【Boom Out】Mermaid

Chapter 1

The low-hanging dark clouds blacken the sea together, from the sea level to the pier, the looming lightning in the clouds is like a beast devouring flesh and blood, coveting the sailors who are about to sail, and the crowd is noisy and jubilant without knowing it, in the tavern The drunken slapstick and the accordion intermittently playing ancient folk tunes, carefree and indulgent, this is the only joy and rest for the people who live and die on the sea.

Their eyes, dyed red by the cellared fruit wine and high-quality matsutake wine, blurred and reflected an ominous dark blue-black sea, and the tail of the yellowed canvas kerchief on their heads was submerged until the half-drunk giant In the beer glass, orange-yellow carbonic acid bubbles rose in the low-pressure, damp and cold air accompanied by a belch from the sailor.

Someone was leaning drunkenly on the small wooden door of the tavern that had been in disrepair. He was smoking a pipe made for him by a carpenter out of scraps. The moment he opened the door of the tavern, some strange barrier seemed to be opened, and the cold drizzle It fell densely on the wet street where the mist was rising, and the cold wind poured into the warm and lively tavern from around him. The loud accordion music stopped silently accompanied by the whistling cold wind. The captain of the black eyepatch exhaled a breath of white air with strong nicotine breath, and said:

"Let's set sail, it's almost there, if we leave later, we won't be able to come back tonight."

The little freckled sailor in the corner was blushing from the alcohol, staring blankly at the distilled wine that the old sailor next to him laughed and gave him a whole glass of distilled wine. The unique hot feeling brought by alcohol surged in his throat, and he choked out a hiccup from his nose in a dazed way. The panic of sailing for the first time was successfully paralyzed by the experienced veteran Shui with alcohol, leaving only a little subtle first feeling. The six senses reminded him repeatedly in his mind that this would not be a safe voyage.

——Of course it will not be safe. Everyone knows that their big ship will pass through the legendary Melmed High Seas where thousands of ship wrecks are piled up at midnight tonight. Experienced sailors and Captains will deliberately avoid this sea, its ominousness and lethality seem to be inherent, even the most vicious pirates and most desperate captains, no one wants to wade through this muddy sea in the early hours of the morning, no one Know what creatures live under the sea level, the sea is more terrifying than the land.

They don't need it at all, no one wants to be buried in the sea or the belly of a fish, although everyone is ready for this the moment they step on the deck, but no one thinks that they don't live long enough, but in the final analysis, human beings are incomparable greedy animal.

There are two open secrets and rumors on the high seas of Melmed, which is why it has piled up countless ships on the bottom of the sea.

Article [-]: There are mermaids in this sea.

The second: Mermaid tears can make people live forever.

A group of sailors living in poverty have no pursuit of eternal life. The precarious life makes the short days of breathing on land and reuniting with lovers seem extremely precious. The illusory and untouchable eternal life is a dream for most people. Innocuous talk, together with the mermaid, has become the most colorful and legendary myth in the mouths of the common people. Unfortunately, the ruler of their town doesn't think so. Of course, Yongsheng surpasses the importance of people's lives. This is already the No.17 ship going to sea this year.

——None of the first sixteen ships came back.

Half a month after the No.16 ship lost its voice, under the impatient hint and order of the lord, the last broken ship in this town that has not been used for several years and the Cyclops that has not sailed for almost ten years The sailors were forced to go down the final bottom line of the voyage. A patchwork of sailors spent their last night laughing in this tavern. Most of them were bachelors in their forties or fifties. A group of people included Tears opened wine for them, and the lady proprietress of the tavern brought out the most expensive wine for this group of guys who hadn't had any good wine in their life, and cried on the counter seven or eight times while pouring the wine.

When Green Valley was recruiting, trembling, eyes closed and loudly volunteering to go, a group of people stared at this boy up to the height of their chest in astonishment, and before they had time to tease and warn this boy, he seemed a little ignorant and a little selfish The heroic little thing, I heard him swallow his saliva nervously, resisting the trembling desire, looked at a group of old guys with emerald green eyes seriously and intently, and explained honestly road:

"You guys, you don't have navigators yet. I can make a nautical chart. I took a boat across that sea. Although I didn't go in, I know how to get back."

