It is almost certain that Zhijiao Ji will become the new leader of the country.
The big fish on the mermaid side is too powerful to climb up the stairs, and no monster in the sea kingdom dares to disobey him.
For example, the hand-washing ghost on the strait is obviously not weak in strength, but after being taught a lesson by the climbers, he has become completely honest and no longer dares to covet the position of the leader of the Sea Kingdom.
Later, rumors such as "The third sect statue is not a descendant of the gods, but a piece of material. As long as it is found, it will have the power to ascend to the position of leader of the Sea Kingdom." Not long after Zhijiaoji came to power, she stopped attacking herself. broken.
Time passed by nearly a hundred years.
The young Jiao Ji grew up to be an extraordinary leader.
She is Zongxiang, with natural majesty and elegance. Her eyes are like the deep ocean, full of endless wisdom and insight. Her singing is as gentle as the waves, able to calm the violent waves.
With her outstanding leadership skills and profound wisdom, this mermaid queen has maintained unimaginable stability and harmony in this sea country.
The Queen governs with wisdom and justice. She listens to the voice of every tribesman, respects every decision, and runs all the ministries of the sea country to perform their duties. Under her rule, the Sea Kingdom ushered in a prosperous era of harmony among monsters.
Unfortunately, such days did not last long.
The sea country has ushered in a disaster.
An external force intervened here, the Yin God from Huangquan.
In fact, they are not considered to be top-notch underworld gods. They are just a small number of underworld gods who survived the last battle between gods and were already very weak.
However, this divine kingdom has been peaceful and closed for too long, and the monsters above the sea kingdom are unable to withstand the power of the real gods.
So the Yin gods of Huangquan began to attack cities and territories. They encroached and encroached on part of the territory of Xiahai Kingdom, and enslaved and corrupted some of the demon clan of Haiguo for their own use.
The ashes of the underworld are rekindled here, and the battle situation above the sea country escalates and becomes more and more intense.
The general defending Haiguo is naturally the most courageous Big Fish Denglou.
Before the fall of the underworld, Denglou had never failed in his battles in the sea country, but when faced with the underworld, the situation changed drastically.
Those sea monsters who took refuge in the underworld actively or passively were corroded by the aura of the underworld. After turning black, their combat effectiveness was not the same as before. Even if they climbed up the stairs and fought bravely, it was of no avail. The resistance of the sea country was defeated step by step, and in the end only Can barely hold on to the area around Munakata's three islands...
…
On top of the sea that has become somewhat turbid.
Another battle between the Hai Clan and the Huangquan vassal ended, with the Hai Clan barely winning and resisting the attack.
After the war, Big Fish climbed up the stairs and sat quietly on a rock. His armor was mottled and had unyielding edges. His figure looked particularly large and unshakable in the faint moonlight.
"well."
The sea country general sighed.
A small-scale victory really cannot solve the current predicament of Haiguo. It is nothing more than hanging on for a while.
"Master Denglai." A subordinate stepped forward cautiously, "We caught Hand Washing Ghost, and he shouted to see you."
"Bring him here."
The legend of the hand-washing ghost exists in real-life Kagawa Prefecture. It is said to be a giant monster that appears on the bay and washes its hands across the strait with its legs. It has horns on its head, likes to appear at night, and has a warlike personality.
Japan is a place where gods and ghosts mix. In reality, Kagawa Prefecture is enshrined as a kind of deity in many shrines.
The image of the hand-washing ghost in the Kingdom of the Sea is similar to the real-life legend. It is very powerful. It can break mountains and rocks when it gets angry, and its power is endless.
A hundred years ago, during the time when Zhijiao Ji came to power, this stupid big monster was taught a lesson once by climbing a building, and he became honest after that.
But soon after Huang Quan appeared, he abandoned Haiguo and went to Yinshen.
He was captured again in the battle just now.
Soon, the hand-washing ghost was brought to the stairs.
A huge humanoid monster that is five or six meters tall, half naked, with strong muscles, thick body hair, and tawny beards spreading out in radiating directions.
This big ghost had one of his legs cut off in the battle just now and is now being tied up.
"Go upstairs, let me go, for the sake of our friendship." The hand-washing ghost struggled to speak, his voice like thunder.
"I don't remember any friendship between us."
Climb the stairs and look coldly at the giant sea monster.
In addition to the ocean aura that a sea monster should have, the opponent also has an aura of filth and depravity. This aura belongs to the underworld.
