Blue Star

Above the vast blue sea, a five-story wide ship floats in the mist.

The oars stretched out on both sides are like the ventral fins of fish, swinging up and down with white and yellowed canvas.

There are hundreds of rotating gears on the bottom of the ship, and a piece of bright-colored fluorite is inlaid every one meter.

Fluorite is surrounded by a floating magnetic field, and countless small water droplets rotate along the magnetic field.It's like the mist produced when winter is approaching, driving the only three white-winged floating warships in this ancient continent to sail above the sea.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Gu Li looked at the thick fog that could not be seen, and closed the pocket watch in his hand with a solemn expression.

Their sailing route was completely deviated as early as noon today.The current location is an extremely unfamiliar sea zone for him.

The captain driving the warship is a veteran with more than ten years of sailing experience.It was obviously intentional to deviate from the original route and divert from the fishing area.

He turned the yellow crystal mineral ring on his left index finger, and with the help of the magnetic field perception brought by the crystal mineral, he condensed the white mist around the warship.

In this way, an air wall that can protect the warship is formed, and the waves that hit the warship from ten meters away are isolated.

The color of the sea water ranges from light blue to dark blue to the current black.

The depth of the sea under the warship has reached a point beyond his estimation, and the weather on the sea is getting worse and worse.

It is impossible to imagine what kind of predicament the current warship and the more than 100 people on board will face once his witchcraft gets out of control.

"Don't be so nervous, why hasn't Patriarch Keerqi's younger brother seen such a big storm?"

Zhong Huaide, who had chartered the warship, took a sip of the red wine in his hand, patted Gu Li on the shoulder and comforted him: "It's just the same for fishing in another strait, isn't it?"

Gu Li patted Zhong Huaide's hand on his shoulder away without a good face, "You have already passed the strait where you can fish, and if you go further, there is no map mark on the Bermuda River. What kind of fish do you need to go to?" Go fishing in the restricted area?"

Zhong Huaide smiled relaxedly for a while, did not answer directly, but raised the wooden wine glass in his hand to signal him, and then raised his head to drink.

Once on board there is no turning back, and even Kirch's gifted wizards are helpless.

Gu Li didn't say anything more, put away his pocket watch and went back to the lounge on the second floor.

Looking out from the round cabin window, the height of the waves on the sea is almost equal to the swinging white wings of the warship.

His witchcraft is not as good as his brother's, and he can't guarantee what the consequences will be if the warship continues to move forward.

The restricted area of ​​Bermuda River has always been a strait that Minggu Continent dared not touch.Not only is the environment harsh, but once he is too far away from the magnetic field of the mainland, his witchcraft will also disappear.Without something that can protect the warship, entering the restricted area is tantamount to courting death.

This point, he had already talked to the captain and Zhong Huaide before he received the mission and set off, but obviously these people took his words as deaf ears.

The corridor through the rest cabin is where the crew eats together. Dozens of people tell dirty jokes and open barrels of red wine to celebrate.

When you see him, beckon him to go and enjoy it together.

These crew members are veterans who have been with the captain for many years, and it is impossible not to know that the sailing route has changed.Everyone has nothing to fear, is it determined that with him there will be nothing wrong?

There was a burst of sprinting from the cabin on the lower floor, and a young man who looked like a newcomer rushed into the restaurant with a face full of panic.

Holding a hemp rope with tiny fish scales in his hand, the young man said anxiously: "A hole was pried open in the prison cell, and that kid ran away!"

"What ran away?" Gu Lixian asked the crew step by step.

The crew members who were drinking in the dining room were stunned for a moment, then stood up as a commanding leader, waved and ordered people to go down to look for him.

The leader finished the distribution with a solemn face, and then smiled at Gu Li: "It's okay, it's just a slave we bought, and his temper is not very obedient."

While speaking, there was a burst of wailing and screaming from the lower cabin.The deck wall was hit violently, giving the illusion of a big fish bumping.

Gu Li pushed aside the barrier, and followed the crew who rushed down to the lower level.

