Eighteen hours later.
The animal trainer came to the Grand Duke. His rough, rock-like face had always shown little emotion, but now, under his indifferent and numb expression, there was a hint of imperceptible frustration.
The thorn whip tied to the back of his hand was soaked in water, and it had been squeezed tightly into the flesh.
The animal trainer lowered his head and said somewhat ashamedly:
"My lord, I'm so sorry, I couldn't get that mermaid to sing..."
"What?" Archduke Willis turned his head in disbelief. "Even you can't do anything about it? What have you done?"
The head of the animal trainer drooped deeper: "I obeyed the instructions of the adults, and did not use too harsh training methods on him, mainly using electric shocks with less severe trauma."
"That's good, after all, it's a pity to leave a flaw with such a good skin." After a sigh of relief, Archduke Willis was troubled again: "But I've been showing off to Earl Est and the others for a long time. I bought a top-quality mermaid, although it looks good, but if he can't sing, then what value does he have!"
The animal trainer raised his head: "Then please allow me to use some more extreme means..."
Archduke Willis interrupted him irritably:
"No! It's banquet time in two days. I can't show up with a scarred mermaid? That would be too ugly."
The animal trainer hesitated for a few seconds, but finally made up his mind and said:
"Actually, just now, I have adjusted to the maximum voltage that the mermaid can withstand. To be honest, no mermaid in my hand can survive such pain before, but this one can actually be silent from beginning to end... It's too much. Strange."
Archduke Willis raised his brows, his face gloomy:
"You suspect it's dumb?"
The animal trainer did not dare to answer directly, but lowered his head more deeply.
The face of Grand Duke Willis was like a heavy cloud before the storm. He angrily swept all the exquisite and expensive tea sets on the table to the ground. Just wet the gorgeous carpet.
How dare that profiteer fool him with a dumb mermaid who can't speak? Don't die!
This is simply a great humiliation!
With gloomy eyes, he raised his head and whispered to the attendant beside him. A team of fully-armed private troops left the Grand Duke's mansion within a few minutes.
The Grand Duke took a breath, sat down, and took a sip of the tea that the attendant had re-served.
While catching a businessman can be an outlet for bad breath, it doesn't solve the immediate problem.
The invitations for the banquet three days later have already been handed out, and there is no way to cancel it - he really didn't want to see the arrogant faces of those Count Este, who dared to laugh at the quality of his collection... He must not let them Continue to be proud.
The mermaid's astonishing face flashed through his mind.
Archduke Wesley pondered for a moment, and suddenly something came together—what if he couldn't sing? Such a face is really too rare, and it can be called the best. The mermaids in Earl Esther and Viscount Joyce's mansion can't compare to this one. At most, don't let it perform at the banquet. , this face alone is enough to make people greedy.
The Grand Duke felt a little itchy in his heart.
He stood up and walked towards his private reservoir.
The temperature here is several degrees lower than outside, and the cool and cold wind with water vapor is blowing. Can smell the brackish sea water.
The Grand Duke walked in slowly, and the water gradually entered his field of vision.
I saw a hand sticking to the special glass covering the top of the pool. That hand was really beautiful, with even flesh and bones, slender fingers, and slender wrist bones. It had a fragile and fragile beauty, and the wet skin was white as if in the Glowing, showing a jade-like texture in the light.
The other party seemed to hear the sound of footsteps approaching, only to hear a splash of water, and the hand disappeared instantly, leaving only half of the palm print on the glass that had not yet dissipated.
The Grand Duke hurried forward, but by the time he came to the edge of the pool, the mermaid had already fled to the far side of the pool.
With his back to the Archduke, his curled fish tail was hidden behind the jagged artificial rocks, like a meandering ribbon, floating softly in the water.
The long blue-purple hair swayed as if it had a life of its own, and fell softly on his waist, covering most of his back. Only the white and soft curves of his shoulders and the slender waistline could be seen.
The mermaid's head is slightly sideways, the curvature of the lower jaw and the lines of the side face are looming among the soft hair, inexplicably a kind of indescribable sadness and loneliness.
The Grand Duke was fascinated by it without knowing it, his greedy eyes licked over such a beautiful creature in amazement, and he walked to the pool without realizing it. Afraid... come here."
The mermaid seemed to be frightened, the blue-purple eyes swept back hastily, and then shrank back to the rock again in a panic.
The Grand Duke patiently persuaded, and his voice was softer: "Don't worry, I won't hurt you..."
He showed his empty hands to each other: "Look, I have nothing in my hands."
The mermaid didn't seem to be as vigilant as before. He turned his head slightly, and half of his amazingly beautiful face was revealed. His eyes were half curious and half timid, and swept over the humans on the shore.
Although it was not the first time he had seen him, the Grand Duke was still stunned for two seconds by that dazzling face.
Compared with the previous state of coma under the effect of medicine, the lethality of this mermaid's beauty when awake is almost doubled - under the deep eyebrows, the blue eyes are so deep that they are almost purple, like the magnificent ocean under the sunset, especially When he looked at him with that innocent look, almost nothing in the world could resist this suffocating beauty.
