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As a Tianjin citizen who had heard of the notoriety of the Mystic Sea Aquarium, Wang Wensi knew that it had a lot of negative news, but he never expected that there was a mermaid in the Shenhai.

The mermaid is a special creature with a human body and fish tail, which is found in many seas around the world.In some European countries and Russia, mermaids have been classified as special human beings and are protected by the international and domestic Law on the Protection of Special Human Rights and Interests.But in our country, mermaids can only be called "pan-special creatures".

"Pan special creatures" is the title of most special human beings before they are officially classified as special human beings.It is very vague, even without legislative protection, because its boundaries are extremely unclear: for example, before Haitong and Chamu were recognized as special human beings, they were both regarded as "pan-special creatures", a kind of special creature and the race between special humans.

However, there is no "pan-special organism" protection law in China, or even in the world, and all laws are clearly classified into two categories: "animal" and "human". "Pan special organisms" straddles the two, and no one can even give an accurate definition that is recognized by most people.

Therefore, it has always been a common name, and most of the races called "pan-special creatures" don't like this name.In the 90s of the last century, because Japan classified the snow girl and the kappa as "pan-special creatures", two angry races set off a catastrophic event that almost covered the mountains and waters of Japan.This unusual seasonal disaster known as the "Tsubaki event" is still a thorny case that must be brought up when discussing pan-special organisms in the world.

In China, the mermaid is the same.Whether it is the South China Sea, the East China Sea or other sea areas, although many different mermaid settlements have been discovered, the mermaids are either unwilling to communicate with humans, or have no interest in becoming "special humans":

The leader of the mermaids in the South China Sea is too lazy to communicate with them, and occasionally talks to sea children or werewolves—he obviously likes sea children very much, and is also very interested in werewolves, but he lacks curiosity about the sentinel guides who are most similar to ordinary humans.

The mermaid chiefs of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea are a couple. Their favorite thing is to go around with the ocean currents. It is said that they have learned English, Korean, Japanese, Russian and more than a dozen languages. Of course, they use the mermaid way of communication.

The mermaid leader of the East China Sea is a little more polite than the previous ones, and he is barely more enterprising and ambitious. He wants to win more benefits for his own group, so he asks: If we become special human beings, you special human beings will hold a meeting in the future. Can it go to sea?cannot?Want us mermaids to accommodate?Let us attend the meeting in the water tank of the venue?Please go away.

"Mermaids are so troublesome!" - this is the consensus of all the national special management committees.

The three young people who were arguing outside the car at this moment didn't know about these things, and the mermaid sitting in the back seat had never heard of them either.He only felt that the leather seats were uncomfortable. They had a strange touch and made him very uncomfortable. The scales on the tail that were about to fall hadn't hurt for a long time, and they always fell off quietly.But now he felt pain all over his body, and gradually came back to it: he was afraid, he was afraid that he would be betrayed again; he was still blaming himself, too gullible, what if those two young people could not be trusted?

He didn't know what this weird machine was, and he couldn't even fight out of fear as they hugged him into it.There was a strange smell in the humid air, like gasoline that he hated, and it made him sick, and the deep part of his stomach twitched and twitched.Those three people are still discussing outside, maybe discussing how to sell him, or how to kill him.The second one might make the mermaid suddenly relieved, well, he likes this ending.

The car was filled with fishy smell, he finally calmed down, looked at the bucket in his arms, picked up a fish and put it into his mouth.

Even if the trolley is folded, it still cannot be completely put into the trunk of the car.Rao Xinghai suggested: "Yang Deyi, you sit on it, let's press hard."

Wang Wensi's expression changed: "Get off! Immediately!"

He scratched his hair, turned his head and saw the mermaid in the car was eating dinner, a lively fish tail was dying struggling in the corner of the mermaid's mouth.He met the light brown, emotionless eyes.

Wang Wensi was a little scared, subconsciously lowered his voice: "How can you steal something?"

