"Why do you want to know so much about merfolk?" Shen Ling asked.

Celia didn't think about it, and immediately replied, "Because I'm going to marry a fish as a wife!" The immature voice said this sentence as a matter of course.

Shen Ling was shocked by Celia's domineering answer, and he didn't even notice that Celia was talking about "marrying a mermaid as a wife" instead of "finding a mermaid husband".

At that moment, Shen Ling really wanted to grab Celia's little shoulder and tell her: "I'm a mermaid, I'm really a mermaid!" But the excitement in his heart faded half as he thought of the deception of Nicholas and his adoptive father in his previous life. The other half also disappeared when their gaze rested on Celia's fair and beautiful little face.

He believed that the little Lori in front of him would not harm him, but he didn't really want to talk about himself.

What if it's a merfolk? He was just a poor boy living on this kind of planet that was almost a savage compared to the main planet, with no money and no power, and he was so ugly.

And the girl in front of her is a pink carved jade peck, a powerful little Lori who can operate various flying machines. She must have received a higher education since she was a child, and grew up in a wealthy family enjoying the favor of everyone.

Standing in front of her, he was like a ridiculous clown. Even if she is a mermaid, will she like herself?

He didn't even know her name.

She was still so young, and what she said was just a child's joke.

I would have such a dirty/dirty idea for such a young child, am I a pervert?

At that moment, a deep sense of inferiority and self-loathing made Shen Ling feel powerless.

"There are no merfolk in the Alien Beast Forest." He replied.

"But I've heard that there is!" In order to find the traces of the legendary mermaid, Celia has done a lot of work. She consulted thousands of books, used her New Year's money to post bounties on the cosmic network, and finally got a series of news about the mermaid, and then designed a journey to find her mermaid kiss. took a big risk and ran out alone without telling her family, so she didn't want to return in vain this time.

Seeing that Shen Ling didn't speak, Celia said again: "The alien beast forest is very large, and there must be my mermaid kiss in a place you don't know." ”

Celia did a lot of research on the letter D system, especially the D13 planet, before her trip. Therefore, she knew that almost more than 80% of the land on Planet D13 was within the scope of the Alien Beast Forest, and only more than 10% of the land belonged to human habitation.

Even if Shen Ling had been to the Alien Beast Forest, it would be absolutely impossible for him to go through the entire Alien Beast Forest. She wondered if her mermaid kisses were hidden in those places that Shen Ling hadn't been, so that she could save some of her search effort.

"The environment of the Alien Beast Forest is not suitable for merfolk to survive, and it is impossible for merfolk to be willing to stay here for a long time." Shen Ling was stunned for a moment, he didn't know why this sentence came out of his mouth so naturally.

Although he is a mermaid, he has always grown up as a human and should not know what kind of environment is suitable for mermaids to survive. It's just that some things seem to be born in the bloodline and can be recalled inadvertently.

"It seems like this......" Celia thought very seriously, she was very familiar with the habits of mermaids, of course she knew that the climate and environment of planet D13 were not suitable for mermaids. I've seen descriptions of merfolk in a book about the Forest of Alien Beasts, but that book was published three hundred years ago. She sighed a little disappointed, "So the Alien Beast Forest may not be free of mermaids at all now." ”

Was it 300 years ago?

The phoenix bird once told Shen Ling that three hundred years ago, a female mermaid came to the alien beast forest. Could it be that the book that Lori read is about this female mermaid who has been to the Alien Beast Forest?

Shen Ling didn't say anything, and after the two were silent for a moment, Celia opened the conversation again. "By the way, why are you in that car? Are you also a runaway from home? ”

"I ......" Shen Ling paused, not knowing how to answer.

"When are you going back? You're not going to leave me here alone, are you? Celia asked pitifully.

The bad guys outside didn't know when they would leave, and if Shen Ling left her here alone, it would definitely be very dark at night. The icon of the beast god looked fine during the day, but at night, there was such an icon standing in the darkness, and it was particularly terrifying to think about it.

"No, it won't!" Shen Ling hurriedly explained, "I don't have a home anymore, I ...... I'll be with you. ”

Celia reassured herself a little and asked curiously, "Are you a street child?" "Shen Ling's body is dirty and smelly, and he looks like a wild child who has no one to take care of.

"My adoptive father doesn't want me anymore." Shen Ling is not good at lying, and such an answer is definitely not a deception. Originally, Louis sold him as a commodity when he was twenty years old to General Landon of the planet Mars.