It's so beautiful...
For the first time, the Grand Duke had this dazzling feeling.
The mermaid slowly swam close, his long wavy hair spread out behind him, his white chest and lower abdomen contracted rhythmically with the swing of the tail fin, the graceful lines of his muscles were looming, and the face was enlarged in sight, making people feel There is a dizzy feeling like looking directly at the sun, as if your own senses can't bear such a weight of beauty.
The Grand Duke stared fascinatedly at the mermaid who was approaching him. He rested his palm on the cold surface of the glass, and his upper body gradually got closer without knowing it.
The merman's eyes shifted suddenly, and it landed on his palm, which was pressed against the glass.
He looked at the man's palm print curiously, then tentatively stretched out his fair and slender palm and printed it.
The next second, the mermaid seemed to be scalded, and once again retracted into the water.
The Grand Duke felt the scorching flames ignite from his palm, which made him feel hot all over. Although there was no real touch through the glass, the unbearable feeling was as if there were thousands of ants on his body. Like crawling inside.
Seeing the mermaid's figure shrinking within his line of sight, he said impatiently, "Wait! Don't go!"
As if his mind was seized by some kind of magical impulse, the Grand Duke felt that all his senses were occupied by the same terrifying impulse. Without thinking about anything in his mind, he rushed directly to the button that controls the glass lift on the shore, and pressed the button directly. down.
The barrier between them finally disappeared.
The Grand Duke stared obsessively at the face that was gradually approaching him, leaned his body toward the water, and stretched out his hands almost greedily—
The soft white arm protruded out of the water like a crescent moon, and the thin water film shone under the light.
The next second, the huge tail fin hidden under the water suddenly exerted force, and with a sudden swing, the mermaid's body dripping with water jumped out of the water with this force!
While tearing open the opponent's throat with his sharp white teeth, those beautiful blue-purple eyes were still not stained with dust.
With an almost innocent look, he bit the man's throat ruthlessly.
The man's body twitched in the cold embrace of the alien race. Finally, the pale palm lost its strength to struggle and suddenly fell into the pool. The rust-colored viscous blood smeared in the transparent pool water, and the strong smell of blood diffused in the air. Come on.
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Wesley's banquet was cancelled.
His tragic death shocked the entire empire - due to the mermaid's gentle and obedient nature, as well as their unique beauty and rarity, they immediately became the well-behaved pets of the nobles after being discovered, and people rarely heard of mermaid injuries. In the case of human beings, I have never seen such a violent and terrifying mermaid, who actually killed his master the day after he got it.
What's more... It killed Archduke Willis, who held a pivotal position in the nobility!
This incident caused a huge wave in public opinion, and everyone was speculating on the future direction of this incident and how the daring mermaid would be dealt with.
After the tragedy, a surveillance video of the night Archduke Wesley was killed began to circulate quietly among the upper class.
The dim light made the pixels of the video slightly blurred, and the dark blue swaying water waves on the walls and the ground filled the whole picture. From this angle, it was impossible to see the hidden scene under the water surface, only the young Duke seemed to be bewitched by something. Normally, leaning slowly towards the pool, the hum of the opening of the idiosyncratic glass resounded in the background—
Suddenly, the surface of the water splashed violently, and the lens was wet with water droplets and suddenly blurred.
Through the thin water film, you can see two arms as thin as lotus root hugging the Duke's back like a lover, and the wet blue-purple hair wraps around the human body like a slender, cold snake, without sharp points. Yelling, without struggling, the bright blood began to spread in the blurry footage, and quickly merged with the light blue water reflected on the wall.
The water droplets on the lens fell slowly, and the vision became clear again.
The mermaid raised his eyes and looked in the direction of the surveillance. Those blue eyes that seemed to be unworldly were deep and purple, but there was no blatant vicious killing intent in the depths of the pupils, as if innocent human children were tearing off the wings of insects. The innocent smile overflowing from Shi's lips, as if he had just crushed an ant to death, was an understatement.
"Crack."
The human throat was broken in his mouth, and the twitching limbs instantly lost the strength to struggle and fell down softly.
The mermaid raised his head, and the deep pupils reflected the dripping blood and water, with a cruel beauty that was almost primitive and barbaric. It dripped down and slid down along the arc of the collarbone and chest, and the tip of the pale pink tongue protruded from the inside of the lips, swept lightly on the bright lower lip, and swept away a few drops of blood.
He let go of his hand and silently disappeared under the water, as if it had come without warning, like a dreamlike bubble.
What... a ferocious and beautiful creature.
The slender fingers gently stroked the icy surface of the upper screen, slowly sketching the blurred silhouette of the mermaid.
The tall man stared fixedly at the still picture on the screen, a dark undercurrent was brewing in the bottom of his deep eyes, as if some unknown possessiveness was quietly flowing.
He narrowed his eyes slightly and said in a low voice, "Where is this mermaid now?"
"Incarcerated in a water prison, you..."
The man coldly interrupted the attendant who was about to continue: "Take me to see."
The squire's body is lower, and the voice is awe and respect:
"Yes, Your Majesty."