Everyone was silent, "I know how to get back" became the last straw that made it impossible for people to refuse, crushing this group of desperate people, what if, what if this little guy like bean sprouts could really come back? What about getting people back?They were ready to die, and even the navigator didn't even look for them, so they broke the cans and prepared to go to sea, but if they couldn't come back, where did they find the No. 18 ship?

In this town, the last person who could steer was taken away by them. Will the next boat be full of ignorant children and women who are forced to board the boat with sharp spears, and then sank in port in a panic?

Lu Gu was ignorantly pinched on the shoulders by a group of old men with red eyes, hugged him in his arms and patted his back vigorously, and Lu Gu was patted so hard that he coughed several times, and finally standing in front of him was the captain , the man gave him a necklace, on which hung a small corked glass bottle, and a lot of messy metal fragments hanging together, the smooth surface of the glass bottle had been scratched beyond recognition by the fragments in the long-term friction , can only see the remnants similar to the corner of the coral inside, the captain said to Green Valley with heavy eyes:

"Your name is Green Valley, right? This thing was given to me by my captain when I sailed for the first time. Do you know what the captain would say to the guy who sailed for the first time in those days?"

Green Valley shook his head in confusion, and the captain said meaningfully: "They usually say three words to a kid like you, don't look down from the boat, don't meet eyes with creatures you don't know—"

He lowered his voice, and leaned his words close to Lu Gu's ear. Lu Gu could see the old captain's prosthetic eye through the dilapidated and loose black single eye mask, and it was like a cloudy glass bead spinning uneasily in the eye socket. , is more creepy than the real gaze, his voice has a natural hoarse accent smoked by long-term heavy smoking, like the texture of a reptile's solid abdominal scales rubbing and crawling across the gravel:

"—Finally, and most importantly, never fall in love with the creatures under the sea, Green Valley, no matter how beautiful they are, they will suffocate you to death, their love will take you into the deep sea."

Green Valley didn't quite understand what he heard, and he was holding the old glass bottle that fell on his collarbone at a loss, and was about to ask again, when he saw the old captain pat him on the shoulder, limping away and walking away as if nothing had happened, Green Valley Gu was taken aback, and subconsciously looked at the captain's feet. He was wearing gray cloth shoes that were so tattered that the toes were exposed, and there was an ugly scar on the right ankle that was not covered by the dirty and ragged trousers. This scar was old at first glance. , ferocious and distorted, wrapped around his ankle like seaweed, like a deep bone wound that some creature hated to the extreme bit down on his foot, trying to bite him and drag him into the bottom of the sea, decades later still It remained inseparably on the surface of his body, and became a past that he never spoke of, and became an inseparable part of his body.

Green Valley inexplicably felt a shudder.

Green Valley frantically pressed the hat that was put on his head indiscriminately, and was staggered onto the deck by the flow of people. He heard the sound of the chain being heavily stuck on the side of the ship's rail. The passage on land is slowly retracted at the moment when the anchor covered with various barnacles and shells that are still opening and closing is pulled out from the bottom of the sea. The rain fell slightly on the back of his hand on the brim of the hat, and the angry sailors shouted in a rough and drawn out voice:

"set sail--!!"

When the old wooden boat moved, it was covered with dust, accompanied by the sound of creaking and creaking, as if it was about to fall apart on the edge of the pier before going far. The boat shook twice reluctantly, and finally stabilized and slowly drove in. In the veil-like mist, Green Valley saw that the person who sent them off by the pier was holding a dim oil lamp, and this faint and flickering light turned into a lighthouse-like guiding existence at night——

——And all of them are walking with the lighthouse on their backs.

Green Valley drank, forced his eyelids to double-check the nautical chart he had drawn on the parchment several times, and was driven to the side by a group of old people to sleep. After several rounds of pushing and ridiculing, Lugu scratched the back of his head in a good temper, smiled embarrassedly, and obediently huddled in the stern, nodding and dozing off, he was dizzy and unwilling to return Going to sleep in the cabin, everyone silently acquiesced that Green Valley would not return to the cabin and insisted on staying here, knowing that the sea route close to the sea in the middle of the night is the most dangerous.

