Chapter 398 The Siren's Song, the Impostor Mermaid Princess
"Sir, our tribe has arrived."
As the mermaid captain stopped, Li Guanqi officially arrived at his destination.
He looked around.
What appeared in front of him was a vast underwater town. All kinds of strange and unspeakable buildings came into view. The outer walls were decorated with colorful shells, and many kinds of strange algae and aquatic plants were swaying slightly on the roadside.
, adding a bit of character to this underwater town.
This is a small underwater town that can accommodate no more than 800 mermaids.
There is nothing out of the ordinary, meeting a mermaid on the bottom of the sea, and then encountering an incredibly beautiful and majestic underwater kingdom.
Because this is not the royal territory of the mermaid clan.
This is just a small mermaid tribe, and the leader is only at the Five Elements level.
After all, the capital city of the Daluo Dynasty must be luxurious, but a small village in a mountainous valley must also look poor.
"What is that?"
"Why did his tail become two?"
"How strange."
"It's a deformed mermaid, he's a priest!"
"..."
At this time, seeing the human being Li Guanqi approaching, many little mermaids from the Ellie tribe also swam out, pointed at Li Guanqi, and kept making surprised comments.
But these are only half-grown babies after all.
Those adult fish with some knowledge knew that this was a human being, and quickly thought of the recent request of the patriarch, and they all quickly covered their children's mouths, for fear of offending the human magician.
"Please don't blame me, sir."
The mermaid captain turned around, bowed his head to Li Guanqi and said, "They are still children and are not sensible."
"Take me to see your clan leader."
Li Guanqi just smiled calmly.
"Yes, please come this way."
The mermaid captain held a trident in his hand and swung his red fish tail as he kept swimming forward. His goal was the tallest and largest underwater pavilion. Compared with the strange buildings around it, it was the most aesthetically pleasing house for humans.
"Captain Zalika!"
Outside the gate of the undersea pavilion, two two-level mermaids looked at the mermaid captain and Li Guanqi, and immediately exclaimed, "You, you brought a human spellcaster?! Four-level mermaids?!"
"Hmph!"
The mermaid captain, on the other hand, looked arrogant and extremely proud, "It's good to know, why don't you open the door for me quickly?! You can't afford to delay the clan leader's affairs!"
"Quick, quick, quick!"
The two mermaid guards suddenly became nervous, turned around, and took the initiative to help open the door of the undersea pavilion.
"My lord, please come this way."
Then, the mermaid captain, who was so arrogant in front of these two mermaids and pointed his nostrils at people, turned around and faced Li Guanqi, his face suddenly changed and he smiled flatteringly.
It can be called a face-changing warrior.
"This is the residence of your clan leader..."
Li Guanqi swam into the undersea pavilion and came to the lobby. He looked at the surrounding furnishings and was a little surprised, "The furnishings here are very Western-style."
Although it is now the year 4871 of the New Era, perhaps due to some historical legacy, the aesthetic styles of the East and the West are still very similar to those of the 21st century - Daluo people like ink painting, while oil paintings are popular in Western countries.
In the lobby and corridors of this undersea pavilion, Western oil paintings are hung on the walls, and there are several portraits with Western faces and Western clothes.
These portraits should have been waterproofed.
Talk.
Li Guanqi looked carefully at the mermaid captain next to him.
Although the other person's face is covered with red fish scales, if you look closely, you can still see some Caucasian characteristics from this mermaid's face.
High nose bridge, deep eye sockets, low cheekbones, flat jawbone, and thin lips.
If you ask Li Guanqi, he is indeed more inclined to the statement that "the subhuman race is a severely mutated family of different blood."
So, in this weird world, the ancestor of the mermaid tribe should be a severely mutated European and American human of different blood?
"I can't understand these paintings either."
The mermaid captain led the way along the stairs and continued to swim upstairs. "The patriarch traveled to the Tulip Empire back then. She brought these paintings back from the Tulip Empire. We can't see them anyway..."
"etc!"
Li Guanqi stopped behind him and looked at the mahogany stairs below, a little confused. "So, can you tell me why there are such things as 'stairs' where the mermaid lives?"
Mermaids live on the bottom of the sea and move around by swimming.
What the hell needs stairs?
Can you go up and down the stairs with your fishtail?!
"It was also built under the order of the patriarch."
The mermaid captain seemed quite helpless, "Originally, the patriarch was fine, but ever since she went to the Tulip Empire a hundred years ago and came back, she has become a little abnormal. What kind of art and art do you want us to do?
