Mermaid Lord

Oh, it's Shi's ear fins.

I don't know when it started, but he likes to rub my ear fins against my ears to express a kind of... well, probably friendly or liking.

It's just that his current behavior seems to be full of worry. He frowned, patted my face lightly, and uttered a series of vague syllables, which sounded like he was comforting me.

"I'm fine, please don't worry."

I reached out and touched his head, and he squinted his eyes enjoying it, then arched into my arms and rubbed against my face.

I looked at the sticky guy in my arms, couldn't help sighing, and patted his back, only then did I realize that I, who never liked touching others, had gradually adapted to being in contact with him.

"Shi, I'm going to save Ma Qi." I thought about it, and decided to find a way to get Shi back to the sea. "This will be a fatal adventure. I don't want to get you involved. I'll send you off at night." Back to the sea, please go back and find your family."

"Moda?" Shi raised his head from my arms, disbelief filled his clear eyes.

"Please don't be sad. I'm not abandoning you, but you need to go home. I can't hurt you because of myself. I am very grateful that you saved me at the beginning. If there is a chance to meet again in the future, I will definitely repay you... oh, Please don't."

"Wow." As if accusing me of being irresponsible, Shi's tears poured out again, and the tears fell on my palm patter.

I helplessly wiped away his tears, and tried hard to harden my softened voice: "Listen, I'm doing it for your own good, and it's useless for you to cry this time. I must send you back, you Your family is waiting for you in the sea."

Shi cried even louder, I almost thought I had come to the nursery.

"You make it difficult for me...well, I promise you, once March is rescued, I will go to you."

"Wada!" Shi quickly regained his energy, hugged me, kept rubbing his ear fins against my ears, and then his stomach made a sound at the right time, "Goo."

I froze for a moment, he touched his belly, patted it, raised his wet eyes to look at me, and told me he was hungry and wanted to eat.

Speaking of which, we hadn't eaten food for a day, and it was time to eat something to fill our stomachs, so I decided to enjoy a wonderful lunch before saying goodbye.

However, we found only a little fruit, and nothing else.This little fruit is pitifully small, and it cannot fill our hungry stomachs due to the exhaustion of a lot of energy.

At this moment, I remembered the beach when we landed.

I have observed the terrain there, the beach is in the arc of the island, there are many coastal mountains nearby, quite remote.Maybe we can go back there and send the release back to the sea.

Thankfully, the comm brought us a message, as if hearing my thoughts.

After a period of whistling electricity, an annoying voice sounded.

"All patrolling personnel obey orders, the target is still on the island, be sure to strengthen vigilance."

"Chief Chelson, may I ask if you need to patrol the sea area A." A strange man's voice sounded on the communicator.

After a brief pause, Chelson replied to the man.

"Oh, you idiot! There are all coastal mountains, there is no road, and there are smart grids distributed on the sea. As long as they touch the grid, we will find that they can't escape there. Don't waste my time, speed up the search Target!"

The call ends with a resounding "yes".

I can't help applauding Chelson's over-complacency, though not sure if we're referring to the same place, but certainly where there's Coast Hill there can be no organized people.

I put away the communicator, picked up the release kit, and followed the route I remembered back to the beach where we landed.

The sticky sea breeze brought a fishy and salty smell. As soon as I entered the beach, my skin seemed to be covered with a layer of sticky jelly, which was extremely uncomfortable.The authorities have lived on the island since childhood, but as the controlled Gosai people, we don’t have many opportunities to get in touch with the outer seas—except, of course, when we take the initiative to go to the outer seas in a special way—so I still can’t adapt to this kind of situation. Sticky to the touch.

The sea water rolled up white waves and rushed towards the beach. I put down the release, went to different positions, picked up sand and rubbed it a few times, and roughly judged the height of today's waves-it is not high, and it is very convenient to go to sea.

"Shi, you..." I turned my head and was about to speak, but stopped abruptly.

God, look at what this guy Shi is doing, he is actually climbing a coconut tree.Well, although his movements are quite flexible, relying on the power of two webbed claws that fit perfectly on the trunk of the coconut tree, he climbed to the top of the tree, but as a child, I strictly forbid him to do such a dangerous thing.

"Shi, it's dangerous up there, jump down quickly, I'll follow you." I held out my hands to Shi.

"Moda?" Shi looked down at me for a while, smiled and wagged his tail, slapped a few coconuts, then went around to the right, and slapped a few more.

Oh, this naughty little guy.

I looked at him worriedly and helplessly. Every time he changed his position, my heart would lift up fiercely, fearing that he would suddenly fall down.But he didn't listen to me at all, and he didn't want to jump down until all the coconuts on the tree were picked.

I struggled to catch this slippery little guy, who knew he threw himself into my arms. I was caught off guard and staggered and fell to the beach.

