Mermaid Throne

As soon as the war was over, the fourth city-state immediately regained its original vitality.

When Rong Xuan and Tao Yiran were walking on the busy street, they instantly thought of the past.

Tao Yiran still treats everything so nonchalantly, and he, who is following behind him, is no longer in a state of only looking up to him.When the young man subconsciously turned his head and looked down for himself, Rong Xuan leaned over without making a sound, and walked side by side with him.A trace of astonishment flashed in Tao Yiran's eyes, but he didn't say anything, and continued walking towards the dungeon.

Rong Xuan secretly glanced at the corners of his slightly raised lips, thinking that one day he would bring this person back to the place where they first met.

The entrance to the dungeon is very hidden, and the guards are much tighter these days than before.When Tao Yiran asked Rong Xuan to go in, the guard who clearly recognized Tao Yiran dutifully checked Rong Xuan's identity.

"Mr. Tao!" Zhang Yunyang, the man they met in the dungeon that day, and his mermaid wife, Yang Xue, quickly appeared. Obviously, Ji Yunzhi had communicated well with them before. When the mermaid wife saw Rong Xuan, she immediately recognized him. This mermaid is no ordinary visitor.

"This is your...?"

"my sweetheart."

"His lover."

The two who spoke almost at the same time looked at each other, Tao Yiran smiled, Rong Xuan blushed, and his eyes were full of surprise.

"You guys are living happily." Yang Xue said enviously.

Rong Xuan nodded, holding back the smile on his lips—he would never show tenderness in front of others. At his age, only a tough shell can win the awe of others: "Take us to see."

Zhang Yunyang nodded.Ever since Tao Yiran put forward the utopia plan, he has been worried about whether he should trust a strange mermaid slave.The mermaid major general who came today is not only powerful, but the way he looks at Tao Yiran is enough to prove the relationship between them.Zhang Yunyang finally let go of all his guard and revealed everything about the dungeon.

They really need a place where they can live in a fair manner.Especially after their children were born, their longing for sunshine and safety made them have to consider fighting back against inequality.

After seeing the mixed family living in the dungeon for the first time, Rong Xuan was stunned for a long time.

No sunlight, outdated air delivery system, and slum-like buildings, even so, the mermaid who fell in love with humans never abandoned their lovers, but stayed by their side, working hard for a better life.

This is an underground world that is in darkness but has never been extinguished.

He carefully touched the mermaid baby that was a combination of human and mermaid, and couldn't help but look up at Tao Yiran who was discussing the current situation of the dungeon with the couple.

The young man's face is not always sloppy, his concentration and seriousness are just like those in the boxing ring back then.

Rong Xuan once again realized his childishness and innocence.

He originally thought that keeping this person by his side, giving him the best and creating more expectations for him would satisfy all the wishes of this human being.

He was totally wrong, everything that Tao Yiran has now was obtained through his own hard work.My so-called protection and so-called gifts are not necessary for this human being who rarely thinks about the future.Tao Yiran has been a human being who lives according to his will from before. He can abandon his dignity in order to earn money, and he can use his sword to win. His only ambition is the original boxing ring.

If it wasn't for himself, he obviously wouldn't be able to stay.

But I never brought him an equal life. I turned him into a slave, made him a shameful joke in the eyes of others, and made him wear the shackles of betraying human beings.

Faced with this cruel reality for the first time, Rong Xuan's uneasiness and guilt that had been hidden in his heart seemed to be dug out and exposed to the sun.

He subconsciously grabbed Tao Yiran's hand, with a pale face, hesitating for a long time before daring to ask the question he was most afraid of.

"What's wrong?" Tao Yiran was interrupted and looked sideways at him.

"..." He just grabbed his hand, even trembling a little.

He's just, before that, he spent 18 years of his life learning how to become a strong man.He hasn't learned how to like someone.He only knows that he is not willing to let go of this person, wants to give this person the best, wants to see this person laughing, angry from embarrassment, helpless and pampered.

What do you like about me now?

