Chapter 51: full of drama
"You, you are..." The purple-haired boy subconsciously took a half step back, shocked and nervous, and he couldn't spit out the word that came to his mouth.
The savior's wet black hair hides two transparent ear fins, the smooth eyes are decorated with fish scale-shaped lines, and the slender body is covered with a light gauze coat. The scales that spread down from the waist gleamed in the sunlight, the slightly webbed hands that gently rested on the reef, and the tail that couldn't be ignored.
There is no doubt that this is not human.
"Human, Mermaid." He didn't know whether he was excited or scared, and said the name with a trembling voice.
"Mermaid?" The black-haired mermaid blinked and seemed a little curious, "Is that what the koalas call us now? It doesn't sound very good, I have a name, I Doris. How about you?"
"I, I'm Alvin." Alvin stammered out his name, with a dazed look on his face as if he was in a dream.
"This should be a dream." He stressed to himself, "How is it possible? I have already fallen into the deep sea, why am I being rescued, and by a mermaid. The chances of coming back to save me are low, so this is a dream!"
Saier was the boy who led others to bully him yesterday.
"What are you dreaming about?" The black-haired and green-eyed mermaid suddenly approached, and the enlarged facial features made Alvin cry out in surprise and almost fell.
Seeing his appearance, Doris lowered his face and frowned: "This is how you treat your savior? Everyone in Coral City is right, koalas are ungrateful, Guy not worth saving."
"Pop", the mermaid dived back into the sea, splashing floating water, and disappeared.
Alvin, who didn't expect things to develop like this, didn't have time to stop him, and watched the mermaid disappear from his eyes.
"Wait!" After reacting, he hurriedly stepped into the sea and hurriedly climbed the reef where the mermaid had just sat. Because he was not used to it, he almost fell, but fortunately he climbed smoothly in the end go up.
"I, I didn't mean that, sorry, thank you for saving me!" The purple-haired boy was ruffled by the wind, showing sweat on the tip of his nose and anxious eyes, "I actually, In fact, I have always wanted to meet you, and I have no ill will. I have heard a lot of your stories, and I have been looking forward to seeing you since before, I…”
He didn't seem to think about what to say at all, and he was at a loss to reveal his feelings, talk nonsense, and have no rules.
The sea was calm and there was no reaction, the mermaid seemed to have long gone.
Alvin's broken words came to an abrupt end when he noticed this.
The purple-haired boy stood on the reef and looked out at the vast and endless sea alone. The wind blew his unkempt hair and blew through the loose and faded clothes, outlining a thin and helpless figure.
The boy squatted down slowly, hugged his legs, and said in a low tone: "I... just want to have a friend."
The deep blue sea is silent, and the gentle tapping of the waves can overwhelm the low heart, let alone transmit it to the far bottom of the sea.
"Friend? Do you want to be my friend?"
The cheerful and bright voice suddenly sounded, and the surging sound of the water waves became no longer clear.
Looking up, a curious black-haired mermaid emerged from the water, looked at him seriously, and repeated: "Do you want to be my friend? Alvin."
"I think so!" Alvin answered firmly without hesitation.
Doris nodded, stretched out his blue-nailed hand, and counted it in a proper manner: "Okay, then in order to be my friend, you must abide by four rules. First, to Help me remove clam shells, wash kelp, and catch small fish every day. Second, help me clean up the scales on my tail every day, so that none of them become ugly. Third, be honest with me, and on the other hand, I will be honest with you. Fourth ...Well, I'll talk about that later."
The purple-haired boy's expression froze, his blood froze, and after listening to the merman count one by one, he asked him with a puzzled face: "This is different from the friend I imagined. Do you have to do so many things to be friends?"
"Of course." The black-haired mermaid said decisively, "You are a koi fish. I would like to make friends with you, which is very rare."
After thinking about it, he added: "In Coral City, the little fish who help me with these chores are always very happy, don't you like it?"
Alvin, who heard this kind of thing for the first time, was fooled, and answered ignorantly: "Is that so? Well, since this is the responsibility of a friend."
Dorries was obviously very happy to hear the answer, he used his tail to jump up from the water, and along with the falling water droplets, he sat next to Alvin: "From today onwards, we will be friends It's gone!"
"...Okay." Bewitched by the colorful water droplets and the mermaid's smile, the purple-haired boy responded subconsciously.
From this day on, Alvin, who has no friends, has a special friend.
Alvin was always nervous at first. He treated Doris like glass that would break easily. He approached him carefully, followed the merman's words, and did not dare to correct himself. Not so-called koalas, but humans.
