How to become a sea witch

Never turn your back on a demon.

This is a fundamental law known to all other races of beings.

Because turning your back on the other party means complete trust or defenselessness, which is definitely not what you should do when you encounter a demon.

Even the prison guard angels in Meteor Garden know that they can't easily let the target out of their sight.Even every time the prisoner is released from the cell, they will send at least two angels to control and execute it at the same time, not to mention facing away from the group of demons in shackles. Bernice does not believe that Thiago will not know this.

However, after saying "follow me" to her, Thiago turned around and walked towards the frozen mutants.Pale and flawless ice continuously spread out from the bottom of his feet, and soon all the nearby sea area was frozen into a wasteland.

The waves are fleeting flowers, frozen around by the ice, blooming layer by layer.

Bernice looked at him blankly for a while, and it was really hard to convince herself that the other party was overwhelmed by her heroic appearance in the fight just now, so she instantly developed a precious comrade-in-arms friendship with her, and even took the initiative to let her follow behind him.

It wasn't what she thought.

From a common sense point of view, shouldn't she do high-risk physical work such as clearing the way and fighting monsters?

Immediately afterwards, Bernice suddenly realized that this might be a way to try to get him or not?Anyway, with Thiago's supernatural power, even if he took the opportunity to sneak attack him, he would not succeed, and by the way, he could test whether she had really given up on the idea of ​​snatching the heart of the ocean, which was also one of the assessments of the parole period.

Only then can it make sense.

This kind of scheming routine can only be thought of by the group of angels.No wonder they looked at her with that weird look when they were at the port just now.

Fortunately, she has rich survival experience and flexible thinking, so she saw through this trap in an instant, otherwise...

"Bernice."

Seeing that she was still standing still, Thiago called her and motioned for her to come over.

The strong wind roared, and the waves rolled up and beat against the edge of the ice layer, and there was a deafening roar.Bernice stepped on the ice, and when she lowered her head, she could vaguely see through the ice many mutants frozen under the seawater by divine power.

They were all frozen at the moment before breaking through the water, countless pairs of blood-red eyes without pupils stared at her without blinking, and the distance between sharp and long bone spurs was only a thin layer of ice from the bottom of her feet.

She walked over and saw the snake-shaped mutant that had just been released from the ice staring at them fiercely. Its slender body covered with poisonous barbs was entangled with instinctive fear, and its throat There was a weird grunting sound from inside, and the exposed fangs were white and sharp.

Thiago squatted down/body, tilted his head slightly to look at it, his eyes fell on the mutant's back stabbed by the ice, and reached out for it to remove the ice blade embedded in the soft armor, with a gentle tone: " Well, it won't hurt for a while. As for now, it's up to you to take us to where this ship really is."

The mutant stared at him warily for a few seconds, finally lowered his head in compromise, turned around and sank slowly into the black sea water under the ice layer, and soon disappeared.

Based on the concept that "rushing to the front is the honorable behavior that fellow (wash) Liao (white) should have", Bernice was planning to follow it and jump down from the ice cave to explore the way, but when she just approached, she suddenly saw a flower.Sea water mixed with fine ice slags splashed towards her, followed by the fangs of mutants soaked in venom and the flesh and blood of some unknown creature.

Subconsciously, she leaned back, quickly stood up and took a step back, concentrating her magic power to kill the opponent directly, but forgot that there was Thiago behind her.

In just a moment, Bernice felt that she was being embraced by the other party, and the silver-blue waves of divine power instantly condensed into a layer of transparent ice to block between the mutant and Bernice.

She turned her head in astonishment, and before she had time to say anything, Tiagoli pushed her back and grabbed the snake-shaped monster with one hand.A steady stream of cold air spread out from his hands, freezing it inch by inch and locking his whole body.

After all the habitual gentle demeanor faded away, the boy's originally clear blue pupils looked as gloomy as the surrounding sea.

"Because I didn't do anything, I think I'm just joking with you, don't you?" He looked down at the other party, his voice was so calm and indifferent, "Will this make you more serious?"

As he spoke, Tiago suddenly tightened the strength in his hand, and a crisp cracking sound came from his hand immediately. Bernice couldn't tell whether it was the sound of ice shattering or the sound of the mutant. Bones howling.

