Mermaid Wharf

When I realized that the familiar figure was missing from Mo'er's side, I froze on the spot, and the arm holding Mo'er trembled slightly, not daring to think about the subtle premonition that spontaneously arose.

"Earlier, we heard strange noises from the next room. Teacher Godwin left me food and told me not to leave here, and then I went to find out what's going on outside. It's been a whole day..." Mo'er seemed He was also a little confused, looked at me uneasily and said, "Brother, what happened outside? Did something happen to Mr. Godwin?"

Hearing this, I put down my hand and forced a smile, patted her head and said, "How is it possible? Don't worry, brother will go get him back right away. You haven't rested yet, sleep a little longer; wait When you wake up, let's go to the souvenir shop on the shore together and buy some beautiful souvenirs for Anna and Luo Luo."

Mo'er hesitated for a moment, and seemed to want to say something, but she still couldn't overcome the deep sleepiness, so she nodded and fell asleep obediently.Before I had time to explain all this to Veliga, I rushed out of the cabin again, and he was not in a hurry to ask me anything, and followed closely without saying a word.

The white mist still lingering on the sea has become thicker and thicker, and many of them have filled the deck, diluting the dead and rotting atmosphere of the ship; urging.I searched among those horrific corpses anxiously, praying from the bottom of my heart that what I saw was the living Godwin, and not the severed limbs that Angelo had thrown around the ship like garbage.

My vision was blocked by thick fog, and I finally saw Godwin's pale face at the corner of the leeward gangway; he was being held in the arms of a man with his back to me, and the man was kneeling and bowing his head, his fingers resting on his Between the nose, it seems to be testing his breath.

"what are you doing?!"

Alarm bells were ringing in my heart, I grabbed the man's arm and pulled him away from Godwin; he was slammed against the wall by me, but his panicked face was covered with tears.

When I saw Bjorn's handsome face, which was almost the same as ten years later, my heart twitched fiercely. Thinking of what happened to him because of me, I felt somewhat guilty for my roughness just now. , said incoherently: "I'm sorry, Bjorn, I..."

He looked at me blankly, with something akin to fear flashing through his eyes.I know that he doesn't know me now, the blond young man standing in front of him at this time is just a god of death who once killed him, amputated all his limbs and transformed him and his companions; ten years later he clearly knows Sending me back would make me suffer such bad luck again, but I chose to help my friend in a leisurely and open-minded manner.

I lowered my head, with mixed feelings in my heart.Velijia looked at us, obviously understood the scene in front of him a little bit, his eyes fell on the person lying on the ground again, and suddenly tremblingly said:

"Mano, Mr. Godwin, he has..."

I came to my senses, and I had no time to care about Bjorn who was still shivering, so I hurriedly bent over to check.Sure enough, Godwin had been out of breath for a long time, his long bangs covered half of his already stiff face, and he was as quiet as if he had fallen asleep.

He seemed to have been attacked by Angelo while he was awake. His bloody lower body showed the fact that his legs had been taken away, and then he was randomly abandoned here by the demon. After struggling for a day, until My heart stopped beating completely not long ago.

I knelt down in front of Godwin, the bitter gastric juice welled up in my throat along with regret, unable to accept everything in front of me.

……

Going back to ten years ago, I rescued my sister, but sacrificed my teacher.

——How could I be willing?

There must be a way to save him, for sure.

Countless seemingly absurd ideas flashed through my mind, but I still grasped a possibility that I could try.I took off my coat and covered Godwin, carefully picked him up, turned and walked towards Angelo's nacelle.

Veliga followed behind me in some confusion, watched as I found out Angelo's operation records and read them carefully page by page, and then went down to the freezing chamber filled with blood gas, from those full of beautiful fish tails I dragged one back from the freezer; I didn't finally understand until I made all the preparations and carried Godwin's still slightly warm body onto the operating table.

He looked at me in disbelief, then at the purple fish tail I took out of the freezer, and seemed to think that this idea was not very reliable.

I read Angelo's hypothetical transformation of human beings in the operation records again, closed my eyes and went through the possible structures in my mind, and when I put on the sterilized white gloves, I was already somewhat sure in my heart.

Angelo didn't have time to conduct human transformation experiments. If I hadn't been able to break free from the paralysis of my limbs not long ago, maybe I would be the first human being transformed into a mermaid now; Angelo probably wouldn't have thought of it , This operation will continue after his death.

I don't want my teacher to become a mermaid, but this is the only way to bring him back from the dead.

Seeing my firm eyes, Velijia also calmed down, followed my example to disinfect his hands, and stood aside to become my assistant.Even after lighting several lamps, the light in the cabin was still not clear. I carefully cleaned up Godwin's decayed wound, identified all the tissues under the skin that Angelo had described in detail, and then from his The spine begins to hold the sections of the fishbone together.

……

As Angelo said in the operation record, the transformation of humans is much easier than that of mermaids, which is almost the difference between creating a new species and restoring a species.

