Chapter Twenty-Three: The Merfolk of the Deep Sea

To the south across the main mountain range of the former Heicong Mountains are small towns that live by the sea, which are quite poor and have few people. In the past, the economy and trade of this place was still very developed, and there was an endless stream of people coming and going, and there were often ships sailing from the Great Northern Ilyas Bay. However, the original long and narrow commercial area became more and more depressed, and many people who had made a living from fishing for most of their lives also fled westward. The reason for this sparsely populated situation is not only the perennial war between the northern neighboring powers, but also the fact that the main scourge that makes them uncover is actually the pirate group entrenched in the Durmaya Sea.

To the south of the main continent is the vast Durmaya Sea, which to the east is the world's ocean, which runs north and south, and to the west is the Gil Sea, where the Shengya River is connected. Pirates roamed the Dolmaya Sea all year round, eating the merchants along the coast like mad dogs, attacking merchant and fishing boats as they came and went. The rise of piracy began about thirty years before the start of the World War, and the primary factor in the development of this gang was actually the pre-existing germ of war, and those who lived in the southern coastal area at the beginning of the war were almost all reduced to pirates, and the brutal looting and killing made them more and more rampant, and the innocent and kind people naturally surrendered when they heard that the pirates were coming, without any intention of resistance. The once beautiful blue sea has become less attractive because of these dark pirate ships, and the sea has been angry countless times, and each time it is the old fishermen who live on the broken ships who have suffered.

There are many pirate groups entrenched in the Durmaya Sea, but the strongest in terms of power and capital should be Silas, who is known as the sea devil. Silas is a very fierce man, one meter eight tall, with a black beard on his face, always with those eyes that seem to be black, he has no fat on his face, he wears a pair of crocodile leather boots all day long, two shiny daggers inlaid with pearls on his waist, and a tattered cowboy hat full of shells and capes on his head, and exudes a disgusting smell of wine and rotten meat. The pirate ship that Silas is in charge of is called the Blue Zero, and he is the captain of the Blue Zero at the age of seventeen, and he can command a considerable number of pirates in his early twenties, and Silas is also the best among the bullies. The pirates on the seas are also divided into factions, so no one can dominate all the trade interests of this vast sea, they contain and use each other, and the pirate group has been the second scourge of the sea for so many years.

And the first sea enemy is the terrifying creature from the depths of the ocean, for the entire human race and even the fish creatures in the entire ocean, there is a common powerful enemy in the southern sea of Durmoyed, it is the sea emperor Dols who is covered with silver-scaled thorn armor. The name is translated from other languages that are different from the human customary script, and it is believed that it was given to the first people who saw it a long time ago. Known as the Emperor of the Seas, it was no ordinary beast of the sea, its body was the size of nine pirate ships, it had three dinosaur-like cloth heads around its neck, all three long necks were covered with silver scales, its belly was flat, and its tail had tough scales that pierced rocks. This massive sea monster was enough to swallow a ship with a single bloody mouth, but it barely made it to the northern shore of the Dolmayed Sea, because it didn't want to swim far and fight with the people on the coast, and because there were far fewer edible fish in the shallow waters of the northern shore than in the deep sea area that he dominated. The existence of the Sea Emperor Durs is well known to the fishermen who live on the southeast and south coasts, but it is not a cause for concern, and the only ones who can be feared by the Sea Emperor are the pirates who enter the deep sea from time to time.

One night in the summer of World War 128, the war between the North and the South was raging, but for the pirates who were leisurely floating on the sea, the war had nothing to do with them. This night's sky moon stars are scarce, a round of jade disk-shaped bright moon hanging high in the sky is surprisingly bright, although a few dark clouds hovering around the bright moon but have not blocked the moonlight, such a beautiful night is estimated to be only in this far away from the yellow sand continent can be appreciated. The Blue Zero had just escaped death from the frantic bumpy sea, and was slowly approaching the shore from the calm waters south of the Durmoyed Sea, where Silas was sitting in the cabin with his general, Heikui, and dozens of pirate crews, drinking liquor and saying rude swear words, and a poetic life like singing wine under the moon seemed too far away for Silas.

The cool waters pushed the bottom of the ship and slowly brought it to the shore, and the few dark houses on the shore lit up with a twilight of dusk, for which the pirates had no home, their ship was home, and these creepy broken huts with corpses were just temporary shelters. The sea breeze blew down the waves from the sea, and the crew of the Blue Zero sloppily dragged the sea scallop sacks that might have hidden pearls from the cabin to the deck and then to the black room.