Study art and create literature...sigh."
As he spoke, he sighed again, "Actually, if you really want to talk about it, it was okay before. What's even worse is that starting from half a year ago, the patriarch became even more abnormal, like a little girl, and he didn't know what was going on.
Condition."
"..."
Li Guanqi was speechless.
"arrive."
At this time, after reaching the fifth floor of the attic, which is the top floor of this undersea attic, the mermaid captain stopped outside the door of a room, lowered his head towards the red door, and said respectfully: "Master Patriarch! Your loyal warrior Zha Li
Ka, brought you a friendly human conjurer!"
"Really?!"
"Bang!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the door was suddenly opened, and a young and beautiful girl's face peeked out.
Li Guanqi looked at her and was slightly startled.
I saw that this mermaid had long, silvery white hair, a beautiful face that was fair and smooth, and even slightly pink, as if it could be broken by a blow, and her moist golden eyes with big vertical pupils were full of
He looked at Li Guanqi curiously.
[Five Elements Level Conjurer]
"Forehead……"
Li Guanqi's eyes moved slightly downward.
It was as if I had seen waves more turbulent than the Eastern Ocean, and ravines deeper than the Mariana Trench.
They were shaking in the water, making him feel dizzy.
Because of such a magnificent spectacle, this mermaid only tied them up with a thin red sling, revealing her fair and slim waist with a waistcoat line.
The lower body is a golden fish tail with beautiful scales.
"Are you a king-blooded mermaid?!"
Li Guanqi shook his head, forced his eyes back, and looked at this silver-haired mermaid in disbelief.
The upper body is not much different from that of humans. The appearance is extremely beautiful or extremely handsome, with silver-white hair, golden vertical pupils, and golden scales and fish tail.
This is the characteristic of the mermaid royal family!
Pure blood royal family!
"Eh?"
The cute-looking mermaid was confused, "How did you tell?"
"ah!"
She seemed to have thought of something, and rushed back to the room, looked in the mirror, and then quickly rubbed her long silver hair. As spiritual power emerged in her palms, her long hair and beautiful eyes,
It also gradually turned red.
Then, she put her hands on her face again, as if she was preparing to continue changing her appearance.
"Who are you?!"
But at this time, the mermaid captain next to Li Guanqi finally came to his senses and exclaimed in disbelief: "You, you are not the patriarch's guest! Are you trying to pretend to be the patriarch now?! Someone..."
"Oh, don't shout!"
The mermaid was shocked when she heard this, and swam out quickly, facing the mermaid captain, she raised her hand and performed the amnesia spell.
Li Guanqi watched with fear.
Because after the spell was cast, the mermaid captain fainted and fell to the ground.
Judging from this symptom, not to mention forgetting the memory just now, it is estimated that the poor mermaid captain will have forgotten all the memories of the past ten days.
"Inside, inside..."
The mermaid looked at Li Guanqi, her two small hands flashed with green light, looking at Li Guanqi expectantly, "Hello, can I..."
"Absolutely not! Put your hands down! Put them down!"
Li Guanqi sternly refused.
Damn it, you still want to use amnesia on him with this technology?
"oh……"
The mermaid yelled at him, and immediately lowered her head, poking her with her two index fingers, like a little girl who had been wronged, and there were even tears glistening in her eyes.
Maybe it wasn't faint, maybe I had already cried, but the tears were mixed into the surrounding seawater as soon as they appeared.
"You are not the leader of the Ellie tribe."
Li Guanqi looked at the mermaid and his expression changed slightly, "Is she already dead?"
"Eh?!"
The mermaid looked at him with surprise and disbelief, "You, how did you know?!"
"Oh, actually I just said it casually and made a wild guess."
Li Guanqi shrugged, "But I didn't expect you to admit it so straightforwardly."
"ah……"
The mermaid was stunned, her mouth opened and she was speechless.
"..."
Li Guanqi glanced at the mermaid captain who was unconscious on the ground, then looked at the mermaid girl in front of him, frowning slightly.
In fact, he had two guesses at the beginning.
1. Disguise.
The leader of the Ellie tribe is originally a pure-blood royal mermaid. He may have come here to experience life, or it may be for other reasons. In short, he changed his hair color and eye color, changed his appearance, and disguised his identity.
2. Replace.
The leader of the Ellie tribe is dead, and this pure-blood royal family is an imposter.
