A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 158 Don’t understand, but respect

As the black shadow got closer and closer to the water, Lyon couldn't help but extend the length of his Galaxy machete. The dock was about three meters above the sea surface, which could serve as a buffer space. If the black shadow came with ill intentions and jumped out of the water to bite him, then Lyon could use this two-meter-long machete to decapitate it.

After all, having experienced the sharpness of the Galaxy Watermelon Knife, Lyon is still very confident in its strength. Apart from its slightly unique shape, the more Lyon uses this weapon, the more comfortable he becomes.

Waiting for the dark shadow in the sea to surface, Lyon felt unusually calm at this moment.

It seemed that he had seen too many things in Stardew Valley, and he seemed to be immune to these mysterious things. If he encountered this situation in the past, Leon would definitely be the first one to run away.

Lyon didn't have to wait long before the black shadow really surfaced. However, it didn't jump out of the water and bite him as Lyon had expected. Instead, it only showed a big round head with a row of floppy ears on it. Lyon could clearly see his fishhook hanging on the other's ears.

“@#@￥@%!%!#!#!”

The strange creature uttered a series of languages ​​that Leon could not understand, and its tone seemed very angry.

"Speak human language, I don't understand." Seeing that the other party did not look threatening, Leon squatted down and shouted at the unknown creature in the water.

“@￥￥!%!#!@#!?”

But the response Leon received was still incomprehensible language, which made him feel helpless and he had to gesture with his hands.

However, the gestures he made were a bit abstract, and Leon had not studied sign language, so he could only roughly make a gesture to signal the other party to take off the hook hanging on his ear, and put his hands together, trying to express that he did not mean it.

Unfortunately, Leon forgot to take back the Galaxy Watermelon Knife in his hand when he was expressing himself. The mysterious creature in the sea only noticed that Leon was waving a sharp-looking weapon in his hand, and instantly swam several meters away, putting distance between him and Leon.

“Oh, I can’t communicate.”

Seeing that the other party was obviously frightened by him, Leon sighed helplessly, not knowing what to do for a moment.

Fortunately, the timely wizard Lasmodes appeared at this time, still using the elegant teleportation spell, and appeared next to Leon very abruptly.

As soon as he appeared, Master Rasmodes complained to Leon: "Why do you always encounter these non-human intelligent creatures?"

"I'm a hen." Leon shrugged. "I came here late at night to fish, and this is what happened. I'm helpless."

The wizard only then noticed the fishing rod in Leon's left hand and the Galaxy weapon in his right hand: "Put the weapon away first. It won't hurt you. You'll only scare it."

Upon hearing this, Lyon obediently put away the Galaxy Watermelon Knife.

Mage Rasmodesm reached out and removed the fishhook hanging from the ear of the strange creature through the air. He also healed the small wound caused by the fishhook, and then spoke in an unknown language with the same pronunciation as the other party.

Then Leon noticed that the unknown creature seemed very happy and swam over again.

"What's going on?" Leon asked Rasmodes curiously.

"It knows you didn't mean it, and I asked you for some compensation for it. Now it's waiting for your gift," Rasmodes explained.

“Ah?” Leon was stunned when he heard this, and after a long time he said, “What gift do you want?”

"A river fish will do. These marine creatures have rarely seen river fish, so they're a precious gift to them," Rasmodes replied. "Oh," Leon said, pulling a smallmouth bass from his bag. Under the gaze of the creature's large, round eyes, he tossed it into the sea.

The mysterious creature jumped up impatiently, grabbed the smallmouth bass and swallowed it, and Leon saw the whole picture when it jumped.

This is a very strange-looking creature, with a green body, just like seaweed.

Its head is very round and looks like the head of a puffer fish, but its body has grown into a shape similar to that of a human, except that its palms and soles are webbed, and there are some fins on its elbows.

"Ocean merfolk are one of the intelligent creatures in the ocean and are a subordinate species of mermaids." Rasmodesmodis on the side spoke up to help Leon explain.

"Oh, I thought this was a mermaid." Leon breathed a sigh of relief. If a mermaid looked like this, then he would start to doubt whether the mermaid story Willy had told him was intended to trick him into witnessing this type of existence with his own eyes and letting him experience the tragedy of shattered fantasy.

"Mercurs are fish, and mermaids are humans. They are different species, and mermaids are not rare. They also interact with humans. There is a mermaid show run by mermaids at the Stardew Valley Winter Night Market. If you are interested, you can come to the dock to watch it."

Rasmodios still hasn't forgotten to popularize knowledge about Lyon.

Leon nodded, then looked at the ocean fishman floating up and down in the water: "So, now it and I are fine?"

"Well, and you have gained its friendship, although it doesn't mean much." Rasmodes confirmed.

"Then why doesn't it leave?" Lyon looked at the thing still sticking out of the sea and complained with some disgust. There was nothing he could do, he was a face control.

"Because I still have questions to ask it. Murlocs don't often appear near the coast. It appears here. Something must have happened in the ocean." As Rasmodes said this, he began to communicate with the murloc in that strange language.

Leon was listening on the side, but unfortunately he still couldn't understand what the two were saying. After Rasmodes chatted with the fishman for more than two minutes, the fishman dived back into the sea and disappeared.

"Did you find out anything?" Seeing the end of the conversation, Leon immediately asked with interest.

"After asking, I found out that it's not a big deal. It just came here to look for the Neptune Greatsword that the mermaids lost." Rasmodes explained.

"That's a traditional mermaid weapon, made from ocean crystal. Although it's called a treasure, there are actually quite a few mermaids in the mermaid tribe who possess this weapon. Perhaps one of the unlucky ones lost it, so they sent the mermen to look for it."

"The merman comes to look for it? Why doesn't the mermaid who lost the weapon look for it herself?" Leon asked curiously.

"Because the mermen are vassals of the mermaids, that is, slaves. Why should we do it ourselves when we have slaves to use?" Rasmodes complained as a matter of course.

"Tsk tsk tsk, it turns out that the intelligent species in the ocean still practice slavery. How feudal." Lyon couldn't help but smack his lips and complained when he heard that.

"If the mermen didn't have the protection of the mermaids, they would have been eaten by other creatures in the ocean long ago. The mermaids provide them with a safe environment. Isn't it natural for them to serve the mermaids?"

Rasmodes looked at Leon helplessly and reminded him, "Humanity once went through a similar period. It was only with the rise of modern culture and the liberation of thought that the current balanced society emerged. However, most non-human intelligent races still maintain this system. You can't use human thinking to define the social and cultural structure of other races."

"I don't understand, but I respect it." Leon nodded in agreement.

(End of this chapter)