The office had been violently damaged during a stunt alarm and had been undergoing renovations. Octopus stayed in a makeshift laboratory, unaware of her return.
Tang Rou had no choice but to pull away the young man's arm from around her and opened the door with great effort.
Unexpectedly, when I turned around again, I met his panicked eyes.
"Rou, why did you push me away? You... hate me?"
Tang Rou hurriedly stopped his random guessing, "I'm opening the door, come in and talk."
"I will be obedient. I don't want to leave you. Can you please not push me away?"
As soon as he stepped through the door, he hurriedly hugged her again, like a poor little animal abandoned by its owner.
Tang Rou was a little confused about his state. Sea Bunny used to be coquettish, but he was never as sensitive and fragile as he is now.
Soon, she discovered that the boy's skin was very dry and his red lips were slightly cracked.
"How long have you been out?" Tang Rou frowned, pulling him towards the empty water tank, filling the water to adjust the salinity, "Where is Zhang Ning?"
After asking, she didn't get a reply for a long time. She turned her head and faced the young man's huddled figure.
He looked extremely scared, his slender neck drooped like a dying swan, hiding himself between his legs.
Tang Rou stopped what she was doing, walked up to him in surprise, squatted down, stretched out her hands to hold the boy's face, pushed aside the wet light brown hair from his forehead, and wiped away the water stains at the end of his eyes.
"What's wrong with you? What happened?"
"I don't want to go back, don't push me away."
He was trembling all over, and his voice was hoarse and urgent, "Rou, I'm sorry, I'm so useless. I will work hard to upgrade. Don't want me."
"Why do you think so?" Tang Rou touched his soft hair, feeling heartbroken, "You are very good, why would I not want you?"
"You just don't want me anymore..."
He couldn't help but raise his voice, and then he was worried that she would be angry, so he hurriedly looked at her expression.
Seeing that her expression was as normal, he whispered his thoughts in a low voice, "I miss you so much. I miss you every day."
The young man first carefully hooked one of her fingers. Seeing that the other party did not refuse, he stretched out his arms again and hugged her desperately like vines, "But you don't want me, you don't want me anymore."
His voice was full of grievances.
Tang Rou closed the water tank valve and put sea salt into it, "How is that possible? You obviously don't want to see me."
"Me?" He was shocked, his eyes were moist, "How is that possible! I miss you so much."
Tang Rou had a bitter feeling like a lonely old man, and couldn't help but feel a little sour, "Yeah, didn't you just forget about me when you got a new breeder? I went to find you so many times but you didn't want to see me.
"
As he said that, he couldn't help but reach out and pinch his beautiful white cheeks, "I heard that you dropped the nutritional supplement I mixed for you? Huh?"
"Fall?" His beautiful eyes widened, filled with disbelief.
"Yes, your new breeder told me all about it."
Tang Rou didn't notice anything strange about him, so she looked at the salinity meter, opened the hatch cover, and said, "Go in."
The young man was stunned and looked like he had lost his soul.
"Rou, have you come to see me...?"
"What else?" Tang Rou pulled the dazed boy to the water tank, "Hurry up and soak in it, the skin is already dry."
The young man turned to look at her. There was ecstasy in his eyes, as well as regret. Most of all, there was a twisted and gloomy hatred that was very inconsistent with his well-behaved appearance.
Tang Rou was stunned for a moment, and when she looked over again, the complicated emotions disappeared from his face and turned into a kind of gentle and intimate love.
"Rou, you want me, right?"
His eyes were bright, staring at her closely.
Tang Rou felt that Sea Rabbit was always weird, but she still answered patiently, "Of course, you can come to me at any time as long as you are willing."
What a huge indulgence.
The owner must love him very much too!
"Rou, me too..."
The love in the young man's eyes that was so thick that it could drown people twisted for a moment, and he rushed towards her and hugged her.
"I love you too……"
His arms hooked around her neck like vines, and he eagerly raised his body, pressing against her body without leaving any gaps through the rough and stiff uniform fabric.
Wanting to pull his light into the swamp.
Want to be melted by her.
Want... to hide her.
Hiding in a small underground house, I could only cry and smile to him.
I want to hide her in a place that only I know, and no one can share her.
...he regretted it.
How could he let that person die so easily?
He should have let him live.
Death is a gift, living is a punishment.
…
All the streamers of the translucent giant jellyfish are attached to the transparent glass wall, coiling itself into a huge flower.
Tang Rou pushed back the beautiful young man who tried to climb out of the water cabin several times, closed the hatch, and then she had time to walk to the glass wall and say hello to the jellyfish.
The soft ribbon was pressed against the glass, as if touching her fingers from afar.
Wherever Tang Rou went, he followed her. The soft ribbon always traced her outline on the glass, and every move was filled with deep thoughts.
He hadn't seen his owner for a long time, but he couldn't touch her, and he didn't have a vocal system to express his love. He could only "watch" her silently with his senses.
After interacting with the jellyfish reunited for a while, Tang Rou walked to the computer and connected to the surveillance camera in the temporary office, wanting to see what No. 17 was doing now.
When I left a few days ago, No. 17 was still angry.
The screen lit up and Tang Rou looked at it with a shocked look on her face.
No. 17 still maintains the same posture as when she left, sitting in a water tank that was broken to only half of its original area, with her back to the camera, as if in a daze.
Like an autistic child looking at the wall and thinking about his faults.
Tang Rou sighed and pointed at the autistic shadow on the screen.
"Still angry?"
I don't know if it was an illusion, but the shadow on the screen suddenly moved and turned sideways.
Um?
Tang Rou poked the face again, and found to her horror that it seemed to be... more sideways, and the thick eyelashes and high bridge of the nose could be vaguely seen on the side.
No, he shouldn't be able to see it?
Tang Rou waved her hand at the screen. The young man remained motionless, eyes lowered, as if thinking.
She realized belatedly that her behavior seemed to be a bit subversive.
Through the surveillance cameras and network cables, no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't see himself. The corner of Tang Rou's mouth twitched, laughing at herself.
The beautiful young man not far away couldn't bear it any longer, opened the hatch and climbed out, shook the water off his body, threw himself over, and hugged Tang Rou from behind.
"soft……"
He called her into the young owner's ear, his voice moist and sticky, like a clammy snake trying to burrow into the ear.
"Have you soaked for enough time? You need to soak in it for two hours."
Tang Rou couldn't bear it and pulled him away. Why did this child become so slimy?
"Enough, almost enough."
The young man's breath was a little unsteady, and he pushed her away like a roly-poly before moving back and kissing her hair randomly.
"It's already very wet. If you don't believe it, just look."
As he spoke, he stretched out his pale and flawless arms to show Tang Rou.
The young man hugged her waist from behind. He had grown taller at some point and was much taller than her.
Tang Rou finally turned around, but she didn't see the young man on the screen who was fine just now. He suddenly swayed and looked injured. He closed his eyes and fell down weakly.
The sea rabbit took a look, hugged the owner who turned his back to the screen, raised his hand and closed the computer.