Chapter 496: Thank-You Gift
“So, that Second Manager Qi was dragging you lot to the Mo Kingdom capital to?” Dissect and acquire the naga pearls in your bodies!
Qiao Mu didn’t finish speaking, but the merfolk present all understood her implication.
They nodded when they heard her voice trailing off. Long Xinghua smiled woefully and said, “These people believe these rumors firmly without doubt.”
“This rumor has circulated for more than a hundred years, but it’s only recently that it’s become more and more widespread and operations to capture merfolk have become more and more frequent. Apparently, it’s all because of the peerlessly beautiful Her Highness Zheng in the Mo Kingdom capital.” A mermaid next to Long Xinghua said softly.
Qiao Mu had already heard people mentioning Her Highness Zheng more than once.
The Mo Kingdom capital’s Her Highness Zheng could butcher so many merfolk without hesitation so as to acquire the naga pearls in their bodies in vain, all to maintain her own beauty…
This woman was most certainly outwardly beautiful and charming like a dodder flower, while her heart was like a venomous scorpion.
“That Second Manager said that naga pearls would lose their effectiveness one hour after they leave the body. So that’s why he had to first bring us back to the Mo Kingdom capital, Guanlan City, before dissecting us to acquire the naga pearls in our bodies.” The mermaid said pitifully, “But we ourselves know very well that our bodies don’t have naga pearls!”
Granny Long also sighed. “Recently, monsters have swarmed the waters and charged into our stockaded village. That’s why we had no other choice but to come ashore to look for food. But how would we have known that someone was lying in ambush, waiting for us to walk into their trap.”
“Her Highness Zheng must definitely have a malevolent heart. These two years, at least eight hundred, if not a thousand, of our fellow merfolk have died in her hands!”
Qiao Mu couldn’t help but click her tongue inwardly.
Noble Consort Zheng could be considered completely unscrupulous, all for the sake of her beauty.
After the carriage passed through Pony Town, the traffic started to thin out. Some of the carriages in front had already disappeared from sight, while the ones that fell behind wouldn’t be able to catch up for the time being.
Qiao Mu didn’t bother much with the people in Five Moon City’s great migration and travelled with the merfolk to the nearest outlet leading into the Dark Sea.
This was a tributary that would eventually feed into the Dark Sea.
The merfolk were naturally more knowledgeable than her about the waterways. Before they separated, the group once again thanked her repeatedly, while Long Xianxian bid farewell to her while holding onto her hand, reluctant to part.
Granny Long handed her a small, emerald-green piccolo as a thank-you gift, telling her that she could blow the piccolo and summon nearby merfolk for help if she encountered trouble in the waters.
Once she sent this group of merfolk off, Qiao Mu then stored the carriage into an ebony blue storage talisman.
After also putting the short piccolo away in her inner world, she flipped onto the horse and jolted the reins unhurriedly.
The horse’s hooves started breaking into a steady gallop as it followed the dirt path, and it quickly overtook a portion of the people walking on foot.
Based on the walking speed of these people from Five Moon City, it would take them around twenty days to trek to the Northern Mo border.
This kind of large-scale migration did not have much to do with her. Since City Lord Wu had made the decision to migrate, then he had naturally made prior personnel arrangements with a fortification.
Qiao Mu urged her horse toward Xijiu City. Once she thought of returning home, she became inexplicably impatient to get back.
When she thought about it, she had promised when she left home that she would return in three to five years. She didn’t think that this departure would have ended up being seven years long.
She wondered if her parents and the others were doing well in Xijiu City.
Xiao Lin’er, Xiao Sen, and Brother Xiao Hu should have all grown up, right!
She really hadn’t seen them for a long time. She wondered what kind of scene would play out when they all met once again…