[Full-time Expert Umbrella Repair] The Moon in the Sea

…Ye Xiu picked up these things, and suddenly slid out a few sheets of paper from the pages of the sketchbook. Compared with the graffiti-like content in the notebook, these were more like design drafts of jewelry. The title was written on the top of the paper. Ye Xiu See mermaid pupils, mermaid tears or something. …

☆、Chapter 25 26: Leave without saying goodbye

It was raining in City H.

Inside the research institute, Zhang Xinjie withdrew his gaze from the window and continued to listen to the report.

Spread out on the desktop are several groups of photos that Jiang Botao circled at the beginning. Among the five candidates, some have been marked with bright red crosses. -twenty one.

In the photo, two teenagers are leading the little girl to visit the Mermaid Museum, pointing forward and don’t know what to say, their faces are full of smiles, the number at the corner of the photo has been crossed out, and a question mark has been added.

"Has the information been verified?" Zhang Xinjie asked.

"I'm sure." The researcher nodded and explained carefully: "About the information..."

Zhang Xinjie calmly cut off the other party's words, and asked, "Have you found out the identities of these three people?"

A few days ago, the research institute sent personnel to City B to find the resident according to the address left by C-19-21.The occupant was indeed the man who received the invitation to visit the museum, but surrounded by people with live ammunition, he expressed in astonishment that he did not know the three people in the photo at all, but he bumped into one of the teenagers at the introduction meeting by chance.

The research institute discovered that the letter of introduction might have been mixed up. After the three of them exchanged numbers with C-19-21, they immediately rechecked and finally found the correct number. Unfortunately, it was quite an unfortunate coincidence that it was an internal gift ticket from the research institute with confusing sources.They spent a lot of manpower to check one by one, and it took a few days before they found the staff who received the tour ticket, but the other party told them that they had already given the ticket to a friend named Wei Chen.

After going around for a long time, I finally saw the result, but none of the people in the photo was 'Wei Chen'.

But of course the research institute will not find nothing.

"Yes, we determined their identities through some... other methods. These two people are Su Muqiu and Su Mucheng from H City. Because the population data in the old city is in an old format, it took some time to investigate their identities. As for This one, his identity was just found out by using a higher level of authority..." The researcher flicked the paper in his hand: "City B in Shangcheng District, the Ye family, his name is Ye Xiu, he is now working with the first two Live in City H. Here are their profiles."

Zhang Xinjie took the file and quickly scanned all the information on it.This stack of materials is extremely important. In addition to the basic information from the investigation, there are also some reports of a demonstrative nature. Zhang Xinjie took out a pen without much consideration, circled the black-haired boy in the photo, and then handed the photo back.

"This is..." the researcher was puzzled.

Zhang Xinjie glanced at him: "This is the information you handed in, and I hope I can make a judgment."

The researcher who was seen through laughed.

"Since you have integrated all the information you have received so far and determined the identity of the mermaid to cover up..." Zhang Xinjie tapped on the boy circled by him in the photo, and instructed: "Then, contact this... Ye Xiu immediately."

"Invite him to the institute and seek his cooperation..."

During the conversation, the door of the conference room was suddenly knocked open, and a person stumbled in. The name tag on his chest should be a new research assistant. He didn't say a word for a long time.

The researcher whose conversation was interrupted frowned unhappily. He wanted to ask why he didn't knock on the door or make an announcement, but seeing that the other party was very panicked, he had to change his words to tell him to calm down first and catch his breath before speaking. Unexpectedly, the other party shook his head desperately, expressing it with gestures. The situation is urgent and there is no room for his delay.

The sound insulation of the meeting room is excellent. After the door is closed, it can be said that it is basically isolated from the world. Until the moment the door was knocked open, several people noticed the chaos and hurried footsteps outside, and the low-pitched alarm buzzed in the distance. Zhang Xinjie glanced outside the door.

The researcher also noticed: "What the hell is going on, so noisy outside?"

"There...someone broke in!"

"Where are the guards?"

"The guards are all gone, but..." the person who came to inform swallowed, "But...can't stop it! Although the other party is suspected of taking advantage of us by surprise..."