There was a little timidity and nervousness in his tone.The Shenhai Aquarium has a notorious reputation, but it's up to him to scold it. After two or three years of operation, there must be some unexplainable and intangible skills behind it.At this moment, many things flashed through Wang Wensi's mind, such as whether he could go home, if he had known earlier that these two troublemakers would not come to Tianjin, and how to clean the smell in the car.

"Saving the fish's life wins the creation..." Yang proudly weighed it for a second, then thoughtfully increased the size, "Eight-level pagoda."

"But how to save it?" Wang Wensi hesitated, "There are no beaches near the sea here in Tianjin."

Yang proudly looked at Wang Wensi with a stupid expression on his face: "There is Haihe River, if we put him in Haihe River, wouldn't he just swim out?"

Wang Wensi had a smug look on your brainless expression: "Is he a freshwater fish or a seawater fish?"

Yang proudly: "?!"

Wang Wensi: "I now reasonably suspect that you want to euthanize this fish."

Yang Deyi really didn't expect this. Mermaids are not used to the freshwater environment, so he can't enter the Haihe River.

Wang Wensi: "And you said he was fished up from the East China Sea, but we went out to the Bohai Sea. Do the mermaids in the Bohai Sea and the mermaids in the East China Sea know each other? Are there any contacts? Are there any conflicts? Do you know?"

Yang Deyi was speechless.

Wang Wensi: "Put it back, ah."

He had an attitude of coaxing a child, and after saying this, he glanced at the mermaid with little confidence.The merman ate a fish and was chewing the tail, frowning slightly when he realized he was looking at him again, his brows drooping.Hundreds of thoughts flashed through Wang Wensi's mind.He knew that returning the mermaid to Shenhai Aquarium was a dead end.

Just as he was awkward, Rao Xinghai suddenly lowered his voice: "Someone has come out."

As soon as the three of them turned their heads, three or two people were walking out of the back door of the Deep Sea Aquarium, looking around in a hurry.

Wang Wensi's face turned pale: "Damn it! Let's go! Hurry up!"

He quickly ran into the car, waited for Yang Deyi and Rao Xinghai to get in one after the other, started the car immediately, and rushed out.After making seven turns and turning onto the main road, he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "It's safe."

In the rearview mirror, the mermaid is enjoying the fish bone, still looking at him with a pair of emotionless eyes.

Wang Wensi: "..."

Yang triumphantly said to the mermaid, "It's safe."

Sorrow hung over Wang Wensi's face, and his usual hippie smile suddenly became more like a philosopher.As a rich second generation who was carefree most of the time except for the occasional quarrel with his parents and losing pocket money, for the first time in his life, he felt the panic of being helpless.

Stealing from the aquarium—no, abducting, Wang Wensi convinced himself that this mermaid can communicate with people, and "abduction" is more suitable for the current situation—a mermaid, what consequences might it have?While waiting for the red light, he searched and found that no one had asked this kind of question.

Mermaids are the private property of the Mystic Sea Aquarium, and they are abducting other people's property... But the mermaids have obviously suffered a lot of unbearable things in Shenhai, and they can be regarded as doing justice for the heavens!Wang Wensi was thinking wildly while driving, but couldn't figure out a train of thought.

What made him even more troublesome was that he didn't know what to do with the mermaid next.

Along the coast of Tianjin, there is no suitable place to leave the mermaid behind.Except for the well-built ports, most of the places are densely populated, and it is already night. It is impossible for a mermaid to safely cross the river to reach the ocean.

Unless they have a boat, unless they can get off the coast and go a little further out to sea

The mermaid was very quiet along the way, occasionally gnawing on the fish in the bucket, and the fish bones obediently spit into the plastic bag in Yang Deyi's hand.He used to be able to chew fish directly, and the bite force of the mermaid's lower jaw is very strong, but after living in a narrow aquarium for several years, even his teeth have broken down a lot.

Yang Deyi looked at the mermaid with affection that made Wang Wensi's hair stand on end.He grabbed a gift ribbon from the car and picked up the mermaid's hair, trying to braid it.The other two men in the car were shocked: "You know how to do this?"

