seventh scale

The source of the trouble was dealt with very quickly: that silver bracelet, while it was still early in the day, Ji Nian excitedly led Qiao around.Then, under the eyes of withering incomparable disgust, Ji Nian stopped in a shop selling bracelets and did not leave.

"This! I bought it for you. Is that okay?" Ji Nian pointed at the bracelet in front of him with bright eyes, and looked at Qiao.

Very simple design.A braided red rope, the middle ornament is just a cheap artificial small conch.

Wither expressed disgust: "This kind of thing is only bought by tourists. The boss's price will definitely deceive you, right? I will also make up this thing. If you like it, I will give you one next time I come to you to play."

Ji Nian's eyes were bright, and he was still pointing at the thing.

Wither turned his head and ignored him.

So Ji Nian happily ran over to pay the bill, and then handed it to Qiao with a plastic transparent bag containing a bracelet.

"I gave you this one. This one is different. If you think you can't get it in vain, then just make up one for me next time! It's okay without the little conch."

Qiao took it, without saying much: "Okay." Then I will treat it as a token of love.

The time has come to evening, and the dizzy clouds covered the blue picture scroll of the sky, covering most of the background.The warm red glow is beautiful.

They wandered around Nanshi aimlessly, planning to find a restaurant for dinner after five o'clock.

"Hey! Let me ask you, will you play with me next time?"

"of course."

"I, I thought you were angry."

"It's angry."

Ji Nian stopped talking, stopped in his tracks, and looked straight at him.

"But I still like you." Qiao also stopped in his tracks, muttering softly.

"What?" Ji Nian didn't hear clearly.

"I said, I don't hate you." Wither's voice became louder.

But for some reason, Ji Nian always felt that he was a little unhappy.Like an unfavored child who doesn’t get his favorite candy, he doesn’t dare to tell when he is unhappy, so he just holds his breath and becomes a puffer fish.

So Ji Nian stood on tiptoe and rubbed his face vigorously: "Hey! When you are with me, you have to be happier, you know? This is a mission! Otherwise, I won't play with you next time!"

Wither: "..." Am I being molested?

Then the tip of the ear is red.

"Let's go!" Ji Nian took Qiao's hand, subconsciously rubbed the scar a few times with distress, and then reviewed the correct steps of applying the medicine in his mind.

withered:"……"

Then the tip of the ear turned redder.

The flower grows in the dust, and opens to the sun bit by bit; if it is not comforted by the sun, it will wither, and then rot and deteriorate in sadness.But I don't think he will.The pure little mermaid always believes that the most beautiful thing in the world is to have a favorite and precious person, and lock it up in the heart, so that no one else can peep at it. The key is only engraved in that person's eyes; It fell suddenly.

…………

late at night.living room.Dim lighting.hoarse growl.The sound of swaying water.

"My day! Wither! What the hell are you doing!" Ji Nian was suddenly splashed with water, turned off the TV impatiently, turned his head to look, and immediately broke down and yelled under his throat, afraid of disturbing the neighbors, "Dear In the evening, can you stop for a while! The sofa in the living room is hard to clean, okay?!"

"I, I didn't do it on purpose. Who knew this thing..." Wither frantically held the shower head in his hand, his face was more nervous than the bomb disposal expert who was working.

"Quick! Turn it off!" Ji Nian looked at the clumsy look, and rushed to the innermost part of the bathroom in the "pourful rain", and then turned off the faucet in one go.

At this moment, the kid Ji Nian was drenched all over, even his hair was dripping water, but his soft brown eyes were still wide open, looking very (ke)loved (kou).In this situation, Ben was full of apology and smiled very unkindly.

Chronicle: "..."

Ji Nian: "So you still have reason? Get out of here! Have you lost your bracelet? Now you can go back to your sea area and play freely! What nerves do you have in the middle of the night!" Push it to the door without hesitation.

Withered and said: "Then I, didn't I want to come out angrily to argue with you because you suddenly mentioned that you wanted to drive me away? If I was not careful, I forgot to put this thing down..."

Thinking of something again, Qiao suddenly puffed out her small chest, regained her arrogance, and raised her airs: "Let's talk! You, you still owe me mental damage fees! You promised to pay me back!"

Seeing Ji Nian's darkened face in an instant, Zhuo continued to play tricks: "Could it be that you want to play tricks? Shameless!"

Ji Nian's face darkened even more.

Qiao lowered his head, and said cautiously: "Then I'll help you, mop the floor and clean it up for you; that's okay, right?" Taking a sneak peek at Ji Nian's slightly relaxed expression, Rong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

'Human beings are so hard to understand. '

"no."

Wither looked up suspiciously.

"I said, I didn't want to drive you away before; wouldn't you mermaids be happier with your clansmen? I thought you would definitely go back to keep safe in a few days, so I wanted to ask in advance so that you would leave without saying goodbye. , made me worry." Ji Nian's expression was light, and after seeing the eyes that lit up suddenly, he turned his head away uncomfortably, looked at the ground, and added, "Normal friends will do this, and it's not just you who make a special case .”

