pure white believer

When he was carried out of the water, the little mermaid realized that the place he was in was not a widening river, but a long pool covered with pebbles.

Not only that, but the plants around the pool are growing neatly, looking like they have been carefully cared for.

Only then did he realize that he had done a stupid thing - swimming directly into the other party's back garden.

But Wen Zhen was not angry.

Wen Zhen was busy figuring out how to hold the long tail steady, the scales of the fish that were wet with water were slippery, and slipped out of his hand as soon as he exerted force.

Finally he said, "You hold me."

The little mermaid hesitated for a moment, and put her ring around his neck.

Wen Zhen finally found a balance point, supported the fish's tail, turned and left the pool.

As they walked through the garden, strange scenery kept coming into view.The little mermaid grabbed his collar unnaturally, her upper body tensed.

Wen Zhen seemed to have noticed it, and patted his shoulder with his hand.

"Don't be afraid," he said, "I'll take you to see the wound."

The little mermaid couldn't see his expression, and couldn't hear anything from his flat tone. She couldn't relax for a while, and nodded stiffly.

Wen Zhen stopped walking along the gravel road for half a minute.

"This is my home." He introduced.

The little mermaid turned her head away.

Wen Zhen's home is different from other human dwellings he has seen.This is a "glass house"—all walls, floors, and most of the furniture are made of transparent materials.

Through the wall, the little mermaid saw at a glance that in addition to various glass cabinets, there was also a long water tank without a cover, the bottom of which was not below the ground.

The little mermaid: "..."

He secretly jumped for joy.

It turned out that this person even had a water tank in his home.Before he came, he was worried for a while, about whether he should live in the other party's bathtub with a faceless face.

Wen Zhen walked into the hall, put him in the water tank, and took two steps back.Only then did the little mermaid notice that she rubbed the water all over her body.

"I used to raise some small fish." Wen Zhen said, his tone seemed to be chatting, "It's very beautiful, but it's a pity that they don't live long."

He looked at the little mermaid again: "The water tank is a bit small for you."

The little mermaid shook her head, expressing that she didn't mind.

Wen Zhen originally wanted to say something, but stopped after his eyes fell on the tail.

He looked at the little mermaid for a while, then suddenly said: "You are not yet of age."

This sentence is not quite right, but the little mermaid still nodded.

"Has no one taught you not to approach human territory until you are an adult?" Wen Zhen thoughtfully, taking another step towards him, never leaving his eyes.

The little mermaid shook her head.

"You don't know why?"

The blue tail fin flicked uneasily.

Wen Zhen seemed to have noticed his discomfort, so he reached out his hand and patted his head affectionately.

He slowly said: "Because I got you, you are mine."

Wen Zhen's eyes carried a special emotion that the little mermaid could not understand. If he had to describe it, in all the photos he had seen, this person's eyes had an empty and gloomy expression, but now , Wen Zhen's eyes are much more lively than before.

His eyes focused on him, he smiled when he spoke, and his tone was soft, no different from ordinary staff in the base.

It looks like a normal human being.

The little mermaid has limited ability in this area, and really can't figure out the emotions of the other party.He struggled to think that this might be a way of showing his favor.

He will be left behind.

The little mermaid secretly breathed a sigh of relief.Before that, he was always worried that Wen Zhen would throw him back into the sea.

Chi never told him what to do after meeting Wen Zhen in order to be left behind.Every time he was asked, he would just repeat "you don't have to do anything, just be good, and he will like you".

He knew Wen Zhen well, better than anyone else.They all said that he was the only person in the world that Wen Zhen feared.No one is not afraid of an opponent who knows himself well.

Thinking about it now, the reason why Chi is so sure is probably because he knows that Wen Zhen likes to raise beautiful sea creatures.

There was still a wound on the little mermaid's tail fin, so Wen Zhen went to the study to get medicine, and told him to stay in the water tank and not move around.

So he lay on the edge of the water tank, carefully looking at Wen Zhen's house.

The first thing that caught his attention was the TV in the living room.The TV was turned off, and the anchor on the screen said in a straight voice, "The estimated value of the stolen item is 1300 million yuan. For those who provide important clues, the museum will reward 10 to 50 yuan depending on the situation." His family was watching the news before.

What the museum lost was a stuffed bird with bright feathers and many colors.It has no legs and is held in a birdcage in an odd position.

The little mermaid's first reaction was that ordinary specimens couldn't be so expensive, and then felt that this thing looked familiar, so she subconsciously searched Wen Zhen's living room.

In the living room, besides the water tank, there are several transparent cabinets, in which there are messy things, including white porcelain vases, flower arrangements, oil paintings, and tattered notebooks... In the cabinet closest to the little mermaid, there is a strange one. , something that is difficult to describe in words.It is like a soft veil, the surface of which highlights the shapes of human features.

