When the magic flower blooms

In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, Naga deliberately chose the second half of the night to open the information in the scales.

In the dead of night, he and Ming Ruoxing came to the courtyard.This afternoon, they had already set up a simple wooden platform in the yard and set up barriers around it.

At this moment, Naga placed the scales on the wooden platform, stepped back half a step and began to release the pheromone.

Same as yesterday afternoon, this scale also slowly floated up into the air, gradually brightening up.

Immediately afterwards, the surrounding scenery began to change.A strange pot of heaven is slowly unfolding, wrapping the two of them in it like a scroll.

The light is still dim, but the night has solidified into a cold and hard wall.

The spacious and transparent courtyard disappeared, replaced by a huge stone hall.There were no windows in the walls, and a few torches were beeping and burning.There was an unpleasant smell in the air.

"This is..." Ming Ruoxing recognized it in astonishment, "The underground dungeon in Jinyu Village?"

"That's right." Naga agreed, "Everything really started from here."

Although the dungeon in front of him was gloomy and cold, the rafters, columns, and masonry looked intact.The iron shackles and cage bars in the corners were also cold and cold, without any trace of rust.

And this also means that the age of this Hutian should be far before the fire in Jinyu Village.

Ming Ruoxing was still analyzing, but Naga had already taken action.

I saw him walking quickly to the edge of the pool, stepping on the surface of the water, walking towards the half-submerged cage like walking on flat ground.

It was only then that Ming Ruoxing discovered from a distance that there were already some sharks imprisoned in the water prison.

They are far from being as beautiful as the mermaid that appeared at the ghost boat auction before, even pale and thin, with uneven gray-white fish scales, looming under the long, tangled yellow hair.

They seem to not see the existence of Naga, or have lost interest in everything outside.Like wisps of ghosts, floating confusedly in the dark water.

Ming Ruoxing was looking at it in a daze, when he suddenly heard a clanging sound behind him.

He turned around in astonishment, and found that the door leading to the secluded underground waterway had been pushed open, and four or five men with burly backs and tattoos all over their bodies came in carrying a bundle of worn-out reed mats.

The reed mat was thrown on the ground, and a slender woman with her hands clasped behind her back fell out.

Ming Ruoxing subconsciously turned his eyes away - because the woman didn't even have a thread on her body.

At the same time, he heard the leading man ordering to the other two people: "Look at her carefully, this is a treasure that cost a lot of money to get back, my buddies will rely on this bitch to make their fortunes in the future. "

The two men deserved it, but they didn't expect the woman on the ground to suddenly struggle and crawl towards the water pool.

But how could he escape from this hellish den.

I saw one of the men strode forward and grabbed something on the ground.There was only a strange clanging sound, and the woman let out an ear-piercing scream, and most of her body was suspended in the air.

Only then did Ming Ruoxing realize that the woman's feet and ankles were pierced by an iron chain, and the other end of the iron chain was being held in the man's hand!

What kind of pain is this? !

The pain and shame made the woman almost faint, but in exchange for it was a burst of ferocious and obscene laughter from the men.

The man who was still the leader took out a bunch of keys from his waist and opened a cage on the shore.

"Princess, please!"

Without any explanation, the man holding the iron chain had already dragged the woman towards the cage, ignoring the woman's struggle, threw her in and locked her up.

A layer of hay was spread on the floor of the cage, and the woman wrapped herself in hay as soon as she landed, leaving only a pair of eyes, staring at the man outside the cage full of hatred.

The man fixed the end of the iron chain on the iron hook outside the cage, turned around and asked the leader: "Brother, why don't you send such a top-quality product to pick up the customers immediately, isn't it a waste to be locked here?"

"You know what a fart." The leader spat: "When this bitch bought it, she already had a baby in her stomach. When she was born, if she was a girl, wouldn't she earn double!"

The men immediately responded and laughed and said a lot of nasty words before slowly leaving the underground prison.The huge space suddenly fell silent, only the low sobbing of the woman remained.

Ming Ruoxing was furious watching from the sidelines, but he had to remind himself that everything in front of him was a fait accompli.

At this time Naga also returned to his side.The two looked at each other with the same serious expression.

"They... called her the princess." Ming Ruoxing said what she heard just now, "It seems that she is a demihuman of noble birth."

Naga nodded.

"She is an orphan of the previous dynasty. After fleeing south, the direct descendants squandered all the money they had with them, and then began to make friends with underground forces under the guise of restoring the country. The strong dragon can't hold back the local snake, let alone those down-and-out An incompetent guy. So he named a woman of no importance as a princess and dedicated it to repay the debt, really ignoring the last face and dignity."

Ming Ruoxing was stunned: "How do you know?"

"I didn't know at first. But just now, these stories suddenly jumped out of my mind. It seems that they have been hidden in a corner all the time."

Just as Naga was saying this, he saw the surrounding lights dimming and then brightening again, just like changing scenes on a stage.The underground dungeon is still in front of me, but the surrounding furnishings are somewhat different.

