The Little Mermaid Fell for the Jiaoren 112

Chapter 112: Side Story: Little Jiaoren Raising Little Fish 8

Xixi sniffled, and with a sob, he cried, “I don’t want the little dolphin to go to the sky, sob…” He subconsciously looked at the little silver Jiaoren he trusted the most. “Brother, what… sob… what should we do…”

The little silver Jiaoren didn’t have time to comfort Xixi. He swam in front of the merman cub. “Xixi, listen to me.”

Xixi nodded his head vigorously. “I’m listening.”

The little silver Jiaoren spoke quickly, “Where is the medicinal herb you mentioned that can heal wounds?”

Xixi thought for a moment. “That red grass, we have it at home.”

The little silver Jiaoren raised his hand and wiped Xixi’s face. Even in the seawater, he couldn’t wipe away the merman cub’s tears. “Don’t cry. Do you remember the way here?”

Xixi nodded his head.

The little silver Jiaoren: “Now, you swim back and bring the medicinal herb. I’ll wait for you here.”

Xixi “hmm”-ed twice.

The merman cub was already scared out of his wits. After the little silver Jiaoren had finished speaking, he held the fluorescent grass clump and turned to swim into the dark sea behind him.

“Wait.” The little silver Jiaoren called out to him.

Fortunately, they had brought more than one fluorescent grass clump at the beginning. After Xixi remembered, he rubbed his eyes and quickly gave one of the clumps in his arms to his brother.

The little silver Jiaoren looked at the merman cub seriously, and his silver eyes were almost narrowed. “Xixi is very amazing, right? You can swim back. If you encounter danger, you can also escape by yourself, right?”

With every sentence the little silver Jiaoren said, Xixi would nod his head.

The silver Jiaoren cub pushed the merman cub. His cold voice was a little soft. “Don’t be afraid. I’ll always be here.”

He watched as Xixi, who was carrying the fluorescent grass, swam further and further away. The faint light became smaller and smaller in the dark deep seabed, and finally disappeared completely.

The little silver Jiaoren did not move for a long time. After a long while, he finally turned around, found a reef near the unconscious little dolphin, and sat down. His still-short and slender silver fish tail hung down, and his sharp, fan-shaped tail fin cut through one patch of current after another as it floated slightly. The Jiaoren’s sharp claws were also gradually extending.

Even though he was young, his completely narrowed silver eyes could show a deep and dangerous ferocity.

He sat there quietly, like a solitary rock born to protect, with sharp edges and a sharp point.

The ocean was very dangerous, especially the seabed at night, which had no light at all. No one knew if the little dolphin’s large amount of bleeding, and the bloody smell that had spread for several hundred meters, would attract some dangerous creatures.

So the little silver Jiaoren had chosen to let Xixi go back alone and bring back the medicinal herb, while he stayed here and watched the unconscious little dolphin, so that it would not be eaten by the sea creatures that had been attracted by the blood.

If that happened, Xixi would probably cry for a long time.

The little silver Jiaoren frowned faintly.

Soon, the translucent silver Jiaoren’s gills trembled keenly. It seemed to have sensed the surge of the current in the darkness. His silver eyes slightly turned sideways and looked coldly at the dark sea area outside the light of the fluorescent grass.

They’re here.

He said in his heart.

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The seabed was very dark.

The little silver Jiaoren had led Xixi all the way here. The merman cub could only rely on his faint memory and low visibility to try and identify the correct direction.

He struggled to hold up the seaweed clump he was holding, using the fluorescent grass of the inheritance ground to light the way back to the lair. The merman’s natural affection for the inheritance ground allowed Xixi to swim back smoothly.

Xixi breathed a sigh of relief when he had swum into the familiar tunnel. The merman cub did not dare to delay for a single moment and quickly, according to the path in his memory, swam towards the depths of the inheritance ground.

A large patch of red medicinal grass was growing there.

According to the little dolphin’s injuries, one or two handfuls of red grass were clearly not enough. Xixi struggled to pull at those red grasses.

Although he had already pulled up a lot, and his hands had been scratched by the tips of the grass, leaving many small wounds, his arms had been repeating the same action over and over again, and his bones, skin, and muscles were all starting to ache with a sour and bitter pain.

Not enough, still not enough.

He had to pull up a lot more.

Xixi is not tired!

The merman cub cheered himself on in his heart. Brother and the little dolphin were still waiting for him. He had to be faster, even faster.

The merman cub tied up the red medicinal grass he had pulled up with a long stalk of seaweed. They were piled up to be almost as big as Xixi. He tried to hold them, to lift the pile of red grass, but this way, it was difficult for him to even sway his tail, let alone see the path ahead.

Xixi thought for a moment and clumsily tied the long stalk of seaweed that was connected to the pile of red grass around his waist. He pulled at the seaweed with his small hand and struggled to sway his tail and swim forward. With his other hand, he held up the fluorescent grass clump to light the way ahead.

