Chapter 274 Shunzi's Secret

According to Lao Bai, all creatures have spirits, and all creatures have their own way of communicating. To understand the other party's language, you need extremely high talent, which is destined to be the patent of only a small number of people. With the current ability of human beings, it is still impossible to decipher these biological codes on a large scale.

There is no doubt that among the countless creatures in the vast ocean, dolphins are the most intelligent one, and their language is also the most complex!

At Lao Bai's current level, it is difficult to fully understand the language of dolphins. This creature can not only communicate simply, but also give each other some nicknames, and even name other creatures in the ocean.

Moreover, the language of dolphins is called dialects and languages! !

Dolphins in the Pacific Ocean cannot understand what dolphins in the Atlantic Ocean say, just like Chinese people cannot understand what Westerners say, this needs to be learned!

At the beginning, Lao Bai just heard that Shunzi's roar sounded like dolphin language, so he directly stopped my master from knocking him out.

In fact, he did not understand what the other party said, and it took time to combine many animal languages ​​to decipher it.

As for the sound he made when comforting Shunzi, it is actually very simple. It is the sound that dolphins make when they coax children to sleep!

Although dolphins seem to be swimming all the time, as if they are never tired, in fact, they also need to rest. It's just that when they sleep, only half of their brain is resting, and the other half is in an excited state. They alternate with each other to ensure sleep and guard against enemies.

People who know this kind of creature know that dolphins are extremely emotional. In a sense, they take care of their offspring, which is almost as good as humans. When their offspring need to rest, they will make the sound that Lao Bai makes, just like the tune we hum when we coax children to sleep. There is no need for any specific meaning, but that tune can make children drowsy!

"The animal language Shunzi speaks is 90% similar to dolphin language, but it is more mature and tends to be the language of intelligent species..."

Lao Bai sighed and was still busy, as if this was an extremely laborious task. He seemed a little tired and whispered: "If there is nothing else, you go out first. I need a relatively quiet environment and enough time to decipher these animal languages."

We knew nothing about this and could not help much. We could only cooperate fully. After hearing what he said, everyone in the fish tank left in a flash.

After arriving on the deck, the crew dispersed to rest. Old One-Eye was among them. He was holding a torn cotton jacket under his armpit and found a sheltered corner on the deck. He was about to sleep. When he saw my master waving at him at the bow, he hesitated for a moment and finally came over.

My master got straight to the point and asked directly: "Isn't this the first time Shunzi has experienced this?"

Old One-Eye hung his head, nodded instinctively, and then shook his head.

Seeing this, Brother Yaozi handed him a cigarette.

The old one-eyed man squatted on the deck and smoked desperately. The cigarette butt flickered, and his face was shrouded in a heavy shadow in the smoke. I don't know what this incident reminded him of. Although he was only in his forties or fifties, he exuded a sense of old age. It was not until he finished smoking a whole cigarette and the cigarette butt began to burn and emit bursts of unpleasant odor that he realized the burning between his fingers. He shuddered and threw away the cigarette butt.

My master asked again.

The old one-eyed man said that similar situations had occurred, but it was the first time that it was so strange.

The abnormality of Shunzi was very likely the key to cracking the secret of District 17. My master was very concerned about this, so he asked Brother Yaozi to give the whole pack of cigarettes to the old one-eyed man, asking him not to be anxious and to speak slowly. No matter how big or small, nothing should be missed.

The old one-eyed man is obviously not a good talker. He speaks intermittently and incoherently. It is not known whether he did it intentionally or unintentionally, but he actually leaked the huge secret of the Hai Gang.

He told us that the Hai Gang seems mysterious, but it is not difficult to find. It is scattered in the coastal area of ​​Quanzhou Port in the form of small fishing villages. The village chief is the middle-level manager of the Hai Gang. Once something happens, the headquarters will pass the order to the village chief, who will then convey it. They also report things in the same way. On weekdays, they are basically out of touch with the headquarters and live a life similar to that of ordinary fishermen. They also have to go out fishing to make money. The income is directly handed over and then distributed by the headquarters. The only difference is that they can practice martial arts. After they have achieved something, they will be taken away by the headquarters. It is said that they can learn more advanced skills and are likely to enter the level of cultivation.

