A hunting adventure [unlimited]

The palace has a building nest specially for raising mermaids. It is built indoors, about three stories high, and is made of half glass and half wood and stone.

The giant transparent cube contains half of the house. The reason why it is half is because it has a complete architectural framework; ceiling, attic, spiral staircase, furniture... but lacks a wall, more like a well-built background board.To describe it, Yu Zhen would like to call it a doll's house.

A dollhouse where little girls dress up their beloved ceramic dolls and put them in for photos and role-playing.

It’s just that this room has been submerged by the blue sea water, like a corner of a sunken ship. The dark and unclear light penetrates the water, passes through the floors, and falls on the picture frame above the fireplace. The woman in the picture is demure and dignified, with picturesque eyes .

A dark green fishtail ghostly floats across the screen. The red-haired mermaid turns its waist in the water, twisting a soft and flexible arc. people outside the wall.

Yu Zhen's palm was pressed against the glass surface, and his body temperature condensed into mist on the cold wall. The little mermaid inside also stretched out his hand tentatively, tracing the shape of his fingertips through the wall.

no the same.It was completely different from the monster he faced yesterday.

It is more in line with human's fantasy and definition of a mermaid, tame and harmless, beautiful and romantic; the face is beautiful, the hands are soft, the two opening and closing gills under the ribs, and there are no other scales and fins around the body.It is so clean and gentle that even young children can touch their noses and play with it.

If the one he stabbed last night was a pure-blooded mermaid, then the one in front of him is more like a human whose legs have turned into fish tails.

"Will their faces also become..." Yu Zhen made a flower bud shape with both hands, implying the eight-petal sucker mouth torn apart by wild mermaids.

Du Yu affirmed: "No, they are not dangerous."

Yu Zhen: "Why can the same species be so different?"

Du Yu explained: "The result of artificial breeding is like domesticating wolves into dogs. The creatures bred through human intervention and genetic selection will gradually lose their original appearance; according to research, the animals with young and well-behaved appearance are the most It is easy to please humans, and mermaids are no exception after being domesticated."

"You know quite a lot." Yu Zhen watched the fish shadows shuttled between the floors. He counted, and there were seven or eight; he couldn't help thinking, "If I were to take care of this kind of mermaid , I don’t even need a salary.”

He is a superficial and straightforward visual animal, and he can't walk when he sees beautiful things.

Du Yu unkindly broke his illusion and announced: "You have no chance, they are taken care of by someone specially assigned to them. I brought you here just to help you understand the content of that book more clearly."

"Okay..." Yu Zhen's drawn-out ending sound was mixed with a bit of grievance.

The person who took care of the mermaid came at this time.

Yu Zhen was full of expectation to see the maids with long skirts fluttering and fragrant fragrance, but it was two well-dressed female officers who came. The blue-gray military uniforms made him feel cold.

Carrying two wooden barrels, they saluted Du Yu respectfully, their faces tense like wax figures, and they finished their work quietly.

A long ladder of more than ten meters was moved out next to the huge fish tank. One person put on a waterproof vest with multiple hooks, opened the wooden barrel, hung bags of frozen green sealed bags on the hooks all over the body, and then climbed with the ladder/zi Climb until your hands can rest on the edge of the upper side opening of the cube.

Another person is below to help her stabilize the bottom of the ladder/ladder.

After the person above stood firm, he took off a pack of green airtight bags from the buckle of his vest, tore open the seal, poured out a piece of pink semi-frozen raw meat, and threw it into the water.

"Mia!" A thick female voice shouted into the water.

A little mermaid with a golden tail was originally hiding in the flowerbed at the bottom. Hearing the call, it swam over cleverly and snatched the first food.

Its eating behavior is not refined, its teeth bite frozen meat and crushed ice, chew it roughly and swallow it, spit out a stream of air bubbles in its mouth, finish a meal in a few minutes, with a naive animal nature.

"Dylan!"

"Lane!"

The little mermaids who read their names lined up one by one to get the food.

Yu Zhen watched with great interest, "They can understand human speech?"

Du Yu: "Understandable, mermaids are as intelligent as humans, and they have their own way of communicating."

Yu Zhen: "Didn't they say that mermaids have beautiful singing voices, so can they learn human language?"

"What do you learn to do? To please humans?" Du Yu asked innocently, but naturally with a layer of irony, "Impossible, animal behaviorists say that mermaids use singing to convey information to their companions, so the captured mermaid At the same time, the vocal cords will be cut off; as for the ones raised here, they will be mute from birth."

Yu Zhen was at a loss for words for a while, unable to speak for a long time, and finally said: "Is that so..."

***

The cell was soaked in the mixed smell of seaweed and blood. There were no extra landscaping or decorations. A shallow pool made of white tiles locked the only pure-blooded mermaid in the empire for more than a hundred years.

It quietly dives into the water, and half of its face under the long hair of its long hair sometimes surfaces, its white skin shimmers with shattered light, and its beautiful eyes are full of sparkles.

Yu Zhen shuddered at the danger hidden under its beautiful face, so she dared to follow Du Yu and slowly move forward; who made Du Yu not be attacked by the mermaid?

"You're not so timid, are you?" Du Yu turned to look at him suspiciously, and urged, "We'll get along day and night from now on, go get acquainted with it quickly."

"How could it be possible to have feelings for this kind of thing!" Yu Zhen shouted, "Do you think it is "The Shape of Water"?"

"Your taste in movies is very old-fashioned." After Du Yu appraised it, he pulled him out and pushed him forward, "Go, otherwise you will also be a flowerpot."

Yu Zhen: "Why do I have to choose a way to die between entering a wolf's den or entering a tiger's den!"