Do you regret it?

Tao Yiran waited for a long time without hearing him say a word, but too many negative emotions had been revealed on that face, so he subconsciously touched his head, although he still didn't understand what he thought of What, still relieved: "With me here, what are you worried about?"

The mermaid couple watched the strange interaction between the two in amazement.The mermaid who was supposed to be the stronger party in the relationship actually put her head on Tao Yiran's shoulder childishly at this moment, and remained silent the entire time.

Tao Yiran thought that he was still suffering, so he said to the couple, "Can you bother to move away for a while?"

Zhang Yunyang immediately said "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" and took his wife away.

As soon as the mentally prepared mermaid raised her head, someone hugged her head and slapped her left cheek.

Tao Yiran looked at his blank look and sneered, "Are you feeling better?"

Rong Xuan touched the place where he was kissed, his fair face turned as red as an apple: "Why do you think I will feel better?"

"What do you say?"

"If you like me very much, you should kiss me often instead of using it as a trump card to comfort me."

"...Do, is this something I would do often?"

"If you do it often, I won't feel bad." Rong Xuan put his hands around his waist, hugged him tightly, and groped for his ears with his face, "If you don't take the initiative, if one day you suddenly don't like me, I will won't know."

"..." Tao Yiran rolled his eyes.He finally understood what kind of entanglement this mermaid was in, and he said angrily, "Every time I'll be a female mermaid for a whole night, don't you think that's not enough?"

The little mermaid's ears turned red instantly.

He finally remembered last night, the moment when the young man raised his hand and touched his cheek in a daze.

What was Tao Yiran's expression at that time?

Let go, like, trust, be happy.

This is the real emotion he brought to this human being, though short-lived.

He hugged the young man even tighter.

If I bring you darkness, I will work hard to create more light, no matter how bottomless the darkness is, I will let you see more and more light, let you believe, let you be seduced forever Stay with me and look forward to more light.

The existence of the dungeon made Rong Xuan re-examine his goal.

They are obviously just in love, but they have to curl up in the dark and not be blessed by their compatriots.

He doesn't want such a future.

When he discussed the legalization of dungeons with Durant, the experienced former mermaid king shook his head helplessly: "You are trying to create an impossible Eden."

"No, it's not impossible, it's because this world has never had the right people or mermaids to do it before." Rong Xuan's eyes were calm, and he was a firm leader in front of Durant, "The battle between humans and mermaids has passed. For decades, the voice calling for peace has never stopped. No matter how long the struggle is, there will be a day of peace. Before this peace appears, there must be a middle ground where these ideas are risky and practiced. Tao Yiran is right, and has never been affected. Why must the mermaids attacked by humans hate humans? Why do humans who only want to maintain their own lives have to go to war with mermaids? Why should the resentment of others spread to themselves? These imposed hatred and hostility against us have been reluctant for too many years... If there is More humans like mermaids, and more mermaids want to return to live on land, so these neutral people, they need a place where they can choose freely."

"Maybe there will be this vague area, but why must it be the fourth city-state?" Durant touched his chin and did not deny his thoughts.

"Because there are already possibilities here, because this is a place where the mind is not yet stable, because... because I am about to rule this city," Rong Xuan slowly tightened his fists, "And I also need a new base, I need a new base. Quite a different reason to attract more merfolk to my regiment."

After Tao Yiran recruited Fei Yin, he knew that his persistence was completely unnecessary.

When his revenge is over, his life will continue.

The future between him and Tao Yiran will continue.

"Oh, what a high-sounding reason, but it can't hide your selfishness," the sophisticated old man sneered, "tell me, what is it that really changed your mind?"

Rong Xuan smiled faintly: "...Because I need a Garden of Eden, a Garden of Eden that can become Tao Yiran's sustenance, so that he has to stay and protect it."

Durant raised his eyebrows. Although he wasn't surprised, the madness in the other party's eyes darkened to the extreme made him startled.

