How to become a mermaid

Pochi and Carlos walked along the direction where the roots of the tree extended.

The further they walked, the denser and thicker the tree roots under their feet, and the deeper the black water under them, and even a few green tentacles occasionally emerged from the water.

Fortunately, the condition of these tentacles is not very good, each of them hangs weakly in the water, looking a little wilted.

Even if Pochi and Carlos passed by them, they only waved weakly a few times at most, and did not attack fiercely like those tentacles they encountered before.

"Mr. Boqi, do we really have to continue walking? Why do I feel that the further we go, the deeper we go into the base camp of those green tentacles!" Seeing more and more tentacles in the water, Carlos felt a retreat in his heart. meaning.

Didn't they agree to find the exit?
How do you feel that you are walking towards a certain creature's lair now?

"The exit is in this direction!" Pochi said firmly.

In fact, he didn't lie, in his perception, the abandoned sealing point was indeed in this direction.

"Paji..." There was a sound like stepping on mud.

Carlos felt that he had stepped on something soft. He looked down and found that it was a dark green tentacle.

Different from the tentacles seen before, this tentacle is close to "rotten", half of its body has been turned into mud, and thick black water flows out.

I don't know if it's an illusion or something. When Carlos saw this picture, double images of tentacles appeared in front of Carlos' eyes.

He shook his head with some discomfort, and said to Pochi beside him, "Mr. Pochi, there is a rotting tentacle here!"

"The black water around us, isn't it all the juice from these things?"

Hearing what Carlos said, Pochi also leaned over to take a look.

After playing with this tentacle, he nodded: "[-]% yes!"

As if thinking of something, he reached into the black water that reached his waist again, fumbled and tore off a tree root.

"This thing is quite hard..." mumbling, Pochi took the tree root in his hand and observed, and found that a thin layer of mucus seemed to be secreted from the fracture.

At first, the mucus is slightly reddish in color, but after being exposed for a long time, it will transform into a state similar to the surrounding black water.

"Sure enough, these tree roots grew up by absorbing black water!" After creating a few more wounds on the tree roots, Pochi confirmed his guess.

"But why is there a tree growing here?" Carlos asked a little puzzled.

He felt strange early in the morning, Hongyue is not a plant, why so many roots grow out.

"To bear something? Or to feed something?" Pochi guessed somewhat uncertainly.

Speaking of trees, his first reaction is fruit.

It can't be that Hongyue is bored, and grow a tree to watch it?

"Wow..."

Vaguely, Pochi seemed to hear the sound of water coming from ahead.

He waved to Carlos and said, "There may be an exit ahead, come with me!"

.........

Samantel is a guest at Jaina's house.

Somewhat different from what he imagined, Jaina's home was very simple.

Everything inside is made of stone, two stone chairs, a stone table, and a stone bed, plus a pile of huge stone slabs piled up, and nothing else.

"Are these slates books?" Samantel noticed that each slate was engraved with writing, so he leaned over to take a look.

The above content should be written in the common language of Auer Star, but it is different from the text handed down now, so he half understands it.

"It's not really a book, it's just some characters I carved myself. It's mainly used to enlighten the children here, teaching them literacy and some basic common sense!" Jaina replied with a smile.

Perhaps because she was interested in seeing Shaman Lair, she pointed to one of the stone slabs and said word by word: "The mother tree of life is the source of our life and the source of faith."

"With its blessing, we can survive and reproduce here."

"All Gilop people should have the utmost respect and admiration for it, and regard it as their only belief!"

Something is wrong, this sentence is very wrong!
According to Jaina herself, the Mother Tree of Life was created by her, so it stands to reason that she should teach others to respect herself in order to maintain the belief in the Mother Tree, instead of directly letting others worship that tree.

Unless... that tree was not created by her at all!

Shamanleir had already noticed the abnormality in his heart, but he didn't show it. Instead, he smiled and said to Jaina: "Compared with the words on these slates, the current Auer star text is too simplified. Looking at It’s not as beautiful as it used to be!”

This sentence seemed to arouse Jaina's interest, her eyes lit up, and she asked Shamanlell: "Can you tell me about the old star?"

"Although I don't have the slightest sympathy for those Orr people, it was my hometown after all, and I'm also a little curious about its current situation."

"Besides you, there should be other people coming to the Red Moon. Have you found a way to deal with the Lord of Disaster?"

When she said these words, her eyes were full of anticipation, as if she really couldn't wait to learn about the current situation of Auer Star.

Shamanleir nodded, and said in a leisurely manner: "There is only one continent on Auer now, called Makabaka Continent..."

It took about ten minutes, and he now made up some information about Aur star and told Jaina.

Then, he said solemnly: "Now there are nine gods on Auer star. After the seal on the red moon was loosened, each god sent their envoys here to investigate the situation."

"For example, I am the envoy sent by the Sea God!"

"During this investigation, we had a small accident and several members were missing."

"After our preliminary judgment, they should have been drawn into the Red Moon by the tentacles protruding from the crack!"

"In order to retrieve them, I entered here with two other companions, but before we started the investigation, we got lost unexpectedly!"

After listening to his words, the expression on Jaina's face was surprised for a moment, and she asked: "So there are so many gods in the old star now? Can there be so many people on a continent?"

"Although there is only one continent, many people have intermarried with marine races and become amphibious species!"

"So their range of activities is no longer limited to land, and they can also thrive in the sea."

