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Near every mermaid settlement, there will be a mermaid cemetery.

Merfolk can predict their own death, just as they can predict when new life will be born in the settlement.When life enters the final stage, the mermaid will bid farewell to everyone, go to the cemetery, and wait for the end of life.If a mermaid wandering around with the ocean currents encounters an accident, the merfolk in a nearby settlement will take good care of the corpse and send the corpse to the nearest cemetery.In dealing with death, they consider all fish as brothers and sisters.

Dead mermaid corpses will become nutrients for the survival of other creatures in the ocean.The ancient laws of nature operate in the depths of the ocean: the dead provide for the living, and the living mature to wander further into the ocean, or give birth to new life.

Only the mermaid knows where the cemetery is.A cemetery where too many dead are buried smells like a dying mermaid, and that's certainly not scary, nor is it uncomfortable.Mermaids love the smell: it means they've done their life's work and can sink slowly in their favorite ocean, forever with their ancestors.

It will take a few more years, and after Wang Wensi and Yang Deyi become graduate students of biological conservation, they will learn in a professional class called "Pan-Special Biological Research" that when mermaids are about to die, their hair will fade. The scales will be shed profusely and there will be red markings extending from the head to the back.The death of a mermaid starts from within, a slow but noticeable process.

They will also know that mermaids actually have names, but most of them don't like to mention them to humans, because it is difficult to pronounce them accurately with human vocal organs.They would regret that they didn't ask the mermaid's name that day, and regret that when they saw those red spots, they didn't immediately decipher its correct meaning.

At this time, in the starry sky full of stars, the mermaid was pointing to the deep black sea, and told them in a happy and satisfied tone: "As long as I keep swimming there, I can reach the cemetery. This is the Bohai Sea." The merman's cemetery, I smell it... They won't drive me away, if they find me on the way, maybe they will sing me a farewell song."

Yang Deyi's tears flowed down, he wiped them in a hurry, and couldn't help sobbing.

"The mermaid is going to die in the sea." The mermaid's cold and wet hand stretched high, holding the proud fingers, "I am very satisfied."

Yang Deyi grabbed his finger and began to cry loudly: "No... no, don't go, don't go there!"

Wang Wensi's cell phone started vibrating again, and messages from his eldest cousin came one after another.Boss Wang brought people over here, and it was indeed very easy for him to find out where Wang Wensi was.Wang Wensi pushed Tuiyang proudly, with a nasal voice: "Let go."

Cold fingers slipped from Yang Deyi's palm, and the mermaid swam by the side of the boat, looking up at them.

He wanted to wish these children to be free from pain, happy forever, and free forever. It is a kind of luck to live in the land he is familiar with.But there are some words that he can't express in human language. In the past few years of living on land, what he has learned the most is not these beautiful words.

"You're all going to be fine, fine." The mermaid tried to think of how to explain her feelings, "I wish you all the best."

Three pairs of bright eyes watched him off, the mermaid swam out for a while, and turned back again.

"I like kind people," he exclaimed. "I always like them!"

The night is obviously very deep and black, and so is the sea.The mermaid gradually disappeared into the darkness, and began to sing a high-pitched song.The song seemed to tell a story without an end, a melancholy with nowhere to put it.It was so bright, so far away, and there were more and more dense harmonies on the surface of the water. It was here that the merfolk found the dying foreigner.

The stars rotate like a huge lamp field.But they were gentle and distant, never stinging his eyes.The sea water washed away the dust and vicissitudes of life on his hair, and the fish scales that fell off seemed to return to him one by one, and his pain disappeared, as if he had never left the sea.

He began to sink, to the depths of the ocean without a cage.

The mermaid in the Uncharted Aquarium disappeared mysteriously. This news was very noisy for a few days, and finally it was revealed that they were rescued by several unknown mysterious people.

There are those who regret, and there are those who admire.

None of these voices could affect Yang Deyi and Rao Xinghai.Since returning to Wang Wensi's home, Yang Deyi has been depressed.When the three of them were drinking, he told the friends in front of him what happened to him and Yao Yuan.Wang Wensi was so angry that he kept swearing, Rao Xinghai hugged Yang Deyi and comforted him by saying that the mermaid has taken away all the bad things in his past.

Mentioning the mermaid, Yang Deyi became more and more sad. He also called Yang Yun, crying and telling about the mermaid.Yang Yun also cried with him, and Rao Xinghai sat quietly opposite him, feeling a kind of emptiness that hollowed out his heart.

He wanted to see Shen Chunlan, hug him, or be hugged by him.

This matter was ultimately suppressed by Wang Wensi's parents.The couple set up peace wine and asked Wang Wensi to apologize to Shenhai's boss at the banquet.Wang Wensi went, but refused to apologize, did not even take a sip of tea, and sat still like a giant Buddha.

Shenhai's boss looked ugly, and Boss Wang looked even uglier.Wang Wensi fell asleep after returning home, and when he got up, he told Rao Xinghai and Yang Deyi that the chef at home would not deliver food in the future, and his father turned against him again.

"My dad is still a guide." Wang Wensi placed a can of potato chips in front of the two of them, and made a gesture of "please eat", "I don't understand my mood at all."

It was the first time for Yang Deyi and Rao Xinghai to hear him talk about family affairs—except for the villa and business. "What kind of mental body is your father?" Yang Deyi asked.

"The most common one, the sparrow." Wang Wensi said, "He didn't go to a special human school. After the college entrance examination, he went to a university in Tianjin directly. The bigger it gets, the more it becomes.”

