Diary of Raising a Mermaid

Chapter 35

Views:

The weather is fine tonight, and the ocean at night becomes much milder than usual under the backdrop of countless stars, and it seems to be the same as the ocean many years ago.

Above the sea, there is a ship floating on the sea.

On the deck, a boy is leaning against the side of the ship, looking into the distance curiously.

In his field of vision, the ocean in the distance was dark, and he didn't know what existed in it.

"Xiao Ding, you don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you doing?"

A middle-aged bearded boy saw the boy on the deck, he walked over, patted the boy on the shoulder, and said, "You've been busy all day, go back to sleep."

The boy called "Xiao Ding" shook his head, and said excitedly to Lu Hu:

"It is said that we are approaching Sunset Bay. This is the first time I have approached Sunset Bay."

Hearing this, the bearded man couldn't help but frown.

This is how young people are, their curiosity is too strong.

You can see farts in the ocean at night. If you have this time to be curious, why not take the time to rest.

"I heard that the boats that enter Sunset Bay rarely return."

Xiao Ding still looked curious, "Some people say that there are sea monsters living in the sunset bay, is this true?"

"What? You still want us to encounter sea monsters?"

The bearded man felt amused, "Nine out of ten sea monsters are dead, and the remaining one is also a lunatic. Do you want this result?"

Xiao Ding was silent.

This year is his first year working on the ship, so he is naturally full of curiosity about everything.

There are sea monsters in the ocean, which is already the consensus of people who live on the edge of the coast and make a living by fishing.

The land is no longer safe. Although the sea monsters in the ocean cause huge casualties when they come out, sea monsters are not common.

In this way, fishing at sea is much safer than staying on land.

As for what the sea monster looks like, according to the "Sea Monster Handbook" issued by the United Nations, the known sea monsters are all giants of existing creatures—

Including giant starfish and sea urchins, as well as the already huge king squid.

No one knows exactly how lethal these sea monsters are, but one thing is certain, human ships are as fragile as a piece of paper in front of sea monsters.

The only good news is that sea monsters don't like to appear on the sea surface, which may be related to temperature and solar radiation.

Except decades ago, the sea monsters appeared on the sea and overturned all the people who were driving on the sea at that time.

Except for ships, sea monsters have not actively attacked humans in the past few decades.

As long as humans don't invade their territory and provoke them, these sea monsters will generally not appear.

As for why Xiao Ding is so curious, the main reason is that when Xiao Ding was three or four years younger, he once went out to sea with his father, and accidentally saw a huge sea monster going out to sea far away.

Because he was too young at that time, Xiao Ding could not remember exactly what the huge sea monster looked like. Shock.

Xiao Ding always remembers the shocking feeling of facing the sea monster.

Even until now, he can still remember that he held his breath and trembled all over, that kind of weak creature's natural submission to a powerful controller, which made people dizzy and could not be forgotten for a long time.

Because of the impact that scene had on Xiao Ding back then, the young Xiao Ding was in a trance for a period of time, and it has been several years since he finally woke up.

Xiao Ding, who grew up, asked his parents for the scene of seeing the sea monster, but for some reason, his parents said that they had never seen any sea monster, and told Xiao Ding that he must have dreamed about it. sea monster.

For this statement, Xiao Ding noticed something strange.

Since then, Xiao Ding has never told anyone that he saw sea monsters when he was a child, but every time he dreams back, Xiao Ding can't help being intoxicated by the shock that sea monsters brought to him back then.

Therefore, when the recruitment office said that the ship would wander around the Sunset Bay, Xiao Ding signed up without hesitation and became the new crew member of the ship.

You know, at that time, many people turned around and left when they heard the recruitment office said that the ship was going to the sunset bay, so Xiao Ding became the only young crew member on the ship.

"I think that if you see a sea monster, you can die without regret."

Xiao Ding answered the bearded man's question in this way.

He really thought it was good.

The bearded man was taken aback after hearing this, and then laughed. He shook his head, thinking that Xiao Ding must have passed the second term:

"Tsk tsk, the captain is a lunatic, and the crew he is looking for is also a lunatic, what a fucking fuck."

However, he didn't bother to persuade him anymore, so he shook his head and sighed why a good young man had a mental illness, and went back to the cabin to rest.

Today is a chaotic world, everyone on the sea is struggling to survive, turn around on the sea

It's fine if you don't get swallowed by the black storm, let alone go around in various sea monster fields.

On weekdays, this ship is just fishing and transporting goods. It doesn't make much money and barely makes ends meet.

However, as the saying goes, money can turn ghosts around.

The bounty put out by Doom Lab, combined with the sighting of large fish and killer whales nearby, equals a lot of money.

If they had this money, they would be able to eat and drink for at least ten years, so their captain gritted his teeth and brought the whole ship to Sunset Bay.

Sunset Bay is the grave of the legendary ship. There is a strange magnetic field here, which can make all the instruments used to indicate the direction fail.

What's even more frightening is that it is said that under the sea, there is a huge octopus sea monster, which pulls all passing ships into the sea, and all the crew members are eaten by it.

The requirement for the reward order of "Doomsday Lab" is very simple, that is, to capture strange creatures near Sunset Bay.

