Episode 4: Light and Tears

The imaginary headshot did not appear, and Alan was now lying on the bed of shells with his legs wide open, gasping for air. Already...... It's morning.

Gaping ...... Leg?!

The straight and slender legs in front of him are like the body himself, delicate and delicious, and the white skin is like fine porcelain, smooth and delicate.

Alan remained in an open-legged position and had not yet reacted.

This is...... What's the situation? Turning legs just by dreaming?

Alan didn't stay stunned for long, and soon he began to think about what to do next.

He can't just go out like that, and the stupid fish, as stupid as he is, will never take one for two.

Tsk, it was too sudden, Alan sat on the bed and thought a little annoyed, completely unable to think of a solution that could be satisfactorily solved.

At that moment, there was a knock on his shading door.

"Alan, are you there?"

It's a blue card!

Alan didn't move, holding his breath, hiding his breath, carefully discerning the movement at the door.

"Where did this kid go?" Lanka looked at the Crystal Whalebone Gate with some grievances, and muttered, "It's a pity that Alan can't get up early and eat the snake sea pie." Then Lanka left the shell with the pastry in the door and left regretfully.

When he could no longer feel the information of living creatures, Alan breathed a sigh of relief.

But then, he froze again.

Quietly opening a gap, Alan brought in the so-called pastry of Blue Card, which looked ordinary as yesterday. Of course, the easily exposed act of taking the stupid fish and putting it down just because he was hungry was certainly not the reason for Allen's doing, and the reason why he was so impulsive was because a bold conjecture suddenly appeared in his mind just now.

Still with webbed palms, Alan is not very accustomed to picking up the pastry wrapped in bubbles and observing, feeling that it is impossible to dig out clues other than today's color is darker than last night's, Alan eats it directly.

It's a little sweet, like the previous jujube paste cake but mixed with mayonnaise, the strange taste seems to be different from yesterday's.

After eating all the pastries, Alan sat naked and quiet, but after only half a sound, he got up and walked around a little restlessly, could it be that he was thinking too much? Or do you need another night's sleep?

Alan came to bed again, staring at his legs that he had been thinking about for a long time without a hint of sleepiness.

Try your hand at crunches.

Thinking about it, Alan first began to try out the inexplicable conjured legs.

High leg raises, a word horse, well, good flexibility.

However, Alan, who had only done ten crunches and was soft on the bed, was a little trembling and tugging at the rice algae, **! That's too weak, isn't it?

I tried push-ups again, but the five non-standard movements made Alan not even have the strength to pull the rice algae.

Alan was lying on his back on the bed of shells, his chest rising and falling slightly, and the water flowed in and out of his cheeks behind his ears, and Alan felt that his brain was a little empty.

It's not that you can't think about it, it's that you don't want to think about it, and some things you don't care about, but you can't care about it.

Looking down at the black fishtail on his lower body, Allen's love did not fluctuate much, and when he opened the door, as usual, Allen slipped into the stone forest alone again, and began to do the exercise that he must do every day - lifting stones.

I'm going to the shore.

This is Alan's new goal, now he is more motivated, the amount of exercise has been doubled by him, although the night in the sea comes very early, but now he seems to have no sense of panic in the dark and boundless water, there is a feeling that when he sees the light, he is not afraid of the darkness around him.

It's just that...... Is the darkness in your own eyes the same as what others see?

Alan looked at the crystal bone basket in front of the door, stopped his steps, he didn't show much expression, as if he had expected it a long time ago, just paused a little and picked up the basket very naturally and entered the house.

Inside the basket was a handful of yellow-green crystals and a bone fragment with some twisted characters on it, which he could read, but Alan didn't look carefully at the pile of words behind it, but lay on his back on his back in a chair with his arm blocking his eyes, and he couldn't see anything in his vision, imagining that he had really fallen into darkness.

Tsk, it's all a bunch of stupid fish.

Alan assured that he wasn't crying.

The days to come are like an inspirational struggle TV series at eight o'clock, maybe the result is not as cool as in the TV series, but the process of stinky and stinky is completely similar.

Alan would also run to Lanka's house hungry after a stinky sweat, and although she always liked to interrupt others and only understood half of the meaning, the food she made was very delicious, and she was as warm as her gentle color.

Occasionally, Alan would take a break to attend the mermaids' boring but hilarious dance party. At present, the only role of the stupid system is to help him not recognize the wrong person, and sometimes when he encounters a fish with a high boyfriend value, the system will also give a detailed analysis, and Alan feels that the reason why he began to understand the stupid fish is the fault of the system.

As soon as winter passes, the seasonal warm current disappears, and the mermaids usher in spring, yes, you can interpret it in two ways. The little mermaids who don't want to mate are sent to the Land of Inheritance for a month. Alan also went there.

But it's the site of the mermaid's life in the past, and it's an amazing civilization.

The merfolk don't have books to keep track of history, but they do have word-of-mouth songs and large paintings on crystal bones. The fish have their own language, but it seems that they don't use it very often to write, and most of the merfolk also learn the continental language, but not many fish seem to take it seriously.

In Allen's opinion, most of the stupid fish's lives are about singing and dancing.

It's stupid and happy, but it's also ...... Enviable.

When he was in the Land of Inheritance, Alan didn't exercise regularly, and together with the little mermaids, he was forced by old Penny to learn the songs of the mermaids.

