"Merfolk?"

Seeing this, Lin Jue unconsciously read out the name gently.

"What?"

Lu Haoyue, who was quietly sitting opposite Lin Jue and classifying this pile of documents, raised her head and looked at him suspiciously.

Lin Jue was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Oh, it's nothing, maybe I'm too tired." Speaking of which, it's already so late. ”

Lin Jue raised his head, looked at the slowly moving bright moon in the sky, and listened to the noise outside the window that gradually calmed down, after all, even such a lively place as the Sycamore Tree Bar was quiet, and the time must not be early.

Lin Jue said: "Come here today, I'll let someone arrange a place for you to live, and continue tomorrow." ”

Lu Haoyue shook her head and said, "No need, I have already booked a room at the Sycamore Tree Bar at the door." ”

"Okay. Lin Jue closed the notebook in his hand and held it in his hand, stood up and said, "Then I'll go first." ”

......

To be honest, taking a boat is actually a very physically demanding thing, and people who rarely go to sea, once they get back to land, the first thing they do is to quickly find a place to sleep well, because these people have a hard time adapting to the bumps on the water, and in most cases, they don't sleep well.

Not to mention Lin Jue, who returned to the land and read books all day, was addicted to books before, but he didn't feel anything. Now when I returned to the bedroom, I felt a wave of sleepiness hit me, and I fell asleep directly on the pillow.

In his sleep, it was still the same familiar scene, next to the wide lake, Agnes was facing away from him, quietly playing the violin, looking extremely focused.

As if sensing Lin Jue's coming, Agnes stopped playing in her hand, turned around, and smiled like a greeting.

"I said, is there any way I can't dream of this scene?" Lin Jue complained weakly.

Agnes looked at Lin Jue suspiciously, and asked, "Why?"

Lin Jue shrugged: "In this way, I always feel like I haven't slept." ”

Agnes smiled, "Isn't that nice? Staying awake in a dream is actually really asleep." I remember that in your world, there were a lot of people doing this research, so that people could stay awake in their sleep, and they could recharge their energy and have more time to do what they wanted to do. ”

Lin Jue shook his head in distress and said, "It's different, okay, now I feel that it is a painful feeling to not be able to dream." Besides, how come I didn't know about the study you're talking about?"

"And. Lin Jue asked, "Why can't I find you in the past few days?"

"I'm going to rest too, do you think it's easy to project my image in the minds of so many people? ”

"And what are you looking for me for?" Agnes asked.

Lin Jue shook his head and said, "It's nothing, just asking." ”

Agnes no longer paid attention to Lin Jue, but grabbed the violin in her hand, but did not pull the bow, as if thinking about what kind of music should be played.

After a long time, Lin Jue seemed to remember something, and hurriedly asked, "By the way, do you know what a mermaid is?"

Agnes replied casually, "The mermaid is a half-man, half-fish monster, isn't there also in the myths and legends of your world?"

"Mermaids?"

"Pretty much. Agnes said, "Merfolk are a kind of magical creatures, not very powerful, and they are not very intelligent, but the magic they have is illusion, and other creatures rarely provoke them." ”

"Their population is very large, but the requirements for the living environment are very high, even in this boundless sea, there are only three places where mermaid tribes exist. ”

As she spoke, Agnes lowered the violin to the ground, but she still held the bow in her hand.

I saw her point to the lake in front of her with her bow and said, "Come and see." ”

Lin Juehu stepped forward suspiciously and looked at the lake.

There was only water here, what did she want to see? Could it be that there was a mermaid in there?

Obviously, this is just Lin Jue's dream scene, how could it be possible to raise a mermaid? But the lake in front of him is completely different from his imagination, there is not only water here.

A surprising scene appeared in front of his eyes, only to see the lake in front of him, and the soil at the bottom of the lake instantly rose.

It can be seen that the depth of the water has decreased dramatically, but the water level has not changed in any way, and patches of mud appear on the surface of the lake in a disorderly manner.

