Jiang Mian covered his face in despair.
"Just kidding, man."
The mermaid's lips did not move, but a tiny sound wave penetrated into Jiang Mian's ear canal and vibrated along his skull.
"I will speak to you alone, without letting them hear."
The feeling was very strange, and it also surprised Jiang Mian. Only by experiencing it yourself can you know how terrifying the mermaid's control over sound is.
So, did the experimental station really not hear what Rapos really wanted to say? I wonder if this is what some novels call "secret communication"...
Jiang Mian rubbed his cheeks—his hands were still hot—looked into Lapers' eyes inquiringly, and said nonchalantly: "Okay, let's get back to the topic and take a look at the next unit..."
The mermaid seemed to think that it was very interesting to talk secretly under the watchful eyes of many people. He stared at Jiang Mian and grinned: "Being caught? No."
"Yes." Jiang Mian nodded. "As you can see, poetry has always been the result of concentrated human emotions. Our poets are usually accustomed to expressing deep and condensed emotions in a very short space with very few words, such as the following poem—"
"Seventeen days ago, I was tracking a whaler, two men," said Rapos. "They poached and fled; I found and killed them."
Jiang Mian calmed his breathing as quickly as possible, moistened his dry lips, and tried to recite gently: "Dear, I wish we were a pair of white birds on the crest of the waves. The shooting star has not yet fallen, but we are tired of its shining..."
Two whalers? That sounds familiar.
"One is blue, the other is black, and the black one is bigger than the blue one," Lapers said absentmindedly, using his sharp nails to scrape the rubber gloves Jiang Mian had discarded, "I messed up the blue one, and half of the black one was messed up, I was... careless."
"… The sky is low, and the faint light of the blue star in the morning light," Jiang Mian's lips moved slightly, staring at the book thoughtfully, "awakened a trace of immortal sadness in your heart and mine, my dear."
—Blue and black, there is no mistake, they are the whaling ships affiliated with Sigma Research Institute. The blue one is the "Lucky Star", equipped with a 3,000-horsepower motor-driven propeller. Before encountering the mermaid, it was the nominal research ship of Ted's project team; the black one is the "Pegasus", which is larger than the Lucky Star and has more than 5,000 horsepower.
It turns out that they were not transferred away.
Rapos said: "The worst thing to do when hunting is to be careless. I underestimated the enemy, so I paid the price for underestimating the enemy."
He slowly swung his fish tail. The huge wounds had stopped bleeding, but they were still hideous.
Jiang Mian pointed at the words in the book: "So, what does this mean?"
He needed a more detailed explanation.
“I don’t know!” the mermaid answered loudly, and then whispered, “In the boat… there was something spinning very fast, used to push the boat, and I was hit by an oval black bullet and crashed into it.”
Jiang Mian didn't say anything for a while. Others might think that he was choked by the mermaid's straightforward answer, but he stared at the beige poem page with only turbulent waves in his heart.