Wenxi was clearly surprised and, not bothering to hide her eyes, went over to Belle by the sound of her voice, her tone filled with shock and a hint of worry, "You, you know!"
Belle nodded, but then, remembering that the other person couldn't see, she simply replied, "Mm."
"Can you tell me what happened?" Belle asked.
Wenxi gave a bitter smile and slowly began to tell her story, "You should have heard it just now, Pushir, the former Mermaid King, is my mother. I only found out about this more than ten years ago."
At that time, someone told me that Theo had framed my mother. He used the story of the black merman to spread rumors that my mother was also a black merman, forcing her to abdicate. At that time, his power was second only to my mother's. If my mother stepped down, he would be the next king.
"Is your mother a black merman?" Belle asked, because Winsie was a black merman, and she assumed her mother was too.
“No, he was framed,” Wen Xi immediately retorted excitedly.
"Then what happened to you?" Belle asked, her gaze drifting to the shark pattern on the other person's arm.
Do you know where black merfolk came from?
Winsy suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly, and without waiting for Belle's reply, continued, "When the hatred and resentment in your heart accumulate to a certain degree, this is what happens. Belle, I should have completely become a black mermaid, but because of you and Joe, I didn't go all the way."
As Wenxi spoke, he reached out and smeared his hand across the shark pattern, making the pattern slightly smudged.
Belle then realized that it was drawn on.
So, she genuinely considered them her friends.
"You should leave now, get out of here." Wenxi suddenly became nervous, touched Belle's hand that was gripping the railing, and stuffed the blue scale in her hand into Belle's hand.
“With Theo’s current strength, there’s no way he didn’t spot you just now. Take it and go to Ouxi Bay to find Sena. She’s my sister. Tell her not to come looking for me. Also, I’m sorry.” Wenxi’s tone was anxious, and she was also pushing Belle away.
Seeing that the other person was still worried about others, Belle smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll come back to save you."
...
Lin Hu picked up the blue scale that Belle had placed on the table and examined it. It was very beautiful, gradually changing from white to blue.
“This is the reverse scale on a mermaid’s body. Each mermaid only has one. This must be the former mermaid king’s,” Belle said. She had never actually seen what the former mermaid king looked like.
When she was very young, before her memories were clear, Theo had already become the new Mermaid King.
She had also seen the stone statue of the former mermaid king in the old palace, but it was just a stone statue and had no color. She had only heard other mermaids mention it a couple of times before she learned that the former mermaid king was a mermaid with blue hair and a blue tail.
Belle didn't go directly to Ouxi Bay, but instead came to find Linhu first.
He saw that many humans possessed a magical fruit that could explode. He wanted to buy some from humans, but he didn't trust the other humans, so he came to Lin Hu.
After hearing what Belle said, Lin Hu finally understood why he had a bad feeling about the mermaid king and wanted to send them away as soon as possible.
So they were planning to catch a big fish, and were afraid of getting too entangled with humans. Then why did they agree to Belle asking them to go catch black merfolk together?
"Then why did he agree to let you take us to Ouxi Bay? And why did he accept my potion and give us a reward?" Lin Hu asked, voicing his doubts.
"I don't know." Belle was also puzzled and honestly shook her head, indicating that she didn't know.
Lin Hu sighed. Oh well, the fog will eventually dissipate.
Then he remembered the important matter at hand, and that she had just mentioned wanting to buy attack fruits from him. "So how do you plan to buy attack fruits? I have plenty left."
“I brought some things that you humans need in exchange, but I’m not very good at distinguishing them, so please wait a moment.” Belle said, getting up and running down to the raft on the lake. She pulled up a rope, and it looked like she was fishing something out of the rope.
Lin Hu also went downstairs to take a look and saw that the other person had taken a burlap sack and was carrying it, which looked quite heavy.
The water in the bag continued to seep out, flowing down through the gaps in the planks of the raft.
Belle opened it, and what came into view were various colorful crystal cores.
"Crystal cores?" Lin Hu was surprised. There were so many, and they were quite large, around level 4.
"So this is called a crystal core." Belle heard Lin Hu's voice, learned the name of the thing, and saw the amazement in Lin Hu's eyes, knowing that she had brought the right thing.
"Where did you get so many crystal cores?" Lin Hu also squatted down, reached out and picked up a cyan crystal core to examine it. It was very powerful, around level four, and one core could give him more than 20 level upgrade points.
“In the sea, we have a lot of these in the sea. When we hunt other creatures, they have these things in their heads. We find the color interesting, and we sometimes collect them as decorations,” Belle explained, feeling that these things weren’t anything special, but humans liked them.
"How many of these... crystal cores can we buy?" Belle asked Lin Hu, sounding a little anxious.
The more time she wastes, the more danger Wenxi may be in.
"You're replacing all these crystal cores?" Lin Hu wasn't sure, so he confirmed with the other party again.
“Yes!” Belle nodded emphatically.
“Okay, but it might be a bit much. You probably can’t carry that much. How about we buy this instead?” Lin Hu said, taking out a dark blue denim shoulder bag.
"No need, I can carry it all." Belle looked at the small bag and assumed it could only hold that many attack fruits, so she refused.
When Lin Hu pointed out the attack fruit that Belle had bought from the warehouse, Belle was a little confused.
"So many?"
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