"Where is your current location?" Bai Chunian asked through the loudspeaker, "I'll go find you."
The drone's signal was strong and weak, Lan Bo's voice was covered by the noisy electric sound, the image kept freezing, and finally the screen went black. Bai Chunian sat in front of the detection terminal and tapped his palm impatiently.
Bai Chunian threw down the malfunctioning equipment and went to the deck to get some air.
The sky gradually darkened, the sea was calm, and gradually white fog shrouded the cruise ship.
This ship was arranged by the IOA South American branch for Bai Chunian. There were several IOA branch agents with secret missions mixed in plainclothes pretending to be businessmen on board. A lot of canned meat was carried in the cabin as a cover. Just a ride with the wind.
A colleague from Havana was standing on the deck, holding up a binoculars and looking west. Bai Chunian walked over and stood beside him, leaning on the railing, to blow the wind.
Alpha had a pair of black eyes embedded in his bronze-colored face, and he spoke fluent English. He put down his binoculars and greeted Bai Chunian:
"Brother, we're going to be in trouble."
Bai Chunian shrugged: "Why?"
"This sea area is the domain of mermaids." Alpha said, "Just like in Greek mythology, this sea monster will confuse humans, trick passing ships, and then kill sailors for food."
"Then why do we still go this way." Although it was exactly what Bai Chunian wanted, he still wanted to know what it meant to them to challenge the unknown.
Alpha laughed: "I really want to see a live mermaid. There are many agents on board, and there are enough weapons."
The more capable people are, the more likely they are to die on the road of curiosity, Bai Chunian thinks it makes sense.
"For so many years, no one has seen the mermaid's lair. It is said that cruise ships and cargo ships have mysteriously disappeared in this sea area. Mermaid Island is a more mysterious and terrifying place than the Bermuda Triangle. All electronic devices will lose control there." An alpha said, "My grandfather narrowly escaped death near the mermaid island. He told me his story. He said that the mermaid island did exist, but he couldn't get in."
Bai Chunian nodded.
Judging from the scene that Rimbaud showed him, the place where he lives is a huge shipwreck area, no less than an island, but even satellites cannot detect its location, and its existence is still a mystery.
Alpha took out two pairs of earplugs from his pocket and handed one to Bai Chunian: "Just in case, do you want it?"
Bai Chunian took it over.
The ship was sailing slowly in the thick fog, and the fog was getting bigger and bigger. It was difficult for people on board to see each other clearly, and the whole world turned into a piece of white.
But there are always some curious people who want to run up to see the excitement.
Bai Chunian didn't wear earplugs. He believes in the legend, but he doesn't believe that the sea monster in the legend refers to Rimbaud. He knows Rimbaud too well, and Rimbaud in the cultivation period is a fool who only eats plastic garbage.
A long and distant cry came from the depths of the dense fog.
The people on the boat heard it too, and they all ran towards the sound they heard, but there were people who ran in either direction, and everyone thought that they were right.
Some say it's just a whale calling, others say it's a mermaid calling.
Bai Chunian knew who this familiar voice came from.
The alpha beside him woke him up from his fugue: "Hey brother, put on the earplugs, you are about to be hooked by the siren."
"I am willing, just fish me away."
That alpha couldn't persuade him no matter what, and decided that he was under the evil spirit of the mermaid, so he backed away a few steps and stayed away from him.
Psychedelic long chirps come and go from all directions, gradually intertwined into a melody, an ethereal voice singing in the mist, long and gentle, but it is impossible to tell if it is a man or a woman, or it is a mixture of many different voices , the chanting and charming mantra reverberated in everyone's mind.
Some people on the deck were kneeling on the ground in despair, some were laughing wildly, some were crying bitterly, some lost their eyes and wandered around the deck like walking corpses.
Bai Chunian felt as if some hands were stroking his hair, very light and gentle. He touched his face, and his eyelids were inexplicably filled with moist water.
The automatic navigation device on the ship went out and could not be restarted. The old-fashioned compass was also spinning in circles. Their ship completely lost its direction and was floating on the endless sea.
Their boat seems to be manipulated by a strange force, and it is automatically sailing towards the direction of the bewitching singing.
In the dense fog, the shadows of flying birds hovered in the air.
A huge bird landed on their mast. People's eyes were drawn to him one after another - they saw a humanoid creature sitting leisurely on their mast, with a pair of fins covered with scales growing on his back, with a bumpy figure, his legs wrapped by scales and tail fins, charming His eyes scanned the deck, his claws with transparent webs lightly touched his red lips, and he blew a kiss towards people.
There are countless similar beautiful flying birds in different colors hovering in the sky, and the scales reflect the dark light.
Bai Chunian stood on the deck in a daze. In the thick fog in the direction he was facing, a huge silhouette with sharp angles first appeared. The looming silhouette seemed to be someone sitting on it.
The ship approached the island uncontrollably, and the outline of the island became more and more clear. The sharp corner that Bai Chunian saw was a sunken ship stuck in the sea, with half of the cabin protruding out of the sea.
The sunken ship emitted a blue light in the mist, not only the ship, but also the reef island where the ship hit the rocks also emitted a blue light like a floating ghost.
Hundreds of mermaids with various fish tails sat on the deck singing, jumped into the sea lightly, swam towards their ship, jumped high in the surrounding sea, and dived into the water again.
A blond-haired mermaid waved to him from a ghost ship, her translucent blue tail shone with starlight.
Standing on the deck of the ship, Bai Chunian seemed to be separated from Rimbaud in a different world.
