In the northern part of the Marinaya Trench, at the bottom of the abyss where human beings have rarely set foot, there are many huge stone tablets buried. The stone tablet uses ancient characters to describe an ancient civilization that has been lost for hundreds of years.
The original name of the Kraken family was not the Kraken, but the Merman. They existed before the beginning of human history. In the long years, the feathermen in the sky gradually disappeared. When humans became the masters of this planet and began to write their own long history, the mermen gradually cut off the connection with the land and lived in seclusion in the depths of the ocean. Only occasionally seen by humans.
Unlike humans who gradually abandoned their religious beliefs, the merman always believed that gods and reincarnation were real. The merman believe that the world was created by the Great Wilderness God. After the creation of the world, the Great Wilderness God left behind twelve consciousnesses, who came to the world to save the world when the world was in danger. However, these twelve consciousnesses had already completed their respective destiny long before the beginning of human recorded history and disappeared into reincarnation.
The main god of the merman is Yinglong, the sea god. This god does not only exist in legends, but really lives among his people as a merman, assisting all the sea kings to protect all things in the sea. He has the ability to reincarnate continuously. Before his death in each life, he will leave the time, place and characteristics of his future reincarnation to the great acolyte, the religious leader of the merman, and the great acolyte will keep this sacred message until the prophecy When the time comes, welcome back to the new generation of Yinglong. This tradition continued for thousands of years, until five hundred years ago, Yinglong called all the merman acolytes together and told them:
The Great Wilderness (Earth) is running out of life, many species are mass extinction, and the living environment of the ocean is also getting worse. The sea water is getting warmer and the poison content is getting higher and higher, fish and plants are dying in large areas, large-scale diseases have spread in the major cities of the merman several times, and the fertility rate is also decreasing year by year, and even only a few in a year. Several juvenile sharks were born. Various signs indicate that the order of the Great Wilderness has been disrupted. The souls reincarnated in the reincarnation cannot find a body that can be reincarnated, and the more and more they gather in the reincarnation disk, the order gradually collapses, and the passage between the God Realm and the Great Wilderness is about to be completely closed. In the next thousand years, this planet will become a barren scorched earth.
As the only god left in the Great Wilderness, he is powerless to the impending doomsday, and the only one who can save the world is the Great Wilderness God's Consciousness. However, since the consciousness has been lost in the reincarnation and cannot be easily found, the only way is for him to leave the Great Wilderness, return to the Supreme God Realm, and summon the consciousness to come into the world. It's just that he's gone, and it's very likely that he won't be able to come back again, until the order is re-established and the passage between the God Realm and the Great Wilderness is opened.
After the sea god Yinglong explained these words, he closed his eyes and entered Nirvana. The shark people have been walking alone for a hundred years in the dark century without gods, and finally they waited for the divine consciousness that Yinglong said—Chenyuan came into the world.
However, the birth of Divine Consciousness could not immediately reverse the gradually declining fate of the merman. Humans have discharged all poisons such as sewage, nuclear waste, oil, heavy metals, etc. into the sea, algae and fish have been wiped out on a large scale, and new diseases have ravaged among the dwindling mermaids again and again. At the same time, due to the increasing shortage of volunteers on land, humans began to develop underwater resources, and the shark people are always facing the danger of being discovered.
When countless mothers or fathers cry with their festering children, and then choose to give up their lives; when thousands of mermen are forced to leave the seas where they have lived for generations to avoid being discovered by humans; Unable to grow seaweed and fell into famine, extremists who hated humans began to appear among the mermen. They create storms near human ships, drag fallen humans into the deep and drown, and use sonic waves to interfere with ships' radars and cause them to hit the rocks.
Chen Yuan clearly forbids private attacks on humans, because he knows that the location of the merman will definitely be exposed in this way. However, the number of extremists is increasing, and the voices of dissatisfaction among the people are getting louder and louder, even shaking the belief in the God of the Great Wilderness. The mermen began to doubt, whether the young merman who was only a hundred years old was really the savior that the sea god prayed for, and whether the gods had completely abandoned the world. They shouted for vengeance for the dead people, for the dead ocean, for the dead wasteland. They believe that only by destroying human beings can we truly save the world that is collapsing day by day.
The emotions of hatred spread among the remaining mercenary cities, and the sea country, shrouded in thick silence, was caught in the uneasiness of the mountains and rains. Finally, the rebellious mermen formed an army and attacked New York and Tokyo. They claimed to represent all mermen and were Chen Yuan's subordinates.
Humans will not know the internal struggle of the merman. Humans will only think that this is the entire Kraken clan declaring war on humans. Chen Yuan was forced to declare war on humans after those mermen who hated humans drew human attention into the deep sea.
When the humans sent a request for peace talks to the merman, Chen Yuan considered this proposal for a while. But at that time, the merman won the first battle, and the voice of hatred for human beings has reached an unprecedented level. What is even more frightening is that the sharks learned from the human captives that humans are secretly developing weapons to deal with the sharks.
