Blue Star

Pulling the curtains nervously.To Gu Li's surprise, the heavy rain, thunder and lightning seemed to gradually subside.As if confirming the fairy tales he had read, the mermaid returned to the sea and the weather would become clear.

Lying on the bed with one hand on his head, tossing and turning unable to fall asleep, Iris' departure completely disrupted his plan.Although without Iris he would follow the archaeological team out of the city without hesitation, but the survival rate is difficult to guarantee.

In the past, the archaeological team would be damaged every time they went out. Even if he was there, it could not guarantee that everyone was absolutely safe.The field is no better than in the city, the number and range of crystal magnetic field are limited.

Take off your clothes and shake your hands to cover the lighting crystal mine.Maybe he should really listen to the porling. If he wants to let mermaids integrate into human life and learn human civilization, he must first treat Iris as a person.

The sound of rain outside the house became denser, and there seemed to be a dark shadow outside the drawn curtains.Gu Li sat up with anticipation and a headache. Through the gap in the curtains, he could see that a so-called black shadow was actually three people, to be precise, three infected people.

The upper body is a human and the lower body is a fish. Most of the scales of Iris, the leader, have fallen off, and serious decay has occurred in many places.The skin and flesh of the two female mermaids beside her had been peeled off. When they walked, the fish bones scratched and pulled the ground, making an ear-piercing sound on the stone bricks.

Gu Li turned the ring on his index finger, but he couldn't move it.There is no crystal ore, no magnetic field, and now he is just an ordinary person.

Iris looked at Gu Li with disgust and hatred in his eyes. He approached the glass window and saw Gu Li with an ugly face through the gap in the curtain.The palm smeared with sticky blue blood slammed on the window, and slowly moved away, leaving five frightening finger prints.

Iris turned sideways to get out of the way, standing behind the three mermaids was a boatload of innocent souls who died in the Bermuda River.When he saw the infected boy, he blamed him with hatred for not saving him in time, and why he didn't treat him as a human being, obviously being infected was not what he hoped for.

Gu Li suddenly opened his eyes and sat up from the bed, his body was covered in hot sweat from being startled by the nightmare.He panted and opened the curtains, and there was no trace on the clean glass windows.It was already bright day, and the gloomy dark clouds receded, leaving a whole piece of clear sky.

A morning training army passed by his window, stepping on the dry stone floor.A lot of fungus and algae snaked out of the cracks in the ground, and the military boots were all muddy.

Gu Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief, raised his hand to wipe his face and leaned against the head of the bed to rest.Self-blame, pain, and negative emotions can follow directly.But he couldn't collapse because of these emotions. As the elder of Keerqi, he had to let himself become emotionless.Only in that way can he protect the survivors.

"Elder Gu Li, are you at home?"

There was a knock on the door, and it was the soldiers in charge of the Fifth District.

Gu Li got up, put on his clothes and opened the door. The young soldier took a step back and said, "A strange fish was found in the port of the fifth town. We couldn't identify what kind of creature it was because of the high degree of decay. I was worried that it might be a mutation, so I would like to ask Elder Gu Li, go and identify it."

"Okay." Gu Li turned his head and took a small crossbow and pinned it behind his waist and hurriedly followed.

When the strange fish was found in the port, his first reaction was Iris.But if it was really a mermaid, the soldiers would not be as calm as they are now.

The weather was fine, and the closed market also started to set up stalls again.The position close to the port is full of people, most of them are fishermen who come to look after the floating boats.

Days of heavy rain left unattended, coupled with the previous salamander incident, these docked airships were more or less damaged.Some boats were directly cut off from the tied ropes and floated above the sea more than ten meters away.

Gu Li approached, and the surrounding audience consciously gave way.Although Gu Li, who was newly promoted among the elders, looked unfamiliar, he could be recognized at a glance by the clothes that belonged to the elders.

The corpses of the creatures were floating outside the deck of the port. Due to the high degree of decay, many identifiable physical features could no longer be seen from their original appearance.

Gu Li manipulated the magnetic field to turn the corpse over in the sea water. Most of the part that sank at the bottom was eaten by sea fish. Only a white endoskeleton with scratches was left in the incomplete flesh. Traces left by claws.

If you want to say what kind of creature it is, it would be more appropriate to describe it as a piece of meat.The rest of the tissue has basically been eaten, even the epidermis.

