wanted to know why he didn't attack the merman first.

"Human ......" The merman who was not far away saw them discussing the traitor and interjected, "I think you have indeed misunderstood something, you human beings are thinking about your captain. ”

"What?" Ye Sheng noticed that it was these merman leaders who spoke, and looked straight at him, revealing a puzzled expression.

The next person to answer was the first mate, who let out a long sigh and said, "Bert, you've been in a trance since Denton's accident, so once I hired a few sailors to go to Watch Island myself. ”

Captain Bert glared at the first mate in surprise: "Is that the time you took a long leave?" ”

First Mate: "That's it, I saw the merman after that, because of the conflict between us, I almost died there, fortunately ......"

Before he finished speaking, the first mate turned his head and looked through the mermen, as if he was looking for someone: "Denton should be here too." ”

"Denton?" Captain Bert was almost startled by these two words, and looked over the line of sight of the first mate, and saw that there was no mermaid or merman.

Suddenly, one of the mermen walked past the other mermen, and he said, "Father, are you okay?" I'm sorry, I really can't go back. ”

This merman looks no different from the others, and if there is any other difference, it is that he has a diamond-shaped pendant around his neck.

"How is that possible...... How could it be ......"

Captain Bert's pupils gradually contracted, and his gaze was focused on the merman.

Finally, as if resigned to his fate, he said, "Denton, what's going on, why did you become a merman?" ”

Denton looked pained, "I asked the first mate to do this so that you don't have to come." ”

"I don't want to repeat the same situation as seven years ago."

"Denton, what do you say?" Suddenly something came to mind, Captain Bert's face turned pale, and he stammered throughout his sentence, "What the hell is going on, your mother......"

"My mother is also a merman, and that's why I begged to get on the boat, I think...... This is the calling of my people. ”

The rest of the mermen just stood quietly and acted as bystanders, not interfering in Denton's affairs with the humans.

"Your people......" It took a long time for Captain Bert to accept the fact that his son and wife were mermaids, and he asked, almost tremblingly, "then why, your mother and when you were a child, you were human?" ”

This question made Denton bitter, and he looked at the quiet sea right now: "Because my mother gave up everything here, gave up her identity as a merman, just to become an ordinary person in the human world with her son." ”