Chapter 3: The Fabricated Bad Guys
Hai Lingdi ran out of the prison, a little stunned. Lifting his slender jade finger to point left and right, he didn't know where to go.
The jailer looked at him, and his heart was helpless. She walked over and said respectfully, "Your Highness, do I need to give you a ride?" β
Hai Lingdi pursed her lips and looked at her angrily, "You think Your Highness can't find a way, right?" β
"No, it's just that His Highness has a noble status, and it is also appropriate to send you here."
"In that case, let us lead the way." Hai Lingdi flicked his sleeves, raised his head proudly, and cleared his throat.
Suddenly, a school of small fish swam in the distance, looking very panicked.
"Your Highness, be careful." The jailer hid the flute behind him, and he suffered the pain of being hit by countless small fish.
"No, you don't." Hai Lingdi reached out and grabbed a small fish in his hand, letting the other fish leave. "You see, these fish often live above the abyss."
The jailer nodded and said, "Yes, Your Highness." They don't usually come to the abyss unless they have to. β
"Something happened in the sea that made them so panicked that they even dared to break into the prison." Hai Lingdi frowned and whispered.
"If only we could understand the fish." The jailer's unintentional words made Hai Lingdi very happy.
"That's right, His Highness has had the ability to communicate with fish since he was a child." As he spoke, Hai Lingdi stretched out one hand, released the fish in the other hand, and began to "whistle" at it. The whistle is strange, somewhat like the call of a dolphin. Because the pitch is so high, there will be a harsh feeling.
After a while, the sea spirit flute let the fish go.
"Your Highness, do you know what it said?"
"There are strong winds and waves on the sea, which is a barrier set up by the Mother Emperor. If someone recklessly breaks into the sea, it will cause even greater wind and waves, which can hardly be withstood even by the creatures of the sea above the abyss. β
"I don't know who would dare to go to sea under such circumstances?"
"It's an old fisherman." Hai Lingdi said, and went upstream, "I'm going to save her." β
All kinds of big fish, small fish, and other creatures swam in fear in the sea, and many of them hid under the bodies of the killer whales guarding the sea. Even other species of large whales, which rarely show their faces, have come out to watch over other fish.
Hai Lingdi raised his hand to catch the dying newborn little fish, and felt very sorry in his heart. He carried the small fish all the way down. Today there was no warm sunshine over the sea that he liked, only strong winds and waves. The fisherman clung to his boat, begging the sea to spare her life. However, the more she resisted the wind and waves, the bigger the boat became, and the boat drifted farther and farther away with the big waves. Eventually, a violent wave overturned the boat, and the fishermen fell into the sea, desperately screaming for help. At the same time, the wind and waves on the sea surface are much less.
Hai Lingdi hurriedly swam over and swam to the shore with the old fisherman, who was already unconscious.
This is the old man who was still waiting on the shore, and saw someone returning with his old wife, and hurriedly walked away and went to the sea.
"Is this the head of your house?" The sea spirit flute asked as he soaked in the sea.
"yes, thank you, young man, you're such a nice guy." The old man had a hard time supporting the old fisherman.
"I'll help you." The sea flute forgot his fish tail and slowly helped him lift the unconscious man to shore.
"Young man." The old man was about to thank him, but accidentally saw the golden tail under his shawl. He rubbed his eyes, widened his eyes again, and the golden scales.
"Youkai, youkai, youkai." The old man's legs suddenly weakened, "Come on, the monster is here to harm people." He was so frightened that he hurriedly retreated, and hurried back to the village.
"Old man." Hai Lingdi shouted from behind, "Your head of the family is still here." But the old man had already run away, and he had no choice but to drag the fishermen farther away from the sea by himself. On the way back, I saw a large group of fishermen rushing towards with knives and forks and fishing nets. He hurriedly jumped into the sea and swam away.
"Old woman," the old man came over and hugged the fisherman and cried again, "how did you meet that monster?" β
The surrounding fishermen were also frowning.
"Now it doesn't matter if there are fewer fish in the sea, even if there are often strong winds and waves, there are more krakens now, how will we live in the future?"
"yes."
A sigh made the already gloomy sky even darker.
"It's better for us to go to the county order and ask her to write a piece of music and hand it over to the senior officials of the capital Qianshun. Maybe it can help us. β
"Wu Laosan, your brain is covered with lard. Those high-ranking officials only have themselves in their hearts, and they don't care about our life or death. It's better to leave the village and find another way to live. β
"Ah, young man. This place has raised us for more than ten generations, where can we just go. I think Wu Laosan said that he could give it a try, and he would talk about it if it works. The big guy will help him carry Hideko home. An old man said, beckoning everyone to disperse.
Hai Lingdi hurriedly fled into the deep sea, and was gasping for breath when someone tapped him on the shoulder and startled him.
He looked back at the person carefully. It was a dragon man, also with red dragon horns, colored fluff growing above his pointed ears, and a pair of peach blossom eyes full of man's careful thoughts that could not be concealed.
