Chapter 77: Phosphorescent Membrane
This sudden, chaotic incident quickly came to an end. The frog-man was taken away by Dr. Li, who had subsequently arrived, for treatment, and the adjutant, who had arrived in time, dispersed the crowd.
Deng Xi didn’t know how to thank the bunny girl and politely said, “Thank you.”
Thank you to the bunny girl for rushing back to remind him and for helping him out of a difficult situation.
Deng Xi looked around and racked his brains. “Can I sign another autograph for you, sister?”
He didn’t know what gift to give.
The bunny girl smiled. “No need.” One of her rabbit ears was half-drooped, and the other was excitedly perked up. She was a little shy, but she boldly said, “Can I take a picture of you two?”
Deng Xi looked at the little mute as if seeking his opinion.
Si Jisheng nodded slightly.
“Click—”
A flash of white light.
The bunny girl looked at the finished photo displayed on the camera. The tall man in the military uniform was looking down, his silver eyes focused, quietly looking at the golden-haired youth beside him. Deng Xi, who had his head raised, was also curving his beautiful eyelids, and the happiness in his blue eyes could be felt just by looking at the photo.
It was as if the two of them had formed a small world of their own, with no room for anyone else.
So what they said on the star network was true, right? The bunny girl was almost screaming in her heart. Had the Marshal, who had been single for so many years, really spent a hundred billion to save a beautiful wife?
I ship it, I ship it!
The bunny girl suppressed her excitement. “Then, Deng Xi, see you next time?”
Deng Xi also waved his hand. “Goodbye!”
Si Jisheng gave the adjutant a look and led Deng Xi away.
The adjutant understood and chased after the departing bunny girl. “Hello, can I ask about your current profession? I heard that you are a travel photographer.”
“The military plans to launch a special column on the star network in the future to popularize and record the aliens, to bridge the distance between them and ordinary people, and to de-specialize the alien regions.”
“I wonder if you would be interested in cooperating with us?”
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Through the special channel between the treatment center and the military, Si Jisheng took Deng Xi back to the top floor. The secretary-general was already waiting at the door. He handed over a comm with a blue screen and said quickly, “I don’t know who leaked this news. The information department traced the release time to half an hour ago. The time difference was no more than three seconds. Tens of thousands of different IPs on the entire star network released the same topic.”
The blue screen showed the topic that had topped the star network’s headlines due to its high popularity—The merman’s song can heal the berserk mental sea of aliens.
The second was—When an alien undergoes atavism, can they still maintain their reason? Will you still reject aliens?
This was an organized and premeditated information war.
Si Jisheng narrowed his eyes slightly. “Has the Council of Elders made any moves recently?”
The secretary-general reported in a low voice, “The Elder stayed in the research institute for a long time that day before he left.”
Si Jisheng’s eyes gradually turned cold.
It was obvious that when Deng Xi had appeared in the conference room that day, he had been noticed by the Elder who had passed by. First, he had used that video in conjunction with the hundred-billion auction to manipulate public opinion, to tarnish the military’s and his reputation. After being countered by the military, he had then revealed the special nature of the merman’s song.
He had shifted the direction of the attack to Deng Xi.
The Elder’s goal was still the military and him.
The existence of the merman had made them feel threatened. If the aliens could be cured and the Marshal could return to normal, then the military, which had not been looked upon favorably by the public for so many years, would regain its former glory.
Si Jisheng lowered his eyes and glanced at Deng Xi, who was listening to the secretary-general’s words with a clueless expression. The youth clearly did not understand. When he saw the little mute looking at him, he blinked his eyes and also curved his eyelids, revealing a smile, completely unaware of the dangerous situation he was in.
Although Deng Xi had always been by his side, he had always avoided letting him come into contact with the military and political affairs of the Empire, precisely because he did not want Deng Xi to be dragged into the dispute between the three parties of the Empire because of him.
A deep coldness appeared in Si Jisheng’s eyes. “Send a message with the military’s official account and announce Dr. Li’s current research.”
The secretary-general replied with a “yes.” “I’ll go and contact her immediately.”
Deng Xi looked at the secretary-general’s departing back and said with some worry, “Little Mute, you go and get busy first. I can go and play with Bunny by myself.”
He didn’t want the busy little mute to be delayed in his work because he had to take care of him.
Si Jisheng shook his head slightly. “It’s best to stay by my side recently. You can’t run around.”
Deng Xi first nodded his head, then shook his head. “Why?”
Si Jisheng paused for a moment, but still chose not to explain it to Deng Xi. He said in a low voice, “It will be very dangerous these few days.”
Deng Xi blinked his eyes in a daze, then nodded his head vigorously and gripped the little mute’s hand. “Then I’ll obediently stay by Little Mute’s side.”
“I won’t go anywhere.”
Si Jisheng nodded. “You can go, but you have to tell me, and you can’t take off your comm.”
Because there was a tracker inside.
Deng Xi obediently agreed.
He also managed to stay by Si Jisheng’s side for almost the entire day, like the Marshal’s little tail.
They had lunch together in the lounge.
When Deng Xi was taking a nap, Si Jisheng would accompany him and quietly deal with official business. The afternoon meetings were also changed to online.
The entire floor of the military headquarters’ top floor was almost the Marshal’s office area, divided into several sections. Behind the office, there was even a separate lounge with a large bed and a cloakroom.
The first time Deng Xi had taken a nap here, he had been pricked by the hard bed board. It wasn’t until the little mute had changed to a soft mattress and a soft, fluffy quilt that he had settled down.
The little merman, who had just woken up, groggily opened his eyes, hugged the little whale pillow he had brought with him, and rubbed his cheek against it again and again. Finally, he rubbed his eyes and looked around.