In the dimly lit cabin, a dozen crew members tied up an infected teenager with hemp ropes.

The boy was only wearing a torn unlined garment, his face was unkempt and dirty, and there were patches of tiny gray fish scales on his right arm adhering to the surface of his skin.

From the neck to the abdomen, there were visible infections everywhere, and the left leg was directly shaped like half a fish's tail.

The fishing net covered the boy's head, causing him to writhe and thrash painfully on the deck.

The infected part of the body kept falling off scales due to the violent struggle, exposing the bright red and damaged flesh.

Gu Li looked at everything in front of him with an ugly expression. He didn't know that the infection had already spread to marine life!

All carnivorous foods are likely to cause infectious lesions. When did even fish become a source of infection?How many things did Zhong Huaide hide when he went to sea this time!

"You won't catch mermaids! There can be no mermaids at all!"

The infected boy roared loudly, and blood flowed down the wound where the scales were broken.The fishing net dragged his body, which could not stand upright, and approached the cell in the cabin.

The facial features could not be seen clearly in the dim environment, and the young man was so infected that he begged in pain.

"Kill me, please kill me! There is no mermaid, it is a fabricated thing! It hurts too much, please kill me..."

The young man was forcibly locked into the cabin cell, begging to die and wailing through the thick wooden door.

With a pale face, Gu Li hurried back to the previous top deck, grabbed Zhong Huaide's collar angrily, and asked, "You guys are going to hunt mermaids in Bermuda River? Who gave you the news?"

Zhong Huaide put away his smiling face, and pulled away his hand that was pulling his collar, "We have already entered the border of Bermuda River. Elder Gu Li has only come to Xingshi to question the crime. Isn't it a bit too late?"

"What do you think a mermaid is? A savior in a fairy tale? If you do this, all the people on the boat will die in the sea!" Gu Li said angrily.

Zhong Huaide took a new glass of red wine from the open wine barrel at the bow and handed it to him, and said in a relaxed tone, "Aren't you here? A talented wizard."

The red wine in his hand was opened by Gu Li.

Zhong Huaide smiled and said: "I know what you are afraid of, but the mermaid is not a human being after all. To put it bluntly, it is just a fish that looks like a human, and they have no brains at all.

Don't worry, I specially picked the season when fish are looking for a mate before chartering a boat to go out to sea.As long as it is a courting fish, those aggressive instincts will be restrained. "

Seeing Gu Li's increasingly ugly face, he continued to encourage: "Although this voyage violates the regulations of the ancient continent, as long as I can bring the mermaid back to suppress the infection, everyone will thank me. And you, Ke Erqi Gu Li will also become the god of the entire human race because he risked his life to bring back the mermaid."

Gu Li clenched his fists, "The mermaids we know are nothing but illusions, they are just fabricated by the world to deceive..."

Before the words were finished, the warship floating in the air suddenly shook, as if it had hit something.The hull tilted more than half to the left, knocking everything piled up on the deck and rolling it to the left.

Gu Li squatted to keep his balance, and outside the defensive layer surrounded by magnetic fields around the battleship, two monstrous waves rose up.

The waves rushed past the warship through the defensive layer, and in the violent rollover, a killer whale carcass whose body was brutally torn was washed up three meters into the air.

The witchcraft magnetic field surrounding the warship was weakening, and the orca followed the impact of the sea water and broke the gears rotating at the front of the warship.

The hull was damaged, and the speed of sailing on the sea also slowed down.

Gu Li turned the ring on his index finger, quickly driving the magnetic field, and pushed the killer whale carcass away from the warship.

The torn body of the killer whale was covered with blood and water, and the wound on the abdomen seemed to be cut open by the sharp claws of a beast, which was uneven.

I don't know whether it was eaten or washed by the sea, the inside of the killer whale is empty, only a few dots of blue light remain.

The size of the killer whale in front of him far exceeded Gu Li's cognition. Its length had reached at least 25 meters, and its weight was even more immeasurable.

If it wasn't for the protection from witchcraft, the violent impact just now was enough to turn the warship over!

