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In the hands of the mermaid chief was a rusty piece covered with shells.

The off-white shells almost covered such things.

Yan Ran and Ba Ludi didn't understand. The mermaid leader solemnly took out what it was like. Although it was almost a waste product from the appearance, it would not be easy to joke about coming to the mermaid leader.

"What is this?" Barretti was most curious, and she spoke first.

The mermaid leader handed what was in her hand: "Look at it." There was a mysterious smile on her face.

Ba Ludi took it, and Yan Ran also stretched her head to look at the thing in her hand.

"This seems to be a stick." Yan Ran was also not sure.

"No, this is a sword, a short sword." The mermaid leader corrected her.

"Short sword?" Baluti raised the item in her hand and looked carefully, but she was a bit disappointed. As a killer, a former killer, she was born with a strong interest in weapons: "Even if it is a The short sword is just a stick now."

"You, you are just impatient." Yan Ran blamed Barrotti: "Don't you know that knife-like weapons have scabbards?"

Baluti stuck out her tongue, she didn't speak, and tried to pull the dagger out hard.

Just when she almost gave up, the gap between the dagger and the scabbard began to loosen.

She tried harder again, and a dagger with cold light appeared in her hand.

"Wow -" Yan Ran and Ba Ludi exclaimed at the same time.

This is a short sword with simple style and smooth lines.

Although it was a short sword, Barrutti swung it a few times in his hand, but the weight was a bit heavy.

She drew the knife from her waist, looked at the mermaid leader, and questioned her with her eyes.

The mermaid leader knew what she meant and nodded to her.

Baluti waved the short knife in his hand and gently touched them together.

There was not even a sound, and Barretti's dagger was cut off by that dagger.

Almost unable to believe her eyes, Barretti took the dagger and cut it off again. This time, her dagger broke again.

With such a sharp short sword, even Yan Ran's eyes widened.

"Where did you get this dagger?" Barrotti asked the mermaid leader, playing with the dagger in her hand.

"I don't know exactly," the mermaid leader said. "A long time ago, we had not been attacked by sea wolves at that time. We often went out to play in the sea," the mermaid leader raised his head and remembered hard.

"Once, we found a destroyed spaceship deep in the sea. Out of curiosity, we went in and took a look. There were no living creatures inside, but we found a lot of strange things in the cabin."

She smiled at Baluti and said, "This is one of them. The other things are useless because of the corrosion of the sea water, but this one is the only thing left."

"It's strange to say that even though a long time has passed, it is still so sharp."

"Are there other human beings on this planet?" Yan Ran looked at the dagger in Baluti's hand and asked the mermaid leader.

"No, we mermaids are also long-lived creatures, but we have never encountered humans like you." The mermaid chief said: "And, I don't think creatures like you like to live on this planet. ."

"Then how do you guys speak?" Yan Ran finally asked what she said in her heart, which she had always wanted to ask.

Even if the mermaids have special intelligence and are different from other types of mermaids they know, it doesn't matter if they can speak, but what they are speaking now is the lingua franca, which is not justified anyway.

"This, it's a long time ago," the mermaid leader laughed: "I remember the previous leader mentioned it, that was when I was very young."

The mermaid chief recalled: "She said that in the past, there was still a lot of land on this planet, and the sea slowly flooded most of the places later. At that time, spacecraft would pass by us occasionally."

The mermaid leader looked at Yanran and said, "Are you sure you want to listen? This is a very long story."

Yanran smiled, and she said, "There is nothing you can do now. It's good to hear the story."

"Okay, then I'll tell you." The mermaid leader said.

When the previous generation of mermaid leaders was a child, there were still a lot of land on the planet at that time, and because it had a different scenery from other planets, many travelers came here.

The mermaids and the others are very lucky. The travelers they meet are all kinder, and no one has ever hurt them.

Instead, one or two travelers are confused by their beauty and have been living here.

Those travellers admired them. Although nothing substantial could happen between them, they played with the objects they admired every day and explored in the sea, which was also a very pleasing thing.

In the process of getting along, the travelers discovered that although the appearance of the mermaids is different from them—in fact, as the universe is gradually explored by humans, people have discovered that they will always live on large and small planets in the universe. There are some creatures with different postures but with high intelligence.

Although in the eyes of humans, these strange creatures are alien to themselves, but these creatures are equivalent to human beings on their planet. They also stand at the top of the food chain. Also, even if some creatures have terrible appearances, But they are not aggressive, on the contrary, they are quite kind.

In this way, with the development of time, the high IQ creatures on all planets have reached a consensus. They all recognize their status, instead of treating each other as an alien or even an enemy based on the appearance of each other. Look.

In fact, having said that, in the eyes of other creatures, are those human beings not alien?

So this is the reason why these travelers love the mermaid.

In the process of their getting along, those travelers discovered that the mermaids also possess intelligence as much as theirs. According to the consensus reached between the various planets, they also treat the mermaids as human beings.

So they taught the mermaids the universal language so that they could communicate together.

This is the reason why the mermaids can communicate with Yan Ran and the others in cosmic language.

For the mermaid leader's explanation, Yan Ran and Barrut are equally acceptable, after all, they are people living in modern society and have received considerable education.

They know that if they treat each other differently just because they look different, then there will never be a peaceful scene in the universe now, and there will be no vigorous communication.