"In case Doris learns that I'm not a koala, but a human..." He looked at the merman churning in the sea with an uneasy expression.
But soon, he discovered the harmlessness and innocence of the merman.
As Doris himself stipulated, he answered all his questions with great sincerity and almost no concealment.
"What? Why did it save you?" The black-haired mermaid was surprised for a moment, and then replied after thinking for a moment, "Well... I heard that koalas can't survive on the bottom of the sea, although everyone said don't care , but it was my coming-of-age day and I wanted to do something different to celebrate!"
"So no matter who appears that day, will you save him?" Alvin came to this conclusion half-suddenly and half-depressed.
"Well. Fortunately, I saved you, otherwise I might not be able to carry out my celebration ceremony."
Doris' unhesitating answer made Alvin's heart break for a moment, and found that he was really just lucky, rather than having something special to be favored by the mermaid.
Such a calm attitude inevitably makes Alvin uncontrollable curiosity, and wants to test how much he can ask:
"Have you always lived in the deep sea? I've never seen you before, you're avoiding humans, uh, did I mean koalas?"
The black-haired mermaid didn't know where to get a handful of small clams, and he divided half of them for Alvin to pry them open. The feeling of the sea level, and I don't like koalas very much."
"So you must be careful, you must not tell me about making friends with me without my permission, otherwise I will be embarrassed." He also did not forget to warn.
"Then why are you here?" Alvin almost blurted out this strange phenomenon incomprehensible.
Doris's movements paused, Shencui's eyes glanced at him quietly, and then slowly replied: "I don't like the seabed without sunlight. It's too quiet and too heavy , I don't like it very much." He repeated his thoughts, as if he really couldn't find the words to describe it.
Alvin listened to the merman's calm tone, pursed his lips, he remembered his own situation, remembered everything he had suffered, his subordinates slowed down the clam prying action, and couldn't help being half persuasion, half Speak comfortingly:
"Then come to the land. We have many towns, a wide variety of goods and shops, clean and spacious roads and countless beautiful and interesting things, even if it takes a hundred years, you will not be bored. You will love it."
The black-haired mermaid had a look of longing on her face, and still answered cheerfully: "Yeah!"
Perhaps because of talking about this kind of thing, Alvin's attitude towards the mermaid was no longer tense, and gradually became calm and casual.
One person and one fish are like real friends, communicating sincerely, spending most of the day together, seeing the sun rise and the moon setting together, occasionally tangled over some trivial matters, Talking about some small troubles, life becomes calm, even with a warmth that Alvin never thought of.
At the same time, Alvin got some unthinkable information from Doris after getting along these days. For example, the name Mermaid comes from the tailless fish. A long time ago, the Mermaid was called the Kraken, and further on, there were names such as the Sea Ghost.
For example, the fish that can be eaten in the deep sea are ugly, and the fish that are not ugly are poisonous, so the mermaids will go to the upper layer to find food, and occasionally see koalas, but unfortunately most of them are dead.
"You're the first koi fish I've ever seen alive." Doris tapped the sea with his tail, splashing some water, as if playing.
"Doris, do you know the story of the mermaid?"
The black-haired mermaid looked back in confusion: "What is that?"
Alvin twitched his lips and told his mermaid friend this story full of childhood memories: "...In the end the mermaid princess jumped into the sea and turned into foam. She has no soul and should not go to heaven , but God was moved by her love and enthusiasm and promised her that she could go to heaven."
Doris put his hands on his cheeks and listened with interest: "Humans, what a strange existence, did you design them in your own image? And then, did she really go to heaven?"
"It's not the design. She has indeed gone to heaven." Alvin didn't know how to answer, nodded casually, looked at the mermaid boy who was listening carefully, and suddenly felt a little curious, "You guys Is there really no soul? According to what we say, only those who have a soul can have reincarnation and an afterlife. In the past, there were legends that you crave souls, which is very scary."
"Aren't you very clear about this?" The black-haired mermaid looked at him suspiciously, "Isn't the koala like us?"
"Ah this..." The purple-haired boy was a little guilty. He hid a big secret, but he promised to be sincere to Doris.
Tangling and fear changed back and forth on his face, and finally he gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, shouting: "Doris, I'm sorry, I have been hiding something from you."
"What?" Doris tilted his head and poked a crab at his feet.
"I, I'm actually a human." Alvin said very quickly, for fear that he would lose this moment of courage, "I'm not a koala, we are not fish, we have always been I live on land, so I can't go to the bottom of the sea at all. I'm sorry I lied to you, I'm willing to do whatever you say, please forgive me."
