The Old Man and the Mermaid

Mr. Mermaid doesn't mind sharing at all.But he has lived in the vast sea for many years, although he has not experienced many interesting things, but the experience of hunting and traveling is definitely not small.

He was quite happy to tell these stories to Aigre—if the young man could understand what he was talking about.Thinking from the perspective of communication, he doesn't really want to use pen and paper to describe what he wants to express.

He wrote this answer on a piece of paper and told Eigre.After reading it carefully, Eigre nodded understandingly, "Indeed...sometimes the words can't express a story perfectly, but the expressions and body changes can make the language more perfect."

Aigre thought for a while and said, "Then, Mr. Mermaid, you are willing to spend your time teaching me how to correctly understand the language of the Mermaid, right?"

Mr. Mermaid looked at him and nodded.

"Do I need to prepare anything?" Aigre expressed carefully and earnestly, "I mean... like some materials about language families from all over the world. But I guess the language of the mermaid tribe is probably another A whole different language - have you ever communicated with any races of humanity?"

There are many kinds of creatures on the earth, but there are very few creatures with real intelligence.In the long history, humans and mermaids definitely met more than once, and there may even be trade and cooperation.The living habits of the two ethnic groups are completely different, but they have countless commonalities because of the similarities in their thinking patterns and appearances.

Therefore, the mermaid thinks that even if some unknown reasons occurred later, the connection between the mermaid tribe and humans was completely cut off, but the communication between the ancestors should still have existed.

He wrote this conjecture to Eigre, and also attached some of his own thoughts by the way.

He is no longer the youngest member of the mermaid tribe, but since he can remember, he has never seen his parents, so no one can tell him these distant histories.

But he didn't grow up alone.Mermaids do not interfere with each other in life, but they will definitely give basic help if they see their fellows in distress.Mr. Mermaid shuttled between various mermaid families in his childhood, and gradually relied on the only resources and his own wisdom to learn all survival skills, making himself stronger than any creature.

Occasionally, he would meet some old mermaids, but he never found a suitable opportunity to ask these elders about the evolution of the mermaids and their perhaps incomparably glorious history.

Aigre raised such a question today, which gave him the idea to understand the information in detail.

"Occasionally, there are some mentions of mermaids in our history books, but the numbers are rare and the sayings are different, so most people just regard these sporadic fragments as legends and rumors." Aigre finished reading the mermaid After thinking for a while, he said, "But after actually seeing your existence, I think our ancestors should have seen you too... But what is the specific reason that caused our history books to completely disappear? There are no records of your ethnic group, so I don't know much about it."

Mr. Mermaid nodded in agreement, then turned the paper back in his direction.

"I guess that since your group is unwilling to show up in front of human beings, they must have very good reasons and reasons, so I will also choose to respect you, and while ensuring that you will not reveal your existence to anyone, I will try my best to Don't let other people find you——Speaking of this," Aigre recalled the strangers before, couldn't help but lowered his eyebrows, and then continued to remind, "Today I met a few people in the same college in the town The alumni here, they seem to follow the professors of our college to conduct field ecological investigations—that is, to collect samples in seawater and island soil and conduct research. I don’t know yet how extensive their research scope is, But I still ask Mr. Mermaid to be as vigilant as possible during this period of time, and don't let them find you."

They can't find me, little Aigle.Mr. Mermaid replied from the bottom of his heart, then raised his pen with a smile and wrote: I will send them back to the beach before they faint and choke on water.

"...I forgot about your previous ability." Aigre shook his head with a grin, and drew a few strokes on his throat, "But this is indeed not something that humans can do, it should be unique to your race Talent? I think it has something to do with the vibration of the vocal cords and the transmission of sound waves, but I don’t know much about it, so I won’t ask more questions.”

Mr. Mermaid smiled again, then uttered a short syllable, and wrote an explanation on the paper at the same time: This is a phrase expressing an affirmative answer, which is similar to the meaning of "yes" in your words.

Aigre glanced at the words on the paper, and then tried to use his own voice to imitate the way Mr. Mermaid spoke just now.However, after trying several times, he only let out a short and strange muffled grunt in the end, and couldn't help laughing out loud, "...It seems that I really can't do it, is it because of the different vocal system?"

