Twenty days after the naval battle, Xiao Chen finally saw the ship he was waiting for.
Trina's father, Mencius, is a high-level wizard of the mermaid clan and the head of the Golden Pearl family to which Trina belongs. After receiving the notification of the remnants of the naval battle that day, he immediately began to collect intelligence and ransom, and then boarded a warship to Jimeno Island.
The mermaids are all natural water mages, but Mensius's talent is not as good as his daughter Trina's, so his realm is not as high as Trina's. So even though he is the head of the family, his importance to the entire family is still not as high as Trina's, so he wants to redeem his daughter at all costs.
When the warship sailed towards the land, Mencius floated on the bow and looked at the situation on the island from afar. But this sight surprised him and he wondered if he had come to the wrong place. Mencius had been to this island a few years ago. Except for the shabby houses of the local small tribe, there was nothing on Jimeno Island. But now, he found that there was a pier that could moor more than a dozen ships, and there were wooden houses built along the hillside in the style of humans and sea creatures.
Mencius was filled with doubts, but the Naga guards who led the way were certain that the two huge metal ships parked at the dock were the human ships that had defeated their entire fleet without any damage.
Then, Mencius saw a group of Shark Tribe and Armor Tribe warriors running out in a line along the newly paved gravel road from the newly built houses inside.
These sea creatures were led by several humans, and they were obviously following their orders. They ran all the way to the dock and formed a straight line on both sides of the pallet. Mencius had never seen such sea creatures. In his impression, shark warriors were always violent and unruly, and armor warriors were also sluggish and undisciplined, but these people in front of him were like human soldiers who paid attention to formations, and they looked very strict. He felt that these were all humans in the guise of sea creatures.
Two people wearing strange blue floral clothes stood in the middle of the pier's plank road with their hands behind their backs, looking at him from afar.
Mencius suddenly felt a palpitation, and he realized that it was the pressure of mental power. The two humans in front of him were actually more powerful wizards than him, and even stronger than his daughter.
Mencius did not dare to delay. He did not want to keep the two great magicians waiting for long, so he flew down directly from the bow of the ship without waiting for it to dock.
"I am the head of the Golden Pearl Family, Trina's father, Mencius, and I am here to visit His Excellency Xiao Chen, the chairman of the Tower of China." Mencius greeted the two humans and said.
The human mage standing on the left said, "I am Huang Zheng, the commander of the China Tower Marine Corps, and this is Lin Lichuan, the communications officer of the Houyi. Chairman Xiao Chen has been waiting for you for a long time. Welcome to Qihang Island."
"Departure Island?"
"This is the new name of the island. We bought the island from the local tribe. Now the island belongs to the Chinese Tower."
Mencius was shocked. It was unheard of that these mainland humans would come to buy the islands of the sea tribe, because no one would do such a thing. Even if a human occupied an island for a short period of time, he would be driven out or even destroyed by the nearby sea tribe.
The Pearl Islands belong to the entire Sea Clan, and no human is allowed to interfere. This is the consensus of all the Sea Clan tribes. But judging from the docks and houses seen in front, these people should be serious. No one would build such a large-scale project on an island where they are temporarily staying. However, these things are not a problem for him. He is still concerned about the condition of his daughter Trina.
"Excuse me, how is my daughter Trina?" asked Mencius.
"Don't worry, we in the Tower of China will not mistreat the captives. After all, we still have to trade with you, right?" Huang Zheng said with a smile, "Besides, we are different from the southern city-states. We have no prejudice against the sea people. You can look at the sea people around you. They have joined us and become warriors of the Tower of China."
"What? The elite of the sea tribe are working for humans?" Mencius raised his head and looked at a shark warrior approaching him. He knew this warrior. He was a shark guard often hired by Trina's cousin.
"Daviko, is this true? You have joined the Chinese Tower's army?"
The shark warrior lowered his head, looked down at Mencius, and said in a muffled voice: "Lord Mencius, we are now hired by the masters of the Tower of China. Now several of our tribes' best warriors are Chinese mercenaries."
"Help? Are you willing to fight for humans? Aren't people from small tribes usually the only ones who would accept employment from humans and deal with them?" Mencius asked.
"Sir, we are willing to fight with the strong. The Tower of China is different from other humans. They are powerful but kind. They can easily defeat us in battle, but after the war they saved many seriously injured sea creatures, including me. A great magician personally saved me, so we are willing to be hired by them to fight. You know, this does not violate the agreement between us and you." The shark warrior spoke very logically, "Moreover, they have some amazing training methods. After more than ten days of training, we can defeat twice as many of our own kind."
"Is that so?" Mensius realized that the Chinese had asked him to meet Davido and his men here so that he could understand the situation. Not only did the Chinese defeat the sea tribe, but it also seemed that Trina's men had been easily divided and disintegrated by the Chinese. He couldn't help but feel worried because he couldn't understand what the Chinese were going to do.
"Come with me." Huang Zheng said, "I will take you to meet Chairman Xiao Chen and your daughter."
"Please lead the way." Mencius followed Huang Zheng, and the sea clan mercenaries, under Lin Lichuan's command, formed a neat team and left the dock.
Mencius walked up the hill and saw many elite sea creatures training under the command of humans. They lined up in a few rows in the open space, turned their bodies or marched forward when they heard the slogans. In addition, there were many other sea creatures moving freely on the island.
If you didn't know that they had fought a war with the Chinese before, some people might think that humans and sea creatures have always lived in harmony on this island.
Mencius couldn't help but ask: "Why do you do this?"
"Why?" Huang Zheng asked.
"We suddenly came to live on an island like this, and lived with the sea people. Although humans have cooperated with the sea people in the past, no one would choose to merge with the sea people like this... like this. We are different, aren't we?" (To be continued)