It turns out that tears are hot, Lapers thought, like magma, like the smoke rising from sparks.
The mermaid awkwardly wrapped her arms around Jiang Mian, using them to strangle her prey, trying to protect him for the first time. He was panicked and puzzled, and asked in a low voice, "Why are you crying?"
He shook Jiang Mian clumsily a few times like coaxing a baby, almost drowning his face with his strong chest muscles: "Don't cry, don't cry..."
Looking closer, the mermaids' skin not only has no pores, but is also covered with fine, transparent scales. They are naturally luminous without the need for strong light. Jiang Mian knows that the brightest parts are actually the oil secreted, which helps the mermaids travel long distances under the sea.
But before he met Lapers, he never knew that mermaids could emit such a clean and warm fragrance, like a flower kingdom after the rain, like a wet beach soaked in sunshine... like the blue sea itself, making him drowsy and relaxed physically and mentally.
Jiang Mian shed tears and said vaguely: "Because I can't save her..."
"No one can save her." Rapos said almost coldly, "Once the dissolution begins, it can never end. Only the act of blasphemy deserves the most severe punishment."
Mermaids have no moral values, or rather, no universal moral values. Even if they do, they follow simple and direct rules that are as ancient and simple as the wilderness. If Lapers went on a killing spree in the institute after hearing this story, it was not to avenge fellow humans he had never met—he also had a score to settle with these land dwellers—but because of the crimes of the humans here, who dared to taint the iron law of soul mates, imprisoning a mermaid and preventing her from reuniting with her dead lover.
but…
He turned to Jiang Mian, his small, fragile pearl. Rapos simply couldn't imagine where he got the strength and courage from. In order to support life on land, his tail degenerated into two legs. He had no fins to sense the ocean currents, nor scales to protect his internal organs... He was just a stray cub. After witnessing the atrocities of humans against their own kind, he didn't feel afraid. Instead, he went his own way and headed towards the most dangerous direction.
Six years ago, children of his age were still playing and frolicking under the protection of adult mermaids. No matter where they went in the sea country, they would be well taken care of by the strange elders. What was Jiang Mian facing
Rapos looked down at Jiang Mian: "But you freed her soul, gave her freedom, and saved her from having to suffer humiliation while dying."
“You’re so good,” the male merman whispered in awe, “so perfect.”
Jiang Mian's tears hadn't dried yet, and his face was already red. He said stiffly, "This is not something worth praising."
"Really?" Rapos asked in surprise, "What if I insist on praising you?"
The blush on his face gradually spread to his ears, and Jiang Mian said hesitantly: "Then I, I can't do anything to you..."
The two pairs of eyes stared at each other motionlessly for a moment, Jiang Mian burst into laughter, shook slightly, and signaled Lapers to let him go.
Even through the clothes, the deadly heat still seeped in continuously, almost like a steamer, steaming his whole body. However, the male mermaid, who was familiar with body language, was like a blind man who could only laugh foolishly, and ignored it.