In the night, the fleet spread out in a circle, encircling the main ship of the Dickey in the middle, and then a small frigate sailed out, barrels of kerosene poured into the sea, and the viscous liquid floated up with the waves.

Fires at sea are often more terrible than fires on land, and some sailors are worried that they will not be able to control the fire, but fortunately they will not cause much disaster because they have not dumped much kerosene.

When preparations were made, Archbishop Brandon nodded, and a witcher walked up to the bow of the ship, spat out a fiery dragon, and lit kerosene.

The flames rose in the sky, the black smoke billowed out, the sea was scorched red by the flames, the high temperature was coming, and the second prince standing by the side of the boat was blown by the heat wave, and hurriedly took two steps back, and his breathing was not smooth.

"Don't be afraid, Your Highness." Archbishop Brandon comforted: "Mermaids are photophobic, they usually stay away from the point of fire when they find a fire at sea, but now is their breeding season, they will not easily leave the mouth of the sea, and at the same time, in order to prevent their partners from seeing the flames and dare not approach, they will take the initiative to extinguish the flames." ”

"Now that the sea is on fire, when will they appear?"

"It's hard to say." Archbishop Brandon was uncertain: "First of all, there must be a mermaid in this area, if the mermaid is not active in this area, it will naturally not be able to find out that there is a fire on the sea, but there are fishermen who have seen mermaids in this vicinity, so as long as they find it, they will surface in the sea." ”

"Our whole fleet is here, do they dare to come?"

Archbishop Brandon shook his head with a smile: "Your Highness, mermaids are social creatures, and there are many more of them than us, they either don't appear, or they will go in groups to invite the Holy Maiden out." ”

"Yes!"

Several priests who accompanied the ship entered the cabin, and soon returned with a masked maiden, a saint sent by the church named Melissa, a devotee of the goddess of sin Ttilde, 17 years old, from Birmingham.

Ma Wei didn't know how many saints there were in the Church of the Three Goddesses of Fate, Archbishop Brandon said that there were two or three hundred, and most of them were arranged to sit in churches in various cities, but there were many candidates for saints, and once the saints were killed or injured, they could be replenished immediately.

As long as the daughter of the family is elected as a saint, she can get rewards and subsidies from the church, even if she does nothing, she can live a worry-free life, if the saint dies, she can also get a considerable pension, and the rest of her life is basically not worried.

Thanks to this, many parents who have daughters in their families will rush to send their daughters to the church for testing, as long as the soul strength is up to the standard, the body is holy, and they believe in any goddess, they can become candidates to go to the Holy See in London for training, which is not a bad thing, at least not until they actually become saints.

Before becoming a saint, the church asks candidates in the name of the goddess, and only candidates who are genuinely willing to dedicate themselves to the gods can become saints, and girls who are not firm in their faith or unwilling to become saints will also be sent home.

After becoming saints, the mission of the maidens is different, the church can meet the vast majority of their requirements, but they must obey the orders and constraints of the church and stand up when the church needs it, otherwise.

will end up with Deirdri.

The greatest advantage of believing in God is here, there will be basically no compulsion against the will of the believer, everything is to ensure the believer base.

To tell the truth, the life of the saints is really good, their quality of life has reached the aristocratic standard, ceramic bathtubs, expensive mattresses, aromatherapy toys, gorgeous clothes are not lacking, but there is only one thing - you need to apply to the church to go out, freedom is restricted, there is only half a day of vacation per week, and the rest of the time you have to stay in the church.

No believer would dare to commit an indecent act against the Holy Maiden, which is disrespectful to the Goddess.

Melissa stepped onto the deck, her figure hidden by her black robes, and stood at the bow of the ship, silently overlooking the fire-red sea below.

Time passed minute by minute, the mermaid did not appear at all, the fire became smaller and smaller, the kerosene burned very fast, without the support of combustibles, the flame quickly disappeared in the vast sea, and the sea breeze blew and completely dissipated.

"One more time! We prepared a lot of kerosene! It's sure to lure the mermaid out! "Archbishop Brandon did not give up and ordered the frigate to continue pouring kerosene into the sea.

"It's not enough to just light a fire."

Melissa suddenly said, "Merfolk are extraordinary beings with intelligence, and they must have sensed a threat before they dared to appear." ”

"Hmm"

Archbishop Brandon also thought of this possibility, and sighed: "Merfolk can swim into the deep sea, and if they refuse to come out, we don't have much to do."

