9. The god of a hundred phases
"Name?"
“... Reina. ”
"What about age?"
Fisher held a roll of manuscript paper and looked at Reina sitting on the couch, next to Renee who was playfully peeling candy for her to eat, at first she suspected that the humans were going to poison her, but after eating one, she couldn't stop, it seemed that it was rare to eat this kind of thing in the place where she lived.
She paused slightly as she chewed the fruit, and then her eyes dodged.
"Eight... Eight years old. ”
This is a far cry from what she just said about having an endless lifespan, and I guess I know that the improvised lie just now can't deceive Fisher.
Fisher had just examined her body, and found that the crab organs were all completely grown on her body, and the ornament-like crab shell behind her was completely attached to her back, but according to her, the carapace was very light, and she did not feel any weight in the sea.
After learning a little about her physical data, Fisher actually wanted to know what the subhuman settlements in the ocean were like this time.
The marine subspecies rarely appears in the human eye, and when he was in Nari, he could occasionally hear news from a fisherman on the beach that a certain fisherman had spotted a sea monster or mermaid, which attracted a large number of reporters and newspapers to go by train, and the black-and-white photos taken back were all calm seas with a large number of mixed interviews, and nothing substantial at all.
This time, I finally met a real Ocean Asian who can speak, so I don't have to get more information?
Although Fisher had no intention of bringing her back to Nari, after all, with Nari's current level of technology, not only would she not be able to reach the subhuman settlements at the bottom of the sea, but even if she did, she would only repeat the events of the Southern Continent.
This research is only for Fisher to satisfy his own intellectual curiosity, and what he has recorded will not be passed on.
On top of that, Fisher also wanted to know a little bit about the [Children of the Sea], after all, among the four prophecies of the end of the world, only the description of the Children of the Sea was the most vague, and the use of the word mystery sounded like no clue at all.
"So you're only eight years old? No wonder she looks so cute..."
Renee peeled another candy and fed it to her, making her cheeks bulge, and before she could finish eating, she opened her mouth to signal Renee to continue feeding, and her mouth was stuffed to answer Fisher's question.
Fisher's fingers tapped on the table and looked at Renee mercilessly, as if to blame her for interrupting her research, causing her to innocently turn her head to look at Fisher,
"Renee..."
"Got it, got it... But Fisher, I really like children, if it were the two of us, it would be even cuter than this child~"
The word "our" in her words was a little heavier, and while she emphasized, her starry eyes swept towards Fisher, as if she wanted to arouse some aspect of Fisher's heart.
It's just that such a girl wants a cute child's request, can't you even say yes?
Fisher glanced at her expectant gaze, at this moment Renee is like a wife who has been with you for many years, looking forward to having a love crystallization that belongs to you, just a simple look makes you unable to refuse full of desire, eager to make a person with her on the spot.
But all this was just Renee's trick, and Fisher knew this better than anyone else, so he looked away with difficulty, overpowering the desire to learn over the desire to reproduce, and then looked at Reina and asked,
"Why did you come here to steal something? Is this close to your home? ”
He didn't directly ask Reina about the subhuman tribe where Reina lived, because he was worried that this direct question would arouse the subperson's vigilance and make her say false or indetailed information, but it seemed that Reina was really just a younger subhuman in front of her, and this question was like opening her conversation box and shaking out.
"I didn't steal! It's just, just trying to look up there and see what's out there! As a result, there was nothing on it, and I heard from the old people in the city that there were many, many creatures that looked like us, such as you humans and the Siren. As a result, I almost got hit by a big thing you drove, and I wanted to go up and ask for an explanation, but I saw a shiny gemstone necklace, and I just wanted to borrow it and take a look! ”
Reina has a hard mouth for stealing things, refusing to admit it, just borrowing it to see it, but how to return it is still to be determined.
"Then what is the situation of the royal family you talked about earlier? Do you have any sub-people who are higher than you? ”
Since there is a royal family, the social system there should have been relatively stable, at least forming a social structure similar to that of human beings. And according to Reina, swimming very far from where she lived to the surface of the water, she swam for a long time before she could faintly see the sunlight above.
