随着大门“咯吱”一声打开,悠悠看到一个狭长的走廊,走廊右边摆着十几个比人还高的水晶容器,里面挤满了各种鱼,有大有小,奇形怪状,五颜六色。走廊的左边是在海水里砌成的巨大无比的池子。池子上面铺着鱼网,看不清池子里有什么。
“瓶子里的这些都是标本,你们可能没兴趣,当然如果你们想换的话,也没问题。”巴斯说着指了一下左边的池子,说道,“活的人鱼在那里。”
悠悠一听找到了抓的人鱼,心里很激动,他刚想走过去看,忽然被巴斯拽住了衣服,就听巴斯说道,
“人鱼都是稀有的,咱们要不要先谈谈价格?”
“总得先看货再谈价格吧?”义大声说道,“我怎么知道这些人鱼能活多久?我们还要走很远的路,才能把他们运回去的。”
“我的东西,一定是整个鱼之谷最好的!”巴斯骄傲地说道,“如果连这里都没有你们看中的鱼的话,整个鱼之谷你也找不到第二家了。”
他说着松开了拉着悠悠的手,转身跟手下的渔人打了个手势,几个高大的渔人手里拿着一根棍子,走到其中一个池子前面,掀开了上面的渔网,冲着池子一阵乱戳。
又是一阵婴儿一般的哭泣声……!
悠悠快速飘了过去,低头一看,一条条人鱼慢慢浮出了水面,一共大约二十几条,有的浑身是伤,鳞片都已经掉落了,有的光秃秃的头没有一根头发,还有一条小人鱼吓得浑身哆嗦,躲在妈妈的怀里,流着珍珠眼泪。
“这里是新抓来的,有二十二条,”巴斯说着,走到第二个池子,冷冷地说道,“这是前一段时间抓的。”他掀开网,看了一眼池子里的人鱼,对着手下嫌弃地说道,“有一条快死了,赶紧处理掉。”
悠悠和小灵妖们走到池子边一看,果然有一条人鱼仰躺在水上,不动了。
悠悠刚要阻止渔人的行动,突然听到一条人鱼说道,“不要怕,不要动,一定要拿到巴斯身上的钥匙,把它扔到池子里。只要有了钥匙,咱们就有机会逃走了。”
悠悠忽然意识到人鱼们打算冒险去抢钥匙!他回头看了一眼巴斯手下长得牛高马大的渔人,替人鱼们捏了一把汗!
这太危险了!
必须要帮他们!
悠悠大声说道,“反正都死了,要不要试一试最星新型武器?看看效果怎么样?”
正当巴斯犹豫的时候,智抖了抖紫色的舌头,低声跟人鱼说了几句话。就看到人鱼们瞪大了眼睛,点了点头。
“好吧,”巴斯对这种新型武器很有兴趣,但是又有点担心池子会被炸坏,说道,“用个小的吧,别把我的水晶池弄漏了。”
“放心吧!我知道怎么做。”悠悠从兜里拿出了一个带铃铛的儿童玩具,轻轻摇了一下,扔到了池子里。
人鱼们听到铃声,四处逃散,他们把水搅动的同时,也震动了铃声,随着铃声不停地响,突然“哄”地一声,爆炸声从远处传来!
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Buzz twisted the door and “BZZZZZZZZZ!” the door slowly creaked open. Inside, there was a narrow corridor. Yoyo and the demons stepped inside the corridor carefully. They soon figured out that the corridor was too narrow to fit the bunch. To solve that, they went into line formation. As they walked Yoyo noticed all of the glorious fish inside fish tanks that were bigger than humans. That was only the right side. The left side had immense pools that are as big as Olympic swimming pools. All of them are covered by fishing nets. The lighting was so dim you can’t see what was inside.
“In these small containers, there is specimen. You probably won’t want it. But if so, don’t hesitate to ask.” Buzz said while walking.“These big pools have the live mermaids.”
When Yoyo heard mermaids, he felt like shouting ‘MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!’ Yoyo took the opportunity to get closer but just as he walked closer, Buzz stopped him and said,“Why don’t we figure out price first?”
“But if we have not seen something we have wanted, how can we figure out the price?” Yi said in a loud voice.“Besides, how is the mermaids’ condition? It will take us a long walk to transport it.”
“My fish quality is the best of Water valley. If you can’t find any fish that catch your mind here, there won’t be another one.” Buzz said in a showing off manner.
Buzz then grabbed Yoyo’s hand and did a signal with his other hand. His henchmen suddenly marched with sticks in their hands. They opened the pool net and used the stick to jab harshly in the water.
Yoyo then heard the baby noise again.
Yoyo quickly floated to the tank and surprising saw more than twenty mermaids. Some of them were heavily injured, some of them had no scales, some of them had no hair (since they got pulled to make fishing nets) and there was also a little girl mermaid that was shivering all over. She was hiding behind her mum with pearl tears in her eyes.
“This is the most recently caught mermaids. There are twenty two of them.” Buzz said,“these are the older mermaids.” Buzz opened the pool and looked inside. He had a disgusted expression and said,“This one is about to die. We need to get rid of it.”
Yoyo and the demons went over to the pool and surprisingly saw a mermaid floating in the water as still as a statue.
Yoyo was just about to stop the fishermen when he heard a voice,“Stay still! Don’t move. They are coming. If you can take the keys, we can all escape.”
Yoyo knew that the mermaids’ plan was very dangerous. Yoyo looked at Buzz’s body guards. They were as strong as rock. Yoyo was very worried.
This is was too dangerous.
Yoyo needed to help them
Yoyo loudly blurted out,“Since they are all dead, why don’t we check out the advanced weapons?”
Buzz was a little hesitant about the idea. When buzz wasn’t paying attention, Zhi stuck out his purple tongue and said a little word to the mermaids. The mermaids started nodding franticly as Zhi did his speech.
“Ok” Buzz said finally. He was really excited about the advanced weapons. However, he was a bit worried that it might blow up his tank of fish.“Can we use a small weapon. I don’t want any harm in my pool.”
“Don’t worry.” Yoyo said in a confident manner, he pulled out another child toy with bells. Rang it and threw it into the water.
When the mermaids heard the ring, they tried to escape for dear life. As they splashed, they made the ringing louder. Suddenly, BOOM. There was a big explosion outside the palace.