The Little Mermaid Fell for the Jiaoren 111

Chapter 111: Side Story: Little Jiaoren Raising Little Fish 7

“Brother, will the little dolphin come back?” Xixi lowered his eyelids in disappointment and asked in a small, muffled voice.

They had been waiting for a long, long time. The merman cub had gone from drooling at the fish meat that the little silver Jiaoren had found, to now, even when he was hungry, he had no appetite.

The merman cub and the silver Jiaoren cub had been living together for a few days and had already gotten to know each other a little. The little silver Jiaoren knew that if Xixi didn’t get to see the little dolphin, he would definitely not be able to eat dinner, so he had been waiting with Xixi until now. Seeing that his mood was starting to get low, he finally couldn’t stay quiet anymore. “Let’s eat dinner first.”

Xixi shook his head. “Xixi is not hungry.”

Just as he finished speaking, his little stomach let out a “grumble.” Because it was in the seawater, it sounded very blurry and muffled, but it was still very obvious.

The tips of Xixi’s ears instantly turned red, and he stammered, “Alright, Xixi is still a little hungry, but Xixi doesn’t want to eat.”

A merman’s sixth sense was very accurate. Xixi really had no appetite. His heart was “thumping” right now, and he didn’t know why, but he was flustered and in a mess.

It was as if the little dolphin didn’t not want to come back, but couldn’t come back.

The little silver Jiaoren, of course, knew how to deal with Xixi. He pretended to inadvertently move a little closer to the merman cub on the side, exposing his arm to Xixi’s view.

Even in the dim seabed, it could be clearly seen that there were a few scratches on it.

When Xixi noticed, he widened his eyes and looked over. “Is brother hurt?”

Because the seabed was too dark, the merman cub was not sure.

The little silver Jiaoren nodded his head crisply. For a Jiaoren, these few scratches would heal when he was asleep tonight. He had no psychological burden at all and said, “I accidentally got hurt when I was catching fish today.”

“But it’s okay. It’s good that you have fish to eat.”

Xixi was stunned for a moment. “Brother got hurt trying to catch fishies for Xixi to eat?”

The little silver Jiaoren nodded.

The merman cub lowered his eyelids with some guilt, feeling that his brother had worked so hard to catch fishies, and he had thrown a tantrum and refused to eat. It was a little too much.

Xixi moved closer, grabbed the little silver Jiaoren’s hand, and blew on the small wound on his arm. “Brother, blow, blow, and the pain will fly away.”

The inherited memories said that this way, without using medicinal herbs, it could also stop the pain and would heal faster.

The little silver Jiaoren’s body stiffened for a moment. He stared blankly at the merman cub who was blowing on his wound with his head lowered. His golden hair was slightly scattered in the seawater, but he could still see that under the faint light, the edges of his hair were tentatively reflecting a fragmented light, rising and falling with the seawater.

Because of the Jiaoren’s tenacious vitality, and the fact that E Star was barren and in a state of war, the little silver Jiaoren would often get injured, but every time, he would rely on his self-healing ability to wait for the wound to heal on its own.

Even if it was very painful, he could only endure it alone.

Xixi blew for a while. Besides blowing out a pile of bubbles, it had no other effect. He raised his head, and his blue eyes looked at the little silver Jiaoren with concern. “Does brother still hurt?”

The little silver Jiaoren pursed his lips. “I’m not afraid of pain.”

Xixi was a little confused. “Brother, but not being afraid of pain and still being in pain seem to be two different things.”

“Xixi doesn’t want brother to be in pain.”

“I’ll blow on it for brother.”

After a while, the little silver Jiaoren finally said in a low voice, “I’m not in pain anymore.”

Xixi’s eyes lit up. “Mmm!”

“Then I’ll eat fishies with brother.”

He couldn’t let his brother’s efforts go to waste.

Xixi struggled to finish the sliced fish, mouthful by mouthful. Although he had said that he was not hungry, his little stomach’s physiological reaction was not under Xixi’s psychological control. He was still so hungry that he had eaten several more pieces of fishies, and his little stomach was round and full.

He struggled to stuff it down, not wanting to waste it.

In the end, it was the little silver Jiaoren who said, “If you can’t eat anymore, then don’t. I’ll take care of it.”

