How to become a sea witch

As Thiago said, there are signs of the disappearance of the dimension barrier, and the place where it first appeared has now broken into a hollow, and the passage between the two worlds has become unobstructed.

There are a total of nine such hollow areas, four of which are on the mainland, and the other five are scattered in various ocean areas, which are also places where Bernice needs absolute supervision:

The Dragon Triangle Sea, the Sargasso Sea, the Antarctic Weddell Sea, the Ionian Sea, and the Bermuda Sea, which is said to be particularly famous in the human world because it first appeared.

It is not difficult for Bernice to supervise these sea areas, but the pain is that they now need to carry out activities in the name of the Ocean Research Center, which means that they will come into contact with humans from time to time.

Therefore, it is extremely necessary to learn their language.

However, what Bernice didn't expect was that just like the fishes of all races in the ocean have their own way of communication, human beings also have many different languages.

Even thanks to the demon's ability to learn far faster than humans, Bernice is still tossed by various ABCD verb conjugations and complex square characters, and almost spends her whole day trying to drown her sorrows—I don't know why, this The milk of the world has the same effect on her as alcohol, once she drinks it, she gets drunk.

As a result of drinking too much milk, those originally neat and orderly Chinese characters gradually blurred and softened in her vision, like a large piece of luxuriant flower vines whose support was suddenly removed, falling down overwhelmingly and submerging her.

In a daze, she dreamed many things that happened a long time ago.

At that time, she was just a young sea thorn jellyfish. For her, there were only three things that she needed to care about in the whole ocean:

Food, ocean currents, and natural enemies turtles.

If she's lucky, Bernice doesn't need to work hard on her own at all, as long as she is lazily suspended in the sea water, the incomparably regular ocean currents can bring her to waters with sufficient food, or send them to her face .

Experienced jellyfish can always find suitable ocean currents to follow and drift, and in the process of waiting for food, everyone always has endless topics to talk about.

About the upcoming glacier floating season, about the large fleet of pearl divers that will appear at a fixed time every year, and so on.There is also about the mermaid clan of the ocean royal family and their old enemy, who is also carved on the twelve sin pillars, the only demon living in the ocean, the sea witch.

Bernice, like many other jellyfish, was traveling the currents in search of food that day.

She emerged from the deep blue sea, and saw the sun just slipping from the sky to the sea level, the strong orange-red twilight melted into the sea water, kissed countless golden waves, and thousands of seabirds passed by the sky, Mottled shadows.

The sea is as blue as ice, entangled with the flames of the setting sun.

Maybe it was because she was too fascinated by watching it. By the time Bernice came back to her senses, she had already fallen to the end of the jellyfish army, and happened to hear a few companions chattering about what happened in the Longji Strait a few days ago.

A whole royal inspection team, twelve well-trained mermaids, were all killed by the sea witch.

"I've also heard about this, and I also heard that the Sea God Palace has been heavily guarded recently, and foreign sea spirits can't easily approach it."

"Will there be war soon?"

"I don't know about that." The little jellyfish shook its head, its bright red tentacles swayed in the water, and then turned to Bernice, "Have you heard anything?"

She shook her head: "No."

Why bother to care about those high-level sea spirits that you may never meet in your life, eat enough and sleep every day, and float along the waves to various places to see new scenery, chat about the gossip about the familiar sea spirits around you. Yet?

"However, compared to the royal family and sea witches, I suggest that we hurry up and catch up with our companions, otherwise we won't even have to eat seaweed." She continued to add.

After all, in front of food, no jellyfish would respect the old, love the young, be respectful and humble. Once the hunting instinct is stimulated, it is perfectly normal to devour the same kind.

However, when everyone was in a mess because of hunting, a few turtles suddenly swam out from behind the coral bushes, and all the jellyfish were screaming and running for their lives.

Bernice struggled through the chaotic current and countless floating bubbles, and the last thing she remembered clearly was the severe pain of being bitten by a sea turtle.

