【Boom Out】Mermaid

It was already night when Green Valley woke up. He had slept through the whole day, and the twilight was shaking from the water surface. Reluctantly clutching a decanted decanter of coconut rum, Green Valley tiptoes through a mess of empty bottles and the overlapping limbs of sailors hollowed out by empty bottles , he pushed open the narrow hatch.

It was a clear night on the sea, the bright red sun still remained on the sea surface, the sea water in the sky was a strange color between wine red and dark blue, with a soft shimmering water color like gold leaf on it, and the sky had already The looming moon and stars appeared, which means that the omen of the coming night is not very bright, and it is a kind of beauty that complements the dusk that has not faded, and the only one between the night and the dividing line between the night and the night The big ship is slowly moving deeper into the high seas of Mermede. At this moment when it should be extremely lively on land, the Serenity Dawn Dawn, where everyone is sleeping, seems to be a steel coffin carefully crafted by outstanding craftsmen. In the deep sea where countless people are buried, under the helm of the god of death, they walk towards the abyss where there is no way to turn back.

The moonlight dyed the old Charlie's beard, which was humming a ditty, into distinct silvery white. His eyelids drooped and exuded a rotten smell, and he turned the huge steering wheel again and again, as if he was doing something. He squinted his eyes and laughed like a child in an interesting game. He hardly walked to the green valley next to him against the wind and gave a look. He just squinted his eyes and looked at the deeper and farther sea, sneering:

"Little boy, you really woke up early."

Green Valley pursed his lips and looked at old Charlie seriously: "...Why didn't you return to the voyage?"

——After waking up, the Dawn Dawn, which had caught the mermaid, not only did not get close to the departure pier, but went deeper and deeper in this sea full of murderous intentions. This is obviously illogical. Green Valley even wanted to reach out and stop the ship directly. But unfortunately, he is just a teenage boy who draws a nautical chart on a parchment scroll. The situation is special, and I made an exception to bring this little fool-like guy on board.

Jiang is still old and hot, and the captain is still old and more ruthless. The young Lugu can't blatantly seize the initiative from the deep-minded and treacherous Charlie. Charlie, even if the sailors in the entire cabin wake up, they can't really do anything to them. In this sea area full of hidden reefs, killing a captain who has experience in dealing with mermaids and the sea of ​​​​death is better than letting this lunatic It would be even more stupid for an ordinary captain to take himself to wander around, at least as long as the lunatic does not die, there will always be a day to go ashore with him.

Old Charlie didn't wear his one-eyed eyepatch that had been worn to the point of fading and was about to break. His gray prosthetic eye was turning in the hazy moonlight, like a poor-quality luminous glass marble covered in gray mist. Abandoned in the deep sea, he turned his head and smiled at Green Valley as if pity and self-mockery:

"The mermaid has been caught, but the treasure of the mermaid has not been found yet. Do you think these people who went out to sea are good things to accept as soon as they see it? If it wasn't for the mermaid who wanted to offer it to the lord, when you boarded this ship, You can only see a big fish dripping with blood. Green Valley, kid, you have to remember that every ship heading to the deep sea of ​​Melmede lives with a group of beasts that can’t get enough to feed them. They don’t come to these places to support their families, they come to get rich, they want to live forever, for gold, silver and jewelry, to suck the blood of the merman, cut the flesh of the merman, and force the merman to shed tears for their eternal life.”

Old Charlie laughed mockingly in a dazed way. He covered his prosthetic eyes that seemed to fall off at any time, and murmured:

"Sometimes, humans are scarier than mermaids. At least mermaids can be exchanged fairly, and humans will leave nothing to mermaids, including memories."

If it wasn't a fake eye, Green Valley almost thought that tears would fall from this eye. The captain seemed to be laughing at not these greedy and greedy passengers, but at himself decades ago. Laughing loudly, until his rickety body trembled, he almost burst into tears because of the story that Lvgu didn't know, but unfortunately, the prosthetic eye couldn't shed tears, and he was just dry, like a dead man. Laughing hoarsely and as hard as a bellows.

Old Charlie went on to say, "Green Valley, do you know what I traded my eyes for that dog thing?"