"Is it a premeditated protest? How many people have come? If they carry weapons, this matter must be reported to the military." Zhang Xinjie calmly instructed.

"No, no weapons. Only one came..."

Zhang Xinjie frowned: "A person? What kind of person."

The research assistant hesitated for a moment.

"Yes……"

"It's a boy."

Ye Xiu grabbed the opponent's gap and raised his hand to slap him. He easily knocked down the guard who was trying to subdue him, threw the stunned man against the wall, and stood still and shook his hand.

"Okay, who wants to come?" He hooked his fingers.

The guards standing in front of him just adjusted their formation and tightly blocked the passage.

Each of this group of guards is an experienced professional, and among them are even a few retired former special forces. They are strong and strong, and any one of them is twice as wide as a boy, and their strong arms are stronger than Ye Xiu. Their thighs were still thick, not to mention that they were fully armed, but Ye Xiu was wearing a T-shirt and trousers, as if he had gone downstairs to buy instant noodles.

However, even though the young man put on a provocative posture that wanted death, none of the guards stepped forward, and all of them cautiously adopted a defensive posture, guarding the other party.

Ye Xiu sighed, saying that out of dozens of you, you dare not go up even if you beat me.

Everyone didn't listen to his trash talk at all, and there was no other reason. Facts have proved that the other party is too strong.

Holding the researcher's ID that he stole from nowhere, the boy swaggered open the door, and just stepped into the research institute. When the first batch of guards who came over from the monitor detected something wrong and came to fight him, They have suffered greatly by their slights.

At this moment, more than a dozen guards fell down on the side of the corridor inside the institute, and the hanged people were piled up in the corner like sandbags. They were all killed by this unarmed young man single-handedly just now.

"No more?" Ye Xiu glanced around, "Then call the person in charge here, I have a question and would like to ask for advice."

Everyone heard him cracking his knuckles, but they didn't intend to report it.The people in charge here are all academic nerds, so is it necessary to call down those helpless researchers and beat them up unilaterally? ?

Ye Xiu saw them put on the appearance of swearing to the death, and was thinking about knocking down a few more people to make them retreat or make them go berserk, when there was a sound of footsteps mixed with noisy conversation, he was arrested at the door earlier. Stop, the little assistant who deliberately let go after a few words of intimidation came back. He led a few people in white coats—the researchers who frantically surrounded the Goddess on the stage during the introduction meeting, as well as those who stood there. Guy with glasses near the wall.

Zhang Xinjie, the leader, saw Ye Xiu at a glance. The young man was surrounded by tall and burly guards, with no fear on his face. Sensing his gaze, Ye Xiu tilted his head and smiled.

"Are you the person in charge here?"

The other party nodded, stepped out of the security circle amidst the dissuasion of many people, and held out his hand to Ye Xiu: "It's the first time we meet, my surname is Zhang. We are about to invite Mr. Ye to come to the institute as a guest."

"Oh, you really know my identity?" Ye Xiu didn't intend to shake hands with the other party, "This will make things easier."

"Mr. Ye, you can tell us your conditions, and we will evaluate whether..."

Ye Xiu clicked his tongue, with a half-smile on his face: "Conditions? Xiao Zhang, listen clearly, I have no intention of cooperating with you. You have only one choice, and that is to do as I say."

"Please put forward your conditions." Zhang Xinjie repeated.

Ye Xiu smiled: "Well, if you don't want to make the scene too bloody, you'd better meet my... conditions."

In the sight of Zhang Xinjie, several researchers, and many guards, the young man raised his arm. He gathered his five fingers, and with a gentle smile* on his face, he punched hard.

boom!

The huge roar echoed endlessly in the aisle, and several researchers covered their ears uncomfortably, but their faces turned pale from the shock of the unbelievable scene in front of them.

Under the opponent's fist moved away, the anti-shock and anti-blast metal wall of the research institute was obviously sunken, and the special alloy laid on the surface broke a crack, exposing the bare concrete covered with fine cracks underneath.

