Chapter 52: Self-Defeat
"That's it, if it weren't for the fact that your brothers caught the most sharks and captured all the sharks, wouldn't the current Dragon King Sacrifice be possible? It's not that you're too greedy! ”
"It's just too greedy! A few of your brothers eat meat and drink soup, we can only eat bones, this is not comfortable for anyone, I think you might as well divide some meat, and be a good person. ”
"I'll go to your mother's good man, you can be this good man!" Law was furious, and immediately struck the man who said this.
Other fishermen flocked to him, "Seeing that he clearly doesn't want to share the money, we might as well go directly to their house to find it, it is said that the gold bricks are piled up!" ”
"Yes, yes, we'll divide it ourselves! These originally belonged to everyone, why did they swallow it privately by their brothers! ”
"Let's put all the gold out, and every family will share it equally, and no one will be missing!"
Hearing this, the fishermen who were still hesitating to wait and see showed hot and greedy eyes.
The Lao brothers were surrounded and suppressed by everyone, and they didn't care about the bones of the merman who sank to the bottom of the water, and the rope slid down the bottom with a thud.
No one found out.
The other fishermen flocked in one direction to them, where the Lao family lived.
"You're too much, stop me!"
"I can't go, I can't go, that's what I saved with hard work, if you all snatch it, I'll fight with you!"
"Come back to Lao Tzu!"
“……”
Zhao Yuanling and Mo Bai glanced at each other, stood in place and did not follow.
"You guys stop for Lao Tzu!" Lao Da's voice roared, like thunder on the flat ground, resounding through the heavens and the earth.
Before they could turn their heads, clusters of firelight streaked across the parabola in the sky.
"Help, murder!"
Lao Da grabbed the torch with his bare hands and threw it into the crowd, again and again.
Immediately afterwards, the third and fourth Lao also followed.
The flames flew all over the sky, falling on the fishermen and instantly igniting them into fire figures.
"Dare to hit Lao Tzu with his idea, see if I don't burn you!"
The dog that was forced to jump over the wall hurriedly cursed fiercely.
"Mo Bai!"
As soon as Zhao Yuanling shouted, Mo Bai kicked the stone under his feet, hitting Lao Da's wrist.
The torch fell to the ground, and Lawr looked painfully at the source of the stone.
"It's you again!" The fiery eyes were replaced by astonishment, and there was a hint of fear.
"You're not from Linglong Ruins, don't meddle with things!"
Zhao Yuanling snorted coldly, "We're not meddling, we're just doing the right thing for heaven." ”
Lao Da stared at them viciously, knowing that he was no match for Mo Bai, so he planned to ignore them and continue to pick up torches to take revenge on the fishermen.
"Jump into the water, jump into the water!"
The fishermen who had been struck by the torches threw themselves to the ground and rolled on the ground, and the people around them ran and screamed, and there was a lot of noise.
Suddenly, the still-moving sea set off a wave that rolled up like a curtain of rain, and the next moment wet the people on the shore.
The blazing fire snorted, and only thick white smoke was left when it was extinguished.
"It's ...... What the heck? ”
Something seemed to be shaking at the bottom of the sea, causing faint ripples, and the ripples were getting deeper and deeper in circles, and the range fluctuated so much that it was like boiling water, and something was coming out of the bottom of the water.
"It's a merman! The mermaid is out! ”
These words resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the fishermen who had been dodging torches in all directions poured onto the reef.
When the other fishermen who had already gone far heard the call, they also hurried to this place.
"There's a merman coming out?" Zhang Yuanqing coughed with difficulty, his weak body was wrapped in a cloak, he poked out half of his head, and his thick blue and black eye bags and gray-white skin looked like a dead man.
He had been hidden in a tree by Mo Bai before, but now he was brought down.
The three of them stepped back and climbed up a high reef, the water surging and receding, and the place where they had stood before had been submerged.
The water level is gradually rising, and if you are not careful, you can be overturned by huge waves and swept away by the sea at any time.
But the fishermen turned a blind eye, and one by one they were ecstatic, with a burning look of madness in their eyes, and took the harpoons in their hands and poked them into the sea.
Some of them got on boats and rowed out into the rougher seas.
"Can't, can't let them catch the merman......"
Zhang Yuanqing's hands were clenched tightly, and his body trembled slightly from anger.
He saw the Dragon King Festival just now, it turned out that people were so cruel, and he didn't know if Dong Ying was still alive.
He was so anxious that he risked being submerged in the sea to rush down to stop the fishermen.
But how could he alone resist the madness of a hundred people.
Coupled with his weak body, no one regards him as a threat at all, they only have the sea, sharks, and money in their eyes.
The fishermen rushed into the depths of the water like crazy, ignoring the crashing of the waves.
"Are you crazy? Don't you want to die? ”
"Go away, go away, don't get in the way of our fortune!" A fisherman pushed Zhang Yuanqing away and cursed with red eyes.
