Facing the rattan that was coming at him, the mermaid's body moved in the water, trying to dodge the largemouth attack as he had just done.

However, the last time she attacked, Bigmouth attacked multiple targets at once, so there was only one rattan attacking her. Now that only the ghost and her were left as targets, the number of rattans attacking her suddenly increased, blocking her movement from all sides.

Originally, the largemouth flower divided the rattan into two parts to attack, one part attacked the ghost, and the other part bypassed the ghost to attack the mermaid, and the part that attacked the ghost directly penetrated the ghost's body, and also changed the target to draw towards the mermaid.

After discovering that she couldn't attack the ghost, Bigmouth put all the puppet's attack points on the mermaid. All the vines were drawn towards the merfolk from all sides, like maggots on tarsal bones trying to wrap around her body, and not only that, but new vine branches were constantly being drawn from under its flower plate to join the besieging merfolk.

At first, the merfolk were still able to barely dodge even as the attacks suddenly became denser, but this did not last long, as the number of rattans increased and the area occupied became larger and larger, and the space she could dodge became smaller and smaller. The mermaid's body was covered with many blood marks from the thorns of the vine mountain, and those blood marks would heal quickly after bleeding out light blue blood, but at the same time, there would be many new blood marks on her body.

Several times she had come close to getting tangled in rattan, and anyone could tell she couldn't hold out much longer.

"Trust me, okay? I beg you" The worry in the ghost's voice became more and more obvious, during the period when the mermaid was attacked, he had been surrounding the mermaid, but he couldn't even block the attack to help the mermaid, he could only watch the merfolk being hurt again and again, but there was nothing he could do, "I beg you, okay, I can't do anything when you are imprisoned and hurt, I don't want to watch you die in front of me now and still be powerless." ”

Before the mermaid could react, the rattan of the large-mouthed flower finally wrapped around her arm, her movements were affected slightly, and the remaining rattan struck instantly, completely trapping her movements, and the spikes on the rattan also pierced her body.

"Ahh

The mermaid let out a cry of pain, and her blue blood oozed from the cracks in the vines, as if because of the pain, the strength of the original grasp of the dagger was also sent, and the ghost quickly rushed over and snatched the dagger from her hand!

Feeling that her hand was empty, the mermaid was instantly startled, and even the original cry of pain stopped, and she endured the pain and looked at the prince coldly, her eyes full of unease, vigilance, suspicion and hatred, and said in a cold voice, "Is this your purpose?" Lie to me and say I'm willing to die for me and take the dagger so I can no longer threaten you! Really!? ”

The mermaid didn't want to believe that the prince had always loved her, I thought. After all, if she admits that the prince's love for her has never changed, it is also equivalent to admitting that it was she herself who betrayed their love.

As if he didn't see the mermaid's resentful eyes, the prince just took the dagger and showed a faint smile to the mermaid, "Honey, I haven't lied to you, and I won't lie to you." ”

The dagger swung down quickly, cutting through the vines wrapped around the mermaid's body, and the force of the mermaid's body disappeared and fell into a pool of blood. Bigmouth let out a terrible roar, and the target of the attack changed from the merfolk to the ghost. However, the ghost was disembodied, and the vines could not touch it at all, so they had to find a way to block the dagger. However, the mermaid's dagger seems to be different from ordinary daggers, and the vines of the largemouth flower are completely vulnerable to the dagger, and they cannot block the ghost's attack at all.

With the advantage of having no physical presence and the sharpness of a dagger, the ghost easily approached Bigmouth's side and cut off with the connection between Bigmouth's flower disc and body!

However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred! Suddenly another vine sticks out from the depths of the mouth of the big-mouthed flower!

All the previous vines were sticking out from the position under the flower plate, and this vine sticking out of the mouth of the flower was also obviously different from other attack vines, thinner than other vines, and there were no thorns, the tip was an oval bud-like thing, and after the ghost approached, the bud quickly split into four petals and bloomed, and at the same time, yellow-green slime shot out of it, which sprayed right on the ghost! It was the highly corrosive venom of the large-mouthed flower.

"Ahh

"Zizi-"

I thought that the venom would also penetrate the ghost's body like the previous vine attack without affecting him, but I didn't expect that this venom would also be a threat to the ghost! As soon as the venom fell on the prince, it made a corrosive sound, and the ghost couldn't help but let out a loud cry and hurriedly dodged, the sound was full of pain, and even his pearly white body became more and more transparent, as if it was about to disappear.

"No!"

A roar came, and what I didn't expect was that at this moment, the mermaid rushed towards the large-mouthed flower, and without hesitation, she stretched out her hands and grabbed the vine that was spraying venom from the largemouth! The mermaid's hands were visibly corroded to the naked eye, and even with her extraordinary healing abilities, she seemed to be unable to resist such intense corrosion, and the smell of corroded flesh filled the entire chamber.

