Road to Peace

His throat seemed to be choked by something and he couldn't speak. Yang Shen could only raise his hand and put it on Lan Suyuan's five fingers caressing his cheek, and then closed his eyes.

In the invisible world, all senses became more acute, and in his palm, it was so cold and so warm.

There are still many things I want to say, but I just want to keep silent at the moment.

Lan Suyuan didn't speak anymore, but just looked deeply at the human being on the bed, letting him refuse to let go of his hand, gently rubbing it on his palm like a treasure.

Yang Shen's movements were a little cautious, as if he was afraid that if he squeezed too hard, Lan Suyuan would disappear.

This kind of thinking was originally ridiculous for a person who has no power to restrain a chicken, and the fragile product is obviously himself.

But here, no one will make fun of him.

It can be said that the other party can fully understand his worries about gains and losses.

Lan Suyuan recalled the time when he and the ceremonial team arrived. At that time, this human being walked through many courtyards, walked to his throne alone, and looked up at him.

Let him see a completely unfamiliar face, and eyes that are so familiar that people can't remember where they have seen them before.

If Yang Shen hadn't closed his eyes at this time, he could see the imperceptible tenderness in Lan Suyuan's eyes.

At this moment, the crab that was dumped in the corner of the wall finally found the right direction. It crawled to the foot of the bed, but felt that the atmosphere was not right, so it stared blankly at the two behaving strangely. Weird creatures.

Lan Suyuan squinted at it as a warning, preventing a certain restless little thing from climbing onto the bed to harass Yang Shen.

When he withdrew his attention again, he realized that his partner, who had finally come to terms with his name, still had a slight smile on his face, and his breathing was long and gentle, and he had already fallen asleep peacefully.

These days, Yang Shen is indeed too tired.

Without waking him up, his eyes turned and fell on the "bracelet" on the other's wrist, which was as inconspicuous as a piece of scrap iron, revealing a thoughtful look.

Yang Shen slept very soundly this time. In his memory, he had never slept so peacefully. There were no dreams, no worries, nothing, only sleep itself.

When he woke up again, he was so comfortable that he wanted to stretch.

It was only then that he realized that he seemed to be holding something in his hand, and looked with dim eyes, Lan Suyuan was sitting quietly by the bed, looking at him.

And the one in his hand turned out to be Lan Suyuan's hand, the slender five fingers were firmly held by him, and obvious marks had already been pulled out.

Yang Shen was taken aback, and quickly asked, "How long have I been asleep?"

Lan Suyuan didn't change his expression, but he didn't show signs of fatigue at all, "Not long."

He felt refreshed all over his body, and the exhaustion of many days was swept away. Even the feedback from his body made Yang Shen know that he hadn't slept "soon".

He hurriedly let go of Lan Suyuan, but he was a little bit reluctant, "Aren't you going to sit here all the time?"

In fact, Lan Suyuan did sit there until Yang Shen woke up. It was rare for anyone to sleep soundly. He didn't want to wake him up, so he didn't take back his hand.

But he didn't answer directly, he just motioned Yang Shen to get out of bed, "No need to use honorifics, get up and eat something."

Before, he acquiesced in Yang Shen's change of his honorifics because he knew that the people on the ship must be hostile to him, and naturally a small detail might cause problems.

Now that these problems have been resolved, there is no need to worry so much.

The mermen and humans on the boat had already started to collect food from the sea after avoiding the deep-sea storm. If they hadn't found themselves in a completely unfamiliar sea area, they would even want to go back to the silver-blue sea area to take a look.

On the other hand, Lan Suyuan and Yang Shen never ate anything in the floating seabed where there was no living thing at all.

Fortunately, Lan Suyuan's physique is strong, and Yang Shen has the Shark Emperor's natal Shark Bead with him, so he won't be able to do anything good or bad if he is hungry for a while.

But now Yang Shen always feels that his body is simply following Lan Suyuan's orders.

Before Lan Suyuan said that he was tired, he accidentally fell asleep; now that he let him eat, Yang Shen suddenly felt his stomach was empty, almost made a gurgling sound.

The conditions on board were limited, and the food was not as exquisite and delicious as before in Longxiao Hall, but Yang Shen ate it with gusto.

During the period, he took a ball of seaweed and tried to feed it to the "watching" crab, but he was ruthlessly rejected. Well, it seems that he doesn't like vegetarian food very much.

Yang Shen withdrew his hand regretfully, but when he looked up, he found that Lan Huang, who was sitting opposite him, put down the tableware at some point and was looking at him.

Looking at the food on the other party's plate, Yang Shen was a little surprised, "You—are you full now?"

Lan Suyuan didn't speak, his eyes fell on Yang Shen's hand.

Yang Shen followed his gaze blankly. He was only holding the ball of seaweed that was rejected by the crabs in his right hand. There was nothing worth noting other than that.

