A large fishing boat sails on the sea.

The sailors greeted each other and dragged a metal birdcage as high as a person out of the cabin.

The birdcage was covered with a black cloth, wrapping it tightly.

The heavy weight required several sailors to drag it.

They were skilled in the division of labor, and quickly dragged the birdcage to the bow, hung it on the hooks that had been prepared earlier, and then lifted the black cloth on the birdcage.

Curled up in the cage was a person with pale skin who lacked light all year round.

The sudden appearance of light made him shrink himself even tighter, and it took him a while to raise his head.

The sailor outside the cage whistled and grinned at the man in the cage.

The person in the cage didn't even have a single expression on his face, and the words and gazes of others couldn't touch his heart in any way.

When the sea breeze blows, you can still see the quivering down feathers around his ears, which looks extremely abrupt.

As the hook rope is tightened, the birdcage rises higher and higher.

After the birdcage reached the highest point of the fishing boat, the people in the birdcage looked blankly at the seabirds hovering in the sky, and slowly opened their mouths to sing.

There are no lyrics, just a very clean voice, which goes away with the sea breeze.

His voice seemed to travel far away, as if lost in the wind.

It is undeniable that this is indeed a very pleasant singing.

but……

It's a song without any soul.

Bai Yu, who has followed this fishing boat for several days, is very surprised that he would give such an evaluation.

It's obviously a very nice song...

Whether it's in the previous life or in this life, Bai Yu thinks it sounds good.

But he just felt that the most important thing called "soul" was missing in such singing.

So no matter how long the person in the birdcage sings, no bird will look at him more, and no one will be moved by it.

This is Bai Yu's intuition as a mermaid.

From the first time he saw the man in the birdcage being hung in the middle of the fishing boat, and the first time he heard the man in the birdcage singing, he had such an evaluation.

But obviously, the group of sailors standing on the deck looking up at the man in the birdcage couldn't understand what a "soul" was.

"No matter how many times I hear it, it sounds good."

Some sailors lamented this.

"It sounds really good, but it's a pity that this bird won't live long."

"The genetically modified 'birds' can sing so well. I really don't know how good the mermaid's singing can be."

"Ah... want to hear the mermaid sing? It's not easy."

The voices of the sailors' conversation, blowing along the sea breeze, reached Bai Yu's ears.

The reason why Bai Yu followed this fishing boat was not only because the fishing boat was not doing business, but hung a birdcage in the air, and let the people locked inside sing. Also because they mentioned merfolk.

The purpose of this fishing boat going to sea is not for fishing in the conventional sense, but for mermaids.

It is difficult for wild mermaids to survive on land, but it is not so difficult to see them in the depths of the sea.

There are several ways to attract wild mermaids.

One of them is "good singing voice".

It's just that the mermaid's definition of "good-sounding" may be different from that of humans.

What humans think sounds good, mermaids may not necessarily think it sounds good.

According to rumors, if there is enough beautiful singing to impress the mermaid, the mermaid in the sea will surface, and if you are lucky, you will still be able to hear the mermaid singing.

Because of this rumor, many human beings will sing their voices when playing in the sea, hoping to attract wild mermaids to appear.

It's a pity that the reason why this sentence is a "rumor" is because it is really difficult.

But the "singers" that the sailors thought they brought were different from ordinary people.

This is a genetically modified being whose singing voice is indisputably beautiful.

Before things got to this point, the "birds" in their cages sang for big men they never even saw.

However, after entering the sea for more than ten days, wandering back and forth in the sea far away from the land where mermaids may appear, and the "bird" in the cage kept singing all day long, but they didn't even see the shadow of the mermaid.

"Maybe it's because we can't detect the merman when it's in the ocean?"

Some sailors offered their views.

"But when the merman appears, at least we can see it with our eyes."

"Video equipment is fine too."

"They always leave clues."

The sailors spoke one after another.

"Maybe we should take a different approach?"

"We're running out of time."

"If you still get nothing, the boss will definitely be very angry."

"The boss must still have the energy to get angry with us. After all, Mr. Ji Peilin is not easy to provoke."

The appearance of the words Ji Peilin made Bai Yu, who originally wanted to sink into the sea, raise his head again.

Who would have thought that he could hear the words Ji Peilin from a group of sailors? !

"I heard that Mr. Ji Peilin likes white mermaids very much now?"

"I got the news from my uncle's second aunt's friend's sister-in-law. There is such a saying in the upper circles, and I don't know who spread it."

"Didn't that Mr. Ji disappear some time ago? It was also rumored that he died?"

"That time was really lively..."

"But didn't Mr. Ji appear again later?"

