Mermaid Wharf

The next moment, the ship was completely swallowed by the thick fog on the sea, and together with Velija who did not belong to them, it just disappeared in front of my eyes without a sound, as clean as if it had never existed here before.

"...Have you seen it all?"

His whitish knuckles were tightly grasped on the stern railing. Captain Garcia walked over with a leisurely expression, observing something through the telescope in his hand. "I think no matter how dull you are, you should always understand what's going on."

Seeing me suddenly raised my head to look at him, Captain Garcia chuckled inexplicably, put away the binoculars and said solemnly:

"Actually, I wanted to tell you a long time ago, Mano. The real lover of that mermaid is not you, but I didn't say it because I was afraid that you wouldn't believe me—the blond man who looked like you just now was his lover. Ten years They fell in love on the Polar Joy before, bringing disaster to everyone on the ship, and this is the truth of the shipwreck that year."

"Impossible." I said calmly, "Viliga will not betray me."

Captain Garcia sighed when he heard the words, looked at me with pity and said:

"You saw it just now, he couldn't tell the difference between you and that unlucky golden retriever dog, and a mermaid in estrus couldn't have a sense of chastity, and he never refused a high-quality sexual partner. Is getting along for a few days enough for you to recognize his true nature? Or are you like those stupid guys who have been dazzled by love, and you can be coaxed into believing it with just one or two sweet words?"

He lowered the brim of his hat as he spoke, and continued calmly: "Mano, although I like you very much, I have to remind you cruelly, maybe compared to most uneducated rotten people on this ship, you You are like a treasure, but compared with the real elites from famous families in the Bay Area, you are really far behind."

I never said a word.

"Okay, my blond angel. Go back and have a good sleep and forget about him." Captain Garcia leaned over and breathed warmly into my ear, "Even without that watery mermaid, you And me, don't I?"

When I realized his intentions, I should have pushed him away, but my body froze there as if I lost my mind, and my cold lips were touched by him unconsciously.He touched the corner of his mouth as if he was very satisfied, and did not go further to seduce anything, and patted my shoulder affectionately as usual.

"Think about it, maybe I can be called a good lover for a young sailor from rich peasants." The white mist on the sea slowly dispersed, and Captain Garcia took out the compass in his arms to look at it. He raised his head and said, "Our route has deviated a lot due to the storm. Since the supplies on board are still sufficient, let's bypass Bayak after a short rest and head directly to Amphilia."

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I don't know how I returned to the cabin that was still full of mermaid breath in a daze.

After sitting on the small bed for a full half an hour of mental construction, I mustered up the courage to open Angelo's diary again, find the part just now and continue reading.Sure enough, as Captain Garcia said, he and a certain mermaid that fell from the sky quickly had a hot fight. I read the cursive words that seemed to be overflowing with hormones word by word, and suddenly hated this trivial diary. style.

Angelo spent a lot of pen and ink on this beautiful mermaid with a fantastic silver tail, and even described the details of making love clearly. How this mermaid fell in love with him from being arrogant and disdainful at the beginning , was tortured by the estrus period and could only beg him softly, and the seductive posture when he was subdued on the bed in the end, forcibly broke into my eyes like a love story in black and white.

I have to say that at that moment, I felt a strong sense of discomfort, and felt like a living abandoned woman.There was a voice in my heart trying to comfort me, saying that Velijia would never do anything to betray me, and it was not necessarily a forged diary; but no matter how many times I calmed down and read it, it was An The colorful and fancy font of that person, Jie Luo, is not likely to be faked from the touch and age of the paper. I scratched my hair and felt terrible.

Of course I refused to admit that it was because I had already developed feelings for a mermaid who kept saying that he loved me, so I closed this diary irritatedly for a while, trying to tear it and my subtle unhappiness into pieces.

At this moment, I weighed the thick stack of paper in my hand, and suddenly felt that it seemed much lighter than before.

Angelo's diary is the same as the ordinary logbook, with a cowhide cover and some loose leaves inlaid with rivets. It is actually very simple to take it off. Even if there are a few pages missing, I am afraid I will not be able to notice it.

And I can notice the light weight, which proves that when I rushed to the deck not long ago, someone entered here without anyone noticing and took away a not small part of it.

