The Little Mermaid Fell for the Jiaoren 90

Chapter 90: Dating

Deng Xi couldn’t remember how long it had been. The water in the bathtub had turned cold. The man, who was exuding a cold aura, finally walked to his side, wearing a black bathrobe, his silver hair dripping with water.

Not long after the drug’s effects had worn off, Si Jisheng’s chaotic consciousness had become a little clearer. The Marshal’s powerful willpower had not allowed him to go all the way under the control of his Jiaoren instincts. He hadn’t even done much to Deng Xi.

The little merman, after he had been satisfied, had obediently gone to wash himself.

Deng Xi, who was curled up in the bathtub with his knees hugged, did not dare to make any move. His wet golden hair was draped over his body. Because it was too long, it covered his body, only revealing a little soft, tender whiteness under the gold.

But with a single movement, he would be completely exposed.

The cold aura was at hand. The merman’s keen sixth sense could even make Deng Xi feel the silver-tail’s almost substantial gaze, which was slowly sweeping over the little merman in the bathtub.

“Do you want to wash your hair?”

He noticed that Deng Xi had been fiddling with his golden hair.

The golden hair that was draped over his body was Deng Xi’s last fig leaf now. He shook his head, his ears red, so slightly it was almost invisible.

Si Jisheng bent down to pick Deng Xi up. As he moved closer, his deep voice was by the youth’s ear. “This is nothing. It’s very normal to show your body in front of your mate.”

His blue eyes blinked cluelessly. “Really? Are all humans like this?”

Si Jisheng replied with a low sound.

Deng Xi hesitantly raised his head, overcoming the shyness in his heart, and opened the arms that were hugging his legs. His golden hair was also draped behind him with the movement. He bit his lip. “Then, hug.”

He was carried under the shower head.

From a top-down angle, Si Jisheng could see everything. He indifferently lowered his eyes, covering the suppressed obscurity in them. He adjusted the water temperature, and the shower head sprayed a warm stream of water.

Deng Xi had his head raised, and his translucent golden gills would tremble from time to time. Even though he was so shy he wanted to run away, he still obediently stood face to face with the little mute.

So well-behaved that it made one reluctant to do anything more.

The desire that had just been vented was uncontrollably rising again.

His curly golden hair was lathered into a dense foam, and then rinsed off with the shower head. Deng Xi’s hair was very long, and it took a long time to wash it completely. After washing it twice and rinsing it clean, he was finally allowed to go out.

His slender body was wrapped in a dry, wide, black bathrobe.

Deng Xi walked out of the bathroom. Listening to the continuous sound of water behind him, he finally had a feeling of waking up from a dream. His legs were a little weak as he sank into the soft sofa, covering his flushed face for a long, long time without reacting.

The equipment in the treatment room was very complete. In the past three years, every time Si Jisheng had walked out of the treatment pod, he had had to wash off the residual tranquilizer on his body.

He quickly walked out of the bathroom, exuding a cold aura, and took out his clothes from the wardrobe.

This time, he did not say that Deng Xi could not look.

The little merman covered his own eyes and secretly watched as the man deftly changed into a new set of combat clothes, put on his boots, dried his hair, and put on a new pair of mechanical gloves.

The sweeping robot had already cleaned up the mess on the floor while they were taking a shower. The pieces of clothing and the water stains had all disappeared.

“Come here.” Si Jisheng beckoned with two fingers. Deng Xi, who thought he had been discovered, immediately closed the gaps between his fingers. “I didn’t look!”

What came was a noncommittal reply, “Mmm, you didn’t look.” But a hint of playfulness could be faintly heard in his tone. The lights in the treatment room were turned on. Deng Xi slowly came to the little mute’s side and hummed, “I just didn’t look.”

Besides black, white, and gold, there were no other colors in the wardrobe.

Si Jisheng let Deng Xi choose for himself. “Put it on first. There are no clothes prepared for you here. We’ll go to the lounge to change into a new set later.”

The room with the large bed.

Si Jisheng turned and started the dryer. The moment he turned his back, Deng Xi frantically took off his bathrobe, grabbed a white shirt, and clumsily put it on.

Before he could button it, he was seen again.

While the little mute was buttoning him up, Deng Xi wanted to find a hole to crawl into again.

The wide shirt made Deng Xi look like a child who had stolen an adult’s clothes. The hem covered his thighs, and the pants were even more so. Even with a belt, they would still hang loosely and fall down.

The clothes with no extra colors were so ugly, and they didn’t fit.

Deng Xi unhappily tugged at his sleeves, and with great difficulty, he finally revealed his own hands.

Because the pant legs were dragging on the floor, afraid that Deng Xi would fall if he walked by himself, Si Jisheng silently picked him up. After he had dried his hair, he took him to the lounge. And then, he was pushed out by the unbearable Deng Xi. “Little Mute, don’t watch me change my clothes.”

“Even if you can, you can’t.”

The little mute had clearly not been like this before. How was it that, not long after he had agreed, he had seen everything?

He hadn’t even let him look before.

Deng Xi put on his own cool summer clothes, put on his socks and shoes himself, and when he went out, he touched his stomach and said, “I’m hungry.”

Si Jisheng was dealing with the information on his comm. “We’ll go to the treatment center for a bit, then I’ll take you home.”

Deng Xi lowered his eyes. “Alright.”

When he went out, he was just about to, as before, take the little mute’s hand himself. Before he could touch him, his hand was held in return.

Deng Xi was stunned for a moment and dazedly looked at the little mute.