The second possibility was very slim, and Li Guanqi almost didn't think about it at first.
Because why would a pure-blood royal family replace the leader of the Ellie tribe?
Whose prince or grandson is going to take over the position of village head of Xiaoposhan Village?
However, this mermaid's behavior is too "retarded", she feels like a little girl... Can this mermaid be the leader of the clan?
So Li Guanqi said casually.
Then the mermaid directly exposed herself.
"You, come in."
At this time, the mermaid looked at the bottom of the stairs with some concern, then took Li Guanqi's arm with both hands and dragged him into the room.
"Bang."
After closing the door, the mermaid cast another soundproofing spell, and then carefully looked at Li Guanqi in front of her, "You, if you don't cast the Forgetting spell on me, then please, don't tell this matter outside, okay?
"
"How old are you this year?"
Li Guanqi did not answer her question. Instead, he walked around the room casually and then asked this question.
"51 years old."
The mermaid who looked like a cute girl blinked her beautiful eyes, "Why do you ask this?"
"No wonder you act like a little girl."
Li Guanqi turned to look at her and frowned: "So you are a pure-blooded royal family and you just came out of the temple of the Mermaid Palace last year?"
"Eh?!"
The mermaid looked shocked again, her watery eyes filled with disbelief, "How do you know this?! How can you be so powerful and know everything!"
"..."
Li Guanqi was speechless for a moment.
The mermaid clan has a sacred tradition.
Due to the special physique of the mermaids, those pure-blooded royals who are born with disabilities and have the talent for spells will enter the palace temple after birth and undergo 50 years of magic under the influence of a special mermaid secret.
Hibernate.
As soon as he was born, he slept with it for 50 years.
50 years later, when this mermaid wakes up, she will possess the Five Elements level of cultivation. She is already in the state of comprehending the five laws of wind, thunder, light, darkness, and gold, and her spiritual power and soul have also reached the level of
reached a corresponding level.
It's just that my brain didn't reach it.
Because they sleep for 50 years right after birth, the mind of this kind of mermaid is completely the same as that of a baby.
That is to say.
The cute mermaid in front of Li Guanqi is said to be 51 years old, but she just came out of the temple of the Mermaid Palace last year, which means that she has been sleeping for the past 50 years, and the time she has really been in contact with the outside world is actually only one year.
She is actually equivalent to a 1-year-old baby.
But because of her fifth-level soul, she was able to learn the ways of the world very quickly.
But no matter what, this pure-blooded royal mermaid cannot become like a mature adult even if she only spends 2 or 3 years studying.
Her current mental state is, at best, that of a 7 or 8-year-old child.
Probably lower.
"You can enter the temple of the Mermaid Palace to sleep..."
Li Guanqi looked at the mermaid and said seriously: "Hey, your surname is Siren, are you a mermaid princess?"
"Yeah!"
The mermaid smiled happily, "Yes! My last name is Siren, and my name is Lily Siren. This name was given to me by my mother, doesn't it sound good? Hehe, many powerful mermaids called me princess in the past...
…only……"
As she said that, she lowered her head in disappointment, "No one calls it that now."
Li Guanqi didn't notice her loss at all. After hearing the mermaid's name, he fell into deep thought.
As expected, she is a pure-blooded royal family and a mermaid princess.
Lily Siren.
Siren is the most noble surname of the mermaid royal family, basically similar to the Ying surname of the Daluo Dynasty.
This surname is worth exploring.
Sirens, legendary sirens, are good at bewitching passing fishermen with their songs, causing their ships to run aground on the rocks and destroying people.
If Li Guanqi remembers correctly, the legend of the Sirens has regional differences.
In some places, sirens are harpies.
In other places, sirens are in the form of mermaids in legends.
The ancestor of the mermaid tribe gave himself the surname "Siren".
Perhaps by digging deeper from this point, we can discover the true origin of the ancestors of the mermaid tribe.
But Li Guanqi was not interested in these.
He wanted to know even more, why did Lily, a noble mermaid princess, appear in the remote area of the Ellie tribe?
Then there is the matter of the unsealed item of the magic sword.
"Why are you here?"
Li Guanqi looked at this mermaid who had the mind of a girl but a ridiculously developed body, and asked the first question.
"Forehead……"
Lily scratched her head and said, "It's a long story."
"It doesn't matter. I like listening to stories the most. You can tell them slowly."
