Chapter 45: The Race of Mermaids with Bad Luck
In Cheng Shi's initial judgment, this alien warship may just take refuge on the earth to rest, but he didn't expect them to rely on it now, which made Cheng Shi feel a little unexpected, if they didn't leave, then they were a bug in the earth's civilization.
"Can you tell me how long your spaceship has been on Earth?" Cheng Shi asked with a smile.
North thought for a while, and then motioned to Pete next to him, Pete nodded, and after a little thought, he began to answer Cheng Shi's question.
"According to the method of calculating the time of human beings on the earth, our spaceship has been on the earth for more than a hundred years, but we have not been ashore many times, at first because of the problems of our spaceship, this spaceship is not short, when wandering in space, there will often be some large and small failures, and tinkering is also a common thing, after landing in the deep sea of the earth, it is almost to the point of being scrapped, and it is impossible to fly again, so we decided to repair the spacecraft in the deep sea first." Pete thinks and talks like a storyteller.
Cheng Shi heard Pete say that they didn't go ashore much, so he was immediately very interested in what happened when the mermaid came ashore, and before Cheng Shi could speak, Yang Yang, who was sitting opposite Pete, asked first.
"When did you first go ashore? There are very few records in human history. Yang Yang smiled and looked at Pete on the other side and asked, with a question mark on his face.
When Pete first introduced Yang Yang and Barbara to Cheng Shi, he clearly heard that the two of them were other races on the earth, so he was also very interested in Yangyang's race, but it seemed to be in the host-guest etiquette, Pete felt that their mermaid race was uninvited, and now that the owner of the earth took the initiative to come to the door, they should first explain their intention to the owner of this planet, so for the two humanoid creatures of other races on the earth, they are curious for the time being.
"In fact, we have been sporadically disembarked, has never stopped, but the large-scale disembarkation, so far there are only two times, the first time happened in the human epoch in 1915, when we chose the landing site in Europe, after we went ashore, we found that the human beings on the earth are fighting everywhere, the weapons used are very primitive, the war is very cruel, we have witnessed charred corpses everywhere, we also tried to communicate with the human beings on the earth, but soon we found that they only know how to fight, they can't communicate at all, Later, only some human artists of that period were willing to communicate with us, such as Monet and Repin, who were our good friends, and we also took our own earth names after the names of the earth humans at that time. Pete paused and took a sip of water.
Yang Yang took the opportunity to sigh: "Monet and Repin, they are all my predecessors, and I also paint, so what happened next?" Yang Yang clenched his little fists under his chin with both hands, as if he was enjoying listening to Pete's story.
In other words, Barbara is also more knowledgeable, knowing that this is a more formal meeting, if in normal times, she would at least roll her eyes at the behavior of this birdman who can only draw door gods and human portrait caricatures, and then "cut", and today she showed unprecedented restraint, as if she was letting the birdman play.
Pete heard Yang Yang's sigh, and then continued: "Later, the human war became more and more cruel, endless, I began to be unable to understand the human war, they can do whatever it takes to win the war, even if the city is already in ruins, in the eyes of our mermaid race, as long as there is no wasteland where no one can build a city, our mermaid race will only fight to protect the ecological environment, while humans do not hesitate to destroy the environment in order to win the war, which is almost the opposite of our understanding of war, Later, we sent a team of mermaids to mediate the war between the human race, but they were all executed as spies, which made us even more incomprehensible. Pete stretched out his hands.
"Ah, executed? Then don't you take revenge? Yang Yang asked puzzledly, with another question mark on his face, and Cheng Shi and Barbara, who were sitting next to him, were also stunned.
The merfolk negotiation trio didn't care, as if the merfolk race had long seen through life and death.
Then the mermaid master Tan North explained: "The upper body of our mermaid is made of water, and it will not die, after the lower body dies, the upper body will automatically turn into water, and then it will be resurrected in a water environment suitable for our survival, after the upper body is resurrected, the lower body will grow quickly, which is also a talent of our race, so in the ocean, we don't worry about death at all, but if we die on land, our upper body will turn into water and enter the river or sea through the earth's groundwater circulation system, But the process can't be too long, or we'll die too, so we face this risk every time we go ashore. ”
Cheng Shi's trio nodded when they heard North's explanation, and they couldn't help but be amazed by the mermaid's ability to come back from the dead.
"So you failed to mediate the war of mankind, but what about later? What happened next? Yang Yang seems to be very interested in the alien race of merfolk, as if he is eager to know their story on Earth.
Then Pete took over and said: "After the failure of the war to mediate mankind, we went back to the deep sea, in fact, the human world on earth is not useless, we found a place called Provence in Europe, it is very beautiful, and then we changed the name of our immigration ship to Provence." We have always wanted to communicate with humans, and even some of the early mermaids who came ashore have learned a lot of human languages, otherwise we would not have been able to mediate human wars, but now we have not been ashore for many years, and human languages have basically been forgotten. ”
Pete's words solved many doubts in Cheng Shi's heart, Cheng Shi touched his forehead, and then asked, "Didn't you go ashore on a large scale twice?" When was the second time? ”
The mermaid master talked about North and motioned to Pete to continue, Pete nodded at Cheng Shi, and then went on to answer Cheng Shi's doubts: "The second large-scale landing occurred not long after the first landing, probably in 1939, our spaceship was partially repaired, so we dragged the spaceship from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, in fact, we don't understand why human beings have taken so many names for the oceans that were originally connected, and there is only one name for the entire ocean on our mermaid planet, This disembarkation was our largest, and we landed on the coasts of Europe, the Pacific Islands, and Asia. ”
Speaking of this, Pete suddenly frowned, paused, and then continued: "We only saw Europe fighting before, but this time we went ashore, we found that humans are fighting everywhere, and the weapons used by humans to fight have also been upgraded, they can already create flying machines with stable performance, although they still look primitive to us, but in the human world, the appearance of flying machines has made the war spread faster, and they have dropped bombs over each other's cities by piloting these flying machines, The city that was attacked was instantly scorched, and later we saw that human beings were more unscrupulous in order to war, and the nuclear energy technology that was listed as a forbidden weapon on our mermaid planet was also used as a weapon by human beings, and human war was really terrible. Pete said and shook his head, "Later, we saw that the human war had been fought for so many years, and we tried to communicate with them many times, but there was no progress, and finally we thought that the human civilization on the earth belonged to a violent civilization, and decided not to try to go ashore on a large scale again." ”
After listening to Pete's talk about the two world wars of mankind, Cheng Shi breathed a sigh of relief, and Barbara and Yangyang, who were sitting on both sides, were also stunned.
"What's this all about? The merfolk race was also a little too unlucky, and both landings caught up with the human world war. Cheng Shi muttered in his heart.
"Ahem...... cough ......" Cheng Shi coughed lightly, "First of all, thank you for telling us so much when we first communicated, thank you for your trust, and secondly, I want to say that your luck is really not very good, the two large-scale landings are just in time for the world war of mankind, and it is also the most intense time of the war, which also makes you misunderstand human civilization, now, the war has long been over, the human world is very peaceful, and the human civilization on the earth is not a violent civilization, and it can communicate very well." ”
Hearing Cheng Shi's words, the trio of mermaid negotiators looked at each other, not quite believing that human civilization could still communicate normally, while Barbara and Yang Yang smiled at the trio opposite.