"Good afternoon." A bright and clear female voice came with the sound of a string of leather boots hitting the ground.

Ola is always imposing and haughty with her chin high. She is not tall (in terms of an empire where the average female height is 178 cm), but she has a chilling majesty.

There used to be a popular saying that if there are too many people who kill and do evil, even vicious dogs will shy away from him; Ola has this kind of cold-blooded, murderous aura.

"Your Highness is in a good mood today." With her hands behind her back, her eyes wandered over Du Yu and Yu Zhen, "If I take liberty, why are you with a lowly servant?"

Du Yu glanced at Yu Zhen and said, "From today on, he will take care of this mermaid."

Aura's eyes fell on Yu Zhen's face, with a smile on her lips: "I'm afraid he doesn't have the qualifications."

"It's not that I'm against you deliberately, but this is the most precious animal in the entire empire; Her Majesty the Queen and I don't feel at ease if you hand it over to a mere servant." She spoke softly to her fiancé.

"Goose... also... don't... think... ah." Yu Zhen gritted his teeth, squeezed out an indistinct sound from his lips, and deliberately said it to the people around him.

This is not the first time that Du Yu confronted his fiancée tit for tat, and said without giving in: "It's mine, and I'll decide who takes care of it."

Aura: "You are still as usual..."

Du Yu interrupted: "You can go."

Aura was gagged, bowed her head and smiled, leaving a meaningful look in her eyes, straightened her back and left.

"Your girlfriend is terrible, I think you don't like her either." Yu Zhen touched Du Yu's sleeve lovingly, "I heard that your sister will choose a concubine for you next month, so let's change her."

"—Who told you?" Du Yu reacted strongly.

"...That's what people say outside." Yu Zhen repeated from memory, and imitated the casual tone of those female soldiers, ""The queen's ball, invited the rich and nobles from all over the country to the palace for a dinner, it is a good opportunity to win the queen's favor... ...""

"My impression of you has changed, you are a bit annoying." Du Yu walked to the pool impatiently, "Come here."

"Oh..." Yu Zhen followed with a dark face.

——Pull what!Isn't it just rich and dreamy?Counting his life experience is five years less than his!dead brat...

Du Yu dipped his hand into the water, the mermaid smelled his scent, paddled to the edge of the pool, the chain on his wrist jingled, and the moment he came up, he was like a beautiful flower emerging from the water, alluring and charming.

Yu Zhen stood ten meters away, unwilling to approach.He did not forget the danger of escaping from the fish mouth last night.

Du Yu showed an expression of limited patience, "Stop pretending, come here quickly."

Yu Zhen shook her head like a rattle.

Du Yu had no choice but to bend slightly, picked up a metal half-face mouthband on the ground, and covered the mermaid's nose to jaw. The two arc-shaped iron plates behind its head were fastened tightly to prevent its mouth from changing.

The mermaid scratched at the scrap metal with its sharp bone spurs in disgust, and glared at Du Yu resentfully, but there was no sign of attacking.The wound on its neck grew a layer of pink and tender new flesh pushing against the black sutures, and the healing speed was astonishing.

Yu Zhen just walked to Du Yu's side in two or three steps, and said hesitantly, "Will it harm me when you're not around?"

"It won't harm people anymore." Du Yu reluctantly removed a wisp of weed from the mermaid's hair, "I made a promise with it."

Yu Zhen pricked up his ears: "What agreement..."

Du Yu: "I promise to send it back to the sea and set it free."

Yu Zhen whispered: "You might as well destroy this country directly."

"If I can, I will." Du Yu stared at him seriously, "That's why I chose you to take care of it. You are different from the people here. You don't care about gains and losses, and you listen to me very much."

very obedient... very obedient...

You are scolding him!

"Then you have to promise me a request!" Yu Zhen seized the opportunity and said.

Du Yu was surprised that he would make a request, "What?"

Yu Zhen: "I'll help you whatever you do, but after your work is done, you have to follow me."

Du Yu thought for a moment, then said calmly, "Yes."

The two shook hands and reached a consensus.

Du Yu himself is actually a pure romantic, and his main consciousness is immersed in this absurd and cruel dream, in order to send the mermaid back to the sea.

It's not easy!

Yu Zhen was full of energy and began to carry out the work at hand.He looked at the mermaid kindly and asked, "What does it need me to do for it?"

Du Yu went to open a door on the wall, and white air-conditioning came out of the door, which was a cold room; the prince of the empire personally moved a foam box out of it and put it at Yu Zhen's feet.

Inside the box was a pile of green wrappers, the same kind of raw meat that other mermaids ate.

Yu Zhen: "Feed me? Simple, leave it to me."

Du Yu: "You don't want to feed anything in this kind of bag."

Yu Zhen asked in surprise, "Hey, why?"

"I suspect that there is something wrong with the source of these meats." Du Yu tore open a bag and stuffed him with ice-like raw meat, "Look."

Yu Zhen took the pink frozen meat in distaste, and within half a minute, his fingers ached from the ice.In his opinion, there are subtle differences between this piece of meat and ordinary frozen meat; it has skin, and poultry is excluded first, because its cortex is light pink, unlike pig skin, which is hard and gelatinous, very fine and smooth, with soft fat and meaty texture Dense.

These were actually two pieces of meat that had been frozen together, and the middle part was filled with pale red frozen blood.He had a bad premonition, and raised the frozen meat to the light above his head——

In the turbid light red ice mixed with bloodshot veins, there is a vague shadow about 5 cm long; the oval head, the lower end of which is cut unevenly, looks like a thumb...

No, this is a human thumb!

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Finally, we are about to enter the key plot!Take a two-day break to save your manuscripts, see you on Wednesday, 1.20=3=