Mermaid I gave birth to your egg

Andrea thought for a moment, then nodded.

The mermaids around breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this. They put away their weapons and looked curiously at this outsider who had short black hair unlike them.

Whoever was in this group thought about it, and swam some distance ahead before Andrea finally saw their residence.

It was a very strange scene, above a piece of gray-white sand, there was a row of small square boxes strung together.

The number of boxes is not very large, roughly a dozen or so.The box was well sealed, with only two or three windows and one door.

The weirdest thing is that there is no common house foundation under that row of houses, but a boat-like wooden raft made up of countless tree trunks.

The wooden raft was floating on the sand, and it looked like it was moving.

The shape of the box is exactly the same as the one Andrea found in the sand before, and it should be their residence.

"Come in and sit down, you're welcome." said Andrea, the leader of the mermaid team.

While speaking, he had already arrived at the door of one of the larger wooden houses, opened the house swiftly, and then looked at Andrea eagerly.

Beside him, the green mermaid caught by Andrea looked at him with some unease. His expression seemed to be a little scared and apologetic, and the owner was struggling between the two.

Judging from his expression, he is currently more inclined to succumb to the fear of Andrea.

Andrea did not refuse, and entered his house with the mermaid leading the team.The inside of the house is simpler than the outside, probably to save weight, there is nothing else in the room except a bed.

However, there are some daily necessities and some weapons hanging on the wall.

After entering the room, Andrea was invited to sit down on the only bed.

The mermaid leading the team was a little nervous, and his face, which was five or six points similar to the green one, was slightly flushed. He rubbed his hands and asked nervously, "You said you came in from outside? Are you How did you get in, how long have you been here?"

After finishing speaking, he seemed a little embarrassed again, rubbed his hands again and said embarrassingly: "I even forgot that you should be tired, and you must be very unaccustomed to being here just now, why don't you take a day off first."

Because of nervousness, his speech became broken.

"Oh, no, I should give you something to eat first..."

Sitting in the room, Andrea clearly felt the curious eyes from the window and the door, and the mermaids who came back with them were all looking at him curiously at the moment.

A few were bolder, and even poked their heads in through the window, with expressions as if they wanted to come up and touch Andrea.

"What the hell is this place?" Andrea asked.

This place is completely different from the place he lived before, as if it is another world.

Hearing Andrea's question, the captain who had been very nervous finally calmed down. He sighed and said, "This is the Sea of ​​Sand and the Forest of the Dead Sea. I don't know what people outside call this place. We have always Call him Shahai."

"How did it become like this here?" Andrea asked suspiciously, he had never heard of this term before.

But considering that it was his first time here and he was not very familiar with it, it seemed not surprising that there was such a place he had never heard of, so Andrea didn't pursue it.

"That happened in ancient times. We don't know exactly what happened. The legend passed down from ancient times is that a mutation caused this sea forest to die in a short period of time. During that time, the entire sea forest Everything in it lost its life, fish, shells, trees, mermaids, everything, not even the underground land escaped."

"The specific situation is already unknown. All we can know is that those who entered this dead sea forest will never be able to leave." Captain Youyou said.

Hearing the other party's voice, Andrea shuddered. His dark eyes stared straight at the other party, but he couldn't see any joking intentions from the other party's face.

"We've always lived here, and occasionally we hear of people entering by mistake, but we've never heard of anyone leaving," said the mermaid.

When he said this, he looked at Andrea cautiously, as if he was afraid that Andrea would make a big fuss if he couldn't accept this fact.

After speaking, seeing Andrea still sitting there calmly and motionless, he was a little puzzled, "Are you okay? If you feel uncomfortable, you must speak up."

Andrea lowered his eyes, he thought for a while, then shook his head.

He has seen the evil nature of this place before, obviously he just chased that mermaid for a night, but after that he wandered around for a few days without being able to get out.

After finding out that something was wrong, he searched around the direction he was in very purposefully, but no matter how hard he searched, he couldn't find the way out.

Later, for a while, he wondered if the mermaid lured him here purposely, and deliberately wanted to bring him here.

But after thinking about it, he denied this idea. Judging from the situation at the time, the mermaid probably didn't expect that he would suddenly chase it out, and the other party was also very embarrassed when he escaped.