Only then did Xixi cover his mouth and let out a small burp, and nodded his head twice. While he was waiting for the little silver Jiaoren to finish dinner, the merman cub was looking outside to see if the little dolphin had come back.

But by the time the little silver Jiaoren had finished eating, there was still no movement in the current outside.

The silver Jiaoren cub threw the fish bones and entrails very far away, so that the merman’s inheritance ground would not be attracted by the fish’s bloody smell to other large sea creatures. When he swam back, Xixi was still anxiously clinging to the reef, looking at the ocean outside the tunnel.

The sound of the current flowing came from behind him. He knew that it was the little silver Jiaoren who had come back. “Brother, is the little dolphin not coming back tonight?”

“Did it find a new little friend, and doesn’t like brother and Xixi, and doesn’t like it here anymore?”

The merman cub asked in frustration.

“No.” The little silver Jiaoren said concisely. He could tell that the little dolphin really liked the little merman who could talk to him.

Xixi’s fish tail drooped in disappointment. “Then did the little dolphin find its dolphin mother? So it went to a new home?”

The little silver Jiaoren was suddenly stunned.

Xixi continued to ask, “If the little dolphin went to the sky to find its mother, can Xixi go too?”

Just as he finished speaking, the silver Jiaoren cub immediately retorted in a cold voice, “No.” His tone was fierce and cold, so much so that the merman cub was stunned. “Why can’t Xixi go?”

The little silver Jiaoren frowned and said coldly, “There’s no why. Anyway, you just can’t.”

Xixi let out a small sound of agreement. After being scolded, he was a little unhappy and sullenly didn’t want to talk to the little silver Jiaoren.

He turned his back and continued to lie on the reef and look.

“I’ll go with you to find the little dolphin.”

The little silver Jiaoren’s cold voice passed through the seawater and into Xixi’s ears. The merman cub was stunned for a moment, then reacted and happily swayed his tail and turned back. “Brother can’t lie to Xixi!”

It was too late now. It was very, very dark outside. If he got lost, he might not be able to find his way back. He had to wait until dawn tomorrow before he could return to the cave.

Staying in an unknown sea area for a whole night was a very dangerous thing. The inherited memories had given a double warning about this.

So Xixi did not dare to go and find the little dolphin by himself at night.

But with brother here, it was different. Brother was so amazing! There would definitely be no problem!

The silver Jiaoren cub muttered, “I don’t lie.” He glanced at the dark sea area outside the tunnel. “Are we going now, or are we waiting until tomorrow morning?”

Xixi couldn’t be at ease. He took the initiative to hold the little silver Jiaoren’s hand. “Brother, Xixi wants to go now.”

The little silver Jiaoren did not ask any more questions. He held the merman cub’s small hand in return and led him to the top of the inheritance ground at the bottom of the abyss. “Make a few fluorescent grass clumps.”

Fluorescent grass was a seaweed that was unique to the inheritance ground. The little silver Jiaoren had also only discovered it two days ago. To prevent the dazed Xixi from getting lost, he had even pulled up a few stalks and had tied a circle around the merman cub’s hand.

He had also pulled off some and had piled them in the cave for light, and had been praised by Xixi with many “brother is so amazing.”

Now they had to swim in such a dark sea area and had to look for the little dolphin who had gone who knows where. It would not work without enough light.

Xixi, according to the little silver Jiaoren’s words, made a glowing fluorescent grass clump and held it.

After all the preparations were done, the little silver Jiaoren led Xixi out of the tunnel that connected the abyss to the outside sea area. He used the fluorescent grass clump to light the way and looked around to see if there were any traces of the little dolphin in the corners.

While he was swimming, Xixi would also gently call the little dolphin’s name in the merman’s language. The seawater carried his voice far, far away. He called out worriedly, again and again, but he never received a response from the other party.

The little silver Jiaoren didn’t know how far he had swum with Xixi. Xixi was tired from calling, and his tail was also tired from swimming, but he still tried his best to grit his teeth and persevere.

Xixi can do it!

He has to keep going!

Xixi wants to be as amazing as big brother!

