The Grim Reaper Can't Be Tricked

Wu Yujie: "The mermaid has come ashore."

Cen Jin squatted short behind the window sill, holding his breath to observe the black rock below, waves slapping the cliff one after another, the mermaid dived into the water, and climbed ashore after tens of seconds, moving slowly.

"The boat is [-] meters away from the cliff, and it only takes eleven or twelve seconds for the mermaid to reach the reef. The speed is extremely fast, but the speed of crawling ashore is extremely slow."

Wu Yujie raised her eyebrows: "What do you think?"

Cen Jin: "Kill them."

As soon as the voice fell, the mermaid raised its head to the moonlight and opened its mouth. The mysterious siren chanted like water ripples and floated away. The naked eye could see that the reefs and waves were shattered and passed through the soundproof glass. The ears of the four of Cen Jin hurt. The glass covering the outside shattered with a crack.

What is even more frightening is that there are ice-like cracks on the soundproof glass.

Thomson was terrified: "No human being can resist the song of the siren invading the soul, even if you pierce your eardrums."

Wu Yujie: "So mysterious?"

Ding Yiqing: "It's not impossible. The mermaid's vocal range may be ultrasonic or infrasonic, which directly resonates with the beating frequency of the heart, bones or brain."

Cen Jin: "It's a sonic attack. Does the school have superhumans with this supernatural skill?"

Ding Yiqing: "I have brought this group of extraordinary people, and I can devour their abilities. I have also done some experiments to confirm that in a vacuum state, the attack is invalid."

Wu Yujie laughed: "Look at them, they look like they are out of earth science, who knows that they still have to abide by the basic laws of physics."

Cen Jin asked Ding Yiqing: "Can you swallow so many mermaid's sonic attacks by yourself?"

Ding Yiqing: "Yes."

"The bodies of this group of mermaids are also quite strong. They climbed over the reefs that were polished by the waves as much as the mountains of knives. They didn't leave a single scar on their bodies. The destructive waves hit them head-on, and they were unscathed. Even if they can be immune to sonic attacks , I’m afraid it’s not that easy to kill mermaids.” Cen Jin said while thinking: “Your supernatural technique can be immune to temporary attacks, but not for a long time, and you have to find a way to kill them.”

Wu Yujie: "Their weakness is eyesight, but the force value is too strong, this weakness is dispensable for them."

Ding Yiqing pondered for a moment and said, "Turn out the lighthouse fire and let the mermaid hit the rocks."

Cen Jin beat his palms and looked at Ding Yiqing with a smile: "I just said you can understand me."

He had just asked Thomson to help put out the lighthouse fire.

Ding Yiqing: "Mermaids only travel on stormy nights. It is likely that this is the only way and opportunity for them to leave the dense fog, but storms will interfere with their hearing, and thunder and lightning will disrupt the rhythm of their singing. The increase of the medium in the air will also reduce the sound wave Aggressive, so they especially need the light of the lighthouse to help them orient themselves and prevent them from hitting the rocks."

Although the mermaid's body is strong, it is not stronger than the huge collision force of the ship hitting the cliff at high speed.

Wu Yujie looked at the sky: "But the moonlight comes out, which means that the storm has stopped."

Ding Yiqing: "Look at the weather forecast, there will be a severe storm tonight."

He changed the language and asked Thomson if there was still a storm tonight, and Thomson nodded repeatedly: "Mermaids will only appear on nights with severe storms."

While they were discussing, the mermaid had already climbed up the cliff and was approaching the lighthouse. Suddenly, a child screamed from below. Thomson jumped up in shock, and hurried down with a pale face: "Freya!"

The child was quickly appeased by her father, and stopped screaming. The mermaid stopped for a moment when passing the lighthouse, fixed her cold eyes on the lighthouse, and then rushed towards the dead and cold town in unison after a long while.

For about an hour, dark clouds enveloped the night sky, the moonlight was obscured, strong winds blew, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, and icy rain slapped the face, while the originally quiet town suddenly burst into flames and screamed again and again.

"The mermaid is eating." Ding Yiqing took the flashlight from the lighthouse and said to Thomson, "After three flashes, the lighthouse will be turned off immediately."

Thomson: "Okay."

The three climbed onto the mermaid's boat in a small boat. The deck was slippery, and octopus tentacles as thick as a bowl hovered above the mast. The human upper body was entangled in a large group of black and gray tentacles, becoming the only white in the darkness. .

The sound of footsteps and breathing was controlled to the extent that human ears could not hear them. The mermaids on the mast still had their eyes open, and the pupils of the eyes were covered by a white film, like cataract patients, which could explain their poor eyesight.

