Chapter 221
Sean returned to the small pool.
The children in the Wild Dog Park did not leave, squatting by the pool and looking after the injured mermaid.
At this moment, the pale female mermaid had woken up. She was originally in a relaxed state. When she saw Sean appearing, she suddenly dived and hid in the water...
The little girl with a dirty face gently advised: "Nana, it's okay, this uncle is a good man."
Sean frowned slightly in his heart: "Is it because of the sixth sense, or is it easy to trust strangers?" He thought, "It is not a good thing to trust others so easily."
Soon, Sean shook his head in his heart: "The children in the Wild Dog Park must have a very difficult life, and they cannot easily trust strangers...
"Perhaps she has some way of identifying other people's motives."
With this thought, Sean looked at the little girl with a dirty face. Her expression was much softer than before.
The mermaid named Nana only had one pair of eyes exposed from the water, and her cheeks were slightly bulging. She was obviously still wary of Sean.
There were some big rocks beside the pool. Mr. Wu You was a little tired now and found a dry rock to sit down on.
I heard the deep breathing of a cow in the woods nearby.
Sean turned to look. The huge diving armor was hiding behind a few trees, looking particularly calm.
Several children gathered around, and Sean began to speak in a chatting manner: "You can call me Mr. Norberti."
Norberti is nothing.
Due to his upbringing with Aaliyah, Sean is very good with children even as an adult.
He smiled softly and said, "What shall I call you, ladies and gentlemen?"
Sean's relaxed tone made several children in Dingo Park relax, and they squatted or sat around Sean.
"My name is Kate." Under the black curly hair, with piercing black eyes, Kate picked up both sides of the red skirt with both hands and curtsied.
"She is our princess - the 'Dirty Face Princess'." The fat boy in a sea soul shirt next to him said, "My name is Billy..."
"Fat Billy." The boy next to him who looked like a skinny monkey joked, "The knight who calls himself a princess, the 'Knight of the Wooden Shield'."
As if he didn't care about his companion's comments about his figure, Billy patted the small wooden board on his back called the "shield."
"I'm Juan." The skinny Juan shrugged. Because the coat he picked up was too big, his movements were hard to see.
"He is the fastest among us." The last fat girl wearing glasses said, "He is our 'Barefoot Scout'."
"Oh, come on..." Juan waved his hand disdainfully, "Just because of this nickname, I still haven't found shoes that suit me..."
"I am the Minister of Glasses." The little fat girl said with some pride, "Maggie."
Without asking, Sean knew they each had a story.
Either he was abandoned by his parents in Ocean City, or his relatives have passed away.
A group of unsupervised orphans pickpocket tourists in businesses in order to survive, treating the Wild Dog Park as their fantasy kingdom...
The land of dreams, the ideal country... Ocean City, which has various glorious titles, like all countries in the world, still has sad stories.
Sean asked: "How did you meet the big man?"
At this time, "Waste" was in the woods behind Sean, picking up a small flower with his rusty fingers and looking at it.
Kate said: “The big man wouldn’t have moved – the barefoot scout had climbed in and it was empty.
“Because people often bully us, we often imagine that big men can move to protect us…
“Then, one day, I remember it very clearly – there was ‘rainfall’ going on in the agricultural area that day.
"The big man actually walked out of the forest where he had been sitting and sat in the rain, looking very sad.
"Then I went over..."
Sean nodded: this was the same memory he saw in Soul Anaphylaxis - Princess Dirty Face didn't lie.
At this time, Sean's body had returned to the hotel and was sitting in his room. he
Frowning, rubbing his chin: "In other words, the waste did not die after being injected with a lethal agent, but left the place of his birth...
"This diving armor..." Mr. Wu You turned around and looked at the rusty armor that looked like a hill, "it was originally abandoned in the wild dog park.
"The surviving waste hid in and met Kate..."
Kate continued: “Meeting Nana is a different story…
“On the edge of the agricultural area are the meatpacking plants of Ocean City.
