After a rain on the island, Tang Rou started to have a high fever.
She still went to see the mermaid quietly at night, dragging the bucket, which was huge for her body, and pushed it next to the cage to wet his tail.
But the other person had a bad look on his face and murmured something she didn't understand.
Due to the language barrier, Tang Rou only looked at him with dark almond-shaped eyes.
The mermaid thought, this human being is sick and looks like he is going crazy with fever.
That couple didn't know how to raise human cubs, so they might as well let him do it.
It's a pity that the tail is torn. The fish tail is the source of his energy. Without the fish tail, he can't leave here for the time being.
There were many new wounds on that beautiful tail. Tang Rou felt distressed when she saw it. She bent down and blew gently on the scars that were faintly stained with golden red bloodshot.
The mermaid suddenly narrowed her pupils and frowned, looking strangely at her clumsily blowing his wound while shaking.
The already reddened cheeks became redder and redder, and after a while, he was starved of oxygen and leaned against the railing with a confused look on his face.
"..." What a stupid human cub.
He looked disgusted and raised his hand to push her head away.
But Tang Rou felt sad for the mermaid's resistance.
As soon as her eyes turned red, the mermaid became irritable and threw her severely injured tail against the railing, causing the golden-red blood to seep out again.
But he no longer pushed her away.
"elder sister."
She called him like this, but he couldn't understand.
Tang Rou touched his chest in confusion, wondering, "Sister, why is this place different from other sisters?"
The mermaid suddenly narrowed her eyes and pinched her slender wrist.
The platinum silver pupils shrank and then expanded, and through her eyes, she could see Tang Rou's future.
I saw what she looked like when she grew up, and... myself appearing in her timeline.
His expression suddenly became a little subtle.
Then she put her hand back on her chest with a calm expression.
A simple girl thinks that those with beautiful appearance are angels, but in fact they are facing demons who can easily tear her throat apart.
The dream changed again, and a huge supply cargo ship arrived at the port.
Her parents were looking for him and wanted to send her away, but they couldn't find their daughter no matter how hard they searched.
At the same time, Tang Rou took the stolen key and quietly opened the door of the metal cage.
With the slight sound of the chain, the door opened.
A beautiful fish-tailed creature crawled out.
Tang Rou pointed to the sea and told the other party, "You can go home if you get down from here."
But he was grabbed by the mermaid, and his thin skin was pinched to draw blood.
Tang Rou was so frightened that she almost fell to the ground, but he grabbed her wrist and brought her to the fish's tail, where she was trapped.
The mermaid said something to her in a moving voice that she could not understand, and still licked away the remaining blood on her fingertips. However, she did not enter the sea alone, but instead pulled her into the sea water and went all the way downstream.
He wants to raise this human cub.
But she ignored that a pressure of more than ten meters could cause her chest to suffocate, her eardrums to perforate, and she could even drown and be unable to breathe.
An extremely realistic feeling of suffocation was accompanied by a burst of shaking. Tang Rou suddenly woke up from her dream, grabbing the blanket in her hand and taking a deep breath.
"What's wrong with you? Do you have a nightmare?"
Aslan sat next to her and looked at her worriedly.
Tang Rou was in a daze.
Through the glass window, I found their vehicle parked at the Suspended Road Rest Center.
"Come down and have something to eat." Aslan looked at the time and said, "We have about an hour and a half to rest, and we can go to the supermarket to replenish some supplies."
Why did she have that dream? Is that her memory?
Tang Rou followed Aslan out of the car, and she woke up when the cold night wind blew.
The fish-tailed creature in the dream had long, light golden hair as soft as seaweed and a pair of thin silver eyes. That was...
The mermaid she named Narcissus was never seen again after being left in the medical center.
Tang Rou looked complicated.
Did it turn out that I had already met him when I was a child?
The faces of his parents have become blurred in the memory, but the figure of the mermaid gradually became clear. It was him, Narcissus.
With their thoughts in turmoil, they had already entered the food court in the service area.
There is no human operation here, full electronic monitoring, and mechanized operation.
Aslan asked her to find a seat by the floor-to-ceiling window, and soon brought her instant coffee and East Asian-style seafood noodle soup.
Tang Rou looked down at her wrist.
There is a faint, almost invisible scar on the inside.
"What are you thinking about, so obsessed?"
Aslan brought out a piece of seafood noodles and placed it in front of her, "Eat it while it's hot."
"A memory that does not belong to me, but belongs to me." Tang Rou took out the disposable chopsticks, "I don't remember it, but it is indeed me."
"Have you read Freud's analysis of dreams?" Aslan disagreed. "Dreams themselves have a layer of protection. The subconscious repression is released, and the content in the dream may be disguised. It is your subconscious mind."
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Tang Rou felt as if she had really seen the past.
The feeling of drowning is too real.
It's almost midnight.
Land once accounted for 29.2% of the earth's surface area, but now it has suddenly shrunk to 10%, leaving only one-third of the original area. The remaining areas are in higher altitudes and belong to the central plate of the former continent.
In the past, developed coastal civilizations and high-tech countries have settled here, and they are constantly artificially producing oxygen to regulate the air, which will not make people feel that the air is thin.
But there are still a lot of uninhabited areas on this remaining piece of land, because there are many places that are not suitable for building cities.
Therefore, cities are scattered, densely populated, and buildings are getting taller and taller.
The journey they are about to embark on covers a distance of nearly 700 kilometers. There are no large cities, only a few densely populated small towns, and it is inconvenient to travel because of the complicated terrain.
Therefore, a large number of supplies must be replenished at this service station.
Tang Rou and Aslan walked in the unmanned supermarket and bought some necessary toiletries, warm sleeping bags and jackets, as well as various energy-supplementing foods, such as chocolate.
But obviously everyone staying in this service area had the same idea, so there were only a few boxes of wine-filled chocolates left on the shelves.
Tang Rou thought for a while and put everything in the shopping cart.
After finishing the purchase, they put the purchased materials on the box truck with empty space at the end.
I closed the car door and looked at the sea not far away, feeling a little lost.
Aslan felt that Tang Rou was in a bad mood, "What's wrong?"
Tang Rou said quietly, "I wonder if Alphinaud will be bullied by other creatures. I'm a little worried."
After all, he doesn't look very smart.
"..." The corner of Aslan's mouth twitched, "I think you may be worrying too much."
The door of the box next to it moved and opened a crack.
Tang Rou thought that the thing she had just placed was not closed tightly, so she stretched out her hand to fasten the safety bolt.
Aslan said, "If you are so worried, why should you put him back into the sea?"
Tang Rou frowned, "Following me will be dangerous. I'm worried that the people from the Tower of Babel will capture him and continue their experiments."
With a click, the door opened again.
She reached out and pushed the door open again, "Is the lock broken? Let the logistics come and check."
Aslan suddenly thought of what he had said to the experimental subject. His mind twitched and he asked, "So you really like him so much that you don't want him to stay with you?"
Tang Rou looked at her with a strange expression.
Aslan quickly made amends and changed the topic, "Rou, I think you shouldn't put so much pressure on yourself."