There is a bright red cross-shaped wound on one of the arms of the fat starfish.
Lu Yao didn’t notice where Jiuhua’s wound was last time, but after running the shop for a long time, the probability of encountering autistic fish of the same species is actually quite high.
This person, like Jiuhua, also turned into a chocolate starfish after becoming autistic.
She had never seen anyone come back after leaving the sea of garbage.
After the initial surprise, Lu Yao just thought that this was another new guest, so he walked over and opened the door.
The fat starfish wiggled its fleshy tentacles, climbed down from the roof, entered the whale room, and turned into a girl in silver-gray home clothes.
Lu Yao was stunned, and spoke after a while: "...It's you!"
Jiuhua got up, brushed off the non-existent sand on her body, and happily hugged Lu Yao, "Hi, I finally see you again."
The joy in her tone was not polite, Lu Yao had no choice but to hug back gently, "Why are you here again?"
Jiuhua stepped back a little and looked at her: "You seem surprised? Didn't I say goodbye last time? I always keep my word."
Her eyes were clear and bright, without a trace of impurities, and she looked straight at me, as if everything was natural.
Lu Yao suddenly felt a little embarrassed. The look was too calm, which made her feel a little ashamed. She explained: "... No guest has ever left and then come back. You are the first one."
Jiuhua's dark pupils lit up slightly, "So that's how it is. I didn't have enough fun last time, and I don't know how long I can stay this time, so I'll go see the chicken first."
Lu Yao was led by Jiuhua's hand and jogging, and he once again wondered in his heart: Is this really social phobia
The owner often dives in the sea, and his physical strength has increased a lot without him noticing, so he doesn't feel anything when running.
Jiuhua, on the other hand, was out of breath after running less than 200 meters, so she had to be pulled to stop.
"No, I'm so tired."
Lu Yao laughed at her, "You don't have enough stamina. You're already out of breath after just two steps."
Jiuhua looked pale: "I'm so old."
Lu Yao laughed: "I'm not old, I just lack exercise. I'm curious, why are you here again?"
Jiuhua put her hands on her hips and looked proud: "Maybe it's because I have talent."
Lu Yao: "Oh, the talent of autism?"
Jiuhua raised her chin slightly: "What are you talking about? Why don't I understand?"
Lu Yao sighed: "It seems that you don't know why you are here yet."
"What's the reason?" Jiuhua was curious.
Lu Yao described the general situation of the garbage sea and just arrived at the jellyfish room.
Jiuhua pulled her to walk a few steps faster and ran over: "After not seeing you for a few days, the little fat chick seems to have gained some weight. She's so cute."
Lu Yao: “…”
I didn't listen to her at all.
The little fat bird is round, small and clever, and is loved by guests.
Under the bird swing, guests were lying together, each holding a fat little bird carefully in their arms.
There was only one tiger skin left standing stubbornly on the swing, and no matter how the guests teased it, it refused to get down.
Jiuhua also came under the swing and whistled at the tiger skin: "Little fat chick, muah."
The guest next to him said, "It's useless. This tiger skin is the most stubborn and doesn't care about anyone."
Lu Yao squeezed next to Jiuhua: "It has a stubborn temper and likes to stand on high places. I have trained it, but the effect is not very obvious. Later I thought forget it. In fact, there are cats in the store. There are several places to relax and eat seafood along the tunnel."
This little budgie has a different personality from other parrots. It was not easy to notice at first, but after one or two days at work, Lu Yao discovered that there was a fat parrot paddling in the water in the bird room.
Lu Yao found an opportunity to listen to its voice.
The guy was pretending from the beginning, pretending to be sociable and friendly. Later, he was discovered for being lazy, so he simply stopped pretending and just slacked off every day.
Don't think that the little parrot is standing on the swing stupidly, it has a lot of things on its mind.
After listening to it several times, Lu Yao felt that there was no need to suppress its nature. It was just not friendly, but it was cute anyway.
Despite its stubborn nature, it is quite popular among customers and everyone wants to try to seduce it.
Jiuhua stood there unwilling to leave, "I think it's very cute. Go and do your work, don't worry about me, I'll play with it for a while and then go somewhere else."
Lu Yao did have something else to do, so he turned and left.
She asked the researchers at the blind box store to research a crystal core solution that can effectively purify water. The main ingredient is the crystal core produced by mutant plants, which is natural and harmless.
She prepared to try to purify the ocean currents polluted by the garbage mountain, so she put on a diving suit, carried a spray bottle filled with concentrate on her back, and swam towards the garbage sea.
Passing by the jellyfish room, Lu Yao heard a burst of applause from the second floor, and he swam over to check.
The bird swing was filled with guests, and the fat little birds all returned to the swing, grabbing the crossbar with their claws and rolling around in circles skillfully.
Even the most stubborn little tiger was rolling on the swing, and was even enjoying it.
What's going on
It was then that Lu Yao saw a plump chocolate starfish lying on the jellyfish cap outside the transparent membrane.
Three of the tentacles were firmly attached to the wall membrane, and the other two flipped over, and with a "snap", she turned over on the wall membrane skillfully, and the little parrot in the wall membrane rolled around following her movements.
