When a fishman guard heard this, the two bulges in his eyes that looked like eyebrows suddenly stood up.
Niuniu's shouts were very loud, and a group of murlocs quickly gathered around to watch the fun.
A fishman with a cow-cat head said, "Meow, streak winner Niuniu, what's going on?"
"I saw these two murloc guards actually intercepted the strong human being Sea God's Trial who had just passed by Sea God's Trial two days ago. They knew that he was a friend of the princess, and that he had friends in the palace, but these two guys didn't let him enter the palace."
"To bully land people like this is a disgrace to us murlocs."
"You murloc guards are responsible for protecting the queen and princesses in the palace, not cutting them off from their friends."
A panda-headed fishman tremblingly squeezed out of the crowd carrying a fishing net, and the shells in the net jingled against each other.
His wrinkled scales were still covered with seaweed. Apparently he had just come from the stall selling goods nearby after hearing the news. He pointed at a fishman guard and said:
"Alki, when you become a fishman guard, do you feel that you are different from us civilians?
I tell you, I will always be your father.
As a fishman, you have to follow your conscience!"
The fishman guard named Alki turned away and lowered his head to discuss with his companions.
After a while, Alki first sneered at his panda murloc father, then turned his eyes to Dick:
"Well, that Dick, come in, but you can only stay for a short while. Leave immediately after you find your friend."
Dick nodded and patted Niuniu's thick forearm:
"I didn't expect you, a fish-man, to have so much energy. Thank you so much."
"It's not that I have great energy, so public anger is hard to offend."
Niuniu After finishing speaking, he shook his majestic chest muscles.
Dick always feels like déjà vu.
He suddenly remembered that during Witcher Order, brothers Boar and School of the Grizzly Bear loved showing off their chest muscles to him.
"Wait for me for a while, I have to pick up my friends."
"Okay, I'll wait for you here. Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on them both."
Niuniu raised two fingers and pointed at his bull's eye like a bell, then slowly moved his arm towards the guard like a bow, his knuckles making a crisp sound like exploding beans as he moved.
"I will never let them cause trouble for you."
Dick thought to himself when he walked into the palace:
It seems that the hierarchical relationship in this underwater world is not as clear as that of humans, at least in the capital.
Even a warrior who competes in arm strength can have a certain prestige and summon people to protest against the fishman guards.
The old panda murloc was a big help.
After a while, he had walked through the corridor and arrived in front of the laboratory.
Dick opened the door, and the octopus Lao Ba was still tightly tied to the steel table and screaming. It seemed that the fish-man's human experiment was not over yet.
Dick When he closed the door and turned around, Morgana saw that his facial lines were tense and asked quickly, "What happened?"
"I feel like the atmosphere here is not right lately."
"Huh?" Stein also put down the needle in his hand, and Lao Ba let out a long sigh of relief.
"What's wrong?"
"We'll talk on the way. Now listen to me and pack up quickly. Let's leave the palace."
"Well, it just so happens that I haven't rested for a few days." Stein scratched his messy hair.
With the help of Morgana, the octopus man who was freed from the restraints breathed a sigh of relief when his trumpet mouth stretched out, "Hahaha, it seems I am free."
"No, not really, my dear experimental subject." Stein waved his hand and explained,
"According to Article 14 of the "Deep-Sea Life Experiment Ethics Convention" we temporarily signed..." Stein took out the scroll from his white coat,
"What you signed is a full-cycle observation agreement for 72 standard hours, and there is still time..."
He glanced at the watch made of obsidian and energy stone fragments.
"23:47. As a fishman, you wouldn't want to break the contract, would you?"
"How... how could it be possible to breach the contract?" Lao Ba's eight tentacles were arranged in a wave shape.
"That's good, come on, take it." Stein struggled to hand a heavy box to Lao Ba with both hands.
Lao Ba put the box on his back with a grimace, and the four of them walked slowly outside the palace.
On the way, Dick began to explain, "I once met a pair of fishman siblings in other towns. Their mother was killed. The little boy named Guoguo also has the power to control giant creatures in the deep sea."
"What? Doesn't this have the same ability as the Siren family?" Morgana exclaimed.
In the past few days, she had learned in detail about the history of Deep-Sea World in the palace library, and also knew in more detail how the Siren family controlled the giant creatures of the deep sea.
"The murderer was two fishman guards. They seemed to want to kidnap him. I chased him to the deep sea. When I returned, the entire village was massacred and the portal was destroyed."
