bride as a paranoid mermaid

Still the familiar bathroom, or the familiar bathtub.

Due to limited conditions, Xia Shenlan could only let the mermaid rest on his lap to wash his hair.

The mermaid was very curious about the foam produced by the shampoo. He scratched a small piece with his nails to play with. The foam gradually dissipated on his fingertips, and his eyes became lonely.

"I'll teach you how to blow a big bubble."

Xia Shenlan couldn't see the mermaid's appearance, so she poured a little laundry detergent on her hand, and after rubbing it away, the tiger's mouth slowly opened, forming an "OK" gesture, and a transparent bubble was pulled out between the tiger's mouth.

"Well, take a breath."

A big bubble is formed at the mouth of the tiger.

The tiger's mouth was closed again, the palm was turned up, and Bubble automatically moved to the palm of the hand, changing into the appearance of Xia Shenlan catching Bubble.

The mermaid was very interested and wanted to touch the bubble in Xia Shenlan's hand.

Xia Shenlan moved her hand away, "Get some laundry detergent on your hand first, or it will break."

As he said that, he was about to help get some laundry detergent, but the mermaid made some laundry detergent and rubbed it on his hands, looking expectantly at the bubbles in Xia Shenlan's hands.

Xia Shenlan moved the bubble to the mermaid's hand and continued to wash his hair, but what happened just now became more and more wrong.

After a while, he suddenly remembered something, raised his voice and asked, "Did you understand what I said just now?"

Xia Shenlan asked the mermaid this question before, but she didn't get an answer, and the timing was too coincidental, which made Xia Shenlan mistakenly think that the mermaid was simply making movements instead of understanding what he said.

But this time is different.

He said that he had to apply laundry detergent on his hands to get the bubbles, and the mermaid immediately got some hand sanitizer on his hands.

This time the mermaid definitely understood what he said!

Under Xia Shenlan's expectant eyes, the mermaid nodded.

"Can you really understand what I'm saying? How did you do it? Then can you speak?"

The mermaid slapped the bubble on Xia Shenlan's face, the bubble burst, he lowered his head and blew another bubble.

"So you... can't speak?"

Having said this, the mermaid nodded again.

"Okay... anyway, I'm glad you understood me. How did you understand it? Did you learn it by watching the video?"

Xia Shenlan carefully recalled the past, and found that it is indeed becoming easier for him to communicate with the mermaid, and Xia Shenlan no longer needs to demonstrate everything in person like when he first met.

He thought that the tacit understanding between him and the mermaid had improved during getting along, but it turned out that he was thinking too much, and it was because the mermaid gradually understood what he said.

The mermaid nodded first, but then shook her head again.

Xia Shenlan understood what he meant and learned part of it from the video, but not only that.

"Since you can learn to listen by yourself, is it possible for you to speak one day?"

Xia Shenlan turned on the Yuba to rinse off the foam from the mermaid's hair, and said to herself: "If you could speak, what would your voice be like? It's a bit unimaginable. You are so beautiful, I can't think of it. What voice can match your face."

Xia Shenlan just wanted to sigh, but she didn't expect the mermaid to sing to him suddenly.

It was a completely unfamiliar language that had never been heard before. It was extremely obscure, but it became fluent and graceful when it came out of the mermaid's mouth. It was as close as it was echoing in the pinnae, and as ethereal as it came from the distant deep sea.

Xia Shenlan felt in a daze that he was brought to the deep sea by the singing of the mermaid, and he was obviously about to suffocate, but he tried hard to follow him to a deeper and farther place.

Under the deep sea is darkness, boundless darkness.

Only the mermaid is the only light source, his hair, his scales, his eyes, even his skin, everything about him is glowing, luring Xia Shenlan to follow him.

The last sliver of rationality reminded Xia Shenlan: stop...you have to make him stop...

"Stop..." He opened his mouth, and the salty seawater poured in, forcing him to become more awake, and he shouted loudly: "Stop!"

The singing stopped abruptly.

The darkness in front of her eyes was dispelled by the light, and the suffocation disappeared. Xia Shenlan kept her eyes open, but at this moment, she greeted the light as if she had just opened her eyes.

Xia Shenlan looked at the mermaid in horror.

The mermaid was also nervous, patted the bubbles away, and reached out to touch Xia Shenlan's side face, which was surprisingly gentle.

"I'm fine..." Xia Shenlan came back to her senses, and said with lingering fear: "Is this the singing of the mermaid? It sounds good... but it's a little life-threatening.

In ancient Greek mythology, the mermaid has a singing voice like a mermaid, and often uses singing to lure passing navigators, causing the ship to run aground and sink, and the crew becomes his midday meal.

Now, Xia Shenlan finally realized the irresistible allure of singing.

The mermaid didn't know what serious consequences his singing almost brought, but only felt a bad evaluation from Xia Shenlan's words.

He looked at Xia Shenlan, faintly expressing dissatisfaction.

Xia Shenlan covered the mermaid's eyes, "I'm going to flush the foam on the top of my head, close your eyes, lest the sleeping water flow into your eyes, it will be very painful."

