The Little Mermaid Fell for the Jiaoren 81

Chapter 81: Selling Charm

“H-hello.” Deng Xi was a little at a loss and subconsciously replied. Although the little merman was not very smart, for such a merman to suddenly appear out of thin air in the ocean, he didn’t even have to think to know that this was very wrong.

He knew that humans could make clothes that looked like fish tails and wear them. Deng Xi carefully looked at the fish tail of the black-haired merman in front of him, but he did not find the obvious knee bend that humans would have after disguising themselves as mermen.

This was probably, maybe, really a merman.

Deng Xi couldn’t help but shrink back again. He was almost leaning against the reef behind him. He thought in a daze, was the little mute no longer his only kinsman?

But soon, Deng Xi mustered his courage and flicked his tail fin, moving a little closer. If the other party was really his kinsman, he couldn’t just stand by and watch.

Just like when he had saved the little mute.

Of course, there was also the reason that the little mute’s silver fish tail was very beautiful.

“Have you been living in this ocean all along? Why haven’t I seen you before?” Deng Xi asked with great vigilance.

The black-haired merman was silent for a moment, and a hint of conflict flashed across his face. He still said truthfully, “Before you came, the depths of this ocean were my territory. There were several times when you were about to discover me, but I managed to avoid you.”

Deng Xi knew that some creatures in the ocean had a very strong sense of territory. He denied in a small voice, “We didn’t deliberately enter your territory. We’re not bad people. You don’t have to hide.”

“No!” The black-haired merman suddenly denied in a loud voice, startling Deng Xi. At the same time, he quickly closed his mouth again. His expression was hesitant, and his eyes were exceptionally complicated.

If it weren’t for the fact that he had seen Deng Xi’s face on the star network these past two days, and had discovered that the person in the video was the golden-haired, blue-tailed merman who had been playing in this ocean for the past two months, and had known that a merman’s song could heal aliens, he would not have taken the risk of being discovered by the Marshal to come and find him.

Last night, he had tried to sneak in in the middle of the night, but had been blocked by the laser net. Now, his palm still had a burn mark. Fortunately, today was the weekend, and every weekend before, the other party would swim from the pool in the manor to the outside ocean.

This also meant that if he didn’t want to be discovered, he could only stay away from the sea area near District A on those two days and dive into the deeper and more distant ocean.

But today, he did not stay away. On the contrary, he had been waiting for him.

He really, really wanted to leave the ocean and return to the human world.

The whites of the black-haired merman’s eyes were filled with red blood vessels from not sleeping all night, and he looked a little crazy.

Deng Xi was a little scared, but he still tried his best to comfort the other party. “Don’t be anxious. I can sing for you.”

The black-haired merman’s tense nerves finally relaxed. He kept looking behind him. “Then let’s start now.”

Deng Xi brewed for a moment, then lowered his head in frustration. “I’m sorry, it’s too sudden. I’m not ready yet.” He could not use the merman’s ability in his song at will.

He remembered something and immediately said, “But don’t be anxious, okay? I’ve recorded many, many songs. I can let you listen to them! See if they have any effect?”

The black-haired merman looked even more flustered than Deng Xi. He spoke quickly, “Where?”

Deng Xi held up his comm. “Here.”

The black-haired merman looked over with longing. “Are you really willing to transfer it to me? You can ask me to do anything. I promise you, anything is fine.”

He really didn’t want to stay in this damn place anymore.

Deng Xi shook his head. “It’s okay.”

He opened his comm and, imitating what the little mute had taught him, clumsily replicated the silver-tail’s operation at that time, very slowly.

The black-haired merman was really anxious watching him. “Let me do it.”

Deng Xi hesitated for a moment before he took off his comm and handed it to the other party.

The tracker had a built-in thermal energy detector for the human body. The moment Deng Xi took it off, Si Jisheng received a notification from his comm. His brow instantly furrowed tightly, and he immediately flicked his silver fish tail, passing through layers of waves and rapids.

The silver Jiaoren swiftly swam in the direction provided by the tracker.

Deng Xi quietly watched as the black-haired merman quickly transferred dozens of audio files to his own comm. He looked at the other party’s tail in confusion. “Are you sick too? Can’t your tail turn back into human legs on its own?”

The black-haired merman stiffened for a moment before he quietly nodded his head.

Deng Xi asked anxiously, “Did a human hurt you?” He flicked his fish tail and swam to the black-haired merman’s side, and said softly, “You don’t have to be afraid. You can tell me.”

The black-haired merman stared blankly at the clear, sea-like blue eyes before him.

Deng Xi’s eyelids curved. “You don’t know, right? Besides me, we have another very amazing kinsman. Your tail color is quite similar to his. He’s super amazing!” As he spoke, he became a little excited. “If someone hurt you, you can tell us. We can both protect you!”

After a moment, the black-haired merman stiffly refused, “Thank you, no need.”

Deng Xi lowered his eyelids in disappointment. “Then you have to be careful. Some humans are very bad, but there are also good humans.” He thought for a moment and said to his lonely kinsman, “If you want, you can also come and live with us.”

The black-haired merman was clearly a little confused and asked, not understanding, “Why?”