It is said that the mermaid's blood has the magical effect of bringing people back to life. Although I don't know if it is true or not, but when the blood that originally belonged to the mermaid began to swim to Godwin's upper body, I clearly noticed that his cold body began to warm up. The blood stains overflowed from the newborn gill cavity, it seems that the assimilation of the mermaid has really started.

But his heartbeat was still stagnant in the undulating chest, and there was no sign of recovery at all.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, my heart sank and I gave him a shot of cardiotonic.

His upper body suddenly lifted up like an electric shock, and his raised bangs revealed a pair of round purple eyes. When he fell down again, his originally sluggish muscles slowly regained their luster, and an extremely light breath sounded in his ears. Voice.

Realizing that I had successfully completed the operation, I fell down as if exhausted, but my eyes fell on the somewhat familiar dark purple fish tail on his lower body; Velija hesitated for a moment, then suddenly realized something and stepped forward to lift Godwin's hand. Liu Hai, while completely stunned in place, also shed tears:

"Percy..."

……

……

My tutor, Percy Godwin, was born in the revival period when the old and new aristocrats were fiercely confronting each other. Since he was a child, he hated the human society ruled by imperial power and religious oppression.

At the age of 25, he boarded the ghost ship that was predicted to change his own destiny, and came back to life under a magical opportunity. Since then, he left the smoky human world and went to the unknown underwater kingdom as a mermaid.

"After my uncle was kicked out of the tribe ten years ago, my father sent people to search outside the tribe, but they found nothing for several days. They only brought back a strange alien wandering in the bottom of the sea, that is, Percy who lost his memory. Velija stared at his bloody cheeks, his voice still trembling slightly, "Everyone doesn't know where he came from, but he can prophesy and divination, so he was very popular with his father, so he replaced the previous wizard position and became my teacher.”

The not-so-bright lights were jumping in front of my eyes. I looked at the teacher on the operating table who had been transformed into a mermaid by myself, and I couldn't speak for a long time.

Sure enough, his prophecy has never been missed, whether it is the tutor Godwin who fulfilled his wish ten years ago, or the wizard Percy who is loyal to the mermaid tribe ten years later.

"...Let's go, let's go see him off."

When he picked up the still sleeping mermaid and walked out of the nacelle, Bjorn was waiting outside nervously. He seemed relieved when he saw us, as if he understood what we were doing inside.Seeing us hurrying towards the gangway, he hesitated for a while and wanted to follow up, but he still stood still, his eyes still glued to Percy's body, a little indescribably lonely.

I looked back at him and said nothing more, just said:

"Don't worry, you'll see him again."

……

Perhaps as long as two people have fate, no matter what they end up with, they are destined to meet again at the right time.

Velija and I took the boat to the place where we first met the mermaid, carefully lowered Percy into the water, made sure that he could breathe freely under the surface of the water, and watched him slowly sink unconsciously into the cold and silent seabed After a while, he woke up with a shiver, and turned around a few times in a daze, and swam towards an unknown direction.

Watching Percy disappear at the end of the deep ocean, I thought that the last boulder in my heart had landed; but I propped up the oar silently, only to find that the oppression in my chest was actually no less than before.

It should all be over, but it doesn't seem to be.

Velija sat quietly beside me all the time, looking a little obviously disturbed, looking up at me with a trance and distant gaze, as if I would disappear in front of his eyes in the next moment; I could only hold his hand tightly, He planned to tell him all the ins and outs when he got back to the ship.

When we returned to the Polar Joy in the face of the thicker sea fog, the reborn mermaids seemed to have almost adapted to the human legs below their waists, wearing crooked clothes from the dead nobles, Sitting side by side on the deck looking up at the people standing in the sea breeze not far away.

Moran, who had disappeared from Angelo's nacelle a long time ago, was standing in front of them, wearing a brand-new uniform that seemed to be found in the captain's wardrobe, with an elegant and tall figure.He seems to have accepted his human identity, holding a meeting with his people who have been awakened from nightmares.

Seeing his uncle who was safe and sound, Velija wanted to jump over excitedly, but froze when he saw his legs; his eyes swept across the familiar faces on the deck, and I While the hands we held were sweating slightly, I finally understood it thoroughly.

"In any case, since we are already human beings now, and we will never return to the bottom of the sea where there is nowhere to go, we must get used to talking and try to adapt to the social rules of human beings." Moran pointed to those faces in the distance. The ridiculous corpse frowned and said, "Now, go and throw all the messy things on the boat into the sea, clean them up, and gather here in an hour."

He obviously noticed us, but he didn't care. After thinking for a while, he said to the woman closest to him:

"Wizard, what's your current name?—Fenix?"

The woman staggered to her feet with a pair of extraordinarily beautiful legs, and nodded.

"Okay, Phoenix." He leaned on his large captain's hat, looked at his clothes thoughtfully, and continued calmly, "You should still remember that you swore allegiance to me. Now Garcia's son is dead, and I need to remain at sea as a human being; when we land, I hope you will ask your old lover for a favor."

As he spoke, he took out the pair of black goggles that I had left behind, walked to the railing and looked at the coastline looming in the mist, and put it on:

"I want my stupid brother to know that I can be king of the sea even if I am driven out of the sea."