What a nosy old woman, Alan thought, but still sang the so-called mermaid's soul with a stern expression and the little mermaid's immature voice.

As the fish sang more and more smoothly, the whole ruins slowly lit up, until one day all the fish finished singing together, the top of the entire ruins erupted a milky white light, and then spread to the bottom, until the whole ruins emitted a divine light did not stop, the ruins wrapped in milky white light, like a huge pearl in the deep sea, are miraculously beautiful.

Clusters of light separated from the light on the ruins, flew in front of the fish, and transformed into different shapes.

Old Penny held a milky white bridal crown and said with a nostalgic face: This is the soul of your singing.

The little mermaids looked at the strangely shaped milky white objects in front of them ignorantly, and there was only novelty in their eyes.

Allen, however, looked at his true self made up of a group of light and fell into deep thought.

No matter how I adapted, I couldn't be a mermaid in my soul.

It wasn't a good conclusion, but it was one that relieved Alan. He felt it was time to leave, go ashore, and see the continent.

The mermaid's spring is shorter than the real one, and with only about a month to go, Eren is soon back at his titular home.

Feeling that there was nothing to clean up, after a moment of hesitation, Alan knocked on the door of Lanka's house.

"Alan, early yo~ didn't go to exercise today?" Lanka's smile was as warm as ever.

"Hmm" Alan nodded, "I'm here to leave, I'm glad you've taken care of me for so long." ”

This time, Lanka neither interrupted Allen's words, nor did he only listen halfway, but froze his smile, lowered his head, and said sullenly, "Let's sit down for a while." ”

Alan took a soft breath and followed Lanka into the house.

Blue Card was busy as usual, although the atmosphere was not very good.

Alan didn't stop it, and sat at the dining table waiting in unusual silence, holding his head and observing the blue-tailed neighbors who were busy coming and going.

"That's it! This time there is nothing added to the sea snake pie. Lanka cheered and brought the finished product up.

It is a brown pastry with a hint of red, a bit like the color of bacon.

Alan still had a big estrangement to the name, and as he had when he first came to the Blue Ka's house, he quickly wiped out all the pastries without chewing too much.

"Alan's appetite is still as good as ever." Lanka smiled and spoke, but tears flowed uncontrollably from his eyes, which quickly merged into the seawater, but a small pearl of the color of cherry blue fell from the corner of his eye. "I'm sorry, I just can't help it." Lanka twitched his shoulders and buried his head in the crook of his arm.

Alan frowned slightly, his mouth opened and closed, and he simply stretched out his arm to hug the sobbing Blue Card, and his chest, which was already slightly wider, easily hugged the petite blue-tailed neighbor.

"I'm saddened, Alan, for your departure." Lanka broke free from Alan's embrace, but kept her head down.

"You know." Allen's tone was calm, "Allen has long since left. He wanted Ranka to understand what he meant.

Lanka looked up, "I know, I know everything. The fish's expression was a little painful, "But I'm talking about you, the real you." ”

"I don't understand." Alan paused, then said, "You don't have to. If I were you, I might kill the person who took my friend's body, even if it was destroyed. ”

The blue-tailed neighbor, who had always been elegant and calm, panicked and shook his head vigorously, "No, people won't treat you like this." ”

"I should have found out from the beginning, there is no need to be nice to me." Alan said calmly, but he inexplicably hated himself in his heart, such a calm self.

"I don't know what other people think, I found out when you were looking for me that night." Lanka's love gradually stabilized.

Alan nodded.

This is the same as he guessed, because later Alan found out that legs are a very ordinary thing for mermaids, and every fish has the ability to change legs, but it is obviously impossible to expect a fish to like human-like legs, so Alan didn't see a fish moving with legs, not to mention that he didn't encounter a few fish at that time. Huang Luanshi was used for the little mermaids who did not master the switch between the tail and legs in the early days, and these common senses were later learned by Alan in the land of inheritance.

"Thank you...... stupid fish.

"Only pure souls can touch the mermaid's body." Looking at the calm young man in front of him but the corners of his mouth were tightly pursed, Lan Ka breathed a little urgently, "Allen, we don't resent you, don't go, okay?" ”

Alan shook his head, "My soul comes from the land, and I belong there. Alan clenched his webbed fists tightly

I'm sorry

"Goodbye."

Lanka covered her mouth, tears flowing into the sea one by one, "Take this with you." She pulled out a small blue package.

Gently, it didn't weigh much, but Alan felt a little unsteady in his grip.

"Thank you...... I'll come back to see the blue card if I can. Alan was a little annoyed by his slimy decision, but he was inexplicably relieved, and the weight of the nameless weight in his heart seemed to be lightened.

"Hmm!" Lanka nodded heavily, didn't stop Allen again, and tears flowed into the sea water one by one, "I'm just a little happy, go early and come back early." Stopping Allen's approach, Lanka waved goodbye.

Alan no longer hesitated, swung his black fishtail, and swam to the northeast of the town, where there was an undersea harbor that connected the mainland with the mermaid settlement, and Alan was now going to use the undersea vehicle there to get to land.

Goodbye, stupid fish.

Not far away, the mermaid ruins suddenly emitted a faint white light, and the ethereal singing came out of it, and the mermaids in the small city stopped their activities and looked into the distance, folding their hands on their chests, praying for the safety of the mermaid who was about to leave home.