pure white believer

Four hours later, Nanting sat at the dining table, staring at the napkin in his hand.He didn't even notice that he was wandering.

After Wen Zhen observed his expression carefully, he suddenly said to him, "It's exactly the same as that time."

Nan Ting was at a loss: "...?"

"Not long after we met." Wen Zhen said, "You spent the first night at my house."

Nan Ting's memory only stays in the conversation with that woman.He remembered now that the woman was his former breeder, but she seemed to be in a high position now.He didn't remember who she actually was, only that they were discussing killing the person in front of him.

"I don't remember." He said truthfully, "I...why did I appear in your house?"

"You delivered it yourself."

"?"

"You hurt your own tail, and then lay in front of my house." Wen Zhen described it this way, "Out of kindness, I took you back."

Nan Ting: "?!"

Has he ever done such a... cheeky thing?

"And then you stayed up all night. The next day I asked you why you didn't sleep, and you said," Wen Zhen casually made coffee for himself, "because you are afraid of me."

He said softly: "You seem to think the same now."

Nan Ting had no choice but to explain: "I dreamed about something from the past..."

The spoon hit the glass.

"... Are those all real?"

Nanting hoped to get a repudiation from him.But unfortunately, Wen Zhen smiled and said, "How could your memory lie to you?"

He looks so relaxed.But Nan Ting was not at all relaxed.

After a while, he asked, "Why did you save me then?"

"You don't remember? I told you."

Nan Ting shook his head.

"Because I liked you very much the first time I saw you." Wen Zhen said.

After speaking, he slowly finished his cup of coffee.Nanting had no coffee, he hated the taste, it was too bitter.

"then you……"

"?"

"...Do you know that I am uneasy?"

Nan Ting struggled with the choice of words.But facing Shang Wenzhen's pretendingly puzzled gaze, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and add: "At that time I wanted to...kill you."

"At that time." Wen Zhen captured his description, "Don't you think about it now—after remembering so many things?"

Nan Ting immediately said, "I don't want to."

"I'm not a nice person."

"I know." Nan Ting said, he was a little embarrassed, "But. If you die... I will only be left alone."

Wen Zhen smiled.He put down the cup in his hand, touched Nan Ting's head, and said as usual, "I never said I would leave you."

Then he answered the question just now: "I know."

Nanting fell into shock for the third time today.

"You...you know that I have bad intentions, why did you save me?" He asked.

Wen Zhen asked back: "You know that I am not a good person, why are you still sitting opposite me?"

Nan Ting was a little tongue-tied.

Wen Zhen went on to say, "I said it, because I like it."

Then he waited for a while, and finally waited for the other party's answer with satisfaction: "Then I... maybe, also... like you."

But there are still two gaps in Nanting's past.One section was about a man whose face could not be seen clearly. Nan Ting only remembered that he hated him very much; the other section was about what happened after he set off from the base that day and deliberately injured himself. He couldn't remember it anyway.

He told Wen Zhen about it.For some reason, Wen Zhen seemed a little happy.

So Nan Ting asked: "Do you know that person?"

"Who?"

"The one I don't remember."

"He." Wen Zhen thought for a while, "Don't worry about it. He's dead."

A bad premonition flashed in Nan Ting's heart.

"It won't be me..."

Although the memory is gone, the basic capacity for empathy remains.Nan Ting never thought that he would re-understand his past self from such an angle.He couldn't believe it, and felt that he was strange and cruel, with an inhuman twist.

But Wen Zhen said that it was not his fault.

"He deserved it," he said.

As for the other blank, Nan Ting himself did not know why he forgot it.Logically speaking, that period of time should be the entire memory of him and Wen Zhen, but why did he feel pain because of it?

Wen Zhen simply proposed to go to the museum to have a look.

"Maybe I can remember something."

The museum is transformed from a glass room, which is filled with Wen Zhen's... private collections, which are on display to all the public.

Nan Ting was very puzzled at first, he remembered that Wen Zhen once had serious conflicts with his collection and base, why would he give up most of them now.

In the end, Wen Zhen said indifferently that he just didn't like the base and wanted to find something for them to do.

Nan Ting: "..."

Wen Zhen also said that in the past, he needed such behavior to maintain his cognitive stability.Some kind of rebellious, out-of-the-ordinary behavior that returns emotion.

