“The purifiers are all on.”
The Great Elder moved sideways, giving up the seat in front of Shui Yiyao, allowing her to see what was placed in front of her.
Two purifiers sat before her bed, both powered on, their green lights flickering on and off. A few mermaids curiously gathered around them, wanting to touch them but afraid to.
The parent next to him also said, "Don't get so close, you might break it."
Shui Yiyao: "How can it be so easy to break down?"
Ten million.
The color of the sea water has become much lighter. It used to be gray-black, but now it is deep blue.
Breathing is much smoother.
Not only the children, but also the adults looked at the machines with hidden joy in their eyes, "Don't put these two together, put them ten meters apart, facing each other."
When two are placed together, the effective range is only one hundred cubic meters.
The mermaids immediately took action and, following Shui Yiyao's instructions, placed the two machines facing each other to spread the effect to the maximum range.
Shui Yiyao watched the mermaids set up the machines, then began to worry about the two machines.
Two hundred cubic meters may sound like a lot, but it’s actually just a space of about 60 square meters and nearly 4 meters high.
The small one-bedroom apartment she rents now is 50 square meters.
Now, more than 40 mermaids, each 3 meters tall, are squeezed into an area of more than 60 square meters, which looks like a train station during the Spring Festival travel rush.
Two machines are still too few.
"Princess, are you feeling better?" The Great Elder's eyes moved from the two purifiers to Shui Yiyao's tail.
Shui Yiyao also looked over. She shook it gently. There was a small triangular hole missing from the tip of the translucent golden tail on the right side, making it asymmetrical and a bit ugly.
"It doesn't hurt anymore. This medicine is good."
I don’t feel much pain even in my mermaid form, so if I were in human form I would definitely not feel anything at all.
"Why did you suddenly..."
The Great Elder stopped talking halfway and stopped asking questions. He just looked at the golden tail with a complicated look in his eyes.
"Two is still too few." Shui Yiyao looked at the purifier and sighed, "Give me some more time."
"I will make sure that purifiers enter every household."
The Great Elder smiled and shook his head slightly: "Don't be too anxious. We can make a long-term plan. Two is enough."
"How can this be enough?"
In her plan, she wanted at least five. Now she had no other choice but to make do with it.
"Great Elder, who are those people outside? The Shark Tribe?"
The Great Elder shook his head, his smile faded. "Those are the Wolffish Clan. They are the running dogs of the Shark Clan."
Someone nearby interjected, "The Wolffish Tribe only has two purifiers. They have many more people than us. So, two machines are already a lot."
Another mermaid interjected, "Don't worry, Princess. Two machines are more than enough. It's much better than what we had in the river cave before. We didn't expect this at all... This is already very good."
Only the Jiaolong tribe in the sea has purifiers, no other tribe has them.
The mermaids never interact with outsiders. They originally thought they would have to live in the river for a long time, but they didn't expect that they could go home now.
God knows they dreamed of leaving that narrow river cave.
Shui Yiyao smiled and said, "Is that good enough? No, it can be much, much better."
Purifiers weren't exactly rare; they could be purchased online, after all, as long as one had money. But for the sea creatures, who had never had contact with the human world, money was a rarity.
For her, money is time. If she is given more time, she can earn this money.
"By the way, Great Elder, do you still have the Mermaid Tears?"
In Shui Yiyao's memory, the golden tears she shed were given to the Great Elder for safekeeping. From childhood to adulthood, she cried almost every day. However, the golden tears skill has a cooling time. Only one golden tear will be produced every month, and the rest are ordinary tears.
The human form also has ordinary tears, only the mermaid form has golden tears, and one per month.
But even so, Shui Yiyao is twenty-three years old this year, and there are twelve months in a year, which means she has shed more than two hundred tears.
"I've put them all in the medicine room." The Great Elder was puzzled. "What are you doing with the mermaid tears?"
"I'm useful."
The Great Elder turned around and ordered, "Go to the medicine room and get the tears."
How to put it in the medicine room?
Just as she was about to ask, Shui Yiyao recalled a memory. From childhood to adulthood, whenever Shui Yiyao got a scratch on her skin, she would immediately apply medicine. That medicine was made from mermaid tears.
The mermaids have no use for mermaid tears and use them as Band-Aids.