Even if he couldn't see it, the mermaid still accurately 'looked' at the location of Cen Jin and the three of them, and at the same time opened his mouth slightly, and a sound wave came from far and near.

Ding Yiqing reacted quickly, devouring the sound waves and said: "Old witch, go to the helm and drive in the direction of the thick fog. Cen Jin, you and I will work together to capture the mermaid alive."

"Yes." As soon as the words fell, Cen Jin turned into a phantom, pulled out the handle and the body of the knife and combined them into one, grabbed the rope hanging from the mast, and bounced himself to the crossbar above the mast without looking back. Slash at the tentacles attacking from behind.

With a chirp, the saber that exerted gravity chopped off the tentacles, and fell to the ground like a fresh sashimi, bouncing violently.

Cen Jin didn't give the mermaid time to react, and quickly ran towards a group of human bodies entwined with thick tentacles. Ding Yiqing suddenly appeared on the huge canvas like a ghost, and the sharp Tang knife cut off the rope hanging the sail.

The hemp rope fell down in an instant, and the sails were suddenly retracted, tightly covering the mermaid whose tentacles had been cut off. Swinging back and forth in the middle, rolling off the deck in twos and threes, leaning against the side of the ship to stabilize the body.

Seeing this, Wu Yujie, who was turning the rudder vigorously from above, poked her head in and laughed, "Huang Xiaomao, the waist and bones must be broken, otherwise Lao Ding will have to eat fast and recite Buddha's name for three months!"

Cen Jin rolled his eyes, what a nickname Huang Xiaomao is.

Wu Yujie laughed loudly: "You're so fucking talented in your focus." She laughed so proudly that she didn't notice that when the first wave hit her, she turned into a drowned chicken, spitting out the bitterly salty seawater.

This time it was Cen Jin's turn to laugh.

And the trapped mermaid's pupils, mouth, and gills were drawn into a straight line because of anger, and a dull, inaudible sound pierced the air, and the sea breeze passing by was shattered, and the waves that came up were shattered Drops of water formed, the hemp rope broke, cracks appeared on the deck, and Cen Jin raised his head as if aware of it.

Just at this moment, Ding Yiqing stood in front of Cen Jin, and the hanging Tang Dao was covered with a layer of cold light. The next moment, the Tang Dao suddenly disappeared in front of his eyes, turned into a shooting star, passed through the throat of the mermaid, and It was nailed to the mast.

The silent attack turned into powder in an instant.

The mermaid fluttered its severed tail and body, like a fish whose belly had been disembowelled but still flicked its tail reflexively.

Cen Jin grabbed Ding Yiqing's arm, looked at his left hand and said, "It's bleeding."

Ding Yiqing lowered his eyes, blood dripped from his left hand, he wiped it off nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter."

Cen Jin could clearly see that the mermaid used sound waves to sneak attack just now, and Ding Yiqing used his left hand to help him resist in desperation, and then devoured the sound of the mermaid.

Cen Jin took Ding Yiqing's fingers, and kissed lightly on the back of his hand: "Thank you."

Ding Yiqing only smiled, and held Cen Jin's hand behind his back, leaning shoulder to shoulder against the ship's side. At this moment, the storm became more intense and fierce, and the ship was tossed and tossed like a toy being tossed and played by the raging waves.

Wu Yujie held onto the rudder tightly, staring straight at the waves in front of her, and vaguely saw a white shadow: "The mermaid school is coming, be careful."

The three of them held their breath, and the dangerous atmosphere in the air was tense, as if a needle had pierced the silent air, pierced the glass, and smashed the water bottle full. The war broke out suddenly, and countless tentacles burst out of the water, and the sound waves weaved into a big net Wrapping the ship tightly, the mermaid jumped to the deck and mast of the ship, besieging Cen Jin and the three of them.

Wu Yujie slammed the rudder back to the original direction, then let go, and drew out her sword to kill the mermaid group.

Ding Yiqing let go of Cen Jin's hand, stepped on the mast and ran upwards, grabbed the arm of a mermaid who was trying to save his companion, looked at the other's open mouth face to face, his pupils split into two, and could swallow the mermaid's ability in an instant .

The mermaid was exhausted and fell heavily to the deck.

Ding Yiqing grabbed the Tang Dao and twisted it vigorously, the neck, shoulders and half of the head of the mermaid were all smashed into a meat paste. He grabbed the hemp rope and dragged it to the ground, and the rolled sail was raised with a bang.

One can imagine how dangerous it is to set sail in a storm. The ship almost capsized, but the next moment it was hit by the waves to the other side. Run into the sea, even mermaids are no exception.

