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in the hands of the mermaid leader is a rusty thing with shells crawling on it.

The gray and white shells almost covered this stuff.

Yanran and baluti don't understand. The mermaid leader solemnly takes out such a thing. Although the appearance is almost a waste product, the mermaid leader will not make fun of it at will.

"What is this?" Baluti was the most curious, and she opened her mouth first.

The mermaid chief handed her the things in her hand: "look at it." There was a mysterious smile on her face.

Baluti took it, and Yanran looked at what was in her hand.

"This, it seems, is a stick." Yanran is not sure.

"No, it's a sword, a dagger." The mermaid chief corrected her.

"Dagger?" Baluti held up her belongings and looked at them carefully. However, she was a little disappointed. As a killer, once a killer, she was naturally interested in weapons: "even if it is a dagger, now it is just a stick."

"You are in a hurry." "Don't you know that all knives have scabbards?" she said

Baluti put out her tongue. She didn't speak and began to pull the dagger out.

Just as she almost gave up, the gap between the dagger and the scabbard began to loosen.

She tried again, and a dagger with cold light appeared in her hand.

"Wow --" Yanran and baluti exclaimed at the same time.

This is a short sword with simple style and smooth lines.

Although it was a dagger, baluti waved it a few times in her hand, but the weight was heavy.

She drew out the knife from her waist, looked at the mermaid leader, and asked her with her eyes.

The mermaid leader knew what she meant and nodded to her.

Baluti waved the knives in her hand and gently touched them together.

There was no sound at all. Baluti's knife was cut off by the dagger.

Almost unable to believe her eyes, baluti took the dagger again, and this time it broke.

Such a sharp dagger, even Yan Ran opened his eyes.

"Where did you get such a dagger?" Baluti, playing with her dagger, asked the mermaid leader.

"I don't know exactly," said the mermaid leader. "A long time ago, we weren't attacked by the sea wolf. We used to go out and play in the sea," the mermaid leader looked up and tried to remember.

"Once, we found a damaged spaceship deep in the sea. Out of curiosity, we went in to have a look. There were no living creatures in it, but we found many strange things in the cabin."

"This is one of them," she said with a smile to baluti. "The others are useless because of the corrosion of the sea water. Only this one has survived."

"Strange to say, it's still so sharp after a long time."

"Is there any other human being on this planet?" Yan Ran looked at the dagger in baruti's hand and asked the mermaid leader.

"No, we mermaids are also very long-lived creatures, but we have never met people like you." "And I don't think creatures like you like to live on this planet," said the mermaid leader

"Then how do you speak?" Yan Ran finally asked the hidden words, this question she always wanted to ask.

Even if mermaids have special intelligence and are different from other types of mermaids they know, they can talk, but what they are talking about is universal language, which can't be said in any case.

"Well, it was a long time ago," said the mermaid leader with a smile. "I remember the previous leader mentioned that it was when I was very young."

"She said that in the past, there were a lot of land on the planet, and the sea water slowly flooded most of the place later, and occasionally there would be ships passing by us," the mermaid chief recalled

The mermaid leader looked at Yan Ran and said, "are you sure you want to listen? It's a long story. "

Smiling, she said, "there is nothing to do now. It's good to listen to the story."

"Well, I'll tell you." Said the mermaid chief.

When the leader of the previous generation of mermaids was a child, there were many lands on the planet at that time. Moreover, because of its different scenery from other planets, it attracted many tourists to come here.

The Mermaids are very lucky. The travelers they meet are very kind, and no one has ever hurt them.On the contrary, one or two travelers, puzzled by their beauty, have been living here.

Those travelers adore them. Although nothing substantial can happen between them, it is also a very pleasant thing for them to play with their beloved objects and explore the sea every day.

In the process of getting along with each other, the travelers found that although the Mermaids' appearance was different from them - in fact, with the gradual exploration of the universe by human beings, people found that in the universe, there are always some creatures with different body shapes but also high intelligence quotient.

Although in the eyes of human beings, these strange creatures and themselves are alien, but these creatures on their planet, the status is equivalent to human beings, they also stand at the top of the food chain, and even if some creatures look terrible, they are not aggressive, on the contrary, they are quite kind.

In this way, over time, the intelligent creatures on every planet have reached a consensus that they all recognize their status, rather than treat each other as an alien or even an enemy based on their appearance.

In fact, in the eyes of other creatures, those humans are not alien?

So that's why these travelers love mermaids.

In the process of getting along with each other, the travelers found that the Mermaids had as much intelligence as they did. According to the consensus among the planets, they also treated mermaids as human beings.

So they taught the Mermaids universal language so that they could communicate with each other.

That's why the Mermaids can now communicate with Yanran in universal language.

For the mermaid leader such an explanation, Yanran and baluti can also accept, after all, they are people living in modern society, after a considerable degree of education.

They know that if they treat each other differently just because of their different appearance, there will be no peaceful scene or vigorous communication in the present universe.