"I figured it out now? I don't want to 'dedicate myself to great research' today," Ye Xiu narrowed his eyes, brushed away the dust from his hands, and spread his palms straight towards Zhang Xinjie.

"—Just return Su Muqiu and Su Mucheng to me intact."

Hearing this, Zhang Xinjie was obviously taken aback: "Su Muqiu..."

The pale-faced researcher at the side heard Ye Xiu's words, put aside his timidity and fear on the spot, stepped forward, and grabbed Ye Xiu's arm with lightning-fast agility.

Unexpectedly, the researcher who had been quietly shrinking back the last second would suddenly burst into flames. Ye Xiu was suddenly caught, and he looked at the other party. A golden streamer faintly flashed in the depths of his black eyes. Touching the opponent's wrist, the researcher asked anxiously: "You just said...you said..."

"Didn't hear clearly?" Ye Xiu said slowly, "I said, give me back my people. You guys even know my identity, so you're going to pretend you don't know who Su Muqiu is right now? "

The researcher turned pale in shock, and blurted out in panic: "You mean, Su Muqiu...that mermaid is gone?! Where did it go?!"

"The mermaid is missing..." Ye Xiu pinched the opponent's wrist and was stunned: "...what?"

The researcher gritted his teeth: "I ask you! How long has the mermaid been away!"

Ye Xiu: "Uh..."

The anxious researcher immediately put aside the dazed Ye Xiu and yelled with the others how to catch the escaped mermaid. Ye Xiu stared wide-eyed at the spot, watching the researchers in front of him make a mess, each of them was older than him. Be nervous about Su Muqiu's whereabouts.The expressions of these people are so realistic, Ye Xiu can only think of two explanations for a moment, one is that each of them is expected to win this year's Golden Man Award, and the other is that all of this is true.

He raised his hand in the chaos: "Sorry, you just said...who? Mermaid??"

"We finally determined that Su Muqiu is a mermaid, but you said the mermaid is gone?" The researcher who caught Ye Xiu just now was circling anxiously, muttering to himself extremely fast: "Where will it go?? The sea? Why? It found the research institute? No, how could it not have found it, it came to the introduction meeting..."

"Hey, I thought you guys kidnapped him?" Ye Xiu didn't know where to start asking, "And why do you say he's a mermaid..."

Before the scene became chaotic, Zhang Xinjie had already assigned the task to the guards to immediately organize manpower to search for the missing Su Muqiu. The guards didn't treat Ye Xiu well, but they obeyed the order and helped the injured colleague to leave quickly.Zhang Xinjie turned to look at Ye Xiu: "Mr. Ye, according to you, the mermaid left without warning? He probably didn't simply escape back to the sea. I believe that our two goals are temporarily the same at this stage, that is to find the mermaid. I hope you will We will reconsider the proposal of cooperation, and we will also provide the information we currently have."

"...Okay." Ye Xiu frowned, and after confirming again and again that this was not a trap to catch a turtle in a jar, he nodded slowly and followed behind him, "However, you must first explain why Mu Qiu is..."

The researchers of the Goddess fanatics were very nervous about Su Muqiu's whereabouts. They scratched their heads and pulled their hair one by one, eager to rush forward to pry Ye Xiu's mouth open, ask the mermaid's final whereabouts, and speed up the search.But Ye Xiu refused to let go, and forcefully asked them to explain that because the force value he had shown earlier was too high, the five fighters knew that even if there were hundreds more, they would not be able to defeat them, so they could only cooperate.

It's a pity that when he thought that the mermaid had gone somewhere, and might have escaped from the land in the past few 10 minutes, the researcher became anxious, and his tone was particularly harsh: "Mr. Ye told us not to be stupid, you have to trust us, we already know Su Muqiu is the mermaid who went ashore, do you still insist on hiding it for her?"

"Can no one explain why he's a mermaid?" Ye Xiu looked at Zhang Xinjie, who was the calmest among the whole group and seemed to be able to communicate in human language.

Zhang Xinjie held the documents he had received earlier, and he took a part out of it and placed it in front of Ye Xiu.