"If the antagonism between races can slowly fade away, the wars he hates will decrease. As long as you use this to tempt him, Tao Yiran will stay and work hard to defend this dream." He looked down at the mermaid in his hand tag.Tao Yiran had lost the old tag, and there was no word written on the new tag.He didn't want him to wear such a humiliating item again, but not yet, he couldn't do it yet. "I will give him a beautiful future that he likes. This future should make him feel that the suffering he is going through now is nothing at all. This is the only thing I can give him, something he cannot do by himself."

"...It's not easy to maintain such a beautiful dream." Durant sighed.He actually didn't understand young people's love.

"Well, I can pay him my whole life to let him dream," Rong Xuan chuckled.

It didn't take long for the young mermaid major general to take charge of the fourth city-state, and most of the residents felt the change.

The originally prudent business activities with inland areas have become more frequent and simpler. Mermaids and the fourth city-state's transactions have all been made public. The mermaids who come to trade can no longer obtain electricity from the fourth city-state at unreasonable prices. And other technological products, the fourth city-state has obtained double the marine resources than before, the economy in the city quickly returned to the pre-war level, and more and more humans came to seek refuge.

The bigger change comes from the emergence of "racial free zone".The interracial family composed of mermaids and humans who have been living in seclusion in the dungeon finally moved to the ground openly.

As a "free zone" for the experimental field of racial equality, the area is small, but it is strictly protected. The "Free Zone" has its own legal codes, and the most sensational one is the equal marriage rights between mermaids and humans.

The closest relationship between humans and mermaids is no longer slaves and masters, but companions.

The emergence of the free zone caused a huge stir in both races.

Opponents accused the fourth city-state of openly supporting traitors, but those in favor had long since hated the continuous war and hatred. Why couldn't such a brand new area of ​​change be allowed to try to survive?

No matter how noisy and bloody it was outside, the fourth city-state, with its gates closed and its adjacent waters strictly controlled, finally implemented this utopian plan.

The emergence of the free zone also made the fourth city-state face new threats.The human government has great hostility to the free zone.They are not satisfied with staying inland. The lack of resources on the mainland makes them very eager to regain the resources of the sea. The mermaid city-states in the coastal area have seriously weakened their coastal resources. Now the fourth city-state has created a free zone. Let the mermaid city-state gain more hearts, and their coastal control will be further weakened.

Human beings objected, and the mermaids were also threatened.

The death of Huazhui does not mean that this sea area can completely belong to Rongxuan.Huazhui is just the major general in the northwest area, and the real mermaid king of the western Pacific is the master of this sea area.

Before the challenge to the throne, Rongxuan's rule of the fourth city-state was always not justified.

The Judi family, which was the first to form an alliance with Rongxuan, stood by Rongxuan's side without any hesitation.Because of Rongxuan's victory this time, the Iteng family, which had always been in the upper hand, was finally squeezed out of the hegemony of the Japanese island by the Kikuchi family.In return, the Kikuchi family supported the defense of the fourth city-state's open sea.

With the support of the Kikuchi family at sea, and the resources sent by the Rong family from various channels inland, Rong Xuan's throne of power seems to be relatively stable for the time being.

This young manager is busy with various city management affairs every day, but experience needs to be accumulated over time. When he was forced to feel powerless by some older mermaids, Tao Yiran used the experience of a senior hooligan to replace him Settle all kinds of difficulties.

In terms of chemical knowledge, Tao Yiran may not be as good as Rong Xuan, but in terms of human strategy, no one can be more cunning than this young man who has lived in an underground boxing ring since he was 12 years old.

Those members of parliament who think highly of themselves are often upset by him, but when you call him shameless, he can still laugh as if it is a compliment.

Although Rong Xuan didn't like Tao Yiran's role-changing in which he sang the bad face while he sang the good face, the effect was so good that he gradually remembered the feeling of being protected by him behind him, so he no longer struggled.

Fein, who took the lead in revising the free zone code, would sit in the auditorium by the sea and attend some weddings without relatives or friends.Looking at the smiles of these newlyweds, Fein felt for the first time that his choice couldn't be more correct.