Suddenly their ship skidded over a reef with a loud, ear-piercing noise, the deck shook wildly, and just as their ship was about to become a showpiece in the wreck area, the ship slowed down.
Bai Chunian leaned on the railing and looked towards the surface of the water. The mermaids at the bottom pushed their course away from the island, and those mermaids with wings grabbed the kelp with their claws and forced their propellers to stop.
The merfolk sprayed water jets, erecting a water-supported ladder between the two ships.
Rimbaud raised his slender tail and curled it into a heart shape in the air. In the middle of the heart shape, the slender tail wound into a few letters "ILVU", like an electrified blue pick-up light.
Bai Chunian came to his senses, everyone on the boat passed out, and they were lying all over the deck in disorder. Now the situation showed that the buddy who was still standing on the deck with the earplugs was out of place, the Havana boy was stunned. Staring blankly at Bai Chunian: "Are they welcoming us?"
While he was in a daze, Bai Chunian punched him from the back of the neck, and this unlucky young man who didn't know the truth also fell down.
"It's nothing to do with you. People are welcoming me."
The water column ladder connects the two ships. Bai Chunian's ship is more than ten meters lower than the half-sunken luxury cruise ship that Rimbaud was on, and the transparent water ladder steps lead from his feet to Rimbaud's side.
Rimbaud jumped lightly, got into the water-supported steps, swam towards Bai Chunian, threw himself into his arms, and whispered in his ear: "randimebolujeo? (Does the little cat miss me)"
"No, I have to wait a while." Bai Chunian hugged Rimbaud with one hand and covered his heart with the other hand, "I can't accept it for a while. I thought you were the village chief, but I didn't expect you to be the president."
"en?"
"It's nothing, I... Caomin don't know where to settle down."
Rimbaud patted his head: "Be good."
"What should I call you?" Bai Chunian was a little nervous, walking up and down the deck with him in his arms, "Siren, this is your original name, right?"
"Rimbaud, I like Rimbaud."
He looked at Bai Chunian with straightforward indulgence.
Bai Chunian held him with one hand and walked up the steps supported by the water, towards the magnificent and beautiful ghost island. He had never seen Rimbaud's home.
As soon as they stepped on the transparent ladder, the mermaid crawled onto the deck, staring hungrily and greedily at the fainted humans all over the floor, saliva dripping onto the deck.
Lan Bo quietly raised a stern face towards them in a direction that Bai Chunian could not see, silently threatening: "nowagurayi. (Don't eat)"
Afraid of the majesty of the king, the mermaids retreated into the water angrily, and pushed the ship away from the mermaid island.
The ladder propped up by the water looks very regular in shape. Since it was made in this shape, Bai Chunian subconsciously thought that the ladder could be walked up, but he didn't expect that his foot would leak into the water.
But he didn't sink, a person-high bubble surrounded him, and the water was separated from the bubble. Bai Chunian stood up and tried to reach out of the bubble, but the bubble didn't burst. He could touch the sea water outside the bubble. .
Rimbaud looked at him and smiled outside the bubble.
He swam behind him and pushed Bai Chunian to the deep sea. The mermaids he met along the way bowed to them one after another: "Quaun."
Bai Chunian turned around and asked, "I'm calling you?"
Rimbaud blinked, neither saying yes nor no.
They entered the twilight zone 200 meters underwater, and Bai Chunian didn't feel any pressure or difficulty breathing, just like on land, even the oxygen was fresher.
There were a lot of fish at this depth, and the school of fish swam past him quickly, swimming densely like a whole swarm of bumblebees, and swarms of herring hovered quickly under his feet.
Bai Chunian squatted down, staring intently at the fish in the water, and suddenly reached out to grab one, held the struggling herring under his nose and sniffed it.
Rimbaud: "? Do you want to eat?"
Bai Chunian: "No, I just smell the fish to see if it smells bad before it's canned."
On the way, I met two pregnant mermaid omega walking in the twilight area. The two little o's had big bellies. Bai Chunian felt that he was an alpha so he didn't approach them, but Rimbaud didn't mind at all and pushed Bai Chunian Years passed.
The two pregnant mermaids bowed with difficulty.
Rimbaud supported them, put his hands lightly on their stomachs, and said softly: "Quaunblasyikimo. (The queen blesses/blesses/blesses you)" With Rimbaud's hand, the blue jellyfish turned into shining broken stars and landed on the two On the head of the mermaid omega.
Seeing the blue fish pattern on Bai Chunian's shoulder, the two mermaids lowered their heads in amazement: "Quaunmit. (Thank you queen)"
"Ah, hello, hello." Bai Chunian didn't know why, so he squatted in the blisters and watched the excitement.
They often meet different mermaids along the way. There are many pregnant mermaids, including omega and alpha. Every time they meet a mermaid with a baby, Rimbaud always stops, releases a blue light jellyfish for them, and then says the queen’s blessing you.
When encountering a mermaid holding a baby, Lan Bo would take the baby in their arms and give it to Bai Chunian to hug.
The little baby with fish tail was so small and soft that Bai Chunian could hold it in the palm of both hands.
"Don't give it to me, it's too young, I'll scald him again, hurry up and catch him." Bai Chunian has never touched a child before, his hand used to holding a gun is a bit rough, and he has great strength , I'm afraid it was broken by the little baby, so I quickly returned it.
Rimbaud frowned slightly, and asked softly with worried eyes: "Nowa? (Don't like it?)"
He swam back slowly and returned the baby to his mother, and, putting his hand on the little mermaid's head, gave him a smaller jellyfish in dejection.