"If that's the case, then you can take a rest here first, we'll talk about it tomorrow." After saying this, the captain kicked out all the people around him, and then closed the door for Andrea.

Andrea, who was tired for a long time, looked at this strange house, and lay on the bed with his arms folded, brewing sleepiness.

I don't know what those mermaids did at night, but there was no sound.The sand beasts that had been chasing Andrea all this time did not appear here.

After a good day's rest, Andrea didn't leave the house until the next morning and went outside.

When he went out, there were many mermaids sorting out their things.

They seemed to be preparing to go, so they picked a lot of food to bring back.

Seeing Andrea going out, the captain came to Andrea, "You woke up just in time, and I said that if you don't wake up again, I will call you."

"Are you leaving here?" Andrea looked around.

There are not many mermaids here, and there are less than forty in total.There are different ages, the older ones are already showing old age, and the younger ones seem to have been born not long ago.

"We don't stay in one place for a long time, it's dangerous, and you'll get used to it in the future." The captain said with a smile: "By the way, we want to take you to meet someone."

Andrea didn't ask much, these people are not like unorganized, they have their own purpose.Andrea, who had just arrived, didn't plan to explore too much, and she couldn't explore anything.

It didn't take long for Andrea to see the way these people moved.

Some mermaids use their ability to control water to push the bamboo raft they live on, moving forward on the sandy ground.

The sandy land was extremely quiet during the day, without any attacks.

Their speed is not very fast, it seems that it will take several days to reach the place where the person they said is.

After a brief exchange with those people, Andrea broke a branch and sat on the border of the bamboo raft. He inserted the branch in his hand into the sand and started fishing for scorpions.

When he lifted the red scorpion from the sand, he realized that the people around him were looking at him.

Andrea looked at the mermaids with bright eyes around him, then at the scorpion in his hand, and finally threw the branch into the sand as if nothing had happened.

After no longer running away like before, life was much easier and more leisurely, and Andrea focused more on the person they mentioned before.

"Who are you taking me to meet?" While the other mermaids were not paying attention, Andrea secretly asked the green mermaid he caught before.

The latter showed a timid expression after seeing him approaching.

Backing away slightly, the green mermaid who was helping to search for food along the way looked at Andrea for a while before saying: "The Prophet."

Seeing that Andrea was still puzzled, he swam forward for a while.

After putting the tree mushrooms he collected from the surrounding tree poles in front of Andrea, he said again: "He is the smartest mermaid in the Dead Sea, he knows many things that we don't know, if it is him There may be a way to get you out of here."

prophet?

For some reason, Andrea thought of the kind of witch who dances to the gods in a grass skirt...

Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

In the mermaid city where Neptune lives.

Alfred frowned and looked at the information on the table. There were many red crosses drawn on the tulle-like maps. Those places were searched by Sea King's mermaid warriors recently. location.

Except for those places they had looked for before, Neptune sent people to search all the places, but there was no sign of Andrea.

According to the previous agreement, Neptune has already issued an order to the other mermaid cities around, asking them to go out together to find Andrea.

Alfred has been staying in Sea King's Mermaid City during this time, waiting for news from all directions.

But time passed day by day, and with the help of Neptune, there was still no trace of Andrea.

The meeting in the Mermaid City had already ended, and Herahed had already gone back to his own Mermaid City with other people. Skoda stayed stubbornly, and he would have no face to go back if he didn't find Andrea.

"Do you want to go to rest for a while?" Herahed stood next to the table and asked.

Recently, Alfred has hardly had a good rest. At this moment, his face is a little pale, as if he will faint at any time.

The latter pinched the bridge of his nose when he heard the words, he shook his head, and patted his face with his hands to revive himself.

After doing this, he looked back at Herahed, "Is there any news from you?"

Herahed smiled wryly and shook his head. This was not the first time this kind of conversation had happened. Seeing Alfred's disappointed expression, a trace of bitterness filled his heart.

"I haven't found anyone, but I heard something. I'll go over later to see if it has something to do with Andrea's matter." Herahed said.

"What's the matter?" Al Frederick asked, he didn't let go of any news related to Andrea, even if the news hadn't been confirmed yet.