Throughout human history, no matter what the reasons, wars have never been interrupted. This is a hard-working, but also cruel and short-sighted race. Chen Yuan knows that the promise of peace of mankind is always just a piece of paper. In this age of losing faith, as long as it is driven by interests, there is nothing that people cannot do. Now that the existence of the merman has been exposed, blindly believing in the promise of mankind will only send the only remaining clansmen to extinction.
Finally, he decided to refuse peace talks.
At that time, Chen Yuan had not yet obtained most of the memories of the Great Wilderness God, and the divine power in his body had not yet fully awakened. So he forgot that as a god, he was not only protected by mermen. And he and the merman clan also paid a heavy price for this.
What happened next was as recorded in human history. Chen Yuan was captured, and the mermen were defeated and almost wiped out. The only remaining merman were enslaved for three hundred years, and the merman civilization was almost destroyed. Even the name "merman" was obliterated, leaving only a few words on the remnants of the monument.
Three hundred years later, a small group of krakens who escaped human slavery have re-established a secluded settlement deep in the Mariana Trench. They control the creatures in the abyss to protect them, collect the reefs on the seabed to build houses, search for all the luminous night pearls and tools that can be used in the ruined city of return, and build their own homes bit by bit.
During the period, the third base repeatedly searched for the traces of the sea monsters in the entire sea area, but in the vast sea, the sound wave field of the sea monsters could cause the sonar system that the submarines depend on to fail, and there was nowhere to find them. After a long time, and the war between the bases on land is in full swing, the search has gradually been put on hold.
In the blink of an eye, eight years passed in a flash.
In eight years, the pattern on the land has undergone new changes. The third base was divided between the first base and the second base, the fourth base became a subsidiary of the first base, and although the fifth base also took refuge in the first base in name, due to the lack of abundant resources and a small population, Rarely participate in the competition for resources. At the same time, another increasingly full-fledged force is the original rebels, now the Free Alliance. The first base, the second base and the Freedom Alliance have gradually become a tripartite, but the first base is still the most powerful force on earth.
Today's base system is more strict in level, and monitoring is pervasive. People no longer dare to talk about the decrees issued by the Ministry of Security, no longer dare to mention the names of sharp swords and wise men. Every day, people disappear silently, and people have learned not to be surprised, and continue to live day by day as usual.
The sea-monsters on the land began to be more severely persecuted. In order to ensure their status, the first base forced the fourth base to ban the Kraken team. Some sirens fled after getting wind of it, but most were secretly wiped out. Although the first base and the second base have not completely banned the Kraken team, they have installed a self-destruction system on each Kraken. As soon as the Kraken shows any sign of failure to bind, their owners can take drastic measures.
However, during these eight years, there was another underground organization that quietly took shape. The people of this organization are elusive, hiding in the major bases, not participating in any competition for resources, and acting very harmless most of the time. But whenever a Kraken escaped from the team, they would pick up and help those Krakens leave the first or second base. People privately call them "rescuers".
The rescuers initially helped only the Kraken, but later, even humans who were persecuted because of their low loyalty values began to seek their refuge. These defectors from the base are often transferred to the fourth or fifth base, and are assigned new jobs, and even use plastic surgery to change the appearance of each other and start a new life. No one knows how many rescuers live silently by their side. They will never mention their identities to outsiders. Whenever there is a possibility of being suspected, other rescuers will immediately help the suspected members to transfer. Many people who were helped by the rescuers later became members of the organization, and this force grew little by little.
Many of the Krakens who successfully escaped into the sea and found the Kraken colony spread the word about the existence of the rescuers. It has been passed on to the leader of the sirens - Quicksilver.
The young brown-haired merman who had just been unbound was led by Qing Indigo and swam through the long stone corridor. The night pearl embedded on the roof of the cave sheds a cold and secluded streamer.
The brown-haired merman was very nervous, and his hands tightly tugged at the corners of his clothes. The current costumes of the Krakens have changed a lot. They found a way to make sharks from the ruins of the city of return. After repeated research and improvement, they finally succeeded in making the first shark using the algae fibers in the sea. Silk clothes. Then the technology became more and more mature, and now most of the Krakens are wearing the kind of light and elegant clothes that are not wet.
Qing Ding stopped in front of the two simple stone doors and slowly pushed them open. Behind the door, the water is shining, the cave is quiet, and a few small and exquisite jellyfish are slowly rising like bubbles. The furnishings in the cave are surprisingly simple, and there is no extra decoration except for some simple furniture and some boring swimming fish. Turning to the outer cave, in a slightly smaller cave, behind a desk carved from a red coral reef, sat a silver figure.
The brown-haired Kraken held his breath and dared not let the air out.
That is Quicksilver, the king of sea monsters, the reincarnation of the god who can call the wind and call the rain and drive the whole sea. His story has long been spread among the Krakens in every base.
Qing Ding didn't kneel down towards the mercury as the young Kraken imagined, but simply nodded in respect, "This is Qimu, the Kraken who escaped with the help of the rescuers recently."