The special vine that sprayed venom seemed to be the weakness of the large-mouthed flower, and the vine was grabbed by the mermaid, and the largemouth let out an even more terrible scream, and the remaining branches waved wildly and pumped towards the merfolk!

At the last moment, the ghost that was no longer corroded by the venom quickly swung out the dagger, and the vine caught by the mermaid in his hand was quickly cut off!

That vine seemed to be the weakness of the large-mouthed flower, and after the vine was cut off, the large-mouthed flower's movements instantly stopped stiffening, and quickly spread from the broken point to the whole body, until it completely turned into dust and shattered and drifted away.

As I watched the gruesome battle finally end, I squinted in the rising smoke for the merfolk and the ghost, and found the two men standing opposite each other in a pool of blood.

"Do you really have to love me all the time?"

I heard the merfolk ask softly, no longer sharp and aggressive, just calm with a hesitation that was unsure of happiness.

The ghost's increasingly transparent body loomed in the smoke and dust, and he let out a chuckle, "Didn't I just say, I didn't lie to you, and I won't lie to you, I love you." ”

The merfolk were silent and did not speak, and after the two stood silently for a while, the ghost suddenly took a step forward and reached out its hand, as if trying to touch the mermaid's cheek, but passed directly through the mermaid's face.

The ghost's movements paused slightly, and then he chuckled again and said, "Look at me, forget that I can't touch you anymore, forget it, my dear, the dagger is back to you, now you can kill me and lift your curse." ”

The ghost said, fingers pinching the blade of the knife, the tip of the knife pointed at itself, and handed the dagger over.

However, the merfolk did not reach out to take it, but looked at the ghost and said, "Don't you hate me?" I killed you, I killed your father, and your mother's death has something to do with me, so don't you hate me? ”

"How can you hate? My father died of his own greed, my mother's death was an accident, and I," the ghost sighed slightly, "I love you, so I can't hate you." ”

"You love me, even if I don't love you anymore, you still love me." The mermaid smiled bitterly, "How can you love me all the time?" Even when you are hurt, misunderstood and doubted, why do you always love me? ”

The ghost was silent for a long time before he said slowly, "I don't know why I love you all the time, you are an immortal mermaid in the ocean, and I am just a human who will not live for a hundred years." It's just love for this thing, it doesn't seem to be explained by why, it has no law and no reason, maybe it's because I'm a human being, human life is too short, short enough for us to love someone, from the moment we fall in love, until we die. ”

The ghost's words made my heart tremble, I didn't expect him to say such a thing. To love someone with a whole life, if you want to add an adjective to this kind of love, I think that word must be unforgettable.

"Phew, I've changed my mind." The mermaid took a deep breath and suddenly said, "I don't want to kill you, since you said that you won't lie to me, then you will continue to be a ghost, and the ghost will not die, so that you can be regarded as having the same life as me, I want to see if you can always love me as you say." ”

The ghost didn't seem to expect the merfolk to say such a thing, and after a few seconds of silence, he let out a chuckle before saying, "Okay, then you can take the dagger back first, and if you find out that I lied to you one day, you can kill me again." ”

The ghost said, taking another step closer to the mermaid, and the distance between him and the mermaid was only half a meter. He held the dagger with a slightly bent arm, and raised the dagger to his chest for the mermaid to take it.

I didn't expect things to turn out like this, so that's a good ending, isn't it? I took a deep breath and felt a lot lighter, I was moved by the ghost's love for the merfolk, and I really didn't want to see such a love ending in death.

The mermaid didn't say anything, but raised her hand to hold the handle of the dagger, and her face was full of happy smiles.

However, just when I thought it was finally a happy ending, the ghost's hand holding the blade suddenly pulled at me! At the same time, his body quickly rushed forward to meet him!

It all happened in an instant, and in the blink of an eye, the tip of the dagger was completely submerged into the ghost's body—right in the heart!

The merfolk were startled by this sudden occurrence, and then reacted and quickly drew her dagger and threw it aside, but the matter was a foregone conclusion, and the ghost made her kill herself.

Being stabbed in the heart was also a great pain for the ghost, and I could clearly see the pained look on his face and his body becoming lighter and lighter

"Why?" The mermaid looked at the ghost, her body trembling slightly, and her voice was already crying, "Why do you want to do this?" Why? ”

"You're an immortal merfolk of the sea, and I'm once a human being, and now I'm just a ghost." The ghost replied softly, softly and dotingly, "You will be able to return to the sea after the curse is lifted, not in this dark room, in pain." ”

"I have always felt that having you is God's favor for me, but it is a mistake for you. I was worried about how you would bear the pain of losing me in the endless life of my life after I died, but fortunately, you don't love me anymore. The ghost said slowly, without the slightest sadness or fear of imminent demise in his voice, only pleasure and calm, "I've had enough favors, and now it's time to correct your mistakes." ”

"No, no, no, you can't do that!" The mermaid's voice was full of crying, but there was only a crying expression on her face, no tears of crying, "You said you, you said you wouldn't lie to me!" You just promised to be with me forever, you can't lie to me! Can't lie to me."

