dogma

Yang Deyi didn't recognize him at first, but the Rubik's Cube awakened his memory.

Mermaids who can play the Rubik's Cube are really rare, and memory involves some human affairs, which makes him sick to his stomach and headaches.He climbed up from the water and sat on the bank, looking at the mermaid across the pool.

He only saw a mermaid once, when he was in high school, he was taken by that teacher to play in the aquarium in Linshi.The mermaid was already in the aquarium by then.In the huge cylindrical exhibition hall, he leaned against the rockery at the bottom of the water and kept playing with a Rubik's cube in his hand.

At that time his hair was still light brown, Yang Deyi remembered.The mermaid's appearance was so outstanding that he had only seen it once, but he really couldn't forget it.

The merfolk are tired of this eye contact.He lowered his head and began to randomly scramble the reset Rubik's Cube in his hand.The white hair was still soft and hung like a pale cloth from his shoulders into the water.

Yang Deyi had no idea that he was still alive.Hai Tong, who met in the skill competition, said that the mermaid cannot bear the narrow environment, and he will die because of depression and sadness.Playing Rubik's Cube is a very typical stereotyped behavior. He has nothing to entertain and can't pass the long time. He can only look at each other in this big glass jar with excited tourists coming and going.

Rao Xinghai, who saw the mermaid for the first time, poked Yang's triumphant shoulder: "Can he understand us?"

The mermaid raised her head to look at Rao Xinghai, her hands had already begun to flexibly move the Rubik's Cube.

"Can you speak human language?" Rao Xinghai asked again.

Within ten seconds of speaking, the Rubik's Cube had been reset, with one color on each of the six sides.

The mermaid put the Rubik's Cube on the bank and jumped into the water.He turned somersault in the pool, and the tail of the fish hit the bank of the pool with a snap. "I can understand your words." He emerged from the water and slowly swam near Yang Deyi and Rao Xinghai, "Are you newcomers?"

His pronunciation is very strange, very similar to human speech, but there is a sense of fluency like a foreigner learning Chinese.

Yang Deyi shrank his feet subconsciously.The mermaid's speed was very fast, he was already close to his feet.But he kept a distance of about one meter from Yang Deyi, his light brown eyes were calm and indifferent, and his eyes wandered on the faces of the two young people.

"Yes, new here." Rao Xinghai replied, "Hello, this is the first time I meet a mermaid, can I take a photo with you?"

"No." The mermaid refused coldly, "I hate taking pictures."

Rao Xinghai had no choice but to put the phone back.The mermaid looked at him and said, "You can pat me secretly, as long as I don't know."

Rao Xinghai: "Don't you dislike it?"

The mermaid swam slowly in the water again: "Yes."

Rao Xinghai and Yang Deyi glanced at each other, both felt that the mermaid had a weird temper.

The mermaid was caught in the East China Sea.He was very young when he was caught—of course he is still very young now, but his mentality is completely different—when he was young enough to get out of the fishing net, he still greeted the people on the fishing boat.

The mermaid group in the East China Sea is a relatively large mermaid race in China. Different from the mermaids in the South China Sea, all of them are keen to learn the life of land humans. It is a kind of fun to experience the life of a foreign race.

However, like the mermaids in the South China Sea, the mermaids in the East China Sea are not willing to become special humans. They prefer to live in their own way in the sea, rather than using human rules to limit themselves.

This mermaid has no name.He had been sold from a fishing boat to some collector of oddities, and had changed owners over the years.They would give him names, but the merfolk would not accept them all, and never answer.Some people will touch his skin and try to kiss him, and the mermaid will slap them hard with the fish tail.He loathes human touch.Dry human skin disgusted him, as did the hair on the skin and the smell of humans.

"Is this yours?" Rao Xinghai took out the scale he had just picked up from his pocket.

"It's mine." The mermaid asked, "Do you still want it?"

He took another piece off the tail and threw it to the bank.

Rao Xinghai quickly waved his hand: "No...don't you feel pain?"

"It doesn't matter." The mermaid poked its head out of the water and said with a smile, "When the mermaid is about to die, its scales will fall off."

Yang Deyi suddenly became nervous: "What?"

The mermaid closed her mouth tightly and lay on her back on the water.His long hair was scattered in the water, cold and white.

Yang Deyi remembered what Haitong said.At most three years, the mermaids far from the sea will die.