Mercury, who was looking at the waterproof tablet in his hand, raised his head, and on his handsome face, a pair of icy blue eyes glowing with silver stars fell on the uneasy brown-haired Kraken. It was a steady and deep gaze, just like the sea water in this ancient abyss, wrapping up endlessly. The anxiety in the brown-haired Kraken suddenly calmed down.
However, there is an indescribable void in that deep and wide. As if something was missing.
Mercury nodded and said, "Qingdang, you go out first."
"Yes."
After Qing Ding withdrew, Mercury slowly stood up. He was tall, and his knee-length silver hair swayed behind him like a Milky Way. The silver-white broad sleeves also danced with the stirring of the water, and the brown-haired siren in front of the dignified and noble bearing could not help but admire.
"Is it a habit to live here?" Mercury asked in that unhurried voice.
Qimu quickly replied, "Very... very used to it."
"Did you miss your master?"
"No..." Qiu pursed his lips, "I've already drank the anti-binding reagent."
Mercury nodded and didn't ask any further questions. Sirens who are generally willing to drink anti-binding reagents are either because their masters are dead or because their masters are not good to them.
He pointed to a coral chair near the table, "Sit down."
Qiu immediately executed as if he had heard an order, and sat down in that chair in a proper manner. Mercury slowly paced out from behind the desk, grabbed a handful of fish food from a nearby ceramic bowl, and sprinkled it in the air. A few small colored fish in the vicinity immediately swarmed.
"You said, have you seen the leader of the rescuers?" Quicksilver suddenly asked.
Qimu replied hurriedly, "It's not really seeing each other, but I saw it from a distance. At that time, I was transferred to the fifth base, and my rescuer was going to report the rescue situation of the second base to him, so I put I took it with me."
"How much do you know about that leader?"
Qimu thought for a while, "He lives in a very remote but large manor, and seems to be quite rich. There are a lot of apple trees in his garden. He seemed to be pruning the trees at that time, and he was too far away from me. I can't see what he looks like. My rescuer said he was one of the few people who had seen the leader, and in most cases the leader would not allow other members to contact him directly."
A small blue fish was swimming between the slender fingers of Quicksilver, and the silver-haired siren asked again, "It was your refugee who told you where to find us?"
"No. I remember that the rescuer took out a very primitive mobile phone and handed it to me after getting through. I heard a voice telling me to come to find you near the Mariana Trench, and told me not to tell other humans, Not even my rescuers can say that."
Quicksilver turned to face Qimu, his eyes burning like torches, "Do you know why they want to help the Kraken?"
"I asked. My rescuer said that the first rescuers seemed to be the former owners of some Krakens who had fled into the sea. They couldn't bear the oppression of the base against the Krakens before they helped."
Mercury thought, rubbing his chin unconsciously with his thumb. After a long while, he suddenly released infrasound waves, "Peacock, come see me now." Then, he looked at Qimu again and nodded slightly, "Thank you for your hard work. You can go now."
When Qimu left the cave of Quicksilver nervously, he passed another Siren with gorgeous peacock blue hair. He was startled, isn't that the peacock that all the Krakens will tremble three times when they see it...
After Peacock entered the door, he gave a symbolic nod to Mercury Silver, "Are you looking for me?"
Mercury was not polite, and asked right away, "Have you met Tsuruta Craftsman in recent years?"
Peacock was stunned for a moment, and the familiar name made his heart tighten for a while, "The last time I saw him was five years ago."
Five years ago, asylum seekers were probably just beginning to emerge.
"Then?"
"Do you still need to ask after that? There are so many problems to solve every day, even if there is no Kung Fu beans to eat, let alone go on a date with him." Peacock sighed, "I just hope he doesn't show affection."
"Can you get in touch with him?"
"… what do you want?"
"The number of refugees is increasing, and the more humans know our location, the higher the possibility of exposure. I need to know what the leader of the refugees is. Now Guixu City is basically on the right track. It's time to look into this."
As an old comrade-in-arms who assisted Mercury for many years, Peacock immediately heard the meaning of his words, "You don't want to go in person."
Mercury nodded without hesitation.
"Are you crazy? Wouldn't it be better for Lan Huang or Qing Ding to do this kind of thing?! If humans know that you are on land, don't even think about coming back!"
Quicksilver knew what Peacock said was right, but... The more he listened to those mermen from the land describing the refugees and their mysterious leader, the inexplicable restlessness in his heart somewhere.
As if urging him to do something.
"I have my measure."
"Why can't I hear that you have the slightest sense?"
"Peacock." Mercury's voice froze, full of deep oppression, "I'm not discussing with you."
Peacock stared at him silently for a long time, and then raised his hands in surrender, "Okay, if you want to go, don't blame me for not reminding you."
"I didn't plan to go alone." The corner of Mercury's mouth raised slightly, revealing a rare slyness, "You will go with me."
The author has something to say: This chapter involves some background settings of "The Merman World Trilogy" and "The Great Witch"