Not wanting to be stared at by Wither's tiger and wolf eyes again, Ji Nian quickly tidied himself up, put on loose and comfortable pajamas, changed the sofa cover diligently, stuffed the dirty ones into the washing machine, and instructed Wither to wash the whole thing. The living room was wiped clean.

After everything, Ji OCD Nian smiled in satisfaction, said "find a place to sleep by yourself" before rushing back to his room, throwing himself on the soft quilt.Then fell into a deep sleep.

So, "righteously", he hugged the little friend of the year into the quilt and closed the corners.Then she obediently lay down next to him, took his hand and interlocked her fingers, closed her eyes and raised the corners of her lips in satisfaction.

The next day, as expected, Wither was awakened by Ji Nian's pillow attack.

"What are you doing!" Wither a look of disgust.

"What are you doing? I told you to find a place to sleep by yourself! There are two in the guest room! You can sleep on the sofa too! Why are you..." Ji Nian stared at his position with a hellish expression.

"I, I'm new here."

Seeing that he opened his mouth and wanted to make a meaningless and nutritious defense, Ji Nian immediately covered his mouth with his hand.

Ji Nian: "Listen to me first, don't make noise, I have a headache."

withered:"……"! ! !

"What is the 'spiritual damage fee' you want? Also, when are you leaving?"

Wither's cheeks that were blushing all over just now turned cold in an instant.

'My heart hurts so much. '

'I, I, if I tell him directly that I want to have sex with him, he...will definitely not agree!no!I'm going to use my wits!Decisive roundabout tactics! '

Turning back her proud villain, she regained consciousness for a second: "I, I came here to find you this time, just want to play with you for a few more days. Then, what I want is that you take me around And, you keep saying that you want to see my beautiful fishtail, but if you haven’t seen it yet, you are going to drive me away! You, you, you are ruthless and unreasonable!"

The year that was stunned by the lines: "..."

"Stop watching silly TV shows, it will reduce your intelligence." Ji Nian glanced at him, patted his cheek to cheer himself up, and then smoothed his withered black hair, "Now that the schedule is set , what do you want to play today? Do you want my brother to take you to eat seafood?"

"I don't want it." Angrily, he grabbed the poor quilt under his hand.

"What's the matter?"

The answer to the chronicle was a muffled slap on the bed—Jiao suddenly conjured up his exquisite black big fishtail.

"You don't even mention my beautiful tail!" Wither held his tail resentfully, showing off to Ji Nian, afraid that the only attraction he had in his heart would be lost, "Look! Isn't it delicious?!"

Ji Nian thought, if he continues to be scared like this, he may die soon; but facing the fragile and loveless little mermaid, he really chose to praise: "It looks good! It looks good!"

"However, you don't need to pose for transformation, don't you even need to shout spells?" Ji Nian was curious.

Wither looked at him like a naive ghost: "Of course not! By the way, isn't that too rustic?"

"This is our ability. Mermaids are equivalent to human beings who become adults at the age of 16. At that time, they can switch as they like. There is no need to exchange anything with the witch in fairy tales. Look, isn't it beautiful?" Wither proudly show off.

'It's really pretty. '

' I really like it too. '

Looking at the withered white and tender cheeks, Ji Nian stretched out his sharp little canine teeth and bit them.

As soon as this action came out, there was three seconds of silence.

Wither: "You molested me! You, you, you are responsible for me!" Please continue, don't stop~

Ji Nian: "Ah, I'm sorry!" Would you believe me when I said I really didn't mean it? !

So Ji Nian, whose neck was so red, lifted the quilt, put on his slippers, and walked out the door: "I'll go wash up first, this room also has a bathroom, you can tidy yourself up. We'll go out to play later!"

Wither who didn't want to go out to play, grabbed Ji Nian's slender wrist in desperation: "I don't want to go out. The sun is too big outside."

Ji Nian thought that he was a mermaid, and that dehydration might be very sad, so he asked seriously: "Then how do you play?"

"Just, just watch a movie and eat something you made." Wither's eyes wandered, praying that Ji Nian would agree to the random reason.

"Okay then. I have to go out to buy groceries later..."

"I'll accompany you!" Wither hurriedly answered.

"Remember to move quickly, I don't like waiting for people." Ji Nian smiled at him, and then went downstairs.

So in the next second, Withered Zhong lay back on the bed again, dead fish spread out.

'It's really hard to like someone.I only have enough for one summer, so I don't want to go shopping and crowd people, it will ruin the good time of two people! '

'Well, I'm very considerate.If you don't like me this summer, then I won't disturb your life.I'll sneak away by myself!Hide, hide... the ends of the earth!Then you will never find me again! '

Thinking about Ji Nian's appearance, Zhuo felt that he would not deliberately look for himself at all.Therefore, the sad little mermaid dimmed her smoky eyes, bit her nails unwillingly, and muttered softly: "Forget it, I will always like you."

two weeks later.A light night with a fine drizzle.