For a moment, she wondered if it had some blood feud with Thiago.Otherwise, with his personality, he wouldn't be so angry because of the opponent's counterattack that he would almost kill it.

After all, it's her who really has a grudge against him. Isn't she still standing here?

After a while, Thiago let go of it, and sharp bony spurs began to condense rapidly on his cold fingertips, which looked like some kind of crystal carved into a sharp weapon, pure and clear.

This time the mutant behaved himself, and after touching Tiago's trousers with his head in a particularly flattering manner, he struggled to move his stiff body, which had not recovered from the low temperature, back into the water and resigned to lead the way.

"I'll go down first, you put this on." He said, a fish scale appeared in his flat palm, and the gentleness of the past seemed to return to his eyebrows, "This way you won't be affected by the water quality here .”

When Bernice took the fish scale, her first reaction was—it is really a shiny baby worth collecting.

It is almost weightless, and its texture is delicate and cold. It feels like some kind of gemstone that has been polished extremely smooth. Even the color is ice blue and transparent, which makes people easily think of frozen sea water penetrated by sunlight.

In fact, after being disturbed by this group of mutants just now, she herself forgot that the seawater pollution in the new world would make it difficult for them to adapt to this matter. She didn't expect...

"Thank you."

"Let's go."

After Tiago finished speaking, he quickly jumped into the sea and turned into the original mermaid.

Bernice wore the fish scales with light threads, put them on her neck, and jumped into the water.A faint blue halo emanated from the fish scales, surrounded her, and quickly disappeared.

She tried to take a breath of the water here, and found that there was indeed no strange smell that made her breathless, only the familiar saltiness of sea water.

The ocean under the cloudy sky was too dark to see any light, and Thiago casually rolled out a string of glowing water bubbles as lighting.

It was also at this time that Bernice saw the underwater situation clearly.

Those ice layers were not just floating on the sea surface as she had guessed, the steep and jagged icicles stretched and criss-crossed, freezing all the mutants under the water that hadn't had time to float up, and gathered together to form a majestic ice island. Under the soft light, there are large expanses of ghostly hazy gray-blue light.

Bernice stared blankly at the huge and dead ice tomb in front of her, and the first thought spontaneously came to her mind was—in her current state, she should never confront Thiago unless it was absolutely necessary.God's split body is also a god, and those who cannot be defeated cannot be defeated.

"Feeling okay?" he asked.

She pretended to be calm and nodded, and together with Thiago, they followed the water marks left by the mutants as they moved forward, and swam towards the farther deep water area.

After passing through a rugged and narrow underwater stone forest, the water in front of us became open again, and the water temperature gradually became lower.Too many glowing bubbles filled the surroundings, floating quietly along the current, giving Bernice the illusion of falling into the Milky Way.

Gradually, a strange and distorted shadow gradually appeared in front of their eyes.

It was the wreckage of countless hulls, crushed by the pressure of the deep water area into wrecked pieces all over the place, covered with thick silt, sea dust and rotting seaweed.There are so many of them that they look like a forest melting under the water, exuding a strong strange smell that can be clearly felt even at a distance.

By sight alone, Bernice couldn't tell how many different hulls these steel skeletons came from.And the latest one, the surface is still very clean, seems to have just sunk.

"It's that human yacht." Bernice recognized the branded words on the broken hull, and at the same time saw a few bright silver lights gathering from the wreckage from time to time, floating towards the distance like a fish.

Thiago stared at the flickering lights, as if realizing something, he frowned slightly and said, "Close your eyes."

Bernice gave an audible ah, but still took a quick snapshot.Immediately afterwards, Thiago quickly released his divine power to illuminate the entire deep water space.

Even with her eyes closed, Bernice could fully feel the sudden change of light, and there was a short tingling pain in her eyeballs.

A few seconds later, she slowly opened her eyes again, a little stunned by the scene in front of her:

In the center of the densely packed wrecks and corpses, there are many things that look like tree roots.They are huge and twisted, rooted in the dark seabed, and each one is entangled and cobbled together by countless tiny vine-like conduits.Every node has a hole, and a faint silver light flows in it.If you just look at it like this, the regular flickering of those lights makes it easy to think of the beating of the heart.

