Chapter 453: Manaphy Sea King
Otohime spent most of her time promoting her ideas. The residents of Fishman Island could still hear her speeches, but the humans on land could not.
Compared with the five million residents of Fishman Island, the total number of humans is much larger, especially in history, the fishmen and mermaids were both regarded as fish, and discrimination between races has existed for a long time.
Apart from relying on the propaganda of the World Government, Otohime could not think of any way to change this view worldwide. There are many famous fishmen, such as Tiger, Namur, etc., but those famous fishmen are all pirates.
This is definitely negative propaganda in the eyes of ordinary people. Coupled with the appearance of the fishmen themselves, many people think that fishmen are born to be cruel villains.
In her opinion, Tezoro's desire to make a movie is a great opportunity.
The entertainment industry in the world of pirates is relatively scarce and has great limitations. Some films can still be circulated on the Red Earth Continent, but the countries on the islands are different. Whether it is the strength of publicity or other things, most people do not have this channel.
Movies from ten years ago may have just been released on some islands, not to mention those islands that do not have the conditions for broadcasting.
Only when the problem of food and clothing is mostly solved and people have spare money in their hands, will they have time to pursue spiritual entertainment.
The world of pirates is a society where the upper class determines the lower class. The king of a country has the ability to limit what the people hear and see. If the king and nobles of a kingdom are smearing something, then the lower class will not accept it.
If a movie with great influence can be made, then these people must be the first to see it. Otohime hopes that they can see the positive propaganda about fishmen and mermaids, and then make some changes.
Not to mention cooperation, she is even willing to play some roles.
For Otohime's cooperation, Tezoro naturally had no objection and immediately changed the script, because he was originally a part-time screenwriter, director, male lead, investor and other roles.
There are not many professional actors. After all, this is the deep sea, and it is not easy to shoot a movie here.
So the acting skills of other extras may be a problem, and Tezoro's way to solve similar problems is to be serious. Since it is not easy to act, just don't act.
The plot of the movie is not complicated, and it is even a bit clichéd, such as the male protagonist encountering a storm at sea and being rescued by a mermaid after falling into the water.
At first, he was also afraid of mermaids and fishmen, but after getting along with them, he found that it was all prejudice of the world, and then they fell in love smoothly.
However, the male protagonist is a prince of a country. The king does not agree with this matter, and even bribes a group of pirates to kidnap the mermaid.
But the ambition of the pirates is not only that. They also kidnapped the king and extorted a huge ransom. In the end, the mermaid took the king away from the clutches, and then at the last moment, the male protagonist appeared and defeated those people, and everyone lived happily together.
The villain must be a pirate, otherwise the world government will not allow it to be shown. The identity of the prince is to cater to the public, which is the mainstream on the Red Earth Continent today.
Princes and princesses are far more popular than civilian protagonists. Whether they are royals or ordinary people, they can be brought into this environment.
After all, there are a lot of operas in the film, which is also the mainstream today.
And the real acting method of Tezoro is also reflected here. They don’t need to find someone to play a pirate, but just find some pirates without a bounty to act as the pirates in the movie.
He can even find someone to play a cameo role as the king. Some kings spent a lot of money to buy the flag of the Beasts for their own safety. They don't mind this kind of thing. There, the Beasts are the uncrowned kings.
As for fighting, it is not a problem. Anyway, the training of the Beasts is internal fighting. It can be used as a real combat exercise at that time. However, those who get to the end can only act, otherwise it will be troublesome if they get injured.
Among them, the mermaids and fishmen appeared when the male protagonist lived in Fishman Island, reflecting the beautiful side of this place, which is enough for Otohime, but Tezoro made a request that he wanted a mermaid with fair skin and good looks.
This time, the product he promoted was a whitening product. If he got a black mermaid, it would be really difficult to sell.
The preparation of the film takes time, and Kojiro has already obtained the location of some minerals during the investigation.
In order to further determine the environment there, Otohime and Neptune decided to follow them to see where the mineral was, and also take a look at the machine that Tezoro mentioned to assist mining.
In order to express his closeness, Neptune's whale mount, Hoai, with a bubble on his head, took them to the location marked on the sea chart.
As they gradually left Eve's coverage, the surrounding environment began to become dark. Mermaids could still see things in this environment, but humans could not. Tezoro and the others could no longer see things nearby.
Even fishmen don't like to live in such a dim environment for a long time. Otohime and Neptune are not black-hearted capitalists. Just when they were about to ask if there was a solution, Manaphy took action.
He waved his hands, and the surrounding sea water seemed to feel something, and suddenly emitted a light golden light, and the influence of the light was still expanding. Soon this quiet deep sea became like daylight.
Prince Canghai was not joking. This was also his control over marine life. It was a kind of deep-sea microorganism. They had the ability to emit light. At this time, under the influence of Manaphy, they gathered together in large numbers and used their own abilities to illuminate this deep sea.
And part of the energy released by Manaphy became their nutrients.
However, seeing the deep sea suddenly light up, Otohime and Neptune trembled in their hearts.
"No, don't make it so bright!"
Many creatures are phototropic. The sudden light in the deep sea is likely to attract sea kings. Fishman Island is not afraid of this, because every once in a while, a mermaid princess who is chosen as the sea king will be born.
Due to the existence of the sea king, the sea kings will not attack Fishman Island, but it is not necessarily the case outside.
This is also the reason why they want to investigate the environment. They are worried that there is a sea king's nest nearby. If they encounter a large sea king in the deep sea, even fishmen and mermaids can only choose to run for their lives.
But it was too late. A big eye suddenly appeared in Otohime's field of vision. There was a super-large sea king below them. The size of the whale Hoai became very small compared to that sea king.
"Don't be afraid, don't move, and don't shout. I'll try to communicate with it."
Mermaids can communicate with fish, but sea kings are not within this range. Otohime wanted to use her own observation Haki to communicate with them. The accompanying guards did not move, as they all knew that running away was useless when facing such a monster.
Otohime was worried that Tesoro and the others would do something to irritate the sea kings, but she then noticed that the two men were not afraid at all, and that the sea king was also very wrong, as it seemed to be communicating with some creature.
"Good boy, we didn't mean to disturb you, you can go back to sleep."
Looking at the Manaphy on Stella's shoulder, Otohime showed an incredible look.
In the eyes of ordinary people, sea kings are monsters that cannot be communicated with, but Otohime knows very well that they just disdain to communicate, because communicating with them is the privilege of sea kings.