Lung didn't drink the contents of the bottle immediately. Even if the contents were extremely tempting, he couldn't act rashly until he understood the situation.
Who were these people? Why did they live in this underwater city?
Everything was still up in the air.
Silin looked at the people around him and the people who were leaning against the windows of other buildings and looking at them. There were almost three hundred people who had shown themselves already. The city was huge, but the population was far too sparse compared to its size.
"What's your relationship with the Xi Family?" Silin asked.
The old man was originally a little anxious because Lung did not drink the bottle, but when he heard Cillin's words, the old man's expression froze. It wasn't just the old man, even the group of onlookers around them revealed surprised expressions.
Silin didn't tell Lung too much about the Xi Family. He only mentioned that Olillo was somewhat related to the Xi Family, and Lung's subordinates. Even Ying Weiji, who had served Andriera Phocos for a long time didn't know much about them. Now that Silin had mentioned it, he was a little curious.
After a moment of surprise, the old man looked respectful. It wasn't towards Silin, but towards the 'Xi Family' that Silin mentioned.
"The Xi Family is our benefactor!"
"Benefactor?"
"Yes. If it wasn't for the Xi Family's help, our ancestors might not have survived that disaster a thousand years ago, and we wouldn't be here today."
The eyes of the old man and the people around him were more like those of believers.
Lung suddenly thought of something and asked, "May I know your surname?"
"We don't have a surname, but we can be called 'Mill' if we really have to."
"Mill?!"
Ying Weiji, Pascado and the others' jaws almost hit the ground when they heard this.
The Mill Family … The Mill Family that only existed in historical records could be found but no more information could be found. The Mill Family that only existed in legends was said by critics to be a combination of "genius" and "idiot"?!
Silin had learned a little about the Mill Family from the books he read about Sector H's history. The Mill Family could be considered an ancient family of Sector H. Moreover, every member of this family was an excellent trainer. They didn't even need special training. Some of the children of the Mill family could already play with the huge sea monsters in the sea before they could even run.
Now, many people did not believe that the race had that kind of ability. After all, those things only existed in legends. Moreover, there was no video or graphic evidence. Those evidence had disappeared with the extinction of the Mill family a thousand years ago.
However, Lung and the others had always believed in it. In some of the internal records of the Andriera family, some of the matters regarding the Meer family had been personally written by Andriera's ancestors back then. Because of that, when Lung heard that these people were from the Mill family, he was quite astonished.
According to the records of Andriera's ancestors, 'Mill' wasn't their surname, but the name of their race. According to the ancient language of the race, 'Mill' meant 'sea'.
The Mill Family belonged to a special race among the natives of Sector H. Their minds were pure and stubborn. Their one-track minded nature caused them to offend a lot of people. Just like the critics said, this race was a combination of 'genius' and 'idiot'. Their talent allowed them to communicate with the sea monsters almost unimpeded, but they also made mistakes every once in a while and offended a lot of people unintentionally.
They didn't know how to curry favor with those in power, they didn't know how to be reserved, and they didn't know how to read people's expressions. They were like an anomaly among the human race, and the reason they were wiped out a thousand years ago was because they accidentally offended someone and were forced into space. From the looks of it now, the Mill Family wasn't completely wiped out back then. Some of them were saved by the Xi Family. At the same time, a lot of evidence and deeds of the Mill Family had been erased by the peak generation of the Xi Family.
Lung and the others looked carefully at the people around them. To think that the people who were confirmed to be wiped out a thousand years ago … were hiding in such an unimaginable place!
Seeing that more and more people were walking towards them, Silin suggested, "Let's find a place to talk."
"Yes, yes, we should find a place to talk." After saying that, the old man turned around and left. He did not even say the word 'please', nor did he make a gesture for Celine and the others to follow him. He simply turned around and left on his own.
After walking a few steps, the old man turned around and said in dissatisfaction, "Why don't you follow me!"
Lung tilted his chin at them and told them to follow him. You can't look at the Mill people from the perspective of a normal person.
The old man led Silin and the others into a hemispherical building. The furnishings inside were very simple, and most of them were made of stone. They were extremely rare stone ores, no less!
After entering through the door and passing through the living room, Huimao, who was crouching on Silin's shoulder, saw a couple of ores that were extremely expensive in the League of Stars. He wanted nothing more than to rush forward and gather them all into his arms.
They were all fish biscuits! So many fish biscuits!
The layout was simple and could even be described as monotonous, but the technology behind it was amazing. How could they not be amazed that Sea Heaven was able to use intelligent automation technology? Moreover, this was a thousand years ago. With the Mill people's talent in electronics, there was no way they could have made something like this.
Inside the old man's living room, Silin and the others roughly understood the cause and effect of the incident.
Back then, the Xi Family wanted to research sea beasts and trainers, so they came to Sector H in search of research subjects and a suitable environment. Coincidentally, they ran into the Mill people who were being wiped out at the time, and the total number of Mill people they saved at the time was less than thirty. Although the population of this race wasn't large to begin with, the abrupt drop from hundreds to less than thirty was a devastating blow.
