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This is an unconventional long straight channel, but the outer case of the channel forms a spiral pattern and shape.Although it looks slender from a distance, it is actually very spacious inside.

When the camera is closest to the wall, because of the cold light source, Yin Lian faintly feels that the surface of the channel has a texture of shells or even pearls.But even if she didn't know enough about the mermaid kingdom, she could still find that this passage itself should not be a natural shell, but some kind of artificial product.

It may be that mermaids live in the sea, so many projects also use shells or coral components as various construction materials.In fact, according to human standards, this channel is very unqualified as a channel, because even if the pattern is fine and uniform, it cannot cover up the fact that the channel is uneven from top to bottom.

But the mermaids don't care about this - when they pass, they are essentially swimming in the water, and they don't really touch the surface of the passage.

Passing through this channel all the way like this, Yin Lian noticed that Zao Sheng seemed to have come to a huge cave on the bottom of the sea.It is conservative to say that it is a cave, it is more like the belly of a whole mountain.

There is actually a castle in the shape of a conch in the belly of the mountain.

Yin Lian asked Zao Sheng: "What kind of building is that?"

Zaosheng replied: "This town belongs to Princess Baibeilang, and it is the princess's castle. But I don't have a good relationship with her, so it's not convenient for me to show you."

Then he paused for a while, but then said: "... If you really want to see it, when there are few people coming back, I will find a road with few people and take you to sneak in and have a look."

Yin Lian thought about it, and said considerately: "If it's dangerous, I don't want it. But you have conflicts with the princess, is there any problem?"

Zaosheng said indifferently: "It's not that serious of a conflict. Besides, if there is a fight, she may not be able to beat me."

Yin Lian also sensed it from his tone, just like Zao Sheng, who considers himself noble, went to Xia Ting base without any entourage, the class concept of mermaids seems to be less obvious than that of humans.Or their class concept is indeed obvious, but because of their own social system problems, their power is above class.

Zaosheng really didn't seem to take the conflict with the princess to heart.She looked around, seemed to think for a while, and quickly took the camera through a group of seaweeds, and came to a place with a large number of mermaids.

Although the number is relatively large, it cannot be compared with cities on land, and even the number of people in rural areas is not as good.There are only a dozen mermaids in the water, and there are only a dozen in sight.

Yin Lian then asked: "What is this place?"

Zaosheng said: "It's a market, but there are no people there now because it's working hours." Then she flicked her tail, turned around, swam into a shop disguised as a giant coral, and asked, "Is there any good ones?" Glossy?"

I don't know if it's the clerk or the owner of the store. Before that, they were sleeping in a corner of the store. When they heard Zao Sheng's voice, they woke up immediately. When they saw her in person, they immediately called out: "Zao Sheng Give birth to an adult."

Yin Lian thought for a while, and asked a little strangely: "Your appearance has changed, can he still recognize you?"

The clerk was a little surprised when he heard Yin Lian's words, and then asked, "This is... the human lady, right?"

Yin Lian said, "Hello."

Although they are of a different race, hearing that the other party can speak the language of their own race will inevitably make people feel a sense of intimacy, so the clerk also smiled and said, "How are you."

But Zao Sheng explained softly to Yin Lian: "We don't rely on the shape of the head to identify each other, but mainly rely on the shape and distribution of the scales and spots on the body. Is this different from you humans? Because You are all wrapped in an opaque membrane."

Yin Lian immediately understood.

The clerk said: "This is the human who can speak our language? Although it looks a bit strange, it is really beautiful, like a decoration made of shells. But Mr. Zao, you'd better not let the princess see her, she Absolutely will be angry."

Zao Sheng was very indifferent, and said, "So what? It's none of my business?"

The clerk saw her indifferent attitude, hesitated for a moment, and stopped talking.

Zaosheng thought for a while, and felt that she had good intentions after all, so he said, "Don't worry, I don't want that guy to see it either. I promised to show Lian a tour of our city, and I don't want to be ruined by unrelated people. "

The clerk took out the light grease that Zaosheng said, and Yin Lian knew what it was.This thing turned out to be a kind of cold light source that can be applied on the scales. Zaosheng demonstrated it to Yin Lian. Yin Lian saw that she applied this thing a little on the scales, and the scales floated very beautiful. The light spot, realized by the time, this should be the mermaid cosmetics.

But it doesn’t feel like fluorescent powder—the texture is more delicate, and the light source is brighter. It should be some kind of seabed organisms or mineral raw materials.

Zaosheng said to her: "Our races are different, and we like things very differently. I don't know what to give you, but this gloss is very popular here. And I found out that although you humans are not physically Can shine, but like to use various light sources, this may be useful to you."

Yin Lian said: "I'm a little embarrassed that you are so polite. I don't know what to prepare for you in return..." 33 Novels

Zaosheng’s tone sounded a bit lonely and dispirited, and he said, “No need, it’s just an ordinary gift. If you’re still a cub, then just keep it. Speaking of which, how much do you humans need as an adult?” Year?"

Yin Lian thought for a while and replied, "About 20 years."

This is Xia Guo's standard.

Zao Sheng misunderstood, thinking that Yin Lian would take 20 years to become an adult, so he fell silent immediately.