"These lights..."

"It is the spiritual impression left by human beings before death, mostly strong negative emotions and will to survive. It seems that the ghost ship maintains its magic power by constantly creating shipwrecks and devouring these spiritual impressions." Thiago explained .

He tilted his head, looked aside and cowered in the crevice of the rock, staring in awe at the mutants who dared not approach the wreckage, and many frosty white flowers sprang out from his fingertips, restoring it to its original sea snake appearance: "You are free, go back Find your companions, they should wake up too."

The sea snake swayed in confusion, its pupils completely recovered after the ominous blood red faded.

It quickly swam up to Thiago, kissed his floating white-blonde hair, and turned to swim back the way it came.

Bernice looked closely at those tree-root-like things, and soon discovered that, as Tiago said, these are the delivery mechanisms of nutrients, which are constantly supporting a certain creature.

She, who is also a demon, is quite familiar with this method, so she can easily draw out a human and extremely strong sense of fear from the flowing and flickering silver light.

Usually, sinking a ship is a long process.The bigger the ship the more so.

Therefore, the fear that has been superimposed and catalyzed by time, even after the original body has died, still remains fresh and hot.

Bernice has never been interested in this kind of food that should belong to the devil. In contrast, she prefers the small fish, shrimp or seaweed that she has been accustomed to since she was a child.

Although those foods seem very bland to her now, and she often doesn't have enough to eat.

She let go of her hand, let the delicious-looking ball of fear return to the root of the tree, looked up at the end where the silver light disappeared: "It seems that the ghost ship is not far away, why don't I go and see it?" see?"

"Okay." Thiago withdrew the light source and corrected his attitude naturally, "Let's go and have a look, follow me and be careful."

Isn't it the one who swims ahead that should be careful?

Although it looks like he doesn't need to either.

Thinking of this, Bernice twirled her black hair that was held between her fingers by the water, and reluctantly nodded in response: "You too. Leave anything to me later, if you don't worry."

In all fairness, this is just a polite remark to avoid embarrassment.But Thiago was stunned for a very short time, then smiled softly and said: "I've never been worried."

After speaking, he swam briskly forward, his icy blue and gorgeous slender fish tail pushed apart a string of water bubbles in the dim deep sea space, like countless fallen stars.

Bernice followed up a little overwhelmed, thinking about whether what he said just now was an affirmation of all his performance so far.

This is the dawn of hope. It seems that I have not spent those hundreds of years in vain by Ursula's side, and I am a little closer to the goal of successfully fooling her! ! !

After realizing this, Bernice felt full of motivation in an instant, and hurriedly followed Thiago and tried to swim forward.

Not long after, they came to the end of those bright lights—a huge cruise ship sunk under the deep sea, as large as an island.

It has obviously been here for quite a long time, the entire hull has been corroded by sea water, and most of the guardrails on the deck have been destroyed. lower organisms.

Bernice noticed a hollow in the hull of the ship and guessed it might have been sunk by something.

No wonder the ghost ship always appears on the sea in the form of an illusion carrier. It turns out that its real entity is here, so it can only rely on driving mutants to hunt human cruise ships to obtain magic power supplements.

After finding the entity, Bernice did not rush to approach it, but carefully tested the surrounding waters for magical reactions.Because generally speaking, demons will cover their habitats with offensive spells, one is to declare their sovereignty, and the other is to buy enough time when they encounter angels or magicians.

She was about to swim to a farther place and try again, but Thiago suddenly stretched out his hand and pulled her back to him.

The sea water intertwined/entangled their hair, and Bernice turned her head to speak, but her cold long hair brushed her lips first.

For a moment, she thought it was sunlight penetrating the surface of the ocean and melting into the bottom of the sea, and then she realized that the color that was much purer and colder than the light came from the blond hair of the mermaid in front of her.

"Something's coming," he said, wrapping his other hand behind Bernice's back.

It was an unconscious protective gesture.

But it seemed odd, Bernice thought, between them.

Gradually, more and more black shadows crawled out from the depths of the trench, staring straight at them.