You can see that there are several thumb-sized holes on the abdomen and legs of the hand-washing ghost, and black pus is constantly flowing out. These are the traces left by the maggots from Huangquan after they penetrated the body.
very disgusting.
Denglao sneered at this: "I used to think you were just stupid and not bad. But now I regret it. I should have killed you a hundred years ago."
"You should be glad you didn't do that. Go upstairs and I'll give you a chance. Master Yin Shen asked me to bring you a message."
"What?"
"As long as you can surrender to Huangquan..."
"Dreaming! Those disgusting gods are just cowards who fled here."
"Haha, don't hold on, go up the stairs. This is the only chance for you and your men to survive. You are no match for Huangquan. It won't be long before Munakata Mishima can't hold it anymore. You know this very well, don't you? ?Just a matter of time."
"I will protect the sea country and drive out the Yinshen. You don't have to worry about it."
"Go upstairs, what has the Sea Kingdom given you, is it worth your life for?" The hand-washing ghost laughed:
"A hundred years ago, you were a brave general of the sea. All the sea monsters obeyed you, and even I obeyed you. What happened after that? Your sister ascended to the position of the king. Before the coming of hell, everyone only obeyed you. Sing praises to her, all the credit belongs to the queen, so who cares about you?"
"Then Huang Quan came, and everyone remembered you and let you go to the battlefield and bleed. Even so, did the people of Haiguo thank you? Because you lost, they would only laugh and resent your incompetence."
"Tenglou, you are far more talented than your cowardly sister. The position of the leader of the Sea Kingdom should have been yours. But look at this damn place. Munakata is a born noble. Only Munakata has the right to become the leader of the kingdom. , and we, the dirty and despicable sea monsters, only deserve to surrender. Is this fair?"
"So, come on. Join Huang Quan, Lord Yin Shen will establish a new order in the sea country. It does not look at origin or blood, only a new order dominated by the strong."
He didn't speak when he climbed up the stairs, he just listened quietly to Shou Xigui's talk. There seemed to be some emotions flashing in his eyes.
After a while, he regained his original serious expression and said, "I'm very curious. Since the Yin God behind you is so powerful, why doesn't he come to attack us personally now? Instead of letting you die?"
"Lord Yin Shen is recuperating. Haha, he actually doesn't care about the Kingdom of Shanghai at all. He just needs a place to accumulate strength and wait for a comeback to revive Huangquan. When Lord Yin Shen succeeds, the Kingdom of Sea will be ours. He has promised it." The hand-washed ghost once again threw out the bait to persuade him to surrender, "Besides, Master Yin Shen is more interested in another thing in Haiguo now... The power of Tsukuyomi is here, right?"
"Does Huang Quan even know about this kind of thing?"
"Of course, so now the opportunity is in front of you. No matter what, you are also a member of the royal family of mermaids, and you know more things than me. Before Master Yin Shen personally finds the power of Tsukuyomi, give that power to Huang Quan, you You can live and get everything that was promised."
"I understand, thank you for your lobbying."
"Then..." Hand Washing Ghost's tone was a bit happy.
But Big Fish just turned his head when he climbed up the stairs and waved his hand towards his men: "Kill him."
"Climb the stairs, you can't do that! You can't..."
The shouts of the hand-washing ghost gradually faded away.
Big Fish climbed the stairs and was alone again. He was thinking about the conversation just now.
Haiguo is really going to be unable to defend itself. Even if you don't want to admit it when you go up to the building, this is the fact.
As for the power that Tsukuyomi no Mikoto left behind in Haiguo...
When I climbed the stairs, I only knew that it seemed to be related to the previous rulers of the Sea Kingdom.
Maybe my little sister will know.
"A new sea country that doesn't care about birth or blood, and is only dominated by the strong?"
Climbing the stairs was a bit shaky.
…
Apart from these pictures and information, there is very little that Kamiya can see.
The most important thing among them is only the last scarlet fragment that keeps flashing back——
The location seems to be the current Takito Island Shrine.
There are only two people in the picture.
One is the mermaid queen Zhiji Ji, and the other is the big fish climbing the tower.
As he ascended the stairs, he hugged his sister tightly with one hand, and stabbed the sharp dagger with the other hand into Zhiji Ji's chest.
Broken blood beads slid down the wound.
despair.
Blood beads dripped to the ground and sputtered into a coquettish blood-red flower.
