As soon as the news spread, the local humans left here one after another and headed for the "East China Sea".

There is no way, the shipping route in the north is cut off, and it is impossible to do business with the fish-people, and the south is a wild land, and now only the west is left, and I am afraid that I won't be able to catch a single hair if I go late.

The local merfolk defenders didn't stop them from leaving, and they probably didn't have the spare time to fight with humans, and the things in the north were probably just hors d'oeuvres, and God knows what big news the Fishmen were doing.

It is said that there are fewer than 100 humans who have remained here, and there are various reasons for staying.

The little man was completely drunk as he spoke, and Chen Mu didn't bother to look for another place to live, so he just stayed here for a few days, anyway, the owner of the tavern had already run away, and this was a borderless place.

He and the monkey soldiers split up and searched around the tavern, and of course the valuable things were taken away by the owner, but there were still some things that were not very valuable, mostly some daily necessities.

Chen Mu simply cleaned up and stayed here temporarily, usually wandering outside, bragging and exchanging information with other humans who stayed behind.

The little man also lived here temporarily, this guy was a thick-skinned self-cook, and from the next day, he simply followed Chen Mu's ass around, and his mouth was also chattering.

He claimed to be a bard who traveled the world from "Zhongjing", anyway, Chen Mu didn't believe much, but he didn't take it seriously, so he let him blow it, and he wouldn't get pregnant if he listened to it.

After the dwarf got acquainted with him, he mysteriously revealed his name, what was Saldi Sando, and a bunch of prefixes and suffixes, and it was estimated that his ancestors had Russian blood.

According to the dwarf, he was also a famous bard in "Zhongjing", but he had to cross the ocean and escape to a foreign country because he had committed the taboo of the queen of heaven.

Of course, Chen Mu was hehe, and he didn't bother to memorize such a long name, so he called him Lao Sade, anyway, he was running around with this guy every day.

Although Lao Sa is blowing about the cheats on his mouth, he does have two brushes in his intelligence ability, at least the humans who have stayed behind at this time, he can basically call out his name.

After two days of mixing like this, Dorothy finally reappeared, she seemed to know where Chen Mu was staying, and came over directly: "Please come with me, the priest wants to see you." ”

Lao Sa was still eager to try it next to him, but when he heard that it was the priest who wanted to see Chen Mu, he immediately jumped away with a smile and a few steps, and slipped away with a twist of his buttocks.

Chen Mu has also collected a lot of local intelligence in the past two days, and has some understanding of the organizational structure of the mermaid clan.

In the power hierarchy of the mermaid clan, the divine power is greater than the royal power, even if it is Her Majesty the Queen, who symbolizes the supreme ruler of the mermaid clan, there is also a high priest pressing on it, but under normal circumstances, the high priest will not interfere with the queen's will.

And in the cities, the same is true, whether it is the lord or the commander, it is the embodiment of royal power, and the priest is the spokesman of the divine power, obeying only the orders of the temple system, or "the will of the gods".

Of course, the god that the merfolk believe in is definitely not the one worshiped by the "True God Cult".

The merfolk believe in the god of the sea, but this power is not called Poseidon, but has another complex name, which is very complicated to describe in the language of the mermaid tribe, and humans are generally referred to as "sea god".

This temples are all over the "Golden Sea", and as long as it is a stronghold of the mermaids, no matter how big or small, a temple will be built, and the god of the sea will be enshrined in it.

But the temple is not open to the public, let alone humans, even the merfolk themselves, and they are not able to enter and exit the temple casually.

Generally speaking, only the clergy of the merfolk are allowed to do so, and no one else is allowed to enter the temple unless they are summoned by a priest.

Moreover, the temple system also has its own armed forces, which are commonly known as "temple warriors", these are mermaid warriors who directly belong to the temple system, even if Her Majesty comes in person, they can't command them.

Of course, Dorothy is not a mermaid in the temple system, according to the information provided by Lao Sa, Dorothy is the elite scout captain in the local defenders, but she still has an identity, her mother is the commander of the local fortress, which is equivalent to the status of the city lord.

Therefore, Dorothy's energy in the local area is still very large, coupled with her heroic and good fighting, but there is no lack of flexible communication skills, which can be regarded as the best among the local young generation.

Even many human merchants are interested in befriending her, believing that Dorothy was raised as her mother's successor.

This situation is normal, although the political system of the mermaid clan seems to be ****, the temple system and the royal power structure check and balance each other.

But in fact, from the perspective of human beings, the internal power structure of the mermaid race is not much different from that of humans.

Because in the actual distribution of power, the rule of various local factions and families of the merfolk is still very obvious, which is very similar to humans.

For example, Dorothy's family has a firm grip on "Hemsted", and to put it bluntly, they are local warlords, but the situation of the merfolk is much more united than that of humans.

Even local warlords like the Dorothy family do not enjoy too many privileges, although they have a great advantage and advantage in the inheritance of power, but the responsibility they have to bear is equally huge, and even discourages many people.

This is naturally the huge pressure brought to them by the Fish-Folk Clan, and also thanks to this huge external threat, the Merfolk Clan does not have much leisure for internal fighting, even if there are some internal contradictions, most of them succumb to external threats, which can be regarded as unanimous external.

Another reason is that the temple system has brought about it, and in the social tradition of the mermaid people, the belief is really very religious.

Thinking about it, year after year, day after day in the face of the vicious invasion of the Fish-Folk Race, it is really a great terror that may wipe out the Fish-Man Race at any time, if there is no pious faith to support or escape, the Mermaid Race is estimated to have collapsed long ago.

It is also for this reason that the status of the temple system in the mermaid clan is very high, and the priests often have much more powerful appeal than the local warlords, as for the highest-level high priest, they are regarded as the spokesperson of the sea god, and they are sacred beings who can act on behalf of the sea god.

To put it more extremely, in such a social structure, as long as the high priest wants to, he can even replace the queen of the merfolk and give orders to the entire merfolk clan.

At least that's what Chen Mu thinks, but listening to Asa's meaning, the high priest of the mermaid clan has almost never interfered with Her Majesty's will, and the entire temple system has always been in a state of transcendence, and there doesn't seem to be any idea of seizing power.