Everyone came to the living room. Shaqira was surrounded on the sofa in the middle of the living room. She alone occupied the entire sofa. When Rollie saw this, she was very upset. She meowed for a long time to say that the sofa armrest was her territory. Hao Ren coaxed her with a bunch of biscuits.
Shaqira looked curiously at the house of cat demons, werewolves, and vampires. She was amazed. "I've never seen anything like you guys in other places. So many different races crowded together. Don't they fight? I heard that werewolves and the Blood Clan are mortal enemies. "
Hao Ren pointed at Vivian and Lily. "They fought when they first came, but it's much better now. This place is all about peaceful coexistence. No matter how you fought with the otherworldlings outside, we are all family here. The guy sitting across from you is a demon hunter. "
Shaqira's tail instinctively shrank when she heard this, but that was all she felt. "Whoa — how did you do it?"
"Sirens aren't afraid of demon hunters?" Hao Ren saw Shaqira's reaction and could not help but ask Vivian in a whisper.
Vivian nodded. "I've said it before. Sirens are the only race that the demon hunters haven't hunted. Even when the two races meet, they try their best to mind their own business. So to the sirens, the demon hunters are just a bunch of people who sound scary but are actually not enemies."
"First, tell me what happened to you." Wuyue had transformed into her sea snake form so that she could get closer to Shaqira. She patted Shaqira's tail with the tip of her tail. "Why are you hurt? Why is the Deepsea City capturing its own people? What are the Queen's Guards trying to do? "
"It's a long story. Let me start from the beginning." Shaqira took a deep breath and told her experience. "I came ashore a hundred years ago. I was the last of the sirens who came ashore. I remember there was still a war on the surface at that time... Anyway, it was a mess, and I was hit by the shore defense cannons. Under the guidance of the seniors who had come ashore in advance, we split up and made contact with those reclusive mutant families. I first went to South America and lived with a group of werewolves. After that, I came to Asia. "
Hao Ren suddenly interrupted him, "We know about this part. You still maintain organized activities after you come ashore? Contact each other? "
"A little, but not often," Shaqira replied as she poked the tip of her tail against Wuyue's. "We roughly know where the contemporaries went, how many of them met with accidents and where they resurrected, but other than that, we don't communicate. We all have our own missions, so we just have to focus on completing them. Then, we will wait for the news of returning to the deep sea. Of course, I didn't expect the news from the deep sea to be bad. "
Hao Ren's heart skipped a beat. "What is your mission? To spread the prophecy of the Day of Return? What is this prophecy for? "
Shaqira hesitated for a moment, and Vivian keenly noticed it. "Can't you just say that? It's okay to tell us. After all, you are the ones who spread the news to the otherworldlings in various shelters. Our shelter is also a shelter. "
Shaqira's expression was a little strange. "That's not the reason... It's just that I don't know how to explain it to you. The messengers who came ashore were only responsible for delivering the message. The content of the prophecy was directly told to us by Her Majesty the Queen, but she didn't tell us the specific meaning of the prophecy. "
Everyone looked at each other. Shaqira knocked her forehead and tried to recall. "Let me think... Oh, the original text is like this: The Day of Return is coming, and the primordial power from the homeland is calling its lost people. The dark and chaotic era is coming to an end, and all things will return to the glorious ancient times. A door will open, and you will hear that voice. But before that, you must reorganize your people so that everyone has a chance to touch the glory of the Day of Return. Make sure no one is left out. This is the original text that Her Majesty the Queen told us. Then, we will tell these words to the otherworldlings on the surface, and occasionally interpret it according to our own understanding. "
"That's the total of the Day of Return?" Hao Ren stared. "And you sirens who came ashore only know how to recite these words, but don't know what they mean?"
Lily, on the other hand, shook her head and muttered, "Many families say that messengers like you are mysterious and unfathomable, talking about prophecy like a charlatan. So it turns out that you don't even know how to explain it?"
Shaqira was not embarrassed at all. "Yeah, we don't know how to explain it, so of course we can only talk nonsense. How do I know why the otherworldlings on the surface regard it as mysterious?"
Vivian turned the ambiguous words over in her mind a few times before looking up at Shaqira. "How did the Queen of the Sirens know about these prophecies? She only told you to tell these words to the otherworldlings on the surface. She didn't say anything else? "
Shaqira shook her head and said, "I don't know. The Queen must have her reasons for what she does. She also has her own arrangements. We're just a few soldiers. Why would we ask so much?"
Hao Ren spread out his hands and thought, "Well, this is a muddle-headed siren."
Even Wuyue was a little speechless. Her mouth was a little stiff. "Then why did the Queen's Guards suddenly take you back? How do you know that they came to take you back and not to take you home? Haven't you been waiting for news from the deep sea? "
"At first, no one cared when people were taken back to the deep sea," Shaqira said with a look of fear on her face. "But soon, things went wrong: the Queen was forcibly taking people back. We've been ashore for more than a hundred years. Some of our companions live very close to the people and have adapted to life on the surface. Some even have families with mainlanders. These companions don't want to go back, but the Queen sent someone to take them away. This is different from what we agreed. When we first came ashore, we were told to move freely. After completing the mission and receiving the news, we could choose our own time to return home. We didn't say that we were taken back directly from home. "
Shaqira said as she raised the tip of her tail and wagged it. "Then some of our companions began to sound the alarm. I don't know where the specific source of the news came from. Maybe it was a soldier of the Queen's Guards. It was said that the Queen's temperament had changed. She wanted to open a Gate of Return in advance. The captured sirens were to be used as sacrifices or raw materials... Anyway, it was very strange. I ran away quickly, but I was almost caught. How unlucky am I? Who did I offend? "
Hao Ren could not help but frown after listening to this.
Something big had happened in the deep sea. He had always heard from Vivian that sirens were a peaceful and aloof race. Shaqira in front of him also showed this characteristic. However, whether it was the Queen of the Sirens, the strange prophecy, or the current situation of the deep sea sending people to take back their compatriots, it was obviously not in line with the word "peaceful and aloof".
Lily rolled her eyes and asked a question, "What kind of person was your Queen? Was there anything unusual when she ordered you to go ashore? "
"The Queen used to be very nice and open-minded." Shaqira scratched her cheek. "But now that I think about it, I do remember some things that are troubling... The Queen suddenly decided to send messengers to the surface. There was no warning before that, and for a few days before and after she sent the messengers, she seemed to be acting strangely. She always locked herself in the palace, and her valet said that she was thinking, and until the last batch of us left, the Queen did not really leave the palace... Ugh, why am I telling you this?"
Hao Ren quickly leaned forward. "These things are very important! Maybe I can help you solve this problem — not only to help you, but also to help the sirens who were captured back to the deep sea. "
Vivian also chimed in. "That's right. Look around you, there are all kinds of races. Our team is very helpful. You can tell us about the Queen's strange behavior when she sent people ashore... or if there was anything unusual in the city where you lived at that time. This is very important. "
Shaqira blinked and looked at the circle of strange people around her and decided to cooperate. She frowned and thought hard for a long time. Suddenly, a detail came to her mind. "Right, I don't know if it has anything to do with this. A few days before the Queen sent people ashore, we caught a strange sea monster. Now that I think about it, the Queen started to act strange not long after we caught the sea monster."
"Sea monster?" Hao Ren and Vivian looked at each other. "What kind of sea monster?"
"A strange red mass of flesh with tentacles." Shaqira gestured. "It looked like a swollen brain."
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