The French windows of the lounge were covered by curtains, and the light that shone in through them was very dim, causing the entire lounge to be very dim.
Because Deng Xi was very familiar with this place, the dim surroundings did not make him feel uncomfortable. On the contrary, it increased his sense of security. Deng Xi looked around and found that the little mute was not here. Only his flying chair was left alone by the side of the bed.
Deng Xi sat up cross-legged and was in a daze for a while. Thinking of something, he slowly lifted the quilt and looked at his own legs, then grunted and climbed off the bed to look at the water tank of the flying chair.
The seawater equipped inside was very sufficient.
His exquisite little face still had a faint red blush from just waking up. His blue eyes flashed with a hint of hesitation and doubt. In the end, Deng Xi still bit his lip and made up his mind with courage.
He cautiously ran to the side of the door and opened a small crack, peeking out.
The man was sitting at the heavy and wide desk, calmly listening to the report of his subordinate in his comm, and would nod in approval from time to time.
Deng Xi quietly closed the door again.
He leaned against the side of the door and thought for a moment, cheered himself on in his heart, and then ran back to the side of the flying chair, struggling to drag the flying chair to the side of the large bed.
He started the mode of the flying chair that sprayed a water mist.
Deng Xi bit his lip and took off his pants. The small shorts and the small white triangle that he had been sleeping in were all randomly thrown to the side of the bed.
He sat on the bed and stepped his bare legs into the flying chair. The sprayed seawater mist gradually soaked his delicate white soft flesh. Soon, his blue fish tail appeared, and he stretched his fan-shaped tail fin in the wide flying chair.
The water mist was constantly being sprayed out, and his fish scales were also soaked. The merman, who was born to be inseparable from the seawater, comfortably swayed his tail. Deng Xi played with the water for a while, and even held the seawater and splashed it on his tail to cool himself down.
After a while, Deng Xi finally remembered the main business he had to do. He carefully held up his own tail, and the seawater on his fish scales dripped onto the bed with his posture.
The surrounding quilt was all wet.
Deng Xi wanted to check his own reproductive chamber.
A merman’s inheritance would not be wrong. As long as his reproductive chamber was not as described in his inherited memories, then he had not been induced into mating season.
He wouldn’t have to worry about whether he would be uncomfortable next, and how he would get through his mating season.
But such an examination was simply too shameful.
Deng Xi fell onto the bed and curled up his tail. The merman’s soft flexibility allowed him to bend into a perfect arc. The small sense of space that was formed on the bed inexplicably made him gradually relax.
It’s okay.
What’s there to be shy about? It’s just an examination, a normal examination!
A male merman’s external genitalia and reproductive chamber were hidden under the pelvic fin of his lower abdomen. Their two reproductive slits were covered by specialized, fan-shaped scales. This was also the hardest scale on Deng Xi’s entire tail.
Normally, he would not easily open the scales here. Mmm, and there was basically no need to use this place. This was the first time Deng Xi had opened his own reproductive chamber, besides his childhood curiosity.
So strange.
He watched as the phosphorescent membrane on his fish tail was torn open, bit by bit, revealing the soft part inside.
The tips of Deng Xi’s ears turned red, bit by bit. The messy golden hair that was spread on the large bed had a few strands that rested on his body. They also seemed to have provided him with a temperature that was hot enough to make his face red.
Deng Xi held his breath.
Just as the phosphorescent membrane was about to open, the door to the room was suddenly knocked on gently.
His breath instantly hitched.
The phosphorescent membrane, because of the shock, was completely out of Deng Xi’s control and quickly contracted back.
No.
Don’t come in.
You can’t!
“Little Mute, wait!” The merman’s clear voice, because of his anxiety, became soft and gentle, and even had a hint of a sob.
It was too late.
The door had already been pushed open.
The two of them were usually too close. The sense of privacy and space was so weak it was almost non-existent. Deng Xi would also secretly open the other’s shell to look when the silver-tail was sound asleep.
After Si Jisheng had knocked on the door, he had directly opened the door and walked in. His voice was deep. “Are you awake?”
A keen Jiaoren, how could he not have noticed that the door had been secretly opened by the little merman?
His silver eyes raised and looked at the large bed. Si Jisheng raised his hand and turned on the lights in the room. The light instantly illuminated the dim lounge, and the little merman on the bed was completely exposed.
The little merman was slumped in the soft quilt. Deng Xi was kneeling in a duck-like sitting position, and the quilt was covering his lower body.
Just now, he had turned back into human legs.
But now it seemed even more shy.
Deng Xi, who had been living in the human world for a period of time, already knew how important it was for humans to wear clothes. It was as important as the scales that covered his own reproductive chamber.
His heart was beating fast. He looked up at Si Jisheng’s face, which was almost completely red. Deng Xi felt that his whole body was steaming.
Si Jisheng frowned and walked in. “What’s wrong? Is it very hot?”
He had been worried about the little merman’s overly high body temperature all day. Now, Deng Xi’s abnormality made him suspect whether the blood test had been wrong, and whether Deng Xi was really sick.
He bent down, and his palm rested on the quilt. Just as he was about to raise his hand to feel Deng Xi’s forehead, he lowered his eyes and met a pair of blue eyes that were about to cry.
“Don’t lift my quilt.”
“Little Mute, don’t look.”
Deng Xi pressed down on the quilt that was covering his bare legs, and his pink fingertips were white from the force.
But Si Jisheng had immediately noticed the wet touch under his hand, and the small shorts and the small white triangle that were hanging on the side of the bed.
His silver eyes instantly narrowed dangerously.
