13. Chapter 13: Separation

In order to figure out how the power grid works, I went to the bottom of the sea. Once again, his bubbles worked their magic โ€“ protecting me from the pressure of the deep sea and being able to speak to him fluently.

I was curious about this, and in the books I read, there was no mention of merfolk having the ability to generate bubbles.

If bubble stealth makes it easier for mermaids to hunt creatures that are stronger than them, when in fact, they don't exist - what is the effect of stress resistance? They are deep-sea creatures who can easily travel to every corner of the sea, and resistance to stress is completely superfluous to them.

Unless, the caster of this ability is a terrestrial creature, say, a human.

I know it's a foolish idea, after all, merfolk and humans are hostile, but a voice in my head says to me, Sals, you're right, in fact it's what you think.

Well, there are a lot of secrets in Shi's body, and I can't figure them out for the time being.

We came to the bottom of the sea, and happily, the bubbles allowed me to light with tinder, which gave us a very clear view of the generator of the grid.

I've never seen this instrument before, and if I had to use the best word to describe it, it looked like a small collector box, with several wires about twenty centimeters long extending from the left and right sides, and if the invisible current emitted by these wires was wirelessly extended, the current would form a power grid. About every 100 meters, there is a grid generator, which is built into a large grid around the island.

The instrument is completely sealed, there is no switch on it, I tried to touch it, the instrument itself is not electrified, which brings us convenience.

I pointed to the middle of the instrument and said, "Shi, can you scratch this thing with a fishtail?" "It is better for a fish to "accidentally" cut it than to cut it with a dagger, leaving a human mark and causing trouble.

With a flick of the fishtail of the sickle, he made an extremely deep gap in the instrument, and the wires in the body suddenly burst out with lightning-like light, and a few seconds later, the red light on the instrument showing the working status went out.

To make sure the instrument really stopped working, I reached out to the rear of the instrument, and I was not electrocuted, and I carefully swam a few meters behind the instrument, and nothing unusual happened, and it looked like we had successfully cut off the circuit.

I pulled Shi Shi back to the sea, and by this time the sunset had turned into a brilliant golden line and sprinkled on the sea, and the crescent moon hidden in the clouds gradually opened the curtain of clouds, blooming with a faint light.

The time of separation is coming.

I gave Shi a friendly hug and smiled, "Goodbye, my friend." Let's go, the people from the organization will be coming soon, we don't have much time. โ€

"Kashi." The reluctance in his eyes was like the sun that was about to disappear, so dazzling and sincere that I did not dare to look at it directly, especially the water that was brewing in his eyes, as if he was fighting against gravity, and he was strong and did not fall - not long ago, I told him that as a man, crying does not bring you glory, but shows your weakness, so you must hold back your tears, and he accepted my advice very humbly, and then stubbornly applied my words into practice.

I gently wiped away the tears that he couldn't hold back: "We'll see you again." โ€

Shi Mei's face was wrinkled like a bitter melon, and it was obvious that enduring tears was an extremely painful thing for him. His Adam's apple rolled up and down, and he just uttered a trembling "click" word, and swallowed back the syllables that followed.

He lowered his dull eyes, gave me a hug, and swam slowly against my body, and out of his throat rolled out the fine, rhythmic syllables of the song he had just played, just the same tune, and he sang with a sad breath, and my chest was like a vibrator, and with every sentence he sang, his heart fluttered in resonance.

As the song entered the โ–กโ–ก stage, he not only swam close to me, but also swung his body in accordance with the song, flipping up, spinning sideways, and even jumping out of the sea to perform a super difficult flip, rolling up one snow-white wave after another. The sea water seemed to incarnate into crystalline pearls, dotted on his beautiful body, and the moment he tossed out of the sea, I even had the illusion of beauty - his fishtail turned into a beautiful silver, and every scale was as dazzling as a star in the sky, and it was breathtakingly beautiful.

His movements no longer look like simply swinging his body, they look more like he is doing a beautiful dance. I looked at him stupidly, and if I had a little bit of a dancing cell, I would be excited to dance with him and say goodbye to him in this special way.

His dancing and singing ended in the sunset that had completely sunset, and the dark night had blackened the sea.

Shi's eyes filled with tears.

I wiped away his tears and gave him a sincere hug: "It's time, my friend, this time it's really goodbye." โ€

Gazing at me with relief, he suddenly held my face and pressed his own face up, the fins of his ears spread like a fan, and rubbed against my ears tightly.

