The Caribbean Sea is calm, and the light blue-green transparent water flows peacefully through the shipwreck area of Mermaid Island, and some wrecks of ships float along with the ocean currents.
The daylight goes out in the twilight zone through the shallow sea, and blue jellyfish like moving stars float in the dark ocean, and above the coral group on the bottom of the sea, there is a throne made of coral, gemstones and gold.
Rimbaud sat on the throne, lazily propped his head and closed his eyes to rest. The fishtail scales were messy, and some places where the scales fell off showed red flesh. There were many claw marks on his chest and arms, and his snow-white skin Cut open by sharp claws, the skin and flesh rolled up, soaked in sea water and turned white.
Some coral remnants fell to the ground, and the nearby seawater was filled with faint blood. A life-and-death struggle has just taken place here, and the outcome has been divided.
The corpse of a mermaid omega fell among the corals, with a dead sea heart rock dagger stuck upside down in the back of the heart, and the blood mist came out from the wound.
On the side of his fish tail grows a shimmering emerald green siren scale, which slowly loses its light with the passing of life.
Another challenger has fallen under the throne, and the status of ocean overlord remains unshaken.
Rimbaud rested for a while and then opened his eyes. The tail of the fish stirred the water in boredom, and the bubbles formed stretched out and turned into dots of jellyfish.
He turned his attention to the mother-of-pearl on the staghorn coral beside him, and gently opened the shell with his long pointed nails. The mother-of-pearl opened obediently, revealing the pure white glass beads wrapped in the shell.
The glass beads were covered with a thin layer of lustrous nacre, and the overall diameter seemed to be a millimeter larger than the original.
Rimbaud held up the glass beads, squinted his eyes slightly and looked at it: "It's been half a year, and it's only grown so little, are you teasing me?"
Mother-of-pearl shivered.
The glass bead touched Rimbaud's fingertips, and Rimbaud's indifferent expression suddenly softened, and he gently rubbed the surface of the glass bead.
The glass bead "meowed", rolled up Rimbaud's arm, got stuck in the socket of the collarbone, found a comfortable position and fell asleep, making purrs from time to time.
Rimbaud lost his mind, he simply leaned against the throne and stopped moving, allowing the glass beads to rest on his body for a while.
A mermaid omega swam in the distance, passed through the gap between the corals and stopped under the throne, he glanced at the mermaid corpse on the ground, was a little surprised, but didn't show it.
He knelt beside Rimbaud's tail, put his hands on Rimbaud's knees, his cheeks were close to the scales, and he lowered his eyelids: "Siren."
There are three gemstone bead chains hanging on the neck of the mermaid o, which is a symbol of the middle class of the ethnic group. The more bead chains, the higher the status of the mermaid. and plenty of food, so they were classified as petty lords and nobles.
But even if you have a noble status, you can only kneel under the throne with the lowest posture in front of Siren, and you cannot look directly into Siren's eyes, so as not to offend.
The mermaid omega reported in a low voice, and seeing Rimbaud nodded, he quietly cleaned up the corpses on the ground, and wiped the blood on the coral with seaweed.
Not long after, a mermaid alpha separated from the aquatic plants and swam in. His fish tail was translucent cold blue, his scales were rich in color, his face was beautiful and moving, his exposed waist and abdomen were smooth and graceful, and his long and narrow blue eyes were seductive. Among the mermaid alphas who compete for beauty, he is also one of the best, but he only has a bead chain around his neck, and his status in the group is not high.
"Siren." Alpha knelt down and helped Rimbaud on his knees, his cheeks lightly pressed against the scales on his tail, and he raised his eyelids to deliberately tease Rimbaud on the throne with seductive eyes.
Rimbaud supported his head, looked down at him with a cold expression.
The mermaid alpha swam up behind Rimbaud, put it on his shoulder ambiguously, and when he was not paying attention, picked up the white glass bead that was sleeping on his collarbone socket and held it up in front of him to play with.
"Your scales are indeed inside, when do you plan to take them out?" Mermaid Alpha tried to shake the glass bead, and the glass bead let out a "meow". He thought it was very strange, so he shook it several times, and the glass bead kept "meow" Meow meow meow", as if fainted by the shaking.
Rimbaud raised his hand and snatched back the glass ball: "Are you looking for death?"
Alpha suddenly laughed, and his bright smiling face fell on Lan Bo's shoulder: "This is the price of being weak. You love him so much, but you can't keep him. Do you understand the painstaking efforts of me and your mother now?"
He is Rimbaud's alpha father, but the alpha status in the mermaid group is low, even if he is the king's father, he has no privileges.
"Don't be angry." The mermaid alpha knelt back to its original position flatteringly, helped Rimbaud on the fish tail, and raised his hand to lightly touch the glass bead, "I have seen such an ability that can squeeze the soul into a small object, but once it is Compression makes it unable to respond to the outside world, the one you brought is obviously different, it is your scales that protect it, I can feel that there is life in it."
Rimbaud raised his eyebrows: "Can you recover?"
"No, isn't it good now?" Mermaid Alpha brushed Rimbaud's scales lightly with his fingertips, "It was your mother who asked me to visit you, and told you not to play around and forget your duties as a king. The outside world is already in dire straits. It's been a few months."
