4. Chapter 4: Kasha
I fell and fell in a dark world......
Endless darkness envelops a qiē, and images without color converge into a complete picture.
"You killed my child, you killed him!"
The muzzle of the gun was pointed at my heart, the grieving man was roaring, and the red eyes reflected the figure of my wolf bèi, while his kind and beautiful lady was crying to stop him.
Even though he had a gun in his hand and would have shot me at any moment, I didn't move.
I looked at the child on the operating table, and his expression was calm, as if he was not the one who had been shot through the heart.
However, he was gone, and he closed his pale green eyes forever and said goodbye to this miserable world. Just now, the doctor took off his blood-stained plastic gloves and shook his head at me: "Unfortunately, although his heart is in a different position than ordinary people, the fragments of the bullet still pierced the heart, and we have done our best, please mourn." ”
I don't remember how I took the terrible news, and by the time my brain restarted from its blank state, I had already taken a heavy blow to me. The fist that smashed over me was like a machine gun that didn't stop, and my bones made a muffled sound as if they were about to break, and a fishy-sweet liquid gushed out of the corners of my mouth.
The smell of disinfectant mixed with blood stimulated me to wake up, and by this time, the crazy man had stopped and pointed a gun at me.
The sheriff rushed in and tried to persuade him to drop his firearm: "Mr. Witt, please put down your □□." It was just an accident, Sals' original intention was to save the child who was forcibly taken by your people, and you know that if Sals didn't save him, he would face execution. It's just unfortunate that your people took your child to block the bullet and caused this wrong injury. ”
"If you can't keep your child safe, then you shouldn't shoot!" The man looked even angrier, his red eyes almost rushing over and pulling the trigger at me.
I didn't speak.
A few hours ago, the Nord police officers forcibly took away the child who was secretly dealing with us, because the Nord law clearly stipulates that the Nord are not allowed to interact with the Gosai, and if the majesty of the law is violated, the waiting sentence will be more than ten years in prison.
I can't let my children be taken away by the Nord police officers, because their rough behavior looks like they're catching a criminal who is about to be executed. I felt in a panic that they were going to take the child to a secret place and be executed for betrayal of the Nords.
We had a fight with the Nords, and the end result was that they put □□ on the child's temple and threatened us to drop our guns. I admit that I was impulsive at that time and I took the sniper. The rifle ambushed the tall building, aimed at the officer's head, and pulled the trigger.
But the unthinkable happened, the officer picked up the child and moved the child's chest to the direction of his head the moment I opened fire......
Back then, as it is now.
"Bang!"
A qiē is over.
I opened my eyes suddenly, my pupils focused into an image, I saw the blue sky and the seabirds, but my subconscious was still in the nightmare, my brain wasn't working yet.
I sat up and looked at my feet with my head in my hands, a golden sand, soft and fine sand that seemed to have magical powers, forming a calm and immature face.
"Ed......" I called out the child's name, instinctively touching my left shoulder, where there was a deep bullet mark. Yes, Ed's father, Mr. Witt, ended up shooting me anyway, and the bullet went through my left shoulder.
I didn't hold Mr. Witt responsible, he was a sad father, and Ed had suffered hundreds of times more than I did, and I deserved this bullet.
Anyway, since then, I haven't picked up a gun again, and I try to avoid contact with children with light green eyes as much as possible.
But I didn't expect that today, I saw a child with light green eyes again, and it was still a mermaid who was not very old...... I caressed the cracks in the pendant, Mother, are you guiding me in the dark?
"Shhhh
The sudden shouting brought me back to my senses.
I looked over and saw a deep mermaid hunched over the sand, its webbed claws embedded deep in the sand, opening its mouth at March, baring its sharp teeth and eyes full of hunter's sharpness. The two of them appeared to be fighting, but the bloodied mermaid was clearly no match for March, who was quickly knocked down by March and struggled with a rough flick of the fish's tail on the beach.
"What are you doing?" I asked while checking the wounds on my body, basically all of them were coagulated, it seemed that I had been in a coma for a long time, and my body was a little hot, it should be the wound that caused inflammation, I shook a few times before I staggered to my feet.
I took a general look around, and this wasn't the Cezhaya Island we were familiar with.
The sun was shining like a golden carpet on the beach, and judging from the sun's position above sea level, the time should be around 4 p.m.
Ahead, the ocean stretches as far as the eye can see, with white waves crashing against the reef and splashing and flocks of seabirds soaring and screaming in the sky.
Behind the soft sand are forests covered with all kinds of exotic vegetation, and from time to time the roar of wild beasts resounds, shaking the trees violently.
It's a completely alien island.
"Hey, Sals, you're awake." March pressed the mermaid's head hard into the sand and clapped his hands and walked over, "Looks like you're in good shape." ”
"What happened?" I looked at the mermaid who spat out a mouthful of yellow sand and struggled to crawl over, it was the deep-sea mermaid I had captured, why was he here, mermaid lord?
"It's amazing to say, this guy saved you from the mermaid lord, he took you to this island, and I also captured the deep sea mermaid who has been pestering me all the time, and came here, but that mermaid walked on the island."
"What about the boy who saved me?"
