The closer the journey with the human girl came to an end, the more apprehensive the merman became. The two hundred years he had been captured by humans had made him accustomed to chasing things that were hard to come by. For example, the freedom of the past, such as the ...... of the present I've been staying by the girl's side.

The merman's previous expectations were not wrong. When his last unwise escape failed, he had no strength to stop his downfall. The attachment to the human maiden completely overwhelms him, and his eyes habitually follow the human maiden, and only by her side does he feel comfortable and satisfied; As soon as there was no trace of her in sight, I immediately began to fear and suppress, and I was quickly drowned out by the memories of the past. If the girl wants, he can crawl at her feet all the time, kiss her toes, and be the most docile pet. In order to stay in her room at night, the merman always resorted to all kinds of tricks. Even though the human said many times that he "doesn't need your tears", he couldn't help but cry bitterly every time he was dropped.

The proud, bloodless merman seemed to have completely disappeared. For although the maiden did not like the pearls of his tears, she would relent, and allow him to sleep in the tub of her room, when he cried. In fact, the merman would prefer to sleep next to the girl, holding her soft fingers, or a lock of fragrant hair, only in this way can he be completely at ease, knowing that he will not wake up and find that he has been discarded, only in this way, he can sleep peacefully with confidence.

If it weren't for the tail of a fish soaked in water. There were many times when the merman wanted to sneak up at the feet of the human girl after she fell asleep, but he was afraid that after waking her up, those bright eyes would reveal boredom with him......

So the merman always sleeps very little. He would sometimes listen intently to the even, gentle breathing of the human maiden, and imagine the day when he would return to the sea. His population chases fish migration, and lives like a nomadic human herder. The sea is boundless, and although two hundred years will not allow him to be separated from his relatives forever, it ...... It's probably that I won't have a chance to see you again in this life. He could not stay in the shallow sea, for he would probably be caught by humans again; He was also incapable of surviving in the deep sea, and two hundred years of captivity left him without the ability to hunt and defend himself...... The more the merman thinks about it, the more pessimistic he becomes, and sometimes he even feels that if the girl really doesn't want him, then he will definitely die.

In those days, a human girl named Su'er was all the pillars of the shark world. He was morbidly dependent on her and passionately in love with her. After thinking about the future briefly, he spent most of his time guessing: Does she like him? - At first, he must have liked it, but at that time the merman had not yet completely fallen, and his experience allowed him to easily distinguish the girl's interest and affection for his jokes, her careless lies that she did not hide much, and accept his fawning with casual and satisfactory satisfaction. But what about then? Later, did she forgive him for his escape and betrayal? No, she didn't forgive, because her attitude towards him changed completely.

The human girl probably saw him as an equal "person" rather than a fun plaything in his only rebellion, as he had so strongly hoped for, but it was a pity that she only liked him as a pet, right? No matter how much she apologized, no matter how much she swore that she would never run away, it was useless, and the girl could not disobey him all the way to the beach. When smelling the familiar fishy smell of the sea, the mermaid looked at the hometown in his memory at a loss...... It was a place that I had been missing for a thousand times in a dream for two hundred years, and it seemed strange at first glance, but at first glance it felt very familiar. It wasn't as terrible as he had imagined when he stared at the girl's sleeping face. After all, that's his home, where he grew up.

However, leaving Su'er...... It still makes him feel sad and afraid.

The girl rented a small boat and personally paddled him to the sea. The smell of the sea beckoned him home, and the merman's veins boiled in his body for the moisture of the sea. But Zhan Jun still wanted to make a final effort, and the girl said that she wanted to hear him sing, so he did his best to sing it to her, which was a courtship love song that all mermaids sing only once in their lives. When he was asked to sing, the girl spoke to him in a commanding, calm and unobtrusive tone, just like when she tried to hide him privately. Although she couldn't understand the meaning of the alien singing, if she thought his singing was lingering and pleasant, maybe she would change her mind!

- The merman thought so, but was still expecting her to take him away. Of course, nothing happened, Su Er still left, just like she had promised to send him back to his hometown, but before leaving, she promised that if she didn't go home, she would come to see him in a year. Zhan Jun followed the human girl's boat for a long time, Su Er ...... She's really a girl who doesn't hide her thoughts. Although she promised to come back to see him, Zhan Jun knew that she didn't want to come back, and she probably lied to him again.

He lingered for a long time in the sea where they had separated. Hiding under the sea during the day and surfacing at night. He looked in the direction of the shore countless times, hoping to see the boat, hoping that the girl would regret it, and that if she came back and saw that he was still here, perhaps she would relent...... As a result, of course, he did not wait for anything. The girl he liked had no interest in him. She didn't hesitate or look back when she left, she walked so fast, and now without his drag, she would probably have walked far away from the sea.

Even so, the merman was still reluctant to leave. But the place was still too close to the shore, and he surfaced every night, and gradually there were more fishing boats coming and going nearby, and he stopped even late at night. One day, Zhan Jun was attached to the boat, and heard the fishermen on the boat chatting, talking about someone who had seen a mermaid haunted in this sea area, and it turned out that many fishermen had come to capture him. Zhan Jun was very scared, he didn't dare to think about what would happen if he fell into the hands of the fisherman again, and finally had to sink to the bottom of the sea, no longer lingering, and swim to the deep sea.