I patted him like I was holding a big doll who loves to be spoiled: "Okay man, let's go, we'll see you again......" My body suddenly stiffened, and a soft thing stuck to my face, cold to the touch, like a piece of jelly frozen in the refrigerator, and it also had a unique fragrance.

A kiss.

A kiss that landed on my cheek.

Then, the person who kissed me said a few staccato words in very jerky words: "Sa...... Ers...... Iwaka. โ€

I blinked, and it took me a long time to get my voice back: "Shi, you ......" Oh, what am I going to say, why are you kissing me, or are you going to call my name?" Sals, what are you fooling about, when a child expresses his affection to an adult, doesn't he always express it in the form of a kiss? As for your name, it's just a few very simple words, and the mermaid's extraordinary learning ability is enough for him to learn this word in a few days.

Well, maybe I'm thinking too much, after all, this kind of intimacy is too much for me who has never experienced the loss of a loved one since I was a child...... Let me think about how to say it? Oh, that's amazing.

"Iwaka, Iwaka." Shi's fishtail wrapped around my legs, and he pointed to his cheek with pleasure, presumably hoping that I would respond to him in the same way.

I struggled for a long time, but finally fell into his expectant eyes, and gently, almost without any force, landed a friendly kiss on his face.

"Well, that's the end of the farewell ceremony. It's time for you to go. I reluctantly pushed the reluctantly wrapped around me, swam a few meters back, and waved goodbye to him, "Go ahead." โ€

Shi stared at me for a few seconds, and reluctantly turned over into the sea, the fishtail crossed a graceful arc on the sea, and my eyes widened instantly, and the fishtail seemed to turn silver...... But when I wanted to take a closer look, Shi's fishtail sank into the sea, and it actually hit a huge wave, I was caught off guard, and I was immediately swallowed by the wave, and I poured into a mouthful of seawater, and then my body was pushed by a strong force, pushing me away from Shi.

The violent waves hit me, I couldn't even stretch my limbs, the sea water was over my head, I was forced to swallow a few mouthfuls of seawater, barely shook my legs to float out to sea, and was pierced by another wave of sea water into my nose, my nerves hurt so badly that my head went blank, I felt like a small boat in a drowning boat, unable to control the direction, I could only drift with the waves.

Thankfully, the daunting wave soon stopped, and the moment I struggled to lap the water, my head out of the sea in pain, and the moment I breathed in the fresh air, I almost wanted to shout thank God Ai for the blessing that I was still alive.

If this wave is a joke, I think it's time for me to think about my child's education.

I looked around, there was a sea in front of and behind me, and I couldn't see the shore, and I thought it would be impossible to go back to where I was. Luckily, a glimmer of light came into view at the right time.

Ahead, a light flickered.

My brain immediately warned that where there was a light, there might be "LS" people, but now I needed to dock too much, or I would sink into the sea because of my body overdraft.

I slowly swam towards the place where there was light, while holding my body.

The faint light, which had been as dimmed as a small cluster of flames, slowly grew brighter and brighter, and by the time I was about a hundred meters away from it, it was as bright as the sun.

The light is projected from a great height, forming a round glossy surface on the surface of the sea and moving slowly. Looking up from the light, it was a lighthouse, and the huge painted "LS" sign on the tower proved that my conjecture was completely correct.

Well, in addition to the lighthouse, there are iron bridges and small bases, and if this is the first time I've seen these buildings, I'd be surprised, but in fact, it's the second time I've seen them.

I went back to the place where we met Chelson, only this time I was in the sea and reunited with the old place. Luckily, there was a reef right next to the area, and I was able to rest on the reef and get a closer look at the people in the organization and even hear their conversations clearly.

Two staff members stood on the iron bridge with their backs to me and talked, sounding like they were in a bad mood.

The chubby man in the middle of the house, his tone full of resentment was like having just eaten a bread stained with mold: "Oh shit, why did that thing break at this time, I just wanted to sleep, you know, in order to catch mermaids, I haven't closed my eyes since I was busy the night before." โ€

"Man, cheer up," the tall man patted him on the shoulder, his tone full of helplessness, "It's been twenty minutes since the technician went down to repair the generator, and it hasn't come up yet, it seems that the repair process is very troublesome, I'm afraid we'll have to stay up all night tonight." โ€

"Hell, if I catch that fish that destroys the generator, I'm going to chop it up into meat sauce and crush it to make fish balls. Oh my god, speaking of fish balls, I'm hungry......"

"Looks like you're having a very unpleasant night, what happened?"

The sudden male voice cut off their conversation, and I grabbed the reef and looked out, when did that guy appear?