Cen Jin was thrown out violently, using gravity to push himself back, grabbed the hemp rope and tied it around his waist, and slashed at the murdered mermaid with his backhand, splashing hot blood all over his face.

The rudder of the ship turned wildly, and the waves that came down became higher and higher than the last. The violent wind and rain poured down, and the thunder and lightning struck down, almost breaking the mast.

Cen Jin shouted loudly: "Ding Yiqing, hurry up and use the flashlight!"

Ding Yiqing stepped on the mast and rolled into the Wangdou, flashed the flashlight three times at the vast sea, then jumped off, and was thrown into the air. Fortunately, Cen Jin rushed over and grabbed Ding Yiqing, and the two hugged each other tightly and rolled to the side, not far away It's a mermaid that looks like a tiger.

Before she could catch her breath, Wu Yujie said from above: "I saw the lighthouse—the fire has gone out!"

Cen Jin took a deep breath: "After I counted to 123, I jumped off the boat!"

After saying that, he stared at the sea with piercing eyes, silently counted the time and distance when he hit the rocks, and suddenly shouted: "Jump!"

The two jumped off the boat hugging each other, and Wu Yujie also jumped off, and when they fell into the cold and turbulent black sea water, Cen Jin opened up a thin layer of gravity, displacing a large amount of sea water and sinking gravity, and stabilized the three of them on the sea surface. Head in a cold sweat against the huge waves.

In the next second, there was a loud bang, and the sailing ship was smashed to pieces on the cliff by the strong waves and wind. The hearing-impaired mermaid who couldn't tell the direction had no time to jump into the sea, and was shot to pieces.

Half an hour later, the three of Cen Jin climbed ashore soaked through, Ding Yiqing carried Cen Jin who was cold and stiff on his back.

Cen Jin was weak in his hands and feet, exhausting his mental energy. After all, he was fighting against the power of the entire sea with an extraordinary technique, like a mayfly shaking a tree. His whole brain was in severe pain, and he lay on Ding Yiqing's back in vain, not wanting to speak for a long time. .

Wu Yujie shook off the water droplets that got on the sword, and took care of it before brushing away the wet hair. She looked at Cen Jin and said, "Huang Xiaomao, it seems that you also have the potential to become a sick beauty."

Cen Jin retorted wearily: "Don't call others casually, scumbag."

Seeing that he could still refute, Wu Yujie was finally relieved. She giggled, saw a wounded but alive mermaid below with her sharp eyes, and hurried down to catch the mermaid trapped in the shallows.

This mermaid is quite good-looking, ignoring some flat facial features, with pale skin and a beautiful tail as described in fairy tales.

As soon as the mermaid saw Wu Yujie, she wanted to open her mouth to attack. Wu Yujie quickly inserted a short sword into its mouth, cutting off its vocalization path.

Wu Yujie smiled, and said mercilessly, "Don't move around, or your fish tail will be cut off to make pepper fish tail."

The mermaid couldn't understand this dish, but she could feel the real killing intent, especially when Ding Yiqing, who was even more murderous, curled up in fear.

Trapped the mermaid to death on the reef, Ding Yiqing and the three returned to the lighthouse. Thomson held a little girl in his arms and asked tremblingly: "I heard a very loud sound. Did the mermaid and the ship hit the cliff? Have you solved the problem?" Mermaid?"

Ding Yiqing raised his eyes when he heard the words: "This group?"

Thomson's cheeks twitched, avoiding his scrutiny: "Of course, it is impossible for mermaids to move out of the nest, but the mermaids that can come out to eat are generally the strongest and young ones."

Thomson has a lot of careful thoughts. He is afraid that there are more than one group of mermaids. The three people in front of him retreat and dare not deal with the mermaids. Yayuan flies away.

Ding Yiqing naturally saw through his small thoughts, and never thought of beheading all the mermaids at once.

If there are only a few mermaids, how can there be the term "Mermaid Kingdom" in Thomson's mouth?

Thomson: "Are you injured?" He took out the medicine box from the house: "The general wound medicine is complete, and the vitamins needed for sailing are all here."

Ding Yiqing treated the injury on his left hand, Wu Yujie took out their luggage from the trunk of the car outside, put on dry clothes, and found a painting in his suitcase when he was helping Cen Jin find dry clothes.

"Achilles' heel? You didn't turn in the magic painting? No... Why did you bring the magic painting during the mission? Ask a mermaid to help you appreciate the painting?"

Cen Jin drank hot tea and said slowly: "A voice in the dark persuaded me to bring a magic painting, which might be useful... You see, the mermaid has eaten the flesh and blood of Achilles. They have a grudge, maybe we can help Achilles takes revenge."