The content of the small stack of documents handed to him was difficult, with a lot of technical terms, and the title was confusing. Ye Xiu studied for a while, and finally decided that the subtitle should be "Evidence on Su Muqiu being a Mermaid".

Ye Xiu: "...You guys still prepare this kind of thing at any time."

"It's just a coincidence." Zhang Xinjie replied.

Although this document was so thick that it was a headache, Ye Xiu found that most of it was photos, most of which were of Su Muqiu at work, and there were also many statistics and charts. The real content was only a few items.

One, age.Su Muqiu's appearance looks like he is only 16 years old, but according to the results of the personnel investigation, he once mentioned that he was 18 years old at work-apparently the investigators believed that what he said casually at ordinary times was more authentic.And the appearance of the mermaids looks younger than their actual age.

"That's a bluff. He's really 16 years old. It's written on his ID card." Ye Xiu said.

Zhang Xinjie: "This is the second item we want to talk about."

Two, identity.The identity records in the old city are old, and there are many loopholes. If there is a channel, it is easy to forge an ID card for the price of a lunch box. Moreover, Su Muqiu and Su Mucheng have no father or mother in the records, and they came from an orphanage. That orphanage It was closed a few years ago due to poor operation, and it is impossible to trace back.

However, the little girl's school has regular health checkups. She is indeed a human being. The research institute believes that it is very likely that she happened to be similar to a mermaid, so Su Muqiu took her by Su Muqiu's side as a cover.

"If you want to hide your identity as a mermaid, the old town is easier to get past."*

Ye Xiu nodded, agreeing with this judgment, just thinking about where a mermaid who landed from the sea can find an ID card for the price of a box lunch.

Three, frequent access to the Mermaid Museum, and abnormal behavior.For example, when 031 suddenly sang, only he was as unresponsive as a wooden stake, but after testing, the mermaid's singing seems to have a certain degree of hypnotic effect, but any creature with a brain or thinking ability, from human to small White mice will fall into a trance without exception, but Su Muqiu is fine. Thinking about it now, isn't it because he is a mermaid?

Facing the researcher who planned to show him the surveillance footage, Ye Xiu reluctantly expressed that he was a little convinced, and then asked, did you believe that he had no brains?

Four, appearance.

Ye Xiucai asked what was wrong with his appearance. Su Muqiu was completely in line with human standards. Then a researcher with instant noodle scum on his collar shouted angrily, "The museum tour guide always praises this Su Muqiu for being very handsome. It's pretty, but when he grows up a few years later, he's going to get married anyway, just with that face, I can guarantee that it's a mermaid without a doubt!"

After observing the other party's appearance, Ye Xiu thought that according to his way of identifying handsome guys as mermaids, the earth should have been ruled by mermaids long ago.

Others also listed some items scatteredly. For example, he used to work on a pier near the sea, and his current working place is also biased towards mermaids. All these stacked up are an answer that seems to be quite credible, Let the conclusion that Su Muqiu is a mermaid become a certainty.

In fact, there was another copy prepared on the premise that Ye Xiu was a mermaid, although it was much thinner than Su Muqiu's.The research institute will prepare this kind of information, which is naturally to be used to persuade and cooperate. No matter which of the two people is the mermaid, since they have been able to get along for so long, they should have cultivated a certain degree of trust with the mermaid, so as to avoid the mermaid slipping away suddenly , Zhang Xinjie's instructions will always be to contact the owner of the mermaid first.It is expected that the other party may insist that the other is just an ordinary human being, so the research institute can directly show the materials and use evidence to explain that 'we all know, don't engage in unnecessary disputes'.

However, most of this is based on the results. In Ye Xiu's view, many of the so-called evidences are far-fetched, not to mention who Su Muqiu is and who among them is a mermaid. No one knows better than him.

However, using the judgments of this group of human beings, they will undoubtedly help him find Su Muqiu.

Ye Xiu dropped the information and tapped on the table, "I see. So, where is Mu Qiu?"

"The mermaid's disappearance inevitably reminds me of the Mermaid Research Institute, but I never gave such instructions as forcible kidnapping." Zhang Xinjie replied, "Is it possible that the mermaid is only going out temporarily?"

