The night is already deep, and except for a few crew members who are still on duty, most people on the Laurentian cruise ship have fallen into a deep sleep. The ocean, which is coated with a layer of darkness, is so calm, and the sea breeze is whistling under the night sky.
, I don’t know if a shadow blew down from the sea or the sky.
The shadow fell silently on the deck, moved quickly along with the strong sea breeze on the deck, and slipped into the cabin of the cruise ship.
The lights in the corridor of the cabin have also been turned off. Except for a few rooms where lights are still on or whispers are heard, everyone else is deeply asleep. The shadow walks silently through the corridor. Under the illumination of the emergency lights,
A giant crab figure was left on the wall behind him.
The figure looked curiously at the closed guest room doors around him, as if he wanted to see the structure and scene inside the room, but there was a thick gauze curtain hanging on the door of all the rooms, so he could only
I could vaguely see the lighting conditions inside.
The cruise ship tilted slightly due to the wind and waves, but the figure remained as motionless as a mountain, stopping in front of the door of a certain room.
The voice's body trembled, and he was breathing hard, as if he smelled something delicious.
That’s the taste of pearls!
The shadow leaned against the door of the room with the lights out, trying several times to see the precious pearl inside through the thick gauze curtain, but could not do so because he did not have the super power of perspective.
The next second, the door handle was twisted open, revealing the dim emergency lights outside.
The shadow slipped in silently through the crack in the door. First, he smelled the delicate fragrance like flowers that filled the room. The shadow covered his nose unaccustomedly, for fear that he would sneeze and fall asleep in the room next moment.
The tenants were frightened and woke up.
Soon, the shadow saw the pearl on the table that was shining like the moon.
It's a treasure!
A sparkling treasure!
It must be very valuable!
The shadow quietly reached out and held the small pearl in her palm. She couldn't put it down because of the cold pearl. She wanted to take advantage of the moonlight to lift it up to see its quality, but when she waited for it, she picked up the pearl.
When he lifted it up, what he saw in front of him was not the bright moonlight, but an expressionless Fisher like a shadow.
"Ohhhhhh!! It's a sea ghost!!!"
The figure let out an exclamation in a strange language that Fisher could not understand at all. His entire petite body instantly fell to the ground, and the pearl in his hand rolled out along the floor and hit the wall.
And the moment the pearl touched the wall, the little figure rushed backwards. The speed of escape at that moment was beyond Fisher's imagination, and the thing was about to arrive in the blink of an eye.
The door of the room. But Fisher did not pursue it anymore, because at the next moment, an illusory purple figure appeared at the door of the room, and he easily controlled the figure.
"Uuuuuuuuuah, let me go!"
"Fisher, look, it's a demi-human!"
"Don't let her get away."
The lights came on, and Fisher, who was wearing a white shirt at this moment, saw Renee, who was wearing lace pajamas, holding a petite humanoid girl in her hands.
The humanoid creature looked like a human child of about seven or eight years old, but her back was not a human-like back, but a complete crab-like carapace.
The clothes the child was wearing were very strange, as if they were woven from the leaves of some kind of aquatic plant. They didn't have any sense of silk thread, but they were exceptionally beautiful and beautiful, making the child as cute as a doll.
At this moment, she was struggling in Renee's hands, but because of her petite body and her limbs hanging in the air, she could only do useless work. Fisher also discovered at this moment that her left hand was still holding a leather bag.
It's bulging with a lot of stuff inside.
Yes, you heard it right, it is holding a leather bag.
The left hand of the demi-human in front of him was a complete crab claw, but his right hand was like that of a human. The round little hand had a web-like structure between the fingers. This made Fisher, who had studied demi-humans for a long time, feel that the demi-human in front of him was different.
The shape is very weird.
Renee turned the child over with a smile, revealing the fierce and struggling pink-haired child in her arms. Her face had some baby fat, and her body was wet, but there was no skin at all. It seemed to be skin.
The structure is far removed from humans.
After seeing the expressionless Fisher, she puffed up her cheeks in panic, and the next moment, countless bubbles popped out of her mouth, as if Fisher, who was in front of him, asked him to
Don't get close.
"Look, she's blowing bubbles."
"Be careful, the bubbles may be poisonous."
But this action, which was not threatening at all, made Renee laugh. She curiously poked the face of the demihuman in her arms, causing her to spit out more bubbles in panic.
Renee didn't touch the bubbles she spit out, but kept poking her face. Renee always felt that her cheeks were more elastic than human skin, and they were soft and waxy and very comfortable to pinch.
This demi-human walked without any sound at all, and even when he opened the door, he didn't make any sound. If Fisher hadn't been vigilant by nature and added a layer of vigilance magic at the door of the room, otherwise he really wouldn't have been able to detect this demi-human.
Come in.
"Let me go, let me go!"
The child was mumbling and didn't know what she was talking about. Fisher had never heard anyone speak this language before, but soon, she seemed to realize something. She held up the bag held in her right hand and pointed it at Fisher.
Scheer shouted wildly.
"Is she going to use something from the bag?"
Faced with Renee's doubts, Fisher was silent for a moment, turned around and closed the door at the back first, and then turned on the protective magic. The protective magic can protect from the inside out, and this guy can't escape no matter what.
"Okay, let's put her down and see what she wants to do."