The white mist is like the white translucent gauze robe of a treacherous and evil wizard, spreading on the dark sea surface as if nothing, and occasionally there are searchlights swaying across the sea surface, illuminating the corner of the sea surface like boiling black water , Green Valley lying on the rusty ship, excessive drinking and sloshing sailing made the novice who boarded the ship for the first time obviously uncomfortable.He endured it for a long time, but he still couldn't bear the disgusting feeling in his stomach. He leaned his head to the side with a pale face and took a deep breath. Even the gas he breathed had a strong fishy smell that made people sick.

Green Valley had to half-close his eyes and slowly open his mouth to breathe, his eyes stayed on the sea surface without focus, and the white light that swayed past illuminated the sparkling waves of the waves, which was no different from the dazzling light refracted by the silver-white tail fins of huge fishes that flashed by. You and I are mixed together, like a sailor's blurred and romantic dream scene, Green Valley's hand resting on the side of the boat fell out of the window in a half-dream and half-awake consciousness, in the sudden sound of surging water, Green Valley Waking up stimulated by the icy lapping of sea water and the licking of some animal's soft tongue.

Green Valley suddenly sat up and drew back his hand, his eyes became clear for a moment and stared at his right hand, which was wet with seawater, Green Valley frowned and lowered his head in doubt, and carefully touched himself with his tongue. It looks like the back of a hand that has been licked. This is an earthy method for judging fish mucus. Green Valley learned it from his neighbor who sells fish next door. The next second, he coughed and vomited on the railing, covering his nose Get up - a strong fishy smell.

Green Valley has never tasted such a strong taste. It cannot be said to be fishy. It's like coral being ground into powder, or the smell of spices from the richly dressed nobles who came to visit the town that Green Valley accidentally smelled. It's like musk, and it's a little cooler than musk.

Before Green Valley had time to think about the species of this fish, he saw the captain simply and neatly took out a box of matches from his wrinkled trousers and struck a light. He grabbed the glass oil lamp next to him and lit the wick, holding the lamp in one hand. , with one hand covering the lamp socket to prevent the lingering rain from extinguishing the weak candle flame, the burning wick stuck to the glass cover by the wind quickly blackened the cover, and the flame glowed with a faint faint glow. The blue color can only illuminate the vicissitudes of the captain's face, which is full of gullies. He is smoking a pipe that has long been devoid of tobacco, repeatedly smashing his mouth like a reassuring amulet, squinting his eyes and making a gesture to let him go. A sailor next to him helped him hold the rudder. He went to the front and used an oil lamp to shine on the nautical chart to confirm repeatedly, and finally said faintly:

"We have entered the high seas, and in less than 40 nautical miles, we will reach the place where the last ship lost news."

The muscles on his face twitched a few times unnaturally, and finally he said loudly as if he had finally made up his mind:

"Leave the boat! Find two people to go in!"

A group of sailors suddenly realized what the captain was going to do, and they all stood up in shock and anger, protecting Lu Gu who hadn't reacted yet, and the captain standing at the bow with gloomy eyes looked like two camps in the cold wind and rain The same confrontation:

"What are you going to do, old one-eyed, Lvgu is only a fucking teenager!! You are going to use him as bait to catch some monster!!!"

"This kid came by himself!!!! Old Cyclops, what are you going to do, there are no mermaids here at all, you are feeding the monster with this little kid like Green Valley!!!!"

"Fuck you, old one-eyed, I won't watch you do this!!!"

The old one-eyed man chuckled sullenly, raised the oil lamp to illuminate the circular scar on his foot that seemed to bite off his foot, his eyes were full of bottomless darkness:

"What are you afraid of? Didn't I come back alive?"

He limped back a few steps, with his hand stuck on the swaying round rudder, tremblingly picked up a flat wine bottle from the side, flicked off the cork with one hand, raised his head and poured He took several sips of spirits, and the spirits he didn't drink flowed down from his messy gray beard. He laughed hoarsely, and swayed with the ups and downs of the boat, humming and shaking his head:

"Old Charlie has two sons, Big Charlie and Little Charlie, Big Charlie likes to eat fish, Little Charlie likes to sail, yo, likes to play with fish schools in the dark—"

"One night, Big Charlie was out fishing, and Little Charlie fell in love with fish, fell in love with fish—"

The desolate and weird tune without rhythm he hummed came to an abrupt end, his gaze fell on Green Valley through a silent crowd, he burst out laughing, opened his blindfold to reveal the The uncomfortable prosthetic eye was rubbed roughly as if feeling itchy:

"Green Valley, remember what I told you? Don't fall in love with the monster you see like Charlie, you know, don't fall in love, and you can come back."