"We've been looking for Andrea everywhere before, so we didn't notice it, but when I went there yesterday because of the news, someone told me that another person had disappeared for several days." Herahed said.

Hearing this, Alfred immediately frowned.

In addition to Andrea, are there other people who also disappeared?

For some reason, he always felt that there might be some relationship between the two.

"Go now, and I will go too." Alfred got up and left the stool.

Horahed knew that he couldn't stop Alfred, so he quickly followed him out of the room and came to the slightly deserted street. Tell Alfred.

"I asked about it before, and the specific situation is not very clear. However, it is said that the mermaid that disappeared disappeared at about the same time as Andrea, and he disappeared the day after Andrea disappeared. Herrahde said: "Besides, we still know that person, even Andrea."

It is precisely because of this that Herahed took this news to heart.

He was going to check it out by himself to see if he had any connection with Andrea before going to Alfred, so as not to make Alfred happy in vain, but he didn't think of Alfred Dehui will follow him himself.

"Who?" Alfred stopped, his brain started to work quickly, someone they knew?

In the entire mermaid city, he knew Andrea and no more than ten people.

After quickly going through all the people in his mind, Alfred frowned.

Because after going through it this time, he realized that most of these people were unfamiliar to him.

In the past, he never cared about other people around him, no, to be precise, the only person he cared about was Andrea from beginning to end.

"It's the purple mermaid we met in the water before." Herahed said.

"Him?" Alfred rarely showed a surprised expression on his face.

"The people who worked with him didn't know where he went. He didn't report to the mermaid warrior, and those people went to his house to look for him, but they didn't see anyone." Herahed said.

A sternness flashed in Alfred's eyes, and he said darkly, "Lead the way."

Gerahed didn't say any more, and took Alfred to the empty house as quickly as possible.

When they arrived, the owner of a nearby house was leaving the house. When he saw the two, he curiously asked what they were here for.

After seeing Alfred's dark face, he ran away in a hurry.

Herahed knocked on the door, but as others said, the room was empty, and no one responded to him.

Just when Herahed decided to look elsewhere, the door in front of him had already been knocked away by the ocean current, and the door leaf was knocked aside.

Alfred, with a cloudy face, swam past the gate that he had destroyed, and then swam towards the house.

As soon as he entered the door, he couldn't help frowning.Because there was a bad smell coming from the house.

The small coral house is fairly clean. Although it is not very big, it is warm. The owner of the house seems to like shiny things, so there are many beautiful corals in the corners.

In the middle of the room, there were still some rotten and smelly meat on the table.

Some odds and ends were thrown on the ground. It seemed that the previous owner left in a hurry and did not tidy up the house carefully.

Alfred swam towards the inside of the house. He only carefully looked around the whole room before returning to the living room that had been occupied by the stench.

Horahed stopped aside, clutching his nose, and said in a muffled voice: "It seems that he hasn't been back for a long time."

The person is definitely gone now, but it is not known whether it has anything to do with Andrea's disappearance.

"Where are the mermaids who were with him recently?" Alfred asked aggressively.

The best and quickest way to find out where he went was to ask those around him.

Herahed obviously understood this truth, and he immediately went out to look for those people.

The mermaid with the purple tail fin is also a mermaid warrior directly under the king, but there are several levels in this department, he belongs to the outermost level, while Leido belongs to the general manager.

Some of these people accepted Leido's mission and stayed away all year round, carrying out some orders of the Sea King.The other part of the people are stationed in the mermaid city all the year round, protecting Neptune and the mermaid city.

Knowing that Alfred's patience was limited, Herahed immediately went to Leido and asked him to send some people to bring back all the friends around the purple mermaid, together with the mermaid warriors he had gone out with before.

By the time he found all the people, it was already dark.

Alfred was sitting in the house, and Skoda, who had heard the news from nowhere, was beside him.

When Herahed led the men into the house, the eyes of both of them lit up.

"They were with that guy before, and I brought them here." Herahed said, "I also asked them about some related things before, but they don't know much."

It's better to say that you don't know much than you don't know much.

After finding them before, Herahed couldn't help asking them about Andrea's news, but he didn't know anything about it.Later, Herahed had no choice but to ask them about another mermaid. As a result, these people also didn't know anything about it...