Now the crew on this ship are all from the same village, and Shunzi is the same.

However, these people are born and raised in that village and have been in the village since childhood, while Shunzi is an outsider.

Back then, after Shunzi had escaped death from District 17, he was taken away by the Hai Gang headquarters. They treated him and questioned him for several years. After they confirmed that Shunzi was useless, they threw him directly to the village of Old One-Eye and asked the villagers to take care of him. Since then, they never paid attention to him again until we mentioned the matter of District 17 again, and this forgotten person was remembered again.

"But they don't know that the matter of District 17 was not recorded in Shunzi's mind, but on him!!"

Old One-Eye sneered: "They didn't find the right method at all!!"

According to Old One-Eye, Shunzi's other problems would only be exposed when he saw the sea! !

When Shunzi arrived at their village, he was already a teenager. When he reached the age of working, he was naturally taken to the boat by Old One-Eye and his men.

As a result, less than a day after the fishing boat went out to sea, Shunzi's behavior began to become strange, his appetite was poor, and he turned around and left when he saw the prepared food. At first, Lao Duyan and his friends thought that Shunzi was just going out to sea for the first time and was a little unaccustomed, so they didn't pay much attention to him. That night, Lao Duyan happened to be on duty. When he passed by the fish hold, he suddenly heard a series of strange rustling sounds coming from the fish hold. Lao Duyan thought something had happened, so he went into the fish hold with a flashlight.

I saw Shunzi squatting in a basket of frozen dead fish and rotten shrimps, holding a raw fish in his hand and eating it with blood all over his mouth and face. His smile was particularly weird and ferocious, and he didn't like light. When he was illuminated by the flashlight, he immediately became furious and rushed over to bite Lao Duyan.

"At that time, he was... much scarier than this time! This time, he was just unconscious at most, but that time he looked like a monster, with sharp teeth in his mouth, and the scars on his body actually grew a kind of black and blue tiny scales!!"

The old one-eyed man recalled the situation at that time, and there was still a flash of fear on his face. Then he said: "But at that time, he was just a young boy, and his strength had not grown up yet. How could he be so fierce now? Although I was blind in one eye, he could not knock me down. I held him down in no time."

After saying this, the old one-eyed man lowered his head and sighed: "At that time, I thought about killing him with a knife. He looked like this, how could he still be a human being? Living is also suffering, it is better to die, but I raised the knife, but I couldn't do it after all. It was just a child. I also have a child, the same age as him, how could I do it?

I also knew that if I took him out directly, according to the rules of the sea gang, this kind of monster would be burned to death directly, so I secretly concealed it, found a rope to tie him up and took him away and hid him. At that time, I saw that his face was full of ice and he looked pitiful, so I wiped his body with hot water. As a result, he was fine the next day, and I was relieved.

Later, I went out to sea several times, and I gradually discovered a pattern. The strange things about him seemed to be related to the sea. He would be fine on land, but once he went to sea, he immediately became different. "

The truth cannot be hidden, and Shunzi's problem was finally discovered by other people in the village.

However, Shunzi had lived in the village for a long time at that time, and people were all flesh and blood. The villagers couldn't bear to burn Shunzi to death, so they got together without telling the village chief and decided not to let Shunzi go out to sea.

In addition, the old one-eyed man discovered a lot.

For example, when Shunzi sits on the beach, the waves that rush onto the beach become particularly fierce.

Also, the fish in the water become stupid when they see him, and they don't know how to run away even if you try to catch them.

"I think the abnormality in Shunzi may be related to the thing that attacked him in District 17. In other words, these characteristics are the characteristics of that thing."