I don't know if it was Shamanlell's illusion. He noticed that after he finished saying this, there was a trace of disdain on Jaina's face.

However, this emotion was only fleeting, and soon disappeared.

She put on a worried expression, and said to Shaman Lair: "It's so dangerous in the red moon, don't you have a way to contact other companions?"

"If you don't mind, call them all here! It's safer here, and it's better than you wandering around."

"I have a real Orr among my companions, don't you mind?" Shamanlael asked with an unexpected expression.

Jaina smiled slightly, and said in a calm tone: "I must be a little concerned, but the situation is so special now, I can't just ignore you!"

"You are such a good person, Jaina!" Shamanel looked at Jaina adoringly, and sent her a good person card directly.

Just when she was about to accept this good person card, there was a hasty knock on the door: "Boom boom boom... boom boom boom!"

"Master Jaina! It's time for the ceremony to start in a while, have you finished talking here?"

ceremony?

Shamanel looked at Jaina with a trace of inquiry in his eyes.

Noticing his gaze, Jaina showed a faint smile on her face, and explained calmly: "It's a ritual about the Mother Tree of Life."

"Its fruit will mature once a month, so on the last day of each month, we will pick off the fruit produced by the mother tree and distribute it, and then hold a grand prayer meeting, praying that it will continue to serve the next month. We produce great fruit!"

"You came just in time. Today is the day we hold the ceremony. If you don't mind, come join us!"

"But I still have to go find my companions..." Shamanlael showed a hesitant expression.

"It's okay! It won't take long!" Jaina grabbed his hand and said with concern: "I don't know if the monsters outside have left yet. It's too dangerous for you to go out by yourself!"

"I can't leave here for a while, why don't you stay here first, and after the ceremony is over, I will personally escort you out!"

She invited her so enthusiastically that Shamanlael felt that she would be a little "uninterested" if she refused again.

With an extremely moved expression on his face, he said loudly:

"In this case, I will trouble you!"

……

"Wow...wow..."

Pochi and Carlos swam carefully in the black water.

Under them, there are countless huge tree roots intertwined.

"Boom..." A loud sound of water came from the front, indicating that the exit was not far ahead.

Feeling that the surrounding water became more turbulent, they had to slow down and approached there cautiously.

After swimming like this for a few more minutes, they reached the end of the black water.

——Here turned out to be a "waterfall"!
The water flow in front was cut off, and it fell straight down with a loud "rumbling" sound.

"Huh...huh..." In addition to the intense sound of water, there was a sound similar to snoring coming from under the waterfall.

In addition, there were bursts of noisy, cheering voices: "Cthu#lhu...$%...Cth...!"

Noticing this movement, Pochi and Carlos stopped moving forward.

They made a few gestures in the water, then each grabbed a tree root and carefully looked under the waterfall.

An unimaginably large cave appeared in their field of vision.

The color of the entire cave is dark red, and it looks like carrion. The inner wall is still shrinking and agitating, as if it is inside a living organism.

In the very center of the cave, there is a big tree with no branches and leaves, but only a thick trunk.

Its trunk is too thick, it is estimated to be about ten meters in diameter, and it has been extending towards the top of the cave, and I don't know where it will go.

"Huh...huh..." A regular snoring sound came from under the big tree.

Pochi boldly looked towards the place where the sound came from, and found that there was a bloated figure with a body like a mountain entrenched under this giant tree.

Its body is gray-green, at first glance it looks like a big octopus, but it is far uglier than an octopus, with yellow-green viscous pus dripping all over its body, like a rotten and swollen corpse.

But it's not a corpse, it's alive.

Countless grey-green tentacles with mucus surround it, bouncing up and down as its body trembles, and there are bursts of grunting from its mouth from time to time, as if it is sleeping.

Around it, there are also a group of strange-looking humanoid monsters.

They screamed, roared, frantically twisted their bodies and made strange movements that ordinary people could not understand, happily surrounding this giant creature.

Following their movements, pictures appeared in a trance before Pochi's eyes.

He saw a blue planet that he had never seen before. He also saw people fleeing frantically on this planet. He also saw a huge underwater city with countless strange creatures swimming in it.

These images alternated, some repeated, some did not, flashing through his mind irregularly.

Pochi didn't understand what the hallucinations before him were, but he knew very well that if he continued like this, he would soon be in danger.

wake up!

Don't look at them!Get these things out of your head!
Pochi tried his best to restrain his thoughts. He began to recall Alicia, his mother, and his various adventures on Auer, trying to use these things to dilute the illusion in his mind.

However, neither worked!

No matter how he recalled, those hallucinations would still flash in his mind, and they would become more and more weird and distorted.

Vaguely, Pochi felt that there were countless pairs of eyes watching him.

Those weird creatures that appeared in his hallucinations seemed to have come to reality, they were peeping at him from every dark corner, eager to get close to him.

His body began to tremble, and bloodshot streaks appeared in his originally clear eyes.

Even so, Pochi didn't give up, still trying to fight against these hallucinations, trying to make his body move.

No, I absolutely cannot fall down here!

I'm going back to see Alicia and Shaman Lair, they all need me!

"Shamanlael..."

In a blur of consciousness, Pochi murmured the name of Samantel.

The moment he said the name, there was a strange sound from the bottom of the cave: "Gulu... Gululu..."

Wisps of dark red mist overflowed from under the bloated green figure.

There is still something under it!