pure white believer

For some reason, when she asked this sentence, the tension that had been entrenched in Nan Ting's heart suddenly disappeared.

He calmed down unexpectedly, and let go of the hand behind his back: "That's not the case."

"I'd love to hear your explanation."

"It's just a kiss." Nan Ting said, "Is it important?"

241:"……"

She laughed: "Isn't that important?"

Nan Ting couldn't understand her: "but I don't like him. Why do you say that about me?"

"you sure?"

"I'm sure."

241 paused for a while, and when he finally spoke, he seemed to give up something: "But he seems to like you very much."

"Isn't that good?" Nan Ting said, "He trusts me very much."

This is the truth.

"So you just let him kiss you? Let him trust you more so that you can kill him more easily? Is this your explanation?" 241 laughed, "Little mermaid, if you were someone else, I would That would call you cruel."

"But you are not."

"You don't look like the kind of person who plays with other people's emotions at all, so your explanation doesn't hold water."

Nan Ting: "I..."

"Forget it." 241 stood up from the sofa with an expression of not wanting to argue with him, "If you can't accept the base's decision to revoke your mission for the time being, I can give you a week to continue thinking about it. One week, okay?"

Nan Ting breathed a sigh of relief as if he had received a reprieve: "One week?"

"No matter what you think, no matter what happened before and after this, after a week, I need your answer." 241 said, "You know the rules in the base. The original intention of letting you perform the mission is for the benefit of the base. ,It’s also the same for you to give up now. If you only think about your mission in your heart, then it’s putting the cart before the horse, understand?”

"I know." Nan Ting said calmly.

241 looked at him with a relaxed expression.

"I watched you grow up." She said softly, "No matter what, I don't want to watch you die."

When Nan Ting left the base, she said exactly the same thing.

It was just that at that time Nan Ting still had a slight touch in his heart, but now, there is only a bone-chilling chill left.

—she was probably threatening him.

After 241 left, Wen Zhen didn't come back either.Nan Ting was lying on the bed alone, looking at the empty ceiling with some confusion.

He knew he couldn't escape like this forever.

Now it's time for him to make a choice.

leave?

Then he will go back to the base, back to Chi's side.

He used to be the most devout believer in God, but now he is no longer as determined as when he left.If Chi put on the communicator for him again, he would probably be able to hear him say a lot of shocking words.

So, stay?

Then he would become a sinner, Wen Zhen's accomplice, and one of the defectors hunted down by the Alien Society.

If you have to say it, Nan Ting actually doesn't care about this.

What he cares about is - he is actually the type of person Wen Zhen hates the most.

Having been by Wen Zhen's side for so long, Nan Ting certainly knows his attitude towards the person he hates.

Wen Zhen usually remains indifferent to those who don't care.But for people he dislikes, Wen Zhen never hides his dislike.

What will he say?

Would you say you're disgusting?He said that to many people.Or would he call him hypocritical, like he once described Chi to himself?

Just think about it.

I just imagined it out of thin air... Nan Ting felt sad.

When Wen Zhen came back from the outside, as soon as he opened the door, before he could walk in, the people in the room immediately asked, "Where have you been?"

"What's the matter?" He closed the door behind his back, without answering the question.

"It's nothing..." Nan Ting sat on the bed with his knees hugged, his gaze was a little erratic, "Just ask."

Nan Ting is actually a person who can't hide things.No one ever told him that.Chi has never deliberately cultivated his ability to deceive others, because he thinks that handing over a blank sheet of paper is the best way to prevent prying eyes on the answer.

But now the white paper is full of other thoughts, which are openly exposed to everyone's sight, and there is no way to hide.

So Wen Zhen said casually, "Do you miss me after leaving for a while?"

"……Um."

Wen Zhen originally just wanted to tease him, but he did not expect that he actually admitted it as he wanted.

So he put down the things in his hand, went to sit down opposite Nan Ting, and asked again: "What's wrong?"

Nan Ting's state is very wrong.His face was a little red, his eyes were unfocused in mid-air, his fingers were curled up on the bed sheet, probably rubbing it repeatedly anxiously, even his knuckles were abnormally red.

He didn't look at Wen Zhen, but said in a low voice: "If, I mean if..."

"Would you be angry if I lied to you?"

Wen Zhen paused for a moment, and said half-jokingly: "That depends on how you lied to me."

"severity?"

"Correct."

"...Oh." Nan Ting said a little disappointed, "What if it's serious?"

"What did you lie to me about?"

Nan Ting immediately became nervous.But he concealed it, imitating the tone of human beings when joking, and smiled as easily as possible: "I didn't say that I lied to you. I just... just made an assumption."

Laughing unnaturally.

Wen Zhen really wanted to tell him that anyone who could ask such a question could get rid of the initial assumption—for anyone, "If I lied to you" is the beginning of a confession.

"You're blushing."

Nan Ting: "..."

Nan Ting: "I'm just... a little hot."

He even spoke a little slower than usual, as if he was considering his words, or his brain was turning too slowly, and his thinking speed couldn't keep up with the conversation.

"yes."

So Wen Zhen reached out to touch his forehead.