Ye Xiu thought: "This..."

Since he woke up this morning and couldn't find Su Muqiu, he felt something was wrong.He fell asleep in the early morning, when Su Muqiu was still lying on the side, he didn't expect to wake up an hour or two later, and he was lost.

At that time, there were probably breakfast ingredients on the dining table, and Su Mucheng's schoolbag was also nearby, but neither of them were there.Ye Xiu circled around inside and outside the room, forgetting about Su Muqiu, but Mucheng didn't even leave him a note, Ye Xiu instinctively reacted that something had happened.

What he immediately remembered was the special car of the Mermaid Research Institute that had inexplicably appeared in City B.

How could that be a coincidence.

It's a pity that no matter whether this is a trap set by the research institute or not, for those two people, they have to break through the dragon's lake and tiger's den.As a last resort, the institute had no reason to refuse his life and compromise in exchange for the safety of the other two.

But now it seems that it wasn't the research institute who started it, maybe he was really too nervous, maybe Su Muqiu was just called to work temporarily, leaving him to clean up, and even hinted that he had prepared breakfast and delivered it there. ──In short, as long as it is not in the hands of the research institute, he believes that Su Muqiu can handle it with his ability.Ye Xiu breathed a sigh of relief, wondering if Su Mucheng might have forgotten to bring her schoolbag.

The researchers thought that Su Muqiu might have escaped, but Ye Xiu only said that he couldn't leave without saying goodbye.

"It is said that the mermaid is very cunning, it doesn't want to be caught, why can't it escape?"

"This is his house. I haven't left yet. Why is he leaving?" Ye Xiu answered naturally.

The researcher shook his head, looked at him as if he was looking at a fool who had been deceived by his feelings and wishful thinking, and asked, "Then does it behave differently from the past?"

Ye Xiu recalled: "Last night we had a sumptuous meal. Before going to bed, he said he would make us breakfast this morning."

Someone slapped his face with a slap on the spot, Suinian this is really a super ominous flag, how could he not notice that the mermaid was planning to leave Yunyun alone, Ye Xiu let out an oh, sincerely expressing that he really didn't expect it.

At this moment, the guard reported that some suspicious signs were found a few streets away from the target's residence.

Zhang Xinjie immediately arranged for a car, followed by Ye Xiu, and the researcher who seemed to have a high status also got into the car.

The car was spacious enough for the three of them to sit in the same row. Ye Xiu watched the gradually increasing rain outside the window and quietly moved his ankle. No matter what questions the researcher asked him about Su Muqiu, he didn't answer.After a few awkward conversations with no response, the researcher turned to Zhang Xinjie to ask Zhang Xinjie about the next arrangement.

"Leader, if you find the mermaid later, it is trying to escape..."

"You must not hurt the mermaid, and you must not have any aggressive intentions. Talk to the other party, and the use of force is prohibited."

"No way, Team Leader Zhang, at this point, are you going to say something about protecting and cherishing species?" The researcher was speechless.

"Xiao Chen, I have said many times that mermaids are very intelligent and sensitive creatures with high IQ. The individual attack power of mermaids is much higher than that of humans. Once he detects the attack intention and causes resistance, casualties will inevitably occur. Peace Solving it is our primary goal.”

The researcher known as Xiao Chen had a strange expression: "Peaceful settlement? After it saw the cryogenic chamber with its own eyes and watched the video of how humans treat its kind, do you think the mermaid will cooperate with us?"

"..." As the owner of the mermaid, Ye Xiu sat silently by the side.

"That was a backward method half a century ago." Zhang Xinjie emphasized, "The reason why the cryo chamber is opened is not to intimidate, but it is the fastest and most likely way to make mermaids react abnormally. Play that group of videos , without my consent, and over-cutting, distorting the situation, making ordinary people think that mermaids should be hunted. I haven't pursued these, but it doesn't mean I don't pursue them. Now we have new technologies, and mermaids are intelligent species should be able to seek coexistence.”

"Team leader, so your dream is world peace? Your old partner didn't accept it, so you came to the research institute by air?" Xiao Chen laughed a few times, and there was a bit of hidden dissatisfaction in that laughter.