"Shi, you bastard... Oh, don't touch me." I was thrown onto the beach by him. He didn't seem to weigh much, but he was able to press me down so hard that I couldn't get up.He hugged me happily, rubbing his ear fins against my ears, like a puppy, flicking his tail non-stop, and barking happily: "Iwaka, Iwaka."

I don't understand what the syllables he yelled mean, maybe it's expressing a joyful mood. In short, compared to his excitement, I was not in a happy mood when I was suppressed.

I want to push him away, but his slippery skin always makes my hands slippery, which makes me look like I'm not pushing him away, but hugging him... Oh no, this kind of overly intimate gesture and posture really makes me Unable to bear it, I got out from under him, patted the sand off my back, and warned him: "Listen, please don't do this in the future, I don't like this level of contact."

The light in Shi's eyes dimmed as fast as I could see, and the ear fins drooped listlessly, looking quite depressed.

My heart twitched hard. Am I being too strict?There were two opposing voices in my head: one said he was just a child and shouldn't refuse to be embraced by a child, and the other said that although he was a child, he should know how serious this behavior is when he is of a sensible age. indecent.

Well, maybe this kind of behavior is so common in the merfolk race that I shouldn't judge it by human standards.

I knelt down in front of Shi, touched his head, and softened my voice: "Shi, I'm sorry, I'm not blaming you, but in our human world, this level of behavior is..." I thought for a long time before I found a suitable explanation, "Well, it's only done between partners. If you like, you can do it to your wife in the future."

"Moda?" Shi looked curious, raised his hand and gestured for a long time before I realized he was asking me what a partner is.

"Hmm..." I struggled to find the words to organize the language, and after a long time, I managed to utter a sentence, "The person who will be with you for the rest of your life, just like your father and mother, they are partners for each other .”

"Kashgar, Kashi..." Shi tilted his head in a daze, and he didn't know what he was pinching with his fingers. After a while, he smiled and pulled my arm and rubbed it, "Iwaka."

He didn't ask about the "partner" anymore, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, otherwise I don't know how to explain it to a child with an adult's concept.

I turned my attention to the coconuts he picked.

I handed him the coconut and told him how to open it. Who knew I hadn’t finished speaking, he immediately grabbed the coconut, slapped it hard, and the coconut was like a punctured balloon, shattered into countless pieces piece.

Shi opened his eyes wide, staring blankly at the debris on the ground...

"... Shi, I think you need to listen carefully to what I have to say." My complexion is probably not very good.

Shi seemed to realize his mistake, drooping his ear fins listlessly, and stretched out his hand palm up towards me in aggrieved manner, his fish tail pitifully brushing the fine sand: "Ni... Ni Dawa."

"I'm not going to punish you," I pressed his hand helplessly, "I just want to tell you that next time you listen to what someone has to say before you do it, this is the minimum respect for people, you know?" Nodding, I handed another coconut to his hand, "Remember to cut a hole in the top to open the coconut, drink up the coconut juice, and then scoop out the coconut meat to eat."

Shi nodded obediently. He has a good comprehension ability. He opened a coconut according to the method I said, and happily held it in front of me, asking me to eat his masterpiece.

I took the coconut and enjoyed the belated lunch with him after he had finished opening another.

Shi put his head on my shoulder, his smile was full of happiness and joy, he threw away the hollowed out coconut shell, and a melodious sound rolled out of his throat.

A long and melodious song.

Yes, he began to sing happily, the tune was sometimes high and sometimes low, but please forgive me, I have no musical ability, and I don't know how to describe this beautiful song with artistic language.After all, in my view of music, there is only the difference between good and bad songs. Of course, if I have to make a literary evaluation of this song, then I only have two words to describe it: sounds of nature.

I think at this time, if it is someone else, they should be intoxicated in the beautiful music, or hum along with it. However, I am staring at the sea in a daze.

Generally, in the parting scenes of novels, what method will the protagonist use to say goodbye?

A gift, a hug, or a kiss?

...well, I guess all that suits me is a hug.

We are about to usher in the sunset, and then usher in the night of parting.

Now, will be our last time together.

I silently gave Shi a hug. This hug didn't have any special meaning, it was just a way of expressing reluctance among friends.

Shi Hui hugged me, rubbed his ear fins against my ears, and continued to sing that song happily.

This scene reminds me of the afternoon many years ago, Ed leaned on my shoulder, humming a new song he learned in school, his singing was so out of tune, and even out of tune, but I felt extremely Happiness, after all, he was the only "relative" who accompanied me during those few years.

At that time, it was as quiet and warm as it is now.It was one of the few times in my life where I spent time with my loved ones.

Unfortunately, a few hours later, Shi, whom I regard as a family member, will also leave me.

I will be back in the world alone again.

Alone and lonely.