It was Lao Long who confirmed Li Zhi's guess:

"In some respects, the merman is more intelligent than ordinary humans, and your language is very similar to the local area, it should be able to understand it!"

I don't know which way the old dragon communicates with him, Li Zhi only saw a period of water ripple fluctuations between the two.

After a while, you can see that the little shark is nodding in response frequently, although his body is still trembling violently, his expression seems to have stabilized slightly.

As its body stretched out like a swimming fish, its body was also a few feet away in the next moment.

The old dragon immediately called for Li Zhi to follow, and he also spread his body, followed closely behind the little merman, and rushed in a certain direction.

Without a hundred breaths, Li Zhi could find out that not far away, the house built by all kinds of snail shells was hidden in a place like a shallow sea reef, and it went deep into the ground.

The underground area is covered with all kinds of camouflage from top to bottom, and suddenly it looks like the entrance is impossible to discern with the naked eye.

In Li Zhi's careful scrutiny, the little mermaid had three crowned armors on its head, with a gill-like structure at the ear, soft armor under the skin, and a body covered by scale armor.

As for the auditory organs, there is a rather inconspicuous hole above the structure of the cheeks, which from time to time trembles slightly with the incition of the cheeks.

The merman's residence does not have such a small parent, and Li Zhi can't tell the specific age from its face, and according to Lao Long's explanation, it should be between twelve or thirteen years old.

The snail shell house is more like a cave for human monks, and the deep caves in the ground are all filled with such materials, and even the tables, chairs, and benches are all repaired decently.

Lao Long had a good exchange with Xiao Shark, and then passed on the situation to Li Zhi's family.

The merman clan is a typical matriarchal society, and the female merman is the mainstream of this ethnic group, and the male merman is often only regarded as an inferior race, and there are very few female mermaids who end up for it.

Therefore, in addition to reproducing, male mermaids will be given special care, and at other times they are not only oppressed, but also engaged in assignments that are at the forefront of the most danger.

For example, fish fishing in farther waters, and occasional aggression against passing Terran ships, are led by a few female merman leaders, but it is the men who are engaged in specific battles.

This is not only because they are uglier than females, but also because of the ultrasound use of the sharks, the females have a stronger effect and a more beautiful rhythm.

The beautiful and good songs of the mermaids are also exclusive to this trip, and they have little to do with men.

In addition, the genes of female mermaids are strong, but their agility and speed are outstanding, and they are very suitable for manipulating highly intelligent things such as machinery, while male mermaids not only have congenital deficiencies in strength.

Therefore, like the mother of the little mermaid in front of her, for some reason, her behavior is incompatible with the traditional matriarchal society, and she is bent on identifying the father of the little mermaid, and she will no longer let other men get involved.

Such an outlier, of course, will not be accepted by the mainstream society from now on, so not only has he been repeatedly suppressed, but even his father with the little mermaid has suffered more hardships.

So the family of three decided to break away from the shark tribe here, but without the help of a large number of clansmen, it was obviously almost impossible to rush back to the ancestral land in the deep sea.

So they live in seclusion, waiting for their children to grow up, and then find a chance to connect

Return with the rest of the mermen.

Returning to the true ancestral land of the mermaid tradition is not the goal, because it also has distinct matriarchal social roots.

Their purpose is only to get out of this water, after all, the Terrans are far more powerful than the Sharks, and without the protection of the Terran Secret Place, how can they survive in the Terran gathering place?

Fortunately, the shark tribe did not exterminate them all, and did not interfere more with their livelihood problems, because it is not uncommon for a family of three to have a similar situation, which one does not have their own blood kinship in the clan.

Knowing the experience of this family, Li Zhi couldn't help but feel compassion, but it was limited to this, but he would not provide greater help.

After all, he has two completely different growth environments from such creatures living underwater, and they cannot cultivate themselves, which is the biggest shortcoming that cannot be compared with human beings even if they are unique in intelligence.

After spending several hours underwater, the adult sharks who had gone out fishing returned to their homes.

Because of the suppression effect of the bloodline of the dragon's breath on the old dragon's body, after a short period of panic, the two mermaids were left with only awe.

This is the first time Li Zhi has seen the legendary female merman, because the merman's body has a unique sonic protection that can shield from external detection, and his divine sense detection ability will not exceed three-tenths of the range of underwater detection on land.

The place where those sharks gather is hundreds of miles away, so this female shark is the time when he first opened his eyes.

The merman's body is covered by streamers and whiskers, so he no longer wears clothes.

When standing or walking in the water, the leather wings and whiskers cover most of the body, and when swimming, the upper body is naked, and the lower body is in the streamer.