The little mermaid stared at it for a while, and suddenly found that every time it was observed, the facial features on it would change, from one strange face to another.

He was slightly startled, and before he had time to take another look, Wen Zhen came back with the medicine bottle.

The little mermaid quickly looked away.

Wen Zhen looked at the veil in the cupboard, then at him, and just said "come here" without any explanation.

The tank is not suitable for medicine, so the little mermaid is taken to the bathroom again.

Wen Zhen put the medicine bottle aside, and sat down cross-legged casually.He turned up the brightness of the dome light a bit, pinched the little mermaid's tail, avoided the wound with his thumb, and slowly slid across the blue scales.

The little mermaid vaguely felt that this man seemed to like her tail very much.

Probably because he didn't have one himself.

People are always interested in things they don't have, especially Wen Zhen, an avid collector.The room full of cupboards and the mess in them is a good illustration of this.

He remembered what Chi had said to him—"You will become his favorite collection".

It wasn't until a sharp pain came from the tail that the little mermaid came back to her senses.The potion was very irritating, dripping on the wound, the pain made him frown.

He is afraid of pain.

"Pain?" Wen Zhen asked him.

The little mermaid nodded.

"Be patient." Wen Zhen glanced at the small wound on his tail and said absently.

The little mermaid nodded again.

After coming here, the communication between them is limited to questioning and nodding and shaking their heads, which is like an interrogation.No matter how dull Wen Zhen is, he can still detect his abnormality, not to mention that he belongs to the extremely sensitive group of people.

"You..." Wen Zhen paused for a rare moment, "Why didn't you speak?"

The little mermaid opened her mouth, but made no sound.He looked into the other person's eyes and knew that Wen Zhen already had the answer in his heart.

Wen Zhen: "You can't talk?"

The little mermaid nodded hesitantly.

Wen Zhen threw away the cotton swab in his hand and stood up.

"I thought you just didn't like talking," he said, the smile on his face fading a little bit.

He seemed a little unhappy.thought the little mermaid.

He... probably doesn't like it very much, a self that can't speak.

The little mermaid wanted to restore her image, so she reached out tentatively and took Wen Zhen's finger.Seeing that he didn't respond, he pulled that hand a little closer and placed it flat in front of his eyes.

He slowly wrote in Wen Zhen's palm: I can write.

After he finished writing, Wen Zhen didn't say anything, just pulled his hand back and patted his head again.Then he picked up the medicine bottle from the ground, turned around and left the bathroom.

Looking through the transparent wall, the little mermaid saw him walking back to the study, then to the hall, standing in front of the rows of cabinets, feeling uncontrollably lost.

He doesn't like himself like this either.

But he can't speak since he was born, it's not up to him to decide.

Wen Zhen stopped in front of the cabinet for a long time.The little mermaid became nervous again, wondering if he was thinking about how to deal with himself.

Mr. Chi said that he is perfect, whether as a sharp weapon or a work of art worthy of collection, he is perfect.But every time the little mermaid thinks about it, she only feels that she is just an incomplete fish.

When Wen Zhen came back, he had a black, soft belt on his hand, and each of the two sections of the belt had a silver-white metal buckle.

"Talking to you is too much work, baby." He finally said, his tone a little softer than before, "Come on, try this."

The little mermaid froze for a moment, her heart sank suddenly.

He'd seen something like it...in the base.

It looks like a human jewelry.But he knows it's not.

This thing is called a "communicator". Whoever wears it can faithfully relay all the thoughts in the person's mind.While on base, he used it to talk to other staff members.

Of course the little mermaid doesn't need to keep secrets in Chi, but in front of Wen Zhen, it's better to be a real mute.

He still didn't want to hear it tell Wen Zhen: "I must kill you."

Or something weirder like "I want to go back to base, if only you were dead now".

How could Wen Zhen have such a thing?Could it be that he took it from the base too?

But there is only one AC in the base, and when he left by himself, it stayed in the safe safely.

The little mermaid huddled in the bathtub in fear.

Seeing that he hadn't moved for a long time, Wen Zhen waved to him, motioning for him to come over.

The little mermaid shook her head subconsciously.

Wen Zhen narrowed his eyes.

"Come here." He said, not as nicely as before.

"..."

The little mermaid closed her eyes, and finally leaned over.

Without saying a word, Wen Zhen brushed away his wet hair and tied the jewelry around his neck.

With a click, the metal clasp closed behind his neck.

The hands did not move away immediately.Wen Zhen maintained this movement for a while, his fingertips slowly sank into the cold skin.

The little mermaid didn't resist, and lowered her eyes, allowing the other party to gradually strangle her soft throat.

After a second, or ten seconds, the strength suddenly loosened.

Then, Wen Zhen smiled.

