pure white believer

dark.Endless, deep darkness.

A depth of more than [-] meters is enough to block all warm light.So the bottom of the sea is always composed of cold green, blue and black.However, nearly half of the creatures living here can emit light by themselves, so they don't look so lonely.

Sometimes in slightly shallower places, groups of luminescent jellyfish can be seen passing by.When he saw jellyfish for the first time, he thought that these soft little creatures would be easy to bully, so he stretched out his hand to catch them, but he was entangled by the long tentacles, followed by a burning pain.

When he returned home, he hid his hands behind his back. Unexpectedly, the elder mermaid saw his strangeness at a glance and pulled his hands out from behind.

She looked at the purple scars lying on it, and took a breath: "What is this?"

The mermaid's voice is much higher than the human voice range, 70.00% is within the human hearing range, and 30.00% is outside.He didn't know why he suddenly remembered the human voice at this moment, and replied with a guilty conscience: "I was not careful..."

He thought she was going to hit him, but she didn't.She just looked at him and was silent for a long time.

It was much later that he found her crying.Mermaids sank in the deep sea, no one could see their tears.He just saw her shoulders twitching slightly, tiny air bubbles overflowed from the corner of her mouth and burst again.

He was startled.In his impression, his mother seldom cried, she always reprimanded them with a straight face.Because she's always alone - they don't have a father - and if they don't act fierce, someone else will pick them up.

He suddenly panicked, regretting that he had caught the jellyfish passing by for fun, so he could only rush forward, put his arms around her neck, and curled her arm with his tail.He was still very small, only a quarter of her length, and it took a lot of effort to keep him from falling off her.She hugged him back tightly, her trembling strength smashed all the way down her arm into the bottom of his heart.

……

"I don't sing very well." The mermaid behind hooked his neck and said, long blond hair hanging down his shoulders, "Ask Qiqi to sing for you, Qiqi's singing can attract the little girls outside. "

He blushed inexplicably, turned around and threw his brother off his shoulders: "Go sing it yourself."

"Why are you so thin-skinned!" The blond-haired mermaid laughed at him behind his back, "I just asked you to sing a song, why are you so shy!"

……

He hid in a piece of deep black seaweed, lying on his back, humming an out-of-tune melody in a low voice, looking up and playing with his fingers.

The surrounding small fish gradually stopped.After a while, they all swam to his fingertips one after another, shuttled back and forth quietly among them.

……

"When will we be able to live on land?"

"It won't be until you become an adult." The black-haired mermaid replied, "You haven't differentiated yet, if you go ashore rashly, you will die of dehydration."

"I...I want to go to the shore with my mother." He raised his head sadly, trying to see through the darkness, all the way to the sea level, "I also want to see the human world."

As he said that, human high-rise buildings suddenly appeared in his mind.The strange thing is that he has never been to those places, but he clearly knows that those are the residences of human beings—why did he suddenly think of these?

……

"elder sister."

He flicked his tail uneasily, letting it slap a conch on the sand: "Why haven't they come back yet?"

Calculated according to the time, it is already nine o'clock in the evening, and my mother left home at four o'clock in the afternoon, with my brother.In the past, they would go home within two hours, but now they were three hours late, and he couldn't help feeling anxious.

"I heard that people from the research institute have come here." He said, "But my mother and brother are ordinary people and will not be taken away."

The pretty mermaid with long black hair was clearly disturbed too.She looked at the top of her head in silence for a while, then suddenly said, "I'll go look for them."

"I'll go with you," he said immediately.

"No." She said decisively, "Have you forgotten, you are almost nine years old now—you don't look like an ordinary mermaid, you will awaken your abilities—you should stay at home obediently at this time , I'll be right back."

He still wanted to refute, but was glared at by his sister, so he had to be obedient, turned around and swam home.

He tried to make himself fall asleep early, and when he woke up, his mother and older siblings would be home.Finally fell asleep in a daze, but woke up suddenly after a while.His heart was beating fast, hitting his chest one after another, making him feel uncomfortable all over, and he couldn't help but get up and look at the time——

It's twelve o'clock in the morning.

No one came back.

As if he had been hit on the head with a heavy hammer, his mind went blank, and he swam towards the sea without even thinking about it.

For 10 minutes, his thoughts turned extremely slowly.After a while, I finally came back to my senses and realized that I was alone in the dark.

He cried out uncontrollably.Even though he lives in the deep sea all year round, he is still afraid of the dark, of being alone, and afraid that no one will accompany him in the world.Mom said he was alone when he was picked up, and now he is alone again.There was nothing around, not even a jellyfish that had chased him to sting him.He was terribly frightened, and tears came silently from the corners of his eyes, merging with the sea water.

He surfaced in just a few minutes, and the rapid ascent made his head hurt.He rested for a few seconds, and immediately began to swim along the bank, looking for his sister.If I remember correctly, my sister left here...

He sucked in a breath of cold air.

The first thing that catches the eye is a severed fish tail.Neatly cut off from the very end, revealing a bloody section, lying quietly on the beach of the coast.

There was a "hum" in his mind, and he was about to rush towards the shore regardless, but soon realized that the tail of the fish was blue.No one in the family has a tail of this color except myself.