Why bother to explain a problem that can be solved by escaping?

Besides, the mermaid might not fully understand what he meant.

The mermaid couldn't speak, so he could only close his eyes and wait obediently for Xia Shenlan to wash his hair.

It was washed twice in total. Anyway, when the fish tank was cleaned later, the mermaid would stay outside for a while. Xia Shenlan patiently dried the mermaid's hair.

Of course, Xia Shenlan herself really wanted to see how the mermaid looks with dry hair.

Mermaids with dry hair look gentler, the contours of the face are somewhat covered by the broken hair, and the transparency of water and the charm of wetness are a little less, which is another kind of lazy and delicate beauty.

"Well, not bad." Xia Shenlan patted the mermaid's head, "Get up, let me wipe your body."

When it came out of the fish tank, the mermaid's whole body was more or less covered with oil.

Xia Shenlan pulled off the bandage and took a look. The mermaid's wounds had healed in sevens and eighties, and the blood scabs of some shallower wounds had begun to fall off naturally.

"It's recovering very well, and I don't think I need to use bandages. With your recovery speed, it won't be long before it's all healed. When the time comes..."

In the middle of speaking, Xia Shenlan stopped.

He wanted to ask if the mermaid was going to leave by then, but he felt that such a question was really unnecessary, as he could never keep the mermaid for a lifetime.

It's up to the mermaid to decide which one to leave.

The wound recovered so well, Xia Shenlan simply went to the shower, and then wiped the body wash to clean the mermaid all at once.

It was the first time for the mermaid to bathe with shower gel, which was completely different from the feeling of simply swimming in the water. The tense muscles were softly relaxed, and the eyes were half-closed for a nap.

And Xia Shenlan still remembered the different scales that she had been thinking about before.

Although he changed the medicine for the mermaid twice a while ago, he was always busy with one thing and another and didn't look carefully. It was too late to go to sea today, which just gave him the opportunity to check it unscrupulously.

The scale should be a little below the waist and abdomen, close to the left side of the human pelvis...

Xia Shenlan searched carefully, looked back and forth twice, and finally found it when the mermaid was wagging its tail...

It was a crescent-shaped inverted scale, like an incomplete scale, with a lighter color and no golden line on the edge, which looked extremely fragile.

Xia Shenlan didn't realize it, she subconsciously reached out to touch it when she found it.

The mermaid half-closed her eyes and didn't notice Xia Shenlan's movements.

Until Xia Shenlan touched his scales—the mermaid's body tensed suddenly, and Xia Shenlan's hand was torn away.

Xia Shenlan was pulled forward and staggered forward, threw herself on the mermaid, and fell to the ground together with the mermaid.

It was still the posture of the mermaid at the bottom and Xia Shenlan at the top.

But different from the last time, Xia Shenlan saw a flash of light on the mermaid's bare skin. The light spread from the mermaid's shoulder when it hit the ground, like a cannonball hitting the light energy in Star Wars. Radial streamer on the protective cover.

Xia Shenlan couldn't believe it, and looked at the skin of the mermaid's chest carefully in this posture, only to find that the skin of a mermaid is different from that of a human!

The mermaid's skin doesn't have human-like textures, but there is a very shallow layer of totems hidden under the skin. When attacked, those totems will light up.

It has to be said that every hidden point in the mermaid made Xia Shenlan's liking to a higher level.

The mermaid's cold hand suddenly blocked Xia Shenlan's eyes, which was exactly the same as what Xia Shenlan did to the mermaid just now.

Xia Shenlan came back to her senses, "Okay... I won't watch it, I was a little too surprised just now, I always thought your skin was the same as mine, but it turned out to be different."

As he said that, he wanted to tear the mermaid's hand away, but the mermaid's strength far surpassed Xia Shenlan's, and Xia Shenlan couldn't move him even with all her strength.

"...Aren't you going to let me go in the dark?"

The mermaid didn't move at all, but she didn't want to let go of her hand to let Xia Shenlan observe his skin closely again.

Xia Shenlan had no choice but to sit up slowly with the support of her hands. Halfway through, she touched the mermaid's shoulder and was forcefully pulled away. The process of falling on the mermaid again was negligible.

The mermaid let go, and Xia Shenlan regained her light.

Xia Shenlan hurriedly got up from the mermaid, carried the mermaid back into the basin and hastily rinsed off the foam on her body.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Xia Shenlan always felt that after what happened just now, the atmosphere became a little strange.

What is so strange? ——It’s a bit like the strange atmosphere of a young couple who is embarrassed to look at each other after they have an affair.

Xia Shenlan gasped, and quickly patted her face to apologize.

What kind of ambiguous atmosphere can there be between him and a fish?Hurry up!

But that strange scale is a good starting point. After cleaning the fish tank, Xia Shenlan searched the Internet. The scale of that shape is very similar to the legendary reverse scale.

——"What does it mean to touch the reverse scale of an animal?"

——"It means you touched his heart."

This is an unreliable answer from Baidu Q&A.

Xia Shenlan's heart was slightly hot, and her heartbeat accelerated involuntarily.

Did you touch the... heart of the mermaid?