The onlookers had different opinions, and they all panicked after seeing the claw marks left under the flesh on the back.After all, the thing came from the sea, which meant that the beast that ate it was not too far from the port.

"It's the king squid." Gu Li flipped through it for a while and said, "It's not infected, it's just eaten to the point where there are only part of the body left. If nothing else, it should be near the middle of the head."

This was the one he and Iris met shortly after they left Bermuda River. Its original size was about eight meters long.After being slaughtered by Iris, it rushed all the way to the port, and it became what it is now when it was swallowed by sea fish.

However, the rotting degree of the king squid seems to be a bit too high. This may be related to being bitten to death by infected creatures, or it may be destroyed by the storms and heavy rains in the past few days.

Fortunately, it died on the spot, and the infected body could not corrode the corpse, otherwise it is unknown how many marine organisms would be infected along the way.

But even so, the seafood ban still cannot be revoked.The so-called marine organisms will not be infected in the past is no longer valid, as long as it is an organism, it cannot escape the risk of infection.

Everyone who heard that it was all right couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Several fishermen discussed about preparing to catch, and it would not be a problem to just throw the body in the port like this.

However, when the fishing nets were launched into the sea, it became unexpectedly difficult to salvage them.It's not because of the floating squid remains, but there seems to be something else under the port.

The fishermen turned the gears on the big boat in amazement, but the fishing net was very heavy, and they could even see the vibration of the net bag due to the struggle.

"There is a big cargo at the bottom! It's really weird today, why did all the big cargo come to the port?" The fishermen struggled to salvage, and then a few helpers went up.

The floating hull tilted slightly due to the weight. Gu Li was just about to raise his hand to help, but suddenly thought that the person arrested underneath was probably Iris, so he quietly withdrew his hand.

The gears turned by several fishermen made harsh metal buckle sounds, and with the joint efforts of everyone, they finally lifted the fishing net into the sea by one meter.

Because of the king squid, the sea water in the port has become cloudy.As soon as the fishermen shouted, the tense fishing net suddenly became loose, rebounding and drooping under the floating hull, and even the fishing boat swayed back and forth several times due to inertia.

The fishermen closed the net in amazement, a gap was cut at the bottom, and there were still a few blue stars and tiny scales on the fishing net.

Gu Li didn't make a sound, but Iris hadn't left yet, staying at the bottom of the port where he allowed activities.

"Elder, what kind of creature is this? I've never seen such scales with dusty spots." The fisherman took a few pieces from the fishing net and placed them in the sun. Blue liquid remained on the edges of the translucent scales. It smells terribly like blood.

Gu Li frowned and stopped, "Don't touch it directly, it's an infected body."

The fisherman turned pale with fright, and after throwing away his things, he turned and went into the cabin to get the disinfectant.Not only the scales, but also the net used for fishing must be collected and burned.

Gu Li asked the soldiers to disperse the crowd, and he went to the edge of the deck to check after everyone had left.

The body of the king squid has been salvaged ashore, and the sea water slowly returned to clear under the impact again and again, but he did not see Iris' figure.

"Iris." He whispered to the place where the mermaid was originally kept in captivity, but unfortunately there was still no movement.

Just when he was about to get up, suddenly a hand stretched out from under the deck, grabbed his ankle and pulled him into the sea forcefully.

Gu Li was unprepared for the sudden change, and after being dragged to the bottom, he choked on several mouthfuls of seawater.He wanted to turn the ring to control the magnetic field, but before he could do it, his wrist was tied behind his back.

Without the magnetic field to pull out space to breathe, he can only hold his breath underwater for a maximum of 1 minute.

Iris pulled the broken fishing net that bound Gu Li's wrist, and swung the fish tail around Gu Li twice.Seeing Gu Li's painful appearance because he couldn't breathe, he held Gu Li's chin with one hand and swam to a place where he could rest below the deck.

Gu Li, who came out of the water, inhaled hard, his nose and mouth were full of bitter and salty smell.

Iris dragged him to a rock, and the sound of humans walking back and forth could even be heard on the deck less than half a meter above his head.

Gu Li's hands were bound, but his body was still free.He kicked Iris, turned up from the water, and pinched Iris, who was about to drown him, with his long legs under him.

"Are you crazy?" Afraid of being discovered, even though he was very angry, Gu Li lowered his voice as much as possible.

