With the idea of ​​"it doesn't hurt to try", everyone in Kaifeng took the whistle that they had given to Hai Ye before and came to the fjord together.

Standing on the edge of the fjord, everyone looked at each other, and a question arose - how to use it?

Zhan Zhao asked, "Try throwing it into the sea?"

Everyone felt that something was wrong.

Zhan Zhao reached out and touched the water. After a while, he saw several big heads popping out of the water. The baby sea pigs were here.

The Yueying family's baby and the familiar Bai Kun baby are both naughty, and they pull Zhan Zhao's sleeves and try to drag him into the water.

Zhan Zhao was startled, but fortunately Bai Yutang held his hand, so he was not dragged down.

Finally, the Demon King took the sea whistle and handed it to Xiao Sizi.

The fourth boy tilted his head and looked at it for a while, then squatted down and waved the whistle in the sea water.

The three of them, Liang Chenmei, all looked over.

But after shaking for a long time, there was no movement.

However, Zhao Pu, who was standing behind, noticed something unusual.

The Ninth Prince asked everyone, "Where are those Kuns on the sea?"

Everyone also discovered... In the past few days, the sea was full of kun fishing, but it was so lively that the big-winged kun would jump out of the water from time to time.

"Why is it so quiet all of a sudden?" Gongsun looked at the calm sea and was a little confused.

At this time, Xiao Liangzi squatted down and stared at the sea level. He also reached out and tugged on the hem of Zhao Pu's clothes.

The Ninth Prince also bent down and looked towards the sea... When he looked, he discovered a strange scene.

On the sea surface, starting from the mouth of the fjord, many triangular dorsal fins appeared. The sea pigs seemed to be arranged in a fan shape at the mouth of the fjord. In the distance, many kelp spewed out water columns, all lined up together, as if they were all watching.

In the direction of the fjord.

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, seemed to have an idea, and then disappeared in a flash.

Everyone looked at Zhan Zhao who had almost "disappeared out of thin air" and sighed - it would be great if he could be so flexible in the water.

After a while, Zhan Zhao brought over a bamboo tube and a roll of letter paper.

After writing the words "Please come to Xiankong Island tonight" on the letter paper, Zhan Zhao rolled up the paper and put it into a bamboo tube, wrapped the gaps in the bamboo tube with wax, and put the bamboo tube into a clay pot

Inside, seal.

After making sure there was no water leakage, Zhan Zhao ran to the water's edge and patted the water.

After a while, a small sea pig appeared.

Everyone looked at it and found it a little strange. The color was different from that of Yueying. It was blue-gray, looked very fast, and had a long mouth.

Zhan Zhao handed the pottery pot to it.

The little sea pig grabbed the clay pot and swam away.

The little fourth son put away the whistle that was placed in the sea water. After a while, the Kun and sea pigs gathered at the mouth of the fjord dispersed and went back to continue catching fish.

Everyone looked at each other, unsure whether it was a success or not.

No matter what, after leaving the fjord, a group of people ran to eat.

However, that night, when everyone was chatting after dinner, several guards on the island came over to report to Lu Fang that several ships were coming from a distance.

Everyone looked at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao touched his chin, "It seems successful."

The group of people came to the dock and waited.

Sure enough, I saw three ships approaching slowly in the distance. The structure of this ship was quite similar to the sacrificial ship still parked on the beach, one big and two small. The most interesting thing was that there were many more boats beside it.

The escorts, those sea pigs jumping around were so happy.

Lin Yehuo also whispered to Zou Liang - can we understand what they are saying?

After a while, the ship docked.

Lanterns were set up on both sides of the pier, illuminating it very brightly.

Several people got off the boat, the first one should be the leader, and there were several followers beside him.

These people do look somewhat similar to Haiye in appearance, especially their skin, which is pale and has a hint of blue-grey. However, they are not wearing waistcoats and shorts, but ordinary clothes, probably because they have not been in the water.

The three people who disembarked from the boat did not have patterns painted on their faces. However, some people who remained on the boat were holding harpoons and looked like guards. Most of them had ghost faces painted on them.

When the two parties met, Zhan Zhao and the others were still curious, wouldn't these people be like Yue Ying as soon as they opened their mouths...

Fortunately, the other party spoke very fluent Chinese.

The visitor took out Zhan Zhao's letter and introduced himself that his name was Shang Died and that he was the current leader of the Gui Kun tribe.

Uncle Lu also introduced himself, and then warmly invited everyone to sit in Lujiazhuang.

Aunt Huang and Hai Ye also came, maybe because they are from the same clan, they seemed to be relatively close to each other after meeting.