Fisher speculated that the subhuman settlement should be on the submarine plain of the Southern Ocean, but it is impossible to calculate how deep it is, and according to the study of the body structure of this crab race, it seems that she is more resistant to water pressure than Fisher imagined, and at the same time, she has a structure that reacts quickly to pressure changes, otherwise she would not have stayed above the surface of the water unscathed.
Although the overall appearance is a little strange, all the biological characteristics seem to be perfectly applied to reality, almost like some kind of unspeakable divine creation, which makes Fisher marvel at the power of nature.
"Oh, those guys." Speaking of the royal family in Fisher's mouth, Reina touched her head a little embarrassedly and whispered, "Actually, I haven't seen them either, they stay in the trench far away from us. My dad said that the royalty was very conservative and would not leave that trench easily. And that trench is too dark for me to dare to go to, and if I go any further, the average person will be squashed, and only the royal family will be able to enter and exit there freely..."
"So..."
Fisher's quill pen wrote the words of the royal family on paper, and the royal family seems to be an extremely special existence for the marine subspecies, according to Reina's family, the royal family of the sea is unique, and the unified refers to the race that lives under the huge trench.
Fisher squeezed out all the remaining knowledge in Reina's little head, and even knew about the children in her settlement who rode fish and dragged her around, and thanks to Renee's good sugar filling skills, she unconsciously shook off a lot of things.
"You're not lying, are you?"
After recording this information, Fisher looked at Reina, whose cheeks were bulging, and made her raise her pliers in a panic, and exclaimed innocently,
"I assure you in the name of faith in Ramastia! I'm not lying, or I would... I'm going to spit out all the delicious stuff I've eaten! ”
As she spoke, as if to confirm the cruelty of her oath, she hurriedly swallowed the delicious candies in her mouth!
"Ramastia... What is it? ”
Fisher, however, keenly grasped the strange word that came out of her mouth, the word that came out of her mouth was very strange, and because of the strange translation liquid she had just drunk, all Fisher heard was a stream-of-consciousness translation, only the word was pronounced untouched.
"Ahh For you did not believe in the great Ramastia. She hammered her head with her pliers in distress, as if she was thinking about how to explain to Fisher what she meant by Ramastia.
"My dad told me that all of our lives were given by Lamastia, and that every year we had to worship Him, and we would throw lots and lots of fish and crafts into the trench, though I don't know if it would hit the heads of the royal family..."
"Wait, you're saying that the royal family lives with the gods you worship?"
"That's right. Well? What you believe... Well, don't gods like Ramastia exist? Then why do you believe in Him? ”
Although Fisher knew that the Mother Goddess was just a means for humans to interpret the world, more akin to primitive beliefs, or beliefs, he just didn't expect that the subhumans in the ocean would actually believe in the existence of an entity.
That is, the gods they believe in are real beings in this world, lying in some trench in the Southern Ocean at this moment?
"Have you seen that god?"
"No. But every time I pray, I feel His answer, even though I don't understand it..."
Seeing the human in front of her look like she was thinking, Reina, who didn't know how to explain it, stretched out her pincers, put her hands together with her entire forearm, and made the movements she had done many times, similar to a human prayer, but this prayer was too strange for humans.
She closed her eyes, and in a serious and reverent voice, she said in a low voice,
"Guardian of the sea, the origin of life, [God of Hundred Aspects] Ramastia, I pray to you that you can eat this delicious food every day after that.... Well, that's about it, my dad and I have to do this kind of thing every day before eating. Ah, I can't feel Ramastia's voice here, I guess it's too far away for him to hear. Every night when I'm bullied by other friends, I tell Him to pray that He can make their mom and dad beat their ass, I don't know if He said yes..."
"So..."
Fisher looked out at the endless sea, and the quill that had paused for a long time made the last note at the end of the manuscript paper.
[God of Hundred Phases].