"A mermaid can't die on land." The mermaid said softly, "A mermaid who dies on land will become a rotting corpse, it will be rejected by the sea, and it will never be able to return to its hometown."

Yang Deyi lay down beside the water: "Do you want to go back?"

The mermaid looked at him: "Can you help me?"

Yang Deyi was about to answer when the small door behind him opened.The person who brought the two of them to work strode in, cursing: "Oh my god, is this dead fish lying to you again?"

The mermaid had sunk into the water and was out of sight.Yang Deyi and Rao Xinghai hurriedly continued to clean.

Shortly after the cleaning was completed, Hall F opened.The swarms of tourists all rushed to this huge glass jar, and through the glass, surprised laughter and the sound of taking pictures came and went.

The mermaid leaned against the stone and dozed off, only showing half of her thin face.Someone knocked on the glass: "Get up and play Rubik's Cube! I just came to see you play Rubik's Cube!"

When Yang Deyi and Rao Xinghai were cleaning their tools, the person who brought them over smoked and reminded them: "You can't believe what that mermaid said, it's too good at deceiving."

He was about to die, and he wanted to go back to the sea - the mermaid had said this to him, when he first came to Hall F.He was confused by the appearance of the mermaid, and when he wanted to get close, the mermaid suddenly grabbed his neck and dragged him into the pool quickly.

"He's trying to kill someone!" he yelled, "I don't have any equipment on me, and he just pushed me to the bottom of the water, pressed me on top of me, and wouldn't let me get up!"

After freeing him, the mermaid was fasted and whipped.He was finally sold here because the previous collector went bankrupt. Although he can make a lot of money, it is also a headache.

Every afternoon is another show time for mermaids.He would sit on the edge of the pool and start singing.There were as many people outside the glass jar as in the morning. Yang Deyi and Rao Xinghai sat in the last row of the auditorium, listening to the mermaid's singing silently during the short break.

It was a language they didn't understand. It was long and soft, but it was full of vitality at the highest point, like cracking stones and piercing clouds.When the singing stopped abruptly, the mermaid tensed his neck. He looked up and put his hands on his heart.

Rao Xinghai always felt that he should be looking at the sky, which was clear or full of stars.But at this time, there is only an iron frame full of light bulbs on the top.

The man who was nearly killed by the merman stepped into the glass jar.He held a whip in his hand and flicked it lightly.The mermaid shrank her shoulders subconsciously, and the guests started clamoring: "Don't bully him!" "Try to hit him!" "How can you hit someone!" "Is he not a human?"

All kinds of voices were mixed, filling Hall F.

The whip dragged on the ground, and the man walked up to the mermaid, picked up his long hair, and pulled it all behind him, revealing the mermaid's handsome face.The strobes started to go off, one after the other.

"Smile!" someone yelled.

His long hair was pulled, and his scalp was torn in pain.The mermaid couldn't resist, and could only wave to the tourists around, showing a perfect smile.

The tourists were satisfied, and someone shouted: "Can you speak human language! Tell me something!"

"...He wanted to go back to the sea, but he didn't lie." Yang Deyi said suddenly.

Rao Xinghai nodded: "Yes."

The day's performance was completely over, and after five o'clock it was time for mermaids to eat and Hall F to be cleaned.A bucket of sea fish was placed on the bank of the pond, and the man threw them into the pond one by one: "Eat it! Take it with your mouth!"

None of the mermaids answered.He swims lazily in the water, the Rubik's Cube floats on the water, and he chases the brightly colored cube.

The man kicked the whole bucket of fish into the water, and swung his long whip at the mermaid.The mermaid couldn't dodge in time, and was hit on the shoulder.He sank into the water immediately, and after a while, he had to get out of the pool water that simulated the salinity of sea water because of the pain.

After the whipping the man left.The water in the pond needs to be changed today, which is a boring waiting process, Yang Deyi and Rao Xinghai are left here.

The mermaid sat silently with her head bowed, not speaking.As the water level drops, the Rubik's Cube on the water surface gradually falls to the bottom of the pool.

"...the song you sing is really nice." Yang Deyi said, "Actually, I've seen you before."

He told about the mermaid he had seen in high school.The mermaid was indifferent, and looked up at him: "You are so lucky."

Yang Deyi closed his mouth.The water in the pool was completely dry. He and Rao Xinghai climbed the ladder to the bottom of the pool and began to clean up the garbage at the bottom.The gravel rustled under his feet, Yang Deyi bent down and picked up two scales.The scales are like jade, smooth and round. It has been placed in the water for an unknown amount of time, and the edges are silky.He held up the scales to the overhead light, and saw a wagging tail dangling from the bank of the pool.

