After Dawn Chapter 140: Mermaid (1)

"Prophet, what will my future love look like?"

This is the question Austin asked the merfolk prophet at his bar mitzvah many years ago.

The prophet pondered for a long time before speaking slowly.

"Austin, your lover, will come to you from the land of the sunrise, riding the rays of the sun."

……

Austen has been waiting for the woman from the land of the sunrise, but after waiting for many years, the woman failed to appear, and he even began to doubt whether the prophet's prediction was wrong.

"Darling, you don't have to worry." His mother comforted, "Our mermaid has a vast territory, and it is only a matter of time before you meet the person you are destined to meet. If she is a worthy person, our mermaid's life will be It's a long time, even if you spend your whole life waiting, it's worth it."

"Is that so?" he asked in confusion.

"Yes." When his mother laughed, her eyes shone with tenderness and firmness, as if guiding him forward. "One day, you will meet the person you are destined to meet." /

But Austin never thought that his destined lover would be a human race.

When he was leaning on the reef, a passenger ship gradually pulled out from the sea level. Before he could dive into the water to hide his figure, he saw the woman sitting cross-legged on the deck.

She was wearing a very loose white shirt and white trousers, her long hair was unbound, and it was flying freely behind her under the sea breeze. She closed her eyes, her face was calm, but she seemed extremely sacred. Let him forget that he can't reveal his tracks in front of humans.

Then he saw her eyes open.

What kind of eyes were those eyes, pitch black as ink, but as bright as the starry sky. He looked at her, obviously far apart. According to human vision, she should not be able to see him, but he felt It was as if he had been put into those indifferent eyes.

Then he heard her voice.

"The brave little mermaid."

His eyes widened. Then he saw an expression that bordered on a smile on her face.

"Mermaids are really stupid."

She raised her hand, and Austin felt a gentle force surrounded him. He didn't know why, but when he lowered his head, he found that his reflection in the sea had disappeared.

He looked up again and found that the woman sitting on the deck had disappeared, so he jumped into the water, quickly wiggling his fish tail, and wanted to tell his mother about it.

……

"You say she can see you from a long distance? Can she hide your figure?" his mother asked with a serious face, and after receiving his affirmation, she stroked him With long hair, he said softly, "My dear, you are so lucky to meet a friendly fairy from the East."

"Fairy?" Austin asked in confusion.

"Yes, that's right." She said, "The immortals in the east are the same as the gods we admire, they are all high-level creatures, but unlike the gods all disappearing, there are still many immortals in the east hidden in the ordinary among the human race.”

"The immortals are like the gods. There are good and bad. She helps you hide your figure. It seems that you must have met a friendly immortal."

"But child, when you go to the sea in the future, you still have to pay attention to hide yourself and not be discovered by the Terran." She reminded, "Although the Terran is still not able to enter the deep sea, they are now about to detect the mermaid. The fringes of the clan, maybe one day they will be able to enter the kingdom of the mermaid clan."

"The current mermaid is not ready to face humans face to face," she said. Then he sighed deeply. The mermaid lives in the deep sea, loves peace, and is extremely easy to be satisfied. Therefore, even the creatures that appeared at the same time as the human race are completely inferior to the rapidly developing human race in terms of technology. Once the two meet, According to the idea that the human race must be different from our race, it is difficult for her to imagine the peaceful coexistence of the two races.

"Yes, I got it, mother." Austin said, he knew the worry in his mother's heart, the mermaid race has retreated again and again under the human race's exploration of the ocean, and although the human race has not yet faced the mermaid race, However, many traces of them have been found, and they have long suspected the existence of the mermaid.

Austin was sitting on the reef during the day, and aside from the existential crisis of the mermaid, he thought of the woman he saw during the day.

"The fairy from the east..."

He thought to himself, what a noble identity, he never thought that he would meet such a person.

Suddenly, a violent current caught his attention.

"Simons, where are you going?" he called, then jumped into the water quickly, wiggling his fish tail quickly, and caught up in the direction of the current.

In front of him is a huge shark with sharp teeth.

"Austin?" A deep male voice echoed in his head.

"It's me, yes," he asked. "Simons, are you in a hurry?"

The male voice in his head replied: "No, I just received a call, and my heart directed me to follow the call."

"Simmons. What summons?" he asked.

