Belle's voice was muffled by the sound of the waves crashing against the stone wall, and only a few people nearby could hear it clearly.
But the girl above had clearly heard it. She was wearing a blindfold, and she only slightly tilted her head towards Belle before turning it back to look at the Mermaid King below through the blindfold.
The girl's short hair just reached her chin, with curled ends like a cotton ball. She had big eyes, thick and curled eyelashes, a small nose and mouth, and fair skin, making her look like a delicate porcelain doll.
"You're dressed similarly to what Belle wore when she came ashore," Lin Hu said, raising the familiar cloth strip in his hand to confirm.
It's Wenxi, the same black fish they caught before!
He hadn't recognized them before because the difference between the two was too great. One was like a ghost in the night, and the other was like an ocean sprite. If it weren't for the cloth strip, he would never have thought they were the same person.
"Wenxi!" Belle called out, about to go forward and hug her good friend, but Lin Hu grabbed her arm from the side.
Belle turned around, puzzled, and met Lin Hu's determined gaze. He shook his head, even with a hint of reluctance, and said, "Don't go over there!"
After Belle shifted her attention away from Winsy, she noticed that everyone around her was looking at Winsy with wary eyes, even the Mermaid King.
"What...what's going on?" Belle muttered to herself, a vague idea forming in her mind, which was confirmed when she looked at Wenxi again.
The obvious totem on Wenxi's arm stung her eyes. This pattern had been mentioned by many adults during the white merfolk's growth, so she was naturally familiar with it. Moreover, only black merfolk would cover their eyes and block out the light during the day.
The black mermaid with this totem is more ferocious than the average black mermaid. She looked at Wenxi in disbelief; in her eyes, Wenxi was a gentle and timid little mermaid.
Belle wanted to confront her, but with the king nearby, they were now on opposite sides, and Belle didn't dare to be so presumptuous as to directly step over the king.
Her two shouts had already aroused the dissatisfaction of many people around her, and some mermaids even secretly observed her to see if she was also a black mermaid.
“Wenxi, you harm your own kind and disturb the peace of the ocean with your songs. I cannot let you live.”
This was the first time Lin Hu had heard such a vast and empty sound. He looked at the mermaid king in front of him, who had his back to him.
To my surprise, it was a man's voice.
"Theo, you've long since stopped tolerating me, let alone keeping me." Wenxi stared directly at the Merman King she used to admire and respect so much, her eyes filled with disappointment and hatred. Although he might not be able to see it, so what? She wasn't there to express her emotions to him.
"Wen Xi, don't waste your breath on him."
At that moment, a voice came from behind the group of fish.
When everyone turned around, Lin Hu and the others immediately recognized her as the wavy-haired mermaid they had caught before, only to have her escaped by Wen Xi.
At this moment, the black merman sat sideways on the back of the largest mutated killer whale, its black hair and tail shimmering with golden light, and its eyes were covered with a strip of cloth.
The fish looked and saw that it was another black fish!
By now, they should have realized that they had been lured here and had fallen into their ambush.
So what? They have nearly ten thousand mermaids, why would they be afraid of just two of them?
Just as many mermaids were still thinking this, a dozen or so black mermaids gathered around.
The black mermaids sat on various marine creatures, slowly raising their heads and speaking, their ethereal voices humming notes.
The seawater began to swell violently, as if a great storm was about to break out, like the sea's rage.
"it hurts!"
Many mermaids covered their ears and hid in the seawater, trying to lower the volume and reduce the suffering on their ears.
Upon seeing this scene, the Mermaid King tapped the seashell beneath Ziming's feet with his trident-like scepter, creating ripples of energy to soothe Ziming and boost his morale.
Wenxi watched this scene blurry through the blackout cloth, and took out the flute tucked into her waistband.
Belle's pupils contracted sharply upon seeing this; it was the same one that the former Mermaid King's statue had been holding.
She was very interested in the history of the Mermaid Kings and had learned a lot about it. She had also visited the old palace and seen the flute held by the statue of the former Mermaid King.
She was certain that it was in Wen Xi's hands, but how did the flute end up in Wen Xi's possession?
Belle saw Winsie put the flute to her lips, as if she was about to play it.
She wanted to speak up to stop them, but her voice suddenly seemed to get stuck in her throat and she couldn't make it out. She only had time to push the three people she had brought with her into the sea.
Belle led the three of them to swim to the bottom of a nearby reef. The music from the sea still reached their ears; it was a beautiful melody, but it carried a hint of melancholy and sadness.
Lin Hu covered his ears, and when he saw Belle talking to him, he loosened his grip a little, but only heard the last sentence, "...It will be safer for you to stay here."
Then they saw Belle swim back without looking back. Lin Hu glanced at the two people beside him and asked, "What did she just say?"
The sound was very loud, and I was afraid the two of them wouldn't be able to hear me.
"She said she didn't want to be a deserter, and that we should stay here while she went back."
As Duan Linzhou finished speaking, a mermaid that had been cut in half fell from above, plummeting down in front of the group.
Then came one after another, gradually plunging into the abyss until they disappeared from sight.
The situation seemed dire; it took a long time before the body of a black merman appeared before them.
It seems that the black fish are about to be suppressed. Lin Hu, out of curiosity, bought a mobile camera at the mall to check it out.
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