What you were afraid of at the beginning is nothing once you face it. He slowly descended into the deep sea. Cautious enough, and experienced dangers, but all of them were lucky enough to save the day. Maybe everyone has a certain fortune in life, in the first few hundred years he fell to the bottom, and when the human maiden reached out to him, he finally came out of the low. As soon as Qiē was slowly improving, his body, emotion, and combat effectiveness were ...... A few months later, he discovered a tribe of mermen.

He was an adult male and had no outstanding strength, so he thought he would be expelled. But fortunately, the tribe treated him kindly, and accepted him to allow him to settle in the outskirts of the village. Although he was still guarded, although they were not his former relatives and friends, after all, they belonged to the same race as him, and they were his true companions. Zhan Jun was also extremely happy to meet them. Every day he has a lot to do, hunting, treasure hunting, weaving silk, and so on. After staying in the sea for a long time, Zhan Jun finally regained some sanity. He still remembered the despair that he struggled to completely indulge in but was still slowly overwhelmed, but after all, he was no longer the private property of human beings who had nothing but human girls in the world.

He gradually understood the reason why Su Er insisted on letting him go...... Although the girl didn't say it, he knew that in addition to disliking and not liking enough, Su Er had always been unimpressed by his attachment. She was looking at him with the eyes of a patient. It's not that he doesn't feel qualified enough to like her, or that he cares much about his alien status...... Not to that point, she just didn't think he was normal.

The mermaid admits that for a while, he was indeed abnormal, but getting out of that sick concentration did not mean that the girl would fade from his memory. He thinks about the promise of reunion every day, maybe she will never say yes, but he still wants to be a better person. Hunting, chasing the waves, and fighting the sea beasts and big fish can make him a little stronger, less cowardly and dragging down; Searching for shipwrecks over and over again, fragile ceramics, beautiful jewelry, dazzling gold, which one would she prefer? And also...... Is there a chance that the clothes he knitted with his own hands will be draped on himself by her? Zhan Jun is busy every day, everything he does, he is working hard for the reunion that he doesn't know if it will come, and he doesn't even bother to integrate into the tribe of the same clan.

He was such a maverick that he had no friendship with him. But the children were full of curiosity about him, and often swam around him secretly, and occasionally boldly came to talk to him. By the time he moved to the fringes of the tribe, he had confessed his experience to the patriarch and the priests, stating that he had escaped from the hands of humans. The adults could probably guess what had happened to him, and would avoid him out of kindness, but the children didn't understand it, and asked him bluntly, "Have you really been caught by humans?" ”

Zhan Jun looked at the innocent eyes of these children, and suddenly felt that he was really very old—even though at his age, he was still young among the mermen. Contrary to what his people thought, he actually wanted to tell people about his experience of being captured, and he didn't shy away from it because ...... After saying all those bad things, he can talk about Su Er, maybe they won't believe it, but the human girl who saved him is so powerful, so beautiful, and so kind. Mankind...... Such incredible creatures, some more cruel than demons, others like benevolent gods.

But he knew that he couldn't tell curious children how gentle and kind human maidens were, and that they couldn't make them want to explore and contact humans. If they expect much from humanity because of his story, it's almost like they're going to lose a gamble. So he could only resist his urge to smile and answer their questions with a blank face, "Yes, I was arrested and imprisoned for many years." ”

"Are they really bad? The high priest said they were more cruel and cunning than sharks," the child's thin fingers brushed the scar on Zhan Jun's arm, and asked timidly, "Is this what they did?" Do you hurt? ”

"It hurt at the time, but now it's better." Zhan Jun fiddled with the half-knitted shark silk in his arms, and said simply: "They are indeed more terrible than sharks, and more ferocious than groups of killer whales." ”

His indifferent appearance made the children inexplicably afraid, but it was not enough to quench their curiosity, "But I have heard some stories that there are also good people in the human race who will take in the injured mermen, heal them and let them go home!" Is it true? Uncle, have you ever met a kind human? ”

Zhan Jun lowered his eyes and shook his head firmly, "That's not true, have you ever seen a non-bloodthirsty killer whale?" ”

The children sighed in disappointment, "Ah...... It turned out to be a fake! Then he dispersed, whispering and discussing a few words a little further away from him.

Zhan Jun finally raised his head and looked in the direction of the sea, the deep sea where he was was dark and there was no light and no sun and moon, and naturally he couldn't see the human girl he wanted to see. Like those children just now, the merman sighed in disappointment and straightened the crystal silk cloth in his hand. He felt that what he had just said was probably not a lie. The girl named Su Er is not a human being in his heart, that is his faith. When he was on land, he once heard such a saying, "If you don't want the Buddha to believe, if you want the Buddha, you will be confused." In the past, she had to ask for her weak self, which was a "fan". Now, he wants to learn to "believe."

――In the vast expanse of his hometown, the merman felt that his feelings had been purified and sublimated. So, the human girl was right to let him go back to the sea. 108 ways to pick up loyal dogs

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Chapter 91: Shark Man, Fan Wai IV