"I don't know." The male voice replied, "I only know that this call is urgent, and it urges me to rush as soon as possible."

"Simons, I think this call is definitely not a good thing." Austin said, "You stop and don't continue to move forward. Maybe there is danger waiting for you ahead, you don't want to act alone."

"No, Austin, I can't stop..."

Austin clasped the shark's fins tightly with both hands, but he didn't slow it down at all. Instead, he swam forward quickly with him. He had to grit his teeth and let go of his hands.

"No. I have to let my mother come." But now they are on the sea, and his mother is in the mermaid palace in the deep sea, from here to the mermaid palace, even if he is the fastest swimmer in the mermaid tribe Mermaid, round trip also takes a lot of time.

At that time, it will be a different matter if you can't find Simmons. If Simmons falls into the hands of sinister people when he goes to his mother, he will hold grudges for the rest of his life.

He looked up from the water, trying to determine his position, looking for mermaids or other aquariums nearby, but found a passenger ship not far away, brightly lit, on the pitch-dark sea. Like a lighthouse.

"Fairy from the East!" he suddenly thought, "She must be able to help Simmons."

For almost no reason, Austin insisted that the woman he saw during the day could save his friend's life.

As he climbed up the side of the ship with one hand, an indifferent but familiar voice suddenly came from overhead.

"Little Mermaid, what are you doing here?"

He looked up, startled, his hands loosened, and he fell into the sea. At this time, the other hand pulled him up faster than him.

"Lord Immortal from the East," he pleaded respectfully, "my friend Simmons has been summoned inexplicably. I suspect it is the conspiracy of someone with ulterior motives, so I ask for your help."

"So that's why you climbed the human liner?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes," Austin replied, "I have to go and save my friend, but now there is no extra time for me to find other people for help, only to find Lord Xianzu."

"Lord Immortal, what a strange title." The woman said, with a bit of reproach in her tone, "The reckless little mermaid."

But she didn't ignore his anxious gaze. She walked to the edge of the deck, and then looked far into the distance. Through the thin moonlight, she saw the shark fins protruding from the sea not far away.

"Is that the friend you're talking about?" she asked.

"Yes." Austin nodded.

The woman turned around. Before Austin could exclaim, she was hugged by her waist. Her arms were attached to his body through the thin sleeves. Burned up.

"Then let's go and see where the Holy Spirit is at work."

She walked to the edge of the deck with Austin in her arms, and with a slight jump, Austin found that she was stepping on the sea, yes, that's right, just stepping, she was almost walking, and she was swimming fast Simmons' side.

Then stepped on Simmons' back leisurely.

"Austin, who is she?" asked the big shark as a person suddenly appeared on his back.

"She is the fairy from the East I met during the day. She helped me during the day. I didn't have time to go back and ask my mother for help, so I could only ask the fairy for help," he explained.

"Immortal?" The big shark looked puzzled.

"Yes, Mother said they were the same as our Protoss," Austin replied.

The conversation between the two was completed in their minds, but the woman holding Austin frowned slightly, and then only heard her say: "Protoss, a bunch of cowards."

Neither Simmons nor Austin have the right to chime in on this high-level racial conflict.

And soon, the three found out who was calling Simmons.

"Three?" On the shore, was an old woman with white hair and a haggard face, wearing a large black robe, with a golden bell dangling in her hand, which looked old at a glance.

In her deeply sunken eye sockets are a pair of cloudy but sharp silver-gray eyes.

Seeing Austin in the woman's arms, her wrinkled cheeks twitched and her parched lips drew an ugly smile.

"I didn't expect to be able to summon the mermaid. Today is really my lucky day..."

"Black Witch?" A clear and cold voice interrupted her words. The old woman in black robe shifted her gaze from Austin to the woman in white. Seeing her beautiful face, a trace of jealousy flashed in her eyes. of light.

"Little girl, this is not the place you should appear." The black-robed woman said, cracking the corners of her mouth, sticking out her tongue and licking her lips, "I think you should be extremely delicious, after eating you, I will I can maintain my youth again for a while.”

"Youth, it's so beautiful to think about, I can't wait..."

She was chattering, but the woman had no interest in continuing to talk to her. Her foot lightly stepped on Simmons' back and stopped him from moving forward. Simmons only As soon as I felt loose, the inexplicable sense of summoning disappeared.

"It's been a long time since I met such a weak black witch..."