She watched as her tentacles were torn open, and sharp pain burned from the wound, a heart-piercing torture.

When drifting and slowly falling into the cracks of a cracked seabed reef, Bernice looked up at the circle of chaotic light, and there was only one thought in her mind:

Sea god, mermaid, angel, or sea witch...it doesn't matter what it is, as long as it can make her less painful, she can exchange everything.

save her...

save her...

The halo of light trembled and shattered, like withered flowers all over the place, and the thick darkness invaded endlessly from the depths of the ocean.

She heard a bone-chilling voice sticking to her face, asking, "Are you really willing to trade everything?"

"Even if the ending is to become a monster?"

A voice that is too cold, as slippery as a sea snake swimming in the water.

Bernice answered the other party with the remaining strength, she was willing.

That is, from that day on, she...

"Miss Sea Witch."

It seemed that someone was calling her, intermittently.

"Miss Sea Witch, are you alright?"

She struggled to open her eyes, and suddenly looked into a pair of transparent eyes filled with shallow ripples. The dull senses immediately came to life reflexively, and she instinctively retreated to distance herself from the other party, but accidentally touched her elbow with her elbow. In the water glass, a few stars of milk were spilled and smudged on the soft side filled with tense notes.

The creature standing next to her is a transparent woman formed by condensed waves. The light penetrates her body, faintly refracting a light emerald color that flows and fills her body, looking like a clear and soft crystal statue.

This is Tiago's messenger, Chao Ling, a creature that can appear freely in any area covered by oceans or rivers, and exists only by the power of Sea God.

"What's wrong? Has the alarm sounded?" She looked blankly at the sea witch's crystal ball beside her. Everything inside was normal, except for some small glowing bodies like fireflies floating and sinking.

"There is no alarm, Miss Sea Witch." Chao Ling replied, "His Majesty the Sea God asked me to come to you. Are you okay?"

"Oh……"

She rubbed her eyes and tied up her messy black hair: "It's okay, I just drank too much milk. Is there something wrong with him looking for me?"

"A new batch of mutants has been discovered over the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, and they have just been sent to the research center. His Majesty the Sea God and the Archangel are waiting for you at the shelter."

"Asylum?" Bernice repeated in doubt, and immediately followed Chao Ling out of the supervision room.

This was the first time she went to the shelter, and she had only heard of it a few times before.

Unlike the relative openness of the research center, the shelter is completely hidden from the outside world.In addition to the establishment on land, there is also a place on the edge of the marine ecological simulation circle in an underwater abandoned city left over from centuries ago.

After entering the water, the light was immediately filtered by the water layer into a cloudy gray-green, like ghosts everywhere, together with countless silt and seaweed, covering every part of this dilapidated city thickly and densely, Together, they precipitated into an extremely oppressive silence.

Dense seaweed grows from behind the shattered window panes covered with sand, and the originally smooth streets are cracked, and occasionally small shellfish or fish will get in and out of it.

In the center of the square in the city stands a huge statue of a human woman with a baby in her arms, which has been completely changed by the erosion of the seawater for many years.The pair of eyes that were supposed to look at his child with infinite love turned into two lifeless pitch-black stones after the paint on the surface was removed.

Bernice was suspended in the water and looked down, allowing herself to gradually fall towards it, her black hair brushing softly against the side of her face.

In a trance, she had the illusion that she was being slowly swallowed by a huge and mixed ancient tomb.

Chao Ling led her through the algae-rich alleyways, cruising all the way to the entrance of the former air-raid shelter.The water was swirling, and the stone door in front of it slowly opened, revealing the dark and lengthy passage inside.

Bernice raised her hand, and the green light immediately shot out from her fingertips, quickly turning into bright transparent jellyfish and appearing in the passage, illuminating the way in for them.