Yang Deyi: "When I was a child, I combed my sister every day."

The mermaid looked at him: "Do you have a sister?"

Yang Deyi: "There is one who looks exactly like me, very beautiful."

Wang Wensi snorted and smiled disapprovingly.Yang Deyi ignored him, and quietly let go of the hand that was brushing the mermaid's hair.Rao Xinghai was also sitting in the back seat. He saw the haggard light brown hair on the back of the mermaid's head after the white hair was lifted up. On the back of the neck covered by the hair, there are strange blood-red spots all over.

In the end, Yang Deyi tied the mermaid's hair loosely, so as to cover up those weird lines that appeared for no reason.He got off the car halfway to buy hamburger fries, Rao Xinghai and the mermaid stared at each other carefully, and finally asked cautiously: "Do you want a drink of water?"

Mermaid: "No need."

Rao Xinghai: "You don't look well."

Mermaid: "I'm fine."

Wang Wensi also saw that something was wrong.The mermaid's complexion was pale, her lips were chapped, and the handsome face that was bright and moist when she got in the car also showed dry wrinkles from dehydration.

"You can't turn on the air conditioner, right?" He hastily turned off the air conditioner.

After a while, the car was as hot as a steamer, and the mermaid had no pores for sweating, and began to pant in pain.

"Brother, don't die." Wang Wensi panicked, and unscrewed a bottle of pure water to sprinkle on the mermaid. At last, he looked at the seat and paused, thinking that the water in his hand was getting weak, he paused again , "Rao Xinghai, you guys have done a good job, what if this elder brother dies in my car?"

Yang Deyi just came back, and the car was instantly filled with the smell of hot, high-sugar and high-fat food.He imitated Wang Wensi's accent while sitting in the car: "Don't worry, Hiccup. Open the sunroof. It's raining outside, isn't it? The rain is drifting in, we can't die with Hiccup."

Wang Wensi looked at him for a while: "Hi, hi, are you hiccupping or whimpering? This is my car! Why open the sunroof when it's raining!"

In the end, he still drove, looking at the rearview mirror while gnawing on the chicken wings: "Yang Deyi, Rao Xinghai, you two have to give me the money for changing the seat leather."

"Why are you like this?" Yang proudly shouted, "Why do you want to be rewarded for doing good deeds!"

Wang Wensi turned around and beat him with a chicken bone.

The rain was neither heavy nor small, and it seemed that it would never end. The night was thoroughly wet.The lights illuminate the flat ground with water and light, people and cars, light and dark, all kinds of rich colors shuttle through the night.The sky was not completely dark yet, the neon lights illuminated the watery clouds, and the raindrops were also dyed, falling from the sky, falling in the chilly car, and falling into the eyes of the mermaid.

"...so the sky here is red." He sighed suddenly, "it's different from the sky in the sea."

Captured for several years now, he has never seen anything other than a glass jar.The cabin of the fishing boat is black, and the box for transporting him is also black. To him, the human world is a completely strange world.

Wang Wensi gnawed on the last Maixiang chicken wing and looked at the mermaid: "Haven't you seen these?"

The rain seemed to make the mermaid recover a bit, the mermaid nodded.

"...Do you have friendship with the Bohai Mermaid?" He asked again.

Mermaid: "...Bo Hai, yes, I know the route."

Boss Xiao Wang bit the two chicken bones between his teeth and looked straight at the mermaid.Yang Deyi poured water on the mermaid bit by bit. The water was left over from the fish bucket, not much, but very fishy.He wanted to scold Yang Zizi, but also wanted to scold Rao Xinghai. This was the first time in his life that he saw a mermaid, a special creature that was extremely beautiful and dreamlike in legends.Under such circumstances, he couldn't help thinking about many things, and a hot impulse came out of his heart without thinking.

"Hi..." Wang Wensi chewed even the cartilage on the chicken bones, and muttered as if talking to himself, "I should have known in the first week of school, you two have nothing to do with each other."