The voices of mermaids are full of emotions, which makes their expressions and expressions difficult to distinguish, but their emotions can easily leak out of their voices.

But she soon cheered up and took Yin Lian to see other shops.If there is something that Yin Lian finds interesting in the middle, she will buy it without hesitation, and then put them into a fake shell.

This fake shell seems to be quite high-tech, even if it is not dragged by Zaosheng, it will automatically follow behind her.

But the specifications are not very large, and it seems that it cannot accommodate a mermaid.

Yin Lian couldn't help asking: "You have such a shell, can't you make it bigger and use it to travel?"

Zaosheng looked down at her, seemed a little confused, and said, "This shell...it's okay to make it bigger, but it will probably swim slower if it's bigger. In fact, it's slow enough now, far from swimming by itself. It’s convenient. And in case of a battle outside, it’s too inconvenient to hide it in order to avoid damaging things.”

Following the mermaid's train of thought, Yin Lian actually felt that it was quite reasonable.

It can only be that Yin Lian doesn't know enough about the actual situation of the seabed after all, and her thinking is still limited to the human way of thinking.When she realized this, she suppressed many doubts and tried to think about her own problems from the standpoint of a mermaid.

Then she discovered a lot of details.

Mermaids habitually make all scientific and technological items extremely natural and confusing. In fact, it may be because there are many dangers in the seabed, or in other words, their technological coverage of the entire underwater world is insufficient, resulting in most places still belonging to wilderness area.

This involves various issues, such as the regeneration frequency of seabed resources, the development of mermaid cultivation and breeding, but more importantly, it is a key point that Yin Lian noticed - population and fertility rate.

Although the size of this town does not seem very small, it stands to reason that the fertility rate of fish is not low, but any creature that develops to a high-end level is likely to have a lower fertility rate.Of course, this is not a conclusion, but an inference and conjecture, but based on the clues that Yin Lian has seen, she believes that at least for mermaids, this inference is reliable.

Firstly, when the breeding season comes, mermaids will be forced to transform in order to reproduce.If the population was large enough, or the fertility rate as high as that of real fish, then the underwater kingdom would not need such a legal system.

Secondly, although Zaosheng said that the current sparseness of people on the street is not normal, but if you take a look at the situation of the entire town, you will find that it is much smaller than human towns, and the shell or spiral houses are located very close to each other. Also dispersed.This is still the territory of a princess. If it's not that the princess' status is not high, then the mermaid clan's population is not dense.

Zaosheng went in and out of a few more shops, and then the market situation changed, and it seemed much more lively than before.

There are more and more mermaids swimming from all directions.

But under such circumstances, Zaosheng avoided the crowd on purpose, found a path that was sparsely populated, and slowly walked around to the rear of the castle.

When she made a detour, Yin Lian could occasionally see the situation near the castle—it seemed that a pair of mermaids slowly began to swim out of the castle. Hong, Yin Lian suspected that it was the Princess Bai Beilang.They seemed to be preparing to leave the town, not knowing whether to hunt or patrol, or inspect some property.

Saiu seemed to want to wait for them to leave before infiltrating the castle.

Yin Lian was also considerate of her.Although she didn't know much about the social situation of mermaids, but by analogy with the general situation of human society, she felt that it was not right to sneak into a princess's territory without authorization.

So she took the initiative to persuade Zaosheng a few words: "Actually, I don't have to see the castle. I think it's better to forget it, and don't cause trouble for you."

In the end, Zaosheng was very persistent, even let out a cold snort, and said disapprovingly: "I will be afraid of her!?"

Seeing her conceited appearance, Yin Lian felt that her status might also be very extraordinary, maybe she really didn't care about such things, so she didn't continue to persuade her.

After the others had almost left, Zao Sheng took Yin Lian and sneaked into the princess' palace.

She covered the camera with her webbed palms, and the scales of her whole body slowly changed color, and she quickly merged with the environment, as if she was invisible.

Yin Lian didn't realize this at first, and only discovered this change when she saw that the mermaids around her were reacting incorrectly.After asking Zaosheng, I realized that this is not the natural ability of the mermaid, but a special technological power.

Yin Lian was very surprised and said, "But I didn't see what equipment you were carrying."

Zaosheng smiled and said: "You humans seem to like to carry very conspicuous instruments, but our instruments are generally eaten."

Yin Lian: "..." She only knew that mermaids can analyze the composition of some materials by eating, but they didn't know that they even put instruments into their bodies for use.

Yin Lian was taken around the castle, and she saw a lot of amazing decorations.The underwater kingdom really has a special aesthetic. Obviously, the aesthetics of the mermaids...or the aesthetics of the upper mermaids is still very good.

As a result, when he was about to leave, a silver light, whether it was a creature or a weapon, suddenly shot out from the side, and suddenly hit the two-way camera device in Zaosheng's hand.

That thing was so fast, Zao was afraid that he would not be able to protect the lens in his hand, so he turned around suddenly and fell directly towards the ground. The silver light seemed to be frightened, and it turned sharply in mid-air, dangerously and dangerously. It just happened to brush against her shoulder and arm.

Then Yin Lian heard a high-pitched mermaid voice shouting, "Are you crazy!?"