After Silas had finished drinking, he and Hekui walked towards the stern of the boat, who was also tall but ugly, and his entire appearance, including his teeth, was swarthy. Silas looked at the calm sea and took a sip of wine, half of the wine flowed out of his stomach and half down the corner of his mouth, and the black kui behind him slowly leaned forward and said as he walked: "Big brother, the war in the north has burned to our sea." Should we resist it, if all those ordinary people run away and die, we won't have anything to eat in the future. Silas sneered and said, "It's really hard to do anything these days, and it's really fucking even robbing pirates." After finishing speaking, he took another sip of wine, and Hei Kui said again: "The other pirate groups have not moved, they should all be still waiting." Silas finished his drink, and then threw the jug into the sea, "Those cowards are terrified of death, and if the soldiers come, they must run faster than anyone else." Hei Kui didn't speak, and the two looked into the distance and were silent.

After a while, the pirate crew of the Blue Zero went to rest after finishing their work, and the glimmer of light in the ship and the dark room disappeared. Blue Zero had not yet been swallowed up by the darkness around it under the moonlight, and the dark clouds in the sky were finally about to move towards the moon, and the soft silver light gradually became dim. Silas and Black Qui were standing at the stern of the boat and were about to walk back, when they suddenly heard a gurgling sound in the water below the boat, accompanied by a woman's coquettish voice, and Silas and Black Qui immediately stood still and looked at each other. Then Silas raised his hand and motioned for Black Kui to remain silent, and the two turned around and walked back gently, walking to the edge of the boat, and the two slowly looked down, and a woman with blonde hair on her head, chest and golden scales around her neck appeared in front of them. The two were taken aback, and Hei Kui couldn't help but whisper to Silas on the side: "Big brother, it's... It's a mermaid!" Silas chuckled and said, "It's a fortune." ”

Mermaids are the oldest and most mysterious species in the entire ocean, living in groups at the bottom of the ocean and having their own underwater kingdom. Mermaids are half-human, half-fish-like with upper body and lower body tails, but their upper bodies are different from human appearance, their eyes are all slanted from the hairline downwards, somewhat similar to the eyes of flounders, their necks are covered with golden scales and shining, and a beautiful large tail allows them to parade through the sea at the speed of land war horses. Mermaids never enter the waters that humans can touch, they have a civilization and language unique to the mermaid country, and the only place where mermaids interact with outside land creatures is the forest island in the depths of the ocean.

The unconventional mermaid still had blue blood on her body, and she seemed to be destined to fall together in the sea. Silas didn't have time to think about it and jumped into the sea to save the rare mermaid, the mermaid was already unconscious when she got on the boat, and Silas and Heikui did not alarm the others but secretly carried the mermaid into their cabin. The dark clouds completely obscured the moonlight, the sea was pitch black, and countless figures at the bottom of the ocean thousands of miles away were anxiously shuttling back and forth.

A few hours later, the mermaid woke up, and when she woke up, she found herself soaking in a large dirty basin of water, in front of which an ugly-looking man and a handsome man with a black beard were crouching beside her, staring at her. The mermaid fluttered the fish's tail twice in fright, then leaned back and said anxiously, "You... Who are you?"

Silas replied with a grin, "We are the ones who saved you, you just fell asleep in the water, and your body is still dripping... It must be blood, we just happened to pass by and rescued you. The mermaid let her guard down when she saw that the two of them were talking kindly and did not look like bad people, and there were several rupture on her body that were still bleeding, but the injuries were not serious. The mermaid asked a little painfully, "Do you have seaweed leaves?" Hei Kui hurriedly replied, "Yes, yes, do you want to use them?" After speaking, he stood up and prepared to go out to get seaweed leaves.

The mermaid nodded modestly and went out quietly, and Silas pretended to be very gentle and asked, "Haven't mermaids never been to these waters? What's wrong with your injuries?" The mermaid was so frightened that she shook her head again and again, "It's nothing, it's nothing, thank you for saving me, and when I get better, I'll leave and I'll repay you well in the future." ”

Silas was a little anxious when he heard this, and he thought to himself, what is the future, and this little mermaid will probably never tell him anything useful without revealing his true colors. Silas pretended to be a little depressed and said, "You mermaids have not been associated with humans since ancient times, and I can see you today, I'm afraid I'm the first since there were humans." I'm just asking you with concern, if you don't say anything, aren't you afraid of what misfortune will happen to you when you go back? Silas's words reached the mermaid's heart, and she hesitated not to know what to do. When Silas saw that the mermaid might be relieved, she continued to pretend to be warm-hearted and said, "I don't want you to get anything in return, and you will never be able to come to this sea for the second time when you return to you." I'm a fisherman, what can I ask you in return, since I saved you, I should save you to the end, you can rest assured that I will send you back to where you want to go safely. ”