He can do it!

Brother said that Xixi is also very amazing!

Brother won’t lie to Xixi.

Because of the buoyancy of the seawater, even a three-year-old cub merman was able to pull the pile of red grass and swim.

He passed through the abyss and out of the tunnel. Xixi, following the direction he had struggled to remember on his way back, fumbled his way out.

Like a newborn cub fish, he stumbled through the darkness towards a vaster sea.

Back and forth, after swimming for so long, Xixi was already very, very tired. A fragile merman cub could not swim for too long even after he had come of age.

His tail had already started to hurt.

The base of his tail fin, which had been swaying all along, also started to ache.

But in the dark seabed, the cub fish, which looked so small, was still struggling to swim forward.

Brother said he would always wait for Xixi.

So Xixi can’t give up either. Xixi has to keep going, to find brother.

Slowly, the merman cub’s nose smelled a familiar bloody smell. He followed the direction from which the bloody smell was coming and swam forward. For some reason, Xixi always felt that he had already swum this path, and had swum for even longer and further than last time.

It was as if the bloody smell had spread again.

But not long after, Xixi saw a faint point of light in the distance. It must be brother, who was holding the fluorescent grass clump.

“Brother!” Xixi panted tiredly. “Xixi… is back!”

The little silver Jiaoren, who was sitting motionless on the reef, gave a sluggish reaction. He struggled to raise his silver eyes and looked over with a blurry gaze. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes hard, and with a flick of his tail fin, he got off the reef and swam towards Xixi.

Xixi realized that something seemed to be wrong. “Brother?”

The little silver Jiaoren swam in, lowered his head, and pulled off the seaweed that was tied around the merman cub’s waist. “Mmm, I’m here.”

“Xixi is amazing.”

It was a very simple compliment, but it easily made the merman cub’s clear, sea-like blue eyes curve. Under the light of the fluorescent grass clump, his blue eyes also seemed to be sparkling with a faint light.

They were a pair of very beautiful, very pure eyes.

Xixi pushed the red grass behind him over. Because the little dolphin’s fresh blood had also dyed the nearby sea area into a faint pink mist, he couldn’t see very clearly. “I’ll apply the grass to the little dolphin with brother.”

The little silver Jiaoren replied with a cold “hmm.”

The place where the little dolphin was injured was mainly in the middle of its tail. Because the wound was too large, the two cubs, one on each side, were wringing the red medicinal grass and squeezing the red juice onto the sleeping little dolphin.

The bright red of the juice dyed the faint pink seawater even redder. Xixi’s line of sight was filled with a scarlet color. Sometimes, because he couldn’t see clearly, he would struggle to widen his eyes and said in a worried, small voice, “Brother, the little dolphin has bled so much.”

“But with the red grass, the little dolphin will definitely not go to the sky to find its mother, right?”

The little silver Jiaoren replied with a low sound, a little silent.

The red medicinal grass that grew in the merman’s inheritance ground was much more effective than the ones that grew in other sea areas. The red juice soaked into the seawater, and the entire sea was healing the little dolphin’s wounds.

To the naked eye, the wound was slowly stopping bleeding, and the fresh blood was no longer flowing out. Soon, Xixi and the little silver Jiaoren had finished wringing all the red grass.

Xixi’s hand was very painful. He blew on his palm and said in a small voice, “Pain, fly away.”

When the little silver Jiaoren noticed, he swam over. “What’s wrong with your hand?”

Xixi subconsciously put his hand behind his back, not wanting his brother to worry. “Xixi is fine. Brother doesn’t have to look.”

The little silver Jiaoren extended his hand. “Give it to me.”

Xixi lowered his eyes guiltily and obediently extended his own hands.

But the next second, the merman cub’s blue eyes suddenly lit up. “Brother, look! The little dolphin moved!”

The little silver Jiaoren subconsciously turned his back and looked behind him.

The unconscious little dolphin swayed its fin, and its eyes slowly opened. It let out a weak, low cry.

It seemed to know who had saved it, as if it were saying thank you in a low voice.

But unexpectedly, it did not get any response.

Xixi stared blankly at the little silver Jiaoren’s back.

They were too close, so close that his blurry vision, due to the faint pink seawater, also became clear, allowing the merman cub to clearly see a ghastly wound on the little silver Jiaoren’s back.

It was constantly bleeding, and then it dissolved into the seawater.

So the spreading bloody smell was not because of the little dolphin, but because of brother.

Brother was injured.

The sound behind him suddenly disappeared, which also made the little silver Jiaoren react. His body stiffened for a moment, and he pursed his indifferent, thin lips, at a loss. If one looked closely, there was also a hint of annoyance.

“Why didn’t brother tell Xixi?”

Because he didn’t want the other to worry.

So they had both subconsciously hidden their wounds from each other.