inspire-indiana Chapter 157 Altar
Chapter 157 Altar
Molinbia felt something was off. Before, it always wanted to touch Jiang Yu, and would often unconsciously stroke Jiang Yu's head and back through the bubbles.
But recently it has started to think about some issues. It thinks that when Triton raised it, he probably didn't feel this kind of love for it. Triton rarely touched it, and he communicated with it very little. His communication with it was mostly rational. Later, when it grew up and awakened the ability to sacrifice, it could only trade with it.
But ever since it met Jiang Yu, it has liked her very much, finding her cute and wanting to touch and cuddle her. Is it because it is too lonely? But it doesn't want to cuddle with those silly fish either.
Molinbia sullenly grabbed a handful of gold coins and started eating them. With a snack to eat, her mood improved a lot, and her brain seemed to suddenly become sharp again.
It must be because it's so ugly. Triton was even mocked by his father and brothers for his poor taste because he owned it. But its little human form is so beautiful! Even among the sea people, it would be one of the most handsome, and sea people are generally much better looking than land people!
That must be why! Morinbia nodded subconsciously.
There's also communication! Right, Jiang Yu didn't know they could communicate. With just a simple contract, she could talk to it in her mind, hear its voice, and stop talking to herself and gesturing for it for ages, even though it clearly understood what she was saying.
How could it get her to sign this little contract? It was really afraid of scaring her. Everyone who knew about its altar constitution thought it was a bad thing, and it didn't want its little person to think so too. The dim-witted and procrastinating sea monster put the matter out of its mind again, just like that seashell bed.
It pulled out a pearl necklace, and was about to put it in its mouth when it suddenly thought it was quite pretty. It decided to give it to the little one to wear and play with later. So it stuffed it back into some corner of its body and pulled out a gemstone necklace instead.
Hmm, this gem is too big and tacky; she won't like it. Let's just eat it!
The sea monster, satisfied with its snack, wiggled its tentacles behind it. The shimmering tentacles reflected a crystal-clear light. No one knew that in the mysterious depths of the Forbidden Sea, Morinbia had obtained a new treasure and vowed to protect it forever.
Molinbia looked at Jiang Yu, who was sleeping soundly in the bubble and quietly nestled on the altar covered with seaweed, and felt a warmth in her heart.
The guilt of eating its master had long since been gradually soothed by a thousand years of loneliness, but it still remembered that before it twisted the neck of Triton's youngest daughter, she clung to its tentacle and cried pitifully, "Father is sick, and only you can stay with him forever. Please, stay with him forever."
It also remembered that after it obeyed the oracle and ate Triton, guilt and madness drove it to rampage around the palaces surrounding the altar, with the remaining sea creatures surrounding it, their faces cold and bewildered.
The brutality of the long war and the king's reckless sacrifices had long since numbed the sea creatures, and this moment of liberation failed to bring them even a moment of joy.
They watched numbly as the king was devoured by the altar monster they had raised, watched numbly as the monster raged and destroyed the last city of the sea people, and numbly as they packed their things and dived into the abyss without looking back. From then on, no one knew where they went.
The underwater civilization was completely lost.
Morinbia was imprisoned here, covering her head with her tentacles, and remained in seclusion for nearly a century. Then time healed her mental wounds and made her more gentle and simpler.
That cruel, powerful, and indifferent monster that could destroy a city and devour hundreds of lives at a moment's notice has degenerated. Its simple thinking can only support basic thought, and sometimes it even resembles a somewhat intelligent animal.
It was the last of its kind. But their kind was originally the companions of the gods, the most powerful beings closest to the gods, far nobler than any other life in this world.
However, the departure of the gods directly led to the decline of their race. The last bloodline fell into the sea, was picked up and raised by the royal family of the sea, and eventually became killing machines and victims of war.
The loss of the underwater civilization transformed it into a complete monster. In human perception, it was relegated to the same level as those foolish sea monsters.
It has been abandoned twice, but this time it has met its little human, and it will definitely cherish her. Human lifespan is too short, so it will try to extend her lifespan; human bodies are not suitable for survival in the sea, so it will try to modify her body.
He has plenty of ways to keep her by his side.
It stood quietly outside the palace, its crystal-clear tentacles fully extended, vaguely surrounding the temple where Jiang Yu slept, as if providing meticulous protection, or as if possessing something absolutely firm.
Jiang Yu, who should have been asleep, had her back to Da Kui, her eyes wide open. Beside her was a small piece of seaweed that she had just parted. Da Kui had piled the seaweed very thickly, and if she hadn't noticed that Da Kui always replaced the seaweed when she wasn't looking, she wouldn't have become suspicious.
The round stone platform beneath the seaweed was not a bed at all; it was covered with densely packed runes, and inside the grooves of these runes was a layer of what appeared to be a very viscous liquid.
Jiang Yu just lightly touched a little with her finger; it was a pale purple color, very similar to the color of Da Kui's tentacles. The liquid was very fresh and insoluble in water. The most likely guess is that Da Kui secretly smeared blood on it while changing the seaweed.
Besides making her more comfortable to sleep, the seaweed also served as a means of concealment. This round stone platform looks more like an altar!
No wonder this building doesn't look like a sleeping quarters at all. There's no decent furniture at all, just a round altar. What else could it be but a temple?
What exactly does Da Kui want with her? Did it have some ulterior motive for raising her? Jiang Yu felt a chill run down her spine as she pondered this.
Jiang Yu stared at the vibrant tentacles silently encircling the temple, frantically suppressing the trembling that threatened to engulf her body. She hugged herself, curled up on the circular altar smeared with the sea monster's viscous blood, and forced herself to close her eyes.
She couldn't just sit and wait to die any longer; she had to find the answer herself. Only she could save herself now.
She thought of her parents, relatives, her soon-to-be-married boyfriend, and Chen Xin. A glimmer of hope and courage welled up within her.
Since she is still alive, although she is in adversity, she is not without hope. True despair always comes from within. At least you have to try before you have the right to judge fate.