The girl in black led me into her room on the top floor. This is the most oddly furnished room I've ever seen.

With only a bed and a table in the room, such simple furnishings that could have dressed the whole room in a sophisticated minimalist style turned out to be cluttered in her hands.

The table was littered with yellowed old books, crooked, the floor was covered with paper balls full of words, and the walls were covered with all sorts of photographs and strange rune papers.

She locked the door, then plucked a small flower with red calyx and yellow petals from a potted plant on the windowsill, crushed it and scattered it around the room.

After a while, a strange fragrance permeated the small room.

"Girl, what is this for?"

"This is a strange plant from my hometown called Chia Guo, and the floral scent of this plant can mask our scent." The girl explained.

"Are you afraid that the fishmen you call will track us down?"

"Yes, they are good at tracking, and they found their tracks tonight because of my negligence, if I hadn't made a move, I would have lost my life, for the sake of safety, I can only do this now."

I looked around at the walls, and the words on the drawings I couldn't read, a bunch of strange languages that looked like English but weren't English, but I had a feeling that I couldn't speak, as if I had seen them somewhere, and it seemed to be hidden deep in my memory.

The girl saw that I had been staring at the writing on the wall, and explained to me. "This is the language of our people, a language that has not been circulated in the human world—the language of the reo manu."

"Girl, you may not believe it, but I always feel that I have never seen this kind of writing somewhere." I was digging into the memories painfully.

"No, our race lives in an isolated place, and we have had little contact with the human world for thousands of years." The girl shook her head and smiled bitterly.

A place completely isolated from the rest of the world, I am not completely convinced, this era has long left human footprints in every corner of the world, every sea, every island, and even space. But she told me that there is a place in the world that humans don't know at all.

But I had to choose to believe her, because just now she gave birth to a pair of wings out of thin air, which was really happening in front of my eyes, and I still feel uneasy when I think about it now.

"If you want to hear it, I'd like to tell you the story of my race." The girl thought for a moment and said slowly. "Today, in order to save me, you yourself have been dragged into a crisis that has nothing to do with you, and it is necessary for me to tell you all the truth."

"Crisis...... Girl, I think you're serious, but I'm listening. "From the moment I saw her that night, strange things followed, and I really needed to sort everything out.

"My race has lived on an island in the East China Sea for thousands of years, and we are self-sufficient and basically do not communicate with the outside world." The girl said to me in a serious manner. "Occasionally, we come to the human world, but it's all in a latent state, and most of the time it's for the purpose of obtaining information."

"Why do you close yourself off like that?"

She shook her head helplessly, looking like she was also quite criticized. "It's a convention, and our people have always had a lot of negative opinions about humans, especially since I was born, and the clan has made a strange decree not to have too much association with men. My mother instilled in me from an early age that it was dangerous to have too much contact with human men. ”

It's ridiculous.

"In fact, through this period of life in the human world, I have long been suspicious of the rumors about human beings on our island, and today, after you saved me bravely, I have completely denied the authenticity of those decrees." The girl looked into my eyes, and I was moved by the sincerity of her eyes. "There are a lot of good people in humanity too."

"That's why you've always seemed so cold, unwilling to communicate with people just because you have a law."

She nodded helplessly.

"Girl, I know you may not believe me when I say this, but I always have a feeling in the dark......"

"What?"

"I think I may know your race, the way you spread your wings just now is incredible, but I always feel like I've seen such wings before, and the white feathers in the sky seem to have appeared in my dreams."

The girl burst out laughing. "Don't talk nonsense, I don't know it myself, how can you understand."

"Actually, you really don't have to care about the affairs of our clan. It doesn't belong to your world, and being involved in it only adds to your troubles. ”

I nodded, she was right, I didn't seem to be able to change anything.

Until today, I don't know that there are so many things in this world that I don't know, and sometimes ignorance is a kind of protection for myself.

"But then it could be your life." The girl said worriedly. "I came to Qingdao because my mother gave me a directive. Our patrol officers have received information that the Fish-Man Force will attack our island this year. ”

"Fish-man troops? Do you mean those little drinking boys? "I thought to myself that those little white-faced drinking boys could also be considered troops.