His turbid eyes sharpened suddenly, and he took another sip of the strong wine with his mouth crooked, and his eyes swept across the group of sailors fiercely:

"Don't you know why you brought Green Valley to the boat? A group of hypocritical murderers. At the beginning, a group of people coveted the monster that my brother fell in love with, and forced him to catch the monster back. As a result, he was forced to death. Later, because of Seeing that I have come into contact with monsters and used me to catch monsters on the voyage, now you come out together, not so much because you are afraid that the town will be destroyed, but because you see me, the only person who came back, as the captain, and you are all ready to share a share of the monster's rewards. The smell of meat and tears, right? Anyway, staying in the town is a dead end, why don't you leave the town and use me to catch monsters and get rich?"

He wiped his mouth arrogantly, and sneered contemptuously: "Give it up, that monster likes young things, I can't catch anything with me, I was abandoned by them as bait, we have already entered the sea, don't give me anything!" If they have a little bit of something, the ship will sink if you don’t go twenty nautical miles, if you don’t go back, you’re all dead, understand?”

Green Valley felt someone pinch his shoulders hard, and in the blurry night, a group of people who had just protected themselves behind their backs opened their eyes greedily and crazily, staring motionlessly at the live bait that was deliberately placed on the boat. With a frightening scarlet color, someone spoke in a low voice:

"Go and release the boat, Green Valley, you will save us, right?"

"The safety of the town depends on you, Green Valley."

"Green Valley, you will come back. One Eye said, you can come back, don't be afraid."

Talking all over, wrapping the young boy up and down, it took him a while to analyze the current situation from his drowsy brain. He looked at the captain and the group of people who were afraid that he would struggle and escape with some confusion and helplessness. The sailor, still looks honest:

"My task is to lure the mermaid in a small boat and get tears, right?"

There was no anger, no crying, no fear, and no panic. Under the eyes of a group of people, Lugu calmly accepted the reality of being a sacrifice. The wooden boards are covered with patches, and it looks like in a small wooden boat that is about to sink at any time, there are only some dry food distributed to him, a small oil lamp, and what the old one-eyed captain threw to him before boarding the boat, and he drank it himself Less than half of the small wine bottle, the old captain's eyes were dim, he looked at the green valley that was about to set off, thought for a while, and threw his own pipe into the boat:

"Young man, that thing is afraid of fire, don't let your lamp go out."

There is an engine-like manual paddle at the stern of Green Valley, and Green Valley is moving forward leisurely while shaking. The temperature of the sea surface is extremely low at midnight, and the cool air and coldness drilled in from Green Valley's neckline. He shivered and exhaled a white breath. The sounds of dolphins and whales around him passed through a piece of damp water and fell on the ear of the yawning Green Valley. After shaking his oars for a long time, he rubbed his eyes and suddenly felt His boat shook violently, he frantically held on to the sides of the boat, subconsciously turned his head to look over with the light on, and heaved a sigh of relief amusingly.

It's a white dolphin pushing the boat, and it seems to be smiling at him while pushing it back. Green Valley carefully holds the lamp and uses the only light to illuminate this naughty little thing. He gently stretches his hand over and tries to touch it. Smooth surface, by the way, drive it a little farther away from this weak boat. This boat looks fragile enough. If this fish hits twice, the boat may be destroyed after a long time. As soon as he stretched out his hand, he saw the dolphin being dragged down by something by its tail in a daze. Before Green Valley could withdraw his hand vigilantly, he heard the sound of "crash" breaking through the water .

Something stuck to the palm of my hand that hadn't been retracted and rubbed it repeatedly. It was silky and delicate, like the highest-grade cloth and silk. The touch of human soft and wet hair slipped across Lugu's stiff palm, in the moonlight. And under the light, the silver-white caudal fin that is as bright as jewels beats the pointed stern again and again, and the scales stick to him, or her, or its beautiful fish like statues carved with precious metals. On the tail, Green Valley's brain went blank, he swallowed subconsciously, and he saw this strange creature with naked upper body slowly raised its head against his palm.