After Silas finished speaking, she got up and turned her head to go out, but the young and ignorant mermaid finally did not resist Silas's rhetoric, and she told Silas everything without a thought. She suddenly looked up and shouted to Silas, who hadn't moved at all: "Don't go. I... My name is Rasha, and I was chased here by piranhas. They should still be looking for me nearby, those nasty stinky fish. ”

Silas turned her back to Rasa and sneered, then looked back with a smile, and when she finally let go, she continued to ask, "Piranha, what is that, and why are you being hunted by them?" There was a broken Blackstone Cave at the bottom of the sea, which led to Kills's lair, and I accidentally went in to wake it up, and the Blackstone Cave was shattered by Tours. I couldn't go back so I escaped from the mouth of the Dols' lair, but it was not far from the gathering place of the piranha colony, and I was chased by them, but thanks to Tours came out and interfered with them, I was able to escape. Silas nodded sympathetically. Rasa suddenly looked nervous and whispered to Silas, "Guess what I saw in Tours' lair?" Silas's heart suddenly rose to his throat, and he subconsciously told him that Tours had a peerless treasure under his knees. Silas asked quietly, "... What?"

"The Piercing Eye of the Orange Demon of the Legend of the Creator. Rasa replied. Silas never thought that he could find out such a news, he wanted to rely on this mermaid to find out the whereabouts of the entire mermaid kingdom and then take the opportunity to get a little treasure from the deep sea, but compared to the orange devil's eye mermaid, it became worthless. Silas's brief revelry suddenly became calm, and he realized that the location of the Orange Devil's Eye was there, and that Dols's lair was no different from Hell, but Silas, who had long looked down on death, still vowed to get it.

Silas pretended not to care and asked, "Oh, no one knows where Durs' lair is, and even if anyone does, they don't dare to go." Rasa went on to say like a storyteller: "Its nest is far away in the deep sea, and our mermaid princess has designated it as a forbidden sea, and that is the territory of Tours." There is a large coral reef on the bottom of the Forbidden Sea, and it is in the black hole beneath the coral. Rasa looked at Silas and hesitated for a moment before saying, "But I'll tell you this, don't be stupid to look for it, I don't want to hurt you." Silas laughed and nodded.

After a while, Hei Kui came in with a large bundle of seaweed leaves, and Rasha applied the seaweed leaves to the wound, and the blue blood began to absorb the grass juice in the seaweed leaves, and the wound stopped after a while. Silas said as she changed the seaweed leaves for Rasha, "We'll send you back as soon as your wounds are healed." But your home is at the bottom of the sea, how can you get your family to pick you up?" Rasha smiled and covered her wounds and replied, "I will scream a few times on the surface of the sea, and our princess's mermaid tears will receive my cry, and then they will come to pick me up, and you just need to help drive away those man-eaters." When Rasa finished speaking, Hei Kui and Silas glanced at each other, and then Silas took the seaweed leaves that had just been replaced and said, "Then I will rest assured, you rest early, and we will send you back as soon as you are well." Rasa nodded happily, thinking that humans were not as terrible as she imagined, but humans were not as terrible as she imagined, but the person she met was a wolf in sheep's clothing that was even more terrible than she imagined.

Silas and Hei Kui walked out after speaking, Silas grinned happily, and Hei Kui couldn't help but say happily: "The mermaid tears really exist, the legendary mermaid clan has the pearl in the palm of the hand, which can awaken all sleeping things and be immune to all the curses of the ocean." Then what kind of pirates will we be in the future after we get it, big brother really has you, go and send this mermaid and rob them of their treasure, it's really wonderful. Silas smirked and said, "Tomorrow I will gather the brothers and bring the good guys, the merfolk are not so easy to deal with." All the pirate ships docked in the Durmaya Sea are to go out on the expedition to inform the pirate leaders of all walks of life, and this is the only way to make a fortune. Hei Kui just nodded brainlessly, he didn't think deeply about the fact that Silas had a mermaid as a hostage in his hands, so there must be another purpose for such a big move. The figures of the two men quickly disappeared into the darkness, about five hours before dawn.