It turned out that no matter how weak a half-breed mermaid he was, he could still change this unfair world.

After the wedding, Fein would always get hand flowers from the bride, and then he would come to the garden outside Ji Yunzhi's laboratory and put the bouquet of flowers on the window sill of his office.

If he sees that bouquet on his desk the next day, the little mermaid will be happy all day.

Ji Yunzhi seemed to know nothing, and continued his busy genetic work.

Durant is also very excited recently. The free zone has attracted many young mermaids to join, and he has found some good seedlings.Thinking of the apprentices he cultivated will set off a huge storm in this world in the future, he feels that he has no regrets in this life.

Everyone or mermaids have found their new goals and existence value in this city. No matter whether the road ahead is rough or not, maybe a bigger storm is about to usher in, at least for now, they all feel satisfied.

Dinner time is a rare time to get together. Fein has a strong attachment to the sense of community, so every night as long as there is time, everyone will sit together to eat and talk about the situation of the past few days.

This kind of family atmosphere, almost no one here has enjoyed it.

Durant believes that it is precisely because they lost their parents at an early age that these problem children develop all kinds of strange personalities.

You see, his father and mother died of old age naturally when he was 30 years old. Isn't his personality so normal?

But... Speaking of family, Durant thought of a very important thing.

"It's time for Fein to choose too, right?"

"What?" The innocent little mermaid blinked.Perhaps because of his mixed race, Fei Yin's underage appearance was much younger than his peers of the same age, so when he first arrived, Tao Yiran thought he was only 16 years old.

"Are you going to be in heat too?" After Durant finished speaking, everyone looked at Fein with surprise in their eyes.

"I, I don't, I'm temporarily..." In front of everyone, Fein spoke incoherently, not knowing how to cover up this topic.He instantly understood the meaning of Durant's words. He was nervous and shy, and it took him a long time to think of his excuse: "No... I don't need..."

"Hehe, sorry? It's okay, I'll introduce you to a few beautiful double species. Not many mermaids here know that you are a mixed race."

"No need..." The little mermaid was so nervous that she almost shed tears.

"Have you got a fever?" Rong Xuan, who has just come of age, has the most right to speak. "If you have a fever, you have to find a candidate as soon as possible."

"Or do you like humans?" The heartless Tao Yiran also asked.

Fein clenched the chopsticks in his hand, holding back for a long time, but he still didn't hear Ji Yunzhi's voice, and finally couldn't help but look up at the other party, only to find that the other party was also looking at him, just as the eyes met, the little mermaid's face Instantly burned red uncontrollably.

"..." Ji Yunzhi suddenly felt something was wrong.

So everyone's eyes turned to him again.

The room was silent.

Durant let out a gleeful "Oh" and asked Ji Yunzhi deliberately: "What do you think?"

"How do I know!" The subrace man who lay innocently on the gun roared angrily.

Fein bit his lower lip, hesitant to speak.

"If you don't mate, you will die." Tao Yiran emphasized coolly beside him.Haha, you told me this.

"...None of my business!" Ji Yunzhi put down the bowl and chopsticks with a red face, turned around and slammed the door to leave.

The rejected little mermaid's eyes were wide open, and tears were about to fall at any moment.Durant immediately opened the door for him, fearing that the world would be chaotic and urged: "Oh, you young people don't know how to fall in love... How could it be possible that if you like him, he will immediately like you? Go after him."

Fein hesitated for a while, and finally started to chase.

Durant laughed wildly and followed behind, hoping that the scene would reach its climax today.

But no one expected that the young man who was turned away after chasing him out foolishly squatted outside the door for a long time, but he still didn't get the other party's soft heart, but it made everyone know that he liked Ji Yunzhi. After Rong Xuan heard about it, he wished he could send these two awkward guys into the bridal chamber tomorrow, where they would cook raw rice.

Both were once his rivals in love, and together they could kill two birds with one stone.