"Spirit Flute, what's wrong with you?"
"It's Ah Xin, you're scaring me."
"You, I don't usually see you scared like this, but what happened?"
"Just now, a fisherman went into the sea despite the wind and wave barrier set up by the mother emperor and was almost drowned." Hai Lingdi said.
That Ah Xin looked up at the sea proudly, and said disdainfully: "You deserve it, today is your big day, and she is a mediocre person who still wants to rub the light." It's cheap not to drown her. β
Hai Lingdi looked at Ah Xin in disbelief and said, "Don't you think the mother queen is too much?" β
"His Majesty Aquaman didn't do anything wrong, if it were me, I would have let the shark eat her directly." Ah Xin said viciously, and as soon as she turned around, she hugged Hai Lingdi as if she had changed into a different person, "Okay, don't talk about this." I only found out about your engagement to your second cousin yesterday, no, I rushed over desperately early in the morning. Like this, don't you feel impressed? β
"Hmm." Hai Lingdi just replied faintly, and pushed his hand away without a trace.
"Let's go."
"Nope." Hai Lingdi subconsciously refused directly. Ah Xin looked at him, a little curious.
"I, I mean, you go first, I still have something to investigate, so I'll leave first."
"Wait." Ah Xin called out to him, "Have you seen your little cousin Long Pingcheng?" β
"Yes."
"Did you just say something about the water jet?"
"Yes, I heard that someone harmed me, and Sister Pingcheng made a water column to save me."
"Now that you know everything, what are you going to look for?"
"The one who harmed me." "If it weren't for her, there wouldn't have been so many bad things happening." So, I won't let her go. β
"And do you know who she is?" Ah Xin squinted at a pair of beautiful eyes with pink eyeshadow, and her eyes revealed the cunning of a fox.
Hai Lingdi thought about it, shook his head, and said, "So I came out today to find the old man who seems to be an immortal, and let her help me do the math." β
"Actually, it didn't bother. Since your little cousin saved you, it would be nice to ask her. β
"That's right." Hai Lingdi was also stupidly cried by herself, "Why didn't I think of it." β
"I heard that this murderer is very likely to be Her Royal Highness the Lady of the Purple Kingdom." Ah Xin said thoughtfully, "I heard that at that time, except for His Royal Highness Hannuo, Luo Yunluo, and Hongxin guards, you and your little cousin were not present. His Royal Highness Hannuo will definitely not hurt you, and Hong Xin is the guard of the little cousin, and he will not hurt you. As for the little cousin, you also know that she usually doesn't kill at all, not to mention that she has always missed you so much, you can also rule it out. Only this Luo Yunluo is the most suspicious, and she is likely to think you as a kraken, so she wants to kill you. β
Hai Lingdi was frightened, and he tried to think about the somewhat sad person he rescued ashore that day, and his heart felt uncomfortable, after all, he was still a little tempted by her debauchery.
"I'm going to ask Sister Pingcheng, Ah Xin, you go first, I'll go back later." After Hai Lingdi finished speaking, he returned to the prison.
"Sister Pingcheng." He shouted from afar.
"Why did you come back again?" Long Pingcheng looked at him, and the smile on his face deepened a little.
"I ask you, who was the person who hurt me that day?"
When Long Pingcheng heard this, the smile on her face froze suddenly, she lowered her head and thought about it, and said a little cruelly: "Luo Yunluo, that's right, it's her." β
"Why, she never met me, why did she kill me?" Hai Lingdi remembered the warmth of the man's palm, and always felt that it would not be her.
"She's human, you're a merfolk. They humans always see creatures they haven't seen as dangerous. Often get rid of it quickly. β
"How do you know her name rhymes?"
"This was told to me by Hongxin. She often goes to the mortal world to do errands, and naturally she has seen the rhyme of Gui as the prince of the Purple Kingdom. Long Pingcheng looked at him, and his big eyes turned out to be really sincere.
"Someone. Let His Royal Highness Long Pingcheng come out. Hai Lingdi said to the jailer.
"No, Your Highness, you can't let it go without the permission of Your Highness."
"Presumptuous, have all His Highness's words been ignored?"
"The subordinates don't dare."
"Then open the cell door. Hannuo has his own highness to bear it for you. β
The jailers looked at each other, and finally cautiously opened the door.
"Sister Pingcheng, let's go."
"Where are you going?"
"Go back to the Piren."
"If your mother saw that you let me go, she wouldn't send you and me to prison in a fit of rage."
"Don't worry. The mother knows that she owes me, and today is my big day, so she will naturally save me some face. Hai Lingdi knew in his heart that the Sea King had always been a knife-mouthed tofu in his affairs, otherwise he would not have spoiled him so naΓ―ve, such lawlessness.
Hai Lingdi looked up at the sky above the sea that had long been out of sight, and was a little sad. The smell on the clothes is very similar to her taste, they are so nostalgic and sad. Although Ping Cheng and Ah Xin both said that she was the murderer, he still didn't believe it.
Perhaps, there was just a misunderstanding.