9. Coincidence or accident?

"And the last cut of the eye, and then the name is engraved..."

He looked cautiously at the near-perfect statue in his hand

"Done!"

"Huh? Little carpenter, it's a good carving, it's very similar to your sister. ”

It so happened that a young sailor passed by where he was, and leaned in to take a look

"Sister?"

"Of course, that little girl wasn't your sister when you left?"

With that, the young sailor went to work

He recalled the appearance of his sister in his memory, and then looked at the statue in his hand

It's true... Exactly...

Except for that fishtail...

10. Accidents

"Turn the rudder! There's a whirlpool ahead!!"

The sailor's voice had barely reached the deck when he saw the ship tilt violently

"My Statue !!"

He couldn't watch the statue fall into the sea, "Boy, you don't want to die!!"

Several sailors hurriedly took him off the railing. Pull down "a statue only!" Wouldn't it be okay to carve one more?" But."

11. The most beautiful illusion

"No! The whirlpool suction is too strong for us to escape... The sailor who was observing from a high altitude went down to the deck in a decadent manner, and for a moment the whole deck fell into a dead silence "Ah! Look!"

Suddenly, there was an exclamation, and everyone gathered at the bow of the boat, looking at the figure in the distance, "Mermaid !!"

The old sailor laughed and greeted the mermaid. "You're here again!"

Miraculously, the mermaid seemed to nod and leap out of the water

When it falls ^ again

A huge wave was stirred, and the fleet was pushed hundreds of meters away, "Saved!!"

Everyone cheered in unison

He was the only one who watched the mermaid dive to the bottom of the water and disappeared

"Sure enough... Well..."

"But why can't you see clearly? . .

12. The beginning of desire

Ever since the mermaid appeared, he had been carving his knife on the wood like a lost soul. "Why can't you carve out your eyes?"

He looked at the old sailor's photo with distress, but the photo was only a vague shadow

It didn't make him carve a pair of eyes for the statue

13. Denial

"No! This statue isn't perfect!" Collectors lamented

"This statue is missing a pair of eyes, and if it lacks eyes, it lacks a soul, and it has no collectible value!" Oh, yes! It's a pity. He also regretted it

"If it weren't for the stone sculpture that fell into the sea.'

14. Desire spreads

"Sister! Come out! I'm back!"

He couldn't wait to put down his luggage and pull his sleeping sister up

"Let me carve you a statue!

His knife began to tremble, and it took a few knives to bring his sister's statue to life

"No.. Not a mermaid.."

He threw away the wood carving irritably, and picked up another piece of wood, "Brother?"

My sister asked cautiously

"Why did you carve my feet into a fishtail?" The carving knife in his hand paused, as if he suddenly remembered something, "That's right!" Mermaid!!"

He hugged his sister excitedly and screamed, and then pounced on his wood. above

"I have to see the mermaid again! I'm going to have to see her eyes this time!"

15. Pursuit

"The same is the case. Both times it was shipwrecked, and both times it was a one-time run.."

The old sailor recalled

"I'm sorry, I'm old, I can't remember." He was not reconciled

He guessed that there must be some conditions for the appearance of the mermaid, and if it was just a shipwreck, then he himself didn't know how many times he had encountered it

Afterwards, he also went to the place where the mermaid appeared, and there was nothing special

"Hell! How do I have to carve a mermaid statue?" He couldn't help but curse in a low voice, "Huh?"

The old sailor suddenly exclaimed

"I remember! The shipwreck threw the mermaid statue we transported into the sea, and then we couldn't salvage it when we went back, probably because it was washed away by the sea.

The old sailor's words made his eyes light up: "It turns out that the condition is the mermaid statue...

16. Devouring desire

The condition for seeing a mermaid is a mermaid statue, and if you can't see a mermaid, you can't carve the eyes of the statue, which is a dead loop!! He was distressed by this

Day after day he kept trying to make the statue. There are various eyes carved on it

Since they are carved from wood, these statues are even on the surface of the sea. Together, a small floating island was formed, but the mermaid still did not appear

"No! Why don't any of the eyes look like mermaids!!" He roared, he had forgotten why he was looking for mermaids

17. Misinterpretation

"Hmm. How to say it.. Your statue is beautiful and your craftsmanship is excellent, but... There is no soul .."

A master carver scrutinized his mermaid statue, "That's... How do I get my soul?" He couldn't wait to ask

"Life, try to bring them closer to living life, or rather, you can give them life."

18. Desire buries reason

How can you bring a statue closer to life?

He locked himself in his room, thought about it for a whole day, and he made a bold decision

For the mermaid statue, he has absolute confidence that the carving will be perfect, but the only leak is the eyes

He hadn't seen the mermaid's eyes, and he couldn't restore the thrilling beauty of the mermaid

So he caught a real fish

The eyes of the fish were embedded in the eye sockets of the statue and thrown into the sea

19. Crazy

In the moonlight, a figure leaped across the water and caught his statue, and the figure's gaze fell on the statue's eyes. Lined with moonlight, you can see that she is trembling and angry? Or are you afraid?

He didn't care about all this, he looked at this figure obsessively, and approached her step by step, "It's really a mermaid.."

He began to choke with excitement, and he wanted to get closer to take a closer look at the mermaid's eyes

But he's only just taken a step

The mermaid dived under the water and disappeared

20. Enchanted

"Hell! Holy!!"

He angrily pounced on the mermaid where she had disappeared, but there was only seawater

The mermaid is gone, the statue is gone, figured it out

He rushed home like crazy, grabbed a fish raised by his sister, gouged out his eyes, and embedded it in the statue. It's but...

This time, the mermaid didn't appear again..."Why!!"

He couldn't stand the mermaid's evasion, he had to see the mermaid's eyes clearly, even though he didn't know why, but he had to do it!!

He killed countless creatures and threw countless statues, but the mermaid never reappeared

He didn't know that the mermaid was afraid of his madness, so he was even more crazy

He turned out...

Aim the knife at the human!

At this moment, the knife in his hand is no longer a carving knife

21. Reproduction

"You're crazy! Brother .." His sister questioned him angrily

His hands were covered in blood, and he was powerless to argue

"Brother, mermaids don't exist at all!! Give it up!! Stop killing ... Toll.. Brother. The younger sister knelt in front of him

He looked at the statue that his sister had taken from him, a statue that had not yet had time to be embedded with eyes

Look at my sister's ethereal eyes

An unquenchable thought crept through his mind, and he looked greedily into his sister's eyes

As long as you have these beautiful eyes... The mermaid will be satisfied with my statue...

He failed again

Even if her sister is as beautiful and pure-eyed, she can't be recognized by a mermaid

But after killing his sister, he found a book, an ancient, mysterious book, which says

To summon a mermaid requires sacrificing a statue of a mermaid in the world. The most beautiful mermaid statue on it

The mermaid first appeared because the statue carried the belief that the caravan would complete the escort mission no matter what

The second time, it was the statue that carried the sculptor's promise for the future

The third time, the fear and resentment of the creature's death frightened the mermaid

And the fourth

He was alone, sitting on top of a pile of statues, holding a pair of eyeballs in his hands

Solemnly embedded them in a statue, which was his own eyes

He sacrificed his eyes, and there was a darkness in his vision, and a halo of colorful light seemed to appear directly in his mind, the moment he lost his eyes

The mermaids brought floods that flooded the entire small fishing village

He knew that the mermaid was coming

Little did he know that the mermaid had finally been enraged by his actions and had brought a flood to flood the small fishing village, but it was pointless

Because of the whole village, he was left alone, silently waiting for death