The Xi Clan helped the Mi 'er people take revenge by bringing their enemies to Sea Heaven, letting the Mi' er people deal with the culprits who had almost caused their entire clan to be exterminated. In the end, the Mill people who survived made their enemies fall into the stomachs of sea beasts.
After that, the Xi Family began to build an underwater city here. They invented anti-interference technology, but it was only partially anti-interference. Building a city like this under the sea was already their limit, and they couldn't incorporate any more technology into this place. The special environment here caused most technology to be rejected. Fortunately, the underwater city was built successfully, and the Xi Family's research was successfully completed.
After that, the Xi Family left and left this underwater world to the Mill people. However, in order to repay the debt of gratitude, the newly elected chief of the Meer people promised to guard this place with his people until the Tear of God was found. Only when the 'Tear of God' welcomed its next master would the Mill people leave this underwater city. They were willing to be the guards of the 'Tear of God'.
This guard lasted for a thousand years.
They stayed at the bottom of the sea and befriended the 'predators' that Lung mentioned. These sea beasts didn't actually leave the deep sea area, but for the sake of the Mill people, they would go to the surface and bring some 'souvenirs', allowing the Mill people to come into contact with the surface of the sea and the things on the surface.
The old man pointed at the bottle in Lung's hand and said, "Now that you're here, we can rest assured after you consume the 'Tear of God' and successfully evolve."
"You didn't use this?" Lung asked.
"No!" The old man said matter-of-factly, "It wasn't prepared for us anyway."
Pascado and the others had a strange look on their faces. As expected, the Mill people were just like the legends said. They really didn't know what to say about them. If it was anyone else, they would have drunk the 'Tear of God' 800 years ago, no, perhaps as soon as the Xi Family left.
"You guys, don't you have any thoughts? This is the 'Tear of God', the 'Tear of God'! "Pascado emphasized.
The old man was a little angry. He felt that Pascado was looking down on his intelligence. He unhappily patted the table that was worth a whole aircraft's worth of fish biscuits in Huimao's eyes. "I know! Our clan has guarded it for nearly a thousand years. As the current clan leader and the person who inherited the 'Tear of God', do you think I don't know better than you?! "
You know nothing! Pascado and the others cursed silently.
The 'Tear of God', there was a passage in the 'Creation Myth' that said: When the Tear of God fell into the sea, the creatures in the sea were influenced and offered their loyalty.
That was a treasure that could control countless sea beasts, including those overlords in the sea … What a treasure! How could these people not have any thoughts?! It was fine if it was just one person, but this was an entire clan that had lived for generations until now! Were their brains filled with shit from constipation?! How could it make people feel so … so … anxious?!
"Cough!" Lung patted the uncontrollable twitch on his face. He couldn't blame them. As a businessman, he couldn't imagine the combination of nerves in the brains of the Meer people.
In order not to dwell on this problem, Lung asked, "Mr. Chief, in the records of my ancestors, you Meer people don't seem to look like this."
"Oh, this, of course it's a mutation. The natural environment of the Sea Paradise has greatly increased the mutation rate. There will be some changes in almost every generation." Chief Meer raised his hand and moved his webbed fingers.
As he moved his fingers, the webbing on his hand gradually shrunk. Other parts of his hand also changed. Soon, Chief Meer's hand looked similar to the fingers of adults like Silin and the others.
Back then, the Meer people didn't have webbing on their hands. However, after living here for nearly a thousand years, the Meer people had mutated from generation to generation, and there were many changes. It wasn't just the webbing on their hands. There were also many differences in their thick hair, body shape, and bone structure. These were all due to mutation.
"So, after a thousand years, we are slightly different from our ancestors." Chief Meer had a smug look on his face.
Pascado and the others lowered their heads so that Chief Meer wouldn't see their twitching expressions.
What was there to be smug about? What was there to be smug about after staying here for a thousand years?
"However," Chief Meer's expression became a little sad again. "The birth rate of our Meer people has dropped a lot. After so many generations, there are only 476 people now."
After a moment of silence, Lung shook the bottle in his hand. "Is this all there is of the Tear of God?"
"Yes, yes. This is all there is, and it's only enough for one person," Chief Meer answered.
Silin realized that Chief Meer liked to say the word "yes". Was this an affirmation of the double superposition table?
Just as Lung was feeling a little regretful, Chief Meer continued, "The mutation caused by the Tear of God is a hereditary mutation. However, there is a certain probability. If your mutation is successful, some of your descendants might inherit this mutation, or they might not. "
As long as there was a probability of inheriting it, Lung felt much better.
"I would also like to ask, what is the probability of successful mutation after consuming the Tear of God?"
Chief Meer thought for a moment. "As far as I know, according to the current records, it's 100%."
Hearing that it was 100%, Ying Weiji, Pascado, and the others heaved a sigh of relief. However, before they could catch their breaths, Chief Meer scratched his webbed hand and said, "Back then, only one person from the Xi family used it, and he succeeded. If that's the case, it's indeed 100%."
Ying Weiji and the others: "…"
What kind of 100% is this!
Seriously … continue to be anxious!