"It's so pathetic." After Shen Ling was labeled as an abandoned person on his forehead, Celia looked at him with a slightly different look. She patted Shen Ling's shoulder childishly, and said in a particularly righteous manner, "Xiao Hei, don't be sad, if you follow me in the future, I will cover you." ”

Celia's serious little expression made Shen Ling's heart inexplicably warm up.

"I sue you, don't look at me like this, I'm so powerful in the main star of Kamilia, no one dares to mess with me! You follow me in the future, and I promise that no one will dare to bully you! As she spoke, Celia flashed her little white fist. Even if I can't, I can still ask my grandfather to help you. I have two grandfathers, my eldest grandfather is very powerful, and the second grandfather is even more powerful! ...... "Celia really can't think of anyone to find to foil her two powerful grandfathers, as if the new Galactic Empire is the most powerful of the two of them." "Anyway, my two grandfathers are very good."

Shen Ling nervously asked the question he had always wanted to ask since he saw Little Lori: "Can you tell me your name?" ”

"Celia!" Celia was afraid that Shen Ling would not know, so she grabbed his hand and wrote her name in his black palm.

After Celia let go of Shen Ling's hand, Shen Ling stared at his palm for a long time and muttered the name of the little Lori.

"Celia..."

On that day, the three words "Celia" were not only written in Shen Ling's palm, but also written in his heart.

"Then can I stay with you in the future?" A wish was fulfilled, and Shen Ling couldn't help but ask a second greedy question with a little expectation.

"Absolutely!" Celia pondered seriously for a moment and said, "You can be my attendant, my brother has more than one. "Her brother has three attendants, but she doesn't even have one! However, her brother's legs and feet were not very convenient, and the three attendants were also specially ordered by his mother to stay with him.

Hearing that he could always be by Celia's side and no longer have to worry about going out to wander in the future, Shen Ling was moved to a sour nose, and tears flowed down his eyes.

"Why are you crying, little black?"

Shen Ling turned his face away, not wanting Celia to see his face that was stained with tears.

"Xiao Hei, don't cry." Celia left the bench, leaned in front of Shen Ling, and stretched out her little hand to wipe Shen Ling's tears. "Grandpa said boys can't cry."

"Yes, I'm sorry." Shen Ling said in a choked voice.

From the day he decided to leave the town of Linas River, Shen Ling was ready to go out to wander in the future. Even if his heart is already twenty years old in the New Galactic Empire's adult standard, his appearance is always that of a thirteen-year-old child.

Child labor is not allowed anywhere in the New Galactic Empire, even in the remote D-system.

Shen Ling had thought that he might become a beggar, or he might be sent to a welfare institution until he was twenty years old. But he believed that as long as he reached the age of twenty physically, he would be able to reach the main planet of Kamilia by his own efforts.

In the main planet of Kamilia, he can first find a job to support himself, and then slowly learn a craft, and when he earns money, he can go to other planets to find traces of his people.

As long as he can live and not be eaten by people with ulterior motives as some kind of cherished medicinal herb, he is willing to endure hardship, any kind of hardship!

Now the little Lori in front of her, who has only known her for a few hours, is willing to throw an olive branch to herself and take him to the main star of Kamilia.

He suddenly felt that this little girl was the savior God had given him. He glanced up at the statue of the beast god hidden in the shadows, the statue was simple and solemn, and it was faintly full of power.

"Don't you want to be my squire?" Celia said uneasily, "Then you will be my playmate, okay?" My house is huge, you can live with me. ”

"No, no, I'm willing to be your squire." Shen Ling wiped away his tears and calmed himself down. "As long as you don't dislike me."

"I won't dislike you!" Celia raised her voice happily, "You'll be my little black from now on." ”

Blackie?

Only then did Shen Ling notice that since just now, Celia had been calling him Xiao Hei.

Why do you call him Blackie?

Shen Ling was stunned and wanted to tell Sù Celia his name, but after seeing Celia talking to him about his family with great interest, he closed his mouth.

"My home is big, and there are so many good things to eat and play. After you and I go back, I will take you to meet my eldest grandfather, my second grandfather, my father, my mother, and my eldest brother, you can rest assured, they will all like you. Celia became more and more aggressive, "...... I can also take you to the central square of Camilla, where there are 108 mermaid statues in the artificial lake, which are the work of the most famous sculptor Mr. Lin Xuwen 300 years ago. ”

Shen Ling looked at Celia's excited smile and chattering little mouth, and followed her words to imagine the future scene of standing on the edge of the turquoise artificial lake with Celia to watch the mermaid sculpture.

At that moment, he was full of hope for the future.