Chapter 1096 The Root of the Problem
Chapter 1096 The Root of the Problem
"What nonsense are you talking about!"
Seeing her mother's words going further and further away, and feeling awkward under the suspicious gazes of the sea creatures nearby, Miss Salted Fish couldn't help but stamp her feet hard... twisting her fish tail, she said angrily:
"Mother! How could you think of me like that? There is nothing between him and me!"
The beautiful mermaid curled her lips when she heard this.
"Heh, didn't I tell your grandfather the same thing when I fell in love with your father? What was the result?"
"???"
"Anyway, just give up! You can find a man if you want, but he definitely can't!"
Probably because the argument got a little heated, after fiercely exposing a wave of her dark history, the mermaid woman raised her snowy arms, fiercely made an "X" gesture in front of her towering chest, and then said with a serious face:
"Listen to me! This man is too lustful, you can't control him! I'm telling you, love is fake..."
"enough!"
Seeing that the beautiful mermaid had turned the issue from the fate of the tribe to love between a man and a woman with just a few words, and seeing the strange looks of the surrounding sea creatures, "suddenly enlightened", "worthy of being mother and daughter", "as expected of a close relationship", Miss Salted Fish could not help but shouting in anger:
"I'm different from you! It's because you're full of these things that grandpa dislikes you so much!"
"?!"
Unexpectedly, she would be subjected to personal attacks from Miss Salted Fish. After being stunned for a moment, the beautiful mermaid's eyes suddenly turned red.
"You actually yelled at me?"
"I……"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Seeing Miss Salted Fish's unprepared expression, tears immediately welled up in the eyes of the beautiful mermaid woman, and she choked with sobs and said with a heartbroken face:
"If I hadn't insisted on giving birth to you, would I have broken up with your grandfather? You... and now you are actually using this to criticize me?"
"No... that's not what I meant..."
Facing the mermaid who cried at the drop of a hat, Miss Salted Fish suddenly felt guilty when she thought of how good she had been to her in the past. However, she still tried to argue:
"What I want to say is that you shouldn't think about everything in that way..."
"If I didn't think about it that way, would you still be here?"
"I……"
"Wuwuwu, I treat you well with all my heart, I wish I could give you my heart, and you...you actually still despise me?"
"I'm not……"
"You are!"
"That's not what I meant! I just want to reason with you. For example, grandpa..."
"Speaking of reason? If I had listened to your grandfather, would you still be here now?"
"..."
"Why don't you speak? Woohoo, now you don't even want to talk to me?"
Damn it!
Faced with the mermaid beauty's childish but extremely effective dimensionality reduction attack, the defeated Miss Salted Fish could only subconsciously look to the side, hoping that Uncle Andy could stand up and say something fair, or at least help persuade her, but...
"I think... your mother is right..."
After receiving Miss Salted Fish's pleading gaze, the male mermaid couldn't help but stand up and say something fair. He then swam to the beautiful mermaid who was crying and wanted to hug her waist... but he didn't dare. He wanted to borrow her shoulder to cry on... but he didn't have the courage to do so. In the end, he could only cast a stern look at Miss Salted Fish.
"Wendy! You really went too far just now! How could you talk to Evangeline like that?"
"..."
You dead licker! You deserve to never catch up with her in your life!
Numb from the finishing blows from the bootlicker uncle, Miss Salted Fish found that she couldn't make sense by explaining it to them. She was so angry that she flicked her tail and swam away from the dock, through the sea eye, and swam to the deeper part of the tidal world.
After she swam away, the beautiful mermaid sobbed twice, then stopped crying, stood up and chased after her with a look of grievance on her face.
"and many more!"
After calling out to the beautiful mermaid, the male mermaid couldn't help but say:
"I don't think Wendy did it on purpose. She was just anxious at the moment... Evangeline, why don't you stop chasing after her and calm down here first?"
"It will be too late if I don't go!"
After sniffing slightly, the beautiful mermaid with red eyes shook her head and said:
"Wendy is swimming towards the Silver Coral Palace. She must be going to look for her grandpa. Her grandpa's words are so harsh. Don't get my Wendy angry. I have to go and help her."
"..."
You deserve it! Huh? Why would I say that?
……
Instead of continuing to argue with them, it is better to go directly to grandpa to explain the situation!
