The Old Man and the Mermaid

With the help of the substitute staff, Aigre also had a good night's sleep - he couldn't fall asleep at first, and kept thinking about Mr. Mermaid's current situation, but it was probably because of the medicine to help the wound heal It has a slight hypnotic effect, so even though he has no sleepiness mentally, his body is already quite tired, and he fell into sleep not long after.

He said that he had a good night's sleep because he felt refreshed after waking up the next morning. He was neither disturbed by dreams nor felt any abnormality in the wound.

When he woke up, the substitute also noticed his movements, so he turned his head and smiled at Aigre, pointed to the still dark sky outside the window, and said, "The wind and waves are smaller than last night. Yes, but it was still raining heavily. No boats approached the coast at night, and I wrote down every hour in your notebook as before."

"Thank you." Aigre rubbed his forehead, picked up his coat from the side and put it on, and said, "I'll wash up first, and prepare breakfast by the way, please help me take care of it for a while."

"no problem."

Aigre went downstairs, first opened the windows on the first floor that had been closed all night, and then took a look outside.The rain has gradually become weaker, but the sea has swelled so much that half of the beach is engulfed in the huge waves pushing the sea towards the land.Aigre still couldn't see clearly the sea whose color became extremely turbid in the rain, but he could already see through this thin layer of rain curtain that the distance had been dyed with a layer of light golden clouds.

If there is no accident, the rain should not last until tonight.He thought so, and walked into the bathroom after thinking for a while.

He desperately hoped that the heavy rain would stop in time, so that he could find Mr. Mermaid and ask all the questions he had accumulated in his heart before the security team towed away the boat that hit the coast.

Breakfast is not difficult to prepare. Aigre has never paid much attention to whether the breakfast is delicious. At most, he can reasonably match the food in the morning to make it healthier. So he took out the bread and sliced ​​meat directly from the refrigerator and prepared it for himself. Prepared two sandwiches with the substitute.

He took out a new flavor of sauce that he bought at the market some time ago, and after thinking for two seconds, he squeezed the sauce on a clean spoon and tasted it to confirm that it would not affect Get the original texture of the sandwich, and then squeeze it into the sandwich.After finishing these, he stopped to think for a while again, and took out another sandwich-making material from the refrigerator, and prepared one for Mr. Mermaid who didn't know when he would appear.

Even if there is no way to invite Mr. Yu to eat this breakfast, it can be regarded as an extra snack for afternoon tea.

He put the extra sandwich in the freezer and walked upstairs again with the other two.

When Aigre walked into the control room of the lighthouse again, the substitute was answering a phone call.After seeing Aigre, the gentleman who was on duty immediately laughed, beckoned to Aigre, and handed him the phone, "It's someone from the security team. He said he wanted to talk to you."

Aigre put the sandwich in front of him, beckoned him to eat first, then sat down on a chair beside him with his mobile phone, and greeted him politely, "Good morning."

"Good morning, Little Payer." The voice of the captain of the security team came from the phone, "Our side... got some new information from those crew members, and since you are also one of the witnesses of the incident, plus You were hacked by the previous prisoner, so I think you need to know about it."

Aigre recalled his guess yesterday, and asked still pretending to be ignorant: "Have you found Robertson?"

"We didn't find Robertson and our team member—accurately speaking, we probably won't be able to find them anymore," said the captain. The poaching gang you mentioned. Robertson’s family is very rich, so they have contacted them a long time ago. After paying a fee, let this group send him to Dusk Island and help him escape this time— —Unfortunately, they were already in danger before they could see Robertson. Everyone said in unison that they didn't know what Robertson's real purpose was, that Robertson only paid them a huge sum of money, and did not explain his movements."

"But on our island... there shouldn't be anything that can attract him, right?" Aigre was silent for a few seconds, then continued to pretend to be stupid and asked questions in response to the captain's words, "He seemed to be just You went to Dusk Island once with Professor Ness, didn't you?"

"That's right, so we don't think what he said was necessarily made up. He might really think that there are some mysterious creatures in the waters near Dusk Island." The captain said calmly, "Although it can't be ruled out that he took drugs. The hallucinations that occurred afterwards, but some time ago we did hear an old fisherman on the island say that there are mysterious creatures nearby."