Green Valley shook his head silently. Old Charlie looked at the moon in a trance. He was no longer manipulating the rudder. There was no wind or waves tonight. The boat was unstoppable. He said in a daze:

"It was also a full moon that night. People will learn their language after spending the estrus period with mermaids. I can learn their accents and call it by name. My face is on its warm fish tail. These guys can get out of the water It automatically adjusts its body temperature. When I was dragged back to the cave by it at the first night, I kept it away. I said I was cold, and I yelled at it sharply, saying that I hate cold things. I told it to roll, and it looked at it in confusion. I, and then carefully wrapped me with the fish tail that became warm, very clumsy, and I would not let it go, calling the only me that it would call over and over again—”

"[Check——] [Check——], it covered me with its fish tail, like a quilt someone warmed for me, the color of fire, it found me the brightest and largest pearl in the entire cave, Holding it in front of me to please me, it cut the back of the most delicious shrimp with its nails and brought it to my mouth. It always looked at me with a slight smile in its eyes, and then called me strangely The name - really weird, I hate it at first, but it likes to see my hateful expression, it will come to laugh, everything is fine, I may be crazy, I don’t want to be a human, I want to be with him Being a mermaid together, I started to force myself to practice holding my breath, I got used to eating raw fish and seaweed, and I got used to using shells for this guy to remove the seaweed accidentally caught on the tail of the fish—"

Old Charlie's voice gradually blurred:

"—and then a lot of things happened. I was on a full moon. The full moon is when they are most manic and vulnerable. These monsters also have relatively weak times. I made an exchange with Al—"

He covered his eyes that had long since disappeared with his old hands, and recalled coldly and in a daze:

"——I used one of my eyes to close it for a long time. It happily agreed to the exchange, gouged out my eye with its own hands, and swallowed it in front of me when I rolled on the ground in constant pain. Going down, I rushed into the water like crazy, I met a boat, I escaped."

Old Charlie looked at the silent Green Valley, raised the corners of his mouth and said: "—Little rascal, even if it is a fair deal with the mermaids, you must not be able to pay the price these guys want, so remember, never Take anything that comes from them, even if it's just a fish tail with human body heat overnight, and you'll pay dearly for it."

Only one side of his blue eyes shone with a heart-wrenching light. Old Charlie's tone was leisurely and eloquent, as if he was warning a young man who had lost his way, or telling his original self:

"—You will regret it, wishing that you died in their cave the first time you saw them."

Green Valley was sitting alone in the stern, surrounded by a few sparsely drilled out of the cabin, a few sailors who obviously hadn't sobered up and walked wobbly, they obviously knew about the deeper and deeper voyage, one and two Hey and jovial, he led a torch from the side to illuminate the water surface and participated in the treasure grabbing activity. In his words, he dreamed of taking away all the treasures in the mermaid cave. If he was lucky, he could catch a few more mermaids. Come and have a drink and a meal.

Lu Gu silently turned his face away when several sailors talked about eating meat, and the adult subtext in it made him feel uncomfortable subconsciously. Sailors who rob mermaids can still have moral guilt, old Charlie's been sneering at him already—a sailor with such a moral sense, go be a priest in the church in town, kid.

Green Valley sits on the bottom of the boat at the bottom of the boat, and his feet stick out from the railing. When he was in a daze, he couldn't help shaking his cloth boots, which were less than ten centimeters from the water surface. Skimming the water lightly, occasionally a fish jumped over his shoe. The strong mermaid smell left on his body attracted many fish that came to watch. Green Valley sighed and touched the bare rope around his neck. —This is the thick rope that old Charlie gave him to hang the bottle. The cork was cut by this rope and the glass bottle was forcibly removed, but the rope was still hanging around his neck.

Green Valley looked at the rope with nothing on it, and what was hidden in the missing glass bottle was a story about mermaids and humans that had been concealed for decades, but in the end only one person remembered it, and only one person only remembered it. Only one eye remembers.

The sea water under his feet was tumbling like boiling water, and the gathered fish fled in all directions. The natural enemies who had an absolute deterrent force towards them were rapidly approaching here, and the green valley suddenly emerged from between his legs. The mermaid was startled. This silver mermaid came by the bright moonlight and the calm sea. The junction of the two sticks to the ankle exposed by Lugu's narrow trousers, it is as smooth as milk to the touch, and Lugu can feel that he is wagging his tail slowly, and he wants to retract his feet in embarrassment , I saw this mermaid put something in his palm——

— A silver scale.

Reluctantly and with a headache, Lugu put the scales back into the hands of the persistent mermaid, gesticulating while speaking:

"Thank you, but I can't take anything from you."

The expression of the mermaid was cold, but there was a hint of doubt. He brushed the sharp fingertips that grew out of the moment, without changing his expression, across his fish tail, and he put a brand new and beautiful fish scale on it. Green Valley's palm, before Green Valley could stop it, he saw the mermaid put the bloody scales into his hand, Green Valley subconsciously looked at the mermaid's tail, the scales were left on it because of the rough and direct removal of the scales The wound still oozing blood, Lu Gu slumped his shoulders, looking at the mermaid who was still staring at him, he was so worried that he didn't know what to do:

"Hey, hey, it's not about the scales, your previous scales were also beautiful, but I can't accept it, it belongs to you, I have nothing to exchange for such a precious scale, I can't accept it, it's not fair , you can’t take it anymore, you are injured, you go, someone here will catch you.”

