【Boom Out】Mermaid

Green Valley had this similar feeling of suffocation when he was very young, as if boiling molten iron was being poured into his immature respiratory organs from the trachea, and a group of people hurriedly sealed his mouth tightly. It made him feel that his internal organs were scorched and melted in just a few seconds. When Lugu was five years old, for the first time in the struggle of gradually weakening, he felt that death could be so close to people. Being caught by the hair and held down in the shallows by the sea, the water is not deep, and a five-year-old child can easily stand up from it, provided of course that no one laughs and holds down his limbs and head.

Green Valley was manipulated into the appearance of a green-skinned frog whose limbs were nailed to a small wooden board with iron nails that he had seen in those grotesque anatomy books. At first, the muscles still struggled due to fear and resistance contraction, but after After being smashed to the head, only the reflexive nerve contraction remained. The back of Lugu's head was hit hard by someone lifting a rock, and his reaction completely disappeared after a short cry that was swallowed by the sea. , he floated lifelessly on the water like a cut vine, the children's nasty ridicule was separated by the water waves, and came indistinctly:

"Freak, this freak keeps holding his breath for a long time every time, let's try to see if he can get up this time, my dad said he is a monster—the kind that can't die!"

"My dad also said that his mother was a girl who was sacrificed to the sea god. Wow, it looks super gloomy, scary, and feels like a witch—"

"This kind of mother and freak should all die, just like what those people from Wangcheng said, this kind of people who seem to have ominous omens should be burned to death in the fire, so as to ensure that they will not do evil !"

"—burn them!"

"——Burn Green Valley to death!"

"——Burn Green Valley to death!"

Beside this small seaside town, a group of children whose combined age is no more than 30 years old look ferocious and fanatical in the quiet sound of the waves, as if they can see through them their parents’ deep aversion to heresy, they are innocent and evil , invisibly took over the dirty torches and firewood hidden in the chests of the adults, and aboveboard represented justice and became the executioners of heretics. They didn't feel that they were committing crimes, or even that they were making mistakes. The brutal rulers from the royal palace are persecuting, and at the same time, they regard every move of these superior classes as a standard, turning from victims to perpetrators.

The more simple the place, the more ignorant it is. Five years ago, every time this town sailed, if the route was too close to the sea, a young and beautiful girl would be sacrificed. On that calm night, a group of people who were eager to sail People caught Green Valley's mother on board, and let her disembark in a small boat when she was closest to the Mermed Sea. The girl was wearing a pure white linen dress, and she curled up barefoot at one end of the boat. Trembling alone in the dark, holding a torch, watching the cursed sea open its mouth wide open to her, the people on the boat looked at this scene indifferently, only they knew that there were no sea gods under the sea, only The monsters favored by the sea god are beautiful and cruel, and no one can escape from their unparalleled eyes.

——Only this frail woman was an exception. A month later, this girl in a blood-stained white linen dress rode a small boat in a storm, as if coming on waves, and the raging lightning illuminated her panic-stricken face. The long green curly hair was wet and stuck to her white cheeks and chest like vines. Her fingertips were white and she firmly grasped the edge of the dilapidated boat. The reef was completely scattered, and she finally lay unconscious on the beach. On her forehead, there was a string of white pearl pendants, which were carefully and clumsily hung between the girl's eyebrows. I don't know if she was cast by some magic or the girl intentionally. Care, even being hit by the wind and waves all the way without falling off, quietly and warmly attached to the skin, it is the temperature of fish scales that is slightly cool.

She's the second person to ever come back after being sacrificed, the first one is now a bearded, scruffy drunk, a young and handsome man who seems to be entering the palace soon The son on duty, named Charlie.

After the girl came back, she stayed behind closed doors for a long time under the awed and probing eyes of the people in the town, and occasionally appeared in front of other people's eyes, wearing an opaque black hooded robe that was tightly wrapped around her heels. Her pale face and dry lips were hidden under the robe, and she had green olive eyes, vigilantly looking at everyone who tried to get close to her or ask her for information, like a bird waiting to hide A mole waiting to give birth in a burrow, a slight light is enough to disturb this survivor who had a near-death experience, and she only wants to meet another person who also came back from that sea area.

A year later, this girl who had almost no contact with anyone except old Charlie, who had the same fate as her, turned into a young woman inexplicably, and Green Valley was born. A child, but Green Valley's soft outline and freckles shattered it. This is an incredibly soft baby, with green eyes and green lanugo, a round little face, and his mother is seven or eight times the same. Similar, I can't find any similarities with old Charlie. I don't know whose child it is. After the child was born, old Charlie refused to see Green Valley's mother again. The gossip in the village is guessing that old Charlie is angry. While befriending him, she gave birth to another man's child, and Lugu's mother seemed to have never heard of these rumors. She began to take off her robe, and coiled her waist-length curly hair with a pearl pendant. The shadow of the priest seemed to fade away with the black robe she was taken off, and she tried her best to turn herself into an ordinary mother who could blend in with the crowd.