Not knowing that after she left, the licking dog uncle had briefly awakened for a second, Miss Salted Fish pushed away the guards who came to stop her, and forced her way into the warm ocean current bound by the crystal ring, breaking into a palace made of silver ring coral.
"Grandpa!"
"Ok?"
After hearing the noise coming from behind, the old mermaid who was observing the sea chart by the wall with his hands behind his back turned around and shouted with a slightly unhappy look:
"Why didn't you let the guards inform you and just barged in? There are no rules!"
"Feel sorry……"
After seeing the unhappy look on the old mermaid's face, Miss Salted Fish quickly apologized and then said:
"Grandpa! I'm back from the Twelve Kingdoms Gathering."
"I already know."
After glancing at Miss Salted Fish, the old mermaid said calmly:
“Although I’m old now, I’m still as old as the Pillar God. You and Evangeline made such a big noise when they came back, how could I not notice it?
Okay, just say whatever you want to say. Why are you rushing in so hastily? Did Andy's idea of joining the Seol Kingdom fail, or did your mother cause me some trouble again?"
“It’s not a problem this time, and Uncle Andy’s idea has not failed…”
Knowing that Grandpa had a great prejudice against Mother... or maybe it wasn't necessarily prejudice, Miss Salted Fish couldn't help but shook her head and explained:
"Grandpa, although my identity as a sea tribe member has been discovered, the God of Food who presided over the gathering of the Twelve Kingdoms did not directly expose me. Instead, he approved the motion I proposed as Queen Seol, saying that he could accept the sea tribe members to join him and that they were willing to come and participate in the joint investigation and solve the problem together..."
"There's no need to talk about this anymore."
"Ah?" Under Miss Salted Fish's puzzled gaze, the old mermaid swam away from the sea chart, returned to her throne, and then spoke in a look that did not allow for rejection:
"When you and Evangeline went to the Twelve Kingdoms Assembly, I discussed with the Tide Clan Chief and the others, and decided that this matter should be resolved by our sea people ourselves, without the involvement of the Cleanup Bureau and humans."
"Why?!"
After hearing what the old mermaid said, Miss Salted Fish couldn't help but said:
"When the sea eye was frozen before, didn't you try with the other two clan leaders and say there was no solution for the time being? Now that the Cleanup Bureau is willing to help, why reject them?"
"What we said at the time was that this seafloor ice event was very strange and might not be solved by 'conventional' means, but that didn't mean it couldn't be solved by special means.
As for why you refused the Cleanup Bureau's help... do you really think humans will help us wholeheartedly?"
After glancing at his innocent granddaughter, the old mermaid said seriously:
“You little guys of the new generation, like those short-lived humans, know very little about the past… We mermaids didn’t live in the depths of the ocean from the beginning, but were driven down here by humans!
Even though we, the Sea Clan, do not have a direct conflict with the living space of humans like the Earth Clan, we have just reached a truce with humans, which does not mean that we are not enemies! Humans... cannot be trusted!"
here we go again……
Seeing her grandfather start to preach his theory of human threat again, Miss Salted Fish, who thought that she had brought him good news, would change his mind, could not help but say helplessly:
“Grandpa… before I awakened the bloodline of the vortex mermaid, I lived as a human for a long time, and I know very well what humans are like.
Humans are not as good as described in their books, but they are not as bad as you told me. Most people are just like us, just living an ordinary life. As long as there is no direct conflict in the living environment, humans and sea creatures can coexist, and this time..."
"What do you know about humans?"
The old mermaid rudely interrupted Miss Salty Fish and said unkindly:
"I've dealt with more humans than you've ever met with all the humans combined!
They are greedy, brutal, short-sighted, lack self-control, and are always unruly!
This is an evil race that can never satisfy its own desires! Too much contact with them will definitely not have a good result. Your mother's fate is the best proof! If she had listened to me at the beginning, would she have ended up like this? "
"Grandpa! How could you…"
"Don't call me grandpa!"
After waving his hand and creating a stream of water, the old mermaid pushed away Miss Salted Fish who wanted to argue. Then he said with a hint of disgust on his face:
"If you still think you are a member of the sea tribe, then don't say such things in front of me! Humans are a race more evil than demons. I will never cooperate with humans in my life!"
"But you weren't..."
"I was willing to let you attend that rally before, not because I agree with your stupid ideas, but because I think that being in touch with those people in power who only care about their own interests will help you see more clearly and know what kind of people humans are!"