After confirming that the child in front of him did not carry any weapons or items except for a leather bag, Fisher asked Renee to put the guy down first.
The crab-like demi-human quickly landed on the ground and hurriedly opened the leather bag he was carrying, revealing many shiny items inside.
There were human items inside, such as brooches, necklaces and rings, as well as some other handicrafts that Fisher had never seen before. The workmanship of those items was exquisite, not inferior to human creations at all, but the shapes were too weird.
My eyes can't appreciate it at all.
The child in front of me fumbled for a long time, and finally pulled out a small conch from the bag. The conch was quite heavy and required the crab man in front of me to hold it with both hands. If I looked carefully, I saw that it was filled with a kind of blue...
The viscous liquid was sealed by some invisible force and was not poured out.
She suddenly pointed the conch to her mouth and sucked it in, and the cold liquid gradually slid down her mouth. Just when Fisher alertly thought that she was preparing to attack or escape, he was about to take out his cane and pull her away.
When her head was smashed, the liquid slowly spread along her blood vessels to the entire brain, and even her eyes emitted a faint fluorescent light.
When she spoke again, her strange language seemed to have been replaced by some magical power into the Nari language that Fisher and Renee could understand, and the brain demon they met in the Southern Continent at that time.
The seeding process is very similar, except this time the person who opens the mouth needs to take some kind of strange liquid first.
"Bold humans! I am Reina, the Great Emperor of the Ocean! The [Royal Family] in the ocean, with [endless lifespan] and a huge [Associated Sea Beast]! I only need to wave my hand to ask my accompanying Sea Beast to give you the things you are riding on.
Eat it, and if you know the truth, let me go as soon as possible...and give me the pearl by the way!"
She put her hands on her hips, and her voice as clear and clear as a child's reached Fisher and Renee's ears. With her head raised and her chest raised, she ignored the limitations of her petite body and seemed to have the aura to look down on the world.
It was just the first time he saw the demi-human race in the ocean. Fisher was attracted by several strange terms that came out of his mouth. Under deep thought, Fisher carefully looked at the person in front of him.
Petite pink-haired girl.
She is less than 1.4 meters tall, and her fair feet are covered by some kind of transparent cover. She doesn't leave any footprints or water stains when she stands on the ground. She doesn't know what they are made of.
Seeing that the other party was frightened by her, the girl who called herself Reina smiled and waved her hand, and said generously,
"Since this is the first time you've seen my heroic figure, I reluctantly don't argue with you. Next time, be careful to stay away from the nobles in the sea. Okay, I'm going to prepare to leave..."
As she spoke, she walked towards the pearl, but a mahogany cane suddenly stood in front of her, blocking her way, making Reina's body stiffen slightly.
Behind him, the demon-like expressionless Fisher spoke calmly,
"Do you think we will be fooled by such pale lies?"
"Yes, yes, the human in front of me likes cute demi-human girls like you the most. He will definitely eat you."
Renee pinched the crab lady in front of her who was getting paler and paler, and Dadi, who was watching the fun, whispered in her ear.
Crab Lady looked at Fisher's cane getting closer and closer in front of her. She didn't know what she thought of, and her whole body started to tremble with fear. She wanted to push away Renee who kept pinching her cheek, but she couldn't do it no matter what.
She opened her mouth again, not knowing what she wanted to say. Her big, tender eyes glanced at Fisher, and then she weakly blew bubbles at him.
Fisher ignored her and just stretched out his hand to grab the leather bag she was holding. Amid her panicked shouts, she raised the leather bag in her hand and opened it. The space inside was larger than Fisher's.
If you imagine, there are not only various manufactured crafts, but also shimmering pearls, shells and sea urchins. Fisher even found several lively fish.
"Give it back to me! Give it back to me! That's mine!"
"Didn't you steal all these things? Why did they become yours again?"
Fisher ignored Rena who jumped up and wanted to get her leather bag back. He just suddenly thought that the theft on Alagina's ship might be the work of this ocean demi-human in front of him. With her silently touching in and that
Judging from her fast escape speed, ordinary people would not be able to catch her.
The key is that no one would have thought that a thief would sneak in and steal on the vast sea, right?
After hearing Fisher say the word "stealing", Linnai's face became embarrassed and shy, her little mouth pursed, and she stuttered,
"You...you are in the same group as the female human before...she put things on the wall, and taking them away doesn't count as stealing..."
Apparently she couldn't even convince herself of this fallacy. Fisher held her leather bag and sat on the sofa next to her. In fact, he didn't care about the pearl at all. He was just interested in this sudden appearance. His first
Seeing the marine sub-race for the first time, I became very interested.
The strong desire for knowledge was at work in his body, and his fingers kept tapping on the table, not knowing what he was thinking about.
Only Renee, who was familiar with Fisher, knew that he was going to do something bad again. She was probably thinking about how to trick the demi-human girl in front of her and let him study it carefully.
"You want this leather bag?"
Reina nodded, hesitated for a moment, and said,
"I don't want that pearl anymore! I'll give you that human thing again! Give me my bag..."
"No, I will give you the pearls and return the leather bag to you...but in exchange, I want to have a basic understanding of you. I hope we can both stay honest."
Not sure whether it was a threat or a deal, Reina glanced at the shining pearl next to her and then glanced at the leather bag in his hand...
But that pearl is really beautiful.
A little bit of greed and compromise made her completely fall into Fisher's trap.