The black-haired mermaid froze on the spot, and the crab in her hand could not be taken care of, like a frozen ice sculpture, she asked softly after a while: "That means, you don't even have a tail. Ever? None of them?"
"Yes." The purple-haired boy did not dare to look up.
"..." Doris was silent for a moment, then suddenly dived under the water, causing a lot of bubbles to appear on the water, Gulu Gulu didn't know what he was doing.
After half a moment, Alvin heard what he was saying: "It's over, it's over, Alvin doesn't even have a fish tail, how embarrassing to say it! I often show off myself in front of him The tail, really, really…”
Alvin looked at the sunset silently in the distance, and began to suspect that it was the red color of the mermaid's face.
In the human world, there are many mermaid legends circulating in the human world.
"Mermaids are treasures in the ocean, pearls hidden in the depths of the waves. They are beautiful and luxurious, and they are the darlings who should have all the good things in the world."
The purple-haired boy took an old book and read it word by word.
"Huh? So in your eyes, do we exist like this?" Doris leaned closer curiously, and not surprisingly found that the words were different from the ones they were familiar with.
"Yeah, because the mermaid does make people think of luxury and beauty."
Alvin looked at the beautiful black-haired mermaid, from the delicate face to the bare skin to the elegant tail, turned his head silently, and said: "You must be careful of other humans, Otherwise, you might be locked up in a strange place. Wouldn't it be troublesome for you to run out of water?"
"Your ears are red." Doris blinked and reminded, then nodded, "It's really troublesome without water. But it's not a big problem, tell me about the human world."
The purple-haired boy stiffened for a moment and tried his best to relax: "I, we have a lot of people here, so there are also many houses. The roof is the red of the newborn sun, and the roof is clean white. But this is ordinary People, richer families, will have crystal lamps that shine brightly at night, warm and comfortable carpets, soft and spacious sofas, grilled chicken, and thoroughly stewed broth on the table..."
He talked about the castle again: "I have not seen the castle, but I have heard people say that there are floors made of gold, walls of crystal, dishes of precious stones and all kinds of incomparable precious things... "
The black-haired mermaid listened and bowed her head a little sadly: "We don't have red roofs and white walls, nor do we have crystal lamps or carpets. Even fire can't ignite where we are, the seabed. Can't see anything."
Alvin felt that he might have said something he shouldn't have said, so he put down the book in a panic, and tried to comfort his friend: "But, but you also have a lot of scenery that humans have never seen, such as cruising fish. Swarms, swarms of jellyfish lit up, colourful corals… the human stuff is really nothing.”
However, Doris lowered his head and said nothing, finally muttered "I'm going back" and left with a flick of his tail.
The purple-haired boy sighed as he looked at the dizzy water.
Fortunately, the next day, the mermaid seemed to be reinvigorated and asked him many things about human beings with great interest, not only in terms of food customs, history and culture, military construction, etc., but also about everything in the human world. All come and accept knowledge.
"Why are you suddenly so interested in human affairs?" Alvin couldn't help but ask.
Doris put down the primary human literacy book, turned to look around, and whispered: "I want to live in the human world."
"Huh?" Alvin exclaimed, and then lowered his voice, "But your tails have the habit of not being able to leave the water..."
"It doesn't matter." The black-haired mermaid vowed, her green eyes glowing, "There is a way to go ashore, this must be kept secret first, and then I will tell you. Treat it as a surprise."
"Okay." The purple-haired boy sighed regretfully and did not ask further.
Some time after Doris started studying, Alvin heard in town that someone had caught a merman.
He immediately thought of Doris, and hurriedly looked for it. In the center of the crowd, he saw the mermaid locked in the huge water tank.
A naive expression, a gleaming tail, webbed hands, a merman, but not Doris.
Alvin breathed a sigh of relief, then watched the soldiers take the mermaid away, feeling melancholy.
He came to the beach early, and when he saw the mermaid leaning on the reef, he breathed a sigh of relief: "You're fine."
"Huh? What are you talking about, Alvin." The merman cast a suspicious look.
The purple-haired boy quickly recounted what happened in the morning, worrying for his friend: "...that's your clan, right? He was caught, the king and the others won't let him go easily. I don't want you to take risks, but it's up to you, so...what are you going to do?"
Doris looked at him with clear eyes: "Since Alvin doesn't want me to go, then I won't go. He doesn't matter, my people are not such weak creatures."
Alvin breathed a sigh of relief, and repeatedly told the merman to be careful of humans, but at the same time he felt despicable, and even proposed the idea of letting his friends abandon his clan.
"But I only have you as a friend..." He looked at the mermaid who was immersed in learning and covered his face in pain.