After asking around, the only thing they knew was that the mermaid had disappeared, so they didn't report it.

"Has he ever said anything before?" Alfred asked impatiently.

The group of people in front of them all had doubts on their faces, apparently they still haven't figured out why they were brought here.

There has been so much commotion in the Mermaid City recently, and the mermaids here already know that a mermaid has disappeared.

As the soldiers who were sent out to find people, they even knew any of Andrea's characteristics clearly.

Herahed's question made them vaguely guess something, but they really couldn't figure out what it had to do with Andrea's disappearance.

"It seems that there is nothing special..." A mermaid shook his head, but he really couldn't figure it out.

"If you really want to say, didn't the current hit the street before? I remember that he seemed to be injured, so he was not in a good mood." I have seen Andrea's group of mermaid warriors in the current here before. one of them said.

He has been performing missions with that mermaid, so he knows him quite well.

"Yeah, he doesn't seem to be in a good mood recently." Someone beside him spoke up.

"I'm not asking if he's in a good mood, I'm asking if he's said anything strange, where he's going, or who he wants to trouble with..." Alfred's voice rose sharply, making him try to restrain himself Looking at himself, but his anger leaked from that sharp voice.

The mermaids who were still very loose in front of him tensed up one after another. They tensed up and looked at Alfred with some wariness.

They all know Alfred's identity, and they have seen the Dou Liuhai meeting before, so they naturally know Alfred's methods.

What's more, Alfred is still their direct boss now, and even Leido is afraid of him three points. They don't want to cause trouble for themselves with Alfred's bad luck.

"I haven't heard where he is going. If there is, we will know for sure. If you don't believe me, you can ask Leido. If any of us needs to leave, we need to ask him for leave." The mermaid replied.

"Yes!"

"Besides, he was injured before, and he originally said that he didn't want to go on long-distance missions in a short time, and wanted to rest here for a while."

"I heard from him that he also participated in the Dou Liuhai meeting! He seemed to be complacent before, but he was very sure of it."

"Dou Liu Hai Hui?" Herahed, who had been silent at the side, looked at them suspiciously. "That purple mermaid is already a mermaid warrior. Why did he go to join the Dou Liu Hai Hui?"

Generally speaking, those who will participate in the Dou Liu Hai meeting are some ordinary mermaids, hoping to stand out in that event and be favored by the king of the sea, and then selected as a mermaid warrior.

And people who have become mermaid warriors rarely participate, after all, it is meaningless to them.

"I heard from him that it's because he's not satisfied with the current situation, so I want to give it a try." The mermaid who just mentioned this matter replied.

Hearing his words, the surrounding mermaids all started to look at each other.

Judging from their expressions, it was obvious that it was not the first time they had heard of such a thing, but they didn't know how to say it for a while.

It is naturally a great thing to be able to join the mermaid warrior team under Neptune, but this team is also divided into classes, and the internal competition is also very fierce.

Aliens like them are often at the bottom, and they do some ordinary tasks. The task they sent out before was to convey an order to the sea king, and one to another mermaid city in the mermaid city far away from the sea king's residence. city ​​orders.

That task was very simple, but the journey alone took them nearly a month.

There are countless tasks like this, most of which are done by them.And like the team led by Leido, it is already the elite of the elite.They never leave the mermaid city too far, and the task is not very heavy, because they are the team that is really close to the sea king and protects the sea king, and they are the center of the mermaid fighters.

To enter this team, it is not enough just to be strong, but also to be appreciated by Leido or Neptune.

This is not easy, so many merfolk never reach this position.

"...He always wanted to join that team, so he worked very hard." The mermaid before said, his face was a little embarrassed and a little helpless, "Actually, who is not? Everyone wants to join that team, but it doesn't matter. It’s not easy and we all know that.”

"He always said that he was only short of an opportunity, and the Dou Liuhai Club was his opportunity. When he came back from the outside, he had been discussing this matter all day long." Said the mermaid next to him.

"But what does it have to do with Andrea?" Alfred's patience gradually disappeared, and he pinched the bridge of his nose again with a headache. He didn't care what these mermaids wanted to do at all, he only cared about his Where did Andrea go.