Shangdial also gave Hai Ye a gift.

After sitting down, Zhan Zhao and the others actually had a lot of questions they wanted to ask, but they didn't know where to start.

However, Shangdial was very direct. He sat down and said, "We are here to ask for help."

After that, Shangdial said some things that no one knew, and then the case was completely straightened out.

It turns out that legends, Linghai Kingdom, Gui Kun, sea monsters, spies... all these incidents are mixed together, and everyone only knows half of the truth.

Before Shangdial started talking, he asked his entourage to go to the ship to call the "princess" and said that it was safe here.

After a while, the followers of the Gui Kun tribe brought in a young woman with long hair.

Everyone was surprised when they looked at this girl - her outfit looked very "siren".

This girl is wearing a skirt covered with colorful scales, with a "fish tail" shape hanging from the back of the skirt.

Everyone thought of the half fish tail they picked up before - it turns out that the underwater part of this fish skin skirt is like this... When swimming in the sea, you will indeed feel like a mermaid.

Shangdial introduced, "This is our princess. This is the real sea monster clan, not those pirates!"

Everyone was surprised—those pirates were not sea monsters?

Afterwards, Shangdial told everyone about the true history of Linghai Kingdom.

The Linghai Kingdom did exist. Their ancestors lived in the Linghai Sea. Their ancestors built beautiful city-states. At that time, the Linghai Kingdom had a very large population and had good relations with the Central Plains. There were often ships and trade exchanges.

But as the legend goes, the sea level later rose and the Linghai Kingdom gradually sank. The descendants of each ethnic group in Linghai divided into two waves. One wave moved to the coast with the merchant ships, intermarried with the local residents, and settled down.

The other part migrated to islands farther north together.

There is a legend that the Kraken clan became pirates, but in fact they were not the Kraken clan, but just some people wearing fish skin skirts who were very good at water pretending to be pirates.

The Linghai Kingdom still exists now, on several islands in the distant sea. The scale is much smaller than before, but life is still very comfortable, and all ethnic groups live together.

Because the distance from the southeast coast is too far, the communication between Linghai Kingdom and this side has been interrupted. Moreover, the scale and national strength of Linghai Kingdom are now greatly weakened. If the naval forces of the Central Plains attack them, they will not be able to do so.

He has the power to resist, so he is somewhat on guard against this side.

Fortunately, due to the difference in distance and sea routes, everything has been peaceful these years.

But something happened recently.

Shangdial said, "The sea level has dropped slightly recently."

Everyone is curious - will it continue to decline?

Lu Fang and the others live on the island all year round, so they feel the same way.

"The beach is much bigger than before! This shows that the sea level is indeed falling."

"Due to the drop in the sea level, some of the city-states on the Linghai Islands that originally sank to the bottom of the sea have been exposed. Even those that were not exposed have become very close to the sea, and many of them can be seen at a glance, which has led to

A troublesome question." Shang Dial said helplessly, "Linghai Kingdom did have a large number of gold buildings."

"Is it really true?" Everyone was surprised. It turned out that the legend was not completely nonsense.

"This wealth has attracted the covetousness of some people." Shang Diode frowned and said, "If it were just some small-scale pirates, we could still deal with them, but this time we attracted the navy pretending to be the Siren Tribe."

"Navy army?" Zhao Pu frowned, "Which country's navy?"

Shang Dial shook his head, "They should be from the Western Regions. Most of these people are well-trained, pretending to be sea monsters, using large ships to salvage property from the original Linghai Kingdom, and they are also very powerful in combat."

After hearing the beginning, Zhao Pu immediately understood everything, "So, spreading rumors and pretending to be the Siren Clan is to embezzle the property of the Linghai Kingdom, and legitimately become the descendants of the Linghai Kingdom. Then they design to get rid of all the people.

The main island stronghold expanded its sphere of influence to various islands in the sea. Finally, it penetrated into the Central Plains Navy and turned the descendants of the original Linghai Kingdom into their own race. After gradually growing in size, it completely invaded the southeastern area? "

Shangdial nodded, "That's it!"

Everyone sighed - what a big game of chess!

"We can't just watch them plunder the property left by our ancestors, and even replace us! But our strength is not enough to drive them all away." Shangdial was very embarrassed, "And recently they have

Their plan seemed to have failed, so they began to speed up the plundering of Linghai Kingdom’s gold and wanted to transfer it to other places.”

Zhao Pu nodded, just as the confiscated letters said, he was temporarily lurking, waiting for the follow-up...
To be continued...