Zhang Xinjie frowned.

It seemed that he realized that his answer was wrong, but Xiao Chen didn't mean to take it back. Instead, he sincerely praised this is really a great and beautiful vision, hoping that it can be successfully realized.

The inside of the car suddenly became quiet, leaving only the annoying sound of rain, and the sound of the person in charge of driving busy answering the phone from time to time to confirm the situation on the scene.

When the private security of the Mermaid Research Institute received the task of searching for Su Muqiu, they had already contacted the Public Security Bureau of City H. When the vehicle that Ye Xiu was in arrived, there were policemen pulling up the yellow cordon with a blank expression. It was no surprise that the crowd was watching. Ye Xiu was surprised when he saw Yu Wenzhou and Tang Rou.

The two men were wearing uniforms, holding umbrellas, standing on the periphery of the crowd, talking in low voices, with worried expressions on their faces.When they noticed the approaching vehicle, and Ye Xiu who opened the door and got out of the car, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.Yu Wenzhou recognized the logo of the Mermaid Research Institute outside the car. He looked in surprise at the two people who got out of the car with Ye Xiu. The two showed their IDs and were quickly welcomed in by the people from the research institute.

"Do you know people from the institute?"

"It's a long story... why are you here?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Su Muqiu didn't come to work today. I made several calls but no one answered. I was worried that something might happen. The store manager asked us to take a look." Tang Rou said, leaning the umbrella in Ye Xiu's direction, "We I rang the doorbell, but there was no one there, and on the way back, I saw several police cars coming, and here... Anyway, it's not you. Do you know where Su Muqiu is?"

"Mu Qiu is gone. He didn't go to the store?" Ye Xiu paused and asked, "What are you talking about, it's not me? What's wrong?"

Yu Wenzhou shook his head slowly: "Maybe it's our overthinking."

Ye Xiu glanced at the two of them, and was about to ask for more details, when suddenly he smelled a familiar smell in the air moistened by the heavy rain.

It was Su Muqiu's smell.

Mixed in a faint smell of blood.

Ye Xiu's pupils constricted, he turned sharply and ran towards the security line, the two who were worried about him were chasing after him.

The heavy rain wet his clothes, absorbed the rainwater, and clinged to every sore and painful tiny scale on his body. Without noticing it, he slipped through the group of humans who were just waiting to watch the excitement, and came to the encirclement center.

It was an ordinary corner of the street, floor tiles, flower beds, nothing wrong with it.In the area enclosed by the police, there were no living or dead people, only a large pool of blood and a broken umbrella.

That umbrella──Ye Xiu clearly remembered that when they met for the first time, the umbrella was blown away by the wind. On the day they kissed again and again on the bed, this umbrella, which had been mended countless times, blocked the rain for Ye Xiu when he returned home.

Ye Xiu was drenched by the heavy rain, his black hair was wet against his forehead, covering his expression.

Tang Rou, who caught up with him, shielded him from the rain, but Ye Xiu moved slightly to let himself be immersed in the rain more thoroughly.

He heard the man surnamed Zhang from the research institute instructing people to adjust the images of all the nearby monitors to determine the owner and whereabouts of the pool of blood.

He felt the blood water diluted by the heavy rain, flowing coldly past his feet and drained into the sewer, taking away the gradually thinning scent of Su Muqiu.

It's cold.

But deep inside the body, the low-temperature blood belonging to the mermaid was scorching hot, scalding the violently constricted heart.

"Ye Xiu...?" Tang Rou called out in a low voice.

For the first time, he didn't answer.

It seemed that it was several seconds late before I remembered my name.

"It's fine," he said, "I'm fine."

Ye Xiu closed his eyes forcefully, covering the pupils that had turned into golden vertical pupils.He took a very long and deep breath before slowly exhaling the bloody smell accumulated in his chest cavity. Even though his eyes barely returned to black, the cold and sharp eyes revealed a breath completely different from that of humans. He said in a normal tone: " ...have to find them as soon as possible. If something happens to them..."

Then don't blame him, what have you done to humans, Mu Qiu.

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