"Well, then how can you come back?"
"I met a group of female sirens in the deep sea. After killing them, I robbed the deep-sea submarine."
"It turns out that Deep-Sea World also has submarines." Stein sighed, "Maybe their technology has surpassed humans long ago. If the fishmen were not bound by the sea, the consequences would be unimaginable.
But maybe, as long as the Siren family rules the deep sea, there will be no war between humans and fishmen."
"Then I came to the Siren palace, and the fishman guards in front of the door dared to stop me. Fortunately, a minotaur fishman helped me to rescue me. This is all the news I know."
Stein held the mirror handle and pondered for a moment and then said, "Dick, this is really strange. Someone actually stopped you from entering the palace. Let's leave immediately and go to Sacrificial Temple to ask."
"That's exactly what I meant."
The group of people soon arrived outside the palace, where Niuniu was still waiting.
At this time, he folded his arms and raised his face, blowing out two streams of white air from his nose from time to time, staring at the two fishman guards.
Seeing Dick come out, he smiled honestly and asked, "Dick, have you brought all your friends out?"
As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly moved to Lao Ba, "Brother, why are you here?"
Lao Ba burst into tears, with snot and tears streaming down his face. He hugged Niuniu with eight tentacles and cried bitterly, "It's hard to explain."
"You know each other?"
Niuniu slapped away Lao Ba's tentacles that wanted to wipe his nose on him.
He nodded the cow's head and said, "He is my biological brother."
"But you two look nothing alike."
"Who said the fish-men race must look alike? We are different from you humans.
My father is Abyss Octopus Tribe, and my mother is Coral Bullhead Tribe--by the way, I still have the totem of my mother's family on my back!"
When Stein came to Lao Ba with short legs, Lao Ba instinctively took two steps back, its eight tentacles trembling non-stop.
"Since he is your biological brother and you have helped us so much, I am not an unkind person. Experimental subject, you are free."
Lao Ba wiped his nose and tears randomly, "Really?"
"I am a scientific researcher. Science requires rigor, and integrity is equally important. If I don't respect integrity, who else is willing to cooperate with me?"
"Oh yeah! I knew I would be lucky." Lao Ba raised his face and inflated hard, and the trumpet mouth kept spraying colorful bubbles.
Dick said again, "Now we are going to Sacrificial Temple, do you want to come together?"
Niuniu was a little moved after hearing this, but Lao Ba quickly waved his hand. "I'm not going, I'm not going. I just want to go home and rest now."
"Then when will the competition between me and Dick begin?"
"Well, when I have time, I will compete with you again. Anyway, you are wrestling with other people in the square every day, how about it?"
"I can trust you."
Dick The three of them bid farewell to the two fishmen and hurried to the sacrificial palace.
At the entrance of the palace, two beautiful snake guards stopped Dick and others again.
"I'm really in a hurry this time and I'd like to see the high priest, or anyone else here who can pass the message. I have something important to tell you."
"No, the rules are the rules, you can't go in."
While Dick was explaining, the palace door opened and another Siren soldier walked out.
"Valkyrie invites the witcher and his friends to come in."
After hearing this, the two Siren put down their crossed swords.
"Go in, land creature, but be sure to obey the rules and don't cause trouble."
Dick and others followed Siren and walked into Sacrificial Temple.
Fluorescent jellyfish swarms swim in the dome, dyeing the entire hall a deep blue.
Dick When you step on the ground, tiny bubbles will be stirred up. These pores embedded in the coral floor tiles are continuously spewing out sulfur-smelling hot springs.
After passing through a doorway again, they came to a courtyard.
In front of it is a towering octagonal coral pavilion, with a female fish-man sitting cross-legged on a shell chair inside.
The rings on her green-scaled snake tail are of different shades, and the deepest, almost ink-black scales form strange runes. When the snake's tail squirms, those runes swim like living deep-sea tadpoles.
From the back, she looks like the high priest Medusa, but she has a thick and long ponytail on her head, which is not covered with little snakes like Medusa.
After the female fish-man slowly turned around, Dick discovered that she was nine points similar to Medusa.
Her voice was clear when she spoke, "I am Valkyrie, and now I am temporarily taking over the entire Sacrificial Temple."
Demon hunter Dick, I have heard my mother Medusa mention your name, why are you here now?"
(Tip: Valkyrie is the maid of the god Odin in Norse mythology, sometimes also called the Valkyrie.)