He threw the chicken bone to the back seat, and Rao Xinghai hurriedly caught it.

"I'll find a shrimp pond first, you go to bubble." Wang Wensi grabbed the steering wheel with greasy hands, clicked his tongue belatedly.

The car turned a corner in front and drove towards the Binhai New Area.

After ten o'clock in the evening, Rao Xinghai and Yang Deyi finally sat down.The two were so tired that they couldn't breathe. The mermaid was not too heavy, but the small road in the shrimp pond couldn't drive in. The two of them pushed the small cart and walked carefully for more than half an hour, and finally put the mermaid into the shrimp pond.

This shrimp pond belongs to Wang Wensi's eldest cousin.He recently invested a large sum of money to raise prawns in the Binhai New Area. As a result, the project has just started, and a more advanced shrimp farming base funded by the state has opened nearby.The eldest cousin is now running various relationships to solicit favors, and wants to frame his own shrimp pond in the land of the shrimp farming base, so that he can lie down and count the money.

The boss has no intention of running the business and just wants to go sideways. Naturally, half of the shrimp pond here is idle, and only two people are hired to guard it.The eldest cousin was unsuspecting of Wang Wensi. Wang Wensi said that he wanted to bring his friends to learn more, and the two friends didn't want to meet people because of their ugly faces, so they didn't want workers to be present.

The big cousin's loud voice came from the mobile phone: "I know, what, mummy, right? Oh, I know, it's ugly, I know, I know."

Yang Deyi and Rao Xinghai, who had changed races for no reason, were too lazy to argue with Wang Wensi, and they looked at the mermaid that got into the shrimp pond.The workers did go away, and only the lights in this pond were turned on for them.This area is full of square shrimp ponds, half of which have water and shrimps, and this pond is the farthest and most hidden from people's eyes.

The water in the pond cannot be compared with real sea water, but it is much better than pure water and rainwater.The mermaid swam around in the shrimp pond, and the shrimp rolled over one after another, vigilantly touching this strange new guest.

He leaned against the edge of the shrimp pond with open arms, flicking the tail of the fish comfortably.The Binhai New Area is far away from the urban area, the light pollution is not so serious, and the sky at night finally reveals a black color.

"...there are no stars," said the mermaid.

Rao Xinghai: "You really ask a lot."

The mermaid turned her head and suddenly smiled at him.

Rao Xinghai was startled, and immediately couldn't help but his face became hot.He stood up abruptly and almost fell into the pond beside him because he lost his balance.

"...You're screwed." Yang laughed triumphantly, "You're blushing at other men!"

Rao Xinghai: "...other men?"

Yang Deyi: "I know you're in a relationship."

Rao Xinghai: "But you don't know who it is."

Yang Deyi couldn't answer: "Bah! It's not me anyway!"

Rao Xinghai walked aside, suddenly thinking about Shen Chunlan, and at the same time suddenly remembered that Shen Chunlan had told him to call after get off work.He hurriedly dialed the phone, and Shen Chunlan quickly answered the call.

It turned out that Shen Chunlan went to the Crisis Office to find Qin Ge today, and stopped by to see Adam, wanting Rao Xinghai to talk to Adam. "Forget it, you can go see him by yourself when you come back this weekend. How is your work today?"

Rao Xinghai told about the mermaid, but Shen Chunlan didn't come to his senses after being there for a long time.

Rao Xinghai: "What did we do wrong?"

Shen Chunlan: "It's not a question of right or wrong... Well, yes, very good. Send him back to the sea."

Rao Xinghai: "Aren't you scolding me?"

Shen Chunlan: "I never scolded you."

Rao Xinghai: "You scolded me when you supervised me to recite vocabulary."

Shen Chunlan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and asked following his words: "How did you do in the fourth grade?"

On the first night in Tianjin, Yang Deyi and Wang Wensi forced him to get the answer right.He told Shen Chunlan frankly: "Except for the composition, the other scores are about 300."

Shen Chunlan: "...how did you pass the test?!"