The sailors chatted and talked about gossip, and their voices became lower and lower. Someone glanced at the cockpit and quickly stood up, "We are just fighting, we can do whatever the boss tells us to do, and other things have nothing to do with us."

The other sailors also glanced at the cockpit and resumed their giggling appearance again.

"Yes, yes, isn't it good to have money to make him?"

"Make money to make money, and if you can't do it, you will come up with other methods."

The sailors who were gossiping on the bow resumed their usual idle appearance, and stopped talking to each other.

But Bai Yu probably understood why this group of people appeared here.

The boss of this group of people wants to catch a wild mermaid, preferably a white wild mermaid, and give it to Ji Peilin.

More specific things, including the information and operations of the boss behind them, are not known to this group of sailors.

They're just "getting it off".

But enough has been revealed from their conversations.

It is now half a month after Ji Peilin released Bai Yu for the second time.

Until now, Bai Yu didn't understand.

What is the reason why Ji Peilin released himself twice in a row?

Why did Ji Peilin become a subtotal?

I didn't even think about it, what should do if want to go ashore again?

How can successfully find Ji Peilin and so on.

Thinking while eating the snack spree that Ji Peilin gave him;

Thought while basking in the sun on an abandoned wooden boat;

I thought while returning to the deep sea when was beaten up by deep-sea fish.

Good guy, isn't the opportunity here?

However, he can't appear recklessly, and he has to observe and observe again.

...

Two days later, the sailors on the fishing boat were still doing the same thing.

The only difference is that the people in the cage have become hoarse and look weaker.

Singing non-stop every day, as long as it is an individual, there is no way to be consistent.

Even the people in the birdcage are genetically modified.

Seeing this, the sailors on the fishing boat finally gave up the idea of ​​attracting the mermaid "through nice singing", and prepared to change to another plan.

fishing.

Fishing is exactly what it sounds like.

Put down the hook in the sea, hang up the bait, and use the food to attract the mermaid out.

Ordinary people don't know this method because ordinary people can't come up with food that can make fish crazily like it.

Humans on land probably know about the food that mermaids like.

After all, mermaids are really popular with everyone. Even though most people in this world can't really raise a mermaid, the number of viewers who gather in the live broadcast room of the artificially bred mermaid organization every day is countless.

Just by watching for a while, you can probably know what the artificially bred mermaid likes to eat and what they don't like to eat.

But what kind of food is "crazy" for fish?

Not many people know about it.

In human legends, the mermaid in ancient times was the ruler of the ocean.

Powerful and beautiful, they are truly mythical creatures.

Although this legend doesn't match up with the mermaid who is particularly easy to kill himself in reality and has become an endangered species by virtue of his ability.

But the wild merman's recipe is pretty telling.

Apart from the recipes for artificially bred mermaids, the most popular recipes for wild mermaids can be summed up in one word.

——The more dangerous the better.

In order to be able to eat "delicious" food, wild mermaids in the deep sea really like to "kill".

If it weren't for the group of "delicious and dangerous deep-sea monster-like fish", Bai Yu would definitely not go ashore so soon.

The sailors on this group of fishing boats naturally didn't know about the mermaid recipe.

They just hung the meat prepared in advance, which they didn't know what kind of creature it was, with special nets and hooks, and put it into the sea after processing according to the boss's request.

The moment this piece of meat was taken out, Bai Yu poked his head out from the sea.

After putting this piece of meat into the water, Bai Yu could "smell" a strong "meat aroma" almost instantly.

Very very fragrant taste.

The piece of meat that was put into the sea water was uploaded, and was taken to a more distant place at an extremely fast speed under the flow of sea water.

The "scent" of this piece of meat was so strong that in an instant, the school of fish wandering around the fishing boat suddenly became agitated.

They rushed towards the piece of meat like crazy, and fled in panic before they touched it, at a faster speed than when they rushed to the "bait".

Bai Yu admitted that he was also very greedy for this piece of meat.

Obviously he had just eaten and drank enough not long ago, so he was not hungry logically, but when this piece of meat appeared, he also felt "hungry", and his body clamored for the word "want to eat".

But he controlled his impulse.

While the school of fish fled in panic, Bai Yu also found a place to hide temporarily.

because……

The more dangerous big guys in the sea are all here.

The people on the fishing boat never dreamed that just a piece of meat they didn't even know what kind of meat would cause a fierce "war" in a large sea area centered on the fishing boat.

The predators in the sea appeared one by one, and as time went on, there were even bigger ones swimming up from the deeper waters.

The sailors on the fishing boat looked horrified as they looked at the "exploded" sea like a pot.

"...What kind of meat is this?!"

"Is it still there?!"

"I have an ominous feeling."

"Captain, let's get the meat and run away!!!"