【Boom Out】Mermaid

Green Valley went back to the room and changed a set of clothes. He advised the mermaid not to appear in the daytime. Every shirtless and drunk man on the boat might use a rusty harpoon to deal with this uninvited mermaid. Green Valley frowned and buttoned the brass-yellow buttons of his last cotton jacket, wondering if the mermaid named Hong Jiao Frozen understood what he meant.

He was forced to watch the night last night, and was dragged down by the mermaid to swim in the sea. He was really exhausted, but the voyage did not give him the time to breathe and sleep. As the sky brightened, the overlapping smog was penetrated by sunlight, It was blown away leisurely by the wind, as if a corner of a heavy gray curtain had been pulled away, revealing a deep corner of a huge island in the middle of nowhere hidden reefs and whirlpools. Wiping past the mast with the sailcloth down, and flying past the scalp of Green Valley that just came out, Green Valley covered his head and stared blankly at this beach and surrounding black reefs, which were covered with various pearls and debris. On the small island of the gold nugget, the old Charlie at the bow turned the steering wheel rapidly and let out a loud roar:

"By-shore-down-anchor-"

The sailors looked at this dreamlike scene of Treasure Island in disbelief, and climbed up the mast like crazy, took off the hoods that were wetted by sweat and sea water and stained yellow, and cheered and howled. Gu saw Little Charlie pushing out a glass airtight box that was one size smaller. The mermaid named Al curled up in the narrow space with his tail curled up, his webbed sticking to the glass, curiously watching the group of mermaids gather. The human being who is still so happy, his ear fins trembled and breathed, he stood up as a whole fish, looked at old Charlie who was stopping the boat without blinking, and slapped the glass wall twice with his tail in a daze , apparently confused as to why any human would know of this location.

Slippery moss grew under the heavy plank of the boat, and it slid to the ground from the place where Green Valley kept vigil last night, and got stuck between two stones. Old Charlie staggered down, squinting his eyes and putting on the The black blindfold with cowhide straps that seemed to be broken at any time, he turned his head to support the glass container with pulleys underneath, Glagra's, and a group of laughing crew members carried the next mermaid back to the hometown from the ship, while the green Gu put the glass bottle with three fish scales in his pocket. Inside the pocket was a pile of small white decorative shells that he didn’t have time to take out when he set sail. He used them to make some small seaside toys for the children in the town. Small shells with blunt edges rubbed against the old corked bottle.

Old Charlie lit a new pipe. It was a tobacco flavor with stronger nicotine and smoke. Green Valley knew that some old sailors at sea liked this choking tobacco very much. It could overwhelm the smell of fish and sea water, making people Maintaining the only state of sobriety on the boundless water, old Charlie coughed, squatted down and used his still smoking pipe to push away the black gravel on the beach, inside were gold nuggets in the shape of teeth and silvery white with soft luster There was even a piece of broken porcelain next to the pearl, which was painted with lotus flowers in ink. Old Charlie took a puff of cigarette, and then slowly sprayed it out from his nose. He scolded those who were lying on the ground with their heads almost Whole buried in the soil, the sailor frantically picking things up like a dog:

"Get up for me, a bunch of bastards. They deliberately threw this thing away to lure people who went ashore. It smells like a dead man and a mermaid. If you dare to pick it up and put it on your body, you will accept it by default. Things are their prey, and once they enter the island less than 100 meters away, they will be dragged into the pool by these people-eating things—"

Old Charlie breathed out a contented smoke ring lightly, as if he was admiring the frightened scene of this group of people performing an act, he laughed lowly:

"Give me some brains, we are here to steal things now, such swaying thieves will be caught by these unreasonable guys, and their internal organs will be stripped and eaten. After all, we have come to Melmede The central island of this place—this is the lair of mermaids, if you don’t want to die, just make a scene, laugh and pick things up.”

A group of people hurriedly took off their clothes, some people even stuffed gold and pearls in their underwear, shamelessly screaming and tearing off their trouser belts, while wiping their genitals that might smell fishy, ​​green Gu turned his face away in embarrassment, suppressed his laughter in embarrassment, and silently looked at the old Charlie who was laughing wildly with mischief. Halfway through his laugh, he suddenly turned his head ferociously, limped and walked quickly to the cabinet, and started to laugh fiercely. Mermaid Al in the cabinet stared curiously at the group of sailors who took off their pants:

"Dog, what a fart!"

He shook the loose skin on his face, and with that black eye patch he looked like an old Shar Pei who was blind in one eye, he took off his coat fiercely to cover the glass cabinet, blocking the mermaid from sticking to the glass With sizing eyes, he cursed viciously:

"Shameless dog thing!"

Green Valley silently pushed the cabinet containing the mermaid behind him. He observed the island, which was mostly devoid of living people. There were towering rocks and trees everywhere, covering the gloomy island even more from the sun. , the towering and steep mountain wall was slapped by the tumbling waves again and again, spreading the echoes like crying on the island. The terrain of the island was like a floating reef in the middle of the sea. There is a deep and transparent water pool, surrounded by vines, scattered jewelry and human finger bones hanging on the vines, the white bones are clung to the vines like the last straw, but Only a decorative wrist bone was left hanging on the low and soft vines.