Ten million mermaid tears were worth only one dollar.
Shui Yiyao began to feel heartbroken.
But she tried not to show it.
"Grand Princess, are you still in pain?" The Great Elder easily saw through her disguise and asked with concern, "Do you want some more medicine?"
He waved behind him and someone brought up a box.
The elder pointed at the tip of Shui Yiyao's tail and said, "Apply some medicine to the princess."
"Wait." Shui Yiyao looked at the box that was carried up. Inside was a large box full of gold and silver ointment. She had a bad feeling. "How many gold tears were used in this?"
Only her tears, as a pure-blooded mermaid, are golden, while those of other mermaids are silver, so the mixed ointment is gold and silver.
She has been applying her own golden tear medicine to treat injuries since she was a child, but she would also apply the medicine even if she had bumps and bruises without breaking the skin, and her medicine was always in short supply.
The mermaid holding the medicine box replied, “You were injured so badly that you used all five pills.”
"Not a single grain left?"
"right."
Shui Yiyao felt even more heartbroken.
The Great Elder: "You want the Golden Tears?"
Shui Yiyao: "I'm just asking. It's nothing."
It’s all gone, and even if I tell you, it will make people worry.
After a while, the mermaid who went to the medicine room to get the mermaid's tears came back, dragging a big treasure chest behind him.
"Princess." He came to Shui Yiyao and said, "This is half of the mermaid tears. There is another box. If you want me to bring it to you, please."
"A lot more."
Finally, Shui Yiyao symbolically grabbed a handful and put it in her travel bag.
She wasn't going to sell them.
Unlike her gold tears, which are almost never circulated in the market, there are too many silver tears. If they appear in the market in large quantities, they will definitely attract other people's attention and cause trouble.
She had the box put back and stood up.
"I'm going to see if the Wolffish have left."
"You take a rest, I'll go and see."
Shui Yiyao still insisted on going to see it with the Great Elder.
The mermaid tribe has small observation eyes on its outer walls.
By looking outside, I could see that the people of the wolffish tribe were guarding outside the door.
They all have green faces and fangs, and their faces are particularly long.
Shui Yiyao unconsciously reached out and touched her canine teeth. Would this fang be as long as those of the wolffish tribe?
No, no, she felt relieved after touching it. To be honest, it was a bit ugly. Her teeth were normal, sharp, but not showing.
"They haven't left yet." Shui Yiyao looked at them and asked, "Is there anything to eat in our holy land?"
“…the food is gone.”
"Oh." If there is no food left, then we must drive away the wolf fish.
She looked around and said, "I'll go somewhere else."
See if there's anything in the castle that can help the wolffish.
The Great Elder said: "You should go and rest first. If they can't wait for us to leave, they will leave naturally."
Shui Yiyao ignored the advice and toured the entire castle.
The Mermaid Castle wasn't big, more like a small town with about a hundred people living in it. It was very small. And it was also very empty. Apart from the living quarters, there was really nothing there.
So empty that it's despairing.
Shui Yiyao finally returned to the front gate. She swam up to the city wall and poked her head out.
The defensive safety shield was outside the city walls, and she was safe.
The wolf fishes opposite were still sitting there, bored, chatting and playing in groups.
"Hey, you lackeys, sit away. Your stink is coming to my house."
Shui Yiyao stood completely on the city wall and yelled at the wolf fishes.
After yelling, she quietly asked the elder next to her: "Is it arrogant enough?"
The Great Elder nodded somewhat slowly: "That's enough."
When the wolf fish heard the sound, they immediately looked towards Shui Yiyao, and some of them shot arrows at her.
The arrow hit the protective shield in front of her and immediately shattered it into pieces.
Unharmed.
Shui Yiyao was still frightened, her heart pounding. She tried not to show her fear, turned around and looked down at the city wall, shouting, "Bring up two purifiers! It's uncomfortable sitting here!"
The sound was so loud that it could be heard for miles around.
The wolf fish tribe on the opposite side also heard it.
"Boss, the mermaids are talking about... purifiers? And two of them..."
"Impossible! We only have two in our tribe. How could they have one?"
"They said they were going to move it up to the city wall."
"That's impossible!"
"Boss, look! They're moving up to the city wall!"
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