This request may seem strange, but it is better than directly requesting to cross the Sunset Bay. In addition, there must be a brave man with a lot of money. Except for Xiao Ding's ship that came to patrol nearby, there are still a few ships nearby.

All these are signs before the storm comes.

Lance didn't know the situation on the surface of the sea. Now he was full of thoughts to go back to the sunken ship and see if Wenser woke up.

And this time, Lance finally saw the picture he dreamed of——

Wenser woke up. He was sitting in the cabin, waiting for him to come back with a smile.

"Winser?"

Lance's eyes lit up, and he even forgot that he still had fish in his hand. Under surprise, he subconsciously let go of his hand, and two small dark blue fish jumped out of Lance's hand immediately, "Whoosh With a sound, he ran into the ocean without a trace.

Lance: "..."

His mind was blank, and he wanted to catch those two fish, so now there is a problem.

One fish goes left and one fish goes right, so should Lance go left or right

Lance was thinking about this question, so now he is in the middle, stupidly, like a log.

Winsor blinked, he suppressed a smile, and asked:

"What are you doing standing there?"

"Are you hungry? Want some fish?"

It was only then that Lance remembered what the most urgent task was now, so he hurriedly asked, planning to catch two more fish for Wenser to eat.

"Need not."

Winsor shook his head and beckoned Lance to come over.

Lance swam into the cabin obediently, seeing

He looked at Wenser anxiously.

Winsor asked curiously:

"Do you catch that kind of fish every day?"

"Yes, because that kind of fish is delicious, I think you should also like that kind of fish."

Lance said, "Today I encountered a pod of killer whales, and they gave me these two fish."

Lance hides the price of the two fish—

Sucked by a killer whale.

"Just take care of yourself during this time, and leave me alone."

Wenser knew how difficult it was to catch that kind of fish, so he couldn't help but persuade him.

Lance didn't pay attention to Wenser's words, because he noticed the key points:

"Are you still going to sleep?"

"Yes, just a little bit."

There was darkness in Wenser's eyes, he said,

"I wanted to eat him directly, but I didn't expect to find other things, so it may take more time than expected."

"Eat what?"

Lance was at a loss.

Wenser didn't speak, just touched Lance's face, and said:

"Don't go to the sea recently, there are people coming around here."

"Humanity?"

Lance couldn't help but widen his eyes and asked, "What are they doing here?"

According to some things that Lance knows, Sunset Bay should be a lost place like the Bermuda Triangle in human legends a long time ago for humans.

Are human ships here looking for death

"do not know."

Wenser's complexion was also very bad. He said, "I have never been able to understand the behavior of human beings."

He pressed Lance's shoulder and asked again:

"Don't go to the sea, you know?"

This…

Lance hesitatingly agreed: "Okay."

Can't go to the sea, is it possible to be tortured by Quirrell's noise

Besides, there is still his suitcase on the uninhabited island above the sea, if he leaves it alone for so long, what if the suitcase breaks

What about the camera inside

Lance thought luckily, he just went to that uninhabited island, so he should be fine.

Seeing that Lance was absent-minded, Wenser grabbed Lance's cheek and raised his eyebrows:

"What are you thinking?"

"nothing."

Lance broke away from Wenser's hand, glared at Wenser, and said, "You are so annoying."

"Isn't this worried about you?"

Winsor sighed, and he lay back on the place where he fell asleep before, looking like he was about to fall into deep sleep again.

Unexpectedly, the conversation with Wenser ended so quickly this time, Lance couldn't help but wrinkle

frown.

He wanted to say something more, and it would be good to let Wenser talk to him more, but seeing Wenser's sleepy look, Lance finally didn't say anything else.

All the longing and uneasiness, in the end, when Lance spoke, it became only one sentence:

"Good night."

At the moment Wenser was about to close his eyes, when he heard these two words, he fought back his drowsiness, opened his eyes again, looked at Lance tenderly and lovingly, nodded, and said:

"Good night."

After a pause, he added:

"Soon, I promise."

Lance showed a smile, and he nodded vigorously:

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

A few minutes later, Lance was sitting by Winsor's bed, staring blankly at the dark sea floor through the small opening above the sunken ship's cabin.

so lonely.

The mermaid's hearing is very keen, and Lance can clearly hear all kinds of whispers from the creatures in the ocean. Even these days, Lance has been talking to various sea monsters, but even so, those Talking, Lance doesn't think it's communicating.

The sea monsters' thinking is too simple, and the sense of alienation and freshness that always regards Lance as another species makes Lance feel unreal.

Even if he and the sea monster can communicate with each other, he is still lonely, and he lacks the language to communicate.

A life without communication is fatal to Lance, who is still human in his heart.

Many of his words are like flowers left in place, only to wither and rot in the end.

"Forget it, just wait a few days. I have nothing to do. I can play with those killer whales."

Lance talked to himself, then lay down beside Wenser, curled up beside Wenser, trying to comfort himself with Wenser's body temperature, he was not alone.

The next day, Lance woke up early in the morning. As usual, after finishing his breakfast, he was going to teach Quirrell to continue playing the drums. As soon as he went out, Lance heard a whisper from the sea monster chat group. small cry—

[Is there anyone who can save me? I don't want to die.]