Chapter 71: Shark Man: Fan Wai III
Because of that nightmare, Zhan Jun's fear of Su Er simply rose to the extreme. He trembled, for fear that he would do something wrong, say the wrong thing, or be found by Su Er with a wrong look.
In all fairness, the merman also knew that Su Er was good to him. After trying to curry favor with him on the eve before, she had taken much better care of him than she had on the first day. Will take care of his body lì give him time to rest, and will also give him more food.
How amazing it is to be able to get fresh fruits and vegetables in the desert, and the merman is once again sure that his master is from an extraordinary background. Although the amount she gave was far from enough, the merman knew that Su'er was not treating him badly—because she herself almost never ate. How can those who can open the valley be mortals?
But if the aquarium can survive in the desert, these benefits are far from enough. Zhan Jun could feel that his life was being taken away by the dry wind and sand and the sudden change in temperature, even if Su Er didn't abandon him, he would still die.
As he had expected, things quickly went from bad to worse. He soon became too weak to walk on his own, and his skin was torn open with terrible wounds due to lack of water...... The beautiful human maiden is no longer allowed to serve in close quarters. Sometimes, of course, he brushed his skin, the uneven sandpaper-like touch, and the chapped flesh of the flesh...... He himself would have found it disgusting.
He can't see what he looks like now, but he definitely has lost his relationship with beauty.
- Too desperate, he waited every day for the day when he would be dropped by a human like in a dream. But Su Er never gave up on his intentions.
She took out the potion she had given him to drink, the kind of elixir that could heal the wounds on her body instantly. Such a precious thing was fed to his chapped lips every day as a consumable by the maiden and rubbed on his terrible skin. She gave him more fruit and used the old wine as water. He also carried him on his back and walked.
The human girl was slender and had thin shoulder blades, and the mermaid was lying on her back, feeling like she was pressing the otherwise light girl into the sand dunes. She was so kind to him, and the merman felt like he was in hell, but the human girl reached out and grabbed him firmly to prevent him from really falling into it.
That's good, if Su Er will always be with him, at least he won't die alone in a grave without sunlight, at least when he dies, this girl will stay by his side.
Zhan Jun didn't expect his luck to be good enough to meet an oasis in the desert! What a large and tranquil lake! Su Er carefully lowered him into the water, and the merman trembled with excitement, feeling like a wrinkled sponge, greedily trying to suck up all the water...... This is not the crystal vessel that imprisoned him, it is a living water. To prevent him from escaping, he hadn't swam in living water for hundreds of years?
At first, the merman was just happy, and he swam in the shallow water with excitement and happiness, and through the refraction of the ripples on the water, he secretly peeked at the girl on the shore. Su Er smiled very happily, and the merman's heart felt warm and happy: she was showing her face for me to be able to live.
But then, he sensed something was wrong. He felt that the darkness of the deep water could not give him the peaceful feeling of returning to his home in the sea, and he felt scared to see the dark shadow under the lake in the afterglow of staring at Su'er, without the light underwater, without the human girl who always pulled him, it was like returning to the time when he was imprisoned in the tomb.
It turned out that returning to the water did not make him feel at ease. Only by the side of that human maiden did he not feel lonely and afraid. A terrible thought suddenly rose in Zhan Jun's mind: for so many years, he had taken escaping back to the sea as a belief that supported him to persist in living in the harsh and cruel fate. But if he is really allowed to go home, will he still be able to adapt to his home?
No matter how much he resists, he has been transformed into what humans want him to be - a petty pet in a fish tank.
Suddenly aware of this fact, he did not want to be appointed like this. The mermaid resisted his fear and dived under the lake. "I'm still me, and I'm not giving in!" In order to prove himself, when he found out that there was a wide dark river at the bottom of the lake that could swim through, his heart pounded, and he didn't want to urge himself to swim in.
Go home! Don't die as a slave! Never give in! These thoughts had been entrenched in his mind for hundreds of years, and when he saw this rare opportunity, he immediately rushed out and occupied his mind, squeezing all other thoughts aside. Until his spilled blood attracted the monsters at the bottom of the river.
In the past, he had seen all kinds of sea beasts in the depths of the sea, this one was not too big, and it was nothing in terms of ferocity, if it was before, he would not hesitate to step forward, but now he is so weak that he can't beat its edge at all.
Between life and death, the instinct to survive at the bottom of the sea a hundred years ago made him drag his scarred body and turn around with great difficulty. During the time when he tried his best to migrate, the merman didn't have time to think about anything, he didn't have time to fear anything, and in that short period of time, although he was fleeing from the wolf, he seemed like he had never been captured by humans.
But when the merman broke out of the water and saw the girl sitting quietly on the shore, his past self quickly dissipated, and Zhan Jun remembered his current situation. He was still the possession of the maiden, and he had sworn loyalty...... He saw her eyes, and the pleasure he had peeping under the water not long ago had vanished, and it seemed that she had discovered her defection.