"It's a shame that he was taken away by the Mermaid Lord, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do, oh," March said as he pointed to the merfolk crawling over, "This guy is here, if there's anything unclear about him, he seems to be close to you." I went to find some branches to make a fire, and I don't know how, but this guy attacked me as soon as he saw me approaching you. ”
After I listened, there was a momentary short circuit in my head. Oh yes, I remember, when the Mermaid Lord caught up with me, it was this mermaid who led me away from the Mermaid Lord's attack. If I hadn't seen his agility with my own eyes, I'm afraid I wouldn't have believed that such a young mermaid could take me from the clutches of the mermaid lord.
Look at him, even if the fishtail can support him to stand up, his height is only up to my chest at best, and his muscles are obviously not developed, and his thin upper body is like a skin wrapped around his bones, as if he can crush his bones with a slight grip.
I thought this guy was helping me to keep my blood to myself, but now it doesn't seem to be the case.
While I was observing him, he was dragging his injured fishtail towards me. His crawling posture looked awkward, his body was covered with wounds, and blood was still gushing out, and the blue blood dragged out horrific blood marks on the beach, which looked terrifying.
Even though he was a kid with light green eyes, I didn't dare let my guard down, let alone have compassion for him—this wild creature was quite powerful even when it was dying. I slung my serrated dagger behind my back, tensing my nerves.
He crawled up in front of me, and seemed to be in a happy mood, and the corners of his mouth were raised. He stretched out his webbed paws stained with blue blood to me, as if to touch me.
His fingers are longer than those of humans, with distinct bones and a sense of strength, and a translucent webbing between them, like a terrifying giant net, ready to hold the prey in his hands. Equally terrifying are the long, sharp nails, which act like sharp knives that emit a piercing glow in the sun. I can almost imagine the deep wounds that can be left when the nails hit the skin.
I clenched my dagger and took a wary step back.
"Moda?" He uttered two syllables full of doubt, as if he didn't understand why I was wary of him.
I was even more puzzled, I didn't understand at all why he suddenly made a friendly gesture to me. I asked him tentatively, "Did you save me?" Seeing him nod, I asked again, "Why?" ”
"Kasha......" He pointed at me and then at him with a pleasant expression, and drew a circle between us with his arm, and the fishtail swayed slightly and tried to move closer to me, and I took a small step back, keeping the same distance from him.
I still can't understand the meaning of the word, so I shook my head regretfully, indicating that I didn't understand, and asked, "How did you save me?" ”
His face suddenly turned hideous, and his gaze shot fiercely at March at my side, baring his sharp teeth like a wolf about to snatch food, exuding a fierce momentum.
"Hey, look what I'm doing, I don't know anything." Probably sensing the murderous aura of the mermaid, March innocently waved his hand back and cast a pleading look at me, "Sals, I...... Sky! ”
A blue shadow flickered before my eyes, and the merfolk bounced up and pounced on March.
I reflexively grabbed him by the tail and pulled it so hard that he let out a groan of pain and fell the sand, as blood burst out of his tail and splashed onto me.
Only then did I realize that his fishtail had been brutally torn apart, and the deep cracks in the bones and the red musculature proved that he had experienced a terrible fight. Fortunately, the mermaid's body has a well-developed self-healing system, and a transparent film quickly forms outside the broken gap, which stops the large amount of blood from flowing out, and then slowly repairs the wound.
I squatted down in front of him, his expression was extremely painful, his brow was furrowed into pimples, and his ear fins were hanging down without energy, and it seemed that he was really badly injured.
His wounds needed to be treated, or a bacterial infection would kill him.
My heart suddenly felt like it was soaked in icy water, and a voice in my head was urging me, Sals, you need to let your guard down, he is just a child, he once saved your life. Look at him, how much like the little mermaid you left behind...... Trust him, he won't hurt you.
The thought of the little mermaid I had once made me even more uncomfortable. I sighed and asked him, "You're not going to hurt me?" ”
"Wata." He struggled to spit out the words.
I tried to make my voice as threatening as possible without being too blunt: "You are very injured and need to be bandaged to stop the bleeding, I will help you, but you have to make sure you don't hurt me, or I will kill you." ”
"Ka...... Release? A low, peculiar syllable came out of his mouth, which I still did not understand, and seeing that there was no hostility on his face that seemed innocent at the moment, I assumed that his reply was in agreement with my actions.
I tore my shirt into strips of cloth, and after simply cleaning his wounds, I tied strips of cloth to his wounds and bandaged them.
His skin was so smooth that every time I touched it, it felt like I was touching a piece of silk covered with slime, which made it very difficult for me to move.
By the time I had bandaged most of the tails, I was already sweating profusely, and the salt from the sea breeze was so slimy that even my bangs were so wet that they almost blocked my eyes.
I stopped for a moment, wiped the beads of sweat from my hair with my hands, shook them off gently, and when I looked up, I saw that he was looking at me with a strange expression, and even a trace of unusual blush on his face.
"Any questions?"
He didn't answer me, don't look away from me, the fishtail swayed awkwardly on the sand, how did I feel, he was shy?
Soon, I found out the cause of his abnormality.
A hideous wound...... Oh, and it's coincidentally near a shy spot.