Aigre didn't answer right away.He slowly and restraintly soothed the tension and soreness surging up in his chest, waiting for the captain to continue speaking.

"I know it sounds incredible, Payel Jr., but they weren't the first two islanders to say that there were mysterious creatures nearby. Your grandfather, and many others, have also seen We passed some weird sea creatures.” The captain continued to speak slowly, “Our security team has modern advanced equipment and excellent operational standards, but we are still residents of Twilight Island—we believe in the sea god, and hope We can live in harmony with the whole sea, so even if what your schoolmate Robertson said is true, we will not allow outsiders to destroy the tranquility of our island. What Robertson has done is already an unforgivable felony Yes, we will continue to investigate the details of this poaching gang and strive to bring the matter to an end as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation during this time, this is your right to know, so I am willing to inform you of the facts, if you are interested in follow-up matters If so, you can come to the security team to inquire about the situation at any time."

After hanging up the phone, Aigle held the phone in his hand and didn't speak for a long time.

The substitute staff looked at him and asked while biting the sandwich in his hand, "What did they say?"

"...They say that each of us is a small creature in this world. We are unique, but we are by no means special." Aigre looked at the rain that was still scattered and scattered outside the window, and said softly, "We have something Different, but sharing everything."

The substitute staff looked at him blankly, and directly expressed his feelings that he didn't understand at all.

Aigre laughed and said, "It's okay, I've read a lot of literature recently."

Substitute staff: "...?"

As one of the living beings, Mr. Mermaid, who was swimming freely in the sea some distance away from Dusk Island, had a much calmer attitude.He tried to find the figures of his three fellow clansmen during the morning when the rain did not stop, but found nothing. In the end, he could only go back to the easternmost side of the north coast to take a look—the ship was still alone landed on the beach, and those on the island didn't seem to pick it up right away.In fact, they have no way to disassemble this large iron sheet and transport it to the island in a short time.

Mr. Mermaid observed the beach for a while, then swam to the front of the lighthouse, waiting for the heavy rain to end completely.

He didn't have to wait long, for almost immediately after the rain stopped, Aigre came out of the lighthouse and trotted onto the shore.

When Aigre was about to reach the shore, Mr. Mermaid directly propped up his upper body, flicked the fish's tail in front of him, and pressed it against Aigre's chest.After seeing Aigre's puzzled expression, Mr. Mermaid silently pressed his tail fin against Aigre's back, pulled him closer, and at the same time gestured to his immobilized injured arm.

Aigre came to his senses, and after a low laugh, he sat cross-legged on the wet sand, shook his head and said, "It's really not a serious injury, the doctor's protective measures are very good, and I put on it after suturing." With the holster, it will not be affected by rain and strong wind."

Mr. Mermaid stared at him for a few seconds, and then smiled slightly, saying that he leaned on the boulder with his right hand and moved closer to Aigre.

Aigre turned his body quite cooperatively, looked at Mr. Mermaid's beautiful dark eyes that were so close to him, he took a slow and deep breath, and said, "Mr. Fish, listen Ever said the word 'flirt'?"

Mr. Mermaid raised his eyebrows, looked at him with a half-smile, and didn't speak.

"It means that when a person meets someone who is fatally attracted to him, he is likely to act impulsively." Aigre smiled slightly, and moved closer, letting their noses gently touch each other rubbing against each other, "—Of course, this is my own misinterpretation of the meaning of the word."

Mr. Mermaid cooperatively pulled the distance between them a little closer, until the sides of the bridge of their noses had to touch each other, before he asked, "You mean hormones?"

Aigre didn't understand the word "hormone" in mermaid language, but he thought he didn't need to understand it for the time being—he took a deep breath into his chest, and then kissed Mr. Mermaid who had just been baptized by sea water. The cold lips that passed by, ended this topic in a beautiful deep kiss.

The warm and candid young man is actually quite charming.Mr. Mermaid maintained a slight smile, and bit Aigre's thin and fragile lower lip lightly.