After walking for a short time, the originally dim sky on the island became darker and darker. Old Charlie found a place where there was only a water pool nearby and set up camp. Old Charlie's eyes were dark, and the dark place seemed to be covered with haze. He submerged the cigarette holder casually. After washing in the pool, he spoke abruptly amidst the smoke rising from the embers:

"If we want to steal the mermaid's things and take away the mermaid's treasure, there must be someone who can enter the mermaid's cave. This group of guys are surprisingly generous with their prey. Al will not take us in. In the cave, we have no one marked by him here, the only one who has a mark on his body—"

Old Charlie narrowed his eyes, and looked at Green Valley who was trying to hide himself in the shadows: "Little devil, you smell too fishy, ​​you should take a bath, but don't worry, there will be mermaids after tonight To take you to their territory to take a bath."

The sailor next to him quickly tied up Lu Gu who was about to struggle, and thoughtfully stuffed a piece of cotton cloth into Lu Gu's mouth, then roughly kicked Lu Gu in front of old Charlie, who was thoughtful Looking at Lu Gu with firm eyes of resolute rejection, he patted his face with his pipe in a half-smile and suddenly lost:

"It seems that you still forgot the advice I told you. Also, who can refuse a mermaid in the courtship period? No human can resist them, kid. Whether you want to or not, you have no way to go back. We can't move Anything on this island, but you can, you have the privilege of being a breeding game-"

Old Charlie sneered in a trance. He glanced at the glass box that was still covered by his coat. He couldn't see the mermaid's face, but only a bright fish tail wagging leisurely:

"—Although this privilege period is too short for human beings, it is enough for you to steal things out, so you don't have to think about justifying. You can catch mermaids because of the things I gave you. Do you think it's because of yourself? ?”

Old Charlie sneered coldly. He knelt down and looked at Green Valley, whose head was tied up and looked at him. He picked out the glass bottle buried in the shell pile from Green Valley's pocket with his pipe, and he looked at it. Looking at the three scales inside, he raised his eyebrows and whistled:

"Little devil, that's not bad. I got three yuan. I didn't expect that it looks so tender, but it turns out to be a master of fun. Green Valley, do you know why the mermaid's scales are known as [Sea Talisman]?"

Old Charlie spit out a puff of smoke ring towards Lu Gu's face, and Lu Gu curled up like a boiled shrimp from coughing:

"—Even after decades, the mermaid's scales will have a smell. The mermaid's scales represent the marked prey. The strength of the smell represents the strength of the mermaid who marked you. The scales I gave you are already very weak. , there will be a lot of mermaids smelling the smell and coming to snatch you, the weak prey of the "marked mermaid". It’s just a group of beasts in the water. On the contrary, if the mermaid who gave the scales is strong enough, the smell will disperse all the large fish that dare to approach. Someone will stick the scales on the bow, so basically no monsters will be encountered. attack."

Old Charlie shook out the scales from the glass bottle, he stuck out his tongue and licked it, and knocked Green Valley's forehead with his pipe in amazement:

"Among the creatures on the bottom of the sea, only the more powerful creatures dare to be more dazzling, otherwise they would not survive at all. The gold and silver varieties are already the most powerful mermaids. You can still catch a mermaid. It’s only ruby ​​red, and the scales smell too strong, I can’t tell what grade it is.”

Old Charlie poked the three scales thoughtfully with his pipe, turned around and limped towards the glass box, opened the box, and put the scales in front of Al, who looked down. After looking at the head for a while, the ear fins began to tremble violently, the fish tail swayed wildly and slammed against the glass wall, bared its fangs ferociously, and screamed piercingly at the three scales, the webs on its hands grew nails, scratched There was a sharp sound that caused hair to explode through the glass, and old Charlie closed his palms, and Al rolled up his tail in confusion for a moment, whining a little tremblingly, watching the scales on old Charlie's hands shaking his head and shrinking back .

Old Charlie took a deep breath, turned around and looked at Green Valley lying on the ground, with a faint tone:

"You little brat, what the hell did you catch up—"

Old Charlie tore off the cotton cloth from Lugu's mouth, grabbed his chin roughly, and asked in a horrifying whisper against his face:

"Little brat, have you ever called them by their names, huh!? If you fucking did, all of us would have to wait here to die!"

Lu Gu vomited out a ball of cotton cloth when his face was pinched, his eyes were red from coughing, and he replied: "I haven't called you by my full name, cough cough cough!"

Old Charlie's expression finally turned serious: "Listen, kid, I don't know what you think or what you're going to do, you have to know that a whole town is waiting for us to go back, there's no way Al can cry, we just go to Send a mermaid up, there will be a catastrophe if there are no tears, we have to hand over something else, something that can convince this old bastard! Green Valley, I know you understand what I'm talking about, otherwise the whole town will It must be buried with this mermaid without tears!"

Tears overflowed from the end of Green Valley's eyes, he adjusted his breath and asked, "Why doesn't Al have tears?"

Old Charlie paused: "It can't shed. I tried to make a fair exchange with it. It told me it didn't have tears."

Green Valley's eyes were filled with tears, and he asked sharply: "Why didn't you change it successfully, captain, what did you use to change it?"

Old Charlie bowed his head, and as he fiddled with his sparkling pipe, he replied:

"My heart, I traded my heart for it."

"But it doesn't."