Chapter 120: The Legend of the Siren
"Don't cry!" I shouted.
These people, as if frightened by my shouting, stopped crying one after another, and turned their heads to look at me.
Seeing their tears in their eyes, my tone softened a little, after all, being swept into such a place, ordinary people are afraid that they can't calm down.
"What kind of place is this? What are those things? I asked.
"Girl, you're not from Fanxian County, are you, are you here to see the tide?" The man closest to me asked, choked up.
This man is white and pure, and he also has a bookish air on his body.
Seeing me nodding, the man let out a long sigh and told me that he was not a local either, but from a nearby county town, and that he was joined by a few of his friends.
He still clearly remembered that the tide was simply beautiful against the backdrop of the sunset that day, but just as the group was lingering on the shore, a big wave suddenly crashed over, and he was directly swept into the sea while standing on the reef.
Next, like me, he was dragged into the depths of the sea by a pair of "hands".
"I've been here for more than 30 days, and I miss my family so much." As he said this, tears welled up in the man's eyes again.
"I don't see the light of day here, how do you know that you've been here for more than thirty days?" I saw that he was about to cry, so I quickly diverted the subject.
Unexpectedly, he was even more sad when he heard it, and tears rolled down.
"Someone told me before that the Kraken here kills one person a day, and when I came here, thirty-seven people have been taken away, and after those people were taken away, they never came back." There was a tremor in the man's voice.
"Have you ever seen a kraken?" I asked.
The man immediately shook his head, and he also said that if he knew that the legend of the Siren was true, he would never come here to die.
"The Legend of the Siren?" I looked at him, "Can you tell me?" ”
"Hey, girl, it seems that you are more wronged than me, and you haven't even heard of the rumors of the Kraken?" He looked at me sympathetically and shook his head slightly.
He told me that the legend of this Siren has been passed down for a long time, and that there was a beautiful woman in the sea who often sat on the reef and combed her hair and sang when the tide was in the water.
The song is as graceful as a yellow warbler, and her alluring face has confused many men.
These men, after being bewitched, followed the Kraken into the sea, and have not been heard from since.
Some people say that those men died, and others say that those men were taken by the Kraken to live under the sea, and there are different opinions.
"No, the Kraken is a banshee!" Suddenly, someone interrupted the man beside me.
"Banshee?" I looked at the person who spoke, and he had a Chinese face and dark skin.
"That's right, it's a banshee, I'm a native of this county." This man is very confident.
He told me that the story of the Siren had been told to him by his grandmother for hundreds of years, and that it was just a gimmick to say that the Siren was a beautiful woman, and that it was just a gimmick to attract people from outside to come here to see the tides, and the locals could do some business and open a restaurant or something.
And the real kraken, according to rumors, is a multi-eyed manatee, this manatee is huge, with paddle-shaped forelimbs, no hind limbs, and a hairless body, but the head has fluff, the head is large and round, and the whole body is covered with eyes the size of soybeans.
Every year when the tide season begins, it begins to hide under the tide and quietly eats the people who watch the tide from the shore.
"The eyes of the kraken can hypnotize people, you can't look at it, as long as you meet its eyes, you will be confused, and you will definitely die." After the man finished speaking, he sighed again.
He said that he was picking up fish on the edge of the reef at low tide a few days ago, but an inexplicable big wave crashed over him and swept him into the sea.
At that time, he struggled desperately and tried to swim back to shore, but the result was predictable.
He grew up by the sea, and although he was familiar with the nature of the water, the hands under his feet used up all his physical strength, and he was finally dragged into the water.
I couldn't help but frown when I heard this, thinking to myself, no matter which of these two people said that the rumors were true, it didn't matter, the important thing was that this kraken was indeed not a good kind.
"But when you're locked up here, haven't you ever thought about escaping?" No sooner had I said this than the men looked terrified.
They said that this was the Kraken's territory, and if they dared to run and were discovered, they would be killed immediately.
After saying this, he raised his chin and pointed to the men who fell to the ground, saying that they wanted to escape, but they were killed by the monsters who came to deliver food.
Don't look at the corpse lying on the ground intact, in fact, the entire internal organs have been taken out by those monsters, and what lies under it is just a skin.
Hearing these people say this, I finally understood why they were crying, presumably because they were frightened when they saw the bloody picture before.
Staring at the corpse on the ground for a while, I began to struggle again, not wanting to wait here for death.
When the people around me saw me struggling, they all began to kindly remind me: "Girl, it's useless, these corals seem to have become essences, and the more you struggle, the tighter it will be." ”
"Chengjing?" I muttered something in a low voice.
Immediately after that, I thought of a way, no longer straining my hands to break free, but to the wall behind me, and when I touched the raised coral reef, I swiped the blood on the coral with my fingertips, and after the skin of my fingers broke, I wiped the blood on the coral.
The coral that was holding my wrist was loosened in an instant, and I did the same to untie the coral in the other hand, and the whole body lost its center of gravity and immediately threw itself down, and my feet were still grabbed and did not fall directly.
"Oh, are you alright?"
When those people saw me being hung like this, they all looked at me worriedly.
I stretched out my fingers unhurriedly and touched the coral wrapped around my feet, and the coral instantly loosened, and my whole body was smashed to the ground.
I gritted my teeth, didn't say a word, rubbed my aching arm and stood up, trying to let the people go.
As a result, they shook their heads at me one by one.
"Girl, if you can escape, then go to the Demon Slayer Pavilion in Beijing and ask someone to catch the demon, if you can't escape?" After they finished speaking, their eyes fell silent as they looked at the corpses on the ground.
These people have been locked up for too long, and they are too frightened to escape, and they also feel that it is impossible to escape with a little girl like me.