I Have a Sailing Game-Chapter 102: Whispers
Rogel’s main body held his breath as he arrived at the underwater cave, took the Mermaid’s Tear and Memory Fish Scale, and then returned to the Gelin.
After storing the Mermaid’s Tear away, he held the Memory Fish Scale in his hand.
He wasn’t sure if the effect of the Memory Fish Scale could be shared to the clone, so he could only apply it to his main body first.
"It certainly won’t be a beautiful memory."
Rogel took a deep breath and let the game character slowly place the Memory Fish Scale on his forehead.
After a whirlpool-like distortion appeared on the screen, a CG scene was displayed.
The mermaid’s name was Naya, which in their language meant purity and beauty.
Living at the bottom of the sea, their home was filled with many shells and corals, beautiful and dreamy.
Naya had many friends and a sister named Nia, and her life was happy and simple.
But one day, a group of uninvited guests arrived at their settlement, shattering their simple life entirely.
They were humanoid creatures uniformly dressed in black robes, adorned with silver stars.
These people captured the entire mermaid tribe that Naya belonged to, and those who resisted were all killed.
Naya was taken to a cave.
Her sister Nia was nowhere to be found.
Here, she watched as her former kin were tortured to death one by one, experiencing painful and terrifying mutation.
At this time, she deeply hated her extraordinary ability.
Being able to sense the mind communication of other creatures had become a great sorrow.
Because what she heard was all pain and struggle, despair and wailing, these sounds constantly tortured her.
There was even a terrifying voice that appeared from time to time, just listening to part of it nearly shattered her spirit.
Eventually, she was forcibly made to swallow the tumor and was bound to this place.
But, at some point, those people stopped coming to this place.
She, too, slept for an unknown amount of time in pain and struggle.
Upon waking again, she sensed a new creature had arrived here.
On the brink of death, she left a thought.
She implored Rogel, to find her sister Nia...
"Hah..."
"I’ll try my best, Naya..."
After Naya’s memory ended, Rogel exhaled.
His expression became somewhat grave.
Because, from Naya’s memory, he learned an important piece of information.
The location of Naya’s tribe, or rather, the era she was from, might not be the same as Rogel’s!
Because in this memory, a knowledgeable mermaid once told Naya about some matters of the human kingdom.
That kingdom wasn’t called Thousand Islands!
And the history of the Thousand Islands Kingdom spans several hundred years.
Unless, beyond the Five Major Seas, there are other human kingdoms...
Rogel rubbed his forehead.
He always felt the cave’s origin was exceedingly mysterious, now this point was further confirmed.
It seems the cave might involve forces related to time.
But currently, Rogel still has no way to completely verify this, searching for the reason is even out of the question.
He can only set this aside for now and check the prompts.
[You have used the Memory Fish Scale.]
[This item possesses a special skill—Voice of the Mind lv3.]
[Voice of the Mind lv3: You can listen to and feel the mind voices of other creatures through the Voice of the Mind, and conduct targeted mind communication.]
[Remaining uses of this skill 3/3]
Rogel originally thought the Memory Fish Scale would allow him to acquire two skills, but it just gave him three chances to use this skill.
"...Not just three times."
Rogel thought to himself.
Save and reload isn’t just for show.
If I listen and then reload, isn’t that fine?
"Listening can be done countless times, but if used for speaking, then it truly can only be used three times..."
After all, you can reload after listening.
But if you speak to a certain creature, you can’t very well reload right after having the conversation, can you?
Rogel stored away the Memory Fish Scale.
Naya greatly helped him.
If possible, he would find her sister Nia.
At least he has to find those people wearing starry black robes.
Rogel took note of this matter secretly.
Then, his perspective once again shifted to the Deep Sea Blood Touch side.
After a series of mutated creatures were all slaughtered by Rogel, he had time to carefully observe his surroundings.
This room had two entrances.
Besides the wall Rogel shattered, there was also an iron gate nearby.
Rogel came to the iron gate and tried to open it but found that it was tightly closed.
"Seems there’s no way in from here, perhaps I need to find a key..."
Rogel started searching nearby but couldn’t find a key, only came across a stone button with blood-colored patterns.
After observing it closely for a moment, Rogel pressed it.
[A heavy door has opened.]
A game prompt appeared, Rogel looked at the iron gate, but it hadn’t moved at all.
Clearly, this switch didn’t control the door in front of him.
Rogel could only go to the passageway at the node and swam into the third passageway.
After entering this passageway, Rogel keenly sensed the oddity of the surrounding environment.
This passageway exuded an eerie atmosphere everywhere.
On the rock walls, there were numerous tiny holes.
From these holes, blood-colored thin flesh tendrils kept emerging and linked to other holes, forming a web of flesh tendrils on the rock walls that made people feel a chill.
Rogel saved a file, used the Serrated Bone Blade to cut off one of the flesh tendrils. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
A sharp sound similar to what was heard before came, and this flesh tendril shrank fiercely back into the hole.
Rogel did not see any kill prompt.
This made him feel suspicious.
He continued forward.
Not long after, Rogel saw a heavy stone door that was open.
Behind the stone door was a whirlpool teleport point and a secret statue.
[Secret Statue—Teleport Point Revived.]
[Now you can teleport to this node via the key.]
After taking a deep breath, Rogel swam into the whirlpool teleport point.
...
[Underwater cave, third layer.]
In a huge enclosed room.
This room was filled with seawater, but tinged with a pale red color.
The walls around were covered in interwoven blood-colored flesh tendrils, like a human throat when swallowing, continuously transporting something.
In the center of this room, curled a skinny humanoid creature.
Behind it, a heart the size of a person constantly pulsed like a water pump, extending a thick blood vessel, connecting with the humanoid creature’s spine.
It was hugging its knees, emitting weak murmuring sounds.
Surprisingly, Rogel could actually understand some of its language.
Or rather, it shared the mind communication ability with mermaids.
[It hurts... it hurts...]
[Mom and Dad... where are you...]
[Please don’t... don’t leave...]
