[Interstellar] Reborn Mermaid Beast Tamer

Ludwig's heart is very heavy. The day he made an appointment with Cong Yi to go to the mermaid land is coming soon, but he has not received any recent news about the mermaid land that he has offered a huge reward in the bounty hunter association. What made him even more uneasy was that none of the hunters who had accepted his mission had returned from the mermaid land so far.

The existence of the mermaid land is not a secret in the circle of bounty hunters. Although the way to get to this place is troublesome, almost all these adventurous adventurers have been to this place.It's just that in recent years, people's interest in this place has become less and less, and fewer and fewer people will go to this place.

Logically speaking, the mermaid land should not be a dangerous place.But neither the scouts nor the bounty hunters came back, which inevitably made Ludwig start to worry about some changes in the mermaid land.

Ludwig did not tell Shen Ling his concerns, but directly contacted Cong Yi bypassing him.

He had already learned that Cong Yi had been paying attention to the mermaid land for more than 20 years, and it was impossible for him not to know about the changes in the mermaid land.

Sure enough, Cong Yi on the other end of the video was silent for a long time after listening to Ludwig's analysis.

"It's my fault that I didn't explain the situation to you. I think we should meet as soon as possible." Cong Yi said, "My team and I are waiting for you at Planet Aquamarine. You should not have too many people. It is best to control the situation." Within five, the place where the mermaids live will become an obstacle if there are too many people there. I will explain everything to you when you come over."

Ludwig agreed to him, and a few days later he brought his own people to the place that Seablue Star and Cong Yi had agreed upon.

The people Ludwig chose were him, Shen Ling, Su and Neil.

Su is undoubtedly his most trusted comrade-in-arms in the past ten years. As for Neil, his driving skills and attainments in mecha manufacturing have proved that he is a rare talent.Because of his withdrawn personality, Ludwig originally thought that he would not be able to invite him, but after contacting Neil and explaining the situation, unexpectedly, Neil agreed without hesitation.

The four of them happened to be the members who participated in the mech competition together back then, and it was a bit embarrassing for them to meet again.It's just that no one is willing to mention the situation of the Mecha Contest back then. For several of them, it is a scar that they don't want to bring up again.

In an ordinary-looking residential building, the people from both sides officially met.

Cong Yi didn't have many people on his side, only him and Bai Youling added up to four people.

After being seated, Cong Yi began to explain to them the reason for the abnormality of the mermaid land.

"Over the years, I have been monitoring the mermaid land with my means. About a year ago, my monitor showed an abnormality in the mermaid land, but for some reason, I couldn't send someone to check it, so I didn't It's not clear what the anomaly is."

"Since the mutation is happening there, why do we have to choose this time to go there?" Su asked puzzledly, "We can definitely wait until the mutation is over."

Cong Yi shook his head solemnly. "There is no time left. The Mermaid Planet is disintegrating, the area on the planet is gradually shrinking, and the speed is getting faster and faster. Perhaps within a year, or within two years, the Mermaid Planet will completely disappear from the empire's territory."

"How is it possible?" Shen Ling asked incredulously, "Why did it disappear?"

"I can't answer this. Maybe we can only know the exact answer when we enter the mermaid land." Cong Yi took out a square black box. He put the box on the conference table in front of him, pressed on the box, and said: The blue light shot out, and the hologram of Mermaid appeared in front of everyone.

"This is Mermaid Planet. Her ocean plate occupies 90.00% of the planet's area, and the land plate only has such a small piece." Cong Yi pointed to a small maple leaf-shaped red piece on the hologram and said, "And this piece is almost It is the forest. Only in the middle part, there is an open space with only grass growing. This open space is where the stairs leading to the Mermaid Temple are located. At zero o'clock at the beginning of each month, the stairs will appear here, but only two times. hours, we have to climb the stairs to the top within two hours."

"Is it that simple?" Su wondered, "Just climbing the stairs?"

Old K explained: "Little baby, don't underestimate this ladder. This ladder is not easy at all. For thousands of years, in the bounty hunter association, this ladder has been called the devil's ladder, because no one can From this ladder to the top, there are countless hunters who died trying to climb this ladder."

"It's the singing of the mermaid." Shen Ling remembered the time when he and Bai Youling climbed the stairs together. "As long as they reach a certain height, the singing of the mermaid will make the climbers fall into hallucinations. Because the stairs are very narrow, most of them Everyone fell to their deaths."

"We don't remember it at all." S looked at Old K and Xia, "I just remember that it was a mess, and I was also very irritable."

Old K's eyes dimmed slightly, and he smiled helplessly: "I probably thought of my sister at the time." He took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep puff. "The thing that can make me cry in this life is my sister."

His tone was casual, as if he was just reporting other people's affairs, but S, who was familiar with him, could still hear the sadness in it.

S knows that old K has a younger sister. Old K’s family was very poor when he was a child—in fact, how many families were born in the star system of the letter D are not poor.Old K's younger sister unintentionally offended a nobleman and was brutally beaten to death by the nobleman. Later, she didn't receive timely treatment and died miserably at a young age.

"This song will awaken the most painful memory in everyone's heart." Cong Yi said flatly, "We must find a way to stop the song."

Shen Ling remembered that it was Hui who awakened himself and Bai Youling from the hallucinations, and he asked Hui in his mind, "Can you stop us from falling into hallucinations?"

