No, according to the species introduction on the Skull and Bones website, mermaids should specifically refer to the "mermaids" that appear in the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. The official name of the "mermaids" in the South China Sea should be called "mermaids".
Lu Hongsheng asked Xitong to dig out the post introducing intelligent marine species that he had seen a few days ago.
The mermaids of Northern Europe, the sirens of the Caribbean Sea, and the mermaids of the South China Sea are the three intelligent marine creatures that are closest to humans.
They all have stunning faces that are directly in line with human aesthetics, upper bodies that easily seduce people into committing crimes, and fish-like lower bodies. They also have angelic singing voices, outstanding water magic talents, and powerful mental control abilities.
But the differences between the three are also very obvious:
[Mermaid]'s lower body is covered with beautiful blue or gold giant fish scales, which are smooth and mucusy to the touch. It is the image closest to the "mermaid" in novels and movies in the real world.
Mermaids have an absolutely neutral relationship with humans, and will not actively attack humans upon discovering human ships on the sea. However, the songs emitted by mermaids when communicating with each other or hunting have strong hallucinogenic effects on humans, often leading to shipwrecks.
Human beings can physically communicate with mermaids, but there is rarely a time when they are in love. Because the scale body protection is very troublesome. This is also the classic joke of "why" and "how"
The point of laughter.
Some of the paid videos currently circulating on the Internet show human adventurers capturing female mermaids alive (or in extreme cases, dead female mermaids; or in more extreme cases, dead male mermaids) and forcibly pulling out the obstructive scales on their bodies.
, and then again... In short, the scene is not good-looking, and the praise rating is usually very low, and it is generally only circulated among German watches.
The lower body of the Siren is covered with small and dense gray or black fish scales, which feel like shark skin and are very rough. The tail of the Siren is particularly long, with the longest recorded length reaching five meters. If it were not for the last tail fin, it would almost be
It can be seen as the tail of a big snake. Moreover, the siren also has a long dorsal fin on its back and fin-like webs on both sides of its arms. It is also a "flying fish man" that can briefly jump out of the sea and glide in the air.
Sirens are naturally distrustful and hostile to intelligent creatures on land, and will actively attack human ships at sea. Sirens often use their songs to enchant intelligent terrestrial life on the shore or on board, inducing them to jump into the sea and become them.
food. Therefore, it is also one of the most harmful forms of marine intelligent life.
Sirens do not have the conditions to interact with humans at a negative distance.
Because the scales on the Siren's lower body and fish tail are very tight and fine - the fineness here refers to the scales that are almost impossible to see with the naked eye.
These small scales are like countless knives standing in the entrance of the deep cave.
Anyone who dares to try it will remember the excruciating pain for the rest of their lives.
And the mermaid Lu Hongsheng saw now should be a [mermaid].
The lower body of [Merman] is a gray-white or blue-gray tail similar to that of a dolphin. The fish tail is the shortest in length, which is slightly longer than a human leg. The two tail fins are soft, smooth, fleshy, and feel very comfortable to the touch.
The sharks are the fastest swimming among the three humanoid deep-sea creatures. They are the kings of the ocean, and can naturally use their singing voices to control low-level ocean monsters for driving.
It is very interesting that the singing voice of the sharks is a mind control spell for low-level ocean monsters, but for humans who have traveled from another world, although it has a certain hallucinogenic effect, it does not make people surrender.
It's another effect...
Unlike the above two humanoid marine creatures, humans can safely and happily engage in certain controversial behaviors with sharks.
Well, in this regard... no one knows it better than Lu Hongsheng.
In the writings of many sailing adventurers, there is one of the most interesting stories about the sharks:
The sharks have powerful magical abilities, but they seem to have a natural lack of desire to attack humans, and rarely attack humans - even when attacked by humans, they usually just run away instead of fighting back.
Over the years since the development of the Metaverse, sailing adventurers have died one after another, but it is almost never heard of an adventurer dying at the hands of a shark—unless it was an accident.
This is a phenomenon that remains unexplained.
One hypothesis is that if the singing of the sharks has a hallucinogenic effect on humans, human faces or body shapes also have a hallucinogenic effect on the sharks, making them unable to attack humans.
Another hypothesis is to compare this phenomenon of sharks with dolphins and other small whales in the real world, calling them "dolphins of the metaverse".
——Because dolphins and other small whales in the real world will not attack humans.
In short, because of this unlucky characteristic, or weakness, of the sharks, the sharks became the first batch of intelligent life forms to quickly become extinct from the day humans began to march into the deep sea of the metaverse.
Lu Hongsheng once saw an advertisement placed by an offshore fishing company on the Adventurer's League fifty or sixty years ago when he was browsing posts: "A shark is a treasure. Shark beads can give people the ability to breathe underwater, and their skulls can
It can be made into an exquisite wine flask, the leather can be made into beautiful waterproof boots, the meat can be made into perfect fish, which greatly increases intelligence and agility, and the chest..."
There are even high-end venues that capture the sharks alive, force them to perform shows, and even provide strange services.
As a result, the sharks, who were originally the absolute kings in the South China Sea, were on the verge of extinction inexplicably.
…
Lu Hongsheng looked at the smooth thighs of this shark—ah, fish tail.
I saw that the wounds that had absorbed the water element from the lower-level creatures in the ocean, and had recovered somewhat, burst open again due to the struggle just now. Red blood dripped onto the reef along the smooth tail and fins of the fish.
Lu Hongsheng stepped forward.
The female mermaid in front of him still wanted to retreat, but she reached out and touched the edge of the reef - she had no way to retreat.
A pleading look flashed in the female mermaid's eyes.
"Don't look at me like that! It makes me feel so guilty!" Lu Hongsheng sighed.
He bent his legs and pressed down on the female mermaid's struggling tail. When he found that he couldn't hold it down, he simply sat down on her tail.
Two lines of clear tears shed from the female mermaid's eyes. She closed her eyes.
After a while, she suddenly felt a cool feeling coming from the injured area of her leg. The wound... seemed to be no longer so painful.
The shark opened his eyes.
He saw the human in front of him, sitting on her long and beautiful tail, concentrating on sprinkling some unknown magic potion on her wounds. This potion contained a kind of magic power that was different from the water element. In the function of the potion
Her wound healed quickly and the bleeding stopped soon.
There was a hint of confusion in the shark's big eyes.
Haven't you heard that all humans on land are demons?