Whatever other humans had done to him, to this girl, he was just a vile oath-breaker. What did he do? He consumed her precious kindness and even led danger to her! At the moment when he suddenly woke up, the merman only felt embarrassed, he wanted to lure the monster back to the dark river, but it had been blocked to the shore. Desperately at the risk of being overtaken, Zhan Jun eagerly turned around and took the monster behind him as far away as possible from Su Er on the shore.
The merman didn't expect that the girl still made a move for him, and he heard the sharp sound of the arrow feathers breaking through the air. The water monster had already opened its mouth, and the merman could even smell the stench in its mouth, but it was blinded by Su Er's shooting in the blink of an eye, and turned around in anger and rushed back.
What happened after that was not actually a battle, it was simply a torture. Even if he was a fool, he could see that Su Er was angry, and the monster bore the brunt and suffered the girl's wrath. Zhan Jun was worried at first that he would bring trouble to his benefactor, but then he thought about ...... After killing the monster, will she lose her anger? Will you feel inadequate, will you teach him a hard lesson?
It's very despicable to think like this. It was he who broke his oath and deserved retribution...... No matter how Su Er treated him, it was also his own doing. The merman knew this truth in his heart, but his backbone seemed to have been worn out by endless time, and his body was spontaneously afraid of pain, so when Su Er, who had killed the monster, walked towards him, he would still retreat uncontrollably.
The human maiden was indeed not deflated, and she seemed even more angry because of his evasion. She confronts the merman and asks him if he plans to escape. This time, Zhan Jun didn't lie, he didn't bend flattery, and in all kinds of complicated feelings such as panic, regret, and guilt, he chose the girl who was even more angry and angry.
“…… You...... Won't let me go...... You didn't think about it at all...... Send me home......"
Many years later, Zhan Jun still blushes secretly as long as he thinks of the weak self at that time. At that time, he could not even make a frank apology.
[I'm sorry, you can torture me like I dreamed, please don't be angry......]
Thinking of such words in my heart, but what came out of my mouth was still awkward sentences begging for favor and mercy.
But once again, Su'er responded in an unexpected way - she actually flinched in the face of his weak questioning provocation.
The gathering anger quickly subsided, and she even seemed a little weak-hearted, and did not pursue his escape at all, and gave him food and shelter as usual.
The merman didn't know what had happened to the human maiden during his brief escape, but he was keenly aware of her change.
Even if she had been in front of him before, the mermaid could feel that her height was out of reach...... But when he returned to her, she was like a mortal after stepping off the altar, looking like an ordinary girl with a restless heart. It's the kind of girl who has lived a prosperous and smooth life since she was a child, is simple and kind-hearted, and is so transparent that she can see through it at a glance.
Originally, the merman lived for hundreds of years and had been a slave in the hands of humans for so many years, although he rarely had the opportunity to come into contact with this kind of gentle and beautiful human being, but with his experience, he could definitely have the upper hand and control the scene when getting along with such a girl.
It's a pity that this is not the case, this human girl probably deliberately became like this to submit to him. After he escaped, she asked him to stay in the lake for the night, and in the middle of the night she cried in the tent. The merman, who has lived for so many years, can easily distinguish her uneasiness, fear and grievances from the girl's cry......
Who made her so sad, was it because of him? Zhan Jun swam restlessly in the lake, hesitating, like sailors in the sea who were bewitched by the songs of other people, restless and in a dilemma. The girl sensed his approach, suppressed her whimper without question, and said plainly: I don't need your proximity, I am tired of you.
She did take revenge on the merman's broken promise, and she took back the affection she had given the merman.
Those beautiful eyes no longer fell on him with an inevitable gaze, and those gentle hands no longer meant to be provocative. Teasingly brushed his skin. There is no ambiguous and intimate communication between them. Zhan Jun clearly knew that she was not snubbing him, this human girl named Su Er seemed to treat him as a stranger who was completely different from the merman slave before.
Awkward and distant, no matter how hard he tried to curry favor, she drew a distance between them and would never cross a step. Only a proud and pure young man would be so resolute. Rather than alienate a mortal from him, the merman would rather face the god who is careless and high. Fate played a joke on Zhan Jun again: when he finally gave up the extravagant hope of returning to the sea and was ready to stay by the human girl's side in peace, he realized that the girl didn't want to take him in, and the girl really wanted to throw him back into the sea to fend for himself.
The author has something to say: this chapter delves into the depths of a snake spirit and analyzes how he fell into the abyss of Stockholm syndrome step by step......
See you on Friday! I find it particularly easy to fall without notice and without saving, so see you on Friday and see you on Friday qaq!!
Thank you, girls, mines
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