Tali looked back in the direction Antonio was pointing, and saw something glowing faintly under the night on the shore, and a vague figure could be seen, and the two stood curiously and looked at it for a while, and Tali said to Antonio, "Shall we go and have a look?"

Antonio did not object, took her hand and left the pier together and came to the beach on the shore, the two of them stepped on the rough sand one foot deep and one shallow, and slowly came to the place where the light came, and saw a man sitting on the beach in the distance, and the glowing object was lying quietly in front of him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Hello, what are you doing?" asked Tali curiously, looking at the man and the glowing object in front of him.

The man who heard the voice turned his head suddenly, and there was a look of surprise on his face when he saw Tully, but he quickly calmed down, only to see him get up and reply, "Hello, my name is Stu, and I am here waiting for the mermaid to appear." ”

"Mermaid?" Tali exchanged glances with Antonio in surprise, and Antonio smiled at the young man in front of him, who was about twenty years old, dressed in ordinary clothes, and looked a little shy, and seemed to be very careful in his speech and demeanor.

"Why are you waiting for mermaids here?" Antonio asked, glancing in the direction of the sea, "Is it because mermaids often appear here at night?"

"Not really," said Stu, looking out into the sea at night, "I just heard from the fishermen in the village that there are mermaids here at night, and if you come here at night with glowing shells, you will have a chance to meet them." ”

"Glowing shells?" Curiously, Tali stepped forward and picked up the faintly glowing shell on the ground, looked it up and down, and turned back to Antonio, "This is indeed something that merfolk in the deep sea use to identify their locations, this thing should be rare in the land of humans, right?"

"I spent a lot of money on it. As he spoke, Stu cautiously reached out and took it from Tully's hand, as if fearing that something might happen to his treasure, and he said to the two of them, holding the glowing shell in his arms, "I've spent almost all my savings for it." ”

"Why did you spend so much money on this thing?" Tali frowned when she heard this, "Did you get deceived?" This thing doesn't summon merfolk, although it can be used for merfolk internal communication, it is difficult to be effective on the shore. ”

"I don't know," said Stu, looking down at the glowing shell in his hand, "I only hope that the legend can be fulfilled and that the mermaids will help me complete the ritual and gather the soul of my father, who died while I was out fishing, in the conch, so that I can hear my father as long as I listen to the conch." ”

Looking at the melancholy expression on Stu's face, a trace of pity rose in Tali's heart, she didn't know how long the young man had been waiting here, but she was sure that he would never get his wish if he waited like this, because the merfolk didn't infuse their souls into the conch at all, and the so-called ritual only existed in human legends.

Watching Stu sit down with the glowing shell in her arms and continue to look at the tidal sea with expectant eyes, Tali turned around and looked up to tell Antonio the truth, and she said to Antonio with pity, "What can we do for him?"

Antonio lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then pulled Tali aside and said, "Maybe the best thing to do is to tell him the truth, I think he was just bewitched by a liar, if we tell him the truth, and then fund him some money to help him start a new life, everything will naturally change." ”

"You're right, but it's a bit cruel. Tali sighed unbearably and said.

"But it's better than letting him stay here and wait indefinitely, and when one day he realizes that he has wasted his time, his experience, and everything, and that he will never wait for what he wants, how can he have the courage to continue living?" Antonio persuaded as he put his hand gently on Tali's shoulder.

Tali hesitated for a long time, but finally agreed to Antonio's suggestion, and she returned to Stu with Antonio, and said to him carefully, "Stu, I have something to tell you. ”

"What's the matter?" asked Stu Wenyan, looking up at the two of them curiously.

Tali weighed her words for a moment, crouched down in front of Stu and looked at his face illuminated by glowing shells and said, "Actually, you have been deceived, merfolk can indeed be echoing conch, but they can't inject the soul of the dead into the conch. ”

Hearing her words, Stu had an expression of disbelief on his face, and he shook his head resolutely and said, "I don't believe it, I've heard many people talk about it, and some people have gotten conch from mermaids!"

"They're all lying to you!" Tali said bitterly, "Those people are helpers from the people who sell glowing shells, and they say this so that you can come up with the money to buy this shell, but it doesn't help you get your wish, trust me, it's true." ”

"I don't believe it, how do you know you won't, you're not a mermaid!" Stu said, getting up from the sand with the shell in his arms and taking a step back.

Tali looked at this stubborn young man helplessly, slowly stood up and looked at Antonio beside him, the knight leader was about to speak to persuade Stu again, Tali suddenly stretched out his hand to stop him and said to Stu: "So far, I won't hide it from you, in fact, I am a member of the mermaid clan." ”

"You?" Stu looked at her suspiciously, and Tali stomped her foot lightly, and a wave rose from under her feet, and Tali, who was held up in the air, appeared on a slender blue fishtail, staring condescendingly at Stu on the beach.