"I don't know either." Rao Xinghai honestly shared his confusion with him, "Why are you so tall?"

Shen Chunlan hung up.

Rao Xinghai station was not too far from Wang Wensi, he put away his phone, and heard Wang Wensi borrowing a boat from his brother on the phone.Seeing Rao Xinghai approaching, Wang Wensi squatted down and listened to the phone with him, and pressed the speakerphone.

"Why are you going out to sea?" the eldest cousin yelled, "I just heard your mother complain that you took your friends back to play, and you left after pointing at the door for 3 minutes, and you didn't go back. And you Dad has been looking for you all night, and he seems very angry."

Wang Wensi: "I have blacklisted their phones, temporarily."

The big cousin was silent for a while.

Wang Wensi: "I learned from you! You used to..."

"All right, all right." The eldest cousin interrupted him quickly, "I have a boat, you know how to drive a speedboat. No, do you want a boat Gaha?"

Wang Wensi said nonsense: "Isn't it okay to fail the exam? Being scolded by my dad every day, who doesn't feel anxious? My two friends are righteous people. I want to take them out to sea to see the stars. It's a romantic thing. Spirituality."

Big Cousin: "You two mummy friends are male and female?"

Wang Wensi: "Male."

The eldest cousin was silent again, and after a long time, he hummed with difficulty: "Wensi, you are the only child of the Wang family... No! Mummy! You want to have a chat with the mummy?!"

Wang Wensi: "Look at the stars! My two mummy friends——no, zombie friends, they can't do that, don't worry."

Rao Xinghai: "..."

The eldest cousin was relieved, his tone softened a little, and he was still impatient: "But don't do stupid things, as for books, if you can't read well, don't read them. If you mix with me, sooner or later you will become a part of the Binhai New District." Bully."

Wang Wensi: "My parents will not let you go."

The eldest cousin was silent for a while, then simply changed the subject: "Don't jump into the sea, cherish life, understand? An inch of time is worth an inch of gold. How long you can live is how valuable you are."

Wang Wensi and Rao Xinghai were shocked by the big cousin's thoughts.

"Jumping into the sea is absolutely not advisable." The eldest cousin said, "It's hard to catch."

Rao Xinghai confirmed that these two people do have some kind of common traits.

Wang Wensi softened his voice: "Cousin, just do me a favor, your speedboat can't go out to the open sea, okay?"

The eldest cousin suddenly realized: "You want to throw away the corpse? The mummy friend is dead?"

Wang Wensi: "Okay, I'll swim out to sea, don't worry about me."

Big cousin: "Don't be in a hurry, you can persuade me again."

After 10 minutes of hard work, the big cousin finally agreed to lend his speedboat.

The eldest cousin is a person with a wide range of connections, a complicated business, and the way of getting money is as unstable as his personality.But he knew a lot of people, and it didn't take long for him to arrange a speedboat for Wang Wensi.

The speedboat is on an artificial beach in Dongjiang Port, Binhai New Area.There are two recreational areas in Dongjiang Port, free and charged. The speedboat named "Time" is now in the charged area.

When Wang Wensi and Rao Xinghai turned their heads to urge Yang Deyi, he was chatting with the mermaid about their first meeting.

It is impossible for the mermaid to remember Yang Deyi. During the period when he was sold in several aquariums, there was an endless stream of tourists gathered in almost identical glass jars every day, looking at him with great interest.

But Yang triumphantly remembered.He actually remembers everything.Including the teacher Yao Yuan who secretly held hands with him several times in the crowd, the eyes the mermaid gave when they chatted, and the Rubik's Cube in the mermaid's hand.In an almost boring glass jar, the Rubik's Cube stands out more than the Mermaid.

"...I see." The mermaid said, "That was the first pavilion I bought. At that time, someone saw that I was uncomfortable and bored, so they gave me a Rubik's cube to pass the time."

Yang Deyi was curious: "Who? Your breeder?"

A trace of pain and hatred flashed across the mermaid's face. "Breeder, I hate this word." He looked at Xiang Yang proudly, "Does breeding mean torture in your language?"

