Volume 4: The Sea and the Ship Heading North Chapter 206 Starr
Justin caught a guy!
This is the first impression that comes to everyone's mind when they see that hand.
However, when the upper body of the owner of the arm completely emerged from the water, the students discovered that this was obviously not a normal human being.
Her skin was iron gray, her dark green hair was long and unkempt, her eyes were yellow, her incomplete teeth were also yellow, and she wore pebbles strung together with a thick rope around her neck.
This is a mermaid, and it is obvious from its ugly appearance that this is a mermaid that only appears in the waters north of Ireland and Scotland. They have evolved into this shape in order to adapt to life in cold water.
The mermaids living in the warm waters at low latitudes are as beautiful as those in fairy tales.
The students were all stunned; it was basically the first time they had seen this kind of creature.
After the mermaid emerged from the sea holding Justin's fishing line, she started chattering incoherently in words that no one could understand.
Justin looked confused, but he could feel that the merman's tone did not sound very good and was probably scolding him.
The mermaid also found that her condemnation was like talking to a cow and had no effect at all. She took a deep breath and spoke in her unfluent English.
"The whole... morning! You've been torturing me! Seven... seven lobaworms! I... had just caught it, and you hooked it away!"
Her voice was clear and pleasant, sounding very nice, which was totally inconsistent with her somewhat scary appearance.
Faced with such accusations, Justin's face was full of embarrassment.
"I'm sorry, I just wanted to fish, but I didn't expect to hook them. I'll return them to you..." When he said this, his expression was a little hesitant, and finally he asked with some unwillingness, "It may be a little offensive, but...can I ask how much they weigh?"
However, the mermaid just screamed in a high-pitched voice.
"Bugs!"
"Okay, okay, here you go. I'll give it all back to you."
He muttered and poured all the Lobaworms in the bucket back into the sea.
The mermaid glared at him, then used the harpoon in her hand to skewer each bug on her harpoon with incredible .
The Lobaworm grows a poison sac, and mermaids like to smear the venom in its sac on their weapons to increase their attack power.
Just as the mermaid took back her prey and was about to dive back into the sea to leave, Jon suddenly called her.
"Hi! Beautiful lady, can we ask you some questions?"
When the students heard him call the mermaid, they all looked at each other, but the mermaid, who didn't seem to intend to communicate more with the people on the boat, stopped her action of leaving.
She seemed to enjoy it very much and looked up at Jon.
"You have a very good eye... little boy! If I talk to you for a while, maybe it won't be as annoying as communicating with other wizards."
"Of course you are beautiful, isn't it?"
Jon turned around and winked at the others, and every student he saw nodded against their will.
Seeing Jon lying with his eyes open without blinking, Hermione couldn't help but curl her lips, thinking of what he had said some time ago that he never lied.
No one knew what Gabrielle was thinking of. She touched her long silver hair and her white teeth with a conflicted look on her face.
"We just came from the North Sea. I don't know why, but when we entered the Norwegian Sea, it felt like there were more magical animals around us?"
Jon didn't care about other people's opinions, but looked at the mermaid and asked.
"The Ministry of Magic in Norway... does not strictly control magical creatures." The mermaid answered in broken English, "and this place is far away from the land... there are few Muggle ships passing by... and there is a wizard who keeps them from time to time..."
Jon narrowed his eyes slightly at her answer.
"A wizard? Does he live in a tower?"
"That tower is called Star." The mermaid said the name of the tower, "But...how do you know it? Few wizards...know of this place..."
"We want to visit that tower. Are there many wizards living in that tower?"
"No... Mr. Stock is the only one living there..."
"Then I wonder what Mr. Stock's personality is like and whether he is willing to accept our visit."
"Mr. Stocker... is very enthusiastic about us... He also helps to heal our people. You are all wizards... He will definitely not refuse..."
Jon was already satisfied .
"Thank you for answering these questions for me, beautiful lady."
"It's nothing... I wish you all the best in the future."
The mermaid seemed to be in a very good mood because of John's flattery. After expressing her blessing, she sank to the bottom of the sea and disappeared.
Getting these was obviously a pleasant surprise. Since entering the Norwegian Sea, Jon felt that there were suddenly a lot more magical animals in this sea area. Before the fishing competition, people would often catch some magical animals like the Chirac fish.
This was indeed not a normal phenomenon. They were not far from their next destination, the tower called "Star".
Regarding the encounter with the mermaid, both students who participated in the fishing competition and those who were just watching were talking excitedly about what had just happened.
Justin was still arguing with the referee Nick about whether the mermaid counted as his catch.
"She must weigh at least 100 pounds! And I caught her myself! This must be counted among my achievements!"
Nick was flipping through the competition rule book with a hesitant look on his face.
"Yes, I understand your feelings, Justin, but you didn't succeed in fishing her out, did you? And 100 pounds is just your estimate. She didn't say, and we didn't actually weigh her."
"This isn't fair! I spent the whole morning fishing for Lobaworms to trick this mermaid out! A mermaid is also a fish! It must be counted in my catch. Even 50 pounds won't be enough, even if it's not 100 pounds."
Justin begged.
"With her body size, 50 pounds is definitely enough. Just count it as 50 pounds for me."
However, after Nick convened a team of referees for a strict discussion, they ultimately did not count the weight of the mermaid in his catch. After all, it was the mermaid who grabbed his fishing line herself, and he did not bring her aboard (in fact, when Justin was scolded for asking about the mermaid's weight, he thought about making a sneak attack and tying her aboard to weigh her).
However, in order to make up for it, the referee team decided to count the weight of the Loba worms he had caught before as his haul. Although these worms were not very heavy at all, they were better than nothing for Justin and gave him motivation to turn the tables in the afternoon.
