"I'm not a hero, I just want to go home." Yang Dongqing stood up without hesitation.
"It looks like there are only three of us." Su Mu walked out slowly, leaning on a snake-patterned wooden cane, with an unchanging smile on his face.
"And me!" The sturdy man with a crew cut from yesterday strode out, "Whoever wants to stay in this godforsaken place can stay. I'm not staying!"
Hu Jie narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the four people in front of him, with an imperceptible gleam in his eyes.
He laughed loudly and said, "Since the four of you are ready, I will not persuade you any more. Please follow me."
"Wait a minute." Mu Qing suddenly interrupted, staring at the smiling Hu Jie: "Before we go out to sea, I have a few more questions to ask. After all, I don't want to die in the sea for no apparent reason."
Hu Jie's smile did not fade: "Miss Mu, do you want to ask about the strength and number of the Undead Sirens?"
"I want to ask you!" Mu Qing was too lazy to act and said bluntly: "I don't trust you. I think you must have some purpose. Even the boat you prepared in advance may have problems."
Hu Jie was stunned: "Why do you say that, Miss Mu? Is there something wrong with what I did? I believe that I have treated you all with sincerity. Besides, we are all from the same hometown and have no conflict of interest. Why would I do anything on the ship?"
"Hey, Lao Hu, I told you that you look like a treacherous person, and no one would think you were a good person, but you never believed it." Pang Yang stood up and looked at Mu Qing and said, "Miss Mu, I know you are confused, and Lao Hu is actually hiding something.
Let me be frank, Lao Hu doesn’t want you to go out to sea at all.”
"Pang Yang, you...ah." Hu Jie sighed, but did not stop him in the end.
Mu Qing said coldly: "What do you mean you don't want us to go out to sea?"
Pang Yang glanced around and saw the vigilance on everyone's faces. He didn't keep them in suspense and told them the truth immediately.
"I believe everyone has discovered that there are no old people in the Sea Kingdom, and the so-called sea stone that is said to be able to drive away sirens is just an ordinary stone. In fact, the Sea Kingdom is not as peaceful as imagined. To put it bluntly, the entire Sea Kingdom is nothing more than livestock raised by sirens!"
"What!?"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone exclaimed in surprise.
"Livestock?" Mu Qing's delicate eyebrows were tightly furrowed, as if she had thought of something.
"Yes, it's livestock." Pang Yang sighed repeatedly: "Do you know the origin of the immortal sea monster? The first sea monster was actually a fisherman who drowned in the sea.
The ocean is an extension of the power of the sea god. On the sea, the souls of all drowned people belong to the sea god. After the souls are taken away by the sea god, the curse of immortality will spread. The bodies of the drowned people will turn into undead sea monsters, and they will constantly attack living beings and plunder souls for the sea god.
This kind of plunder is like a plague. Those whose souls are taken away by the sirens will eventually become sirens themselves. "
"What!? Isn't that just like the zombies in the movies?" someone said in horror.
Pang Yang smiled bitterly: "I hope they are zombies, at least zombies can be killed by blowing up their heads, but the undead siren is cursed by the sea god, that is the power of the gods, mortals can't kill them at all!
So we could only watch helplessly as more and more sea monsters appeared. They attacked the Sea Kingdom again and again. Lao Hu, I, and other nightmare apostles tried our best to stop them, but it was useless. Who can defeat the undead monsters? "
"Then why don't you build a high wall to isolate the sirens outside? Although these sirens are immortal, their power is not strong." Mu Qing asked back.
"Do you think we haven't thought of this method? It's useless! It's useless at all. The sirens are not strong, but there are not only sirens in the sea, but also some large sea beasts. Some of them are the predecessors of sharks, whales, octopuses, etc.
If it were just them, it would be fine. The most terrifying thing is that there is a sea god's follower in the sea! It is the most powerful existence in this sea area. The high walls can't stop it, not even the silver strongman Lao Hu can stop it! "
The despair in Pang Yang's words made everyone feel cold in their hearts. They didn't expect that there were so many terrifying creatures hidden in the sea, even the gods' favored ones.
"Then how did you survive?" Yang Dongqing said with a pale face.
"Haha, it's embarrassing to say, because of the constant attacks of the sea monsters, the number of citizens of the Sea Kingdom has become fewer and fewer, and finally there are less than 10,000 people left. At the critical moment, it was Lao Hu who stepped forward. Don't think that Lao Hu is a good guy, a bit cowardly, but he is really capable and will really help when something happens!
He went to the deep sea alone to negotiate with the Sea God's followers, telling them that once the Sea Kingdom was destroyed, they would no longer be able to harvest souls. "
Mu Qing's face turned pale. She gritted her teeth and said, "So you have reached an agreement with the Sea God's followers to help them raise humans?"
"Little girl, I know what you are thinking, but what can we do?" A ferocious look appeared on Pang Yang's face: "We are facing gods! Gods! We can only make deals with the followers of the sea god, let the humans on the island continue to multiply, and then sacrifice them to the sea monsters every once in a while in exchange for peace!
That damn sea stone is just a tool that Lao Hu came up with to reassure people. The truth is, we reached a deal with the Sea God's followers, asking the Sirens not to kill people holding the sea stone, so that the people will think that the Sirens also have weaknesses.
Because people will not reproduce in a state of extreme despair! We must give them hope!"
Now everything is explained. Why there are no old people in the Sea Kingdom? Because they have all been sacrificed. Why sea stones, which are just ordinary stones, can drive away sirens? Because it is not the sea stones that are useful, but the agreement made secretly between the king and the sea god's followers. Why the women here are so open-minded? Because they want to keep reproducing.
Pang Yang's words completely tore apart the fairy-tale image of this sea kingdom.
There are no fairy tales in this world. Fairy tales are all lies.
"That's why Old Hu doesn't want you to go out to sea. The Sea Kingdom needs fresh population to reproduce. If there are too few people, it will eventually cause inbreeding and give birth to some idiots with incomplete souls. The Sea God's followers don't want idiots.
Don't think Lao Hu is selfish, he is doing this for your own good, because going out to sea is a dead end, you can't fight the endless monsters in the sea, and there are also the mysterious and powerful sea gods. Instead of going to die, it is better to stay, at least you can live in peace. If there is any sacrifice, it will be the ordinary citizens first, not us extraordinary people."
Yang Dongqing's body trembled, feeling unbelievable: "You...you actually choose to live in this way? Don't you think about your offspring? What's the point of constantly giving birth to children? Are you going to give birth to them as livestock?!"
Pang Yang said coldly: "At least the livestock can survive, which is better than death."
"But...but what's the use of this? The more sacrifices we make, the more undead sirens there will be, and then we have to sacrifice even more. This is a vicious cycle. One day, the speed of giving birth will not be able to keep up with the speed of sacrifices, and then the Sea Kingdom will be finished!" Yang Dongqing said tremblingly.
Pang Yang clenched his fists tightly, his fat face full of anger: "Then tell me what I should do!? Tell me! Apart from standing on the moral high ground and accusing us, what else can you do?"
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