Just when he was wondering, he felt that the lake in front of him always gave people a familiar feeling.

After a long time, the change of the rising earth finally stopped.

Lin Jue finally remembered why the scene in front of him had a sense of familiarity, because these dirt actually spelled out the shape of the land, exactly the same as the captured navigation chart, the eastern continent, the central continent, and the unnamed continent in the south, with clear outlines and ravines, like a sand table that simulated a world map.

Agnes continued: "First of all, here, the Sea of Mists in the south, then the central coast of the East Coast of the Eastern Continent, the Land of Moonlight, by the way, and here, about a thousand nautical miles away from the northeast coast of the Orlante Kingdom, the Sea of Death. ”

"The mermaids of this world are actually similar to those in the myths and legends of your world, and from the outside, they are all young and beautiful women. ”

Agnes said as she waved the bow in her hand, and saw the water floating, and the water that had not yet been covered by dirt and land was like a screen, showing a scene of a beautiful woman, beautiful and moving, but she had no legs, and her lower body was like a swimming fish, with beautiful scales clinging to her body, sparkling in the moonlight.

"Not only do they have beautiful faces, beautiful figures, but also sweet and beautiful voices, all of which represent the Creator's favor for them, and they are simply the most perfect creatures in the world. They tend to stay in groups of three or five, in some remote bays and deep gorges, and greet passing sailors and sailors with their beautiful songs, like local hospitable hosts, welcoming guests from afar. ”

As if in response to Agnes's words, the mermaid in the water was singing a beautiful piece of music with her heavenly singing voice. Lin Jue can swear that in his life, even if he is in a society with highly developed information, he can hear any kind of singing very quickly, and he has never heard such a good singing.

This beautiful singing voice firmly tied Lin Jue's mind, and he even felt that this singing voice was his everything, and without this singing, life seemed to be incomplete.

The mermaid sang as it slowly sank to the bottom of the water, and at the same time, the moving song became weaker and farther and farther away, as if it would disappear at any moment.

Unconsciously, Lin Jue gradually walked towards the lake, following the moving singing, step by step, without hesitation, according to this momentum, it would not be long before he stepped into the water.

"The sailors who come and go are often lost in their beautiful singing and can't extricate themselves. The merfolk tend to guide people gradually, causing them to unconsciously flip over the side of the boat and fall into the water. ”

Lin Jue couldn't notice Agnes's words at the moment, he was completely lost in the song. He didn't even notice that the mermaid hiding under the surface of the water was opening its mouth, revealing a mouth full of fangs, staring at Lin Jue who was getting closer and closer with greedy eyes.

Agnes didn't care about this, she continued to explain the mermaid to Lin Jue.

"There are very few people who are not bewitched by such a beautiful singing, even if it is a woman, who is also attracted to this singing. ”

"It's also rare for anyone to know what the real voice of a mermaid looks like. ”

As she spoke, Agnes waved her bow.

The next moment, the beautiful and moving singing voice in Lin Jue's ears instantly changed, turning into a piercing scream, which pierced the eardrums and made people have a headache.

He finally came to his senses, he covered his ears in shock, and subconsciously retreated, but this sudden action made him unable to maintain his balance and fell to the ground in an instant.

The mermaid stared at Lin Jue resentfully, and after a while, her body disappeared above the water like foam.

Lin Jue gasped heavily, the experience just now scared him a lot, he was still recalling, what happened just now? Just now his consciousness seemed to suddenly disappear without a trace, and his whole body, carried by the subconscious, would only act according to the simple thoughts in his heart without judgment.

"This is the merfolk, one of the magical creatures, and the magic they possess is a category of dark magic, illusion. Everything they have just said is true, only one thing is false, and that is the voice. ”

"Instead of their proud, heavenly voices, ironically, they have the harshest voices in the world, and the Creator has played the greatest joke on them. After all, how could there be such a flawless creature in this world?"