The temperature was a bit cold at night, and there was white mist on the glass windows.
Tang Rou looked out the window at the endless sea. Aslan, who was in the front row, turned around and handed her a blanket, letting her wrap it up and sleep for a while.
Not long ago, Tang Rou told Aslan everything she had seen in the past few hours.
Two hundred and thirty thousand, dense, rows of stacked cabins, countless deformed figures, and endless underground space.
What a nightmare.
Tang Rou can choose to leave here, but the coalition will eventually find her, and once she leaves the base, she will no longer be able to find out the truth of the matter.
Xiao Ning's death, the 1.5 million people in the human experiment, Professor Yamada, and the encrypted files she copied to the cloud of her private account all lost their meaning.
When people live, they always search for the so-called meaning.
The sky turned gloomy, and soon it began to rain lightly.
The people in the front row were chatting, and their voices were blurred by the movement of the vehicles. The warm and dim light of the street lights passed through the car windows from time to time, forming warm yellow lines.
Paired with the sound of rain, it is naturally hypnotic.
Tang Rou was wrapped in a blanket and slowly fell into a deep sleep.
She had a dream, and it was not a beautiful dream.
A forgotten memory.
In the dream, she had short hands and feet, crawling over cold rocks with no vegetation, and crawling out through difficult criss-crossing ravines, looking for her parents.
This is a small island naturally formed after sea levels rose.
The area is not large, it is used for scientific and technological research, and is sealed off.
Tang Rou remembered that she secretly hid in the trunk and followed the ship to the island.
She misses her parents so much.
Her parents are very busy and serious. They don't pamper her like the parents of ordinary children. They treat her just like they treat their experimental samples, cold and calm.
But she still loves them very much. No child will not love his parents.
She didn't know how long she had been searching, but finally she saw her parents outside a cold building.
But not only did he see his parents, he also saw a silver cage made of special material.
The deep blue water crashed onto the rocks, setting off waves of turbulent silvery white waves.
The same color as the waves is the eyes of the fish-tailed creature in the cage.
His light golden hair hung messily on his shoulders like tiny rays of light pouring on the earth through the clouds. His upper body was naked, and his skin was pale and covered with scattered scars.
He huddled together and his body couldn't help shaking.
As if aware of his gaze, he looked towards her behind the rocks.
The moonlight eyes were cold and silent, without any warmth.
Tang Rou looked at the scene in front of her in surprise, seeing her parents trying to electrify the metal cage.
The arc instantly shot up the railing.
From a distance, he looked over.
He stretched out his hand to grab the cage, his fingers were torn by the electric sparks, and he let out soft whines.
He is asking her for help.
The platinum silver eyes were filled with moist mist, and the expression was sad, like a seriously injured stray cat.
But Tang Rou didn't dare to go up.
She is very afraid of her mother.
A serious female scientist.
Tang Rou knelt down timidly and hid behind the rocks. She didn't quietly poke her head out until her parents left.
The fish-tailed creature was dying, huddled in the cage, with only the faint rise and fall of its chest proving that it was still alive.
Time in dreams is not rigorous and jumps and changes very quickly.
Tang Rou was caught by her parents, and the two were blaming each other. They didn't look like a couple, but like colleagues who had a bad relationship.
"Why don't you care about her? Didn't you also provide half of the chromosomes?"
"Engineer Tang, I think this matter itself is your dereliction of duty. Tang Rou is clearly your responsibility this week."
"But you clearly know that you captured that special creature, and I don't have the energy to care about her!"
"So why did you want to have a child through IVF with me in the first place!"
"She is not an excellent genetic product. I thought that the combination of your genes and mine would give birth to a perfect child. It seems that you and I are not suitable!"
During the dispute, Tang Rou stretched out her hand to pinch the hem of her "father's" clothes, but he pulled her away coldly.
She was placed in a house next to the lighthouse and was sent away when the supply ship arrived.
Tang Rou looked out of the small window, listening to the sound of the waves in a daze.
After a while, she heard the moving singing. As if she was bewitched, she jumped out of bed, opened the door and walked out.
The fresh, moist and salty sea breeze blows on the island.
Tang Rou forgot her parents' instructions not to get close, and came to the cold building, where she saw the fish-tailed creature again.
The other party closed his eyes tightly and lay in the metal cage.
Not far away was the sea, but his body was extremely dry, his scales were slightly raised, and his red lips were dry and dry, losing their original color.
Looks like he's in a coma.
Children are always lack of vigilance towards beautiful things.
She walked over cautiously, stretched her slender arms between the railings, and pushed the hair away from his forehead.
But the other party opened her eyes the moment Tang Rou passed by, and grabbed her wrist like lightning. Her eyes were cold and cold, like a predator at the top of the food chain, who had already laid out a trap waiting for the prey to arrive.
He is not comatose and does not need sleep.
The sharp fingertips pierced the girl's delicate skin, and she was frightened.
But she didn't cry, her eyes were red, and she looked at him in astonishment.
The wrist was so thin that it would break with just the slightest force. The mermaid narrowed her eyes and stared at her closely, with a stern look like looking at the ants crawling in the cracks of the rock, without any emotion.
Squeezing a bug to death didn't seem to give him pleasure.
The mermaid let go, and Tang Rou hugged her injured wrist. She was horrified to see the bright red tongue protruding from the other person's lips, gently licking the remaining blood drops on the nails.
He was bleeding, so of course he was scared away.
The mermaid thought she would never come again.
He became quiet again, as if he was on the verge of death, curled up in the metal cage, and stared at the sea.
I just didn't expect that she would quietly go to see him again, but no longer approach him.
Hidden behind the rocks from a distance, only a pair of eyes were exposed, looking at him timidly and curiously.
Tang Rou felt that he looked very similar to the illustrations in her fairy tale picture book.
The soft and flowing blond hair pokes out from the translucent ear tips, the cold and beautiful eyes, and the fish tail covered with crystal scales are incredibly beautiful.
Like the imprisoned elf in a picture book
Later, when Tang Rou grew older, she realized that it was not an elf, but a mermaid.
It's a pity that this memory disappeared along with a high fever.
Tang Rou was always like a cat, watching him warily from a distance, curious but not approaching.
The mermaid swung her tail slightly, feeling as if ants were crawling across her heart.
Her timid appearance made him irritated.
The mermaid sang again, trying to seduce her with her beautiful voice.
It's a pity that the child is different from those greedy adults. She has no desire in her heart, so she will not be tempted and still hides behind the rocks and dare not get close.
Even because children are easily sleepy, they lean on stones and droop their eyelids...
When she was drowsy, something fell to Tang Rou's feet, making a faint crisp sound.
She opened her eyes and picked up the crystal scales glowing with ice blue.
Tang Rou was no longer sleepy instantly.
There was another small sound, and she discovered that there was an extra scale not far away.
Seduced by this beautiful thing, she walked out of the rock, came to the beach, and reached out to pick it up.
There are more and more scales, and she walks farther and farther.
Until someone grabbed my hand.
Tang Rou raised her head and realized that she was in front of the cage.
The mermaid looked down at her, and placed his cold fingers on her pulse, but it did not hurt her like last time.