When the fat starfish lifted up its tentacles, Lu Yao clearly saw a bright red cross scar on one of them.
It’s Jiuhua.
Lu Yao: “…”
The system couldn't help but say: [Occasionally, there are freaks among humans. ]
Lu Yao: "What's strange about that? She's very cute."
System: […No need to be so official.]
Lu Yao: "You don't have to judge her by your own standards. Can't you see that she is very happy?"
System: [Excuse me, it is impossible for people who come here to be really that happy. ]
Lu Yao was silent. Jiuhua's condition was indeed a little abnormal, but her happiness did not seem fake.
And she is the only one who can return to this sea after leaving.
As soon as he finished speaking, the fat starfish that was still rolling happily outside was caught by the bubbles, slowly rose up, and flew out of the garbage sea.
Lu Yao: "I saw she was having a lot of fun."
system:[…]
Lu Yao turned around and swam towards the garbage.
Jiuhua left again, and I don’t know if she will come back again.
…
Lu Yao had been busy at the garbage mountain for two hours, and all the concentrated crystal core liquid in the spray bottle had been sprayed away. The effect was not very obvious for the time being.
She suspected that the amount was too small, and purification also takes a process, so she planned to come back in the afternoon to check.
Before returning to the furry shop, I saw many fish swimming in various shapes and sizes outside the shop from afar.
There are the most fish outside the jellyfish room, with cross wounds on their bodies, all of them are autistic fish.
Lu Yao even saw Qingmei, who had transformed into a manta ray and was rolling and tumbling in the water, working extremely hard.
"… What's going on here?"
Longgu was on vacation, and the little black dragon came early in the morning.
He arrived a little late. Lu Yao dived into the sea and he flew over right after him, and unfortunately they missed each other.
The store was seriously short of staff, and as soon as he arrived, he was caught by Qingmei and busy greeting customers.
Seeing Lu Yao coming back to pick her up, he was speechless: "I heard that there was a starfish rolling around outside this morning and was picked up by Bubble. Some guests started to follow suit."
Lu Yao: “…Pfft.”
This is the first time since the store opened that I have seen a customer in an autistic fish state so energetic.
After a long time, no one was able to leave, and the guests gradually stopped blindly imitating the behavior.
Back at the Furry Shop, the guests who had turned back into humans looked at each other, recalling the commotion in the sea just now, their cheeks flushed, their toes clenched, and the atmosphere gradually became awkward.
On that day, the cat climbing frames in each cat room suffered varying degrees of damage, with evidence similar to human scratches left on the wreckage.
Lu Yao checked the cat climbing frame in the afternoon and couldn't help laughing, "Without the cat climbing frame, the floor will be in trouble."
The system gloated: "I'll create a high-end single-family villa area for you."
Harold shook his head: "The human mind is too fragile."
Lu Yao: "I can't say I'm fragile, I just worry too much. The mark that life pressure leaves on the human spirit is hard to erase. But in this sea, the more complicated your thoughts are, the easier it is to be bound, and the harder it is to leave. This afternoon, apart from Jiuhua, no other guest left."
Why do people come to this sea
Why did it become a marine creature
In fact, Lu Yao thought about it for a long time, and it was not until he met Jiuhua again that he finally figured it out.
The people in this world are overwhelmed by life and will return to the original state of life, back to the safe and warm ocean like a mother's womb. They will stop, put down their burdens, degenerate into marine life, and act only for the simplest goal.
For marine life, that goal is survival.
And for the humans who drowned in the sea, by some strange coincidence, the Furry Shop replaced their original destination and became their Garden of Eden.
But can humans who have already been born really return to the original state of life
Almost impossible.
The people who come here are still bound by life, and use the knowledge they learned in the human world to desperately try to find shortcuts.
Just like a butterfly entangled in a spider web, the more it struggles, the tighter the web becomes, until it can no longer move.
…
The next day, Lu Yao came from the blind box shop, pushed open the door of the furry shop, and looked up to see a chubby chocolate starfish lying outside the wall membrane, rolling around in boredom like a pancake.
"Why are you here again?"
The fat starfish squeezed in through the crack in the door and turned into a girl wearing comfortable home clothes.
She stood up and brushed the white sand off her knees: "Good morning, I'll come for breakfast."
Lu Yao: “…”
In the airline box, the little pigs couldn't wait any longer and meowed, wanting to get out.
Lu Yao bent down and let them out.
Jiuhua's eyes sparkled, and she looked like she was about to melt: "Oh my god! This is heaven!"
"It's not good to eat raw food in the morning. How about I cook you a bowl of noodles?" Lu Yao was curious about how Jiuhua could come and go freely in this sea, but she always walked too fast. This time, he planned to have a good chat with her while eating.
Jiuhua picked up Erxin with great effort and purred on Erxin's fat belly like playing a pipa, "Okay, I haven't eaten noodles for a long time."
Lu Yao turned around and went to the kitchen and quickly cooked two bowls of seafood noodles.
Jiuhua fell asleep with Erxin as her pillow. Lu Yao hesitated whether to wake her up, and then he saw her limbs begin to degenerate, and she slowly turned back into the appearance of a chocolate starfish, and flew away on a bubble.
“…” Lu Yao felt complicated.