With the help of the light, she saw that the air-raid shelter still maintained its original appearance, and had not been invaded and modified by any marine life, and there was not even a trace of aquatic plants.

After walking along the passage for a while, Bernice suddenly heard a conversation from the side, it was Tiago and Gabriel.

This is quite new.

After all, angels are not able to adapt to being in the underwater environment for a long time, just like most marine creatures cannot live on land for a long time.Therefore, all marine creatures convicted of felonies will be imprisoned in the Falling Sin Garden, this is also to prevent them from having a chance to escape.

Like herself.

Thinking of this, Bernice raised her eyebrows in surprise, and followed Chao Ling towards the source of the sound.

At the end of the passage is a huge empty room, which was obviously remodeled at a later stage. Several icy cocoons were sealed inside, and there seemed to be some silhouettes of creatures in it.

The young sea god who had recovered his mermaid form stood alone in the center of the empty room, his waist-length platinum hair was pressed by a delicate crown made of coral and fish bones, and his upper body was wearing a snowsuit with cobalt blue fine lines Black shoulder scarf, slender fish tail under the thin waist, ice blue scales floating in the dim light with a thin layer of light like a hazy star.

A sound-transmitting seashell was being pulled by magic to float beside him, and Gabriel's voice came from there, as if he was reporting to Thiago about what happened in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.

His voice was originally a little mechanical because of the lack of emotion, but now he heard it through the water, and it seemed even more muffled.

On the contrary, Thiago, whether on the shore or underwater, the mermaid's timbre is uniquely melodious.

Bernice looked at the other person's back, and her eyes suddenly caught the scar on his neck.The sharp and slender one, after losing the cover of the hair, grew on the too fair skin, which looked extremely abrupt, and it should have been cut by the thorns of the bone murex.

Realizing this, she couldn't help reaching out and touching the place where she had been scratched by the snail thorn.

This kind of scar is far more than one place on her body.

At that time, Bernice was just a little jellyfish who was bound by contract to Ursula, the previous sea witch, and worked hard for her to survive. From this, she knew that this was the final end of all sea witches.

The powerful magic power will slowly eat back their bodies, until the host is completely alienated into a irrational monster, and finally captured and killed by the mermaid.

Correspondingly, once the previous sea witch is completely alienated, the magic power will be automatically transferred to the next designated host, that is the new sea witch.

During the days when Ursula was about to be completely alienated, she was barely awake, and her personality became extremely violent and irritable, torturing and scarring all the servants around her.

A wound cut by a snail thorn, even if it heals, will definitely leave a special scar that cannot be removed.

Why does Thiago also have it?

Bernice raised her head, trying to see the scars on the opponent's body more clearly.However, Thiago had already turned his head in accordance with Chao Ling's words "Under the Crown of the Sea God", nodded slightly, and when he looked at her, a gentle smile appeared on his clear face: "I heard that you haven't been here for a few days. How did you go out?"

"Learning human language is much more difficult than I imagined." Bernice said, looking up at the several huge ice cocoons around her, "What are these?"

"Remember what I told you once, that the appearance of the dimensional void will not only gradually merge the two worlds, but also cause other unpredictable consequences?"

"remember."

"As you can see now." Thiago pointed to the dark shadows in those ice cocoons, "These were ordinary creatures living in various sea areas, but now they have become like this .”

Bernice looked in the direction he was pointing, and with the faint light from the jellyfish, through the hard and smooth layer of ice, she saw the huge and strange silhouette frozen inside at a glance.

They looked like a bunch of freaks from drinking too many failed shapeshifting potions, or some weird experiment that had been cobbled together to grow.

"It seems that this latitude hole is also doing species grafting business part-time by the way? But this aesthetic is too difficult to describe, it is even worse than me."

While talking, Bernice leaned closer to the ice cocoon to look at them carefully, then frowned and backed away, her expression also became not very good.