Green Valley wanted to stand up to block this mermaid, which is especially dazzling and attractive in the night, but the mermaid stared at him for a while and thought silently, seemed to understand what he meant, touched his face lightly with her webbing, then turned and swam away Yes, Green Valley breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that mermaids are also unreasonable bastards.

Green Valley stayed here and was quickly discovered by the sailor in charge of patrolling here. This sailor was obviously drunk last night, and now his face is still flushed with drunkenness. Seeing Green Valley, an honest little sailor hiding here , put the torch in his arms into his arms, asked him to watch for him all night, and staggered away.

Green Valley held the torch and looked at the calm water surface, suddenly half a head popped out from under the water surface, the mermaid looked at him holding the fire, frowned as if he didn't want to get closer, but still restrained his repulsion to the fire and swam slowly this way , he finally emerged from the water, scattered drops of water slipped from his luminous white skin, and under the moonlight, it seemed that a layer of silver powder had been sprinkled on his smooth and tight upper body. He half closed his eyes, With a full pearl in his mouth, he looked at Lu Gu quietly and intently, put his hands on both sides of Lu Gu and lowered his head to approach him, the smooth surface of the pearl in his mouth had already touched the stunned Lu Gu's lips— —

——He wants to feed this pearl to Green Valley to make a deal, and he is using this pearl in exchange for Green Valley to accept his scales.

Green Valley finally understood the reason why old Charlie said that mermaids are forced buyers and sellers. He turned his head in a panic and used a torch to drive away the mermaid who was about to give him pearls. The sailor who stood up holding the railing out of breath held on silently and stubbornly, looking like a god-like ice-cold and otherworldly fireworks, Green Valley inexplicably felt that this guy would not give up until he achieved his goal.

Green Valley looked at the mermaid quietly: "——You mermaids, do you all like to use pearls to trick humans?"

The mermaid just looked up at him calmly, as if confirming that he would not accept the pearl, Songkou still fell into the sea from the pearl. He took a deep look at Green Valley, turned around and swam away into the sea.

Lu Gu lay on the railing helplessly, his brows drooped in worry, his chin rested on the railing and sighed, "He must have found something else to exchange with me, this mermaid named Hong, how could he It's the strategy—"

In less than 15 minutes, the mermaid reappeared. Green Valley held the torch vigilantly, but the mermaid seemed to resist the discomfort of the flame and approached him. Green Valley froze when he saw something in the mermaid's hand. He seemed to confirm that Looking at the mermaid with calm eyes——

——This is a glass bottle with a cork, the bottle that used to be around Green Valley's neck, old Charlie probably threw it into the sea, this mermaid was hanging this around Green Valley's neck when he saw him for the first time, mermaid Most of them thought the bottle belonged to him, found it and sent it back to him.

Green Valley's lips were pursed into a straight line, and he suddenly remembered what old Charlie said - [it will please you].

The mermaid frowned and slowly approached the squatting Green Valley. He raised his hand and put the bottle on the rope to tighten it. Then he swam to a position farther away from the torch and looked at the green valley quietly. The tail was still shaking vigilantly in the water, it seemed that he really didn't like fire, Lu Gu looked at the silver scales at the bottom of the bottle that were quietly put in by a mermaid in a funny and compromising manner, he took the torch away, and the mermaid quickly approached Looking up at him, Green Valley took the bottle off the rope and put it in front of the mermaid, sighing:

"Are you using it to find the bottle yourself and let me accept your scales?"

The mermaid didn't speak, but looked at him with clean and focused eyes, as if in order for him to accept his scales, he was willing to search for him in this sea area, pearls, glass bottles, he seemed to be looking at someone he had already lost. Like a destined loved one, he courted him without distraction.

Green Valley shook his head, and put the torch in a place far away from the mermaid. He took out the scales from the bottle and placed them in front of the mermaid. He smiled softly and shyly:

"Your scales are more precious than my bottle. This transaction is unfair from beginning to end. I cannot accept the bottle, nor can I accept your scales."

The mermaid was silent, he didn't pick up the bottle that Green Valley handed him with his scales, he didn't even shake his tail, he stopped alone in the water, Green Valley handed him a little more, the mermaid opened his mouth in a low voice, Green Valley's eyes After a while, he was brought into a mysterious world that accepts voices, and he heard the mermaid in front of him say to him:

"I saw you accept the scales of another merman."

The mermaid stretched out his hand and fiddled with his own scales on Green Valley's hands twice. He lowered his hair and dripped water wetly, and asked softly:

"Don't you like the color of my scales?"

He looked at Green Valley: "Don't you like silver?"