Chapter 257 (Catching Bugs)
In the gloomy night, the sea breeze raised high waves on the sea water. A dark shadow swam silently under the huge ship, and the fish tail flashed with fluorescent dots and swayed lightly and powerfully. With every swing, the undertow pushed the waves higher.
There were huge torches everywhere on the deck, and the reflections of the burning flames seemed to ignite sparks in the cold sea water. Laughter spread from the ship and was quickly drowned out by the sound of the even more turbulent waves.
Yun Mian held a small piece of cheese biscuit and ate it slowly. She tried to lean her small body on a relatively stable wooden board, but she was still swayed by the boat and could not eat the cheese biscuit in her hand.
Soon, the sea breeze under the deep night sky began to whimper faintly, and the sea water hitting the hull splashed high and then fell heavily in all directions. Most of the turbulent sea water fell fiercely and hit the deck, and then flowed into the cabin.
A shallow layer of cold sea water quickly accumulated under Yunmian's feet.
She stood up from the ground, holding the biscuit wet by water droplets, stepped on the shallow puddle, and tilted her head to look out.
The door of the room creaked as it was shaken. The Milky Way that was hanging high in the night sky was now extremely low. The dull and heavy feeling of oppression inexplicably gave people a sense of crisis that the Milky Way would fall down at any time. The people who were originally celebrating the prince's coming of age screamed in panic and groped for something to steady themselves. The luxurious clothes that were soaked by the sea water hung heavily on them, making it increasingly difficult for them to move in the increasingly huge wind and waves.
"Your Highness, we must return!"
"Your Highness, be careful!!"
A huge wave was raised high in the sea, and then it came straight towards the embarrassed people on the deck.
The guards shouted in panic to protect the prince, but the prince himself looked up at the huge waves rushing towards him, tightly grasped the only weapon on his body, the sword, with one hand, closed his eyes and let himself be drenched by the salty and cold sea water.
The biscuits in Yunmian's hand were completely soaked by the ubiquitous wind and waves and were no longer edible.
The biscuits, which were originally hard, became soft and messy after being wetted. The little girl's bright and clear eyes reflected the huge waves hitting the prince. Her originally rosy cheeks had already turned pale in the increasingly violent bumps.
Is this the sea?
She couldn't even withstand a wave hit.
These waves will eventually capsize this huge ship, and then... the sea will swallow up the ship and all the lives on board.
The system was pressed tightly against Mianmian's shoulders; it could even hear and feel the pounding pulse and pounding heartbeat beneath the little girl's cold skin.
She is scared.
She was afraid of this dark, mysterious and terrifying sea. Even though she had elf wings, the instincts of her soul and body made it difficult for her to move for a moment when facing this great force of nature.
But at this point in the plot, the system and Mianmian can no longer change it.
Amid countless shrill screams and desperate cries of prayer, the ship praised by Eric as the largest and most solid one finally tilted slowly towards the deeper and darker sea under the deep night.
"Uncle, can I save them?" Yun Mian held tightly onto a heavy wooden stake, and watched those people fall into the sea one by one, floundering with their hands in despair, trying to grab even a piece of driftwood. It was the first time since he came into this world that he desperately wanted to grab onto something.
She recognized every face on the ship, guards, servants, princes, viscounts, ladies, maids...
She even had brief or long communications with many of them.
But tonight, these people will probably be buried in this vast deep sea.
"But Mianmian, we can hardly save ourselves..." The system stopped at the host's shoulder helplessly and said in a deep voice: "Unless... you can convince the mermaid princess who caused the storm to let these poor people go."
But that is extremely slim. This is just a fairy tale derivative world. The so-called prince is a fool whose beliefs can be easily tampered with. So, is the so-called mermaid princess really as kind as described in the fairy tale?
The system was afraid that once the host appeared, he might become food for the mermaids just like these humans.
After listening to the concerns of the system uncle, Yun Mian saw Prince Eric, who was standing on the deck all the time, just pulled out a prince. While saving the other party, he accidentally fell into the deep sea.
Huge waves several meters high hit the deck heavily. The hull was suffering unbearable disaster and was shaking, about to throw more people into the sea.
Yun Mian's gaze followed the lady who brought her the cookies. She finally loosened her last finger with difficulty. She was wearing a thick long dress that was embellished with gems but already wet. She closed her eyes in despair and was thrown into the surging sea by the waves.
Yun Mian felt her heart tremble. She clearly heard the voice of the system uncle urging her to transform into an elf and fly up to avoid the waves. However, her fingers trembled slightly and then suddenly loosened. When she fell heavily on the hard hull, she gritted her teeth and crawled out against the wind and waves. Finally, she jumped off the hull that was about to be swallowed by the sea water.
Under the clear moonlight, the small figure leaped up and fell heavily into the sea like a delicate silver fish.
The moment she entered the water, the surging sea water rushed over her impatiently, as if to throw her down, squeeze her, and drown her in this unfamiliar sea.