Iris leaned on the rock and looked at him, and said unhappily: "Follow me, go back to the sea."

Gu Li was drenched all over, his white elder clothes were clinging to his skin, and sea water was dripping from his hair.

"I am a human being, and as a human being, I should live in a place that belongs to a human being."

Iris swung the fish's tail and floated out of the water, stroking Gu Li's back with his caudal fin full of sea water.The hands with sharp claws supported Gu Li's waist, expressing without hesitation what he was about to do.

Gu Li is riding on Iris. This posture is really not good. He should have the upper hand, but it looks like Iris let him do it on purpose.

Iris's hand caressed his front, and the sharp nails easily scratched his clothes.They didn't agree to go back to the sea together, but they wanted to mate with him in this kind of place!

Gu Li struggled to break free from the not-so-strict fishing net on his wrist, and then manipulated the ring into a dagger, aiming the sharp point with the speed of light at Iris' neck.

"If you dare to infect me, I'll send you to the infected lab, just like those two infected mermaids."

It is actually very easy to obey the nature of the body, but Iris is an infected person, and mating means that he will be infected.

Unmoved, Iris turned her head and kissed the back of his ring-wearing hand.He exudes a fragrance that can attract the other half, and his eyes seduce his spouse seductively.

He put Gu Li's finger in his mouth, licked and sucked it, and did not shy away from the sharp beam of light emanating from the ring.

Gu Li was hot all over, and even felt that the hand holding his waist became too hot to touch.The sensitivity to aroma seems to come faster than the previous two times.

The light beam was about to touch Iris' lips soon, but the fish obviously had no intention of stopping.His tongue slid across his palm, and he had to put away his weapon to shield the demagnetization field.

Iris bit the ring on Gu Li's index finger and happily took off his weapon in the face of his spouse's concession.

"The elder seems to have fallen into the water." The soldiers who came back on the deck were talking, and hurried footsteps stepped on the deck to look around.

Gu Li's torn clothes were half open, and he pinched Iris' neck with one hand, and said softly, "Come back with me, and I will teach you how to live like a human being."

Iris held his ring in his mouth, and his tail fin pressed against his back, forcibly pulling the distance between the two of them closer.

Gu Li knew that the fish had lost the most basic trust in him because of the ruthlessness of human beings.Imagine trying to lure Iris back to town with a few words like he did at the beginning, unless he can make some sacrifices.

But it is impossible for him to have anything to do with the infected, and he must not die in vain until the source of the infection is resolved.

Released the palm of Iris's neck, put his hands on his sides, lowered his posture and said: "In the human world, infections happen every day. Some people will die due to mutation, and some will be infected by other living people. Humans shot. I'm sorry for failing to protect those infected humans, but it happened, and only by shooting them and burning them will the rest of humanity survive."

The caudal fin against his back was not loose, and he was pressed down to crawl on Iris, "I know you can't understand this, because it seems to you that you maliciously shot and killed your own kind, and then took it with you. Anatomy in the laboratory. But as long as you live in the human world for a while, you will understand that some infected people must die, and leaving them for research is also to find a cure."

Gu Li's body was obviously touched, and Iris was so close to him, he couldn't control his instinct.Want to touch Iris' body, want to kiss and want more.

The human world is painful. Perhaps as an emotionless elder, he can keep Iris by his side who doesn't need to give emotion, at least he won't collapse because of loneliness when he is alone.

Iris looked at him, attracting him in the most primitive way.

He leaned down and said almost self-defeating when he was close to Iris: "You can't bite me, let alone hurt my skin."

He turned his head and opened his mouth, biting the ring that Iris held on his lips.His teeth touched the metal, and he put the ring in his mouth. He kissed Iris, and his warm lips touched the softness with the salty taste of sea water.

Iris frowned, but he was obedient and did not hurt him.

Mermaids don't seem to understand the meaning of human kisses, but they have obviously different heart palpitations when they are kissed by their spouses.It was a more pulling feeling than mating, heartbeat, attraction, touch.

The caudal fin pressing on Gu Li's back gradually turned into human legs, and Gu Li, who was not restrained, slowly sat up with the ring in his mouth.He took what was in his mouth, looked at Iris and said softly, "Maybe one day I will be infected by accident, if there is a day, I will allow you to touch me like your spouse."