After two days of interactive "game" teaching, Gu Qingqiu clearly felt that her relationship with Troye had become much closer, but that was all.
Troyes seemed to treat her only as an interesting playmate rather than a partner, and in fact, mermaids had not been close to humans for nearly a century, perhaps because their own kind did not encourage interspecies marriage.
For some inexplicable reason, Gu Qingqiu thought of the infant who had been thrown into the sea and died. She was actually curious about what had happened to him in the end.
"System 057, does the shop have any items that would allow me to communicate with mermaids?" Gu Qingqiu asked, clinging to a sliver of hope.
【No.】System 057 denied it without hesitation.
"...Really not?" Gu Qingqiu was a little incredulous. "Am I the only host who has encountered this situation? I've heard that many hosts have entered the beastman world. How do they communicate? You're not telling me that those beastmen speak Mandarin, are you?"
[You can purchase translation items, which allow you to understand what the other person is saying. However, items that facilitate communication between two people are not sold in the shop because they are prone to causing out-of-character (OOC) moments and alerting the other person if they become ineffective.]
After this explanation, Gu Qingqiu understood. "Then help me buy translation tools! I should have plenty of gold coins right now anyway."
Are you sure you want to buy now? Translation items can only be purchased three times per world, and the most effective one can only be used continuously for 24 hours.
"Huh?" Gu Qingqiu scratched her head. "Then forget it. Let's wait for a more suitable time to use it. Help me check the progress of the experience bar."
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Gu Qingqiu: ...Okay, it was indeed expected.
However, she has already been at the bottom of the sea for four or five days. If the purpose of the wizard's sacrifice was to prevent the townspeople from being harassed by mermaids and to restore the residents who had grown scales and fish tails to normal, then it is obviously abnormal that she can still stay at the bottom of the sea and play with Troy safely.
Thinking about it this way, Gu Qingqiu also became nervous. Although getting close to Troye was one of her goals, if her mermaid clan was harmed because of her, given the current foundation of her relationship with Troye, she would probably be abandoned by him directly.
"System, do you even know..."
Gu Qingqiu's question was interrupted by System 057 as soon as she asked it.
You don't actually think you're safe now, do you? Do you know why the wizard chose you?
Gu Qingqiu's heart skipped a beat, "...Could it really be because I'm related to Zhang Jianqiu?"
[I've read your information. You've experienced the world of cultivation, so there must be some worldviews that emphasize tribulations and the cycle of cause and effect, right? Sacrifice is a ritual of offering; you give something in order to receive something in return.]
Gu Qingqiu thought for a moment and felt increasingly horrified. The wizard threw her into the sea, obviously wanting her to die, and her death would severely damage the mermaid.
The initial conflict between mermaids and humans may have stemmed from a girl named Zhang Jianqiu. Her death and that of her child were the main reasons for the disintegration of the two races.
Furthermore, due to human fear and greed, such as digging up Zhang Jianqiu's grave and imbuing her remains with witchcraft as a tool to drive away mermaids, it was an act that violated human morality. It did indeed have the effect of repelling the mermaids because the mermaid race also felt guilty towards her.
Later, humans became even more unscrupulous in their exploitation of marine resources. In order to travel to more distant places and plunder marine resources, they gradually drove away the mermaids' living space and even used drugs that polluted the ocean, which triggered the mermaids' dissatisfaction and retaliation.
Human dominance gradually gave the mermaids the upper hand in the cause-and-effect relationship between the two sides. As a result, in order to defend their territory and range of activities, the mermaids retaliated against the humans who invaded their waters, which is why those sailors disappeared, became alienated, and died one by one.
The reason the wizard would use Gu Qingqiu for sacrifice is firstly because her kinship with Zhang Jianqiu adds another layer to the causal chain.
However, the wizard went to great lengths to kill her at the bottom of the sea. First, he performed a ritual to attract the mermaid's attention, and then he cut her limbs to bleed her, so that he could attract passing fish to bite her.
If she is killed by a school of fish, all the fish that bit her will be devoured by her sacrificial power. When these fish are eaten by other sea creatures or reproduce with other marine creatures, the influence of the sacrificial power will be further expanded.
Fish are also one of the mermaids' main food sources, which means that the influence of the sacrificial power she brings will gradually extend to the mermaids.
However, the mermaids suffered a backlash from the sacrificial power offered by the humans, and were forced to repeat Zhang Jianqiu's concessions from a hundred years ago.
Wait a minute! Thinking about it this way, the wizard must have done something to her body to allow her to breathe in the deep sea! Otherwise, if she had drowned as soon as she was thrown into the deep sea, the range of the irradiated fish would definitely not have been large enough.
Gu Qingqiu felt a chill run through her body. How could humans do such a vicious thing to their own kind for their own benefit! If she hadn't met Troyes back then, or if the mermaid she met wasn't Troyes, she probably wouldn't have escaped death.
What's even more chilling is that Gu Qingqiu thought of her father and mother who were still in the town. They might be taken hostage by the wizard, and if she really died, her parents would also be caught in this chain of cause and effect.
Then the antagonism between humans and mermaids will naturally become more and more serious, and when will the cycle of revenge end?
Gu Qingqiu sighed heavily. She never expected that her biggest task now would be to survive!
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