The Old Man and the Mermaid

After Mr. Mermaid sent Eigre ashore, he first turned around under the sea surface, and after confirming that there was no one nearby who could directly see them, he resurfaced and sat next to Eigre.

After sitting up straight, he glanced at the curly fish, and finally couldn't hold back and threw out the tail to wake him up—but just when his tail was about to touch the guy's body, the mermaid hesitated and stopped. He got down, and frowned at the same time, patted Aigre on the shoulder, and stepped forward to check the situation of this guy first.

From his expression, Eigre could tell that Mr. Curly was definitely not in the right state, so he didn't speak, stood up and walked to the other side of Curly, and helped him up with Mr. Mermaid.

Originally, this guy couldn't see anything when he was lying on his stomach, but after helping him up, Eigre clearly saw the pained expression on his face and the redness in his half-opened eyes.This look is absolutely not normal. Aigre frowned tightly, raised his sleeves and pressed slightly around his eye sockets. After seeing his tears continuously slipping from his eye sockets, he was even more sure that his eyes must be something is wrong.

Mr. Mermaid looked at other parts of his body silently, and found a few scales scratched by some sharp objects on the left side of his fish tail.These few scratches looked very deep, probably caused by some kind of knife, if not for the presence of these hard scales, it would probably be able to cut several centimeters of wounds directly on the flesh.

Curly looked dizzy, and after being helped up by Eigre and Mr. Mermaid, he still looked dizzy. Not only could he not open his eyes, but his mental state didn't look very good.

Aigre took a closer look at the red liquid remaining around the eye sockets of this curly-haired gentleman, and his expression became a little indescribable.When he noticed Mr. Mermaid's questioning gaze towards him, he had to hesitate for two seconds, and said helplessly, "...This seems to be anti-wolf spray."

Mermaid: "..."

Aigre felt a little strange just like him, and couldn't figure out what kind of situation this guy had encountered before he was sprayed into his eyes by the liquid suspected of being anti-wolf spray.

Mr. Mermaid was silent for a while, pointed to the scratches on Curly's tail to Egre, then raised his hand and patted Curly's head twice, asking a few words.

Curly's situation is even more out of state than Mr. Mermaid imagined—he probably couldn't even fully understand Mr. Mermaid's questions, and his answers were intermittent, as if he had been drugged.Mr. Mermaid speculated that this might also be the effect of anti-wolf spray, so he could only listen to Curly's fragmentary words patiently, trying to figure out what he meant.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Aigre moved his eyes down to observe the injured scales, guessing what kind of tool would cause this injury.

After barely understanding the curly hair's explanation, Mr. Mermaid raised his hand and barely shook it twice at Aigre, then lowered his head and wrote on the beach: The smell of humidity nearby is too strong, it is difficult to distinguish the smell of humans.He didn't pay attention when someone was approaching, and only temporarily wanted to keep that person after he saw the person.The human was carrying spray and knives with him, causing these injuries on him.

Aigre glanced at the not-so-dense jungle behind them, nodded clearly, but at the same time felt a little puzzled, "Because it is often submerged during high tide, basically no one comes here. ..." He paused for a few seconds, and then said, "Unless that person is deliberately waiting here."

Mr. Mermaid nodded along with him, and continued to write: He said this is the beach where he got the pill and realized that someone saw him.

Aigre fell silent, and glanced at Curly who had to close his eyes tightly. He couldn't find any way to relieve his pain for the time being. He could only use his cuffs to help him simply wipe away the irritation remaining near his eyes. sex liquid.

However, his current appearance also made Egreel inevitably sigh.It seems that most members of the mermaid clan don't know much about the human world. Mr. Mermaid is probably a special case. If he was the one who was attacked this time, it might not be so easy for that guy to succeed.

Mr. Mermaid sat aside, recalled what his female kin said before, and then thought of the fisherman who died on the beach mentioned by Aigre, gradually generated a lot of related speculations, but before he could These thoughts told Eigre that there was a slight sound coming from the jungle—although Mr. Mermaid had never had any direct contact with any human being except Eigre, he would never mishear the trampling on the soles of his shoes. Voices on the ground.