Deng Xi said as if it were a matter of course, “Because we are of the same race. You are our kinsman, aren’t you?”

The golden-haired, blue-tailed merman did not spare his smile and kindness. His translucent golden gills were as thin as a butterfly’s wings, and they trembled gently in the ocean. As his blue eyes curved, his lips would open and close, and he would spit out some small bubbles that would pop with a single poke.

He looked at him with concern and really regarded him as a companion.

The black-haired merman suddenly felt a little ashamed. His fish tail was not good-looking, and the color of his gills was also very deep.

He was a failed experiment.

His lips moved a few times. “I’m not an alien.” The black-haired merman muttered repeatedly, “I’m not some alien. I’m a human.”

“I’m not your kinsman.”

“I’m a human.”

“I’m a person!”

He covered his head in pain.

Deng Xi was startled. After a long while, he cautiously asked his question, “But you have a tail.”

The black-haired merman suddenly raised his face and said loudly, “I didn’t have one originally—” he was suddenly at a loss for words, and his tone changed. “In short, I’m not your kinsman.”

“Even if I’m an alien, I’m not your kinsman.” He stubbornly repeated it again, and his tone seemed to carry a deep obsession. “You are a merman.”

So complicated, Deng Xi didn’t quite understand.

Didn’t humans call those who could turn into beast forms aliens? Then why was the black-haired merman not an alien?

Why was he an alien, but not his kinsman?

Wasn’t the black-haired merman a merman?

The black-haired merman said, word by word, “I am a person.”

Deng Xi was even more confused.

Why did the black-haired merman have a tail, but kept emphasizing that he was a human?

Seeing Deng Xi’s expression, the black-haired merman said more completely, “You are the only merman in the entire galaxy. There are no more of your kinsmen in this world.”

“Thank you for your concern.”

Deng Xi was stunned. Soon, he anxiously denied, “No, I have a kinsman. You are also my kinsman.”

The black-haired merman took a deep breath. Just as he was about to say something more, the audio had already finished transferring and had been transferred to his comm. He immediately said, “I have to go.”

“If the audio is ineffective, can you come here again tomorrow?”

“Also, please don’t tell anyone that I’m here. Please.”

The black-haired merman returned the comm to Deng Xi. Just as he was about to swim away, he thought for a moment and turned back. “After I get ashore, I can give you as much money as you want. I have money, I have a lot of money. Or anything else, I’ll do whatever you want.”

He was very similar to the frog-man. The way he looked at Deng Xi was like a drowning person grabbing at the last straw. It was a look of hope.

“I will always be here waiting for you.”

Deng Xi watched as the black-haired merman quickly swam away. The other party’s swimming speed was much, much faster than his, just like the little mute. The silver-tail also swam faster than him.

He held his comm in a daze, his eyelids lowered as he thought about something. He did not go to look for shells anymore. He had been swaying his tail fin in front of the reef, staying in place. A long, long time passed before he dazedly opened his comm to look at the tracker.

He found that the small red dot in the distance was rapidly approaching him.

Deng Xi raised his head in a daze and saw a flash of silver rapidly approaching him from the distance. It gradually became clear from a blurry shadow. His sharp silver eyes were fixed on him even as he was swimming.

Si Jisheng saw at a glance the blue-tail who had been staying still. His brow furrowed tightly. They were very, very close, but the silver fish tail was still swaying swiftly.

It was like a hurricane that had appeared in the deep sea, stirring up a huge current. In the blink of an eye, it had swept Deng Xi in. A powerful force suddenly hugged him and tightly led him away.

Deng Xi’s vision was turned upside down in an instant.

There was a reef in front of them, but under the inertia caused by the huge impact, the silver-tail was able to perfectly avoid the reef in front of him. The silver was like a smooth, curved line, swimming upwards.

One moment he was in the deep sea, and the next, Deng Xi had broken through the water. The black-haired merman’s swimming speed was already very fast, but the silver-tail’s swimming speed was more than ten times his, so fast it was beyond Deng Xi’s imagination.

This was even more terrifying than the behemoths of the deep sea.

Deng Xi dazedly called out, “Little Mute? Why are you here?” They were still in the middle of a competition. “I haven’t found a shell yet.”

The light on the seabed was too dim. After he had emerged from the water, Si Jisheng could finally see the little merman’s entire body clearly, and he was not injured.

The cold and solemn aura around the silver-tail slowly dissipated.

Si Jisheng said in a low voice, “We’re not looking anymore.” His tone was indifferent, a little cold. He tried his best to restrain himself and not show his fierce side. “What happened just now? Why did you take off your comm?”

His questioning tone was still very fierce.

According to his usual behavior, the little merman would have already started to get angry. But now, Deng Xi was covering up, so guilty he was almost stuttering. “No, nothing. Nothing happened.”

He had just met a very strange fish.

Deng Xi was a little fish who kept his promises. He frantically looked for an excuse. “I accidentally took it off.”

He couldn’t find an excuse.

The little merman braced himself. “I didn’t do it on purpose.” He really couldn’t think of an excuse and wished he could roll around on the ground to cover it up.

Deng Xi hugged him and rubbed against the silver-tail’s cold cheek. “Little Mute, don’t be angry, okay?”

As if he were selling his charm.