They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 274 Please Give Me a Hug
But these are only one aspect; those people wanted to kill them to fulfill some darker and more vicious desire.

People love mermaids, which can also be interpreted as: people want their tears, which is why they like mermaids.

The effects of the tears of extraordinary beings had already spread throughout North Edlin, and even ordinary vendors knew about it. Although this might just be the effect of rumors, Ria still felt the terrifying power of human desires.

They threw the bodies of the "witches" into the Gotti Sea, and the supernatural beings transformed their resentment into mermaids, thus starting a large-scale mermaid "breeding" operation.

“Ordinary people can’t deal with you, so the farmers are actually superhumans. Someone is orchestrating all of this behind the scenes, inciting people to kill the ‘witches’ and throw them into the sea to supply their own aquaculture industry.”

At that moment, Ria thought a lot. His thoughts became more and more active as the meme advanced. At the same time, he also thought that the mermaid in front of him was deliberately drawn to him, just to be killed by his own hands.

Perhaps it had lost its last vestiges of consciousness and accepted that Ria was its savior, so it followed him to this place in hopes of finding relief.

Mermaids can freely switch between their skeletons and their mermaid form, and during the transition period they can transform into seawater to escape disasters. This is why even when Ria used methods to delve deep into the ocean, she could not discover their transformation process.

It is possible that their bodies, which are visible above the sea surface, resemble mermaids, while the parts in the sea are completely integrated with the seawater, becoming the shape of the seawater.

From the seeds of a woman's resentment, an extraordinary mermaid was born.

"But their tears obviously do not increase lifespan."

Ria tried scraping some powder from the top with a blade onto the mouse she had caught earlier. After eating the powder, the mouse, which had been listless, suddenly changed and became lively and active, as if it had suddenly returned from an old mouse to a teenager.

But this is just overdrawing its life force; once the mouse stops being so lively, it will die quickly.

"Looking at it this way, it does have some use."

Ria retrieved the rat and mermaid tears, intending to use them again when the opportunity arose, believing that such a time would not be too far off.

As for what to do next, under the cover of night, Ria stared at the sea, intending to use herself as bait to lure out the other mermaids and then give them their freedom.

Extraordinary creatures that can transform into seawater are difficult to capture without special methods.

Thinking this, the young man walked step by step towards the sea, letting the cold seawater gradually engulf him.

……

Legend has it that when a sailboat runs aground or a person falls into the sea and is left helpless, a mermaid from the sea will rescue them, and many fairy tales are based on this story.

Many articles about love and romance were written during this period, and they remain a beautiful and moving story to this day.

In reality, the story can only fool clueless young people. The mermaids who actually appear at sea will only use their songs to bewitch everyone on the ship, causing them to lose their senses and run aground, thus giving them the opportunity to go hunting.

Those beautiful creatures will appear in groups like sharks that smell blood, lingering on the seabed, and then take the opportunity to rush out of the sea to start a feast of human flesh.

Aim knew the true faces of these guys. He had seen what it was like for mermaids to hunt, but when he told others, they didn't believe him. They didn't even believe that he had seen real mermaids.

Mermaids are such rare creatures that it's difficult for ordinary people to even find them, let alone obtain their tears. But Em never gave up. He firmly believed that he had indeed made eye contact with a real mermaid back then, and this time, in order to slap those guys in the face, he secretly went out to sea alone at night.

The sea, the moonlight, the mermaids—how romantic! Ever since he saw their beauty, he had been captivated by them. Their swimming postures and the curves of their bodies were nothing short of works of art.

"If I can catch just one, and when I get back I'll figure out how to make it into a specimen and put it in my room as a decoration, it'll definitely make those people look at me with new respect. Then they'll say—"

Ah, sun above, Em, you are truly the greatest man we have ever seen; the emperor of Enderus should be entrusted to you. "Or perhaps, I can use my charm to make them fall in love with me, and then I will become the king of the sea..."

Just as the man with the mustache was getting more and more excited, his small boat almost hit the bottom of the cliff and capsized.

At that moment, he was so frightened that he forgot to turn around. In desperation, the man chose to jump off the boat, and then he saw his boat make intimate contact with the rocks.

"Bang!!!"

The wood exploded instantly, and the long-neglected engine also burst open in a flash.

Aem was knocked unconscious by the explosion.

When he woke up, he found himself adrift at a small island, quite close to the coast.

He was brought here by a wooden plank; in a sense, he was both lucky and unlucky.

"Oh no, how am I going to get back?"

Em scratched his head, but suddenly, he seemed to be frozen in place, because he suddenly saw a silver figure.

The creature's tail slapped against the sea, creating a small wave. The water droplets, combined with the moonlight, reflected off the surface, making it look as beautiful as shattered silver crystal.

She is a mermaid.

Am's breathing quickened instantly. He excitedly ran to the shore, opened his arms, and was about to welcome the mermaid that was getting closer and closer to him.

The distance between them is getting shorter and shorter.

soon.

Aem's eyes even turned red. He might be considered mentally unstable, but he would eventually prove everyone wrong.

"Please give me a hug."

Tears welled up in his eyes, but at that moment, the mermaid stopped not far from him and flipped over belly up.

Before Em could even feel anything amiss, in the blink of an eye, the mermaid was suddenly swallowed up by pure darkness.

Everything went black before his eyes.

When he looked again, he suddenly found himself staring at a cluster of golden eyeballs of varying sizes, which seemed to be embedded in the darkness or like stars in the night sky.

"..." Aim could no longer speak. He took a few steps back, and suddenly the hair on his body stood on end. He lost his balance and fell to the ground. Even so, he was still crawling backward on his hands and feet.

The pitch-black color was entirely due to his proximity; it was a gigantic tentacle covered in disgusting eyeballs that emerged from the ocean and instantly corroded the mermaid until nothing remained—except for a crystallized tear.

The mermaid's reaction just now was not one of joy; it was instinctively trying to escape, but unfortunately, it couldn't escape the threat of death in the end.

(End of this chapter)