"You may also think that I take pleasure in evil."

"Otherwise sometimes, I will feel that humans and I are," he thought for a while, "two different creatures."

Nan Ting thought for a while, but really didn't want to understand the logic.

So he comforted the other party and said, "It doesn't matter if you think so, you see, I'm not human either. That's just right..."

"Just what?"

Nan Ting hesitated for a while.

He was a little embarrassed: "... just, just matched."

But today Nan Ting failed to visit his museum as he wished—this building was recorded in his name—as soon as he arrived at the door, he heard noises coming from the exhibition area inside.

In fact, except in the base, the outside world is not as peaceful as before.After Chi's death, riots broke out in several areas, including certain mermaid settlements.

What Nan Ting didn't know was that Jiang Hang once wanted to push him out as an example for negotiation.Wen Zhen sneered at this proposal, asking if he still wanted to use him?Beware of you going down the same path as your ex-husband.

The threat worked.Jiang Hang regretted his life, and never mentioned this matter from then on.

Due to the riots, the gate of the museum was temporarily closed, and Nan Ting was stopped when he entered through the back door.

An emotionless mechanical voice said to him: "Please show your valid ID."

There is nothing on Nan Ting.He turned to look at Wen Zhen, but Wen Zhen motioned for him to print his fingerprints on it.

So he did.The glass door then swung open to both sides.The mechanical voice said to him: "Welcome, master."

There were people around looking over here.Nan Ting was a little embarrassed, grabbed Wen Zhen's sleeve and walked in.

He asked, "What's going on inside?"

"I don't know." Wen Zhen said indifferently, "It might be a parade."

There is a mermaid-related exhibition hall in the museum, and the protesters have somehow used it as a stronghold.

It was the first time that Nan Ting saw so many people of his same race gather together in real life.If he was still curious about them, now he sees them and just instinctively stay away.

Wen Zhen asked, "Are you afraid of them?"

Nan Ting shook his head.

"I don't like them," he said.

Nan Ting didn't have much emotion for his own people.The few memories he has left tell him that he was abandoned, and his mother who adopted him would be bullied by his peers because he was single, and eventually died at the hands of humans.He came into this world alone, and was left alone.

After that, it was related to the man with a vague memory, Nan Ting didn't want to think about it.He didn't want to become a person who only hated in his heart.

Wen Zhen saw that he really didn't want to go to the exhibition hall, so he suggested that he go to the original glass room to have a look.

It is located underground in the building and is well preserved, but no one is allowed to enter.Except them.

Nan Ting walked through the familiar glass door, and the first thing that came into his sight was a transparent water tank.There was no water in the tank, just a crumpled note lying there.Some emotions related to it suddenly surged up, unclear and inexplicable, which made his chest tingle.

Why……

why?

"We, before..." Nan Ting said hesitantly, "Have you experienced anything bad?"

He stretched out his hand, wanting to fish out the note, but he didn't dare, so he simply gave up.

"If anything," Wen Zhen said to him, "it should be that time you unilaterally announced the breakup to me."

Nan Ting: "!"

He actually did such a thing?

Nan Ting felt guilty instinctively, and then new doubts surfaced in his heart.

"Then, what was the relationship between us before..." He hesitated for a long time, and reluctantly chose a statement that he could accept.

Wen Zhen smiled.

"you guess."

Nan Ting knew that he would not get the answer so easily.

He discovered that Wen Zhen had a bad side to his character.But it didn't make him feel disgusted, but he felt familiar—as if this person should be like this in the first place.

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the heart.An idea was quietly born in Wen Zhen's mind.

So one day later, when Nan Ting woke up, he found Wen Zhen sitting beside his bed.

Wen Zhen's expression looked a little serious.Normally, he would not casually enter Nan Ting's room.

Nan Ting: "What's wrong?"

His eyes fell on Wen Zhen's hand, and he found that the other...was holding an egg.There are blue patterns on the shell, very similar to the color of his scales.

A bad premonition suddenly appeared in Nan Ting's heart.

Sure enough, Wen Zhen said, "Before, you asked me what was our relationship."

"……Um."

"I didn't want to tell you."

As Wen Zhen said, he put the egg into Nan Ting's palm.

Nan Ting's hand trembled, almost obliterating this innocent life.

He asked, "What, what is this?"