Hey, wait, isn't it?

The expression on his face became weird, as if he was holding back a smile, he secretly glanced at Lan Suyuan, hesitated for a moment, picked up another piece of cake made of unknown ingredients, and hesitantly brought it to the other party's lips.

The face of Lord Lan Huang, who was sitting upright, eased, he opened his mouth and bit it, confirming Yang Shen's guess.

After Lan Suyuan finished eating, he picked up a piece of sea fish and handed it to Yang Shen.

If this scene is seen by the Mermaids outside who worship their great Blue Emperor, their eyeballs will probably fall out.

I don’t know how long it took for a meal. After lying on the side and rejecting the seaweed ball, I was eager to have fresh small fish and shrimps, and the crab finally spit out regret bubbles at the empty plates.

On the other side, Lan Suyuan held Yang Shen's wrist, and finally picked up the topic they had dropped at first.

He tapped the metal ring. "Tell me about it."

That day, he followed his induction towards Yang Shen, and accidentally saw the screen projected by this unknown metal and the content on it, and then he realized why he always felt that this human being was familiar to him.

The true identity of this fake General Jansern is probably unknown to anyone, but after he found out, he kept pretending to be indifferent.

In addition to being unsuitable to do something because of the situation at the time, there was also the fact that he was more wary of this unknown source than Yang Shen.

Everything made by humans is dangerous to mermaids.

If it wasn't for the fact that it brought Yang Shen back to him, Lan Suyuan wouldn't even acquiesce in Yang Shen bringing it back.

However, judging from its subsequent behavior, at least for them temporarily, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, so they can keep watching for a while.

"What did it tell you, before I arrived."

When Lan Suyuan asked, Yang Shen immediately thought of the scene and those human beings that he saw suddenly in that building as if he had traveled through time.

And they seem to be doing strange research on mermaids.

Although at first I thought it was the souls of the past humans who were unwilling to die, but after communicating with the optical brain, I realized that it was an image recorded by the optical brain.

And it was this video that made Yang Shen more doubtful about the cause of the war between humans and mermaids.

"Lan Suyuan."

"Ah."

"Why do the sharks want to fight against humans, can you tell me?"

Lan Suyuan was noncommittal, "The human beings today stubbornly believe what they believe. I told you, can you accept it?"

This attitude convinced Yang Shen that the answer might really be far from what humans understand today.

He organized his language, tried his best to describe the video he saw that day to Lan Suyuan without subjective emotions, and carefully observed the other party's expression.

Finally he said softly: "As long as it is the truth, I accept it, no matter what it is."

He wanted to know the truth, what was buried by history, distorted by time, and deliberately hidden.

Seeing Yang Shen's persistence, Lan Suyuan was silent for a long time, and finally opened his mouth slowly.

"The mermaid family has the same long history as humans. It's just that one family lives in the sea and the other lives on land, and there is almost no intersection with each other."

The two ethnic groups with no intersecting living environments have no influence on each other. In ancient times, humans who occasionally went to sea occasionally saw sharks, which left countless myths and legends.

But generally speaking, they are still in peace.

Later, as human science and technology became more and more developed, and the development of the ocean became more and more in-depth, mermaids began to appear more frequently in human vision.

But this frequency is only relative, until the 8018 year of the cosmic calendar.

In the 8018 year of the cosmic calendar, a sudden doomsday flood swept across the earth, and human beings were caught off guard.

A small number of people left the earth in a spaceship, and have never been heard from since; while the vast majority of human beings were driven into the bottom of the sea by the waves.

——But the genocide did not come here. In fact, the sharks rescued them.

The shark beads, which are almost useless to those creatures with some beautiful faces and elegant fish tails, have become the reliance of human beings to live on the bottom of the sea.

Although the population has dropped sharply, humans have finally recovered.

With the help of Shark Beads and Sharks, they gradually improved their life on the seabed, rebuilt some important cities that were submerged, and developed technologies more suitable for seabed life.

"You mean, those cities weren't abandoned after the flood flooded the earth, and didn't human beings come to an end at that time?"

Yang Shen couldn't contain his astonishment. No matter how rich his imagination was, he couldn't imagine that the initial relationship between the two races was not antagonism, and the mermaids even saved humans.

"Indeed. There are even intermarriages between the two races."

"Then why..."

Why are human beings turned into slaves, and why are the mermaids pressing on every step of the way?

There was a complex look in Lan Suyuan's eyes.

"The mermen are born weak but also amazingly beautiful. At that time, there were no merman warriors, and even the merman had no fighting power."

An ordinary man is not guilty, but he is guilty of having a jade, and beauty is the original sin of the mermaid.

"After living peacefully with humans for a long time, the mermaids gradually began to discover that the number of missing people in the clan has become more and more unknown."