Yang Deyi pursed his lips and did not speak.He couldn't answer the question.

The breeder was sympathetic to him at first, but the mermaid always kept quiet and resisted the performance request.As time went by, sympathy gradually faded away and turned into disgust.So the torture began. The mermaid is more interesting than other animals because he can react as a human being should: he will be angry when he is insulted, and he will block because of pain when he is whipped. This is too similar to a human.And it is impossible for the mermaid to succumb, his self-esteem prevents him from succumbing to any humiliation.

"So I became more fun," said the mermaid.He put on a cold expression again, and his light brown eyes lacked emotion, like a beautiful lifeless sculpture.

"I am not a creature raised by you humans." The mermaid looked at Rao Xinghai and Wang Wensi who were squatting in the same position and listening to the phone. The man's loud voice was coming out of the phone, "...I doubted you. Said Maybe you, like other human beings, plan to sell me and let me continue to be kept in captivity in another place."

Before coming to land, he didn't know so many human languages.Sometimes the breeder doesn't shy away from his presence when chatting with others, talking about everything.

Talking about the past, the mermaid suddenly said a dirty word.

Yang Deyi looked at him in horror, but he laughed because of this unexpected expression.

"Are you going to see me alone?" The mermaid asked again, "Is this a proof that you are very interested in me?"

Yang muttered triumphantly for a moment, then whispered, "I went with...my teacher."

The mermaid nodded: "He studies mermaids?"

"No, he teaches biology." Yang Deyi sat on the edge of the shrimp pond, scratching the ground with his fingers, "...At that time, he and I were in a relationship, right?"

Mermaid: "Yes."

Yang Deyi remained silent for a few seconds before realizing that what he was talking about now was completely unfamiliar to the mermaid.When a teacher and a student fall in love, no matter who starts it first, no matter whether there is deceit or not, the mermaid will not make any judgments at all. He just listens to what he says, without involving good or evil, and without considering morality.

Then there will be no blame, no preconceived notions.Yang Deyi's chest suddenly felt hot, and his strong desire to confide made him unable to help but continue to speak: "I like him very much."

Yang Deyi is very grateful to Shen Chunlan and his sister, they at least gave him a chance to escape from the nightmare.Sometimes he would think of Yao Yuan, he would ask about his study situation in the busy office where other teachers were busy, and he would say some dispensable gossip, and the eyes that occasionally fell on his face with scorching temperature, Presumptuous and bold, afraid of being seen as ambiguous, but also afraid that Yang Deyi will not understand the deep meaning.

And sometimes he thinks of himself.That was the first love in his life for him.The time has passed for too long, and he can throw away the resentment and anger, as well as the unavoidable hatred, and think back to himself who was deeply in love at that time.Yao Yuan is undoubtedly full of charm, and Yang Deyi likes to stay with him, not just because Yao Yuan taught him to enjoy pleasure.There are too many new things in life. At that time, Yang Deyi was a head and a half shorter than Yao Yuan. He always looked up to him with a little expectation and a little fear.

"I like him, but I'm...afraid of him." Yang Deyi said in a low voice, "I'm afraid that he'll be angry, that he won't want me, that he...that he won't love me suddenly, and that I will become the old Yang... Proud."

The merman stroked his cheek with a cold palm. "He raised you." The mermaid's voice was like raving, "So humans also raise humans?"

Yang proudly shook his head: "I don't know..."

But he vaguely felt that the mermaid was right.

He told about the origin of the Mermaid earrings, and his persistent confusion and self-deception after the incident was fully exposed.Yang Deyi said all this as if he were an outsider, telling other people's stories, avoiding all heartbreak and painful moments.

The mermaid stared at him with the gaze of an animal, without pity or pity in it.He caressed Yang's triumphant face and touched the silver ring on his ear.

"Will it hurt?" the mermaid asked.

"It doesn't hurt anymore." Yang replied triumphantly.

"Then why are you still confused?" The mermaid didn't understand.

