Splash
Splash
Splash
The sailors aboard the Black Pearl jumped into the sea one after another like dumplings dropping into a pot, eagerly clutching their nets.
The mermaids beneath the surface had been waiting for humans to fall into the water under their spell. The moment they saw so many of them, they were delighted.
All the mermaids bared their little pointed teeth, swished their tails, and swam straight toward the men.
Fierce and wild, and with strength in numbers, the mermaids had thought they could deal with the men in the water in minutes. But when they faced a band of pirates who played by no rules and relied on their immortality, the mermaids were the ones who panicked and fled.
It wasn't that the mermaids hadn't tried to fight back. Unable to do anything to the immortal pirates, they had decided to change tactics. Drawing on past experience, they prepared to sink the Black Pearl and the Emperor.
When Hao Shuai noticed what the mermaids were doing, he scoffed. Forget the cursed Black Pearl—even the Emperor was a steel warship with a full-load displacement of fifty thousand tons. Its hull was made of steel, and its bottom was remarkably thick to defend against torpedoes. Trying to sink the Emperor with cold weapons was a joke.
Sure enough, after trying everything, the mermaids realized they couldn't do anything to the Emperor and promptly retreated. The undead pirates immediately gave chase.
After a chaotic game of chase, with Hao Shuai intervening from time to time, the pirates eventually caught several dozen unlucky mermaids.
Mermaids could sprout legs when they came ashore and grow tails again when they returned to the water. So when the dozens of mermaids were brought onto the battleship's deck, Hao Shuai watched as their