Ding Yiqing was also a little surprised, he didn't notice that Cen Jin was carrying the magic painting with him: "Are you sure it's an inexplicable premonition, not the bewitchment of the magic painting?"

Cen Jin: "..."

Needless to say, Cen Jin's silence is the best answer, and he probably only thought of this aspect.

Ding Yiqing looked at the magic painting: "It's not very obedient, it's better to destroy it as soon as possible."

Mo Hua was quiet, but Cen Jin somehow felt that Mo Hua was terrified.

Thomson frequently looked out of the window and the clock, hesitating to speak, but Cen Jin found out, and Cen Jin called him back, saying that if he wanted to leave, he should take advantage of the present and pay attention to safety.

Thomson was grateful: "Thank you."

He hurried out with his daughter in his arms, and when he closed the door, he said with emotion: "The lighthouse has a basement, and there is a new ship inside. If you want to take advantage of the stormy night to venture into the mermaid country, you can drive it away. If... If you can , I hope you can save the children in the town, the mermaid town can’t be saved, those people admire the mermaids so much, their brains are broken, there is no need to save them, but the children are still young—”

Speaking of this, Thomson knew that he was embarrassing others, so he kept his mouth shut and sent his blessings instead: "I hope you are safe and well."

After saying that, he closed the door and drove out of the town.

The remaining three people found whiskey from the cellar with a dim candle lamp in the increasingly violent storm, and each drank a glass to warm their bodies.

Wu Yujie: "Go?"

Cen Jin: "Go."

Ding Yan didn't raise his eyes: "The clue is right in front of us, it's a pity if we don't go."

Wu Yujie: "The signal is interrupted, so I can't notify other people."

Ding Yiqing: "They will find out by themselves."

Wu Yujie: "That's a weird country..." She lowered her voice, looked at the orange whiskey and murmured: "The ability to erase a person's existence is by no means the level that ordinary weirdness can do. It may not be a mermaid, but A higher god than mermaids.

Moreover, that sea area is a restricted area, very close to the place where we met the ghost ship that interlaced time and space last time. Perhaps the main cause of the interlaced time and space is not the ghost ship, but the sea area.

Furthermore, the 'land of the dead' you mentioned casually at the time may be the place where human beings are executed, the land of mermaids.

As soon as you hear the name, you know that it is not a good place, especially if it corresponds to the underworld in various countries and myths in the world.In Longtan and Tiger's Den, there are only a few deaths, but in the kingdom of the undead, there are a hundred deaths and no return. "

Cen Jin drank the wine, wiped off the drops of wine on his lips with his thumb, lay down on the table, looked at Wu Yujie and said, "If you are afraid, just wait for us at the lighthouse."

Wu Yujie snorted, and glanced at the fearless faces of the two: "I'll tell you all about the stakes and interests, but you still insist on going, what else can I do besides accompany you?"

Cen Jin clasped his hands together: "Sister Wu, my beautiful and generous Sister Wu, thank you for your understanding and cooperation."

"The difference between Miss Wu and Miss Wu is only one word, and you have achieved the achievement of yin and yang." Wu Yujie gave him a thumbs up to affirm his eloquence, then drank the wine in one breath, took a deep breath, and there was a strong eagerness in his eyes And Conquer: "Who wants to miss out on an earth-shattering adventure?"

When Ding Yiqing and Cen Jin heard the words, they looked at each other with a smile, clinked glasses and drank in one gulp, respecting this earth-shattering adventure and their crazy and free youth.

The yellow hairs on the sidelines stood up, feeling deeply that they once had such a magnificent and wonderful life.

And the choice at this moment must be the turning point of fate.

Come midnight, the howling wind, the howling waves, the torrential rain, and the bright lighthouse fire.

Wu Yujie caught the mermaid and locked it in the fish tank. The boat sailed into the depths of the dense fog, without direction.

At first the mermaid refused to show the way, and tried everything to make it let go, until Ding Yiqing had a whim and moved the magic painting, and the mermaid immediately hit the fish tank impatiently and fearfully, not afraid of death.

After repeated several times, the mermaid finally compromised, and only asked it not to see the magic painting again.

Wu Yujie stroked her chin: "The legend is indeed true!"

Cen Jin put his arms around Ding Yiqing's shoulders, and leaned against him at a [-]-degree angle to the ground, humming triumphantly: "On the night of fantasy night, the magic painting tricked the audience to eat raw mermaids, so the legend must be true, although There is also the possibility of being bewitched by the magic painting I carry with me, but the magic painting and the mermaid have nothing to do with each other, so it can be regarded as our helper."