I thought about it for a while, and finally calmed down. I opened the place I read before, read and read, and then leaned over to smell it lightly.

A hint of mellow spice and a touch of honey pervades the paper, unmistakably Ethan cigars.

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I ran to the nacelle, and there was no one I was looking for among the group of snoring guys; I found the leeward gangway all the way, and I pulled a passing patrolman and asked, "Where's the bosun?!"

The patrolman was taken aback by me, and said blankly: "Okay, it seems to be cleaning up debris in the freezer..."

I snatched his lamp with my hands, and rushed towards the messy cryo chamber not long ago.

I knew that Captain Garcia must be hiding something. He didn't explain why he kept blocking me from getting Angelo's diary, and what relationship did he have with this ship ten years ago.In fact, as long as I calm down and think about it, I will find that there is a strangeness in it; it is obvious that Veliga is the first mermaid that Angelo saw, but he gets along with that mermaid in the following diary It was the first time seeing a mermaid between the lines.

Pulling open the somewhat damaged hatch, I saw that Bjorn was yawning and squatting beside the refrigerator in the corner, throwing a stack of things in his hands into it, closing the lid as if intending to move it out .

"Huh? Little Mano, what are you doing here? Captain Garcia said you can't..."

Before I finished speaking, I punched him on the bridge of the nose and threw him out.

Welded the cabin door behind them tightly, and moved several freezers to block the door. I knew that there was such a hard layer of ice all around, and they would never dare to open the door rashly, so I was a little relieved and turned on the lights. Brighten it up, take the time to rummage around where he was just now.

Opening the refrigerator, what came into view was the silver fishtail exuding loneliness and coldness, which was covered with sundries in a mess, among which was a thick stack of paper that looked like diary loose-leaf pages.I picked them up and took a look, and found that this was the missing part just now, and some of them had fresh marks of being burned on the edges, as if someone wanted to burn them, but was afraid of too much smoke and stopped. and ordered Bjorn to come and throw them overboard with the litter.

[There is no time to think about anything else, the blond young man in the mirror and the ghost ship disappeared in the white mist, and just disappeared into the sea out of thin air.Seeing that none of my colleagues noticed the commotion here, I carried the lost mermaid back to my nautical cabin secretly, and started my first record of the mermaid while observing him. 】

[Unexpectedly, the mermaid woke up not long after, and when he saw me, he retreated into the corner in horror and ordered me not to approach him in a panic.I quickly explained to him that I didn't have any malice, I was just a human explorer who saw a mermaid for the first time, and then asked him about his origin like a kind brother. 】

[Perhaps my innate affectionate mermaid is also useful, he quickly calmed down, and told me very depressed that he got into trouble on his lover's boat and had to go back quickly to find the mermaid's treasure to pay off the debt Otherwise, his lover will lose his freedom and completely abandon him. 】

[I asked him where the mermaid's treasure was, but he refused to tell me, and said arrogantly that he was the noble prince of their tribe, and the treasure he could inherit, except for his lover, no one else could know the details Bury point.Thinking of the blond young man I just saw on the ghost ship, it seems that his lover is the sailor named Mano; but the strange thing is that Mano and I look like a coincidence, as if carved out of the same mold .After expressing the question in his heart, he didn't deny it, but just sneered and said that apart from my similarity, compared with his lover made of gold, I was like a poop pulled out of a lump of corn. 】

Seeing this, I laughed inappropriately, thinking that Velija hadn't betrayed me.

But soon, my smile froze on my face.

[I never expected that I would witness their rough love when I saw a mermaid for the first time; it is really unlucky that this mermaid fell in love with humans just like his poor predecessor in the legend.But compared to their love, I am obviously more concerned about the mermaid's treasure; maybe the unconcealable enthusiasm in my eyes made him feel uneasy, when I asked about the treasure again, he actually screamed, invisible The sound waves collided chaotically on the bulkhead, which quickly made me feel a sense of crisis. 】

[I heard that the mermaid's mournful cry will bring about drastic changes in the sea climate. Although I don't know if it's true or not, but just to be on the safe side, I destroyed his vocal cords, so as not to let him bring disaster to the maiden voyage Polar Joy.After making this move, I seemed to have completely lost his trust, and I was no longer bothered to make false claims with him. After drying the blood on my hands, I opened my operating box. 】

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It was as if my throat was tightly clamped in an instant, cold sweat had already soaked through my clothes, and my hands were trembling uncontrollably.My eyes fell on the silver fish tail still flickering under the lights, and some kind of ominous premonition emerged, and suddenly I was afraid to turn the next page.