Green Valley held his breath and stared blankly at it. He suddenly understood why Charlie repeatedly warned him not to fall in love with the animals in the sea.

It is so beautiful, its long wet eyelashes are dripping with sea water, its bridge of nose is high, its eyebrows are so exquisite that it is breathtaking, and the moonlight and waves are reflected in its gray and blue eyes, it is obviously expressionless , but softly and quietly lay on the side of the boat, raised his head and pressed it against the palm of his hand, unblinkingly looked at this sailor who was taking risks, the tail of the fish drooped a little casually on the boat On the side, two slender hands held the ship's girth and opened it. The flesh-colored film between the fingers was connected together. It was the feet of animals and the webs of fish. He suddenly sprang up from the water and approached Green Valley suddenly. The eyes are not right and the tip of the green valley's nose is staring at him.

Green Valley turned his face away subconsciously. , he clutched his heart in a tachycardia, his cheeks were blushing and his eyes drifted away, he silently shrank back a little, distanced himself from this guy, the mermaid tilted his head in confusion, and opened his ears as if in doubt. The side is hidden under the hair, and the fan-like fins.

The appearance of the mermaid glowed with a layer of fluorescence under the moonlight. It was so frightening that it would make people go out of their bodies. Already a rare kind of patience.

Green Valley closed his eyes and said silently several times: "He is not human, he is not human, he is not human, you should calm down, Green Valley, he is not human, he even eats people!!! You cannot fall in love with him!!! !! You two have reproductive isolation!!!!!!!!!"

Green Valley will take a sigh of relief from the appearance of this mermaid, and the side of the boat on his other side suddenly pressed down, and Green Valley was shaken so that he knocked his head on the steps, covered the back of his head with his teeth grinning and turned his head to look Something pulled the boat down, and as soon as he turned halfway, the pupils shrank——

—something stuck to his neck, sniffing him.

The blood in Green Valley's body seemed to be solidified. He could feel the excitement from seeing the prey he liked when the beast was hunting, and the oppressive feeling from the top of the food chain. He felt that there was a guy in his neck because of the extreme Pleasure, the fan-like fins attached to his chin opened and trembled, the sharp fins scratched his skin, the blood dripped down, was licked by its tongue, and then the fins trembled even faster, It made a trembling sound like a rattlesnake biting its prey.

It sticks to his skin, like an eagle checking whether the caught rabbit is alive or dead, sniffing here and there, Green Valley can only see the bright golden fishtail flapping the stern of the boat, and a pair of scarlet Green eyes, the sense of danger of being caught by a high-level predator is too strong, and Lu Gu can't help leaning a little closer to another silver-white mermaid that is not so dangerous.

The blond-haired and red-eyed mermaid has a face that looks extremely aggressive. Compared with the outstanding and handsome face of the mermaid, it is easier to feel the full sense of wildness and aggression. It seems that if you look at it casually, you will be bitten Losing a piece of flesh and blood makes people involuntarily lose stamina, and Green Valley can clearly feel its desire for itself, appetite, control, competition, and other things.

Green Valley subconsciously looked at the tail of the fish that had obviously been shaking impatiently and began to shake vigorously. Green Valley and the boat were shaken by this arrogant and unreasonable mermaid, and vaguely remembered——

——It seems that the fish shake their tails towards other fish, which is a sign of courtship and mating?

Green Valley was startled by his own thoughts, and leaned a little to the other side. He was completely unaware that the tail of the other mermaid was also slowly shaking in the sea water.

The poor sailor didn't know that the season when he came out happened to be the breeding season of this group of guys. Compared with appetite, what needs to be urgently satisfied is the sexual desire of this group of creatures that have no rivals in the ocean.

Two mermaids rocking the boat, a dizzy sailor, and a wrecked boat with or without it. Green Valley didn’t get any of them. The sea water entered through the lamp opening at the top, and the wick made a "sizzling" extinguishing sound.

Lights went out.

The silver-white mermaid behind Green Valley has a calm expression, its tail wraps the entire ship, and Green Valley with its back facing it doesn't know anything about it, and doesn't know that the well-behaved and sensible mermaid behind him is going to take people with him. The boat was snatched directly together.