The sickly boss always wants to get close to her

All she could see was the nimble back of the little female as she left, and she walked up to the human male.

Never looked back once.

There was no peripheral vision at all.

Even though he knew the little female might be trying to protect him, he still felt so uncomfortable.

It felt like my heart was being dug out, it was excruciatingly painful.

That flying thing was flying too fast. Where would it take his little female?

As soon as Qu Shang's tears flowed out, they mixed into the sea.

No one noticed that he was crying.

Even the most painful sorrow is silent.

Another blond male mermaid swam to Qu Youyou. He scratched his head and shouted, "Hey, Qu Shang, why don't you come with us? How can you stay here alone?"

Qu Shang shook his head woodenly, "She asked me to wait for her."

"Wait for her?"

The male mermaid said, "But how long do we have to wait? One or two days? Or one or two years?"

"Or from the time she left until sometime before she died?"

"Or is it just empty words?"

"Qu Shang, you know about humans. Didn't the elders tell us about this when we were young? Humans are a kind of hypocritical and selfish animals."

Qu Shang replied numbly, "I'll wait for her here."

After sitting there for a whole day, all the tribesmen left, leaving behind a mysterious empty house at the bottom of the sea - it seemed to be telling something.

Qu Shang returned to the island and climbed into the shelter that Chu Bainiao had built with his own hands.

The small space seemed to still retain the scent of the other person, and he sniffed it gently, as if this would make him feel more at ease.

At night he went back to the sea to soak in the water and saw traces of the bonfire left on the beach. For the first time he sincerely felt that fire was not so disgusting.

On the third day, there was a severe storm.

The wind and rain always came violently, even if Qu Shang tried his best to protect the shelter.

The leaves that the little female had woven with her own hands were still blown away by the strong wind, and the thinner branches were also blown away, leaving only the six pillars he had split in place.

In the storm, tears and rain flowed down his face, and Qu Shang's long red curly hair stuck to his body wetly.

He realized that he could not keep the traces left by the little female no matter what.

Even the traces of the campfire were washed away by the strong wind and rain.

He fell down on the beach, and in the heavy rain that made it almost impossible to see the road, the red-haired, blue-eyed mermaid cried heartbreakingly.

On the tenth day, Qu Youyou returned to the island out of curiosity and saw Qu Shang, who was curled up in the place where he had been in the shelter before, with a dazed look in his eyes.

The shelter that the human female had built had been blown away by the storm, so he went to study it himself and found a pile of leaves and some sticks in the jungle.

A crude shelter that was completely out of place and couldn't even cover the sky was built on the six existing wooden piles.

To be honest, the situation of Qu Shang is not good.

His skin was cracked and his expression was listless. His originally strong and gorgeous fish tail had many wounds, perhaps because of entering the jungle.

The tiny pieces of sand and mud sank into the wound, causing Qu Youyou to feel pain just by looking at it.

She crawled to his side, looked at Qu Shang who was as unresponsive as a dead fish and said, "Hey, Qu Shang."

Qu Shang didn't react at all. Under his long red hair, he was holding a pair of coconut bowls.

Qu Youyou clicked her tongue twice, looking as if she had never seen such a thing before.

She sat next to Qu Shang and thought for most of the day, until she thought it was her turn to take a bath, but Qu Shang still didn't react at all.

"Do you want to kill yourself?" she asked curiously.

Qu Shang still didn't react at all. If he wasn't still breathing, Qu Youyou would have thought he was dead.

"Well, I lose to you."

She tilted her head, "Do you want to become a human?"

Hearing this, Qu Shang's eyes finally moved, and his dry gaze fell on Qu Youyou's face.

An extremely hoarse voice sounded: "What did you say?"

Qu Youyou sighed helplessly, "It means turning into a human. Mermaids can turn into humans, but you have to find a witch."

"You know a witch? The scary, scary witch."

Qu Shang certainly knew about witches.

A legend passed down from the older mermaids when they were young - if they didn't obey, they would be captured by the witch and made into potion.

The witches were so vicious that they would cut open their stomachs, take out their hearts and livers, put them in a container, and then pour liquid that could corrode the body on them bit by bit.

Qu Shang sat up, still holding the two coconut bowls in his hands. He stared at Qu Youyou without blinking, "Is there really a witch? How did you know?"

Qu Youyou said vaguely: "Because that's where I escaped from..."

"The witch wasn't as scary as the legend said. At most, she was a little cold-blooded and ruthless. The fish there tasted terrible, so I ran away."

"Qu Shang, she is very powerful, almost omnipotent. She will definitely be able to turn you into a human."

Qu Shang held the two coconut bowls carefully, not caring whether Qu Youyou's words were credible or not.

He knew he would go.

The waiting process is too hard.

He couldn't make it.

Qu Shang followed Qu Youyou and swam towards an unfamiliar sea area.

The sea was deep and dark.

The longer we swam, the harder it was to see the vegetation on the seabed. By the time we were almost at our destination, the entire sea had become bare, with only gray sand left before us.

Qu Youyou pointed ahead and said, "I can't go with you. I ran away secretly. If I go with you, I will definitely be caught by the witch."

Qu Shang nodded slightly, grabbed the two coconut bowls, and swam towards deeper waters.

There was nothing particularly scary except the desolation and silence.

On the gray beach, among the strange hills on the seabed, a cave naturally formed by reefs appeared before him.

Qu Shang swam to the front of the cave, and before he could open his mouth, an interesting voice came from inside.

"come in."

Qu Shang swam in. The cave was very large. From the outside, it looked like an ordinary cave that exuded an ominous atmosphere.

After entering, I found that the interior was decorated very colorfully.

Corals of various colors dotted the cracks between the rocks, and hanging on the corals were all kinds of strange containers that he had never seen before and could not name.

In addition, there are ribbons of various colors tied between the corals, floating gently in the sea water.

There were dozens of pearls embedded in the cracks between the rocks for lighting, lighting up the cave like the sky above the sea.

There was even more debris piled up on the ground, making it almost impossible to step.

The witch's upper body was submerged in a pile of debris, leaving only a pitch-black fish tail swaying outside.

The fish's tail fin is thin and long, and its scales refract colorful light under the fluorescent light, like a dream, like a flower or like dew.

"I know you." The witch's upper body finally freed itself from the debris. She looked surprisingly young.

Her hair is black, her eyes are black, and except for the exposed skin which is fair and tender, her whole body is black that reflects colorful light.

This is completely consistent with the legend that witches can hide perfectly in the night of the sea and capture disobedient mermaids.