"Grandpa! The people you came into contact with in the past may have problems, but that doesn't mean that humans have always been..."
"I said, don't call me grandpa!"
The gray beard fluttered slightly in the seawater. The angry old mermaid slammed the table in front of him with his hand and then shouted angrily:
"I'm not as complicated as you..."
"I don't have an unreasonable father like you!"
"???"
Under the astonished gaze of the old mermaid, the beautiful mermaid woman swam out from the crystal ring that held the high-speed ocean current, and skillfully severed the father-daughter relationship with him. Then she pulled the somewhat sad Miss Salted Fish behind her, put her hands on her hips and glared at herself, saying:
"Every time you get angry, you say this... If you don't want to admit it, then don't admit it! Who cares about you, an old man?"
"I me me!"
"What do you mean by 'I'? My Wendy treats you as her grandpa, so she wants to help you share your worries. How dare you yell at her?"
"you you you!"
"You are just an old stubborn person! A stubborn screw! A foul-mouthed fish! A stingy person who can hold a grudge for hundreds of years!"
"You, you, you...if you weren't my daughter..."
"Didn't I just say it? I'm not your daughter! You don't recognize Wendy, and I don't want to recognize you either!"
"I, I, I... Get out, get out! Everyone!"
Get lost! Do you think I want to come?
Looking at the old mermaid who was so angry that he stuttered, the beautiful mermaid woman couldn't help but roll her eyes at him, then she tried to pull Miss Salted Fish away, but she couldn't pull her away.
"Wait a moment."
Miss Xianyu came here specially to report the good news, but was scolded. Feeling uncomfortable, she pursed her lips and asked:
"Foreign... Chief, if you insist on refusing human help, what will happen to those tribesmen who have to migrate to the coastal areas due to the large-scale freezing of the seabed?"
"Let them all come back, move directly into the Tidal Realm through the Sea Eye, and leave the real world completely."
"?!!"
After hearing the old mermaid's answer without hesitation, the mermaid mother and daughter's expressions froze. Miss Salted Fish couldn't help but ask in surprise:
"Let everyone leave? The Tide Realm is just a part of reality. Can it accommodate so many people?"
"It's none of your business!"
After a slight hesitation, the old mermaid refused to answer the question and said impatiently:
"This is a matter between me and the other two clan leaders. It has nothing to do with you two. You don't need to worry about it... Also! You two must stay in the Tidal Realm honestly recently. You are absolutely not allowed to pass through the Sea Eye to appear in the world again. Do you hear me?"
This is a matter between Grandpa and the other two leaders? And they are not allowed to pass through the sea eye to the world?
After hearing the house arrest order from the old mermaid, Miss Salted Fish seemed to remember something. Her heart trembled suddenly and she quickly turned her head to look at the nautical chart on the wall.
"Grandpa?!!!"
After seeing the situation she had imagined on the faintly fluorescent sea chart, Miss Salted Fish could not help but break away from her mother's hand, took two steps forward, and asked angrily:
"How could you do such a thing?!"
"Humph!"
From Miss Salted Fish's performance, he knew that she had seen through his plan. The old mermaid snorted and said nothing. The beautiful mermaid woman next to him took a look and did not see anything strange. She asked with doubt in her eyes:
"Wendy? What did that damn old man do?"
"He wants to turn the Sea Eye inside out, and use the Sea Eye that has been gushing out seawater to suck away the seawater from the world!"
"what?"
After hearing what Miss Salty Fish said, the beautiful mermaid was immediately shocked. She then looked towards the old mermaid and said in shock:
"You want to drain the ocean water of this world? Are you crazy?"
"We are not draining it, but replacing the problematic seawater to keep the tidal world clean. Then we will completely block the eye of the sea and completely separate the tidal world from the real world."
The old mermaid snorted and said:
"When you went to the assembly, several of us clan leaders worked together to break the ice and checked the ice conditions on the seabed and the tidal world. We found that the ice started in the present world. The large-scale ice this time was caused by a problem with the sea eye in the present world.
In other words, there is actually no problem with our tidal world. It is just that because the source of the tidal world is a part of the sea eye that was cut off from the real world, it was affected and also had large areas of ice.
So don't think so badly of me. We are now preparing to block the eye of the sea, just throwing the problems of mankind back and letting them solve their own problems!"
(End of this chapter)