This time Nan Ting didn't hide from him as much as yesterday, and stuck to him with the back of his hand.The normal body temperature of a mermaid is much lower than that of a human, so what he encounters on weekdays is icy cold skin.

But today is different.Today Nan Ting's body temperature seems to be hotter than his hands.

"you are sick?"

Get ill?

Nan Ting subconsciously shook his head.

Wen Zhen ignored him, found a human thermometer, and told him to keep it under his tongue.After a while, I took it out and found that it was a full 4°C higher than the normal body temperature of a mermaid.

If it were a human being, this could be called a very serious state of fever.

"I'm not sick." Nan Ting was still emphasizing, "How could a mermaid get sick. Our physical fitness is much better than yours."

"I caught a cold." Wen Zhen touched his forehead again.hot.

Nan Ting seemed to have heard some fantasy: "When we were young, the water temperature was below ten degrees. How could we catch cold on land?"

Wen Zhen had never taken care of a sick human being, let alone a sick mermaid. He didn't know whether to soak him in cold water or wrap him in a quilt and throw him on the bed.

He chose the latter first, but Nan Ting seemed very dissatisfied, insisting that he was not sick, and moved around in the quilt dishonestly, trying to lift the quilt when the other party was not paying attention.

Wen Zhen didn't leave at all, and stood by and stared at him.

Nan Ting felt uncomfortable under his gaze, twisted a few more times, and finally stopped moving.

I don't know if it's an illusion or something is wrong, but since Wen Zhen said that he was sick, his head seems to be getting more and more dizzy, and he wants to close his eyes and fall asleep several times.

When he was about to close his eyes for the last time, he suddenly remembered something, opened his eyes again in a jerk, and looked at the person sitting by the bed: "You haven't told me yet."

"tell you what?"

"That's right, um..." Nan Ting was vague for a while, "If I lied to you, especially serious things, would you forgive me?"

He was completely unaware that he had used "forgive".

"That depends on your performance." Wen Zhen said.

"Oh, then...how do you behave?"

Wen Zhen lowered his eyes, looking at the person who was wrapped in the quilt by him, leaving only one face.The expression in the golden pupils has become slack, and the whole person presents a state of relaxation and being at the mercy of others.

He suddenly had a bad thought and said, "I heard that you mermaids look like mammals, but they are actually hatched from eggs."

"If you give me an egg, I will forgive you."

"..." Nan Ting looked at him blankly, "But I won't give birth."

Wen Zhen deliberately said, "Then what should we do?"

Nan Ting was completely troubled by this question.He racked his brains and couldn't think of a way to give birth to an egg for the other party.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt drowsy. I closed my eyes and fell asleep in a daze.

Wen Zhen originally thought that he would feel better when he fell asleep, but he didn't expect that when he went to look again after a while, Nan Ting's face had already turned pale, and his mouth was even dry enough to peel.

He frowned, lifted the quilt and took a look, almost frightened by the other party - at some point, Nan Ting's lower body turned back into a long, dark blue fishtail.

Probably because of the lack of water, each scale is moving slightly, opening and closing.

This kind of behavior is tantamount to suicide, and its owner is sleeping deeply at the moment, unconscious.Wen Zhen was angry and felt ridiculous, so he had to pull him out of the quilt again, carried him to the bathroom, and began to think about how to fill the bathtub with sea water.

Before he could leave the room, he tripped over something.

Wen Zhen looked down, and found that the long and beautiful tail was lifted up at some point, and it was curling around his leg.

Even though the man was so sick that he had no strength left, his tail was exceptionally strong, and once it was tightly bound, he refused to let it go.

Wen Zhen had no choice but to slowly move into the bathroom, managed to get his tail off, and when he tried to put it into the water, he was caught up by his hand.

He patted it amusedly: "I'm almost dead, and I still have the strength to make trouble."

The person who accidentally dehydrated himself was unconscious at the moment, not only was his tail entangled, but when Wen Zhen bent down, his whole body also jumped up.

Wen Zhen stopped moving.

——Nanting almost never took the initiative to hug him.Only occasionally, maybe because I saw him being "poor" or because I felt sad, I would stretch out my hand suddenly, and then quickly retracted it as if I had been burned.

Not to mention hugging him tightly like today, burying her whole face into the side of his neck, and rubbing against it restlessly.

"Nanting?"

Wen Zhen maintained his bent posture and called out to the other party.

no respond.

Only deep and shallow breaths fluttered against his ears, carrying the heat that deep-sea creatures shouldn't have.

Wen Zhen: "..."

He knew very well that mermaids only like to use their tails to curl each other's limbs when they are courting.

When they met for the first time, Nan Ting hooked his hand with his tail.He was still more ignorant and ignorant then than he is now, and didn't understand that this behavior was in a sense seduction.

The current Nan Ting also doesn't know.

But she still leaned over instinctively, entwining him bit by bit.

Probably some sort of genetically programmed behavior.

Wen Zhen patiently pulled the person away from him and sank into the water.

When the trembling eyelashes showed signs that they were about to open, he said calmly, "Nanting."

Nan Ting barely opened his eyes halfway, and replied in a daze, "...Huh?"

"Do you mermaids also go into heat?"

He heard Wen Zhen speaking to him calmly.