But after he calmed down, he noticed something was wrong again—there was a faint smell of blood in the air, which became stronger as he moved toward the shore, and he could clearly tell that the smell of blood belonged to mermaids.

He could no longer convince himself that they were all right, forcibly overcame the fear in his heart, and swam cautiously towards the shore.

It's coming soon... It shouldn't matter if it's any closer...

"Mom?" He asked tentatively, "Sister?"

However, he could never imagine that what responded to him was a flash of dazzling light and a fishing net thrown in front of him. Before he could regain his senses, he was firmly bound by a strong nylon rope.He cried out and struggled vigorously, but the strength of the fishing net was much stronger than his, dragging him straight from the shallow sea to the shore.

Only now did he see four or five adult human males standing behind a huge container, each holding a variety of fishing tools, and the fishing net that fettered him was being pulled by one of them .Behind them, he saw his brother and mother who were unconscious, their eyes were closed tightly, their faces were bruised and bruised, and their sister was beside them.

As soon as my sister saw him, she opened her mouth desperately, as if she wanted to tell him to leave.But when she opened her mouth, she didn't make any sound, she just opened and closed in silence, stretching her hands helplessly...hands...

His gaze dropped blankly.

My sister has only one hand left.

There was a bloody cut on her right arm, and the severed limb was lying not far from her, emitting bursts of bloody smell.

He yelled frantically as the human who strangled him lifted him into the air and fell out of the net.He finally realized that he had encountered a human being who was fishing for mermaids.

"It's too young." At this moment, the human being said dissatisfiedly, "How old is this?"

He was indeed too small, and could only reach the human calf, so he grabbed the human calf heavily, leaving five neat bloodstains.

The human "hissed" and lifted him upside down by his tail.He and his companion seemed to be cursing angrily, but he couldn't hear them clearly.His world was in chaos, and he could only vaguely feel that someone was patting him on the shoulder, but he was clearly suspended in mid-air by someone holding his tail... There was a splitting pain in his body, as if someone was strangling hard. It grabbed his neck, but after a while, there were waves of screams in his ears... He suddenly opened his eyes.

He fell from mid-air and sat kneeling on the sand on the coast.

His hands were stained with human blood.

And around him, there were scattered human limbs lying here and there... They seemed to have only incomplete limbs left, some only had their heads left, and some had only their hands...

He froze in place in a daze, and strange humans stood around him, each wearing a striking white uniform.

"He's very unstable," he heard someone say.

"Execution on the spot?"

"No, no," said the man. "Wait. I'll find out."

He hung his head, staring at his hands.Until now, he still didn't understand what happened just now.

"He's going to kill us all at any moment..."

"...I'll go." The human next to him said vaguely.

"Don't! . . . sir, this is dangerous!"

"It'll be all right."

Someone left the crowd and came towards him.

He raised his eyes in a trance, and saw the other party squatting down in front of him, and stretched out his hand towards him.

The face of the person who came could not be seen clearly, as if surrounded by a cloud of fog, as if in a dream... a dream?Is this a dream?He could only see a green-wrapped candy lying in the opponent's palm.

He shouldn't take things from strangers.His sister has been warning him to stay away from humans.But he still stretched out his hand involuntarily, and took the candy from the opponent's hand.

Consciousness became chaotic again, and he felt someone hug him from the beach.But he couldn't turn his head to see the faces of human beings clearly, he could only see that his mother and brother not far away had woken up.They were yelling in terror, they were calling his name, they held out their hands to him, but more humans surrounded him, blocking them behind him.There were more and more humans, he was surrounded by fully armed humans, and was taken onto a ship that was taller than all human buildings... There was a stabbing pain in his chest, and he suddenly realized clearly that maybe in this life they can't see each other again...

"...wake up."

Nan Ting opened his eyes.

It was a long time before he remembered who he was and where he was.

"You have a nightmare." The person sitting on the bed said to him, "I saw you crying when I came back."

did i cry?Nanting thought.

He raised his hand and wiped the corner of his eyes lightly, and actually touched the wet trace.

The truth was right in front of him, even though he couldn't believe it.But the fact is that after Zhou Shuining died, or "disappeared" - after all, the real her had long since died - those memories that belonged to him returned to his body.

After leaving the White Tower, he began to fall asleep all day long, and his dreams were full of his past.She was right, after she died, she gave them all her memories back.

The pain in the dream still clearly remained in his heart.Without saying a word, he turned over and got out of bed, walked into the bathroom, shut the door of Wen Zhen who wanted to follow, leaned against the corner of the wall, and looked at the familiar face in the mirror.

His face was pale, his eyes were hollow, and the color of his scales was much darker.

After a long time, he squatted down weakly.

Why.he thinks.

Why has everything turned into this now... into something he can't accept.

Nan Ting hung his head and rested his hands on his knees.

There was a light knock on the door, Wen Zhen seemed to be saying something.But he ignored it.

Everything seems to be unimportant.

After a long time, he didn't know how long, maybe 10 minutes, maybe an hour, Nan Ting finally heard what the other party was saying.

He's saying-

"Did you really not notice any difference in your body?"

The author has something to say:

These days I stay up late every day to do my homework, the homework is too heavy, I really can’t update too much, slip on my knees and apologize

In addition, a new name was changed

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