MTL NOVEL Chapter 11: Chapter 11 What is this?
Chapter 11 What is this?
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Relying on his desire to survive, Sieg struggled to regain consciousness so as not to pass out, but his consciousness was already blurred.
Just before his consciousness was about to faint, Sieg saw the light on the bottom of the sea. In order to make sure it was not a hallucination, he insisted on it for a while. After getting closer, Sieg saw an island in a huge bubble...
It is colorful, as if it is greeting the passing tourists, and it is filled with a completely different atmosphere from Marijoa.
Sieg breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and then... the tense strings were loosened, and he couldn't continue to maintain consciousness for an instant, his eyelids sank, and he fell into a coma.
Gulululu——
Hachi:? ? ?
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"Has your brain been sucked out by a suction cup? You tell me this is our kind?"
"But... when I rescued him... I really saw that he had scales... That's right! He still breathes with his gills! It's right here... Strange, where did he go?"
"Huh? Are you so scared that you have hallucinations after seeing the blood?"
"No, no, Brother Long, look... this kid is so thin and injured, if he wasn't a fishman, he wouldn't be able to make it here, right?"
"You still dare to talk back?"
When Sieg gradually regained consciousness and was woken up, he heard the sound of arguing vaguely.
At this time, next to the bed where Sieg was lying, Arlong, the sawtooth shark man, was teaching Hachi a lesson—this guy actually dragged a human back to Fishman Street?
"Okay! Arlong and Hachi, it's okay, and humans don't care. Send him to Fishman Island later." Jinbe interrupted Arlong's noise.
This is already Fishman Island, but Arlong and Hachi both understand that the "Fishman Island" mentioned by Boss Jinbe means to take him out of the scope of "Fishman Street", because they are about to leave, Fishman Street Not for humans.
"Fishman Street" is a special part of Fishman Island, a large part of which is composed of an extremely huge "wrecked ship". According to legend, this ship will surface one day, bringing Fishmans and Mermaids with them. Go under the real sun, but now there are very few people who believe in this legend.
More fishmen and mermaids will only teach their children not to leave the fishman island or the bottom of the sea...especially not to contact the humans outside!
Of course, because of its special geographical location, the Fishman Island is the only unofficial way to connect the first half of the Grand Line to the second half of the "New World"—if you want to cross the Red Line, you must transfer from land with official approval. Either pass through the undersea tunnel under the Red Line, and Fishman Island is at one end of the undersea tunnel.
A large number of pirates, as well as unauthorized people, enter and exit the "New World" from here, and there are also many floating human populations on the natural island.
Thanks to the efforts of Princess Otohime, although the Fishmen and mermaids have a deep grudge against humans because of the slave hunters, they can generally coexist.
But "Fishman Street" will never welcome humans.
This is actually an official shelter for orphans. Tiger, Jinbe, Arlong and others are all orphans who grew up here.
Although it is not as notorious as it was later, at least the people on the island don't dislike Fishman Street very much, but it has been repelling humans since ancient times.
In Jinbe's view, saving a human is nothing. Boss Tiger has saved countless human slaves before, but human beings are not suitable for Fishman Street!
"But I really saw it..." Hachi was still muttering, not very convinced.
Seeing this, Arlong said angrily: "Boss Jinping has already spoken, didn't you hear it? Ah?" He said with a casserole-sized fist.
Hachi instinctively covered his head, took a few steps back, nodded quickly and said: "Got it! I'll..."
At this moment, Sieg opened his eyes with difficulty, and looked at the sawtooth shark-man who looked fierce, the tall and square-shaped tiger shark-man, and the starfish-headed octopus who was looking forward... Probably guessed their identities.
"Hey, you're a fishman, right?" Hachi hurriedly asked Zig.
"Idiot! How is he like a fishman? At most it's a mermaid... No! Even if a mermaid becomes an adult, his tail won't turn into a leg!" Arlong pointed at Sieg's legs, and his nose would poke Hachi's face.
"But it's really strange... How did you resist the water pressure of 10,000 meters under the sea and hold your breath all the way?" Jinbe frowned like a cirrus cloud, feeling that the matter was not simple.
Sieg noticed Jinbe's suspicion and Arlong's disdain for humans.
Jinbe's suspicion is very reasonable. If it is not a fishman or a mermaid who can withstand the water pressure of 10,000 meters under the sea purely by virtue of their physique, then in the world of pirates, they must be great and strong.
Judging from Sieg's performance, this is obviously not the case.
"I... I don't know what happened, scales appear on my body when I am angry or excited.
When this old octopus took me as a fishman and dragged me down, I was terrified, but just when I had reached the limit, suddenly there was a pain here, and gills seemed to grow..."
Sieg chose to tell the truth, except that he didn't explain his cheat, he was telling the truth - Sieg really didn't know why it happened!
In order to enhance the credibility, Sieg controlled himself to enter the transformation state again, and sure enough, the cheekbones were still on both sides of the neck to the collarbone.
Seeing this scene, Jinbe and Arlong were stunned for a while, while Hachi raised his head and chest up, as if to say, "I'll just say I got it wrong."
Arlong's face suddenly changed, and Sieg said fiercely: "Damn! Could it be that those damned people are doing experiments to steal the great power of the fishmen?"
"Huh?" Sieg didn't know, how could he have such an idea, and it was... quite logical?
But Sieg immediately explained: "No, no, no, I didn't participate in that kind of experiment! I'm in Marijoa... just singing."
Jinbe also nodded and said: "The world nobles don't have that kind of brain, and the research institutes of the world government will not do this kind of experiment in Marijoa."
How could such an important experimental product escape "taking advantage of the chaos"?
"Who are your parents?" Jinbe obviously had a different idea.
"I don't know, I haven't seen them." Sieg continued to tell the truth.
Before crossing, Sieg was a member of the starting point orphanage.
"Boss Jinbe, even those filthy mixed-bloods, aren't they like this?" Arlong looked at Jinbe suspiciously.
Ordinarily, the offspring of mermaids and humans will not be like Sieg, and there are many examples of mermaids and humans combining—for example, the 29th daughter of Big Mom is a half-fishman, which looks no different from a fishman. Pisces-like, it looks completely human, except for its excellent water skills.
Jinbe speculated calmly: "The ones we have seen are generally the offspring of mermaids and humans, and the offspring of fishmen and humans. Do you know what they are like?"
Arlong: ...