At half past five, the sky was like midnight, and the dark clouds were rolling down, like cotton soaked with water, pressing down heavily, and the sense of oppression was extremely strong.
Below the black reef is the rough sea. The sea is black, the sea is bottomless, and the sea wind is violent. There is no way to go out to sea in such weather. Thunder, like a roar from hell.
There is a lighthouse with a history of 40 or 50 years on the highest reef level. A car parked at the entrance of the lighthouse, and the two lights went out. Thomson hurriedly got out of the car, found the key and opened the door.
Ding Baiqing followed closely behind.
The iron door was pushed open with a bang, Thomson groped to find the oil lamp, lit it and climbed the spiral staircase: "Can I really trust you?" He looked back at the three of them suspiciously: "You said you were here to solve the problem. Yes, but you don't even know what the town is called?"
"The town 20 years ago was not called a mermaid town, and no outsiders dared to come in in the past 20 years. Very few outsiders who entered by mistake can leave. Even if they leave, they may not remember anything, right?"
Ding Baiqing's eyes were light and cold, not so intense, but Thomson didn't dare to look directly.
Thomson hesitated for a moment, and continued to walk up: "Sorry, tonight is a stormy night, I'm too sensitive... But you don't know the name of the town, which means you don't know any intelligence information. You are completely passive and prone to accidents."
Cen Jin put his hands in his pockets, if he was strolling in the courtyard: "Isn't this taking the initiative to persuade you to abandon the dark and cast the light? You will fill in the missing information. Of course, you can also deliberately conceal, add or obscure some important information. Anyway, we can judge. , there are also teammates who have broken into the interior to provide information, but we found that you are not very honest, and the cooperation between each other may not be necessary to continue."
All the good things and bad things have been said by him, what else can Thomson say
"As long as Freya and I can leave the town safely, I will tell you everything I can tell you." Climbing up to a third of the lighthouse has a window, and you can see the rolling sea. Thomson observes the sea with a lantern. After two or three seconds, he continued to move forward: "It's true that no outsiders have come in in the town for a long time."
He asked Ding Baiqing, "You don't know the name of the town, but you know these secrets?"
Ding Baiqing: "It's not a secret, there are no tourists on the streets and car passengers, the hotel is very quiet, and there are many windows with dust.
When we heard that we were coming to this town, the drivers refused to take them. In the end, a driver who did not know the name of the town 20 years ago took us over by means of navigation, but stopped on the road in the town and refused to come in again.
It means that the town has a good reputation, but it still has a bad reputation, so drivers dare not come here, the traffic is inconvenient, and the number of tourists will naturally drop sharply. Can't wait. "
Cen Jin was quite curious when he heard the words: "Speaking of which, the mermaid town has many strict rules. It should have executed tourists, but it didn't attract the attention of the outside world. Is it because you have a special way of destroying corpses and destroying traces?"
Thomson stopped suddenly, silent, his shadow long drawn by the candlelight.
The three of Cen Jin were alert for a moment, but they heard Thomson say, "As long as those who are swallowed by the fog on the sea will disappear completely."
"What's the meaning?"
Thomson took a few quick steps, pointed to the lighthouse window, and said, "The fog is in that sea, and the mermaid's song can guide the way, leading ships to break through the fog and enter their country. Those who died in that fog It will disappear forever, and any trace of their existence will be erased, just like words written on white paper have been erased by an eraser, no one will remember this person, not even the world."
Cen Jin and the three looked in the direction pointed by Thomson, and they could only see the turbulent sea water, condensing into black vortices, and the stormy waves immediately set off.
"Those outsiders who break the rules of the town will be taken to the sea area that is rumored to be the homeland of the mermaid, and they will be executed like hanging Viking pirates. existence is erased.
The gas station used to be the area I patrolled. I met a friend there. He was a resident of another town. He promised to help me smuggle Freya out. I accidentally broke the rules of the town and was sent into the thick fog. I sneaked out of town to find his parents, wife and children and colleagues, and found that none of them remembered the man.
Education related to him, work files, photos from childhood to adulthood... Everything related to him has disappeared. Can you understand that feeling? It's like there's no such person in the world, he's just an imaginary character I imagined because I long for someone to save Freya! "
Thomson suppressed his excitement: "Afterwards, I secretly investigated the people who were executed in the small town and found that everyone's existence had been wiped out. A great fear enveloped my heart and soul. What can completely wipe out a person's existence?"
"It's a god."
Silence slammed down, the lighthouse fell into a terrifying silence, and the candles went out.
