The mermaid said lightly, "Hmm", with a cool tone in her low-pitched voice.
He is very cold.
But Tang Rou didn't remember that she had ever done anything to make him angry.
Tang Rou had no choice but to hold his arm and try her best to put her head out of the water so that her mouth and nose would not be submerged.
"Why are you hiding here?" She looked at the bottomless giant water tank, a little scared, "Is there anything dangerous in here?"
The mermaid raised her eyelashes and looked at her with a half-smile.
"Fear?"
"Yeah." She nodded honestly.
There seemed to be ferocious monsters crawling in the water, ready to pounce on them and bite their throats out at any moment.
The mermaid stopped talking, and her body became even more air-conditioned.
As he turned around, his vision gradually became clearer.
The mermaid looks very different from last time. There is a tube wrapped around his slender neck. At first glance, it looks like he is wearing a collar. His originally flawless skin is connected to several needle patches and transparent infusion hoses, with gold flowing inside.
The red liquid looks very strange.
Like a beautiful specimen soaked in formalin.
She looked at the IV tubes and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
The mermaid didn't answer and let go of her hand. Her beautiful platinum silver eyes were filled with silent accusations.
Tang Rou had never hurt him, so she felt strange about the sullen look in his eyes.
Maybe the white uniform she wore made him turn himself into the same kind as the researcher who hurt him, and vent his anger?
Tang Rou remained quiet, indicating that she had no ill intentions. After the mermaid's mood calmed down a bit, she raised her hand and gently pushed away the long, wet hair that hung in front of her forehead.
As the skin was exposed, she discovered that not only the criss-crossed needles and infusion tubes, but also the man's pale and graceful back were covered with hideous scars, as if he had been wantonly tortured.
Someone once said that tragedy is tearing beautiful things into pieces for people to see.
Tang Rou frowned, feeling those scars were shocking.
Could he...
The slender and beautiful mermaid was incompatible with this giant water tank. It was as funny as playing table tennis on a basketball court, so Tang Rou didn't think that this water tank was used to contain him.
Moreover, mermaids are not aggressive at all. She had heard before that the most dangerous creatures in Area S were imprisoned here, so she ruled out this possibility.
So there is only one possibility left.
Tang Rou's eyes turned pitiful.
He may be food for the creatures in this tank.
The fish-tailed beauty didn't know that during her moment of silence, humans had successfully completed the self-defeat. He swam around her in a circle, then leaned back, with the other side pressed against her sleeves, his eyebrows drooping sadly.
Even as food, she is willing to lend a helping hand when Tang Rou is in danger.
Tang Rou thought, this is a kind mermaid.
She looked at the dazzling crimson needle holes and asked him, "Can these things be removed?"
The mermaid finally raised her eyelashes, Wusheng came over, and the moist eyelashes could not suppress the darkness under her eyes.
Eventually, he just said, "I can't touch them."
"what about me?"
The mermaid said nothing.
Tang Rou stretched out her hand, but the other party did not refuse, so she carefully tried to hold a needle that had pierced the skin of his neck, and then exerted force outwards.
A muffled moan escaped the mermaid's lips, and her moist eyelashes trembled. She was like a butterfly falling into a spider web and unable to escape. She frowned and lay on the edge of the glass pool as if she had experienced great pain.
The needle was completely pulled out of the body with his movements.
The golden-red liquid sprayed out from the narrow pinhole. He raised his hand to hold his neck, took a few breaths, and his face became paler.
It turned out that the golden liquid flowing in the hose was his blood.
Tang Rou thought she had hurt him and hurriedly let go of her hand, but he held her down with his backhand.
The palms of her hands were forced to stick to his skin, feeling the smooth and cool body under her hands.
"Continue..." His voice was weak, as if he had no strength, "Help me."
Tang Rou seemed to understand.
For some reason, he couldn't touch these things, but Tang Rou could, so he seemed to endure the pain and asked Tang Rou to help him take these things off.
Tang Rou could only say, "Then just be patient."
The mermaid nodded and raised his hand to push his hair to one side. The slender neck like a swan was exposed in front of him. He could see that the beautiful skin veins were tattooed with hoses one after another, some of which were transporting something into his body.
Some are draining his blood.
The translucent hose goes deep into the water, and I don't know where it is connected.
Tang Rou gritted her teeth, pinched a needle on his neck, and pulled it out with all her strength.
The tip of the needle is long and slender, shining with a cold and sharp light, and the tiny needle eye seeps out drop by drop of blood containing light golden brilliance.
The mermaid lowered her head and covered her face with wet hair, leaving only Tang Rou with a slightly arched neck. The bones were clear and distinct, like bamboo joints carved out of white jade.
"Does it hurt?" Tang Rou asked worriedly.
The man hidden under his hair closed his eyes tightly, his eyelashes trembling slightly, and where she couldn't see, the sharp horny teeth bit his lips.
Suppressing the heartache that appeared when she felt uncomfortable, Tang Rou forced herself to be cruel. She found the needle, resisted the urge to close her eyes, pinched it, and pulled it out, trying to speed up so as not to prolong his suffering. The mermaid's back was bent.
He went down and lay on the edge of the pool. Except for the unbearable groan at the beginning, he pursed his lips and said nothing.
Not sure if it was an illusion, but Tang Rou always felt that there was a vague sound of metal colliding underwater.
After she pulled out all the needles, the mermaid looked like she was dying.
"It's over." Tang Rou threw those things into the water and comforted him softly, "It's over. The pain should disappear soon."
In the dim sky and earth, only the cold white color of his skin was left, lying lifelessly on the side. If it weren't for the ups and downs of his back, Tang Rou would have worried that the other person had fainted from the pain.
After a while, the mermaid raised her eyes with fluttering eyelashes and looked towards Tang Rou. A few strands of wet blond hair stuck to her jawbone and went down her neck, outlining a thrilling outline. That ethereal and beautiful face was full of fragility.
His tired look seemed to silently tell her that he was in pain.
Tang Rou suddenly felt that her heart was about to break.
"I'll take you away" she heard her own voice say.
The mermaid shook her head, "I can't leave."
"Why?"
Only the faint sound of metal collision could be heard underwater, and the slender and magnificent fish tail broke out of the water, raising its broad translucent tail fin, like a beautiful fan feather spread out, with a touch of clear blue on the edge.
However, what is shocking is that this beautiful fish tail has a silver metallic chain that is three fingers wide across the tail.
An unknown black substance snakes around the chain, hidden in the grooves with special metal patterns. At first glance, it looks like a carved pattern.
"It locked me." The mermaid's voice was slightly cold, like thin ice in her mouth.