A scale fell off the mermaid's body, and with a soft sound, it fell in front of Yang Deyi.

There are many such scales hidden under the sand and stones.

"... Doesn't it hurt?" Yang Deyi murmured.

Rao Xinghai's phone vibrated, it was a voice from Wang Wensi.

"Wang Wensi drove to pick us up for dinner." Rao Xinghai said, "He is waiting for us by the side of the road."

[I'm here at the back door of Shenhai Aquarium! 】Wang Wensi's carefree voice came,【It's so cool here, there is no camera!It's raining lightly!My car is parked on the side of the road, when will you two come out? 】

Yang Deyi suddenly grabbed Rao Xinghai's phone: "Wang Wensi, did you drive here?"

After getting an affirmative answer, Yang Deyi's eyes lit up: "Brothers, do you want to do something big?"

The mermaid was bored, sitting by the pool, leaning her back on the cold glass, looking sideways at the dark auditorium outside.If you don't turn on the lights in the hall, it will look even more gloomy, and you can't even see the moving figures clearly.

He heard the two young men climb up from the pool.

The young man who said he had seen him rushed out the door and pulled in a flat trolley a moment later.There were two buckets of fish on the cart, and they were the mermaid's dinner.

Another came up to him and asked, "Is it okay if it's not the East China Sea?"

The mermaid was puzzled: "What?"

"My name is Rao Xinghai, and his name is Yang Deyi, but it doesn't matter if you don't remember." Rao Xinghai said, "We'll take you to the seaside, but it's not Donghai, is that okay?"

The mermaid's eyes gradually lit up: "Yes!"

Yang Deyi picked up the two buckets of fish, and quickly pulled the cart to the side of the mermaid: "Please get in the cart."

The mermaid hesitated, looking and looking at the faces of the two young men in front of him. "Is it a joke?" There was tension in his odd tone. "I don't like it."

"Send you back to the sea, really." Yang Deyi was more nervous than him, "Hurry up, hurry up... Rao Xinghai and I are students of New Hope Academy, let's not lie, really, come up quickly. "

The merman was still dubious, but it couldn't have been any worse, and he finally climbed onto the cart.

His tail was so long that even if he sat curled up on a cart, the end would still sweep to the ground.Rao Xinghai helped him plug the end, and Yang Deyi ran over with most of the bucket of fish: "You take it with you, eat it on the way."

The mermaid took the bucket blankly and held it in her arms.The dying sea fish rolled its eyes in the bucket and looked at him.

Rao Xinghai became more careful.He picked up the blue bucket specially used to hold the garbage at the bottom of the pool, and highlighted the word "garbage" on the outside.

"Find a piece of thatch to cover him. If someone asks, they will say that we are going to take out the garbage, and it stinks."

The mermaid sat on the cart in an uncomfortable position, watching the two youths running around.Zhang Bu found it, and before leaving, Yang Deyi filled a bucket of water from the gradually filling pond and poured it on the mermaid.

"It's raining outside, so it should be very humid. Bear with it." Yang Deyi threw the bucket into the pool, "We have an accomplice waiting outside."

The thatch covered the merman, and he could see nothing but the color of the cloth.The trolley swayed and slowly left the place full of strange smells.His heart was pounding, someone came over, and someone even asked.

"It's all mermaid excrement." Yang Deyi said, "Do you see it? It stinks very badly."

He grabbed the sheet, and the mermaid tensed up.

The stranger said a name: "...where did he go?"

"Smoking." Yang proudly said, "So let us take out the trash first, do you still want to watch?"

The tarpaulin was not uncovered at last, and the trolley continued to move forward.The mermaid was dizzy, he couldn't tell where he was going, but there was a trace of more and more regret in his heart.

With two bang bang bangs, he heard the two people pushing the cart behind him sigh at the same time.Immediately afterwards, rainwater fell on the tarpaulin, rustling.

He smelled a clean smell, woods and earth.

"Wang Wensi! Open the door!"

The trolley rushed forward quickly, and the mermaid heard the youth shouting.

Immediately afterwards, the thatch was unveiled with a bang.The mermaid looked in horror at a small red car in front of her, and a strange young man with a foot sticking out of the driver's seat.

Wang Wensi looked at the mermaid for a moment, and his voice broke: "This... what is it?!"