After a long while, Cen Jin broke the dead silence: "It is estimated that it is the evil god. Our purpose is to punish the gods. Although it is shameful to say this, but... immortality with the gods is our first lesson in school."
Thomson stared at him in astonishment, and found that the other two actually agreed with him. A chill suddenly hit his heart, and he asked with difficulty who they were, and they dared to provoke the gods.
Cen Jin smiled, "I said it was a good person who came to liberate you. Then,"
After the conversation changed, Cen Jin looked serious: "What is the function of the lighthouse? Who are the guests who came from afar tonight? Is it a mermaid? Do you know the origin of the town mayor? Control you with strict rules to get what? ? Those children are being disciplined centrally, is it for brainwashing?"
Wu Yujie added: "I have observed that there is no school in the town, so where are the children who are under centralized control sent?"
Cen Jin: "Are you sure?"
Wu Yujie: "I always thought the town was weird before, and I couldn't figure out what was weird. It was Lao Ding who reminded me that there were no children in the town, and I suddenly realized that the weird thing was that there was no school."
Thomson: "There will be guests ashore on stormy nights, and the lighthouse is to guide them. They are indeed mermaids. The mayor once went to the country of mermaids, and when he came back, he became the most loyal servant of mermaids.
Mermaids domesticate human beings and feed on human emotions. Every time they go ashore, they want to suck their emotions.
Those children... At first we thought they were hidden in the cliffs of the back mountain of the town, but later we found out that they were taken aboard by a mermaid and entered the fog. We guessed that they should have been sent to the country of mermaids. "
Ding Baiqing: "They were also sent into the fog, but have their existence been erased?"
Thomson shook his head: "All the erased humans, the town remembers them. He seems to want us to fear and fear him more because of this, forcing us to suppress our emotions even more."
Cen Jin: "The more you suppress your emotions, the more you accumulate. Maybe it's a big meal for mermaids who eat emotions."
Thomson glanced at him: "Yes."
At this time they came to the top floor, Thomson began to pour kerosene and set it on fire, and the lighthouse became the only light in the depths of the dark sea.
The four stood quietly in front of the window, staring at the deep sea. A black ship broke through the thick fog and waves appeared in front of the lighthouse. Just at this moment, the dark clouds dissipated, and the bright moonlight illuminated the sea, allowing the four of them to see the lighthouse clearly. The shape of the ship and the merman appearing on the deck.
It was a dilapidated wooden boat, as if it had climbed out of the deep sea. The hull was black and covered with oysters, conch and seaweed. Dozens of naked bodies were prostrate on the deck. .
But it is not the beautiful fish tail in the film and television drama, but a wide variety of them.
There are both octopus tails, slender and shiny tails of silver hairtails, and more like deformed deep-sea fish.
The facial features are not as beautiful as described in fairy tales and myths. They are quite ordinary, even a little flat, with gills around the ears, fangs and sharp teeth.
They whispered, basking in the moonlight, their tails slapping the deck and rustling, and it sounded a little uncomfortable.
Cen Jin frowned, and when he was fascinated, one of the mermaids suddenly raised his head and looked over, making his heart skip a beat, squatted down quickly, and held his breath.
Wu Yujie leaned back against the wall: "Is it discovered?"
Cen Jin: "I don't know if I have been seen."
Thomson lowered his voice: "Mermaids have poor eyesight, sensitive hearing, and extremely aggressive voices. Even if they are just chatting normally, they will cause harm to humans."
Cen Jin: "We are talking now, can they hear it?"
Thomson pointed to the window: "The soundproof glass, I installed it secretly, otherwise they would hear."
Ding Baiqing: "Will they all go ashore to hunt for food?"
"There will be one left to watch the boat." Thomson's eyes flickered: "What trick do you have?"
Ding Baiqing looked at Cen Jin, who put his hands on his knees, patted his knees with his fingers, and said, "Your daughter is hiding in a small room on the first floor of the lighthouse, don't be in a hurry to deny it, or you can rest assured that your daughter will be left alone at such a dangerous time? Are you going to help the lighthouse replace the soundproof glass?"
Thomson was discouraged: "Yes, as a reward for guiding the way, mermaids will not attack the lighthouse. But they suck human emotions and stimulate human brains with songs to liberate their suppressed emotions, just like the sudden flood of floodgates, careless handling It will cause flooding.
But the mermaid doesn't care about the life or death of the food, so every time the mermaid eats, the town will become a sinner. Violence, blood, and fighting are the main colors. Usually, there are cases of beating people to death. "
Cen Jin: "We need your help. We won't let you and your daughter leave the lighthouse. We only need you to extinguish the light of the lighthouse the next time the ship enters the port."
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