When she talked about the fish-man, I realized that the pictures on the walls around me did look like those of the white wine boys. It turns out that the purpose of her singing in the bar is to investigate deeply.

"Don't underestimate them, as far as I know, there are more than five thousand fish people in Qingdao alone, which is enough to form a mighty army. With the strength of our island, it is difficult to compete with it, so they sent me to Qingdao to spy on intelligence. ”

"Why should they have trouble with you?" I asked again.

"We have a feud with the fish-people, that's what the islanders say to me."

"Did you get anything out of it?" I asked her as I looked at the pictures on the wall.

"The biggest takeaway is that I can be sure that the French bar where I sing every day is the base camp of the Fishman. All of the fish-man's meetings were held in a secluded office in the building. The girl said firmly. I'm going to go back and gather my people for an opportunity to preemptively attack the fishmen's base camp. ”

"The bar?"

The thought of the secret hidden in the place where her singing voice once echoed made me feel inexplicably terrified.

"The bartender at that bar is the leader of the fishmen."

"Huh?" I was dumbfounded. "Do you mean that Ah Wan or Ah Wan?"

She took two photos from the wall and handed them to me, one of Ah Wan and Ah Wan at bartending.

"If you look closely, they look alike."

As soon as she said this, I noticed that Ah Wan and Ah Wan in this photo have different hairstyles, and their eyebrows and eyes are strikingly similar, which is simply carved out of a mold.

"Are they brother and sister?" I exclaimed.

The girl shook her head. "Ah Wan is Ah Wan, they are a person in themselves."

"How is that possible!"

"Ah Wan is a hermaphroditic horseshoe crab cultivation, he will transform once a day, male and female alternately, today is Ah Wan, tomorrow is Ah Wan, his Taoism is unfathomable, he is a dangerous person." The girl patiently explained to me, a terror flashing in her eyes.

"This! That friend of mine is still dating Awan tonight. "Thinking that Long Shao was still in the tiger's den, I broke out in a cold sweat.

"He's such a stinky man! I deliberately bumped into him that day to save him from falling into the trap, but I didn't expect him to be so cowardly and obsessed. The girl's face flushed with anger. Let him be blessed himself. ”

I sighed. "I hope Awan won't be embarrassed for an ordinary person."

"The fish-people already know my identity as a birdman, they will definitely hunt me again, I plan to go back to my hometown tomorrow, for the sake of safety, you and your friends had better leave the land of right and wrong in Qingdao as soon as possible." The girl said word by word, with a solemn expression. "I don't want you to save me...... And you are at your own risk. ”

I nodded gloomily.

Maybe it's really time to leave.

"You seem to have something on your mind." The girl seemed to notice that I was feeling a little down.

"I ......"

I can't tell you what kind of stasis is in my heart.

"Are you still bothered by what you said that night?" The girl said lightly. "That Taoist priest's puzzle."

"Maybe I'm destined for this." I said sadly. "I can't blame anyone else."

"I know more about this than you humans, I think that Taoist priest lied to you, there is no such disease in this world, and there is no prescription called collecting yin and replenishing yang." The girl smiled slightly. "Don't worry, it'll be fine."

I breathed a sigh of relief, but my heavy heart was still not settled.

Maybe what I'm worried about is not a matter of fate. All I don't want is her standing in front of me at the moment.

"You...... Really happy...... Although you saved me, I'm still sorry...... I can't accede to your request, you also see that we are not people of the same world, the closer you get to me, the more dangerous it is, and you can definitely meet better people in the future. The girl was a little shy at first, and then looked at me calmly, her eyes indifferent.

This made me completely relieved. Unrequited love can also have an end.

But there is still an unspeakable loneliness.

I pretended not to care and walked to the door. "It's okay. You're quite right. ”

Just as I was about to twist the latch, she suddenly stepped forward and grabbed me.

"You..... But after all...... If you save me, I still hope to know your name, and I will repay you in the future. "The girl gave me a sweet smile.

"I ...... My name is Liu Quan. Girl, I don't ask for anything in return, just be safe and sound. ”

"Izumi, I hope you will always be as pure as spring water." The girl looked at the cold moonlight outside the window, and her expression was serene. "You deserve to meet better people."

"My name is Feather Song, Feather Feather, Song of Song."