How to become a mermaid

Chapter 69 Maritime Common Development Treaty
The relationship between marine life and humans is complex.

While some humans capture and trade marine life, many marine life itself kills each other.

They are not united, and they don't have that kind of consistent external concept, and they don't need to be united, because the values ​​​​of most marine life are completely different from those of humans.

Family, clan, country, relatives, friends, partners, these things that are crucial in human society are not important in the eyes of many marine creatures, and there is no such concept. Some marine creatures even eat their biological parents.

Most marine creatures will not be sad for the death of their companions, because this is the law of nature, and the law of the jungle is the only truth in the ocean.

And in the eyes of many marine creatures, humans are just one of the tens of millions of species in the world.

While some humans are a serious threat to them, that's about it.

There are many issues to be concerned about when living in the sea every day. Instead of caring about the dynamics of human beings, it is better to think about how to avoid being eaten by natural enemies tomorrow.

If it is not for humans to threaten their entire population, they generally do not care about the loss of individual interests.

However, this situation is not absolute, and some marine animals are emotional and aware of the threat to them from humans.

So about 5000 years ago, representatives of some marine life and human beings negotiated together and signed an agreement called the "Marine Common Development Treaty".

The core essence of this agreement can be summarized as the following:
1. Human beings cannot openly traffic intelligent marine life, and marine life cannot openly traffic human beings.

2. Human beings cannot overfish and cause a certain species to become extinct. If it is found to be endangered, it needs to be protected and helped to reproduce; marine life cannot attack human islands for no reason and cause them to sink (except blood feud, blood for blood, tooth for tooth).

3. Human beings cannot pollute the ocean and cause large-scale pollution to the marine environment; marine organisms cannot pollute human land and destroy human habitats.

4. If any human/marine creature violates the agreement, the Human Oversight Committee/Ocean Oversight Committee will have the right to punish the violator.

In addition to the above situations, human activities at sea are free under other circumstances.

To put it simply, each person depends on his ability in the sea.

Regardless of whether it is a human or a marine creature, if you are killed or eaten, you will bear the consequences. If you refuse to accept it, your relatives can also take revenge, but it cannot affect the development of the entire race.

This kind of interaction between giant whales and Moni is actually not uncommon. Many marine creatures will also ask humans for help, and then pay a certain amount of rewards, and humans sometimes do the same.

In fact, the whale had already noticed Shaman Lair on the boat, but it asked Moni, and after learning that Moni would not sell Shaman Lair, it had no intention of intervening.

Although Moni's detainment of Samantel was excessive, he was not used for trafficking, so it did not violate the "Treaty for Common Development of the Sea", which was regarded as a "personal grievance".

The giant whale was only here to clean up the barnacles. It was not related to Shaman Lair, and he didn't want to cause trouble for himself, so he patted his ass and left after pulling the whale sand.

About 10 minutes after the whale left, Mooney returned to the boat and released the two sharks into Shaman Lear's tank.

"I'm sorry, I made you hungry, and it won't happen again next time." Mony said apologetically to Shamanlell.

Shamanleir was indeed hungry, he grabbed the shark, turned his back to Moni and started eating.

"Let's continue to talk about the painting you mentioned before. Which painting style do you want to learn?" Money rummaged through the room and found something like a picture book.

He held up the album to show Shaman Lear the paintings inside.

"This is an imitation painting of Jeep Francis. The name is Hometown. It uses simple strokes to outline the scenery of the sea and the pier, as well as the boats moored at the pier, implying the return of sailors wandering at sea..." After opening the first painting, Moni talked about it endlessly.

Shamanel glanced at the painting, only to see a bunch of messy lines, he couldn't tell where was the sea and where was the pier, or there were no such two things in the painting, they were all made up by Mony himself. of.

The abstraction in this world is more abstract than the earth, and I can do it myself.

Shamanleir suddenly had the feeling that he could become a master by giving him a pen.

"Change it to another one." Shamanel said while chewing on the shark meat.

"Oh hoo~ It's okay if you don't like this, in fact, I don't like it either." Money chuckled and turned to the next page.

"This is the realistic style of painting, which uses the most delicate brushstrokes to outline the realistic scene and render it to make it more artistic." Moni said, pointing to the painting.

For some reason, Samantel felt that when he was explaining the painting, he was not as excited as before, as if he lacked interest.

But this is what Shamanleir needs. He swallowed the shark meat in his mouth and asked Moni: "I want to learn this, can you draw?"

"Of course I will! This is my best painting style and my favorite style!" Moni said in a high tone.

"We're now... oh no, we'll start teaching tomorrow, what do you think, my dear mermaid?" Mooney said excitedly.

"Tomorrow then." Shamanel agreed, and he threw the shark's remains into a basket on the ground, ready to swim to sleep.

That basket was put there by Moni to hold the garbage for him. Generally, the leftover fish bones of Shamanlell would be thrown there.

Although Samantel hates Moni, he is not a fish with no quality, and he will not disgust Moni with intentional littering.

"Okay, see you tomorrow!" With the consent of Shaman Lair, Moni was greatly encouraged, and excitedly gave a farewell salute to Shaman Lair.

He sat down at the table, spread out his notebook, and wrote a diary seriously on it.

【My mermaid seems to have let his guard down a bit. This is a good start. Although I still don't know his name, it doesn't matter. I believe that with my hard work, he will tell me sooner or later. 】

[When I think that he needs my help, every hair in my whole body is trembling with excitement, this is really great! 】

[Also, I got two pieces of good quality whale sand today, and I will get a lot of money when I make them all into potions. 】

[After I have this money, my goal of buying a new boat will soon be realized. When I have a new boat, I plan to let Hawke be the captain. After all, he has been with me for so many years. The most trusted crew on board. 】

【It's just that the new ship will run with us, or will it be sent out to open up a new route?this is a problem. 】

After finishing the diary, Money put away the notebook contentedly.

Today is another fruitful day.

　Some readers argued with me before, how to ignore those powerful characters in such an arrogant world, but in fact this is a question that is considered in terms of human values.

　　The values ​​of marine life are completely different from those of human beings, even those with brains have different values ​​from human beings.

　　After all, the source of food in the sea is other creatures, so it is normal to die and be killed in the sea. This is a part of life, and it is the same whether you are killed by humans or by other creatures.

　　They are not so stupid, but they are not so "kind". They don't pay much attention to creatures that have nothing to do with them, but only care about their own group and relatives.

　　It takes a huge price to fight with humans. Marine life has its own interests and calculations, and it is difficult to unite (for example, human beings: America, marine life: other countries on earth, do you understand the analogy? .

　　Moreover, the kingdom of marine life is not so easy to establish, which I will write about later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)