"...I know he lied to me." Yang Deyi smiled with difficulty, "But I don't know if that experience...was really meaningless."

The mermaid didn't answer, it was obviously beyond his thinking.Rao Xinghai and Wang Wensi came to urge them, and the three of them lifted the mermaid onto the trolley, and rushed into the trolley again panting,

"Time" was right next to the speedboat area. When the three of them and the trolley arrived, the people sent by the big cousin had already dozed off.

The trolley was covered with thatch, so dense that the contents could not be seen.The man was extremely suspicious, and when he handed over the speedboat key to Wang Wensi, he almost threw it away. He didn't dare to have anything to do with these weird young people in front of him.Wang Wensi thanked him, and he ran out in a hurry, for fear of being left behind.

The whole process of entering Dongjiang Port is very tossing.Wang Wensi made many phone calls to his eldest cousin, stumbled along the way, and now finally arrived at the beach.This is the place where the coastline of Tianjin is closest to the open sea and where the water quality is the best. It is very suitable for mermaids to escape.The three moved the mermaid into the speedboat, Wang Wensi's left and right eyelids were twitching wildly, and he shouted: "Quick, quick! I have a bad feeling!"

Before Rao Xinghai could sit still, the speedboat whizzed and flew out close to the surface of the water.

Yang Deyi lit the lights for Wang Wensi at the bow of the boat, and Wang Wensi bypassed the buoys on the sea and gradually moved away from the shore.

The mermaid finally came alive after soaking in the shrimp pond for a long time, leaning against the bow to breathe the oncoming sea breeze.

"This is Bohai?" He looked very happy, "Not bad."

Wang Wensi was surprised: "Haven't you been here? Don't you know the route?"

Mermaid: "I know the route to that place."

Wang Wensi: "Where?"

The mermaid didn't answer, but turned to smile at him.He hadn't shown much expression along the way. At this moment, the sea breeze messed up his long hair, and the hair tie had gone flying somewhere. His pale, curly long hair was entangled with each other and scattered in the wind.The moonlight was dim, but the stars were gradually visible above his head. His sculptural face was full of joyful smile, full of vigor and vitality.

The mermaid stared blankly at Wang Wensi: "Most of the mermaids in Bohai are beautiful girls, have you seen them?"

Wang Wensi's entire face turned red, but luckily the light couldn't shine on him: "I haven't seen it...is it really beautiful?"

"The people and the singing are very beautiful." The mermaid looked at the sea in front of him, his eyes showed unprecedented softness, as if staring at a dream that was about to come to fruition, "Their leader visited the East China Sea. If she hadn't already had a husband, we The leader of the group might chase them all the way to Bohai."

Wang Wensi asked in a daze, "A mermaid is also this romantic?"

"Romantic is not the right of human beings." The mermaid's tail patted lightly, and he hummed a clear and elegant tune.Rao Xinghai groped to pick up the peeled scales that fell into the speedboat.He stroked the mermaid's tail, and the mermaid looked back at him with crooked eyes and a gentle smile.

Rao Xinghai thought to himself, he could understand why people wanted to see the mermaids, to see them laugh, and to hear them sing.

"We can't drive too far." Wang Wensi looked at the fuel gauge and said, "Save half of the fuel for the return journey. Brother Yu, can you swim longer, okay?"

The mermaid nodded, and then stared at Wang Wensi with that kind of focused eyes.

Wang Wensi: "Don't look at me like that. I know I'm a nice person, but you've already returned to your hometown, don't, don't like me."

Mermaid: "I like him better."

He pointed at Yang proudly.Yang proudly smirked.

Wang Wensi wanted to say something, but the phone suddenly vibrated silently in his pocket.I took it out and saw that it was my cousin calling.

"Big cousin, I'm on the boat." Wang Wensi happily pressed the speakerphone, and continued to hold the steering wheel tightly, "Don't worry, the speedboat will be returned to you when it's used up, and it will definitely be returned to Zhao."