When Mermaid Alpha came in, he noticed the corpse on the ground. It was a lucky new successor with siren scales. He trekked here from a distant sea just to challenge Rimbaud. The winner lives and the loser dies. This is the Mermaid Clan rules.
"He wants to be a human hero and save them when they are in trouble. I don't allow it." Rimbaud spread his palms, and the sea water cut off the siren scales from the corpse and sent them into his hands, "Humans don't need a savior, Just a little lesson."
Mermaid Alpha watched Rimbaud inserting the scales into the throne, and asked, "Siren, what are you waiting for?"
Lan Bo casually looked at his nails: "Wait for Yan Yi to send the person I want."
The mermaid alpha knew that Rimbaud was the most vengeful, and no matter how much he tried to persuade him about this obsessed love, there would be no result. If he really annoyed him, he might lose half of his life.
He just turned around and left.
Rimbaud didn't care at all. Before the mermaid alpha walked out of the coral reef, he lay on his side on the throne, kissed the white glass beads lightly, then lifted the fins under his abdomen, pressed the glass beads against the small opening, and slowly pushed them in. And without hesitation, he hummed softly in shame.
The aquatic plants swayed slightly, the coral swayed slightly, and the mermaids guarding by their side didn't dare to look up.
After a long time, the glass beads came out automatically.
Rimbaud was so tired that he lay on the coral throne, his fish tail resting on the armrest, his chest and abdomen undulating slightly.
The glass bead is covered with a layer of soft pink-white nacre, and its diameter has grown a circle, and now it looks about the size of a ping-pong ball.
The glass bead flushed obviously, rolled around a few times in a daze, and hid itself in the coral.
Rimbaud turned over, leaned on the armrest, poked his fingertips into the crevices of the coral, teasingly poked the hot surface of the glass beads lightly.
"Don't hide, Randi."
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Another ordinary day on land, nothing happened except that the price of seafood was skyrocketing.
Because many large pieces of solid seals similar to hydration steel have condensed on the surface of a large number of sea areas, many fishing boats cannot enter the far sea and can only catch fish in unfrozen sea areas. However, the sea area is limited and shrinking, and people can catch fish. Fewer and fewer seafood arrived, and the price on the market is getting higher and higher. In the past, the price of hairtail fish that cost ten yuan per catty has risen to an outrageous two hundred and sixty yuan per catty.
There was no snow this winter. February was supposed to be the coldest time, but the temperature warmed up earlier. Most people took off their cotton clothes and put on ordinary sweaters and cashmere sweaters to walk on the street.
Meteorologists say this year will be a mild winter, and there may be extreme weather in summer.
Ordinary citizens haven't felt many inconveniences yet, but coastal factories have already been issued a lot of fines. The reason is that the sea surface is solidified, and some industrial water cannot be processed smoothly, forming another heterochromatic sea surface directly on the sea surface.
Snow White Castle in the Lawrence Mountains was also affected.
There are more and more ice hangings on the top of the castle. There are too many experimental larvae playing and playing in the courtyard garden, and they are injured by broken and falling ice hangings from time to time, so the puppeteer made a few ice knockers holding a small hammer. The puppet goes to clean up the roof.
Eris was lying on the edge of the window, resting her head on her hands and watching the ice puppets working outside, her two calves dangling leisurely.
The puppeteer sat in front of the sewing machine and hemmed the spring clothes for the puppet, discarded rags and a dozen pairs of crossed-out eyes were thrown in the wastebasket by his feet.
"Didn't you just make winter clothes?"
"It's warming up."
"Ah." Eris can't feel the heat or the cold. For him, the change of seasons is only reflected in the change of clothes.
"This is very unusual." The puppeteer put on a copper thimble and sewed buttons on the puppet's clothes. "The eavesdropping puppet saw that the sea surface solidified, and there was very little rain outside. It doesn't snow anymore here, but the wind is very strong."
"Ranbo is still angry. Of course, he won't calm his anger easily. I heard that his scales were annihilated in Bai Chunian's glass beads. Even if he wanted to show mercy, he would do it without that important scale." Nothing."
Eris rolled over and sat up: "Go break the glass bead and take out the scales, wouldn't it be enough? Let the stinky fish can forget about Bai Chunian, and he won't be angry."
The puppeteer snorted and said, "People will always find a way when they are pushed, let's watch the show."
"Um."
There was a knock on the wooden door of the workshop, and the maid puppet stood outside, bringing two lunches.
One was a buff sandwich and a glass of gear grease for Eris, and the other was a puppeteer's rye bread and a tin of sardines, which was empty and contained no sardines.
After asking, I found out that the purchasing puppet did not buy fresh canned fish and seafood today, because they were all robbed by people, but the program setting of the chef puppet was very rigid, and it had to find canned sardines for the puppeteer, so I went to the trash can and looked for a pot, carefully cooked and arranged the dishes, and then asked the maid doll to bring them up.
Eris held the sandwich in his mouth: "Well... I'd better break the glass bead, Nix."
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The world-scale chaos was not suddenly triggered by a large explosion or a geological disaster in a certain area. It began when the mineral water in the first supermarket chain was sold out.
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