The old one-eyed man said calmly: "It has black and blue scales on its body, it doesn't like light, it likes cold environment, it can control the sea water, and it can scare fish... Mr. Zhang, you are knowledgeable, what do you think this is?"

"I am not from the Hai Gang, and I don't know much about these things in the sea."

My master smiled and said: "You are calm and very confident. I think you have already figured it out in your mind. Why ask me?"

The old one-eyed man sighed deeply and slowly uttered two words: "Mermaid!!"

"Have you seen a mermaid?"

Zhang Xinya asked with interest, and said: "Many ancient books record this kind of thing, and many people have even seen it with their own eyes, but scientists insist that people are dazzled and mistook dugongs for mermaids."

"If you want to cover up, you will find a pretext."

The old one-eyed man sneered: "I have never seen a living mermaid, but one year when we were anchored on an isolated island to rest, there was a shriveled corpse on the shore, with a fish tail and a human body. Although it was rotten beyond recognition, how could I, who has been in the sea for half my life, not recognize it as a manatee?"

He also said that no one had ever seen a living mermaid, and no one knew whether it was as powerful as the legend said, but the characteristics shown by Shunzi made him think in this direction.

"So, do you think that District 17 may actually be a mermaid nest?"

My master smiled, and then changed the subject and asked: "Then, the Hai Gang headquarters actually knew nothing about Shunzi's situation?!"

"After they threw him here, they never asked about it again, so how could they know?"

The old one-eyed man said: "And this child has lived with us for so long, if we tell them, they still don't know how to deal with this child..."

"That's unreasonable!"

Brother Yaozi suddenly said, "According to what you said, if you want Shunzi to return to normal, just soak him in hot water. The things on his body come from the mermaids. Mermaids don't like heat. Once soaked in hot water, the things will wilt and will no longer control Shunzi. In this case, why did you come to my uncle? You want to reveal Shunzi's secret to my uncle in this way, right? But you also said that you didn't recommend Shunzi to go to sea before, this is for the purpose of protecting him, right? Excuse me, if you conceal all this, wouldn't it be more beneficial to you? In this way, we know nothing about District 17, and even after going there, we can't find the way, and finally return empty-handed. For you, for Shunzi, and for all the crew members, isn't this the best result?"

The old one-eyed man's face changed, sometimes black, sometimes red, and after a while, he finally said, "Mr. Zhang is a capable man."

Then, he said, "When they found us, I did say Shunzi shouldn't come, but before I could explain, they said that if we made any discovery during this trip, or if we tried our best, even if we didn't go back in the end, our children would be sent to the headquarters. This... is too rare! I don't want my son to be like me, staying in the village all his life, being the lowest member of the Hai Gang, not making money, doing all the hard work, getting disabled, getting less and less money every day, and then one day when they are unhappy, they will kick us out to die!"

The old one-eyed man said these words almost with gritted teeth, with a flash of shame in his eyes.

In this way, it makes sense.

He resented the Hai Gang and hated what the Hai Gang did, but he didn't resist or defect. He just wanted his children to go further and become the kind of people he hated.

Does he have feelings for Shunzi?

He should have!

He even thought about protecting Shunzi, but when it came to his son's interests, neither his life nor Shunzi's was important.

So, he pushed Shunzi out and stopped hiding these secrets, hoping that we could gain something from this trip, which would be the future of his child.

When he came to see my master tonight, he must have been tangled in his heart, but in the end he made a choice.

Very contradictory, but... this is what people are like.

My master nodded and didn't say much about what the old one-eyed man did. The old one-eyed man secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He seemed to be afraid that my master would look down on him.

For a while, we didn't speak. We were secretly thinking about the clues and information in it. As for what the old one-eyed man was thinking, it was unknown.

A night of work passed just like this.

When the sky was white, a cheer suddenly broke out in the fish tank, and then the voice of Lao Bai came out: "I understand, I understand what Shunzi said, this is a song!!"