"I can wake up people who have fallen into hallucinations, but it will consume your energy." Hui replied, "You don't have much soul power now."

"Well, I know."

"My soul beast can keep everyone from being confused by hallucinations." Shen Ling announced to everyone.

"Your soul beast is a hidden cat, and its cry can indeed prevent us from falling into hallucinations." Cong Yi nodded in agreement.

"Damn it, it's that weird noise again? Please spare me." S scratched her head and sighed, her eyes suddenly flashed, and she asked Shen Ling with a smile, "Xiao Ling, tell my sister, how did you put that Only to blame the cat for subduing it into a soul beast?"

S didn't know that Shen Ling was the black boy that White Ghost met on Mermaid Planet back then, but on planet D14, Shen Ling told them.This made them sigh for a long time, but Shen Ling never summoned the soul beast, and several people also forgot about it. Now that they think about it, they are naturally curious.

Shen Ling hesitated and didn't know how to answer, but Cong Yi saved him in time.

"How to capture soul beasts has always been the privacy of soul beast masters, so don't ask more questions, S."

After that, several people discussed for a long time about how to enter the mermaid land and the current possible changes of the mermaid land.

The sky was getting dark, and Cong Yi said to everyone, "It's very late today, everyone boarded their spaceships, and prepared to set off for the mermaid land." He stretched out his right hand to Ludwig, "Your Highness, wish us cooperation joy?"

Ludwig took a deep look at Cong Yi, and the smile on Cong Yi's face was so sincere that no one could find anything wrong.

"Happy cooperation." Ludwig shook hands with Cong Yi graciously, then took his people out of the residence and boarded the spaceship they had prepared in advance.

After eating, Shen Ling felt very tired, so she got down on the stomach when she returned to the bedroom.

Ludwig covered Shen Ling with a quilt, lying on the side recalling Cong Yi's words today.

Cong Yi is definitely not a simple character. Judging from Shen Ling's description, Cong Yi is his mother's student and lives in a ghostly planet.But because Shen Ling had promised Cong Yi not to disclose the situation of this planet, Ludwig did not know the specific situation of this planet.

Over the years, Ludwig has fought everywhere, and he has a good understanding of the big figures of various forces in the empire.It is absolutely impossible for a person like Cong Yi who has the strength to monitor the mermaid clan to be just an ordinary person, but he has never heard of the name Cong Yi.

He couldn't help guessing whether the forces affiliated with Cong Yi were illegal forces that were not under the jurisdiction of the empire.

The New Galaxy Empire has a vast land and a large number of people. There are no less than 3000 illegal forces that are not under the jurisdiction of the empire, but they are all small forces that do not make a difference.What Ludwig was worried about was whether the faction that Cong Yi was attached to was the Sons of Liberty organization that had always been neutral, but had a clear reactionary tendency in recent years.

The strength of the Sons of Liberty organization should not be underestimated, and its ambiguity with the Mars planet is definitely a huge hidden danger.

Ludwig left the bedroom and walked to the bridge of the spaceship alone. He sat on a chair on the bridge and contacted his elder brother Xiu who knew the "Son of Liberty" very well.

On the virtual screen, Xiu's thin figure appeared.

Over the years, Xiu has fully cheered up and matured, but because of physical reasons, he has been following the minister in charge, Lance, to help King Charles deal with the complicated political affairs.

He was sorting through a pile of papers when Ludwig contacted him.

"Brother, I have something to ask you."

"Let's talk." Xiu put down the document in his hand and asked lazily while pressing his temple.

"Do you know Cong Yi?"

Hearing these two words that were so familiar to the bone marrow, Xiu's eyes immediately sank, and he forced himself to ask calmly, "Where did you know this name?"

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The spacecraft entered the distorted space from the space jump station, and soon arrived at the mermaid land.

Looking down from the sky, the mermaid land is still the same as before, a large area is the ocean, and there is only a small piece of land in the shape of a maple leaf.The sea is so calm that there are no waves, like a large piece of blue glass.The land plates don't look anything out of the ordinary either.

In the cockpit, Su zoomed in on the land plate map, carefully observed it and came to a conclusion. "no problem."

"The calmer it is, the more abnormal it is." Ludwig pointed to the ocean and said, "There are some alienated octopus monsters in here, we have to be careful when we land later."

The octopus monster back then left a complete shadow in Ludwig's heart. Until now, seafood is the dish he hates the most.

"No problem, we will directly land on the open space in the middle of the mangrove." Su adjusted the angle of the spaceship, letting the spaceship fly in the direction of the mangrove.

Su negotiated the landing location with Cong Yi's spaceship following behind, and the two spaceships landed at both ends of the open space.

"It seems that something flew out of the mangrove forest." Standing behind Su, Shen Ling pointed to the big screen and said.

Everyone looked up in the direction Shen Ling said, only to see a few small black dots coming out of the woods.

Su zoomed in on the angle of view, and saw clearly that the ones that jumped out were just a few black crows all over.

She shrugged and smiled, "It's just a few pet birds."

Ludwig frowned. Years of combat experience had made him more sensitive to crises than ordinary people. He vaguely felt that the crisis in the woods was not just these few crows.

Soon Su, who was looking at the screen, couldn't stop laughing, and several crows rushed out of the mangrove forest, and then, countless black spots rushed into the sky from the forest, like countless black bullets, and like a picture Pure black blankets flew towards their spaceship overwhelmingly.