One drop, two drops, as the dagger penetrated deeper, the blood beads turned into a stream of blood, flowing from Zhiji Ji's chest to her tail. The Mermaid Queen fell into the arms of the climber, her amber eyes always looking straight at her brother's face.
"Little sister, forgive me. I can't help it, I can't help it..."
…
"Big Yu went up to the tower in the shrine of Taqito Island and killed the previous leader of the Sea Kingdom, Zhi Jiaoji?"
The restless images and information in Kamiyakawa's mind finally calmed down.
"So, did Denglou finally take refuge in Huangquan?"
The information flashed from Zhijiao Ji is a bit incomplete, and can only be roughly understood and guessed.
But at least I know what happened in the Kingdom of the Sea two hundred years ago.
The changes in the sea country should have started when a certain Yin god who survived the war between gods arrived in this ocean.
"It's strange..."
As he learned more and more, Kamiyakawa's doubts only increased.
It's really strange.
The war between Haiguo and the remnants of Huangquan should be a big event no matter how you think about it, right?
But neither the previous crab clan nor the current mermaid have mentioned this matter at all.
When talking about more than two hundred years ago, what they said was that "the previous king disappeared mysteriously," and that was it.
"Moreover, no one has ever mentioned to me the role of Big Fish Denglu. Judging from the information in Mermaid Queen Tonghuo, Denlou should be regarded as Jiji's uncle. He is a big shot no matter how you think about it."
"Is Big Fish going up to the building to kill the young Jiao Ji in order to obtain the power of Tsukuyomi that may be controlled by the king, and then take refuge in the underworld?"
"The Kingdom of the Sea could not be defended at that time, but now it has survived for more than two hundred years. Considering the existence of retrospective tides, the real time may be more than two hundred years. So where has the ghost of Huangquan gone?"
"Tsukuyomi has controlled the sea country for a long time and protected the three goddesses of Munakata. I can understand his power here. But what does the so-called 'power of Tsukuyomi' mean?"
Questions were lingering in my mind, and I had no clue at all.
However, it was not without doubts being solved.
For example, the strange and extraordinary aura that Kamiyagawa felt lingering on Takito Island may be related to the "power of Tsukuyomi".
It makes sense that Sanguizi's power can have such an influence.
Therefore, no matter what Tsukuyomi's power is, it is likely that this power was previously stored in Takito Island Shrine.
Kamiyagawa controlled the Kabuki puppet and stood up in front of the Mermaid Queen's corpse.
The queen's skull shook twice, then hung heavily. A jade-like horn on her forehead fell off, and then the entire dried corpse began to turn into ashes and dissipate.
The puppet picked up the horn, and then bowed lightly to the disappearing mermaid queen.
"Zhiji Ji's body has not been turned into ashes, maybe because it retains some consciousness or memory inside. Let's take this horn back to Jiji first."
I will take your relics back to your daughter.
Kamiya wanted to say this to the dissipated queen, but the puppet couldn't speak.
Afterwards, he controlled the puppet to explore the underwater shrine for a long time.
Not much gained.
Inside the collapsed temple, there were only stone walls and pillars, and some decayed and shapeless artifacts. There was nothing that could compete with the "Tsukuyomi Power".
If the previous guess is correct and the "Power of Tsukuyomi" is really preserved in this shrine in some way, then its ending should be that it is taken away by a big fish climbing the building, or it is taken away under certain conditions. inspired.
…
After spending a lot of time underwater, the kabuki puppet finally came back with only one of the horns of the child.
"Let's go back to Shicun Island first."
Kamiya River called the whale to return.
It was another boring journey of nearly two hours, during which Kamiya kept observing the sea water.
The color seems to be darker red and turbid.
"In the last week, the red tide came on the night of the hidden moon. If the times are consistent, the red tide in this week is about to come. Facing the red tide, the crab clan can barely protect itself until the end of the last week. This This time, I have to try to keep the mermaid side as much as possible."
"It seems that the mermaids will turn into bubbles within a day of leaving Shicun Island... I hope the red tide this time will be the same as the last time, so that I can take the mermaids to Crab Island for refuge in advance."
"I will negotiate with Xie Ji and the Crab Shop owner and promise not to get close to the Crab Clan settlement. It shouldn't be a big problem."
"I just might have to use a tougher method to threaten the Crab clan... Well, if possible, I don't want to do such a thing. Crab Ji's little can may cry again. This week she and I'm really not close, even though we got along so well last time..."