"Don't you see the waves so big? If you come any closer, you'll die! ”
"Dead what die? Die of hunger and poverty! ”
A person next to him hurriedly pulled the fisherman, "Don't talk nonsense with him, these outsiders don't know how to get in, but we grew up in the sea, how could we be drowned?" ”
"Hurry up, hurry up, if it's too late, the mackerel will be snatched away!"
When the man heard this, he hurriedly ran forward.
"No...... It shouldn't be like this......" Zhang Yuanqing sobbed and covered his eyes, tears seeping out of his fingers, and one by one he submerged into the seawater.
Zhao Yuanling pulled him to the shore and brought him to a safe position.
His eyes were blank, and his voice was crying helplessly, "Nanzhu said that she likes the Terrans very much, so she will be friends with me...... But how can they do this...... I'm going to save them......"
"Don't say it's saving them now, I'm afraid I'll even take my own life." Zhao Yuanling said worriedly.
"What then...... Is it possible to watch them being caught by these fishermen and sold as goods? ”
"Wait, if any mermaids are caught, we will rescue them."
Mo Bai, who had been silent, spoke.
"Can I trust you?" Zhang Yuanqing stopped sobbing, and after a moment of silence, he set his eyes on the man dressed in black.
After being placed under house arrest by Zhang Yuanji, he pinned his hopes on this strange man who had only met once.
With a posture as tall as a pine, a strong and powerful skill, and an indifferent and cold momentum, he is destined to be not like ordinary people.
Coupled with a graceful demeanor and a good appearance, he should be a young man who is either rich or noble.
But what he didn't expect was that this person seemed to be just a servant.
I hope he can help him.
"You can only trust me now."
Slowly raising his gaze, the fishermen who swarmed up flocked to the sea one by one, and now only the backs of the stars were seen.
The black clouds overhead quietly gathered into a huge cloud, and the sky merged with the sea, and it was extremely blue and black.
Familiar lightning filled the entire sky, like a crack in the sky.
Now they were standing under the lightning, the closest thing they could get.
The oppressive feeling of the giant and the dark undercurrent are like a giant dragon hovering overhead, making people breathe slowly.
Mo Bai: "If we stay here, not only will these fishermen die, but I'm afraid we will also die." ”
Zhao Yuanling also saw that the lightning this time was far more than what he had seen in Muzu Temple before, and the huge waves were slapping on the shore wave after wave, which was already an unstoppable trend, and the power was still increasing little by little, as if it had not yet reached the critical point.
What does it want? Flood the entire inner city?
Zhang Yuanqing climbed onto the reef again, with a look of worry in his eyes.
Now he can't stay in the water, and if the shark beads on his body call the shark people, it will harm them.
"Don't worry, Linglong Ruins haven't caught mermaids for three years, and they won't show up so easily." Zhao Yuanling saw the worry in his eyes and comforted softly.
"Hmm." Zhang Yuanqing nodded heavily, his eyes still looking at the churning seawater, and he did not relax his vigilance at all.
"Help, run!"
"Ah......h
One by one, the boats floating on the sea disappeared into the sea, and the villagers who had sworn before all turned against each other and ran frantically to the shore.
"Such a big wave! Oh no, the god of the sea is finally angry. ”
The gates, which had been heavily guarded, were now empty, and there was a sparse influx of people at the gates, who seemed to be people living in the outer city.
In the face of such a shocking scene, their eyes flashed with surprise, and then their expressions remained the same, and some even had some schadenfreude in their eyes.
The old man who came in from the outer city looked at Zhao Yuanling and his group, and seemed to have seen that they were not from Linglong Ruins.
I wasn't surprised by their appearance, but said to myself: "Originally, there was no inner city or outer city here, but since there was the Dragon King Sacrifice, we were separated from this group of greedy people.
These people have made the sea a miasma, what kind of dragon king sacrifice do they do...... Attract people from outside and see what has become of this place? They brought it on themselves. ”
The old man shook his head and muttered as he walked away, "It's all self-inflicted......"
Zhao Yuanling said uneasily: "Shall we rescue them?" ”
The waves were like beasts standing in the sea, and they swept the greedy people into their stomachs.
"No, these people are all self-inflicted." Zhang Yuanqing clenched his fists and looked coldly at the roar of the sea.
"There must be a cause and an effect, and there is always a price to pay for making the wrong choice." With red eyes and a calm face, he watched as the ant-like man in front of the sea was swept from side to side by the huge waves, and finally sank into the water without a sound.
At the end of their lives, the fishermen were finally awakened by the sea, and they desperately rowed the pulp in their hands to the shore.
How fanatical it was at the beginning, how crazy it is now.
They finally knew that the power of the sea was so majestic that the human race was like mayflies shaking the trees in front of them, and they could not measure it.