"There is still a way."

"Holy Maiden, what do you mean?"

Melissa looked at Mavi and said in a clear voice, "I heard that Mr. Nicholas bought the mermaid's tears, right?" ”

"Yes."

"The mermaid's tears are priceless, and we can use them to lure out the merfolk." Melissa said: "Merfolk are highly racially strong creatures, and if they drop tears into the sea, they can attract their own kind, and we use tears as bait. ”

"What a joke!"

Without waiting for Ma Wei to speak, the second prince couldn't help but rush up: "The mermaid's tears are ready-made!" How can we take something that is ready to invest in something uncertain? Wasting a tear may not attract a mermaid, attract it may not be able to catch it, and catch it may not be able to find tears Rather than this, it is better to save the tears and keep them for future use! ”

The words of the second prince are not unreasonable, Archbishop Brandon is a little hesitant, he knows the feasibility of Melissa's proposal, but the problem is that they also catch mermaids for tears, and use tears for tears. In the end, the bamboo basket may be empty.

"I'm sure Nicholas can get more mermaid tears, just a drop, and the church can bear the consequences of trial and error, right?"

Hearing this, everyone looked at Ma Wei one after another, wanting to hear what he meant.

Under the gaze of everyone, Ma Wei shrugged his shoulders: "It's just a tear, the cost price is only 1,000 gold pounds, if you can catch a live mermaid, it will definitely be cost-effective." ”

Even Ma Wei said this, and the second prince stopped insisting, and soon, a drop of mermaid tears in a glass bottle was taken out by Ma Wei, uncorked the bottle, and poured into the ocean.

"Ignition!"

Call!

The sea was blazing again, and everyone looked at the sea expectantly, hoping to lure out the mermaid, but after more than ten minutes, the sea water was still calm and there was no reaction.

"Well, I said it shouldn't be wasted."

The second prince sighed, a little heartache, he didn't care about 1,000 gold pounds, but he cared about the mermaid tears bought with 1,000 gold pounds.

The flames dissipated, the sea returned to calm again, and the high-spirited whistle subsided, Archbishop Brandon shook his head: "Forget it, it seems that the mermaid has left this sea, we are unlucky, there is nothing to say, let's go back to sleep, and set sail for Paris tomorrow." ”

After working for most of the night, the result was in vain, everyone was not interested, and walked towards the cabin with a stuffy head, Ma Wei stepped into the cabin with one foot, and suddenly his body shook and covered his chest.

The Demon Spirit Wooden Box trembled rapidly!

At the same time, Yunia raised her head, Melissa and Archbishop Brandon looked behind them, and saw a muscular man with loose hair standing on the deck of the bow of the ship under the bright moonlight, holding a trident covered with barnacles in his hand, long black hair dripping down, and a pair of pale golden eyes staring coldly at the people who were about to enter the cabin, and his lower body

It turned out to be a fishtail!

Siren Siren!

"Everybody. Merman! One of the sailors, not knowing whether it was excitement or fear, trembled, "The mermaid has appeared!! ”

The legendary mermaid was in front of him, and Archbishop Brandon could hardly hide his agitated mood, but he didn't dare to act rashly, for fear of scaring the other party away.

Merfolk don't act alone, as long as they find one, they will be followed by a swarm!

The sound of water lapping on the sides of the warship was heard, and the sailors standing on the watchtower saw countless creatures with human bodies and fishtails leaping beneath the surface of the sea, and they surrounded the Dickey, not knowing what to do.

After a confrontation for a while, Archbishop Brandon couldn't hold back, glanced at the holy woman Melissa, rubbed the golden ring in his hand, and exchanged glances with the surrounding witchers and bishops, intending to catch the mermaid on the boat with lightning speed, and then start to capture the mermaid under the boat.

At this moment, the merfolk who jumped on the deck seemed to see Archbishop Brandon's thoughts, smiled weirdly, turned around and jumped into the ocean, and everyone rushed over to find that the merfolk were swimming straight ahead, as if they were about to escape.

"Not good! They're going to escape! Chase! ”

The whistle echoed in the night sky, and the Dickie was at full throttle, chasing the merfolk in front of it, and the giant spears shot out one after another, never being able to hit the nimble merfolk, and the two sides gradually descended into the sea one after the other.

