The sudden situation was completely unexpected, especially after I had just relaxed and thought there was nothing left in the pool.

When I heard the sound, my first reaction was that there was really something in the pool, and I subconsciously thought that I and the wolf fang were about to be attacked. After all, I had been paying attention for so long, and the things in the pool didn't come out, but it didn't suddenly appear until I relaxed, and this situation seemed to me to be completely ready to sneak attack when I was relaxing!

However, until I was able to stand on my feet, I didn't feel any movement from the fangs to resist the attack, and as soon as I stood still, I looked back and saw something completely unexpected.

What emerged from the pool of blood was not a monster or something, but a person, a very beautiful woman.

The woman only popped her head and shoulders out of the pool of blood, and one arm reached out of the water to support her body on the edge of the pool, poking her head out. I looked closely at this woman and found that her appearance was very peculiar, with the characteristics of both Eastern and Western people, she felt like a mixed race, her skin looked extraordinarily fair against the backdrop of the blood-colored pool water, her cherry-petal-like lips were natural pink and slightly upturned, her small nose was small, but the bridge of her nose was very high, and under her long eyelashes were a pair of pale blue eyes, with a moist light. Her hair is also pale blue, and her long hair is draped over her shoulders and extends into the water.

Wait for the hair!? I looked at it and immediately realized that something was wrong, this woman obviously came out of the pool, but her hair was not soaked at all, and if I looked closely, her exposed skin was not stained with any droplets! My gaze sank and fell on her chest, where there was a half-exposed "e", an earthling, maybe not a human.

"Are you the one who asked me for help?" I looked at her and asked first.

"Yes, I'm calling you for help." The woman spoke, "I can only call for help through the water at midnight, and I'm glad you heard my cries for help." ”

Is it because I was taking a shower at midnight that I heard her cry for help? However, she is not human if she is called for help through water!

"Who are you?" Wolf Fang asked beside me, I believe I can detect something, he must have noticed it, now, Wolf Fang is asking about the identity of the woman.

The woman shook her head, "I am not a human, but a mermaid who lives in the sea, I am the daughter of the god of the sea, and I am imprisoned here by the prince here." ”

Merman? I was stunned. Isn't this the story of Princess Pea? I'm naturally familiar with the story of the daughter of the mermaid sea, but is it? Two fairy tales together?

The fairy tales I experienced before were all separate, and at this time there were two fairy tales at once, and I couldn't help but be a little suspicious, and subconsciously looked at the position behind the mermaid, she seemed to understand what I was looking at, and her body moved slightly, and I saw a dark blue fish tail sticking out from under the water, gently patting the pool water and then retracting and continuing to hide in the pool water.

I blinked in shock, I didn't expect to see the real merfolk, but now is not the time to be stunned, I quickly came back to my senses, took a deep breath and asked, "You said captivity, what's going on?" And here, what's going on? ”

I asked as I pointed to both sides, still not daring to look around.

The mermaid's eyes darkened, and she raised her other hand, which had been hidden in the water. It wasn't until her hand reached out of the water that I realized that there was an iron ring fastened around her slender wrist. The merfolk stretched out her hand to me, and flipped it up to the maximum extent that there was a gap between the ring and the wrist, which was small enough, but enough for me to see what the mermaid wanted to show - there was also this sharp iron spike on the ring, about a centimeter in diameter, which was completely submerged into the mermaid's wrist.

My heart was cold, and my wrist seemed to ache, and I couldn't imagine what it would be like for such an iron spike to pierce my wrist, and because the mermaid raised her arm, I realized that from the wound on her wrist, a pale blue liquid flowed out. Unlike the pool water, which couldn't get on the merfolk, the liquid ran down her raised arm, sliding a streak of water that I guessed correctly, probably her blood.

"I was originally a mermaid who lived in the sea, and I was the youngest daughter of the Sea King," the mermaid told her story, "and then I happened to meet a prince who went out to sea in the sea, and I fell in love with him, and decided to leave the sea and go to the land of mankind to find him. ”

Well, the story of the mermaid princess, I know this very well. I waited in silence for the mermaid to continue, although it was the same beginning, but there would definitely be changes after that, and I was already very aware of this routine, after all, there was no setting in the original fairy tale where the mermaid was imprisoned in a pool of blood and mistreated.

"In order to enter the kingdom of men, I found the witch who lived in the deep trench and exchanged my tears with her."

Tears? Isn't it a sound? I frowned slightly, knowing that this was the point I didn't know, and immediately focused on listening.

"Once my tears flowed, they turned into precious stones, which I exchanged for a bottle of medicine that would allow me to have legs, and I couldn't cry again. But I think it's okay, I can see my prince and I don't have to cry anymore. ”

The mermaid said, her eyes dimmed a lot, as if she remembered some bad memories. Even if I don't know anything else, but I'm sure that what she gets is absolutely immortal and a good ending, but I don't know what to say to comfort her, do you want me to say, don't be sad, at least you're alive and haven't turned into a bubble? So I could only remain silent and wait for her to continue.

"After that everything was as I had imagined, I entered the kingdom of men, found the prince, became his lover, and lived happily with him."

I couldn't help but sigh as I looked at the look of remembrance on the mermaid's face. Living happily together is the standard ending of every princess and prince's fairy tale, but it's a pity that your story can't stop there, and there is one after you

As I expected, the mermaid continued, "But the happy time passed in a blink of an eye, and I found a very serious problem, your human life is too short, and the time we can be together is too short. Looking at the people around me, I can already foresee that it will not be long before he begins to age, but I will not change at all, his hair will become thinning and gray and begin to fall out, while my hair will always be thick and shiny; His skin will wrinkle and will start to sag, while mine will always be tight; His body will become rickety, and his strength will not get worse day by day, but my youth has just passed, and his youth is too short, and his time is too fast! ”

Is the love between humans and mermaids, and how do they love each other differently? As the mermaid said, her life is too long for humans, and human life is too short for her, and the time they can be together is just a node in the mermaid's lifeline, how can such a relationship last?

How can a towering tree fall in love with an epiphany?

"What did you do?" Wolf Fang also seemed to have guessed something, and asked in a deep voice.

"I," the mermaid said, bowing her head slightly, I couldn't make out the look in her eyes, "I gave him my blood. ”

"Your blood?" I glanced at her wrist, which had been bleeding, and frowned slightly, "What's the use of your blood?" ”

"As long as you drink my blood, you can stop aging." The fish-man replied.

I choked my breath and frowned slightly. I know exactly what that means – immortality. It seems that because power is too tempting, or it may be because of the reluctance to give up on this not too good world, all emperors, emperors, and rulers can't resist the temptation of immortality.

"The king at that time, the father of the prince, was also greedy for my blood. He imprisoned me and persuaded the prince to make me a blood slave for their family. It's just that I won't get hurt, and the wounds on my body will heal instantly when they appear, so they cast these handcuffs. The mermaid said, shaking her cuffed hand, "Only then will my wound never heal, and blood will continue to flow." ”

"And what about these people's corpses?" I asked, "Is it because they have this perverted fetish?" How could you possibly fall in love with someone like that? ”

The merfolk shook their heads, "No, that's not their fetish, at least not at first." ”

"What was it in the first place?"

"Because of the curse."