In this way, it also avoids an embarrassment, after all, the upper body and wisdom of the merman have too many similarities with humans.

The female merman has a slender body and looks like a very good figure, similar to a human, and slightly thin and tall.

Translucent leather wings and whiskers are attached to the upper limbs and sides of the body, which makes them look beautiful and flowing, but this is necessary to swim in the sea.

The lower body is attached to a number of skirt-like transparent thin bands that are longer than the legs from the waist, and it cannot be said that the magic of nature has evolved this strange humanoid creature in the sea into today's exquisite appearance.

It's just that the faces of women are not as delicate and unparalleled as the legends, they are as delicate and moving as beauties, and they are still the kind of animal characteristics that are obviously different from humans.

However, compared with the fierce and ugly appearance of men, women's facial features such as human beings are more reasonably combined, and the angular texture is lower, and the complexion tends to be more round and semi-transparent, which looks much more comfortable.

How ugly is it? The most striking features are the man's legendary mouth that is split to the ear, has sharp teeth, and has two antlers on his head.

In addition, male mermaids have fins on their backs, while females are transparent and soft, so males look fierce and feminine feminine.

Sharks have hair and are in a variety of colors.

For the needs of labor and fighting, the lower-class males mostly shaved off them from a young age and tattooed them on the top of their heads.

Women are tightly tied up or wear silk hats, and the hair of the merman man is often a sign of nobility and class, and the male shark in front of him obviously does not belong to the superior category.

The biggest similarity between male and female mermaids is the thin transparent skirt-like band on the legs, which need to be wrapped in the legs when swimming

, in order to reduce the resistance of the water flow and quickly and freely.

Shark males usually have the same skin as humans, but when they encounter enemies, they will quickly transform into a fighting physique, forming a hard scaly carapace-like skin outside their bodies, as if wearing armor, which women do not have.

They are not normally able to survive outside the water for more than a day, and must take daily medication and spend several hours recovering in the water after landing.

Moreover, the effect of non-seawater does not recover well, which will affect health, and the longer you stay outside the water, the weaker your body will become.

If you use drugs for a long time, your health will be damaged and your life will be shortened.

However, there are also many things that the mermen are willing to venture out on land, so in the deep pools of the ancient great lake, you can sometimes find the hidden strongholds of the mermen.

Legend has it that the mermaids have a strange method that allows people to breathe and live in the sea, but it also comes at the cost of reducing their lifespan, but no one in the human race knows this secret method.

Regarding these land survival matters, it was from the introduction of the old dragon before, and at this time, Li Zhi saw that the old dragon and the two of them had frequent exchanges, so he knew that he was exploring the location of the secret place rumored by the merman here.

And the attitude of a pair of male and female mermaids is also extremely cooperative, in Li Zhi's mind, the current true dragon attribute of the old dragon also belongs to the upper bloodline of Jiaolong, and there is still blood closeness between him and the merman.

Naturally, the male and female mermaids would not believe that the old dragon would actually harm the descendants of their own lineage, at least not too much hostility.

Moreover, they knew very well that the bloodline of the dragon clan was so powerful, even if they couldn't ask anything here, they could easily get all the information it needed just by wandering around the Lost River and just giving birth to their own coercion.

The communication between the old dragon and them at this moment was not a language similar to chanting in legends, as Li Zhi had guessed before, but a kind of rapid audio emitted through the vibration of the laryngeal bones.

The reason why they are not as intelligent as humans is that the mermaids know how to use the buoyancy of the seabed to mine rocks and scaffold to plant fast-growing coral creatures to build their own underwater cities.

Regarding this point, in this merman's cave-like shelter, you can see three clues.

It didn't take long for the old dragon to give Li Zhi its snooping one by one, making him know more about this species.

The mermaids have kings, both men and women can be kings, hereditary, official system and a small number of standing guards, but in wartime the army is temporarily recruited from the people.

Slaves consisted of offenders, foreigners and prisoners of war, and the main means of extricating themselves from slavery were to seize property in war for redemption or to make war exploits.

However, the army is also limited, and the main force of the mermaids fighting in the sea is still the school of carnivorous fish.

At present, the king of the shark tribe in the Yuchuan River is a woman, and she is called the king of Haoyue in the sequence of all the shark tribes, and this title is inherited from the ancestral land of the shark people in the entire sea area, and it is not a random choice.

This merman clan came here to find a pearl inscription that was stolen by the mermaids and lost for thousands of years, that is, the natal divine bead that can only be condensed after the death of a certain merman king.

And this pearl inscription called Xuangon is naturally owned by a Xuangon king in ancient times.

But it is different from other beads, because this golden bead is the only one left by the sea talker at that time, or rather, the Xuangon King is the last sea talker of the shark clan.

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