Rao Xinghai looked a little dazed.Yang Deyi explained to him: "Not all sentinel guides are like us, and can have relatively rare spiritual bodies. Sparrows, magpies, puppies and kittens, goldfish, tropical fish, chickens, ducks, fish and pigs, these are the most common spiritual bodies of sentinel guides. , you can check the census data of the previous few years and you will know. This is the animal that all children in urban and rural areas are most likely to come into contact with.”

In the end, the number of sentinel guides who are willing and able to be admitted to the New Hope or Talent Planning Bureau is only about 20% of all sentinel guides.More people may not have the opportunity to study at all, may drop out of high school to start working, and may choose a more ordinary school in the college entrance examination-they are special human beings, but they live exactly the same life as ordinary human beings.

"Those are the majority." Yang proudly ate potato chips, "We are the minority."

Rao Xinghai nodded.He understood this situation, after all, if he hadn't met Shen Chunlan back then, he would have lived a different life now.

"Longyou told us that Mr. Shen told him that the greatest significance of going to college is that it gives people more choices." Wang Wensi stared blankly with a piece of potato chips, "...I don't like doing business, yes I have no interest in inheriting the family business."

Yang Deyi: "Then you choose."

Wang Wensi stuffed potato chips into his mouth and chewed: "...I can't let go of this multiple-choice question, right?"

Shen Chunlan told everyone that she was leaving in the last class, which caused a burst of sadness.Zhou Shifei and Yang Yun also prepared a farewell party together, and halfway through the farewell party turned into a heart-to-heart meeting.Shen Chunlan was sitting among the students, and he also looked like a student.

They talked about the stupid things in the past, about the fruitless love, about the seats that could not be grabbed in the library, about the corner seats that the middle school bullies love in the study room, about the hand tremor of the aunt in the cafeteria, about the wig reserve of the department head, and about Cao Cao. Talk about the unfinished weight loss plan and the crying while hugging the bride at the wedding, talk about the right and wrong of Zhou and Long You's snoring, talk about the decrease in club funds and everyone has to go out to ask for sponsors, talk about the semi-zombie senior sister who has superb makeup skills, talk about Fragrant and sweet cherries in the experimental field of the Department of Biology...

It's only been one year, but it's been a long, rich year, and they've had so many memories to share together.

Rao Xinghai and Yang Deyi don't plan to go back to school for the time being, and Wang Wensi tried his best to persuade them to stay in Tianjin. Although his food supply was cut off at home, he has an older cousin and his own savings. No problem at all.

After the three of them lay blind at home for a few days, Yang Deyi began to recover and planned to go out to play.Wang Wensi's mother was full of ordinary people. The eldest cousin was very interested when he learned that his two friends were not mummies but sentinel guides, and asked his cousin to take friends to his manor for dinner several times.

Rao Xinghai didn't want to meet strangers, so Wang Wensi took Yang Deyi to visit his eldest cousin together.Rao Xinghai videoed Shen Chunlan for a long time, said a lot of sticky words, finally took a nap, and wandered out.

He wanted to buy back for Shen Chunlan whatever novelty and fun things he saw along the way, even though there were things in Tianjin that were also in Beijing, but he just wanted to give them to Shen Chunlan.Even though he didn't have much money, he always had an idea in his mind: to stuff Shen Chunlan with so many good things that he couldn't hold them in his hands.

After wandering around Quanyechang, Rao Xinghai found a restaurant to eat.The restaurant is classically and elegantly furnished, and it is almost full of people.Rao Xinghai flipped through the menu and heard someone discussing a problem at a table for four.He turned his head and saw that there were three people sitting on the table, two boys who looked like middle school students and a young man who looked like a teacher. There were books and papers spread out on the table.

"If I win the biology competition this time, I can get extra points next year, right?"

"Of course." The teacher-like person said, "Xiao Liu won the national second prize this year, and at least 15 points can be added."

The boy who asked the question was obviously moved: "Will you really win a prize if you enroll in your training class?"

"Ask Xiao Liu, he knows best."

Another student nodded: "I studied biology with Mr. Yao in my first year of high school, mainly for competitions. Their entire training school is very good, and they have achieved a lot of results."

"It's just that the competition class is a bit expensive, I have to ask my parents." The student got up holding the phone, "Yao... Teacher Yao Yuan, right?"

"Yao Yuan." The young man smiled, "The wish of wish."

Rao Xinghai blinked.He quickly lowered his head because Yao Yuan turned his head and looked around.He didn't notice anything strange about Rao Xinghai, but Rao Xinghai focused all his attention on him.

"Teacher, where are we going for a while?" Another boy asked in a low voice after his friend walked aside to make a phone call.He is handsome and handsome, with a shy smile.

Yao Yuan laughed. "Where do you want to go?" Without looking at the boy, he lowered his head and flipped through the exercise book in front of him.

Under the tablecloth, his hands were already on the boy's knees, rubbing them with an ambiguous force.

The author has something to say:

The troupe's performance today is Wang Wensi's stand-up comedy by Boss Wang.

His little panda is in charge of warming up the stage, that is to say, he is the rua of the audience in the audience.

Director Liang and Boss Xiao Wang thought it was a perfect arrangement, but the show couldn't go on normally: Compared with cross talk, everyone prefers rua the little panda.

Director Liang, who tried to use Wang Wensi's stand-up comedy to fight Deyu Club, realized that the plan was wrong, and urgently sought out Boss Xiao Wang to discuss countermeasures.

Boss Xiao Wang: I was looking for you.Everyone likes my little panda, so I ask for a raise in salary.

Director Liang: Goodbye. (leave quickly)