“Sometimes when we really can’t find food, we go to the sewage outlet of the processing plant to look around.
"Sometimes you are lucky and can find some meat that is not bad, and you can cook it and eat it..."
"But -" Kate frowned, "Eating that meat will always make you dizzy for a few days, so we don't eat it often..."
Mr. Wuyou nodded and motioned for Kate to continue.
"Then one day, Billy and I went to the sewage outlet to look for something to eat.
"In the end, we found Nana in a pile of stinking dirt...
Kate swallowed her saliva and turned pale: "When I first met Nana, her injuries were much more serious than now. She was rotten all over and smelled..."
It seemed that some uncomfortable memories had been evoked, and the faces of several children became a little ugly.
"We took her to this pool at Dingo Park - it's sea water.
"After soaking in sea water and taking the medicine we found, Nana is much better...
"I was in a fever and coma all day long, but now I wake up half the time and can still swim in the water."
"Fortunately, she can swim now," Princess Dirty Face's eyes widened, "Ever since we found Nana, there have been strange people looking everywhere... It seems they are here to find her.
“Nana’s senses are particularly keen, and she can often tell us to hide before anyone arrives.
"This time it's because she has a fever again, so we didn't know about the arrival of that person just now..."
Sean frowned: "You just said that this pool is filled with sea water - could this pool lead to the sea outside?"
The white mermaid got a little bolder, and half of its body emerged. While whining and talking, she pointed with her slender fingers to the bottom of herself - the depth of the pool.
Kate turned around and explained: "Nana said that there is a pipeline under this pool that can lead to the sea outside...
"But..." Princess Dirty Face looked at Nana with twinkling eyes, "Her injuries are not completely healed yet, and she doesn't dare to live alone in the sea, so she is still staying here."
Sean was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that a mystery that had been bothering him was finally solved...
"Can you understand what Nana said?" Sean asked in surprise.
Kate nodded: "I have been able to understand the 'language' of various animals since I was a child. When Nana tried to speak, I could also understand most of it..."
Extremely high talent for inspiration... The dirty-faced princess in front of him reminded Sean of the little witch Anna.
Thinking of the body that had been cut to pieces by the wind blade, Sean's heart sank and his brows furrowed involuntarily.
"Then ask her," Sean said, "if someone came to search her before, where did she hide?"
Kate turned her face and asked softly in Leonese - although the spoken language was the same, gifted children like Kate and Anna could directly convey the meaning into each other's hearts when "narrating".
Because of Kate's trust in Sean, Nana was obviously no longer afraid of Sean. She leaned half of her body out of the water and expressed something with her hand gestures...
Sean suddenly discovered that Nana was not speaking in a special language at all - she seemed to be mute.
After an exchange that transcended words, Princess Dirty Face turned to Sean and said: “Nana said she would hide in a coral far away.
"She also found a wooden boat in the nearby waters and sometimes hid in it."
Sean nodded and understood one thing: the "figure" he saw in the wreckage of the Saint on his first night in Ocean City was Nana.
"It seems that there are no lingering ghosts on the Saintess..."
One puzzle solved, and there are more.
The truth cannot emerge all at once, you must be patient.
Sean tried to ask the next question: "Ask her for me, how did she end up at the sewage outlet of the meat processing plant?"
Kate turned to Nana patiently, and after just saying a few words, a look of fear appeared in the white mermaid's eyes.
She shook her head and made a series of monotonous sounds...
The mermaid's vocal structure seems to be particularly special, and her shrill voice is terrifying.
Several children couldn't help but cover their ears in pain.
Nana seemed to be repeating a word, but Sean couldn't understand it.
The mermaid suddenly dived into the water and disappeared.
Kate loosened her hands covering her ears, seemingly affected by Nana's emotions just now, fear lingering in her dark eyes: "Nana said she didn't remember what she had experienced...
"She just kept repeating that it was... hell."
