Chapter 147: The Shark Kingdom
In fact, Lin Zhaoyue had just not seen Mingxi for one day. Feng Mian said that Mingxi locked herself in the room all day long, not eating or drinking.
After walking out of the room today, he waited for her to come back without saying a word.
Mingxi looked a little haggard, but it did not hide his stunning beauty in the slightest.
On the contrary, it feels a little softer than before.
It seems easier to hold in the palm of your hand.
Perhaps this was not what Mingxi intended to exude, but for mermaids, charming others seemed to be an instinct.
Even if it is unintentional, it can easily arouse people's deepest desires.
Mingxi knelt down in front of her with his eyes lowered.
"Have you thought about it?" She slowly picked up a glass of fruit drink that had been prepared long ago and gently moistened her throat.
Mingxi's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she said softly, "I've thought it through."
Lin Zhaoyue stopped talking and waited for Mingxi to speak.
She was also very curious about what Mingxi was thinking now.
This mermaid who was supposed to be the heroine's male slave is now following her.
As for him, she is curious about the wider world, but she also wonders if there will be trouble if the mermaid stays with her.
The master-servant contract between them, this symbiotic and contractual relationship, instead bound him to her possession. This was not a good thing for Lin Zhaoyue.
After a long moment, Mingxi slowly spoke.
"You guessed correctly. I am of the royal bloodline of the Jiao Kingdom. I was less than ten years old when the kingdom was destroyed. Jiao has always been protected by an illusion barrier, making it impossible for outsiders to enter. This is also the reason why the Jiao Kingdom has been able to survive on land for so many years without being involved in any war and has lived in peace for so many years."
Lin Zhaoyue raised her eyebrows slightly and listened attentively.
She had always wondered why the mermaids, who were said to be so beautiful, had been able to survive on land for nearly a thousand years.
Before the country was destroyed, the mermaids were only heard of, and no one had ever actually seen them.
It turns out that there is an illusion barrier outside the Shark Kingdom.
He whispered slowly, "That year, for some unknown reason, the Jiao Nation's defenses were broken. Countless cavalrymen swarmed in and entered Jiao's territory. They burned, killed, and looted, capturing all of our people and enslaving them. The Jiao people have difficulty reproducing, and even after a thousand years of inheritance, their population is not prosperous. However, our lifespan is very long, almost twice that of ordinary humans. Jiao Nation has not been at war for many years, so we have no ability to resist the army. And the divine power we should have has been inexplicably sealed..."
"Besides that, even the ability to create illusions is unusable... So, that day, I witnessed with my own eyes... my father, my mother, and all my clansmen were captured like wild beasts and locked in iron cages... They tamed them like animals, forcing them to acknowledge their master, drawing their blood, and humiliating them..."
"My father, the king, and my mother, the queen, refused to be humiliated, nor did they want the people to see their king being humiliated, so they... smashed their heads into the cage and died. Then... my brother and sister... all committed suicide in the same way..."
When he said this, his expression was somewhat painful.
"I'm not dead. I don't want to die because I'm unwilling to accept this. Why should we be treated like this just for living in a corner and doing nothing? Why can they rule over us, the mermaids? I'm afraid that if I die, our people will truly be slaves forever. I'm afraid that if I die, no one will remember the hatred of the mermaids and slaughter those people one by one!"
Hearing Ming Xi's words at this time, Mu Ying couldn't help but feel moved.
Feng Mian also frowned slightly.
However, Lin Zhaoyue heard something else from Mingxi's words. Why were the mermaids' divine power and ability to create illusions sealed?
It seems that the destruction of the Mermaid Kingdom was planned.
And what kind of ability can seal the divine power of the mermaids?
Why do we have to destroy the Mermaid Kingdom?
He was silent for a moment, then continued, "Later, some of the mermaids who were used as slaves ended up in the hands of nobles, while others ended up on the black market. Because I was young and seriously injured, the nobles looked down on me, so I ended up on the black market."
"What happened next... was exactly as I told you before. For these years, I've been recuperating in the black market, restoring my divine power. Using some clever tricks and the mermaids' charms, I've tricked those who bought me into healing my wounds. When they're no longer useful, I kill them. If I don't kill them, they'll naturally seek rewards from my body, perhaps even forcing me to acknowledge them as their master.
So after killing them, I returned to the black market... and this cycle repeated itself until I was bought by a noble from the Kingdom of Beasts, and that's when things started to unfold."
When he said this, his voice choked a little, as if with a hint of humility.
"This is all about me, there is nothing to hide."
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