"Oh, there's one more thing I need to tell you. There's only one way for you to get out. Even the Xi family used that method to get out."
"What method?" The few of them unconsciously sat up straight.
Chief Meer calmly played with his white hair that was as thick as a finger. "Hmm, we'll have to wait until he successfully evolves."
Everyone: "…"
This was really making them anxious.
No wonder so many people wanted to kill the Meer people back then.
"Back then, when the Xi family researched the 'common frequency', they discovered that even if it's the same wavelength, mechanical instruments can't achieve the same effect as humans. That's why I said that there's only one way for you to get out of the sea. Forget it, I've said enough. Our entire family is looking forward to your successful mutation! "
Ying Weiji's serious expression had been broken countless times today. He still had many things that he didn't understand, but this damned old man in front of him said that he had said enough.
Ten minutes later, Lung prepared himself mentally and drank the 'Tear of God' in the bottle. Then, he collapsed.
The old man said that it was a normal phenomenon and even took out a 'manual' from a thousand years ago. The manual listed the phenomenon of successful mutation, as well as the various scenarios of failure. Ying Weiji's hands were trembling as he held onto the instruction manual. The signs of failure were simply too frightening. There wasn't even a complete corpse. Ying Weiji didn't dare to imagine what kind of shock the entire Andrea Family would experience if his young master failed.
Long was waiting at the old man's house. According to Silin's observation, Long's body temperature rose and fell drastically, and he looked like he was in pain, but there were obvious signs of life. It should be a good sign.
An hour later, Long's fluctuating body temperature stabilized, but he still didn't wake up. According to the "manual", he was undergoing an advantageous mutation, not one of those scenarios of failure. This allowed everyone's tense nerves to finally relax.
Ying Weiji and the others waited at the old man's house for their young master to wake up. Huimao couldn't stay idle and wanted to go out for a stroll. Silin was worried about him, so he asked Czedow to stay and observe Long's situation. Then, he left the old man's house with Huimao.
Silin took out a bag of biscuits for Huimao to grind his teeth and walked inside this underwater city.
This was a very simple city, and it was inhabited by people with simple minds. Even the dark blue sea water of the Sea Paradise that struck fear into people's hearts was pure and clear to them, wasn't it?
The Meer people lived their lives simply and resolutely. They guarded that bottle of "God's Tear" with pure hearts, but at the same time, they had a hazy yearning for the life outside the sea that every generation had spoken of. This yearning reached its peak after Silin's group arrived. However, even if they yearned for it, they still kept the determination in their hearts and willingly guarded this place until the person who obtained the "God's Tear" appeared.
There was no doubt that the Meer people were absolute geniuses when it came to taming sea beasts. They were even more talented than Long and the others. However, they couldn't escape the misfortune brought about by their own shortcomings. Even though they were a member of the human race, they couldn't integrate into human society. Under the accumulation of contradictions, the extinction of their race suddenly came. Even the strongest tamer couldn't come into contact with the sea creatures and the spirituality of the sea when they were in outer space. In a situation where their attack power was already reduced, and they possessed relatively backward technology and martial strength, how could they fight against others?
Protectors. The Meer people needed a protector. In the past, it was the Xi family. After today, perhaps, the Andriera family would take over this task. However, the Andriera family was a merchant family. Even if Long sincerely protected this family, what about in the future? What about the rest of the Andriera family?
Silin raised his head. The light barrier above the city isolated the water. The undersea city rippled with light and shadow, bringing with it a deep and ancient poetic feeling.
"Hey, isn't that the fellow called Saisai?" Huimao raised his claw and patted Silin's face, pointing in a direction.
Cillin looked over and saw that Celia was brushing the tongue of a 'marauder'. The marauder was lying there obediently with its tongue sticking out, and Celia was using a brush that was even bigger than a mop to brush its tongue. The marauder was so comfortable that it was squinting its eyes in satisfaction.
Could it be that all sea beasts liked to brush their tongues? Silin remembered that Blue Skin seemed to have this hobby as well.
Seeing Silin, Saisai became excited. The brush poked into a certain part of the sea beast's mouth. Discontentedly, it used its tongue to roll up the big brush and used the other end to hit Saisai's head, causing Saisai to jump left and right to avoid it.
Although he was throwing a little tantrum, this way of getting along was really harmonious.
Huimao used his claw to pick up a few fish biscuits and threw them into the sea beast's mouth. He also threw a few to Saisai and said generously, "I'll treat you guys to some fish biscuits."
It was just a few pieces of fish biscuits. To that big sea beast, it probably couldn't even taste them. However, Saisai liked it very much.
Looking at Saisai who was eating happily, Silin was really embarrassed to tell him that it was just pet cat food.
"You guys have a good relationship. Very few humans and sea beasts can get along like this. "Silin said.
Even if it was a tamer, they would mostly use sea beasts as a kind of weapon. They wouldn't get along like Saisai and the others.
Saisai bit the fish biscuit and said incoherently, "Because we see ourselves as one of these sea beasts. We're all friends." As he said this, he looked at Huimao again, because the fish biscuits Huimao gave him had already been eaten.
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