"Wang Wensi, what are you doing!" An elderly man's voice came out, full of undoubted anger.

Wang Wensi was stunned for a moment, and only after a while did he answer in a vain manner: "Father...why are you at the big cousin's side..."

"Your eldest cousin is at home!" Boss Wang scolded heavily, "Usually you ask him to help you with everything you need, don't think I don't know!"

Wang Wensi was still stubbornly resisting: "I borrowed a speedboat from him and took my friends out to sea."

"What happened to the mermaid?"

The three people in the boat were silent and looked at each other.The speed of the speedboat plummeted, and it lost its direction.The mermaid looked back and forth at them, and he was not afraid now, because he was right at sea, and even if the three children were going to hand him back to the aquarium, he would just turn around and jump down.

"Your license plate number is too easy to check, Wang Wensi." Boss Wang was furious, "This is what you learned in New Hope? Stealing things?! The boss of Shenhai has sued me! You really Embarrass me!"

Wang Wensi stiffened his neck and said, "Anyway, we're out to sea, and you can't find me."

"Where are you flying, I can't find it? Who do you think you are!" Boss Wang yelled, "Bring the mermaid back! Immediately!"

Wang Wensi freed one hand and hung up the phone.

"Don't worry, my dad can't do anything to me. I'm the only child in my family, so I have the right to be arrogant and domineering." He let out a snort, and then smiled, "That's just right, he will definitely find me anyway, let's drive further A little bit, let him pick me up when I run out of gas."

The speed of the speedboat suddenly increased.

Yachting at night is both scary and exciting.Wang Wensi is obviously a good player, this is his usual route.After driving forward for another ten minutes, the mermaid suddenly raised her hand: "It's near here."

Wang Wensi quickly slowed down, and the speedboat moved slowly on the sea.Yang Deyi turned off the light, and the surroundings were suddenly pitch black.After his eyes got used to the darkness, the starlight above his head and the ripples on the sea gradually became clearer.

In the extreme distance are the lights of fishing boats in a line, and behind them are the neon lights of the city that are far away.Numerous lights surround them close to the sea level and the horizon, like a small halo, protecting them from far away.

Rao Xinghai was actually seasick, but he was ashamed to say so, he was paralyzed on the speedboat panting, and the starlight shone scatteredly on everyone's eyes.

"...So we have so many stars here." Wang Wensi said in a daze, "It's like a dream."

Yang Deyi asked the mermaid: "Are you going to jump off here?"

The mermaid nodded without hesitation, and jumped into the water with its tail straightened out.There was a loud sound of falling water, and the splashed water splashed all over Yang Deyi's face.He quickly raised the headlight to illuminate the sea surface, but there was no trace of the mermaid on the surging water.

Wang Wensi was disappointed: "You didn't even say goodbye?"

The mermaid's white head came out from a few meters away, and he swam around the speedboat cautiously, as if he was not used to such a spacious place, and he was always a little cramped.

The three people on the speedboat kept looking at him. "Is this water okay?" Wang Wensi shouted, "Do you recognize water? If you are not used to it, come up again. I will find another way to send you back to the East China Sea."

"No need, let's go here." The mermaid brushed away the wet hair, "It's too late."

The real water was something he missed, but it also stung his skin and his tail.There seemed to be small wounds all over his body, the pain was subtle but dense, and the skin that had been accustomed to the artificial seawater was fighting with the real ocean.The pain woke him up, he dived into the water, and saw schools of fish rushing past his feet in the late night sea.The water is very deep, and he can't get to the bottom yet, but the place he wants to go, the familiar smell, is calling him in the water and air.

The mermaid emerged from the water and swam back to the speedboat.

"Goodbye," he said, "Thank you."

The three young men waved at him, and Rao Xinghai picked up the two sea fish he hadn't finished eating: "Do you want more?"

"No, I'll give it to you." The mermaid smiled again, apparently in a very good mood.Under the light, his face was still pale, but the smile in his eyes was sincere and strong.

"Can I ask you for something?" he asked Yang Deyi.

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