Mr. Mermaid replied with that phrase again, and then told Eigre on the paper that the mermaids also cannot learn the pronunciation of any human language family.

"It's a pity to say that." Aigre sighed, and after looking at Mr. Mermaid for a few seconds, he said sincerely: "Although I don't know the specific situation of the Mermaid, your voice is really nice, Mermaid. Sir, in human society, your voice will probably captivate a large number of young, shy and beautiful girls."

This sentence sounds really familiar.Mr. Mermaid felt a little funny thinking this way.He seemed to have praised Aigre's figure and appearance in his heart in a similar way before.

He originally planned to chat with Egredo for a while, but he was keenly aware that someone was approaching not far from the lighthouse, so he had to terminate the conversation ahead of time and bid farewell to Egredo on paper.

"Is someone coming?" Aigre was stunned for a moment, "Although it's not too late at this time, it shouldn't be the time when people will visit...Mr. Mermaid should avoid it in the room inside. If you leave, you may be seen before returning to the sea."

The mermaid nodded in agreement, then followed Aigre's words and temporarily hid in a small room near the stairs.

Aigre first confirmed that the door was closed, and then cleaned up the papers on the table and other traces of Mr. Mermaid's visit, waiting for the visitor outside the lighthouse to knock on the door.

To his surprise, it was Mr. Witt, the fat boss of the grocery store, who came at this time.

The fat boss's face was full of anger, and he looked not much better than the previous Mrs. Irene. As soon as he entered the door, he complained to Eigre: "I heard from our thin and tall captain, the few who came today The little bastard is your schoolmate, right? I think they are really weird! I just called you and no one answered, and the distance is not far anyway, so I just ran to find you for a walk."

"Actually, I don't know them either. I found out that they were on the island two days ago, and I just found out today that they studied in the same academy as me." Aigre looked back at himself and put it on the table while talking. The mobile phone, "Maybe it didn't have time to charge, and it turned off automatically... Sorry, I couldn't answer in time."

"It's all right!" The fat boss quickly waved his hand and said, "I'm not caring about you, little Payer. You're the most polite young man on our entire Twilight Island. Who doesn't like you?"

Aigre was still not used to this kind of excessive praise, so he could only smile a little, changed the subject, and asked: "Those guys were taken to the other temporary residential area by the security team less than an hour ago Right? How did you offend Mr. Witt again?"

"Hey... It's not what they said, they temporarily moved their residence, and many daily necessities need new ones, so I ask the person in charge of the security team to bring them here again to buy some necessities." The fat boss said angrily. Said, "God knows why they don't go to the high street in town and buy those dental kits and bed covers! Just come to me, and pick things out and say that my goods are not only expensive, but also substandard-I'm from Purchased from a designated manufacturer! Although the price is a little higher than that in the mainland, it is impossible to count the freight cost if it is shipped by cargo ship, right?"

Aigre quietly listened to him finish a long paragraph, then frowned and asked again: "Just now?"

"Yes." The fat boss sighed, "Although I believe that you will never make such a friend, I still came here with some hope... There are many people in the market who hope to teach them a lesson, you Should be able to contact someone from the school?"

"I know what you mean, Mr. Witt." Aigre nodded and said, "The reason they landed on the island is for research and investigation, so our feedback or complaints will definitely deduct a lot of points from their final grades. I will contact the professor himself as soon as possible, I am really sorry to let you see such an unpleasant side of our college."

"I'm sure most of the kids are well behaved, but...well, I won't say much, they do look weird."

After seeing off the fat boss, Mr. Mermaid opened the door and sat back on the previous chair without waiting for Aigre to come back.

He glanced at Aigre's obviously unhappy face, thought for a while, and wrote a few words of good night on the paper.

"It's getting late, Mr. Mermaid, let's go back to the sea to rest first." After reading the greeting he wrote on the paper, Aigre temporarily put away the displeasure on his face, and said with a smile, "Welcome to come back tomorrow. "

Mr. Mermaid nodded silently, turned around and left the lighthouse through the window.

To be honest, he didn't like the unhappy expression on Aigre's calm and gentle face.

So he decided to do something fun.