He and It

Chapter 11: The King of Fruit Cores (XI)

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Three months ago, I had a panic attack and angina.

Lappers's long hair, which was scattered underwater, suddenly stiffened and his eyes froze.

"Humans also divide the days according to the alternation of day and night?"

Jiang Mian nodded.

"Ninety-four days." Rapos looked at him. "Is that the number of days your adoptive father has been away from you?"

Jiang Mian was very surprised: "Including today, it is indeed ninety-four days. How did you guess it?"

[Because I have a spiritual connection with you.]Rapos said,[So...it's really you.]

Shocking news came one after another. Lapers was suspended in the water. His two hearts were as silent as death, but his brain was roaring and noisy, as if he was hit head-on by ten thousand roaring thunders.

There was nothing more to say—Jiang Mian's pain and crying were all due to the death of his adoptive father, and this intense pain was reflected on him at the same time. The intense soul resonance woke him up in the middle of the night, and for the first time he could clearly sense the general direction of his partner.

Then, following that direction, he discovered a human route and chased two poaching ships. He was brought here by accident and met a human who had a strong attraction to him... or rather, a hybrid mermaid.

Even under the sea, human-merman hybrids are still extremely rare. As early as in ancient times, some mermaid groups that had not yet developed civilization had made peace with sea beasts and gave birth to offspring with those powerful but ignorant beings. Their bloodline, even if diluted to this day, is extremely tenacious, and it persists in showing the characteristics of its ancestors in some mermaids: for example, tentacles that replace fins, claws that replace arms, and long spines that replace spinal joints.

But Lapers had never come into contact with a hybrid of human and mermaid.

Could this mean that it was the human blood in his body that caused his confused perception

Mermaids are the most musical creatures in the world and are best able to express their thoughts appropriately, but Lapers looked at Jiang Mian and could only remain silent.

All I know is that you were caught up in the turmoil of the abyss sea beasts not long after you were born, and your mother also died in that chaotic war, but I didn't know that you were actually a hybrid mermaid.

That's why you can hide here intact, that's why you are so thin and weak... Due to long-term subtle influence, the mermaid part of you has long since retreated to the edge of no return. You are actually incomplete. How many years, how many days and nights have you persisted with this broken body

Abyss, I am the worst, the worst...

Jiang Mian looked at Lapers in confusion. Normally, he could even say that the facial expression of a mermaid was solid. He didn't smile, frown, or show any emotion. His pale face was deep and evil, and his skin shone with diamond-like scales. He was like a plaster statue. Only when he got angry would the statue's cold and hard shell suddenly break, revealing his bloody and violent inner self.

But now, as he stared at himself, his expression softened in a trance, as if shrouded in the twilight of dusk, and there was a hallucinatory grief in his eyes and brows.

"… This kind of writing is called tidal writing." Lapers no longer used suppressed tiny sound waves to convey the message. His voice was clear and soft, with a little unstable tremor. "They were created so that only the royal family can correctly interpret them."