As the little silver Jiaoren was swimming, he gradually smelled a familiar bloody smell in the seawater. It was very faint, but the Jiaoren’s keen sense of smell and intuition made him suddenly change direction and swim forward with Xixi.

The route they had been swimming on was where the little dolphin had been before. Xixi tilted his head in confusion. “Is brother not going to find the little dolphin anymore?”

The little silver Jiaoren: “I am. Come with me.”

Slowly, as the little silver Jiaoren swam deeper and deeper, the bloody smell became so strong that even Xixi could smell it. He instantly became nervous. “Brother, it seems to be the smell of blood?”

The silver Jiaoren cub replied with a sound.

Xixi was a little worried. “Is it the little dolphin? Is it injured? Is it because it’s injured that the little dolphin didn’t come back? Will it go to the sky?”

Xixi asked one question after another, so flustered that he was at a certain point. Finally, he said cautiously and dejectedly, “All the fishies that are injured to the point that they can’t swim will go to the sky.”

Is the little dolphin going to go now too?

The little silver Jiaoren pursed his lips. As the bloody smell became stronger and stronger, he already had a bad guess in his heart. But when he heard that Xixi’s words still seemed to have an expectation for the fantasy of being able to go to the sky after death, to a place as beautiful as the ocean, and to live happily, he suddenly said, “It won’t go to the sky.”

Xixi looked at the little silver Jiaoren who was holding his hand with a clueless expression.

Brother was actually not much older than him, but brother seemed to know a lot more than him. The trust that Xixi had accumulated for the little silver Jiaoren now was to the extent that he could be tricked by a single sentence from the silver Jiaoren cub.

The little silver Jiaoren: “The little dolphin’s mother didn’t go either.”

Xixi was stunned for a moment. “Why? Isn’t the little dolphin’s mother unable to swim anymore? I saw it all.”

The little silver Jiaoren interrupted, “No, you won’t go to the sky after you die, nor will you become a star in the sky.”

“That was your inherited memories lying to you.”

Xixi was stunned. He gently blinked his blue eyes, not quite understanding.

The little silver Jiaoren continued, “Dead is dead. It means you’ve disappeared from this world. If I also can’t swim forever, then you won’t be able to find me anywhere, and we’ll never be able to meet again.”

The silver Jiaoren cub’s words were as gentle as possible. He chose less stimulating words, and his way of explaining things was still a bit clumsy, but he was still worried that the simple Xixi would be scared and tightened his grip on the other’s small hand.

Xixi did not move for a long time. He did not make a sound.

The little silver Jiaoren: “What’s wrong?”

Xixi opened his lips and, after saying it several times, he finally managed to squeeze a short sentence out of his choked throat. “Brother… you, look.”

“So much… so much blood.”

The fluorescent seaweed clump quietly illuminated this sea area. The little silver Jiaoren suddenly turned back to look ahead and was also instantly stunned.

In the messy crevices of the reef, the seaweed, the sandy ground, and even the seawater were all covered in a large amount of blood. The little dolphin was curled up on the ground at the bottom of the sea, on the verge of death.

It looked as if it had been bitten. When it was hunting alone, it had run into a large creature that it couldn’t fight. After being bitten, it had desperately fled, and had finally collapsed here due to excessive blood loss.

They didn’t even know how long the little dolphin had been unconscious, and how long the air it had last breathed on the surface of the sea could last.

If Xixi had been alone tonight, he would not have chosen to come out, nor would he have found the dying little dolphin at this time. He could only have waited until the next morning.

And then it would have been too late.

Even if the little dolphin had been lucky enough to wake up, because no one would have taught it how to treat its own wounds, it would have let the blood continue to flow, and the bitten area would have continued to be rotted by the seawater.

In the end, it would have completely deteriorated, and even the little dolphin itself would have rotted along with the rotting flesh on its body.

Xixi cried very suddenly, and also very quietly.

He himself didn’t even know that he was crying. It was just that his eyes were suddenly sore, and his nose was also sore, and he couldn’t say a single word for a moment.

It was as if at this moment, he had finally understood a cruel realization, what death was.

It was that in the future, there would be no more little dolphins to share the fish they had caught with him and his brother, and there would be no other fishies to help them push the shells.

Any other fishie would not be the little dolphin.