When he turned his head to look in the direction of the woods, Eigre also noticed his abnormality, and after seeing Mr. Mermaid nodding, he quickly stood up and walked towards the woods in satisfaction.

Eigre remembered that he had been to this grove when he was still young, and he was almost lost in it, until he was found by the captain of the guard at the time and brought him to his grandfather, and he was scolded for it.Now that he has grown up, this small forest is no longer as vast and boundless as he remembered it when he was a child, and it is not so difficult to recognize the direction.

When he just stepped into the jungle, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a figure fleeing in the opposite direction.He didn't have time to turn around to notify Mr. Mermaid, so he immediately ran after him—although he didn't know whether this guy had anything to do with Curly Hair's attack, but as long as he thought that someone might have seen the existence of the mermaid, Egre He felt a tightness in his chest, and a sense of tension that he hadn't felt for a long time came to his mind.

The guy in front obviously didn't know this forest at all, he stumbled while running, and almost tripped over the roots and stones under his feet several times.Aigre carefully discerned his back, and after a few glances, he inexplicably felt that this guy looked familiar.

However, his movement speed was obviously not as fast as that of Aigre, so after a few minutes of chasing, Aigre caught him and pushed him directly to the ground.

After seeing this person's face clearly, Aigre was stunned for two seconds, and said with some surprise: "...is it you?"

This guy is one of the alumni who came with Professor Nice before. His name is Robertson, and he is also the one who talks to Aigle the most.

What really surprised Eigre was that the guy's expression was obviously extremely excited at this time, even though he was pressed down to the ground fiercely by Eigre, he couldn't help panting heavily while suppressing himself With the excitement in his eyes, he said to Eigre with a trembling voice: "You saw it too...you saw it too, right? I saw you sitting with them, and you saw it too, right!"

After listening to Robertson's seemingly inexplicable two sentences, Aigre could only feel the sour tension rushing into his chest, which directly stimulated his stomach and made all the muscles in his body tense up. Even his eyes became extremely cold and stiff.

Probably startled by his sudden terrifying expression, Robertson's breathing paused for a few seconds, and then he became a little hideous, "Don't try to take credit for it! This is a big discovery... If I can Announcing this important discovery to the public, do you know how many surprised looks I will enjoy from others? I discovered them first! You...you don’t want to swallow everything!"

Aigre had originally decided to stun him temporarily so that he would not tell the truth about seeing the mermaid, but after hearing his incoherent words, Aigre felt a little confused again.

He took another careful look at Robertson's expression, heard his heavy and abnormal breathing, and asked with a frown, "...Are you taking drugs?"

Robertson laughed twice, shook his head quickly, and retorted in a sarcastic tone: "What drugs! This thing I like is much better than drugs... Do you know what heaven feels like? You don't want to Do you want to try?"

Aigre recalled Mr. Curly's feelings when he described the days when he was muddled, and only felt that the paradise that Robertson said was probably not much better than hell.

But he didn't have a chance to think more, because Robertson quickly pulled out a short knife from his crotch with a grim expression, stabbed it in the direction of Aigre without hesitation, and said sharply: "I found them first! I found their traces when I came last time... And after checking the information, I know that they like the smell of blood like sharks, and they have prepared such a good bait-this is all thanks to me!"

Aigre froze for a moment, raised his hand to hold his wrist, and at the same time drew a conclusion from his few words, and felt that the anger that had not appeared in his heart for a long time was continuing at an astonishing speed Rising, "That fisherman named Joel was killed by you?"

"That guy is very unlucky." Robertson grinned, "I will stand by the coast every morning to verify whether my guess is correct. That guy happened to go out to sea in the rain that day. Isn't it a good time to lure that mermaid? ? Oh... yes, now there are two! There must be more in the ocean, right?!"

While talking, he struggled with all his might, and after Aigre snatched the short knife, he unexpectedly pulled out another knife from behind, and slashed at Aigre's left arm fiercely.

Aigre only had time to turn his body slightly, but the knife still cut a not-so-shallow wound on his forearm.He was so stimulated by the piercing pain that he couldn't help frowning, but he quickly shook his head and chased after Robertson in the direction where he was running away in a hurry.