Wow~~
The waves pushed ripples and hit the still hull, creating waves. The morning sun came along the horizon with countless dazzling sparkling waves. Toad Taoist walked out of the cabin and stood at the bow. He looked at the rising sun, opened his mouth, yawned, and stretched his limbs lazily.
Inside the cabin door behind them, the four scholars curled up in the room looking at the golden morning sun shining in through the cabin door and filling the corridor. They came out tremblingly, looked for the national teacher opposite them, and knocked on the door. Only the extinguished oil lamp was still emitting green smoke, and there was no sign of Lu Liangsheng at all.
"National Master?!"
The four of them called out quietly, and heard some movement coming from the end of the corridor, near the lower stairs. They looked at each other and approached.
Over there, the door was not closed. They saw a figure in a green robe holding a book inside, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.
"National Master!" Zhao Tang shouted happily, attracting Wang Feng, Ma Liu, and Zhang Ti to cover his mouth with their hands. The former put a finger between his lips and whispered, "What are you arguing about? Can't you see that the National Master is busy?"
As he spoke, he raised his chin and gestured towards the room over there. Zhao Tang moved over, leaned against the wall and looked inside. He blinked a few times, and his pupils suddenly shrank. He was so scared that he trembled all over and leaned towards his three brothers beside him, pointing inside and stammering, unable to speak.
"There... there is a demon inside..."
"I've seen it all, why do you need to tell me?"
Amid the murmurings outside the door, Lu Liangsheng in the room frowned slightly, glanced sideways at the four people dodging outside, raised his sleeve and flicked the door of the cabin with a creaky sound, closing it automatically and isolating the outside noise to avoid affecting the spell.
After a while, the scholar closed the book, pinched the magic spell and pointed it at his heart, looking at the mermaid in front of him who was wrapped in a blanket with only her head exposed. As the magic light in his heart gradually became brighter, Lu Liangsheng's eyes also turned light blue. He looked at the other party, and the next second, the magic light in his eyes faded.
The merman over there tilted his head in confusion, unable to understand why the eyes of the ugly human in front of him were glowing.
Suddenly, a gentle voice that I could understand seemed to ring in my ears, and also seemed to ring in my heart.
"Can you hear my voice..."
"grumble?"
The mermaid had a puzzled expression on her face and looked around. At this moment, the voice seemed like a disembodied whisper, lingering in her heart.
"It seems you heard it."
"You... who?"
The merman let out a low moan and looked around. After a long while, his gaze finally fell on the human opposite him, and he saw that Lu Liangsheng's smile became even wider.
"Why attack us?"
After recovering from the shock just now, the mermaid didn't understand why the human opposite could make sounds without opening his mouth, and why he could understand him, but he wisely closed his mouth and no longer made any sound.
"I won't tell you..."
While she was thinking, Lu Liangsheng smiled and walked closer: "You'd better tell me, the Dragon King is the master in the sea, did she send you here?"
'This human can understand what I'm thinking...' The mermaid thought of this possibility in panic, and hurriedly cut off the current thought, even emptying his mind, not allowing himself to think about anything.
However, there seemed to be something in the eyes of the human opposite, and words suddenly rang in his mind, lingering and echoing.
"tell me!"
"tell me!"
"tell me!"
The human eyes that came into contact with his sight were surrounded by a pitch-black darkness that stretched endlessly, even wider than the bottom of the sea. His head felt like it was about to explode. The mermaid could not move, and could only raise his face and let out a sharp hiss, which turned into words that Lu Liangsheng could understand - the tribe heard the call and came here on orders!
The echoing voice suddenly stopped and was replaced by gentle words.
"… I won't cause any trouble for you. I'm just passing by here and want to find a place called Guixu. You mermaids live in the sea for many years, so you must know some rumors, right? Tell me and I'll let you go."
"I have no idea… "
Perhaps because she was afraid that the human voice would continue to echo in her mind, the mermaid shook her head quickly, but Lu Liangsheng did not believe it. However, this time he did not use the same trick as before. He just reached out and pressed her forehead, and his spiritual consciousness followed her arm and fingertips and instantly penetrated into the other's brow.
It was as if you were in a long underwater coral corridor, with twisting sea water on both sides. From time to time, everything that this mermaid had experienced emerged in your mind. Walking along the corridor, extending from the scene of attacking the Toad Taoist priest all the way back, you could see more differences, including preying on sea fish with other mermaids, and rubbing the fish's tail with a male mermaid in the sea.
Bubbles rose, and the next picture flashed by. The deep seabed was sparkling with crystal light, and a palace could be vaguely seen standing. As the corridor went forward, many half-human, half-fish figures could be seen swimming among the huge corals. Occasionally, at a glance, there seemed to be a flash of stone inscriptions.
Um
Lu Liangsheng stood in front of this picture, freezing the inscription that was about to flash by, and through the "telepathy" to connect with the merman's cognition, he understood the handwriting above.
'Guixu...'
And the pattern drawn behind, or more like the direction drawn on a map...
"It seems I have found it."
Lu Liangsheng wrote down the mermaid's words and patterns, turned around and disappeared into a wisp of green smoke.
…
In the quiet cabin, the mermaid with her forehead pressed could not move. After just a few breaths, the scholar opposite suddenly put down his hand.
"Thank you for your memory."
Lu Liangsheng finally knew the exact location and felt much more relieved. He grabbed the wrapped mermaid, opened the door and walked out. The four scholars waiting outside cried out "Ouch" and moved to both sides of the aisle, watching the disheveled monster being taken out of the cabin.
The morning breeze was blowing gently, ruffling his clothes. Lu Liangsheng carried the mermaid to the bow of the boat. As Toad Taoist looked over at him, he raised his hand and threw the mermaid into the sea.
Bang!
The splashing water fell, gurgling up a few bubbles, and the blanket floated up, drifting away along the waves. Soon, a wet head emerged from the water, blinking at the human standing on the bow.
"grumble?!"
"Go now. Since I promised to let you go, I will never break my promise."
On the bow, his robe fluttered in the wind. Lu Liangsheng waved at her, turned back, and said to his master who was basking in the morning sun: "Master, let's set sail!"
After instructing the four people who were hiding in the cabin door and peeking out, he walked to the middle of the deck, cast a spell, looked at the direction of the sun, and steered the ship to the southeast. The heavy hull squeezed the waves and slowly moved, sailing in that direction.
As the ship went farther and farther away, the mermaid watched it go away. After a while, she excitedly swung her tail and jumped up and down on the sea following the stern of the ship, swimming and chasing it. Occasionally, beautiful singing could be heard from the bottom of the sea.
Recent descriptions about going out to sea...
As a person living in the Sichuan Basin, I have never seen the sea and cannot write about that feeling. I can only imitate it based on my imagination of sailing on the sea... Sorry, sorry.