"Big brother, the situation is not right." Levin whispered, "Why don't the mermaids flee to the deep sea, instead of running forward?" The ocean is their home turf, and no matter how fast the Dickey is, it can't catch up with them! ”

"They're trying to lead us to the depths of the ocean"

Mavi took out his compass, looked at the sun and stars in the sky, began to measure the bearing, and found that they were far away from the land.

"Archbishop Brandon! It's a mermaid's trap! We can't chase any more! ”

"I know it's a trap." Archbishop Brandon, who stood at the bow of the ship, said: "The mermaids are very fast, and the current ships of humans cannot catch up, but now we are biting them to the death, and the answer can only be that they deliberately lure us."

"If you know, why are you chasing?"

"Because it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!" Archbishop Brandon excitedly said, "I just counted, there are at least a few hundred mermaids!" If we could catch a few and bring them back to London to multiply, how good would it be for the church? ”

"But we don't know anything about merfolk traps!" Ma Wei retorted: "If you continue to chase like this, who knows what will happen!" We are rapidly approaching the sea of the dead! ”

Archbishop Brandon nodded: "The Dead Sea cannot be entered, it is a nautical taboo, so let's chase it for a while, once we get close to the Dead Sea, we will stop the pursuit." ”

Ma Wei can see that Archbishop Brandon is not unaware that the mermaid has set a trap, he just wants to rely on the Holy Maiden Melissa, or the goddess of sin Tilde, who can descend at any time, to defeat the mermaid's conspiracy head-on!

If you can use the Siren's Tears, these merfolk have no room to escape at all, Ma Wei has already controlled the sea water to imprison them, but Archbishop Brandon and the others are present, he can't make a move

"It's alright, Nicholas." Archbishop Brandon comforted: "The goddess of sin, Tilde, can come by force, and with the goddess here, the trap of the mermaid is not to be feared at all." ”

With the medium of the Holy Maiden, the goddess of sin Tilde can indeed descend, but it also depends on the way of coming.

The first way is the ordinary god descending, only the projection descends, and Tilde's will controls Melissa's body, and the farther away from the god's location, the weaker the power that can be borrowed.

The second way is to forcibly descend to the gods, just like Anatole at the beginning, by dedicating the soul and body of the saint to guide the true body of Tilde to descend, at the cost of the soul of the saint Melissa.

Obviously, in order to catch the mermaid, Archbishop Brandon had the idea of sacrificing the Holy Maiden Melissa, perhaps in his opinion, the Holy Maiden is a consumable, and when one is used, there is another, which is inexhaustible.

The fleet pursued the merfolk until the next morning, and by the time the sun slowly rose over the skyline, the pursuit was not over, and many of the sailors were exhausted and exhausted, while the merfolk ahead showed no signs of slowing down.

"In half an hour at most, we'll have to go back."

Captain Joshua came to the deck with bloodshot eyes and said to Archbishop Brandon, "Now that we have deviated from the safe course, we will be in the Dead Sea in half an hour, and it is almost over." ”

Archbishop Brandon was a little unwilling, but he also knew in his heart what the consequences of entering the Dead Sea would be, even if he had the protection of the goddess, it would be difficult to get out of the forbidden place of death shrouded in the storm.

"Archbishop! The mermaid's speed has slowed down! ”

Hearing the sailor's shout, everyone looked up, and sure enough, the mermaids were no longer as active as before, their speed had slowed down a lot, and the fleet had rushed into their ranks, and under the surface of the sea, the fish's tails could be clearly seen shaking.

"They're exhausted!"

Archbishop Brandon's eyes lit up, and he was about to give the order to catch the mermaid, when he suddenly heard the voice of the second prince trembling slightly: "Whale whale"

"Whales? What whales? ”

Archbishop Brandon looked in the direction of the second prince, and found that near the dead sea shrouded in storm clouds in the distance, a group of whales were swimming rapidly, humpback whales, blue whales, and sperm whales were all kinds of strange and strange.

Seeing the whales approaching rapidly, Joshua's pupils contracted slightly, and he suddenly remembered the Royal Navy that was attacked by an unknown creature two years ago.

According to the survivors, before they were attacked, they also saw whales!

(End of chapter)