In this way, at least in his team, there is no one who covets Tao Yiran anymore.

The longer the estrus period lasts, the greater the harm to the body. Ji Yunzhi understands this truth, but why must it be him?So I could only open the window angrily, and yelled at the boy who was about to secretly put flowers: "I don't like you! Find someone else! You are not a female, so there is no reason to choose someone you like!"

The boy who was yelled at was stunned in place, with a little water vapor in his beautiful eyes.

Ji Yunzhi turned his head away from him, ready to leave.

"Then can I wait until you like me?" The boy still put the flowers on the window sill and asked cautiously.

"I can't wait. Someone who doesn't like you, while you're waiting, maybe he's already in love with someone else." Ji Yunzhi didn't look at him, and just said this lightly before going back to work, "You have Someone you like?" Fein was in a hurry, and continued to ask while holding the window sill.

"...No more," Ji Yunzhi turned to stare at him, "Anyway, don't wait for me, go find someone else, I won't be able to pay for my health." He was about to close the window.

Fein suddenly pushed the bouquet inside the moment the window closed.Ji Yunzhi didn't have time to stop, and accidentally pinched him. As a result, the injured little mermaid was still looking at his panicked expression with a smirk outside the window.

Having never been liked like this before, Ji Yunzhi's blush spread to his ears, and he took the bouquet of flowers and finally left.

The old and the young just came back from work and saw this scene from a distance, and commented on these two innocent creatures.

"How can there be such a useless mermaid?" Rong Xuan could not understand Fei Yin's lack of arrogance.

"You are even better than him in front of Tao Yiran." Durant snorted coldly.

"... For Tao Yiran, you can only use softness to overcome strength, but Ji Yunzhi likes the strong, and Fei Yin will only suffocate himself to death if he continues to be useless." Rong Xuan is not ashamed of his status at all.

Durant touched his chin: "Help him. You can't let a mermaid suffocate to death."

Rong Xuan was noncommittal, but the corners of his mouth still curved slightly.

That night, Ji Yunzhi, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by the commotion outside. The door was slammed open, and he was hugged tightly before he could see the person coming. His wet body showed that the guy seemed to have just come out of the water.

"...Hey, what are you doing?" Sensing his body trembling slightly, Ji Yunzhi still didn't hold him accountable for wetting his entire bed.

"I don't want to mate with other mermaids..." Fein cried sadly, "So what if I'm a male, I like you, I only like you, why do mermaids have to mate before they become adults? I don't want to be a mermaid anymore. I become a human, so I don't have to..."

"It's not the person you like, the other person must like you." Ji Yunzhi had a headache.

"So, can I wait until the two are consensual before mating? You help me develop a medicine that will delay my adulthood..."

"Nonsense! You're due in a month, so delay your life... um..." With his mouth sealed, Ji Yunzhi rolled his eyes.

damn it.

Mermaids are indeed much more beastly than humans.

He struggled twice, but the opponent's strength was obviously much stronger.Tsk, I still have to be...

Unexpectedly, when he was about to acquiesce, the little mermaid let him go, with a depressed expression: "I won't do it. If you keep doing it, you will hate me. If I don't do it, then you will ignore me again, so that I will become an adult." What's the point..." As he spoke, tears fell down again, and in Ji Yunzhi's astonished eyes, he wiped away the tears, and said with a rare stubbornness: "I'll wait for you to agree before I do it."

"...wait until you get over it." Ji Yunzhi's face was sullen, but he reached for a towel to wipe his wet hair, "Don't drip all the water on my bed."

Fein lowered his head slightly to make it easier for his hands.

Looking at his cute and weak appearance, Ji Yunzhi only felt bad.

He is not indifferent, but he needs a strong protector.Fein is just a child, although he can protect him, but when it comes to the most dangerous time, it is impossible to expect him to be like Tao Yiran.

He sighed, looking at the pretty side face and began to think wildly.

You don't want to be a mermaid, and I don't want to be a human being. If we can exchange, I will marry you back home.