Chapter 428 Siren's Collection

"Siren's Collection?" Hao Ren was taken aback after hearing what Katrina said. "You mean these things you picked up from the sea?"

"It's not as simple as just driftwood," the Siren Queen winked. "They are things that will surprise you – how about taking a look?"

Before Hao Ren could say anything, Lily had already dashed over. "I want to see, I want to see! Landlord, let's go take a look, let's go..."

Hao Ren had to use his hand to forcefully press down on Lily's head to stop the husky's forward movement, and nodded to Katrina with interest. "If you don't mind opening it to outsiders like us – of course, we're very interested."

"It's not a very confidential place," Katrina smiled and turned around gently. "Those were originally things that people on the surface world discarded, but we collected them. Follow me, the entrance to the storage is nearby."

Hao Ren, Vivian, and Lily followed behind the Siren Queen. They bypassed the bustling palace square and the old city walls, which were still under construction. There were fewer and fewer ordinary sirens around, and the area in front seemed particularly quiet. However, there were more and more combat maids wielding tridents and siren warriors in the form of giant mantis shrimps patrolling back and forth along the road. Finally, they arrived in front of a building that looked like a subway entrance. The whole building seemed to be a section of inclined pipe protruding from the ground. The entrance had a heavy black iron sluice gate, with a circle of sparkling water gems inlaid around it. Several fully armed sentries patrolled around the sluice gate, and the festive atmosphere in the city did not spread to this place at all.

Hao Ren blinked. "Didn't you say this wasn't a confidential place..."

"It's not very confidential, but necessary guards are still needed," the Siren Queen waved to the guards at the door. After the sentries saluted respectfully, they went to open the sluice gate. "Perhaps the people on land have forgotten these things, but for us, they are excellent collectibles."

A string of bubbles emerged from around the sluice gate, and with a creaking sound of machinery, the heavy gate slowly opened to both sides, revealing a faintly lit passage. It seemed to lead to the depths of N'zoth.

Katrina swam ahead, leading the three into this "treasure house" cherished by the sirens. After entering the passage, Hao Ren noticed that there were many intricate pipes on the surrounding walls and ceiling, and some faintly lit lines were hidden behind those pipes. Katrina explained this place. "This used to be a mechanical compartment. We never knew what it was for. We only knew that all the machines were broken. Now it seems that they were broken when the spaceship crashed here. Later, we cleared the debris in the mechanical compartment and repaired the leaks, transforming it into a storage."

The road ahead suddenly opened up, and an underground space of astonishing size appeared before Hao Ren.

"Over the past ten thousand years, countless strange things have fallen into the sea. At first, they were all discarded by the aliens, but later, humans began to operate in the ocean, and their things accounted for the majority. The number of lost items falling into the ocean is astonishing, and the sirens are a very curious species. When the sisters go out to play, they pick up the most interesting things and bring them home. The anchors, mines, and propellers you saw in the city came from this. Over time, there were more and more of these things, so we regularly throw some of the less interesting ones into the trenches, and the most interesting ones are hidden in this collection."

The huge underground space still vaguely resembled the former mechanical compartment, with some pipes and fixed fastener marks remaining on the steel walls extending from both sides, but now the mechanical compartment had been emptied, and the remaining open space was filled with an astonishing pile of debris. Countless shelves and stacks were neatly arranged, with passageways of about three meters left between them, and eye-catching signs were placed in front of each stack. Hao Ren couldn't help but be stunned when he saw all this. He realized that this was probably the most large-scale exhibition hall on this planet – a full ten thousand years of history, the entire planet's ocean collection, including lost items from all races, including humans and aliens, all piled up in this place, categorized and neatly arranged!

Any naturalist or collector who saw this scene would probably faint with excitement!

"This..." Hao Ren opened his mouth, but the first thing that came out was a question. "Um, why did you suddenly think of showing us this?"

Although this treasure hall was not a secret place according to Katrina, there should be no reason to open it to outsiders casually. Although Hao Ren and the sirens had a good relationship, there should be a special reason why the Siren Queen suddenly brought him here for a visit.

Sure enough, Katrina raised her hand and pointed to the depths of the collection. A siren was poking her head out from behind a pile of debris. It turned out to be Mrs. Nangong, Aersa.

"Aersa's request," Katrina smiled. "She said you should be very interested in these things – about what happened in the history of this planet and the changes of alien races in the past ten thousand years. If you are investigating these things, the siren's collection can help you more or less."

Hao Ren suddenly understood. The Siren Queen was not clear about the content of his work, but she probably knew that he was very concerned about intelligence about the history of civilization, and also knew that he and Vivian had been actively investigating the alien situation on Earth. At this time, Aersa came forward and proposed to let him and Vivian see the siren collection, so Katrina naturally agreed.

"How about it, are you interested in these things?" Aersa swam over from behind a row of shelves. Nangong Wudi followed behind her. "I haven't been to this collection for a long time... I still remember that I liked this place the most many years ago. I found at least ten collections here."

"Interested, too interested!" Hao Ren rubbed his hands, looking at the items from various historical periods and races around him, his eyes glowing. "Even if these things can't be researched, just looking around is enough for me to brag for half a year! This... hey, why didn't Sanba and Wu Yue come?"

Nangong Wudi shook his head. "They are taking care of Dou Dou outside, and they are not very interested in this place."

Hao Ren took Vivian and Lily to the neat shelves and stacks, as if browsing a period of time solidified into solids. Lily's eyes widened, and she carefully tucked her tail up, for fear of damaging any precious cultural relics here. "Speaking of which, Bat, do you know all of these?"

Vivian casually replied while looking at the historical relics that had been lying on the bottom of the water for many years with emotion. "How could I know all of them... but I can still roughly judge the age and origin of many things. For example, this plate should be from three or four hundred years ago, from Europe."

Vivian pointed to a delicate white porcelain plate. The porcelain plate was placed together with two old-fashioned flintlock pistols. Although it was old, all the things were kept in a clean and new state due to the special anti-corrosion treatment of the sirens. Katrina said casually after seeing these things: "In 1647, a French merchant ship encountered pirates on the high seas. This plate was one of the captain's collections, and the captain happened to be one of the few humans who knew black magic in those years. So his obsession after death remained on this porcelain. A small plate caused three pirate ships to sink one after another, until it finally fell into the sea with the last ship, and no one ever salvaged it again."

Hao Ren was quite surprised. "Understood black magic and was killed by pirates?"

"In the case that the speed of you chanting spells cannot keep up with the speed of a brick flying, all magic is bullshit," Lily said smugly with her arms folded. "Didn't Bat get knocked down by two bricks by me at the beginning..."

"How many times have I told you not to mention this!" Vivian glared at Lily immediately. "Wasn't I malnourished at the beginning! And I have lived for ten thousand years and I have never seen a werewolf throwing bricks. I was not adapted to it all of a sudden, so I followed your way!"

Katrina looked at Vivian and Lily curiously, but didn't ask anything, just pointed to the shelves that were arranged far away. "These shelves are arranged according to the age. Human creations and alien creations are marked separately. Take a look for yourselves, you can probably find something useful to you."

"Are there any things from demon hunters?" Vivian asked casually.

Katrina nodded and pointed to a corner of the collection. "The sea is vast, and anything will be swallowed by it. The earliest demon hunter relics are in that direction, including the giant bow that once shot down the sun ship and the sword that killed the Hydra."

Hao Ren immediately paid his respects to the sirens: What kind of collection obsession is this!