The little mute rarely took the initiative to hold his hand. Most of the time, it was because he was not walking steadily that he would support him. Including hugs, most of the time, it was he who had stubbornly clung to the little mute’s body, letting him hold him, or taking the initiative to drill into the little mute’s arms.

The little mute rarely refused, but he also rarely took the initiative to respond.

But now it was different.

Si Jisheng pulled once, but he didn’t move. He turned back to look at him. “Why aren’t you walking?”

Deng Xi frantically nodded his head and ran to catch up. He couldn’t help but curve his eyelids, and a dimple also appeared at the corner of his lips.

Being in a relationship didn’t seem to be that bad.

A touch of the hand, a hug, and Deng Xi would be very, very happy. Was the little mute also like this?

Deng Xi secretly glanced at the little mute’s expression.

He couldn’t tell.

But he could feel that the hand that was holding his was holding it very tightly. Even through a layer of cold finger sleeve, he could feel that care.

The treatment center was brightly lit. The tightly closed laboratory doors were opened, one by one. Dr. Li had been in the laboratory for these past few days and hadn’t even had much time to care for Bunny.

Now she was still busy.

After being reminded by a student under her, she tiredly stopped the reagent in her hand and instructed the experimenter who was her fellow researcher, “Compare the data of the several experiments later and make a report.”

She took off her research coat and walked out of the isolated, sterile research room. When she saw the person standing outside the transparent glass wall, she instantly and excitedly went up to him. “Marshal, have you finished the trial?”

Si Jisheng led Deng Xi and walked out, and replied with a faint sound, “The effect of the improved potion is significant. I can retain a clear consciousness during the onset of the illness, and I can also restrain my beastly instincts, but the process of resisting will be very difficult.”

Dr. Li quickly recorded it. “Could it be because your mental sea is too vast?”

Si Jisheng pondered for a moment and nodded slightly. “There is this possibility. We can find a few aliens in the treatment center to try the new gene-suppressing drug, on a voluntary basis.”

“The reward is that the military can provide them with a year’s supply of gene-suppressing drugs. Explain the risks to them clearly. I will send someone to keep an eye on them.”

Dr. Li immediately agreed. “Yes, Marshal.”

The three of them left the corridor and the tightly sealed treatment room. Si Jisheng paused for a moment before he said in a low voice, “Dr. Li.”

Dr. Li hesitated and replied, “Marshal, please feel free to give any instructions you have.”

Si Jisheng closed his silver eyes. “Almost all animals have a mating season once a year.”

Dr. Li said as if it were a matter of course, “Because animals have the instinct to reproduce in their genes.”

Si Jisheng squeezed Deng Xi’s hand and, noticing that the little merman was shyly hiding behind him, said nothing and continued to ask Dr. Li, “Then in an alien, will this instinct be continued?”

Dr. Li vaguely sensed that something was wrong and braced herself to say, “There is a certain possibility.”

Deng Xi had almost shrunk behind the little mute.

Si Jisheng said in a low voice, “I hope you can consider this situation and, for the aliens, develop a drug that can suppress this period.”

Dr. Li was silent for a long while. “Marshal, is it Deng Xi—”

Deng Xi’s breath hitched. He was looking everywhere for a crack that he, this little ostrich, could bury himself in. The tips of his ears were about to burn red.

The next second, Dr. Li’s words were interrupted. The Marshal’s voice was very cold. “No, it’s me.”

Deng Xi was stunned for a moment and slowly looked up at the little mute.

Dr. Li’s expression was filled with suspicion and uncertainty. “Don’t you have—” She paused for a moment and gestured at the few strands of golden hair that were exposed behind the Marshal.

Si Jisheng let out a low cough and gestured at Dr. Li with his eyes to shut her mouth.

Dr. Li paused for a moment, then belatedly realized. The corner of her eye twitched. For the sake of her job, she still chose to cooperate with the Marshal and save the little merman a little face. “I’ll go after I’ve finished improving the gene drug.”

After Si Jisheng had nodded, he gestured for Dr. Li to leave.

When there was no one around, Deng Xi finally popped out again, a little confused. “Why does Little Mute still want me to take medicine?” He was a little unhappy. “You clearly said you would help me yourself.”

Si Jisheng was silent for a moment, then said truthfully, “You will be injured.”

Deng Xi was even more confused. “Why would I be injured?”

In the little merman’s world, he had sincerely thought that getting through his mating season was just rubbing their tails against each other to stop the itch inside the phosphorescent membrane.

Only humans would touch their own genitals.

Deng Xi had no idea what Si Jisheng was worried about.

The phosphorescent membrane was too small, too fragile. Two fingers were enough to fill it up, and he would cry and be unable to speak, unable to bear any more.

Not to mention the existence of the barbs.

“If simple mating cannot get you through your mating season.” Si Jisheng bent down and whispered something in Deng Xi’s ear. His hoarse and magnetic voice passed through his eardrum, and his words were clear, but when they entered his ears, they were extremely blurry.

It took Deng Xi a while to react. His snowy cheeks instantly flushed pink, and his eyelids were filled with a hot mist. He imagined that scene and stood there, at a loss.

Liar.

The merman’s inheritance had never said that.

And how could it possibly go in? The little merman was about to cry. “Little Mute can’t do that.” Deng Xi hugged him. “I’ll take the medicine.”

“I’ll obediently take my medicine.”

Si Jisheng resignedly picked him up and, while walking out, said, “Don’t be afraid. I won’t do it if you don’t want to.”

Deng Xi did not dare to raise his head. After being quiet for a while, he suddenly asked, “Will Little Mute be uncomfortable?”

The silver Jiaoren seemed to be in his mating season too.