——But the "witch" in people's mouth took off her floor-reaching robe, which means she took off her indestructible armor. Under the dark robe of this woman who was speculated by everyone, she was just a gentle and timid ordinary woman's face, There are no unknown attack methods and boiled medicinal soup that make people restless. The mysterious shell has been removed. The object of my vigilance turned out to be a shellfish that opened its shell, and it only took a scoop of boiling water to put her to death.

The more the word "witch" spreads, the more outrageous it becomes. Even the characteristics of the kid who held his breath for a long time will be infinitely magnified, which proves that the woman who gave birth to him is an evil witch. He is xenophobic, but fortunately, this child is born with a thick nerve. He has a natural insensitivity to these vitriolic malice. He always reacts to other people's malicious remarks and behaviors very late. , but he is easy to coax and pass away. He was lost for a while in a ignorance by himself, and then he became happy because of such a small thing as picking up a beautiful shell.

——But this time he may have to pick up a lot of shells to be happy. Even a five-year-old child, Green Valley knows that death is an irreversible process. He felt vaguely that he seemed to die Now, death is a very strange thing to him. Sometimes his mother will lean against the window in the morning light, looking at the calm sea from a distance, and the faint light climbs up to the woman from the narrow wooden window. With a melancholy and peaceful side face, she lowered her head, her seaweed-like long hair hung down her chest, she gently, with a little memory and a conniving smile, looked at her hands that were gradually softening due to being rubbed with fingertips for a long time. A pearl pendant with tarnish, close your eyes reverently and kiss the treasure in your hand.

He would hear his mother’s voice as if talking to herself in a half-dream and half-awake state. She pushed aside the lush curly hair growing by Lugu’s ears and said:

"If my mother is burned to death one day, then her soul will definitely stay in the sea. Every time you see the sea, you can see your mother and maybe your father. We will protect you."

She murmured and sang softly: "—death is not terrible, my soul has a place to go, that is my lover's hometown, and he will bury my remaining bones in the coral cemetery—"

"—and then with me in the cemetery, sleeping in the embrace of the dead."

The little Green Valley woke up coughing, it was already late at night, there was no one on the beach except him, the ebb tide saved him in the end, only the tide was slowly undulating on the beach, and the cold moonlight shone on the rocks and Green Valley The scarred little hands were all of the same dim color. He stared blankly at the surroundings. Just a second before he lost consciousness, he saw a beautiful golden fish slamming fiercely at his nose. Green Valley was very angry. The stranded little fish was soon found in a small puddle beside him.

This little fish is really small and very fierce. Lugu stretched out his hand several times to hold it with his hands but was bitten. Now this little fish who doesn't know what is angry is wagging its tail and turning its back to Lugu. Gu, Green Gu squatted next to the puddle, stretched out his hands to hold the little fish again, and was about to send the little fish, which was stranded on land just like himself, back to the sea, the little fish was furious and jumped up viciously He patted his face with his tail, leaving a red mark on the dumbfounded Lv Gu's face with a "snap".

Green Valley withdrew his hand silently, he looked aggrieved and confused looking at the brightly colored little fish in the puddle reflecting the moon, it was violently rushing here and there in the water, looking like a piece of moving gold In the end, as if tired, a fish sank to the bottom of the water. Taking advantage of the situation, Lu Gu quickly packed it up with a big shell next to it. After learning a lesson from the child, the flames dyed from the sky abruptly illuminated the dark night. Green Valley looked up in that direction, and he suddenly ran barefoot on the beach as if he had gone crazy.

The fire seemed to dye the sea and the night violently red. It was a grand bonfire that Green Valley had never seen before. The sparks and the floating gunpowder smoke seemed to be able to touch the stars. He gasped, his His feet and hands were full of scars. He never felt that death was terrible. Even if he almost died just now, he just felt uncomfortable for a while, but he realized ignorantly that under such a huge death signal, Death means a cruel farewell—

——Lv Gu raised his hand and wiped the corner of his eyes, he gasped and thought, mom, mom, can she go to sea?

The hidden stone house by the sea is like a falling fire on the cliff. Countless flames are floating upwards. A group of people holding torches watched vigilantly as the burning black robe hanging on the wall of the stone house opened itself in the flames, and then Quickly dragged into the ashes by the flames, Green Valley held the shell blankly, he looked up at the fire, he smelled the moist and gentle smell of pearls and long hair, falling on his trembling shoulders in the embers superior.

He began to howl.