In fact, he didn't use any force at all, but the little mermaid still coughed subconsciously, and then heard Wen Zhen say to him with a smile, "You're so scared, why are you still motionless?"

His tone was brisk, as if it wasn't him who spoke in a cold voice just now.

"I……"

As soon as the little mermaid said a word, she suddenly stopped speaking.

Suddenly he made a sound!

No, not only that...

The little mermaid raised her hand in surprise, and touched the jewelry on her neck.

It finally came to him—the sash didn't say everything that was going on in his head.

It is not a "communicator". If you have to describe it, it is more like an artificial vocal cord, which is controlled by the language center and only helps him say what he wants to say.

"I..." The little mermaid was still a little unskilled in speaking, stuttering, "I don't, I'm afraid."

Wen Zhen was originally staring straight at his neck, but upon hearing this, he laughed, "Little liar."

"I'm not."

The little mermaid retorted immediately.Hearing himself making an unfamiliar voice, he felt a strange feeling in his heart.

Wen Zhen gave him a very strange thing.Although Wen Zhen himself did not realize this.

—He gave the power to lie.

Wen Zhen obviously didn't believe what the little liar said.

"Then what are you?" he asked.

The little mermaid thought for a while, and answered honestly: "I am, a mermaid."

Wen Zhen: "..."

He said he was able to speak, but it was still difficult to communicate.

He decided to drop the subject: "How old are you?"

The little mermaid doesn't look very old because he hasn't grown his legs yet.

Mermaids go through two differentiation periods in their lifetime.The first time, they will grow human legs, and can freely switch their own form, becoming an amphibious creature; the second time will usher in sexual maturity, they will find a suitable mate and make friends with them. Tail, reproduce offspring.

The first differentiation period occurs between the ages of 15 and 17. After the legs grow, a mermaid is officially an adult.

but……

"I am 19 years old this year." After a long time, the little mermaid replied.

In fact, the clearer part of the little mermaid's memory is only 10 years in total, but his bone age test shows that he is 19 years old this year.But this is not important, in any case, he has long passed the age of the first differentiation.

Wen Zhen's understanding was not entirely correct.He is not "not yet an adult", he will never be an adult - as a genetically defective mermaid, he cannot usher in the first differentiation, and can only stay in his minor period forever.

Wen Zhen seemed to have some understanding of the mermaid's differentiation mechanism: "No differentiation?"

"The gene...is flawed." The little mermaid has adapted to speaking, but her tone is hesitant, "I can't make a sound, and I can't differentiate."

Wen Zhen looked at him with dark eyes.

"What a pity." After a long time, he said softly, "Your voice must be beautiful."

The little mermaid did not speak.

"That's why they bullied you." Wen Zhen looked at him, resting his chin.

The little mermaid: "...?"

After thinking for a while, he realized that Wen Zhen was talking about his clansmen.

Mermaids live in groups. Before they grow up, they all live on the seabed. After they grow up, some will choose to live on land, while others will stay in the sea.

Most of them are strong in stature, and some can even reach 2.5 meters in length. They are good at fighting, and they also have beautiful singing voices, and their voices are naturally full of charm.

The little mermaid has no impression of her own people.He only heard from Chi that before the people in the base rescued him, he was once bullied by his own people and was bruised all over.

That's probably it.The little mermaid nodded.

Seeing his hesitant look, Wen Zhen couldn't help thinking that the little treasure he picked up at the door of his house was so naive that he didn't even know how to guard against others.

It's actually easy to guess—if it wasn't for being bullied, how could a little mermaid with no self-protection ability leave the group and approach the human territory in such a stormy weather.

Fortunately, the person who caught him was himself.

"Little poor." Wen Zhen patted the little mermaid's head again, his warm palm brushing against the cold side of his face.

"Stay here," he said, "no one will bully you in the future."

A strange feeling appeared in the little mermaid's heart again.He opened his mouth, forgetting how he agreed.

Later, he thought for a long time about why he was left behind.

After thinking about it, I felt that this was what Chi called "compassion".Because Wen Zhen said he was pitiful.

He certainly knew the precise definition of "compassion," but he had never been able to grasp exactly what it meant.

Because he never felt sorry for himself or anyone else.

After the potion on the tail dried up, Wen Zhen put the little mermaid back into the water tank.After saying "I am Wen Zhen", he remembered that he hadn't asked the little mermaid's name yet.

The little mermaid said I had no name.

People at the base call him The Little Mermaid, or 477.

477 is his job number, and every staff member in the base has his own number.The number of the pool is 001.

After thinking for a while, Wen Zhen said, "Then let me call you Nan Ting. This name suits you very well."

The author has something to say:

So the name Nan Ting comes from Xiao Wen

ps. The age difference is 8 years old

(But it doesn't seem to be too important)

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