Chapter 26: The Underwater World
Picking up the speargun and reloading it, I took off my air compression bottle, changed into my clothes, put on my gear, and prepared to explore the place.
Of course, I didn't act blindly, for the simple reason that the monster I shot with a speargun, I always thought it was a fish, but now it seems that it shouldn't be.
First of all, he can go ashore, which is not what ordinary fish can do. Secondly, he pulled out the speargun, indicating that he had hands.
In the end, he was not dead from the big wound of the speargun, and he was able to pull out the speargun and leave, which shows that he either has strong physical fitness, or he has companions.
Finally, I have to think about what kind of creature is a creature with hands that can walk on land, but is faster than a fish in the water.
Water monkeys? Sharks? Fish-people?
My mind is full of words that I can think of, that are related to this.
After careful observation for a while, I followed the blood stains on the ground, and I thought I would have to travel a long way to find something, but I didn't go far before I saw something incredible.
I saw a city, a living city with people, yes, a living city with people.
Just like what you saw in the TV series, after passing the city gate, you will enter the city, and the streets extend in all directions, and the streets are lined with stalls and shops.
The streets were full of people, and all kinds of shouts and shouts continued.
And the selling are all snacks and objects I've seen.
It's a true portrayal of ancient life.
I was really startled, and I was about to go back, but a vendor selling fried fritters on the side was very gloating and asked, "Hey! Brother, new here? ”
"Huh?" I couldn't react for a while.
I've encountered a similar situation, but it's all a fantasy and it's not real, and even if it's true, for example, when I went to the last tomb and entered the Mongolian camp, I can see the difference.
However, I can't see it here, and this guy who sells fritters is obviously talking to me.
I hesitated, "You're talking to me?" ”
"Is that not true, or else?" The fritters seller looked at me with disdain and looked at me like a hillbilly: "Surprised? Not surprised? ”
The other party said a classic line, and I finally believed it: ", what's going on?" ”
"Alas~" The eldest brother who sells fritters sighed, and the work in his hands did not stop, not only frying fritters, but also selling them.
I noticed that the currency he received was not renminbi, not US dollars, not British pounds, not copper coins, but shells that shone with strange colors.
A shell the size of a fingernail can buy two fritters.
"Trough, what the hell is this back to ancient times? Why do you still use the back shell as money? I couldn't help but complain in my heart.
"The child has no mother, it's a long story, brother, you sit down and eat something first, and listen to me tell you slowly!" After saying that, the eldest brother who sold fritters greeted me very warmly to sit down, served me five fritters, plus a bowl of soy milk, and even asked me if I added sugar or salt.
I'm a southerner, but my heart is northern, and I said, "Add sugar!" ”
In fact, this has nothing to do with taste, it is completely a habit of life.
The weather is cold in the north, and you need to eat more high-calorie foods in winter to make up for it
Energetic, hot days in the south, sweating more in summer, need to replenish salt to prevent prostration.
These are all life experiences that have evolved on their own over thousands of years.
If you change the boundaries and don't change your habits, if you go to the south as a northerner, you will definitely become fat.
And you, a southerner, went to the north, and you were also infirm and sickly.
I saw that the eldest brother was very enthusiastic and had no malicious intentions, so I readily agreed.
Although I just ate a lot of things before I went to the sea, the sea water is cold and cold, and now the heat on my body has not recovered, and it is not bad to drink a bowl of hot soy milk to warm my body.
Looking at the fried golden and crispy fritters, I couldn't help but pick up one and eat it.
"Hey~" As soon as I took a bite, I found that the taste of this fritter was different from all the fritters I had eaten before.
"It's different!" The big brother who sells fritters said with a smile.
"Why?" I asked, puzzled.
"It's fried in whale oil, and of course it tastes different." The big brother who sells fritters said proudly.
I was more interested, and hurriedly asked, "Big brother, tell me what the hell is going on!" ”
The eldest brother sighed again and said again: "The child has no mother, it's a long story, I'm a fisherman." The family has been fishing for generations, fishing for thousands of years, and I have never heard of the end of fishing, so we have to make a fishing moratorium, our small family has to live, so we ventured to a nearby country to steal fish, but we encountered a storm at sea, capsized the boat, thought it was dead, but woke up and found that it was here.