"You...... You...... You're really a mermaid!" Stu looked up at Tali in surprise as she replied softly, "That's right, I'm the Merfolk Templar Guardian, you can trust me now, right?"

Stu stared at Tali for a moment, looked down at the glowing shell in his hand, and after a long thought, suddenly fell to his knees and said to her and Antonio, "Please help me, I've been waiting here for two weeks, as long as you can help me, you can do whatever you want me to do!"

"It's not that we don't want to help you," Tali pressed down and approached him, "What you said about injecting souls into conch shells is really just a human legend, we merfolk have never done such a thing, and we don't have such abilities." ”

"No, they said that if you gather seven mermaids for the ceremony together, you can do it!" Stu stretched out his hands and took Tali's hand and pleaded, "You just said that you are some kind of guardian, you must be a person with status, can you help me find six more mermaids?"

Tali looked up at Antonio in embarrassment, and the Knight Captain hesitated for a moment and crouched down to Stu and said, "Do you have to see the seven mermaids perform the ritual with your own eyes before you can do it?"

Stu resolutely turned to Antonio and begged, "I believe that as long as the ceremony is over, I will be able to hear my father's voice from the conch, please help me!"

Antonio and Tali looked at each other, got up and took Tali's hand and walked away, whispering to her, "This kid is a little too stubborn, I don't think he will listen to our advice." ”

"Then we can't just throw him away, if he goes on like this, he will kill himself sooner or later. Tully put away the tail and returned to the ground, grieving.

"And what do you want to do?" Antonio said, glancing at Stu, who was kneeling on the ground and looking at them with a wistful gaze, "even if we persuade him until dawn, he will not believe us, he will only keep begging us to promise him, satisfy him, and it is pointless to continue to consume." ”

"Well, we will fulfill his wish, and perhaps when the ceremony is over, he will understand the truth of the matter. Tali said expectantly, looking at Antonio thoughtfully.

"Do you want to summon the Merfolk Clan for the ceremony?" Antonio looked at her in surprise and shook his head ambivalently, "That's not good, we will soon have to leave here and return to the Imperial Capital, which will not only delay time, but may also cause unnecessary trouble." ”

"It won't take a lot of time," said Tali confidently, "I'll go back to the sea now, and I'll probably be able to bring people back tomorrow night, and no one will come here at night, so we'll put a play on him here, and finish his matter, won't we?"

Antonio thought about it again and again, and felt that there was no better way, and he didn't want to refuse Tali categorically, so he had to agree, he and Tali returned to Stu and explained the situation to him, and Stu jumped up from the ground happily when he learned about it and said, "Great, I knew you would definitely help me!"

"Then I'll go find someone, and you will come here and wait for me at this time tomorrow night. Tali smiled and nodded to the two of them, turned and walked into the sea, where a spray passed by her, and when the wave fell, only Tali's beautiful tail fin was left in the waves, and it disappeared in a flash.

"Where's your home, do you need me to take you back?" asked Antonio, looking back at Stu with concern.

"I don't have a home anymore, and now I'm begging on the docks for a living, and I haven't eaten dinner tonight. Stu said as he looked up at the deep night.

"Then come with me, let's go back and meet a few friends, and we'll come back here tomorrow at this time." Antonio took him by the hand and led him back to the city of Khanburg, where he met Rogge, Catherine, and Klose at Klose's house.

When the Kloses learned of the situation, they warmly invited Stu to sit down, and Catherine, with permission, went to the kitchen to help Stu get some food, and Stu devoured it desperately.

Rogge always looked at Stu who was eating, and suddenly heard the little furball lying on his shoulder muttering: "This guy looks ugly than me when he eats, and he is not polite, and he doesn't say thank you to the stupid girl!"

"It turns out that you also know that you look ugly. Rogge touched her little head with his fingers, turned back to Antonio, and said, "Well, we're going to stay here for another day, and what are you going to do if this kid isn't satisfied after the ceremony is over tomorrow night?"

"Then you can only give him some money and let him fend for himself. Antonio sighed and sat down beside Rogge.

Rogge shrugged his shoulders when he heard this, and said, "I didn't expect Miss Mermaid to be so nosy, I hope this matter can be solved smoothly." With that, he got up and took Lilith upstairs.

The next day, Roger woke up from his sleep, yawned and left the bedroom, and when he walked into the kitchen, he saw Catherine standing in the corner of the kitchen, pouting angrily, not knowing what had happened.