Chapter 127: The First Step on Fishman Island
The banquet ended with both the guests and the hosts having a great time.
Princess Otohime offered to take them to visit Ryugu Castle, while Neptune was persuaded by two ministers to go and handle government affairs reluctantly.
When the tour started, Zhang Da would also cooperate by exclaiming "wow" every time he arrived at a new place. After all, it was a novel underwater palace.
But after seeing them too many times, it becomes just like that. Anyway, the common feature of these buildings is that they are very large. After all, they have to ensure that King Neptune's 12-meter body can move .
During this period, he was asked by Princess Otohime to tell the three princes and Princess Shirahoshi about what was happening on the ground.
Zhang Da also chose to tell the truth about the people and events on the Chabaoti Archipelago, including good people like the Goodman family, profiteers with a conscience like Old Bob, harmless boatmen and drinking buddies, the businessman Biznis who was hiding in the dark and plotting against him, and vicious pirates and slave traders.
The Celestial Dragons did not need him to introduce them because they had seen it with their own eyes.
The children listened carefully to Zhang Daye's introduction, tried hard to remember the unfamiliar names, and then labeled them as "good people" or "bad people" in their minds.
Princess Otohime expressed satisfaction with Zhang Dayao's narration. She hoped that children would understand the real human beings rather than the one-sided beauty or ugliness.
When she heard the word slave trader, the usually rough-minded Kimi showed a frightened expression and mentioned the incident of Makulo and his gang kidnapping her.
Even she knew that being sold as a slave was a terrible thing, even more terrible than being eaten by sea beasts!
"That time, not long after I left Fishman Island, I was captured by Makuro and his men and put in a black bag. It was so scary!"
"Aren't mermaids said to be faster than fishmen? How did you get tied up so easily?" Zhang Daye then remembered that he had never asked Kimi how she was caught last time.
"Because they said they wanted to go to the sea as well, and they just happened to be in the same boat with me, and then I was caught." Kimi stuck out her tongue, "Hehe, thanks to Brother Tatsuya and you guys for saving me."
This is the lesson. If you were someone whose personality is not as cheerful as Kimi's, you would also have the childhood trauma of not talking to strangers.
"Speaking of which, those guys were once members of the Sun Pirates. Now they have been killed by us. I hope Jinbei won't cause us trouble?" Zhang Da also followed the topic and asked about Jinbei's news.
Princess Otohime said with certainty, "No, Makuro and his gang were originally human traffickers targeting mermaids. Jinbe just couldn't make up his mind to attack them because he was once their companion. He will definitely not blame you for this."
"Does the princess know him well?"
"Yes, Jinbei was originally the army commander, but he resigned to follow Tiger, and only came back to protect Fishman Island after becoming one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea." Princess Otohime said, "He will definitely go to tomorrow's speech. I can introduce you to him."
"That's great. I'm looking forward to it." Zhang Da also planned to get to know Jinbei, mainly because he wanted Shark Chili to try to see if he could learn Fish-Man Karate.
At night, Zhang Daye and his friends stayed in Longgong City. They slept in a room where half of it was filled with water, but the bed didn't feel damp at all, which was very strange.
Kami was sent home and made an appointment to meet the princess tomorrow when she gave a speech.
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The next morning, Zhang Tatsuya and his group followed Princess Otohime to Gironcord Square, where Princess Otohime often gave speeches and collected signatures.
This square was also the place where the Straw Hat Pirates and Jinbe fought against 100,000 people in the original timeline, which means that it can accommodate at least 100,000 people gathering at the same time.
To put it another way, Tiananmen Square can accommodate 1 million people for grand events, so you can imagine its approximate size.
When most people had arrived, Princess Otohime stood on the podium, raised a piece of paper above her head, and said loudly: "Everyone, the proposals of the world's nobles will play a powerful role in the meeting of kings, that is, the World Conference.
This is the handwritten letter from the world nobles, which reads: "In order to promote friendship between the fishmen and humans, I also agree with the signature and relocation request submitted by the Dragon Palace Kingdom."
That is to say, when we submit enough signatures at the World Conference in four years, this piece of paper will have a more substantial impact on us!
The reason we live on Fishman Island is just because there is a little sunshine and air here, but there is brighter sunshine and wider sky on the sea! This will be the closest opportunity for us to the ground in hundreds of years!
Now please make your decision, please make sure to express your wishes! Please, please sign, please submit your signatures! "
People who are born to enjoy the sunshine will not understand the murlocs' desire for sunshine.
If they really didn't care about the sunlight at all, they would have fled to the dark seabed ten years ago, before the pirates captured Fishman Island. In that case, what could humans do to them?
Princess Otohime understood the people's desire for sunlight, and also knew that their resistance to the ground came from their fear of humans.
Especially the cause of death of the murloc hero Tiger announced some time ago was "humans refused blood transfusion", which aroused the dissatisfaction of countless murlocs towards humans.
However, even if she knew the truth, Princess Otohime could not disclose the truth against Tiger's last wish, because if people knew that Tiger, as a fish-man hero, hated humans and would rather die than accept human blood, the situation would become even more troublesome.
Tiger knew that his idea was wrong and was not good for the future of the fishmen, but in his words: "Although my mind was clear, my heart had been controlled by the devil. My body rejected this blood. I could no longer love humans."
After being tortured by the Celestial Dragons for several years, he could only order his crew members not to tell the truth to anyone else. At least in the end, he didn't want to cause any more trouble for Princess Otohime.
Therefore, Princess Otohime could only use Zhang Daye and others as examples and tell them about the several different types of people that Zhang Daye had mentioned.
She also borrowed the Christmas tree that Shirahoshi treated as a treasure, took down the decorations under Shirahoshi's tearful gaze, and promised to help her put it back up before using it as a prop.
Since Tom and Shark Chili are not human, they just watch the fun from the side.
Only Zhang Daye, Altria and Rui Mengmeng stood beside Princess Otohime and cooperated with the speech as "representatives of kind humanity."
It was also because of their good looks and temperament that they did not look like vicious people when they stood there. They were completely different from the ugly pirates that the fish people had seen before.
In addition, they have the favor of saving Princess Otohime, so they are quite persuasive when they stand on the stage.
Most people quickly understood what Princess Otohime meant. Humans, like fishmen, have good and bad sides. We should try to trust and get in touch with the good ones, while we should be on guard against and fight against the bad ones.
The signature collection this time is only the first step towards migrating to the sea surface. We need to obtain the willingness of humans to "welcome you to migrate" and have the residents of Fishman Island express their willingness to "willing to migrate".
After completing this task, we will continue to address issues such as how to migrate, where to settle, how to understand each other with humans, how to ensure safety after migration, etc.
Things have to be done step by step. With the letter from the Celestial Dragons, it is basically certain that we can pass the test of the human kings. What Princess Otohime is doing now is relatively more difficult, which is to win the opinions of the residents of Fishman Island.
