The Lost Mermaid [Zhongyingmei]

In the middle of the night, Doris' dark blue eyes suddenly opened.

She was gasping for breath, her heart was throbbing, and tears dripped onto the pillow.Doris hugged her lumped body tightly with both arms, like a dehydrated fish, twitching uncontrollably.

She had a dream.

She felt herself floating, weightless all over, numb to the dryness in her throat and the tingling in her legs.But this didn't make her happy, her heart was filled with endless despair and sadness, as if she had been abandoned by the whole world.

In the dream, Doris opened her eyes, and there was darkness in front of her eyes.It was extremely silent, except for the rustling of water.During the movement, the water flowed slowly from her side, the sharp and cold ice slashed across her skin, and immediately left a bloody scar on her arm, but she didn't feel any pain.

Suddenly, a light came on in the distance.

A desperate and mechanical male voice shouted, "Is there anyone else?"

No one answered.

"Is anyone alive?"

The oars slid slowly across the water, making the sound of rushing water, and the black reflection cut off the light of the searchlight.With the faint light in the distance, Doris could see the scene around her clearly: she was covered with a strange thing, it seemed that it was this fat "clothes" that allowed her to float on the water after losing consciousness.She looked around, and there were hundreds of people like her floating around, their faces were pale, their eyes were closed, and their faces were frozen with frost.

Not a single face she had ever seen.

Doris was a little flustered, and carefully searched for people near and far away. They had different postures, some with only one head exposed, some lying on the wooden board, and some still holding on to the floating object tightly. But only one hand was exposed.

But no one was breathing.

The distant shouts sounded again, Doris opened her mouth, and the familiar salty taste told her that she was at sea now.She wasn't afraid of the ocean, but she was terrified of floating corpses. She wanted to shout in response, but she couldn't make any sound.The people on the search and rescue boat did not get a response, they moved away from the terrifying pile of floating corpses, and the searchlights were turned to the other side of the sea.

Doris was eager to catch up, but found herself powerless.She seemed to be trapped in place by an invisible cage, unable to move.

The people on board were still repeating their shouts mechanically, leaving the countless floating undead behind.

Searchlights flashed everywhere in the sea ahead, and a red figure attracted Doris' attention—it was Ruth!

"Beep--"

A faint whistle sounded from Ruth, and at first the rescue boat didn't notice the sound.Soon, the sound of the whistle became more and more powerful, and the people on the boat shouted in surprise: "There are still people alive here! Hurry up! Hurry up!"

Ruth was saved.

Doris woke up.

Doris tried her best to get up from the bed, ignoring the pain in the soles of her feet, stumbled towards the bathroom, and turned on the faucet of the bathtub.Panting heavily, she lay down in front of the sink and looked at herself in the mirror—her clothes were soaked and stuck to her body, cold sweat slid down her cheeks, and her eyes turned dark blue.

This dream was so real that Doris's heartbeat was like thunder, and her mind was full of "buzzing" tinnitus.The water in the bathtub was getting more and more full, but the loud sound of water made her more and more awake. Before she had time to take off her clothes, she threw herself into the bathtub and let herself be submerged.

The familiar touch aroused her memory again, and the cold water at night reminded her of everything in her dream.

Why is she at sea?Why are there floating corpses around her?Why is Ruth there? Where did 1900 go?

It was the shipwreck she had heard of in fairy tales.But in the story, the culprit is always her clansman—the siren.The siren's song made the crew lose their way, and they sank to the bottom of the sea with the giant ship, where they became their food.

'But I am a mermaid myself? 'Doris immediately denied this guess.

Are the visions in the dream real?Is it about to happen?

If this is a precognitive dream, then... her latest plan to go to sea is the maiden voyage of the "Titanic"!

What will happen in 1900?Can he still not escape the swallowing of the ocean?

And Ruth Bukett actually boarded a ship bound for America!Was she really...really engaged to Cal Hockley?Otherwise, Doris really couldn't figure out why a noble girl who was born and raised in England would go to a strange country.

Will that person die too?

Thinking of this, Doris' heart throbbed.

Doris can only choose to stay away, or kill him.

However, how can a fool who is willing to fall in love be able to stab the sharp knife into the heart of his sweetheart with his own hands?