Li Guanqi walked to the side, pulled over a chair, and looked at her quietly.
"I was kicked out of the palace."
Lily pursed her lips, lowered her head, and kept picking at the fish scales on her lower body with her two white and tender hands, and said in despair: "Six months ago, I don't know why, but that day, many guards suddenly rushed over and arrested me.
, was imprisoned.
Obviously they always call me "Princess" and they are all very nice to me.
I'm obviously very well-behaved, but I don't know why they suddenly became so fierce.
Then, I don’t know how long it took, my mother suddenly appeared outside the prison, secretly rescued me, and asked me to run with Uncle Kaiya.
I obeyed my mother very much, so I ran with Uncle Kaiya.
Run and run.
I don’t know how long I ran, but many mermaid guards came after me.
Uncle Kaiya opened a space crack for me, threw me in, and asked me to stay quietly. He came to me soon.
After I came out of the space crack, I appeared in this room.
Then I saw Sister Maura lying on the bed, dying.
Oh, by the way, Sister Maura is the original leader of the Ellie tribe.
I just came over and before I could figure out what was going on, Sister Maura grabbed my hand and said her name was Maura Ellie. She also said that although she didn’t know who I was, she was dying and she hoped I could
Take over the position of clan leader and help her continue to deter the surrounding sea beasts and protect the Ellie clan.
After saying this, she died, her soul collapsed and she died.
I was confused at that time.
After being confused for a long time, a female attendant came in. When she saw the dead sister Mora, she kept shouting and called many guards to come in.
At that time, I only knew how to forget, so I could make them forget their memories.
But it's no use.
They will always wake up, and when they wake up, they will shout again, and I will use the forgetfulness spell again.
Then I yelled again when they woke up, and yelled again after they woke up... After a few times, I found that this was not the solution.
Then I finally thought of a good way.
Hide Sister Mora's body and pretend to be Sister Mora so they won't scream!
It's been half a year, and they haven't discovered it yet.
Humph, isn’t Lily very smart?”
Having said this, the mermaid girl raised her head proudly, put her hands on her hips, and looked extremely proud.
"..."
Li Guanqi was sitting on a chair with a strange expression.
His initial thought was, "How many idiots do you have to be to make such a decision?"
But if you think about it carefully, this is not the case.
Although Lily is 51 years old, she has been sleeping in the palace temple for the first 50 years, and she only lived for one year. At most, a 7 or 8-year-old girl can make such a decision... Well, maybe she can really boast about it?
"But why were you kicked out of the palace?"
Li Guanqi looked at this cute mermaid in surprise, and was very confused, "Not every king-blooded mermaid can succeed in sleeping in the temple. Some mermaids wake up as soon as they fall asleep, and their cultivation is not up to standard. Some mermaids have finished sleeping.
50 years, but it cannot reach the Five Elements level. A Five Elements level mermaid spellcaster like you who has slept for 50 years should be the focus of training."
"I don't know either, but mom said..."
Lily took out a shell from a space ring around her neck.
She held the shell in both hands and looked at Li Guanqi eagerly, "Mom said, there is a reason in this shell, but Lily can't read it directly. She can only open it when Uncle Kaiya tells her that Lily is an adult."
But I have been waiting for Uncle Kaiya in this room for half a year, and he has not come back yet.
Human beings, can you say 'Lily is already an adult'?
Then I can open it and read it.”
At this point, the mermaid girl looked at Li Guanqi, her moist and beautiful eyes full of expectation.
"Can't."
Li Guanqi shook his head, "You are completely a child now."
"ah……"
Lily was extremely disappointed and dejected.
"Do you mind showing it to me?"
Li Guanqi suddenly asked, "If the content is suitable, I can say this."
"Okay, okay!"
As soon as these words came out, Lily's eyes suddenly lit up. She approached Li Guanqi with great joy and handed him the shell, "Look!"
"..."
Li Guanqi was slightly speechless.
He suddenly felt guilty about coaxing the little girl.
Although this little girl is a mermaid who is nearly 30 years older than him.
But he is curious!
"Ahem."
Li Guanqi suppressed the guilt in his heart, took the shell from Lily's hand, and opened it.
Inside, there was a folded piece of special leather that was obviously waterproof.
There are two paragraphs written on it in English, which translate to:
——Lily, my favorite daughter, mom is sorry for you.
——Open this letter. If Kaia thinks you are an adult, then you have the right to know the truth.