The imprisoned woman was still kept in a cage on the ground, and her abdomen had visibly bulged.Now it was time to give birth, she moaned loudly in pain, her beautiful features were twisted ferociously, and her pale face was covered with sweat.

There are several merman women busy beside her, making the final preparations before giving birth.

Across a temporary curtain, at the farther door, several men were facing the door, reluctantly guarding the door, muttering "bloody disaster" and "filth" in their mouths. , "It is unlucky to see a child born."

After a long ordeal, only faint cries could be heard.The female mermaid carefully picked up the newborn baby.

Not one, but a pair.

There was no joy on their faces, they were silent but expertly cut the umbilical cord and wiped away the blood from the two children.Just as she was about to wrap them up, the woman who had almost passed out on the hay mat suddenly opened her eyes.

"please!"

She silently made such a mouth shape, her eyes were almost desperate.

The female mermaid hesitated for a moment, but her hands still kept moving.

"... Please!"

The woman became more and more anxious, trying to raise her trembling hands.

The hand of the female shark holding the child finally stopped, as if she wanted to hug the child to the mother.

However, at this moment, the man guarding the door suddenly yelled and asked: "Did you give birth!!"

"……gave birth!"

The female mermaid almost instinctively shrank her neck to answer, her voice full of fear.

The man asked again: "How many children have been born? Male and female!!"

The woman held down the mermaid's hand, shaking her head almost crazily at her.

The female mermaid was stunned for a moment, then replied tremblingly: "One, it's... a girl... a girl!"

After saying this, another merman suddenly picked up the baby boy among the twins, quickly put it into the pool beside him, and handed the baby to another haggard-looking female merman who was locked in the cage.

The shark who received the baby did not hesitate at all, and immediately untied his clothes to breastfeed the baby.

It's strange to say that the baby on the nipple didn't cry or fuss, it was unusually quiet and well-behaved.

After hiding one of the babies, the female sharks continued to hastily pack up the delivery bed, and hurried away with the remaining baby girl in their arms.

The exhausted woman looked at the baby girl who was taken away, wanting to cry without tears.

"...Why is it a baby girl?" Ming Ruoxing asked softly.

"Because only girls have the potential to survive."

Naga replied: "At this time, there was no practice of breeding male demihumans. Male babies would be cooked and eaten as soon as they were born, and they had no chance to grow into adults."

While they were talking, time and space seemed to be passing by in a hurry.In this dark dungeon, the boy who was secretly hidden started his almost incredible life.

As if instinctively realizing that only silence can save his life, he became the most silent child in the whole "village", or perhaps the world.

Most of the time, he was silent.But even with the occasional cry, his caregivers quickly doused him in water.Let the cold pool swallow his tears and cries.

Mention his caregivers—that's a not entirely fixed group.

They were old, weak, sick, weak and lowly demihumans who were imprisoned in this dungeon.But the protection they gave him was something that even those noble races could not afford.

And the best ones for him are those young mermaids who have just given birth and are unable to "receive customers" due to physical and emotional reasons.

They always have enough milk and maternal love to take care of the only and most important secret in this hidden dungeon.

When the boy was a little older, the mermaids began to teach him to speak, to sing, and to name every object in the dungeon.And those women who once had a free body are responsible for telling him what kind of world is outside.

What is the sun mentioned in the lyrics, how vast the sea is, and the leaves that occasionally float in with the flowing water are not alone, and what huge trees they once grew on... For the boy, all these are just stories and stories. Fairy tales are another world that he cannot of course reach.

It was not until the age of seven that the boy was discovered.

There was no sign of that day coming, but it seemed to be destined.The beginning of the destruction was when the gate of the water prison opened again, and the guards dragged in a white-haired woman covered in blood.

The boy hid in the dark of the pool and watched secretly, and after a while he realized that it was his mother.

In the past seven years, the boy has only one chance to see his biological mother almost once a year—when the poor woman is forced to give birth to another child, she will be temporarily sent back to the water prison like other sharks Come here to "recuperate".

In the first few years, she was still sane, and would lovingly hold the boy in her arms, whispering in his ear the past history and glory of the family.He will also teach him some poems and classics that other mermen do not know.

At the same time, the boy also knew that he had a twin sister who was now living with other girls in a yard outside the water prison.

But such a life is not forever.

"Tianze."

This is the name his mother gave him, "Your sister, you must rescue her. You must escape, leave this place, and mother will lead you to escape..."

On the few reunion days every year, this is what my mother keeps talking about.

From ignorance to half-knowledge, Tianze grew up secretly, while his mother began to age rapidly.

The graying of her hair is just an external appearance, what is really scary is that her mind has also started to blur.

Although she may not be willing, the body seems to have escaped for her, hiding the deepest and most desperate pain in madness.

This time, the reason she was dragged back to the dungeon was not because of the annual birth.

It was because she strangled the child she gave birth to with her own hands.

The author has something to say: uncover the real past of Jinyu Village.

A chapter that gets angry while writing.

People often think that the plot of the novel is unbelievable, but in fact, after so many years of news, in my opinion, some reality is more evil and bizarre than the story