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Chapter 1493: Fishman? Mermaid?
When Blaze thought of Captain Babo and the other sailors who were scared to death by the Sirens, he remembered the words that the stranger brought.

A weird guy.

Although they talk very powerfully, when the chance really comes, they back down faster than the other.

Blazer could understand that, after all, the Siren was a rare monster of around LV100, and was very powerful. Moreover, the Siren would only capture sailors to reproduce during the estrus period, and at other times the Siren just wanted to eat.

If the Sirens sing, it means they are preparing to eat. The singing is used to capture prey. If the Sirens pounce on you without saying a word, then that is the mating season.

However, when Sirens are in mating season, they will treat humans as backup food, so encountering a Siren usually means death.

It is said that an old captain in the Giant Kingdom was once attacked by a Siren in estrus and luckily survived, becoming a legend. Many young sailors paid to inquire about the Sirens.

The old captain would scare the young sailors by saying that when the Sirens captured humans during their mating season, they would change their body structure to facilitate mating.

The old captain would first induce the young sailors to guess that the Siren's fish tail would turn into human legs, and then when these young men were overwhelmed with lust, he would take out a fish head and tell them that the Siren's upper body would become like this.

Sirens are half-human, half-fish species. If their lower body becomes human, then their upper body must be fish.

This sounded like a bad joke from the old captain, but it was accidentally reported that when the old captain saw a stranger wearing a fish head mask and tight fish scale clothes, he rolled his eyes and foamed at the mouth and fainted.

This reaction, which seemed like a re-enactment of a horrific experience in their youth, made the sailors who were present and had just heard the story shudder.

The most terrifying thing was undoubtedly that the stranger possessed a very strong male body. Why would a stranger with that appearance scare the old captain to faint? Everyone present at the time tacitly did not think about it.

After hearing this rumor, Blaze thought about it seriously and felt that it was not strange. Most fish are oviparous, some are ovoviviparous, and only a very small number of fish are viviparous.

Most fish ignore their eggs after laying them, but only a small number of fish will keep the hatched young fish with them to raise them.

Even if they are carried around, they do not have breasts in the common sense for breastfeeding, but instead use their skin to secrete a nutrient solution similar to milk.

If you think about it this way, isn't it normal to have no breasts after changing from half-human, half-fish to half-fish, half-human?
At worst, look at the merman monsters. You can't tell the difference between male and female just from their appearance. The difference can only be seen during the breeding season.

In the end, Blaze was sure that it was because those people had been thinking about dirty and inappropriate things from the very beginning, so they were so horrified when they learned the truth.

The fantasy of the Sirens in my head was revealed for what it really is, and nightmares at night were the least of my worries.

But Hader was clearly not the type to think of such things.

"What are your expectations for mermaids?"

"That's right." Had nodded. "It is said that the mermaid song can soothe people's hearts. Can it be used for a short congratulatory song?"

"Legend has it that mermaids live in the deep sea, and it is both hot and cold near the magma zone on the seabed. Is it a natural deep-sea furnace?"

"If I ever get a chance to meet a mermaid, I'll definitely ask about these things."

Blaze frowned slowly, it looked like Hader was just pursuing the art of forging as always, but he felt a certain anxiety.

Why not continue to delve into the existing forging skills, but choose to explore new areas? This is not like Hard's style.

But Blazer did not raise any doubts, but helped Hader carry his luggage and followed Hader to one of the four ships. Apparently Hader had negotiated with Herbie in advance, so there was a room specially provided for Hader. This room was close to the power furnace, and the high temperature of the power furnace could be used for forging directly.

Blaze put down his luggage, exchanged a few pleasantries, and after Hader began his daily forging practice, he left the temporary forge and found Herbie on the deck.

The two of them looked at the calm lake side by side. Just looking at the calm water surface in front of them, it was hard to imagine that a huge whirlpool would form here in a few dozen minutes.

Herbie spoke first.

"Did you know that when we were designing this ship, the stranger was quite excited, but also mysteriously asked us if we knew how to make the ship turn?"

"This square island boat can spin on the spot, moving forward and backward at the same time." Blazer showed a look of confirmation. "This happens occasionally."

Most of the time, foreigners would bring a lot of new knowledge and technology that amazed them. Sometimes even Theresa, who came from the Age of Gods, would be surprised, saying that this science was heading in a different direction from the technology of the Age of Gods.

But sometimes strangers would "act stupidly" and make many jokes about it.

For example, a stranger who had just arrived was quite proudly promoting the delicate, snow-white sugar and the sulfur-colored disinfectant lumps, calling them white sugar and soap, and preparing to sell them at a high price.

But... these two things exist in this world, and have been around for many years, with mature craftsmanship. Compared with the white sugar and soap sold on the market, the white sugar made by foreigners... has more impurities, and the soap looks ugly.

At the same time, toilets were still selling well.

However, this situation is still quite rare, and I didn't expect it to happen again recently.

Blaze and Herbie chatted for a while while the wind created ripples on the lake and a whirlpool gradually formed.

"What happened to Master Hader recently?"

"A master who devotes his whole life to one thing will encounter a bottleneck."

Herbie put his hands on the railing and swung his feet. In the room illuminated by the fire, the hammer hit the red-hot metal again and again.

"It's a bad thing when you hammer metal hundreds or thousands of times and the result is always the same good thing, which means the craftsmanship has not improved for a long time."

"If there is no progress, regression will soon come."

"Bottleneck? How could that be? Aren't there a lot of new materials now?" Blazer was a little bit unbelievable. His simple idea elicited a helpless smile from Herbie.

"This is what a child thinks. Putting two different colored woods together to form the same shape is considered new. What Hard pursues is a realm where even putting the same materials together can create a new existence."

"It's all about trying." Blaze complained, imitating Herbie's way of supporting himself on the railing with his hands and keeping his feet off the ground.

"But it's definitely useless to find a new forging method like this!"

"Oh, what do you think?"

"He might have to put his hammer down for a while."

(End of this chapter)