On the Seven Towers

"Different? Well... I don't think there is much difference between humans and the sea tribe." Huang Zheng said as he walked, "Look, except for your mermaid tribe, most of the other sea tribes have a human form, which is not similar at all. Creatures like fish and shrimp are better said to be humans with some characteristics of marine creatures. Even if you are a mermaid, your upper body is almost the same as that of humans.

I personally have a point of view that the relationship between your sea people and humans is much closer than that of any other sea creature. Like elves, dwarves, and orcs, we are all a kind of humanoid. I think that maybe at some time in ancient times, there was an evolutionary divergence between humans and the Sea Tribe, which led to our current differences. But after getting along with the Sea Tribe these days, I find that everyone's essence is still the same. "

"What is the essence?"

"Probably emotions. Love, hate, fear, sympathy, gratitude."

"So what?" Mencius asked puzzled.

"That means we can understand each other. Right? You can't communicate with an animal, such as a fish. But we humanoid races can understand each other's feelings." Huang Zheng shrugged, "In that case, why do we Can’t we live on the same island?”

Mencius was speechless. What the other party said made sense. All he could think of were some rules of the Sea Clan. But these ancient rules can hardly refute the reasoning of the strong human being in front of him.

The two of them walked up the hillside for less than ten minutes and came to a large wooden house. Mencius looked in from the window and saw that there seemed to be many people inside.

Huang Zheng pushed the door open and Mencius saw his daughter at first sight.

"Trina!" He looked at her carefully, she didn't look hurt.

"Father." Trina nodded to her father without saying anything. At this time, there were several human men and women beside her. Mencius glanced around and found that except for a middle-aged man, everyone present was putting a lot of pressure on him.

Huang Zheng introduced him to Xiao Chen, Luo Ling, Mao Kai, Jerez and others. Except for Jerez who was present as a consultant, everyone else was a senior member of the China Tower Committee. Mencius was surprised by the large number of great magicians on the other side, and thought that no wonder his daughter would be easily defeated.

“I didn’t expect the Tower of China to be so powerful,” Mencius said.

Trina said: "There are far more experts in the Tower of China than just this. There are also several masters and many high-ranking people who have not appeared here."

After everyone sat down, Mencius asked: "Your Excellency Xiao Chen, I have obtained the information you want. In addition, I have also prepared a considerable amount of gold. If I leave these to you, can I take away mine? Where is my daughter and her subordinates?"

Xiao Chen said: "Of course, I keep my word, but Huang Zheng should have told you that some sea warriors have been hired by us. Maybe some sea warriors want to recuperate here. They have never been our prisoners. , If they don’t want to go with you, that’s their own choice.”

"Okay." Mencius nodded in agreement. He didn't have time to take care of so much.

"Now, please tell me about the ghost ship." Xiao Chen said.

"The ghost ship is a terrifying legend that has been circulated by the Sea Clan for thousands of years. However, for the Sea Clan in most eras, it is still a relatively distant thing, because the ghost ship does not appear every year, maybe every dozen or so "It took years or even decades to hear stories about it killing pirates and turning them into ghosts," Mencius said.

"However... in the past four or five years, the situation has changed." Mencius said: "In the past few years, ghost ships have attacked pirates every year. Since the past two years, not only pirates, but also members of our sea tribe have Warships can also be attacked. This has happened three times this year alone, and one of our family’s ships has been attacked. What everyone thought was just a frivolous thing suddenly turned into a serious problem.”

"Do you know who the owner of the ghost ship is?" Luo Ling asked.

"We guess it is a necromancer. We don't know the specific name, but someone has seen her and escaped. It is said that she is a human woman with very powerful magic. There was a great magician on the ship where other families lost their lives before, but they were still defeated. In her hands. So, everyone calls her the Queen of the Undead." Mencius said.

"So, the ghost ship has now become a big problem threatening the sea people?"

Mencius nodded and said: "That is no longer a ghost ship, but a ghost fleet. The ships previously captured by the Ghost Queen have become members of that fleet, and the dead sea people have also become Warriors on the ghost ship. In the past, the ghost ship operated as one ship, but now it has become more than a dozen ships and even the entire fleet of the small tribe was wiped out by them. Those tribes are all worried that one day their fleets going out to sea may become the prey of ghost ships. "

Xiao Chen suddenly said: "Have you ever described the appearance of a ghost ship in your past records? I mean, what kind of ship is that?"

"It is said that whatever ship the ghost ship eats, it will turn into that ship. Its appearance is not static. Every time there are eyewitness records, the appearance of the ship is different." Mencius said.

"Interesting. I'm guessing that the owner of the ghost ship would only rob a new ship as his own vehicle when the old ship was about to collapse? Because some of the robbed ships are older and may have problems after a few years of use, while some are relatively new and can last for decades. The so-called ghost ship attacking pirates is just the ghost queen finding a place to stay for herself." Xiao Chen asked.

"This... we have never thought about it this way." Mensius thought for a while, "But what you said is also very likely, because the time the ship can be used is consistent. However, we still don't know why the ghost queen has changed her habits now and will continue to expand the size of her fleet and rob everywhere. Is she going to go to war with our sea clan?"

"Maybe... it's because the God of Nature is about to wake up?" Luo Ling guessed, "Adriana feels that she must do something. Although what she can do is very limited, she is still not prepared to sit and wait for death. This ghost fleet is all the weapons she prepared."

"Who is Adriana? How is it related to the God of Nature?" Mensius asked.

"We speculate that she is the Ghost Queen." Xiao Chen explained, "Her other identity is a saint from the Seven Towers era."