"Not only because of the latitude hole, but also because of the influence of human activities." Thiago explained, "They have destroyed the natural order too much, which is one of the main disasters. In addition, the appearance of the hole makes the gap between the two worlds When the fusion occurs, the original normal creatures will suddenly have this special mutation. Some even have a complete change in temperament, so all mutants that cannot be controlled but are relatively less dangerous are contained here .”

After finishing speaking, he turned his head slightly, and found that Bernice was silently staring at an empty corner, and her face was not very good-looking. The turbulent water patterns were reflected in her light green eyes, like It's a mess of fireflies.

"What are you thinking? Why don't you look very happy." He asked.

Bernice shook her head, and then asked: "In other words, this kind of creature doesn't just appear in the empty area, does it? Then what about this one?"

It is impossible to expand the scope of regulation to cover the entire ocean.

Not to mention that she is currently bound and unable to use high-level magic power, even if she could, she would not be able to control every part of the ocean.

Only Poseidon can.

Thiago understood what she meant, so he took the initiative to say: "I only exist in a split form now, and I have limited control over the ocean. However, in recent years, we have discovered that although human information technology will greatly affect our concealment. It bothers us, but sometimes it helps us a lot.”

"Why do you believe in the skill of sandwiching salmon with Arctic shellfish?"

"A technology. You can think of it as a spider web, and everything that happens is quickly recorded on that web. It's a good thing and a bad thing."

"I think I can understand each of your words, but I don't quite understand what they mean when put together."

"It's like those fairy tales about you." Gabriel's voice came out of Seaberry unexpectedly, causing Bernice to tremble, "There are also many legends in the human world today, about water monsters, ghost ships, and haunted houses. , and there are various unsolved mysteries, those are the effects caused by the latitude void. But they can't detect it, so they can only think it is some kind of unexplainable supernatural phenomenon, and finally gradually become anecdotes and legends, constructed through them spread all over the Internet."

"So, to a certain extent, except for the empty area that needs to be directly controlled, for other areas, we only need to pay close attention to some strange news on the human network." Tiago concluded.

"Sure enough, no matter which world it is, the curiosity and imagination of human beings are endless, so it's no wonder they can send themselves to the sky now." Bernice muttered, and suddenly realized a problem, "Wait a minute , Are there any legends in this world? About sea witches and mermaids? What are they talking about?"

"I didn't know you were still interested in fairy tales." Thiago looked at her with his head tilted.

"So in this world, is there any change in my written image? Like becoming more lively?"

Not noticing Tiago's hesitant eyes, Bernice continued to speak with the deep and eager expectations accumulated in the Garden of Death for decades: "You know, even if it's a fairy tale, But as a villain, my image is too strange. What is the point of staring at the voice and hair of other girls? They are mermaids! Mermaids! Shouldn’t the most striking thing be their invincible beauty and perfection stature?

Now that I have been defined as a sinister, cunning and scheming devil, I should do more things that fit my personality!For example, breaking out of the sea at the last moment, whipping the useless prince to death with one tentacle, and then giving the sad and kind little mermaid to..."

When she was talking about it, she suddenly realized that it was a mermaid standing in front of her.

So, Bernice suddenly stopped, spit out a string of transparent blisters, and forcibly changed the subject: "Of course, fairy tales, some things are better not to be heard by children."

Tiago looked at her silently for a long time. Under the dim light, there seemed to be sea flames floating in the pair of blue pupils, which were hidden by moist water patterns, and it was hard to tell whether it was hot or cold.

With him staring at him like this, Bernice gradually felt creepy.

But soon, before she showed obvious guard and fear, the extremely oppressive look completely dissipated on Thiago's face, leaving only a gentle smile on her lips, and replied briskly: " That's a pity. Because as far as I know, the content of the fairy tale here is not different from what you have learned before."

Bernice pursed her lips, and for some reason, she suddenly asked, "So, even here, you are still written as a bulging little girl?"

Thiago: "..."