Even some ordinary people secretly keep a mermaid.
The mermaid is no longer a legend, but a reality that can be touched.
This made Alvin very flustered, he hurriedly found Doris and talked about what happened now: "More and more mermaids have been caught! You are very dangerous, the best way is to hide Go back, go back to the deep sea, and come back when everything calms down."
"How many merman have been caught now?" Doris asked carefully, as if he didn't realize the seriousness.
"There are already more than 900, and I really can't stay here any longer!" Alvin couldn't help roaring, and apologized after his mood dropped, "I'm sorry, I'm just a little, feel a little scared."
"Don't worry." The black-haired mermaid comforted him gently, "I'll go back when I go. My people will be fine."
Alvin felt that the mermaid didn't understand how dirty human's methods were, and how terrible things could be done to those mermaids. It is said that some people have begun to study the possibility of immortality of mermaid meat.
But he didn't dare to say this, he didn't want to destroy the light in the mermaid's eyes, and he didn't want him to hate humans.
So he emphasized it again: "Don't linger, go to the safest place, and come back when everything calms down!"
Doris looked at him quietly for a long time before sighing and agreeing: "You are my friend, so I promise you."
So Alvin watched the mermaid's tail flick and left quickly, finally feeling relieved.
But I didn't see the mermaid lowering her eyes, she muttered: "More than nine hundred..."
Doris kept his promise and did not appear for a while, but the number of mermen caught in the kingdom continued unabated.
Every time this kind of news came, Alvin had to take a nervous look to confirm, seeing that it was not Doris to be at ease.
He actually didn't quite understand why the merman, who didn't like koalas in Doris' mouth, was caught in such a large number, and why he didn't stop when his companions were missing, causing more and more losses .
"Is there nothing to eat at the bottom of the sea?" According to the habits of merman, he secretly guessed.
As a month passed, a total of more than 2,000 mermaids were captured by humans, imprisoned in small water tanks, locked in human homes, and lost their freedom.
Alvin doesn't think he is the savior of the world. Although he can't bear it, he can only ignore the experience of these mermaids and pray that they will find the problem as soon as possible and not be caught one by one.
Perhaps prayer had an effect.
Three days later, no merman was caught again, the sailors standing on the boat sighed regretfully, complaining that the sailing was not smooth, saying that maybe all the merman had been caught.
Alvin thinks that the merman might finally hide.
In this way, maybe in a month he will be able to see Doris again.
With such anticipation, he fell asleep.
Alvin woke up in the noise, the sky in front of him was red, as if the sun had just risen, but the piercing scream woke his brain and let him understand that it was not the sun, But terrifying fire!
He looked up in amazement and saw countless people running on the street, behind him there were people who were so beautiful and evil that they stretched out their long blue nails to chase.
Blue nails!
Understoodly, Alvin realized that those who were chasing were not real people, but mermaids in the tank during the day!
What happened? Why did they turn into humanoids?
That's not a fish tail, but a real human leg!
The chaotic thoughts swirled in his mind, and before he could think about it, he heard a "bang" and someone broke in.
The blue-haired mermaid whom she had seen during the day smiled softly at him, stretched out her strange nails, and the edges were sharp enough to reflect his terrified face.
Alvin immediately turned over the window and ran away without daring to turn his head.
He remembered that Doris had always said that the tribesmen were okay, and subconsciously ran to the most frequented road, to that beach. And the blue mermaid followed him unhurriedly, as leisurely as a cat and mouse.
In the sound of increasingly rapid breathing, he saw the familiar black-haired figure beside the reef.
"Do, Doris!" He ran very fast, calling out his friend's name.
The mermaid who turned her head along with the voice smiled at him: "Alvin, I was looking for you!"
Alvin had no way to respond immediately, and the surprise of seeing his friends was mostly diluted by the critical situation. Why did they suddenly riot, and how can we save other people.
But I didn't expect the black-haired mermaid to tilt her head, and her tone was innocent and innocent: "What's wrong? I made the clansmen start to act, what's wrong?"
"Why, why did you do such a thing?" Alvin stuttered in astonishment, completely disbelieving this fact.
"Huh?" The mermaid tilted her head, her clear eyes filled with confusion, "Is this what you told me?"
"I, when did I..." instigate you to destroy our country? !
The human boy didn't finish his sentence, because the seemingly gentle mermaid stared at him. The round pupils in the dark green pupils slowly contracted, turning into slender and strange diamonds.
"You said it." He repeated, "You said that there are many things in the human world that mermen have never seen before, they are radiant, exquisite and luxurious."