[This is the first time I have come into close contact with a mermaid, of course I have to satisfy my curiosity and thirst for knowledge.I moved the merman who was in shock due to blood loss to a simple operating table, and cut open his chest like I used to do with school rats.The heart, which is almost the same as that of a human being, was beating in the warm chest cavity, and the wound healed quickly as soon as it was opened, but the pain was still so painful that he struggled desperately on the operating table, staring blankly like a dehydrated fish. Eyes look at me. 】

[I carefully cut him open, checked his heart, liver, spleen and lungs one by one, and was pleasantly surprised to find that his upper body structure is no different from that of a human being, even healthier and more perfect than a human being, coupled with his terrifying recovery ability , Maybe he can really fulfill my wish - the ultimate dream of a medical student - to turn a mermaid into a human, or a human into a mermaid. 】

[The smell of blood made me a little excited. I realized that the mermaid in front of me would not die no matter how many times he was stabbed. I quickly came up with a bold idea, which is to perform surgery on him now, and let him complete the transition from mermaid to mermaid. The perfect transformation of human beings.Seeing that his breathing has become weak, I took out the prepared cutting tool and cut deeply along his curvaceous waist—]

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The mottled and jumping lights fell on the still cold floor, my vision had become very blurred, and the next moment I scratched the yellowed pages in my hand.

[I cut off a lot of human torsos and organs from the pirates of the Undead. I thought there would always be young legs that could match this beautiful mermaid. By the time they got here, the mermaid had lost too much blood and was dying.Because the way he looked at me was so scary, I cut off his eyes a long time ago, and I couldn't understand his silent murmur. 】

[He seems to be dead, but he doesn't seem to be.Realizing that his damaged vocal cords could still produce some hoarse breathy sounds, I asked him what he was thinking about, and he said he was thinking about his lover; if he could, he would like to see the man playing the guitar in the moonlight and looking A sad and beautiful blond young man, if death is the price of falling in love with him, he is willing to do so. 】

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[Then he lost his breath before I even had time to start my own experiment. 】

【I feel sorry, I just lost my first precious test product.No benevolent scientist would feel sorry for the accidental death of a mouse, so I only regret that I didn't grasp the timing; this also reminded me that next time I meet a mermaid, I must not be too fast To expose my intentions, I must completely gain his trust, and even make him fall in love with me. 】

[However, to commemorate this mermaid, I still kept his fish tail, carefully put it in the refrigerator, and then sat down to reminisce and record everything today. 】

[Without the mermaid, I began to think about the treasure.If the mermaid hadn't lied to me, the address of the treasure should only be known to his lover now; but I searched over and over again on the list of sailors registered by the Royal Sailing Company, but I couldn't find a sailor named Mano, and the ghost ship It is clearly a handwriting that only a large company that builds the Polar Joy will have. 】

【At this time, I realized that if this mermaid really fell in love with humans, then it is very possible that the reason why he got lost on this ship was a curse, and his lover was actually the Polar Joy that appeared ten years later ; This weird idea made my thirst for knowledge come alive again.Maybe after this voyage is over, I will ask my father to ask the Duke to sell him a favor to buy this ship, and then quietly wait on it for the arrival of a blond young man named Mano. 】

【And not only waiting for him, but I have to find a way to get him to tell me the address of the treasure.Since he fell in love with a male mermaid and is a homosexual, then as an aristocrat, I should be no worse than a mermaid without legs; it is not difficult for me to pretend to be a homosexual, as long as I find a way to separate them, and then coax He forgot that if the mermaid likes me, I will get the legendary mermaid's treasure, which is far more interesting than inheriting a boring title. 】

[Planning all this romance really makes my blood boil.Perhaps human life is too short, and I don't have time to leave marks in many places, but as long as I firmly control the mermaid, after a hundred years, I can engrave the epitaph for myself eloquently: Here lies the human The greatest esthetician, famous doctor, big chaebol, treasure hunter, and explorer in history——]

【Angelo Garcia】