That was an experience Yunmian had never had before. The system panicked and tried to lift Mianmian out of the sea, but it couldn't. It was just a useless ball of light without any help authority!
Yun Mian thought that she would cry out of fear after entering the sea, or struggle and flutter desperately for help like other humans. She even thought about what she would do if she died soon after entering the water.
But when she actually fell into the sea, she was no longer afraid or panicked.
Her tiny, slender hands and feet swam slowly in the surging sea water. After being forced to swallow several mouthfuls of sea water, she learned how to hold her breath without any instruction. Then she tried hard to open her eyes in the water.
She is different from those humans. She has her own confidence. Her wings will not get wet even if they touch water. As long as a little bit of her body is above the sea, she can make herself fly.
So she was calm enough, and even after a brief period of adaptation, she opened her bright green eyes on the seabed.
Her body no longer looked like a human cub. Her green translucent wings were tightly attached to her back, and her pointed ears automatically blocked the seawater that kept trying to pour into her body. Her five senses were greatly enhanced in the sea, and her powerful magical talent as a forest elf allowed her to adapt to the ubiquitous seawater here in a very short time.
The elf's superior five senses helped her to quickly see the lady.
The other party was closing his eyes and sinking powerlessly into the darker deep sea.
The complicated and heavy dress on her body was floating in the sea water. At the same time, countless similar dark figures were falling weakly and evenly in the dark and cold sea water.
It was as if a mysterious existence was silently pulling their bodies and souls towards extinction in the ocean.
Yunmian swam towards the other party.
She didn't know any particularly complicated magic, so she could only try to grab the lady's arm in the sea, and as she was being pulled down by her, she quickly recited the magic spell belonging to the elves.
Soon, the lady had a bunch of large balloon-like things on her body.
These spherical objects pulled the other people's bodies upwards, and Yun Mian, with a pale face, cast the same magic on other people who fell into the water.
When she was in a trance and exhausted, the elf seemed to hear a distant and ethereal singing coming from the sea. Just as Eric had described, the singing seemed to have magical power, so beautiful that it could make people sink into it and drown. She finally let her arms down exhausted after tying a bunch of balloons for a little girl who was less than fifteen years old.
The elf's palm-sized body fell towards the deeper seabed. The surging undercurrent pushed her away from the sea where the ship crashed, and it seemed that she was going to bury her in the tranquil deep sea.
The system looked at the danger warning signals of the host's body that kept appearing on the light screen, turned it off and ignored it, instead it followed the host's small body and fell towards the dark seabed with her.
It was not moved at all by the host's rescue of those people, even though this was indeed the best change for the host after he threw away those golden fingers, even though this meant that the host had finally gotten rid of the previous influence and respected life again.
If possible, it would rather Mianmian was still the child with the golden finger who regarded human life as worthless and had her mother as the only one in the world.
At least in that case the host wouldn't be so foolish as to jump into the sea to save people, and wouldn't put himself in such a dangerous situation in order to save people.
Mianmian will not die. Even if the mission in this world is not completed, she will only be pushed out by the world consciousness. However, when the system sees her small body losing all consciousness and falling towards the bottom of the sea, it will still subconsciously feel palpitations and panic.
It was also the first time that it decided not to play those fairy tale cartoons for its host anymore.
Fairy tales never tell the audience and readers what kind of people other than the protagonist have become because of fate.
Those innocent people who fell into the deep sea are just like the mother and daughter of the Yun family who are carried forward by the fate of the protagonist in every world. They are passers-by, supporting roles, cannon fodder, and victims of the story who will never be mentioned again in the plot.
It is a background board that is only described in a few short sentences in a lifetime, or even just mentioned in passing.
But for this, they in the story had to use their entire lives to set off the protagonist's brief encounter, and then they would never be mentioned again.
With no origin and no end, this absurd and short life is like this raging and roaring wave, leaving them no chance to struggle or seek help.
The ball of light gently rubbed the elf's small curly fingers in the deep sea, and for the first time he vaguely realized why the General Administration had so many rescue and redemption type branches.
At the same time, the elf's falling body was finally stopped artificially.
A mermaid with thick red hair curly like seaweed curiously reached out and poked the elf's white and tender cheek, then gently picked her up with her white hands, picked a small sea pearl from her white wrist and put it into the elf's mouth, then swam lightly towards the sea surface dotted with dim light by the silver moon, swinging her tail.
Not far behind her, His Royal Highness the Prince, dressed in elaborate attire, was also being carried roughly toward the surface of the sea by a mermaid.
I hope that we can all be the protagonists of our own lives and not be carried along by the fate of others.
Thanks to the little angel who cast the mine: Lingqinjiu! 1;
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
Hua Yin 16 bottles;
Songyun 15 bottles;
Lin Shuyi 10 bottles;
65898828, 53966188 5 bottles;
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