"Even so, I never let you treat our country like this!" Humans overcame the fear that had arisen from nowhere, and couldn't help but scold loudly.
"But you said it too. Mermaids are the darlings of the world, the treasures of the seabed, and they deserve all the good things, don't they?"
"So what's wrong with us getting all this?"
The mermaid who dominated the war and destroyed the city rightly asked back.
Behind him, thousands of mermaids with the same eyes emerged from the water. The blue-haired mermaid who came over also stood in the distance.
Similar innocence and ignorance, same ruthlessness and cruelty.
Under the extreme collapse, he heard the kindly answer of the black-haired mermaid:
"By the way, I forgot to tell you the question I asked before."
"It's true that mermaids don't have souls, and we don't have reincarnation. It's also true that mermaids crave souls—it's just that we don't need our own souls, we crave the souls of others."
Dorries rode on the waves, was held up in front of him, looked at him, and extended his hand to him as if to hug.
Alvin only felt a flash of white light in front of his eyes, a pain in his chest, and something hot was missing.
Bright red things flowed with blood, on the cold white palm of the black-haired mermaid.
He threw the heart to the tail of the fish, the bright red light passed, and the silver tail disappeared, replaced by human legs, straight and slender, with rounded toes.
In a trance, he heard the voice of the mermaid and couldn't distinguish his emotions: "This is the way to go ashore, and you told me."
Alvin took a last look at the black-haired mermaid, his lips moved, no sound was made, and he collapsed quickly.
He closed his eyes, forever.
Watching his fallen black-haired mermaid for a long time, rubbing his chest, he always felt that there was an extra heart, but he frowned, and let the tribe go to occupy the city first, he was not skilled in using it subconsciously His legs and feet staggered to Alvin's side.
"Alvin?"
Doris waited for a while, not waiting for the expected reaction, and shook his head: "Yes. Humans only have one heart, and if they are gone, they will die."
"I'm dead and I won't respond."
He murmured, and staggered toward the town, toward the world he had taken.
In the end, some of the human beings died under the hands of the mermaid, and the other part fled, I don’t know where they went, but there is no doubt that the mermaid obtained the house utensils they have never seen before, and obtained the life on land opportunities, and a life that can be accompanied by sunshine.
Dorries stared blankly at the roofs, walls, crystal lamps, carpets that had been highlighted in the surrounding area...and suddenly felt that they didn't look very special.
"Maybe it's not good enough here," he murmured, walking towards the king's castle.
As Alvin said, there are luxurious floors, exquisite and beautiful utensils everywhere, luxurious clothes and accessories... But Doris is still not happy.
"I don't think it's as good as what Alvin said here." He muttered to himself, suddenly a little angry, "He lied to me! I have to settle the account with him."
After all, he rushed back to the beach where Alvin was at with a faster and more urgent speed than when he came.
Soon Doris found Alvin still lying on the ground.
The purple-haired boy quietly closed his eyes, the corners of his clothes and hair were wet by the waves, but he made no sound and did not respond to anything.
"Alvin, I've seen it, it's not as good as you described, no, not at all!" The black-haired boy stood in front of him and complained angrily.
"The lights are dim, the crystals look gray, and the red roof is not at all good-looking. Those hot foods taste bitter, sour, and some are astringent, Not tasty at all!"
"Alvin, the sun is so annoying today. It's very uncomfortable. I'm cold all over. It's more uncomfortable than being on the bottom of the sea. It seems that something has been put into my heart."
"It's hard to walk with these legs, other people are fine, but every step I take is like walking on the edge of a knife, and transparent water droplets fall from my eyes. Are these tears? Ah, then I can answer your previous question, the merman's tears are not pearls, they are the annoying part."
"Alvin, it's so boring here, I want to see the glowing snowy mountains and the vast desert you mentioned, but no one in that kingdom knows where it is. You should know? You know so much, and I want you to show me."
"Alvin..."
"Alvin..."
"Alvin, why didn't you answer me?"
The black-haired mermaid stopped chattering, slowly sat down, hugged his legs, lowered his head, and shrank into a restless ball: "Alvin, why does this world suddenly become So boring. Mermaids don't have as many emotions as humans, why am I so miserable."
"Dark seabed, bright towns, cheerful singing, warm sunshine, everything is the same."
"Alvin, you know the story of so many mermaids, why didn't you tell me."
"What is this feeling of still sleeping in the deep sea? I have come to the world of the sun, but I feel so uncomfortable."
"You honor the last promise, and talk to me, okay?"
No one answered, in the empty beach, the black-haired boy stared blankly at the ocean, tears streaming down his face unconsciously.