Deep sea mermaid head-to-head strategy

On the third day of sailing, Klein noticed that the atmosphere between Nata and Patrick was a little strange. He thought they had quarreled. After asking, he found out that the two had formally established their relationship when he left Toust. .

Klein: "..."

Then why is it an awkward look?

In Nata's eyes, he is a younger brother who needs to be worried. Telling his love life to the younger generation is always accompanied by embarrassment.

Nata patiently explained a few words. As she spoke, she began to feel that the atmosphere was weird. She suddenly became impatient and waved her hand, "You don't understand, this is for fun."

Klein: "..."

He really doesn't understand.

In his opinion, it will be a matter of time before Nata and Patrick get together.

It's just that Nata has a distinctive personality. Most people who saw her at the first sight felt that she didn't care about this aspect at all, so when it came to the day when it was decided, people around her would feel extraordinarily miraculous.

The two stood on the deck looking out to sea in silence, blowing the sea breeze.

For a long time, Klein asked endlessly, "Why are you with Patrick?"

Nata: "..."

Here we come, this familiar consultation session.

She didn't want to talk to Klein at first. After all, she has a relatively rough personality, and she doesn't like to think deeply about everything. Let her break up her feelings, love, etc., and the goosebumps falling from her body, I am afraid that the crew of the Pearl They eat for a year.

"..."

Nata was disgusted by her own imagination, and coughed.

Klein looked serious. Thinking about the entanglement between him and Sweet some time ago, he decided to sacrifice himself and try to be a life mentor.

"Well—" Nata touched her nose, and finally came to a conclusion: "I like it, otherwise?"

"……Oh."

This answer is too general to be convincing.

Nata had to be delicate, thinking about it and said: "Patrick is not handsome, what is his personality... To be honest, he is a bit old-fashioned, he loves to worry and has no interest. Sometimes I suspect that he is already seventy or eighty."

"Well, does Patrick know you miss him so much?"

Nata snorted, gave Klein a "don't interrupt" look, and continued, "But when I'm with him, I'm always in a good mood, and I forget about the unhappy things and just focus on what's in front of me. Let's go together I have been to many places, whether it is discovering the New World or what, he has been with me for a long time, like a family member, and I imagined what the future would be like if I were not with him..."

"What will happen?"

"It's a pity. I haven't experienced what it's like to be a lover with him, thank you." Nata said, spreading her hands: "It's like this in the end. Hey, life is so short, who knows if he will die suddenly one day, Just do what comes to your mind, enjoy every day is a day."

"..."

Nata had seen her younger brother killed by pirates, and since then she often talked about death.

That's why, compared to far-reaching things, she always likes to focus on the present, and she really likes to think about the illusory future for Patrick.

Klein smiled and joked, "Okay, then don't bully him all the time in the future."

"..." Who are you brother?

As Nata talked, she was unusually embarrassed, but Klein interrupted in such an unsightly way that all the brewing emotions disappeared.

Pushing Klein's head unceremoniously, he swaggered towards Patrick who kept glancing this way.

When Nata was about to walk up to him, Patrick couldn't wait to reach out and grab her, pulled her into his arms and lowered his head to ask. Nata deliberately teased him, blocked one ear and refused to listen to him, just chasing one after another. , dragged into the cabin.

Klein looked at the backs of Nata and Patrick leaving with a smile, retracted his gaze and relaxed his body, leaned his back on the railing, and looked up at the sky.

... accompany?

When traveling from Tuxt to Denia, the Pearl lost its good luck. It rained [-] out of [-] days, and the whole journey was against the wind.

The sky in Shanghai is gloomy all day long, which makes people feel depressing for no reason.

When encountering a headwind, the Pearl will furl its sails and move forward with its power engine.

There are many magic balls in the cabin of the Pearl, but in order to deal with emergencies, they cannot be used at will. The current situation is not urgent, and there is no need to move forward at full speed regardless of consumption, so as usual, only fill the engine with three [-]/[-].

In this case, both Klein and Nata expected that the Pearl would land a few days later.

In fact, no matter how strong the wind was against the Pearl, the ship's speed was always the same as when it was sunny and with the wind. It seemed that some force secretly intervened to offset the influence of the headwind.

When the boat docked, Nata calculated the schedule and sighed pretending not to understand: "It seems that even the sea water is helping us. It's amazing."

Klein: "..."

And that's just the first miraculous thing—

After the Pearl sailed into the port of Denia, according to the rules of each port call, some sailors were left on board every night to keep vigil in case of emergencies.

One day, when Bobby hired workers at the dock to carry the purchased food into the cabin, one of the dock workers took a fancy to the well-stocked cabin of the Pearl, and became malicious. He led a few accomplices to drunk the night watch crew at night. , Wanting to smuggle goods out of the port, unexpectedly the awakened crew found that they were stuck on the ship, and were arrested by the port patrol officer.