Zhong Huaide lay on the bow and looked at the dead killer whale floating on the sea, and couldn't help but excitedly said: "It's the scales of a mermaid! Blue fluorescent, small and tough!"

He took out the folded single-lens telescope from his arms, stretched the mechanical head, and looked at the planed body of the orca.

Then he said excitedly to the crew members who came to the deck to see the situation one after another: "There are really mermaids! That person is right, there are really mermaids in the Bermuda River!"

Zhong Huaide raised his binoculars and looked into the distance of the dense fog. A hundred meters away, the looming reefs came into view.

"Quick, go and bring the bait up! Tell the captain to slow down, we will soon enter the strait where the mermaid is!"

The crew was excited, and there were mermaids, which meant that the infection crisis they were facing would soon disappear!

Gu Li was pushed aside by the crew, and after a while, he saw the previously infected teenager being dragged onto the deck with a fishing net.

The captain turned off all the crystal mines on the warship that could be used for lighting. In the dark night, there was only a bright moon hanging on the sometimes fluctuating and sometimes calm sea.

Zhong Huaide told everyone to be quiet and not to make a sound, and even the gears on the bottom of the warship were closed and stopped working.

The battleship, which lost the fluorite magnetic field and floated in the air, dropped from a height of three meters to the surface of the sea.Pushed by the waves, let the warship move forward by itself.

The waves disturbed the moon shadow, and also pushed away the heavy fog around the ship, slowly sending the warship into the dead sea full of reefs.

The crew tied the infected teenager tightly in a fishing net made of iron chains, and then ruthlessly dropped him into the sea.

The juvenile has immature gills on both sides of his abdomen, but even this will prevent him from suffocating when he enters the sea.

It's just that the infection is just an infection after all, how can the fish that humans mutate into be real fish.

Within five or six minutes, the boy couldn't bear the suffocation, and he surfaced painfully with the heavy chain and fishing net.Immediately afterwards, he bumped into the dead and floating killer whale carcass.

The hand covered with tiny scales patted the hull of the boat, and the boy yelled in horror: "If you want to die, give me a good time, I don't want to be food for mermaids... Zhong Huaide, I'm a human, I'm not a monster!"

Zhong Huaide looked at him condescendingly, and said ruthlessly: "Infected people no longer belong to human beings. This rule is not set by me." Then, he turned his head to look at Gu Li who was blocked by the crew in the corner, "You say so, wizard."

Gu Li didn't respond aloud, but looked at Zhong Huaide fiercely.

Indeed, being infected means losing the qualifications to be a human being.This cruel rule came from the mouth of the elder brother of the Keerqi patriarch.

"Not belonging to human beings does not mean that you can kill and torture indiscriminately."

Apparently, Gu Li's protest was just a joke in Zhong Huaide's view. Creatures that do not belong to humans, what else can't be slaughtered and used.

He sneered and said to the young man thrown into the sea: "This season is the courtship period of fish. If you can behave better, you might be able to change from food to spouse. If you know how to seize the opportunity, when the mermaid approaches, Take a bite, and maybe you'll be lucky enough to turn back into a human again."

The young man cried and cursed angrily: "Zhong Huaide, you are a beast!"

Zhong Huaide ignored it, and suddenly frowned and raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.

He picked up the monocular and looked into the distance.It's a pity that I didn't see anything, I could only see occasional waves on the calm sea in the dark night.

"Have you heard the singing! It's the singing that mermaids would hum when courting a mate!" Zhong Huaide excitedly said.

Gu Li looked at the black sea covered with thick fog with a pale face. In the quiet sea of ​​death, a voice belonging to a man hummed from far to near.

There are no lyrics, only humming that is sometimes vast and sometimes soft.

The sea surface became extremely calm, which made the humming sound like an echo of looking around, and it seemed more like it came from the terrifying abyss of the sea.

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Yu Ling:

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The White Wing Floating Battleship is 56 meters long and 42 meters wide.

Ocean Trivia: A normal adult killer whale is 8-10m in length and has a ferocious temperament. It can be called the king of the sea.