"What did you say?"

"Ancient Atlantis." Adina repeated: "It is a language we used to use atlantis before. It is very ancient. Even within our mermaid tribe, basically not many people can understand it."

“So complicated?”

"It's not complicated, but not common. This ancient Atlantic language is the language used by our mermaids when they were just starting out. At that time, our mermaids were still very weak. Later, as our mermaids continued to grow, some races that were conquered or actively defected to us brought some new phrases and words. In addition, we later established alliances with the black octopus and the turtle tribe. The languages ​​between the three major tribes influenced and interfered with each other, and the new Atlantic language we use now was born. This can basically be regarded as a common language under the sea. At least 80% of the undersea races use our Atlantic language. The ancient Atlantic language is limited to a small number of historians or large families of the mermaids. Generally, mermaids directly learned New Atlantic language, and their mother tongue was gradually forgotten."

"№◎§※&..." The metal octopus in front of us suddenly made a series of strange sounds again.

I turned to look at Adina. "What are he talking about?"

"He said I was indeed from the Mermaids, but it was strange that they used honorific words just now."

"Honorary words?"

"The parliamentary system that our mermaids now used only appeared after the integration of multiple races. At first, we implemented a monarchical dictatorship. At that time, the inferior races had to use honorific words when they met the mermaids."

"That means they are inferior races?"

"Even now, I don't dare to talk nonsense! I've been scattered for so many years, and ghosts still know whether they still admit that they are the lower race."

I nodded and said to Adina: "I'll discuss the specific matter later. You can explain to them first that the hole was not created on purpose, and also ask what the thing we killed just now has to do with them."

After hearing my order, Adina started to explain to the thing. After a long time, she turned to me and said, "They attacked us before because they thought we were attacking them on purpose, but now they said they could forgive our behavior. The big squid we killed just now was a monster that invaded them. Originally, this was their city, but later that thing ran in for some reason, and then they were forced to evacuate to the city on the quarantine gate, which was closed by them. They were very happy to hear that we killed this thing and wanted to thank us."

I nodded, it seemed that this was a relatively easy race to get along with. "Did you ask them why they speak ancient Atlantic?"

After a few exchanges, Adina said to me: "He said they have always used this language. But he also said that their elders might know. He said that he wanted us to meet their elders. The elders here had said before that they were looking for the mermaid tribe, so..."

"I understand. This race should have been a vassal or companion race of your mermaid tribe. It's good to meet."

"clear."

Under the translation of Adina and that creature, we were moving towards their city and communicating some relevant information, but most of the time we were answering their questions. This race seemed to be in a closed state during this period, and they knew almost nothing about the outside world, so they didn't know many common sense things at all. But during the conversation, I also found a problem, that is, this seems to be an auxiliary race. The so-called auxiliary race is a race that lacks independent survival ability and needs to rely on a certain race with strong combat power. Of course, auxiliary race is not a completely useless race, otherwise the strong fighting race would not have raised a parasite-like race in vain, right?

During the conversation, we arrived at the center of the city without knowing it. There was a huge square here, and the center of the square was a huge bread-shaped building. But what surprised us the most was not the bread-shaped building, but the creatures near the building. I originally thought that these metal octopuses were the essence of this race, but I found that I had completely mistaken the situation. These metal octopuses were simply something similar to combat armed forces, and they were actually semi-mechanized combat armed forces, while the essence of this race was much smaller than this thing.

The metal octopus that led us to the road opened a hole from below after reaching the entrance of the bread building, and then the creatures inside came out and brought us to a group of local creatures at the entrance of the building. The creature who led us to the road was very funny. First of all, this guy was only about half a meter tall in total, and half of it was occupied by the head that occupied more than half of his weight. Under this head, which was a circle larger than a basketball, was a cylindrical body that could be pinched with one hand less than five centimeters long. At the lower part of this body

It also connects the wrist foot as thick as the fingers of sixteen people, but compared with octopus and squid, their wrist foot is much shorter, and the tips of these wrist foot are actually three forked, just like a small claw. In fact, this figure alone is not very funny, the key is the eyes of these guys. These little guys with blue skin all have big green eyes as big as apples, and their noses and ears are only a few small holes, and their mouths are only a small slit. How strange it would be to imagine such a big bald head but with such a big eyes?

The little guys obviously didn't care much about my scrutiny because they were busy looking at Adina. After repeatedly confirming Adina's race, the local races standing at the gate brought us into the building, but the way of entering was quite depressing. Although the gate of this building is already quite large compared to this race, it is a little bigger than a dog hole for us. Fortunately, the inside of the building seems to be a stadium-like place, except for a circle of stands outside, the middle is basically empty.

After standing in the center of the square, most of the small things retreated, leaving only a few older guys. After all the young creatures left, an old creature began to communicate with Adina. During this period, Adina pointed at me and seemed to be talking about something about me, and then the creatures discussed it. After a while, they seemed to discuss what the result was. One of the creatures quickly left here, and after a while he ran back, followed by a bunch of his kind, and they brought back a large machine, but I couldn't figure out what this was for.

The creature swam in front of me and pointed at the machine and said something, but I couldn't understand at all. Adina quickly explained: "He wants you to go left to that thing."

"Sit on? How to sit?"

Adina asked the old guy for a while before saying to me: "It's just that platform. You don't have to sit. You can just stand on it. Just be above this instrument."

"Oh." I turned around and looked at the thing, then spread my wings and swam slightly, and swam above the thing, withdrew my wings and stood firmly above the instrument waiting for their next arrangement.

"How is it? Can you understand what we say now?" I expected that when the creature made another sound in front of me, I actually understood what he meant.

I quickly nodded to show that I understood. "Is this a translator?"

"No, it's not a translator, but a consciousness connector. We are actually using will to communicate directly now. You can find that I can even directly transmit images to you. How about it? Have you seen the images I've transmitted?"

I nodded again. "How did you get this thing?"

“We made it ourselves.”

"Ah?" This answer really surprised me. "You made it yourself?"

"Yes. What we Sigma Sea tribes are best at is studying the mysteries of nature. This thing seems simple, but in fact it is to combine various laws that already exist in nature according to our hope to make it have a magical effect."

Adina also proved next to her: "I heard from the elders of our tribe that our mermaids did have a very powerful vassal race before. Most of Atlantis's technology came to the tribe and their research, but later we were separated from them because of the attack of the great white sharks. After that, Atlantis' technological progress almost reached a stagnant state. Being able to ensure that the technology does not regress is the best situation we can do."

"So that's it!" Speaking of Atlantis's things, it does feel like they have a technical break. Many of their things are obviously very technical, but their R&D capabilities are very weak, and it feels like they are not their own technology. Atlantis's mermaid engineers are really just engineers. They have only understood the existing technology thoroughly, and can repair, build, and even make some modifications but cannot innovate.

"Master." Adina suddenly said: "The elder just said that he wanted to return to Atlantis. Should we consider merging the two races as soon as possible? Because of the long-term closure, all resources have been consumed. They have started rationing food since last month. If we find them later, they will starve to death here!"
Chapter completed!