But if they only wanted his soul, they could just kill him. Why let their bodies and souls suffer like that?
The soul in the jar struggled less and less, until it finally froze in place.
The mermaid looked very satisfied. She opened the lid of the jar and rummaged around inside. Finally, she took out something crystal clear, emitting white smoke, and that looked like a silkworm pupa wrapped in silk. She swallowed it in one gulp.
The moment she swallowed it, the mermaid's body suddenly burst into light and she was surrounded by a halo. When the halo disappeared, Luo Youyou was shocked.
The mermaid, who looked old just now, now had skin as smooth as jade, without a single wrinkle on her body. Her skin was as white and smooth as mutton-fat jade, and the scales on her body emitted a vivid luster. Even her long hair was charmingly moist, and her face looked more like she was only in her teens.
Luo Youyou was stunned. It turned out that letting these people experience such pain was to turn them into a panacea for restoring their youth.
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Luo Youyou felt that several mermaids were swimming towards her. The mermaid, who had just regained her youth, looked around in panic and was about to escape when two mermaids held a harpoon to her neck.
"You are so bold that you dare to steal food!" The leading mermaid had a black fish tail, a crown on her head, black hair, big eyes, pointed ears, and eyelashes that fluttered like a fan. She had a very cute face, but her eyes were filled with sharpness, which shattered her lovely temperament.
"Your Majesty, I'm dying. Without a soul, I'll really die..." The green-tailed mermaid was harpooned and could only look at the black-tailed mermaid and beg for mercy.
"Take a look at her records." The black-tailed mermaid said to the maid beside her.
The maid opened a notebook and read aloud, "Luqin, one hundred and four years blank."
The queen raised her eyebrow slightly. "Luqin, there's been no record of you hunting in the past 104 years. In the past 300 years, your Lu family's contribution to the mermaids has been minimal. After all, you are considered an elder of the Lu family. You know the rules of the mermaids. Without contribution, you are not entitled to share souls."
"Your Majesty, now that everyone knows the dangers of the Talsi Sea, very few ships pass through it anymore. It's really not..."
"Then go hunting farther away," the black-tailed mermaid interrupted. "A cruise ship docked at Lan Island yesterday. Don't say I didn't give you a chance. Bring everyone on board here, and I'll spare your life and give your Green Family a few more souls. If you can't, then you, the Green Family, will be punished."
"Your Majesty, spare me!" The mermaid named Luqin suddenly shouted in fear, "That cruise ship... that cruise ship... is full of vampires and werewolves... I..."
"The souls of vampires and werewolves are hard to come by after a thousand years," the mermaid queen smiled. Luo Youyou saw the greed in Nongnong's eyes. He had actually turned his attention to them. She continued, "As long as you get the souls of vampires and werewolves, you will no longer need to rely on these human souls to survive. You will be immortal..."
"Your Majesty..." Lu Qin was about to retort, but was interrupted by the mermaid's angry shout, "Fight to the death, or be executed on the spot. It's your choice!"
Luqin didn't dare to speak anymore. She lowered her head and replied softly, "I...I'll go..."
The mermaid queen smiled with satisfaction, turned around and left with a group of people, leaving Lu Qin alone, collapsed on the ground in dejection.
Luo Youyou didn't know whether she should follow the Mermaid Queen or Lu Qin to see what she would do. In the moment of hesitation, the Mermaid Queen had already disappeared without a trace, at an astonishing speed.
Luqin cried on the ground for a while, then swam deeper into the sea. After passing several underwater hills, a palace-like mansion suddenly appeared in front of her, magnificent and golden. If Luo Youyou had not seen the black-tailed mermaid just now, she would have thought this was the mermaid palace.
"The elder is back!" Many mermaids with green tails gathered around to greet Lu Qin.
"Elder, did the Queen give you any trouble?"
Luqin lowered her head, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "She asked me to hunt... The target was... that tanker."
"What?" Suddenly, the atmosphere was like a pot of boiling water, and people started talking at once, most of them were angry.
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