Skoda on the side opened his mouth leisurely at this time, he said: "Andrea was invited by Leido to enter the Mermaid City..."

The impatient Alfred suddenly stopped, and he stared at Skoda with wide eyes.

Before, because the sea current suddenly hit the street, after he realized the seriousness of the matter, he immediately went there to help. At that time, the guy was not far from him, and he also saw him.

Later, because their ability was not enough to control the current, the entire team was thrown out.

At that time, he took Andrea decisively and prepared to flee, and didn't pay much attention to other people, but it seems that someone was injured at that time.

Later, they caught up with Herahed and the others, and when they saw Herahed and the others being chased by the current, Andrea immediately rushed forward to stop the current from hurting people...

At that time, he followed Andrea's words to find other people to help, and when he returned with the mermaids that were blown away, Andrea had already stopped the current and attracted Leido's attention.

Looking back now, that guy was not far away at the time, and he seemed to be staring at Andrea all the time.

But at that time, all of Alfred's attention was focused on the hand that Andrea was holding his hand, and he didn't notice anything unusual at all.

The more I thought about it, the more I got a headache, and the more I thought about it, the more furious I became. Alfred's five-colored tail fin slapped violently, and there was already some killing intent in his eyes.

If he dared to hurt Andrea, even if it was just a hair, he would tear that guy into pieces!

"So I seem to have heard him talk about the Dead Sea before!" Hearing what these people said, a mermaid who had been silent all of a sudden said loudly: "Just a few days ago, we heard that the black mermaid was invited to enter the Dead Sea!" After entering Neptune’s City, he has been very angry and kept talking about it. But that thing has existed for hundreds of years and there is nothing to say, so we didn’t care at all.”

Hearing those two words, Alfred, Gerahed, and Skoda immediately turned black.

Dead Sea Forest...

They have been trying to avoid places where they can avoid talking about it as much as possible.

If Andrea really entered that place, I'm afraid...

"Impossible!" Alfred refused to believe it.

"But if it wasn't for the Dead Sea Forest, how could they disappear so completely." Herahed said in a low voice.

Alfred showed an angry expression when he heard the words. He stared at Herahed with scarlet eyes for a while, but he didn't say a word.

"No matter what it is, I'll go over there to have a look, maybe I can find some traces." Skoda said.

He has also heard the legend of the Dead Sea Forest.No one knows what is inside, because everyone who has entered has completely disappeared from this world.It is a place where there is only entry but no exit, and the legend has not been an exception for hundreds of years.

"I'll go too." Herahed said before Alfred: "Don't worry, let's go and check the situation first. Maybe it's just a misunderstanding. We don't have evidence now, do we?"

Alfred sat motionless on the spot, his eyes were looking at an unknown place in the distance, and he didn't know what he was thinking at all.

Gerahed explained some things to the mermaid next to him, and asked them to keep a close eye on Alfred, and then he and Skoda left the mermaid city where Sea King lived, and swam towards the Dead Sea forest.

The Dead Sea forest is some distance away, but it is not far from the reef area where the accident happened before.

But that's just the periphery, and the real Dead Sea forest will take a long time to swim in.

Start from the reef area and start towards the Four Seas Forest.The two prayed and searched next to each other.

Skoda naturally prayed that Andrea was okay, but Gerahed prayed that Alfred would not rush into it in a rush.

It is precisely because he knows Alfred's character that Herahed is really worried, maybe he will really rush in if he can't find Alfred.

But things backfired, and they found traces left by Andrea near the Dead Sea forest.

No, it's more precisely what Andrea left behind - the starving and emaciated saber-tooth shark stuck in the tree trunk!

Seeing the screaming guy stuck in the tree trunk, Herahed wanted to kill him for a moment.

This guy is here, and has no intention of explaining Andrea's whereabouts.

Regardless of how pale Skoda's face was beside him, Herahed rushed up and chopped off the tree trunk that caught the saber-toothed shark, then glared at the guy fiercely, "Where's your father?"

The saber-toothed shark, which had been hungry for more than twenty days, was as happy to see Herahed as if he had seen meat. Regardless of the angry expression on Herahed's face, he plunged into Herahed's arms, and then Squeaky and coquettish begging for food.

