The merman, my man

Chapter 194

The Merman, My Man by Black Velvet Chapter 194

The Merman, My Man by Black Velvet Chapter 194

I couldn’t resist reaching out to touch the luminous orb, but damp webbed fingers soon grasped my

wrist.

Mary was staring at it as well, but spoke quietly, “ Don’t touch it—you’ll die. Those things are a

protective layer that prevents nuclear radiation from destroying the passage.“

“Nuclear radiation?“ I exclaimed in surprise as I came to immediate realization. “Would you mind

elaborating, Mary? I once dreamed about arriving at the merfolk’s planet, and that place… became a

mass grave under the sea. Forgive me for asking, but does that have something to do with nuclear

radiation as well?“

“Yes, it does.“ Mary sobbed as she lowered her head miserably. “You’re not from that era, but you

would probably be aware of the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan. I tried to take my mother back to

the home of the merfolk at the time, but it had fallen as well.

Everything you saw was real, and what was once home is now a huge graveyard—just like the citizens

of Hiroshima, the merfolk there were instantly reduced to fossils and wiped out like the dinosaurs! “

I shook my head in disbelief. I could not believe what Dicken had shown me, that our world’s war had

led to the piles of corpses in the merfolk’s realm.

And Dicken was now the leader of a race facing extinction.

”How is that possible…?” I murmured.

Mary was even more miserable at that. ”Of course, because our domain is hidden at the Earth’s core !

I t’s an independent ecosystem, and every oceanic trench leads to it. That was why the fallout of the

atomic bomb directly moved there, and now, the merfolk civilization spoken of in legends no longer

exists — all that is left of us is our leader, and some newborns that were unaffected by the radiation.

Even so , the humans are not going to let us be, and have set their sights on us once again! “

There was a mess of emotions churning within me. The truth was crushing me—suffocating me—but

all I could do was clench my knuckles and control that turmoil while I asked, ”Where is Kalimadi? Your

leader has asked him to open the passage, or once humans destroy this island, your only home would

be destroyed as well.”

Mary promptly nodded solemnly, and I watched as she swain to the entrance of that cavern, looked up

and spread her eyes, as if waiting for the arrival of a god. She craned her long, thin neck, humming a Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.

high- pitched, beautiful tune that echoed in the cavern like an ancient war horn.

Soon, I felt the cave shaking, and a black silhouette slowly floated out of the cavern entrance. Its

blood- red eyes stared at Mary once before turning towards me, and soon he turned towards me and

lowered his head like Dicken did —just like a dutiful minister’s gesture of respect to his king.

It left me a little awkward since the last meeting was a completely different scene, because I seemed

to have been mistaken for Dicken’s mate. As such, I braced myself and said, ”Mr. Kalimadi, your

leader needs you to open the gateway to your world. There are still many merfolk who have been

captured.”

Somehow, Kalimadi did not need Mary to translate and simply nodded humanly at me. Then, his

massive form dived agilely into the lake and disappeared in no time at all.

Mary promptly pulled me by the arm to drag me out of the lake. We had barely gotten out when a

massive tide surged out from the depths, with the blue luminous orbs gathering and building up a blue

cyclone over the lake. Soon, everything around us began to shake violently, and fissures split the

ground with a loud rumble.

I saw in shock that a dark slit had opened at the bottom of the lake , just like a pitch -black eye of an

ancient behemoth opening.

The cavern around us began to collapse, the walls falling apart as boulders slammed down towards

us. However, the blue cyclone raged immediately as well, shooting out like a geyser to lift both me and

Mary into the air, and I felt the world spinning around us right then.