Ding Yiqing held Cen Jin's waist and stared at the magic painting: "The mermaid who devoured the flesh and blood of Achilles was hunted down and exiled to Northern Europe, entering the kingdom of death. Although he was blessed, he wandered around the kingdom of death all day long. Can't come out."

Cen Jin narrowed his eyes: "The Mermaid Kingdom is really the rumored Kingdom of the Dead?"

Wu Yujie shuddered: "If I remember correctly, the kingdom of the dead in Nordic mythology is the bottom of the world tree, which can lead to the atrium, the kingdom of gods, and the kingdoms of other races. There is no such thing as a world tree, right?"

Compared to Wu Yujie's worries, Cen Jin and Ding Yiqing were more worried about whether their journey to the Kingdom of the Dead would be calculated.

The results of the ghost ship trip told them that there was clearly a mastermind behind the scenes who designed the two of them to experience the interlacing of time and space and lure them to the kingdom of the dead. The two knew the truth but had doubts.

Even if they know the existence of the Kingdom of the Dead, they can still refuse.

Since the end of the ghost ship trip, they have been paying attention to this information, trying to avoid falling into the trap, and taking precautions, they still took the initiative to step into the kingdom of the dead.

"If it comes, it will be safe." Ding Yiqing comforted: "The other party is in the dark, and we are in the open. There is a scheming, and it is inevitable. It is better to confront him head-on as soon as possible to see what his purpose is."

"En." Cen Jin responded, his frown gradually relaxed.

The mermaid cooperated quite well. After being guided, the ship entered the thick black fog. Cen Jin in 2022 was very familiar with this fog. , Ding Yiqing and others' fetters and adventures.

He also saw the same mist in the original Li's old building, but the color was different, but it gave him the same sense of danger.

The mist gathered around them, the storm receded, and from time to time they saw reefs protruding from the sea, and there were even towering black reefs standing on the sea surface, and the ships were always able to avoid the danger of hitting the reefs.

Passing through a reef, there are a large number of dried corpses hanging, including mummified corpses wearing ancient clothes, and bones in modern T-shirts. People in different eras were hanged here, and their fearful and strong emotions became the food of the mermaid.

The ship gradually drifted away, leaving the terrifying sea area of ​​the execution ground, passing through the cliff so high that the top could not be seen, a thin piece, like a blade inserted into the sea, with a cold light, murderous aura, horrifying, and creeping hair.

Pass through the terrifying sea area like a mountain of knives, and enter a calm sea area like a mirror. The sky and the sea are connected, and you can see the endless reefs in the distance. There is a reef arch in the middle, and there are two tall stone statues at the door. The cosmic serpent Jormungandr is on the right, and the giant wolf Fenrir is on the right.

When the ship got closer, the hugeness of the stone statue became more intuitive and frightening.

If you get closer, you can see a huge western stone dragon crawling under the reef, making the movement of gnawing on the reef. It is the poisonous dragon Nidhogg who gnawed the roots of the world tree in Norse mythology.

The ship sailed slowly to the arch and stopped, no matter what method it used, it could not move forward.

The three of Cen Jin tried to jump off the surface of the sea and swim there, and they would return to the deck in a short while, their clothes clean as before.

As the sky darkened, dense mermaids emerged from the reef, staring at them eagerly, as if they could swarm up and eat them as soon as it got dark, and the magic painting placed on the bow could not completely deter the viciousness of the mermaids.

Wu Yujie: "Why don't you ask how the mermaid in the cabin got in?"

Ding Yiqing vetoed the proposal: "The possibility of asking the answer is not high. That mermaid is not afraid of us in the first place, and he will not be afraid of the magic painting when he returns to its territory. Instead of wasting time, it is better to ask the magic painting."

The point of Tang Dao's knife pointed at the magic painting, and Ding Yiqing drew two knife marks without saying a word, which was cruel and unreasonable.

Cen Jin and Wu Yujie were in a trance for a moment, as if they heard the scream of the magic painting.

Ding Yiqing said indifferently: "You know our current situation. If you can trick us into doing things for you, you will naturally have a way to tell us how to enter the kingdom of death. You can also choose to play dead. Anyway, you hate mermaids, and mermaids don't give in too much. You can imagine that you were thrown into the mermaid swarm, whether the mermaid was killed by you, or you should try the taste of flesh and blood being eaten again first."

Mohua is as quiet as a chicken.

The sea is calm, there is no wind or waves, and the mermaid is watching them coldly like a stone statue.

After a while, Ding Yiqing looked at Cen Jin with a delicate expression, "Rune gold coins can be exchanged for a trip to the Kingdom of the Dead."