"I asked where did your father go?" Herahed pulled the head of the saber-toothed shark to make it look at him.

"Squeak..." The saber-toothed shark wagged its tail vigorously, keeping its mouth open, but Herahed couldn't understand a word it said.

After recovering, Skoda took out some meat from his pocket and threw it into the water. The saber-toothed shark rushed over and swallowed it in one bite. Then it stopped entangled Herahed and began to circle Skoda in circles.

The almost crumbling Skoda looked at Herahed with a wry smile, "Don't bully it."

Herahed's breath was stuck in his throat, and his head had been throbbing ever since he saw this guy, and now the pain was so painful that he wanted to hit a tree with it.

"What should we do next?" asked Herahed, who had a headache.

Skoda was silent, and he didn't know what to do.

"...If you tell Alfred, he will definitely rush in without saying a word." Herrahd said.

Although it is a bit too much to say such a thing in front of Skoda, Herahed had to say, "Don't tell Alfred about this, you understand?!"

The pale Skoda glanced at him, then nodded.

All mermaids who enter the Dead Sea forest have only one result, which is death.

Herahed's selfishness kept reminding him of the fact that the Skoda Andrea might be dead. He looked weakly at the saber-toothed sharks that were still begging for food around him, and his throat felt bitter.

If he knew that he shouldn't have taken Andrea out of Mermaid City, how would he go back and tell Angus about Andrea now?

Alfred is Gerahed's younger brother. Skoda understands his feelings, but understanding does not mean that he can understand and forgive. After all, it is his younger brother who has entered the Dead Sea forest now!

Herahed was silent for a moment, and he said again: "I will let other people come here to continue searching, maybe Andrea just got lost around here and didn't go in...you don't have to worry too much."

When he said something he didn't believe, Herahed's eyes flashed guilt, and the next moment, his clenched fists showed a cruel look in his eyes.

"You can continue to search here. I will go to Alfred and tell him that I will try my best to send more people over without telling Alfred." Herrahd said.

What he meant was very clear, he hoped that Skoda would stay away from Alfred from now on, and he didn't want Skoda to have the opportunity to tell Alfred about this.

Skoda smiled wryly, but his body felt colder and colder.

As expected of Alfred's brother, he is equally cold-blooded and ruthless.

Although I know that even if I tell Alfred about this, it won't change anything.But Skoda couldn't help planting the seeds of hatred in his heart.

He even thought crazily, it would be great if it was Alfred who disappeared.

If it's Alfred, maybe he can still live well in this Dead Sea forest, but the other party is Andrea!After Andrea, who had never left their side, entered such a horrible place, did he really have a chance to live?

With a sore throat, Gerahed said a few more words to Skoda before leaving. He also left the saber-toothed shark in the sea forest.

Quickly returning to the Mermaid City, Herahed packed up his mood before returning to Alfred.

Seeing Herahed, Alfred immediately greeted him and pulled Herahed excitedly, "How is it? Did you find Andrea?"

Herahed shook his head helplessly, trying to make himself look calmer, "I didn't find any trace, and Andrea shouldn't be there."

Hearing this, Alfred showed a disappointed expression.

Herahed said a few words of comfort, and then left after seeing that Alfred did not continue to ask.

After leaving Alfred's side, he found Leido, borrowed a suitable person from him in Alfred's name, and led them to swim towards the sea forest.

Herahed doesn't dislike Andrea, and after getting along for a long time, he even admires Andrea very much.The younger brother, who was able to suppress him, who couldn't even help his own family, had a good personality. For a while later, he even felt that Andrea and Alfred were a good choice together.

Taking those people to the forest, Skoda is still waiting in place.Seeing him coming, Skoda didn't smile on his face.

Herahed had nothing to say, and after explaining to the people around him, he asked them to scatter around to find Andrea.

After doing this, Herahed slowly came to Skoda.He opened his mouth to say something to ease the atmosphere between the two, but saw Skoda's face gradually twisted.

Skoda was not looking at him, but looking at the direction behind him. The moment he saw the other person's face became distorted, Horahed immediately understood that something was wrong.

Sure enough, when he looked back, Alfred was floating there with a hideous expression about two meters behind him.