Wen Zhen: "You were born."

Nan Ting: "?!"

Nan Ting suspected that he heard it wrong: "I am a male, and I don't lay eggs."

Strangely enough, mermaids are indeed oviparous animals.Despite their resemblance to humans, they also have better-developed brains than most mammals.

Nan Ting looked suspiciously at the egg in his hand, and then at Wen Zhen suspiciously.He felt that the other party was questioning his intelligence.

The next second, Wen Zhen said, "Really?"

"But we've slept through."

There was a long silence in the room.

"..."

The beautifully shaped egg with blue patterns slipped from Nan Ting's fingers.Fortunately, it just fell on the bed sheet and was not serious.

After dozens of seconds, Nan Ting coughed.

So shocked for a moment, he forgot to hold his breath.

"..."

Wen Zhen started to want to laugh.

So he smiled briefly, as a kind reminder.

But I don’t know if it’s because of the fuzzy memory, which not only gave birth to such a lie, but also made Nan Ting forget how keen this person in front of him is to say some irrelevant things that can always accurately scare him.

Wen Zhen didn't expect Nan Ting to really believe it.

At first, he just said it in passing, after all, there was no other expression on that face for a long time.Even showing that familiar shock made him feel at ease.

Who would have thought that Nan Ting actually put that egg into his quilt that night.

A voice in his head said to him, "You're crazy."

Another voice said, "But what if that's true?"

In Nan Ting's memory, mermaids don't need to hatch eggs.They always lay their eggs in the deep sea, and their body temperature is the same as that of sea water.It only takes half a year for the little mermaid to emerge from its shell.

but……

What's going on with this...

It doesn't matter.Nanting tried to convince himself.

I just give it a try and no one else will know.

He carefully placed the egg in his arms.

People never know how much they will regret later until they make a decision.The next day Nan Ting woke up with a splitting headache, and when he suddenly opened his eyes, he subconsciously yelled. He had completely forgotten what happened last night.

He turned over and sat up, just looking at Wen Zhen who came in looking for the sound.

Wen Zhen's eyes fell on the hands he held on his chest.

"……what are you doing?"

There was a rare hesitation in his voice.

It took Nan Ting several seconds to realize who he was and where he was.

All the memories are flooding in, about Chi, about Wen Zhen, about everything that changed his life, about his nightmarish ten years, and the ridiculous time they spent together.

After a long time, Nanting's consciousness finally came back, and his eyes paused on Wen Zhen.

Finally, it landed on the egg held in his hand.

Nan Ting: "..."

Nan Ting: "?"

What is this?

Seems to be……

He had a whim last night.

Want to hatch an egg.

For a moment, Nan Ting felt suffocated.He rolled over from the bed as expressionlessly as possible, put the egg back on the bed, and walked towards the door of the room.

He's going to try to disappear from this world for a few hours before everything goes bad.

Wen Zhen looked at him suspiciously.

"Ah." He said suddenly, "Did you remember?"

Nan Ting didn't answer him, but just lowered his head and turned sideways, trying to get out of this small room from his side.

This reaction made Wen Zhen more sure of his judgment.He stretched his hand back, accurately grasped Nan Ting's wrist, and pulled him back in front of him.

"Nanting." Wen Zhen called his name, word by word, without taking his eyes off him, "You don't mean to...hatch that egg, do you?"

He looked at him with an almost pity look: "I didn't mean to lie to you. I didn't expect you to take it seriously."

Nan Ting: "..."

He wants to die.

The next day, in the laboratory building of the institute.

"Good morning, Nan Ting." Yao Fan greeted them, then asked in a low voice, "Why are you here suddenly?"

"Physical examination." Wen Zhen replied concisely.

"Oh, so." Yao Fan smiled, and turned to Nan Ting again. He has always been gentle with his patients, "How do you feel now? Do you remember anything?"

Nan Ting looked at him, but his face showed embarrassment.

"...Sorry." After a while, he said, "I don't remember who you are."

Yao Fan: "?"

After the inspection, all indicators are normal.

When Nan Ting was waiting outside the door with the report, Yao Fan stopped Wen Zhen.

He was a little worried: "...Didn't you say yesterday that there are signs of improvement? What's going on?"

Wen Zhen: "He pretended."

Yao Fan: "?"

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The last chapter is over, and I will post it later

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