At that time, Klein was still collecting information about the style of Denia in the Royal Library, and planned to transcribe it into a book and bring it back to the Kingdom of Havre.

Startled by this news, they hurried back to the port from the library. The crew members had already been scolded by Nata, and they lined up in a row, each with their eyebrows downcast.

When Klein asked why they woke up with a start, the crew all showed indescribable expressions, as if they vaguely knew what was going on, but were not sure, and didn't know how to describe it.

In the end, it was Bobby who spoke first: "...I was still sleeping, and I heard the sound of 'bang bang bang', as if something was hitting the board outside, it kept ringing, and it kept ringing, I thought someone was deliberately making trouble , I got up and went out to watch, and I happened to see those little thieves... did they make too much movement and woke me up?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the other crew members followed suit:

"Yes, yes, I only woke up when I heard this voice!"

"Me too!"

"I seem to know what's going on..."

The rest of the crew turned around abruptly, and the crew member looked up and recalled: "It should be a mermaid, I fell asleep on the deck at that time, and when I heard the sound, I got up and went to the side of the ship to look, and saw them. "

"A mermaid has this much strength?"

"What are they doing hitting the boat?"

"You were drunk at that time, did you read it wrong?"

When questioned, the crew retorted: "It's not one or two. How could I be mistaken for so many fish tails as big as mermaids?"

Klein looked at the crew member. The crew member suddenly remembered the inexplicable connection between the captain and the mermaid, and couldn't understand his attitude. He stumbled and changed his tone of being able to attack and retreat. : "Oh, not necessarily. It was very dark at that time, so maybe I misread it."

Klein: "..."

Nine times it is the mermaid reminding these drunks.

The remaining [-]%, if you have to say it, it may be that the mermaids happened to use the hull of the Pearl as a stone to sharpen their horns.

Mermaids are known to have no horns at all.

Klein once again sternly admonished the crew. It is a small thing to remove the cargo, but it is a big thing for them to easily fall for others.

What if the dock workers put poison in their wine?What if these men were outlaws and killed the crew while they were drunk?

The crew were baptized by Nata's anger once, and their momentum became weaker and weaker. After Klein scolded them again, it was like puddles of mud that were about to soften to the deck. In a short period of time, they didn't dare to touch alcohol anymore.

For this reason, Klein adjusted the night watch rotation plan for the Pearl, and he was also on the night watch list.

On the day of the night watch, he heard noises outside the cabin, and went to the deck to search. He looked up inadvertently, and saw the seaweed-colored long-haired mermaid who had brought him conchs swimming by the side of the boat.

In fact, this was not the first time he had seen a mermaid since the Pearl set off from King Tuster.

Before the Pearl arrived in Denia, one night, he was reading a book bought from Tuster King City in the observation deck. He speaks very clearly.He was fascinated by watching it for a while, and unconsciously passed the usual sleep time.

It was only when his shoulders and neck ached that he got up and moved around. When he walked to the window, he saw Sweet sitting by the railing of the deck, letting the night wind lift his soft hair, looking up at the observation deck.

Sweet didn't seem to expect that Klein would come to the window, retracted his bent legs, landed on the deck, wanted to leave, took two steps and stopped, and cast his gaze again.

Klein thought that he was hallucinating because he was too tired from reading. The wick of the gas lamp on the table just ran out and went out after two flashes. He turned around to replace the wick. Witt has disappeared.

One time may be explained by hallucinations, but whenever Klein is reading a book or working late and wants to take a look at the sea view to relieve fatigue, he can always be seen on the deck.

He came quietly, never disturbing anyone, and it seemed that he came here just to see Klein.

He wouldn't ask Klein to come out, but just waited quietly. If Klein didn't show up, he would probably wait quietly until dawn, as if he had to take a look to feel at ease.

Once, Klein deliberately went to bed early, and went to the observation deck to draw a chart before dawn the next day. When he went to the window and used the telescope to observe the surrounding situation, he saw that Sweet was still on the deck.

Sweet looked up consciously, and met Klein's gaze through the lens of the telescope.

Klein didn't move the camera away immediately, and the telescope brought Sweeta to his eyes. Sweet heard the voice from the cabin, his eyes drifted there, stood up straight and said in the direction of the telescope Say "Good morning" and leave from the blind corner of the observation deck.

In less than 1 minute, Patrick and another crew member walked out of the cabin, talking and laughing, shoulder to shoulder.

Sweet left as he came, without making any sound, like a gust of wind that blows by without leaving a trace.

Klein had sneered at other crew members, but no one had seen him except himself.

This feeling is very subtle—it was like at home in Port Paloi more than half a year ago. He was busy with his affairs in the yard, kitchen or study. on the sofa.

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The ending doesn't end right away~ The crematorium hasn't finished burial yet~