There are a lot of people here, there are people from all periods, you look at the guy who sells meat over there, he said that his ancestors came during the Three Kingdoms period, and his surname is Zhang, and he claims to be a descendant of Zhang Fei. Phew! ”
Following the big brother who sold fritters, I saw a fat-headed, rough man, shirtless, with a leather apron, big pants underneath, and a rubber water shoes, cutting meat there. On the table, under the table, it was all blood and oil.
I also noticed that the meat didn't seem to be pork, but it was as fat as a pig.
"He sells whale meat, pigs, sheep, cows and other creatures that are only available on land, which are very expensive here, not available at roadside stalls." The big brother who sells fritters explained.
"Then according to what you mean, that is, most of those who went missing at sea came here?" I asked hesitantly.
"It's not the capital, it's all here, it's an underwater world, and the rulers, in order to keep their rule, for the sake of the race, often capsize some boats, or drag some people back. And it's dragged all over the world, you see over there, over there, and over there, those are gringos, and most of their fathers were trolls who disappeared during World War I and World War II. The eldest brother who sold fritters pointed farther away.
I looked over again and saw that indeed, there were a lot of blonde foreigners.
"Rulers? What rulers? Where did the rulers come from? What kind of people are the rulers here, and who are they? "I asked several questions in a row.
"I don't know the specifics, the rulers here, the descendants of the self-proclaimed human king, the human emperor or something, said to be the descendants of Dayu of the Xia Dynasty, when Dayu controlled the water, sent them to open the mountain and crack the rocks, and sent the flood to the sea, and then they stayed in the sea to live. I think
It's just nonsense, it's the same as the meat seller claiming to be a descendant of Zhang Fei, it's all nonsense! "The big brother who sells fritters said indignantly, as if he was being exploited very much by the rulers here.
"Hey~ big brothers! Ladies and gentlemen! Come, come, take a few more, take a few more! "I was about to ask something more, when I saw the big brother who sold fritters, nodded his head, took a lot of fritters, and sent them to a group of guys in uniform.
This group of uniformed guys is not a city control uniform, but a group of bright silver armor, the leader wears a long sword at his waist, and the hand behind him holds a steel fork, which is also bright silver, shining under the illumination of I don't know what kind of light it is.
"Ahh After these people left, the eldest brother who sold fritters suddenly spat and scolded: "A group of vampires have always eaten for nothing." ”
"Those people?" I didn't ask, but the big guy who sells fritters understood what I meant.
"Those people are the dogs of the rulers! will only rely on the master to bully honest people, I bah! "The eldest brother who sells fritters continues to scold his mother.
My mind was confused, because I had so many questions that I wanted to ask, I wanted to know the answers, but I found that there were so many questions that I couldn't ask, I could only think of something, what to ask.
"Hey, by the way, I just heard you mean that this ancient city will move?" I thought of this and asked.
"That's right! Rulers have a way to control it, of course, if they don't control it, they will also flow with the currents themselves, and I don't know how to control it, and my news is all inquired. The big brother who sells fritters said.
"And what does the ruler look like here?" I asked curiously.
The eldest brother who sold fritters looked around and said very mysteriously: "Anyway, they don't look like people, they look very strange, they have hands, but no feet, I don't know if they have degenerated, some have the tail of a fish, some have the tail of a snake, and in order to adapt to life in the water, they also have gills, which are used with lungs, and grow in the armpit and lungs." ”
The eldest brother who sells fritters gestured at his ribs as he spoke.
"And where can I see them?" After listening to it, I kind of wanted to see it, and I guess the ruler that the big brother sold fritters said was the monster I shot before.
"You can't see it here, it's just a suburb, it's a big city, and the rulers only live in the center of the city. Hardly ever leaving the water city. Beyond the Water City is the Rich City, where most of the people are half-water, and the rulers here call themselves water people, and the half-water people are a hybrid of land people like us.
Generally, if you are hybridized, you can stay in Shuicheng if you are most like a water person, and if you are not like it, you can stay in Fugui City and continue to hybridize in the future, anyway, in order to continue the race, the ruler has made a hybrid system, and the best one is selected to continue to hybridize.
There are also some people, who are the landers we have captured, but who have special skills and skills, or who have special contributions, will be placed in Fugui City.
On the periphery of Fugui City is the Civilian City, where all the landers who have been caught a long time ago, who have lived for so many years, and I don't know how many generations have passed, and have become people from the underground world, looking down on us outsiders who have only come in recent years.
Outside the civilian city is the refugee city where we refugees live. ”
When the big brother who sells fritters said this, he was indignant again.