How to keep a human in captivity

Before today, Arthur thought he was just an ordinary mermaid, even if he had some anxiety, he never thought that he would become a great warrior one day.

I'm definitely not a great mermaid warrior.

When Arthur lifted the freezer and tried to stroke his tail, his thoughts were as messy as a ball of wool, and the only thread pointed—he had to lift this human out of the sea.

He had to send this human to the surface.

The pressure of the ocean floor would crush every bone in this human being, and he would crumble to a heap before he suffocated for lack of air.

The sea is quiet and docile in many cases. When you swim in it, you will not feel any resistance at all. Sea water is to mermaids, just like air is to human beings.

But now, all this has changed.

All the air bubbles, all the undercurrents, and all the schools of fish are twisting and circling, and finally they form an absurd painting. When Arthur is in it, for the first time, he feels a kind of suffocation that even the alveoli are about to be squeezed. feel.

But the sea is approaching.

The sea is approaching!The pressure is decreasing!

If this is good news, then we have to accept a relatively bad news.

The freezer is filled with sea water.

— If you don't have gills, don't put your head in sea water.

This is a witticism about humans that is circulated among mermaids.

But it fits the scene so damn well.

Arthur swore he definitely saw the eyes of the humans in the freezer open.

No no no!

Don't panic! (Don't panic!)

That was probably the most perfect tail flick that Mermaid Arthur completed in his lifetime. It was a perfect combination of violence and aesthetics.

The freezer was roughly pushed onto the reef, slid out a certain distance, and got stuck precariously in a depression on the reef.

Floating in the sea, Arthur felt a little weak, and it made him want to go back to his shell room, to his comfortable shell lounger, preferably with a cup of seaweed tea.

That's his life.

Instead of being like now, he was floating on the sea, staring in shock at a stupid human freezer.

Ford came out of the sea belatedly, holding a seaweed towel in his hand.

and many more!

Seaweed towels?

A seaweed towel, it explains, is said to have enormous psychological value for humans, because if you own a towel, the other person is likely to think you will have all your daily necessities and even food.What idiot would carry a lone towel without a matching toothbrush or something? (Note 1)

"It makes him feel our kindness," Ford explained to his friend. "Then he thinks we can provide him with some human food or something."

"Are you sure?" Arthur didn't want to hide the doubt and shock on his face. (By the way, Peanut areyousure's expression is really amazing 233333)

"Oh, the fact is that we can't provide food. No mermaid can expect a human to fall from scratch." Ford said, and then he dug out a book of soggy seaweed from nowhere, "Don't worry."

he said to Arthur.

"We still have this, check it out! A Guide to Captive Humans!"

"Guide to Captive Humans", this is a book written by a mermaid using seaweed. It is usually wet-soaked, but this does not affect its readability, and it is even less likely to affect its accuracy.

It wrote in the preface that if one day you have a human being, the first thing you need to do is-don't panic.

Even if you don't have a habitable environment for your human, or even any kind of food for your human, well man, admit it, you don't even think you'll have a human.

However, after this incident.

I will give you this practical advice - don't panic.

"Okay." The mermaid Arthur held the wet-soaked book, "This looks strange and reliable."

Then Arthur tried to turn the pages of the book, and he was shocked to find that there was no second page in the book, to be precise, it only had a preface.

"Aha, that's the crux of the matter," said Ford, "never has a single merman raised a human in captivity, and if we succeed, I'll be able to finish this book, and I'll list more than ten species in the book." way to prove that it is practical to keep a human in captivity."

Arthur restrained, god of the sea, he had to restrain his urge to smear the book in Ford's face every second.

"Ford, I have to admit this is a stupid question, but this is what we need to solve now."

"What should we do now?"

Ford frowned, looking as though he was thinking, and then said, "Arthur, we just found a human being."

"Yes." Arthur answered patiently.

"It's amazing."

"I think it's really amazing."

"Then?"

"Then? Don't panic!"

Arthur nearly popped out of the ocean if he could, hissing, "Don't panic?!"

"Yes, don't panic."

"I'm not panic-panic!"

"Arthur, calm down, don't panic."

"Okay." Arthur controlled himself, and he compromised. For the first time, he felt that he was not anxious, "I'm not panic-panic, and then?"

"Then we're going to keep a human in captivity."

Arthur was thankful that Ford had finally found the point of the problem. He didn't want to waste more time on the question of whether he was panic-panic or not. In fact, just to prove to the mermaids that he was not anxious Disturbing enough already.

"We just had a human, which is amazing, we didn't panic. Then we're going to captive a human, hey, maybe we should make sure the human is alive first."

Arthur thanked himself for his good manners, because it allowed him to endure Ford's entire sentence, he never thought he could be such a polite merman.

Now, we can finally start to pay attention to the hero who has appeared since the beginning, but we have ignored more than 4000 characters.

The freezer is on the reef, and it looks a bit miserable, a bit like being abandoned.

The mermaids approached the freezer, and now it has been completely opened, and some seawater has entered the cabin, but not much, thanks to Arthur's perfect tail flick.

Arthur touched his human carefully. The mermaids said that the human body temperature is a very comfortable temperature, but the human in front of him felt only a little warm, which probably meant that he was still weak. Eyes that had been opened were now tightly closed again.

Mermaids know that a human cannot be submerged in sea water.

So they tried to get the human out of the freezer, because the sun had been slightly exposed on the sea level, and the mermaids heard that sunlight could restore human life.

But the mermaids hate the sun, because it can dry the sea water on their bodies, leaving dry salt grains.

It was an awful feeling.

But it will never be more uncomfortable than being picked up by a human being by the neck.

Arthur watched in horror as the human being who was so fragile in front of them suddenly stood up, and then he pulled Ford's entire mermaid out of the sea with only one hand!

"Hey... think of a way... ah Arthur..." Ford patted his fishtail in pain, he felt that he could hardly breathe!

In the long culture of mermaids, there were stories about humans hunting mermaids, but these rumors dissipated like bubbles in the ocean of mermaid history.

"People, everyone!" Arthur stretched out his transparent webbed palms and slapped the reef, trying to attract the attention of that human being. He comforted himself, now is not the time to be anxious, "Human beings!"

Don't panic don't panic don't panic don't panic!

"Listen to me! Human, we are not trying to hurt you!"

"In fact, on the contrary, we can help you!"

The last sentence seemed to have finally attracted the attention of the human, he let go of Ford, and the latter quickly sank to the bottom of the sea to relieve his hypoxic state, while the human squatted down and looked at Arthur.

"help me?"

His voice was low and charming.

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Note 1: Aha, the explanation of towels in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is much more interesting than what I said.

PS: I encountered the first problem, ST12 halo is too flashy!What color are Khan's eyes? Kneel down and cry!Do you feel a little green when you see it?

I have been revising, I hope this time I can spit out this chapter smoothly QAQ I obviously wrote such a chapter of CJ, why don’t you let me TUT