"I'm sorry," the ghost's voice became more and more ethereal, and his body became almost completely transparent, "Let me lie to you this time, but I really didn't lie to you when I said I would love you until I die."

After the ghost said this, his body finally became completely transparent, disappeared into countless points of light, and was never seen again

The mermaid watched in a daze at the location where the ghost disappeared beside her, her whole body trembling continuously, and finally let out a violent cry, covering her cheeks with her hands, and the sadness could not be suppressed.

I didn't expect the ghost to do this, and I felt a depressing, sour feeling in my heart, like someone scratching my heart with a fingernail, it didn't hurt, but it was uncomfortable, and I knew that feeling was called sadness. Holding the wolf tooth pendant on his chest, he took a deep breath to calm down, only to find that his face was a little damp, and it turned out that I had already inadvertently wept

Accompanied by the wolf's fangs, he and I walked towards the pool of blood. There are ghosts that have disappeared, and merfolk who are still wailing for their lost partners.

I don't know what to say to comfort her, and I really can't say anything to comfort her, for it seems to me that the love between her and the ghost is a tragedy caused by her own hand.

A towering tree and an epiphany fall in love may be a tragedy in itself, but this is love.

I stood silently on the edge of the pool until the merfolk stopped crying without tears. Looking at her stunned expression, although I was a little unbearable, I didn't want to say anything to comfort her, I think I still blamed her, blamed her for living up to the ghost's affection.

"Are you here to ask for the key to the Wall of Thorns?" The merfolk froze for a moment, and then said to me, as if suddenly realizing my existence, "The key to the wall of thorns is my dagger, and it just fell into this pool." ”

I nodded silently, and after hesitating for a while, I finally couldn't bear it, and said, "You go back to the sea, I think he also wants you to go back, so you can forget about him." ”

The mermaid didn't respond to my words, and just when I thought she wasn't going to say anything to me anymore, I heard her say, "What is this kind of love that belongs to you human beings, I love his appearance when he was young, but I can't love his vicissitudes of life, and when I thought he didn't love me anymore, I made a comfortable excuse for my dislove, and I told myself that your human love is short-lived, just like your life, fleeting and untraceable." But"

I listened quietly to the mermaid's words, not responding, and I didn't know how to respond. I have never had love, and I have never known its sweetness or bitterness, it is a magical power that I cannot understand, to make two people together, to make a moment become eternal, I don't know what it is. I don't know the answer to the mermaid's question, but she doesn't need me to answer it, because she's the one who does.

"But the moment he handed me the dagger, I fell in love with him again." The mermaid Lianshan gave an expression that seemed to cry and laugh, with sadness and happiness, "I understand now that your human love, although short, is eternal. ”

I listened to the mermaid's words in silence, and was thinking about how to find two words to comfort her, but the wolf fang next to me suddenly touched me. I looked at him suspiciously, only to see him motioning for me to look at the merfolk.

I looked at the merfolk strangely, and that's when I realized something was wrong. I don't know when, a lot of pale blue foam appeared on the water surface next to the mermaid.

Bubble bubble? Wait a minute! Could it be!?

"Hey! You" I wanted to ask the mermaid when I saw the scene in front of me, because I didn't need to ask anymore - the part of the mermaid's body that came out of the water was slowly turning into foam, and the legs and tail of the lower half of the body had all turned into foam.

Having killed the prince, shouldn't she have lifted the curse? Why didn't the mutated curse disappear, but she was about to turn into a bubble completely!? What the hell is going on!?

"How so?" I asked the mermaid with some excitement, even if I resented her for the ghost's disappearance, I didn't want the ghost to die if she sacrificed herself for her.

Hearing my question, the mermaid looked down at her body, and the change had reached her chest, and now she was only left with arms, shoulders, and head.

"Nothing, the curse is in effect." Her voice was calm, without fear and pain, only calm, "Only when the prince no longer loves me needs to lift the curse, and the way to contact the curse is naturally also, to pierce the dagger into the heart of the prince who no longer loves me." ”

And the ghost has always loved her, so the ghost is not actually eligible to lift the curse, but instead triggers the curse that turns into a bubble caused by the complete death of the prince!

After figuring out the relationship, I opened my mouth, but I didn't say anything after all. What can be said? I can only smile bitterly, fate makes people.

"It's dawn," the mermaid muttered, and her head finally turned into foam.

As the morning sun grew brighter and brighter, the little mermaid lifted the purple curtain on the tent, and she bent down and kissed the prince on the pretty face, then threw her knife into the sea, and plunged herself into the sea—she felt that her body was gradually turning into foam. - Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tale The Daughter of the Sea

It's dawn