"Hey, wither! Go get me a bottle of Coke from the refrigerator! Thank you." Ji Nian hugged his legs, nestled on the sofa and cried lazily, his eyes still staring at the TV.

Zhuo, who had just come out of the bathroom, responded impatiently, and after taking it out, he threw it directly on the ground next to Ji Nian.Then the path deviates slightly from the target.

"It hurts!" Ji Nian turned off the TV, rubbed his head, and turned to look at Yu angrily, "What are you doing! Handing things to others is the most basic courtesy. It's too much!"

"Then it's fine if you can't handle it by yourself next time. I'm not a tool person." Qiao was also depressed, but there was a trace of guilt in his heart, "Forget it, don't be angry, I'll go to the kitchen to cut the fruit for you. "

"Okay then. Remember to hurry up, this movie is quite interesting, let's watch it together later!" Ji Nian forcefully opened the bottle cap and downed half of the bottle. 'Ah~ Fat House Happy Water really lives up to its reputation! '

"No problem. My knife skills are very good, and I can also carve on stone!"

"Got it, got it! Just hurry up, I'll wait for you." Ji Nian waved his hand indifferently, and then grinned wickedly.

'Hey, just now happened to be the climax of this horror movie!I'm going to put it back to the previous 5 minutes now.When the time comes, see how I scare you to tears! 'With this kind of disharmony and unfriendliness in the calendar year, I feel very happy.

Of course, if the wither hadn't "sneaked away", Ji Nian would be happier.

"Really, it's been 10 minutes, and even carving portraits on fruits has already been finished." Ji Nian waited in the living room for a long time and didn't come out. For some reason, he was anxious and uneasy, so he walked into the kitchen quickly. , "What the hell are you doing... ah!"

There was no one in the kitchen, and even the lights were cut off, leaving only the wide open windows to let in the cold, salty sea breeze and the slightest trace of rain.The moon hangs high, and the light sheds is so sacred—and indifferent.

Ji Nian turned on the light, ran over to close the big window that leaked in the light rain, and then walked up to the chopping board to have a look: the fruits were all peeled to a mess, the green peels were hanging out of the flesh and could not fall off, but they could not protect the tender and fresh fruits. fruit.On the only apple that can be seen among them, I can barely see that I want to engrave "Year" and a smiling face.

Ji Nian couldn't help laughing softly: "What, wither doesn't know how to peel fruit at all."

"Ha, you're so tsundere."

There is also a small note next to the cutting board.

"'I'm going to take care of a few things, don't read it.'" Ji Nian read, feeling a sense of unhappiness in his heart, "Damn! It surprised me; it turns out that people don't care about me at all. I worry about him. Sure enough, the only one in the world The only thing that remains unchanged is the delicious taste of Coke.”

"Forget it, I'll go back and watch the movie before cleaning up. It's so annoying." Ji Nian went out, turned off the light, and thought to himself, "However, when did he write so beautifully and speak so coldly? It's a bit strange. ... Woo! Never mind!"

He didn't realize that there was a small drop of blood splashed beside the cutting board lying quietly.

On the shore about [-] nautical miles away.Crude waste gas factory.

The rain was getting heavier, and the sound of slapping on the cold iron sheet was clearly crisp.After a while, the ticking alarm clock finally dutifully woke up the little mermaid.

Wither fluttered her slender eyelashes, panted twice, then opened her eyes and sat up.

'I was kidnapped? '

'I don't know if Xiaonian will be in a hurry. '

'Got to get out quickly! '

Surrounded by rusted iron sheets, there were no windows, but the door leading to the outside was open, which meant that he could escape at any time.On rainy nights, his speed will also double.The room was very simple, with only one bedside table, an old writing desk, a wooden chair with one leg missing and the bed he was lying on, but the bed was covered with a warm and clean thin blanket, and there was a cup of hot tea on the cabinet .

At his feet lay a man.To be precise, an elf.Wither could feel the fluctuations in his body.

"Oh~ you're finally awake!" The young man's cheeks were puffed with sleep, a small red mark was formed on his forehead by the arm that was padded just now, his eyes were transparent green, and his flaxen curly hair, "do you feel How about it? Here is hot tea, please drink some!"

"Where is this... here?" Wither could feel that the fluctuations in the boy's body were stronger than his; the boy might be more capable than him, or it might happen to suppress his attributes. 'Oops.Can't be reckless. '

"This is our home." The boy smiled, the little hazel freckles on his face were very cute, "The home of the fairies."

"My name is Sixteen, the number 'Sixteen'. Actually, I was kidnapped suddenly one day, and I was terrified at that time! But later, I found out that they still..."

"My name is Wither, wither's 'wither'. May I go?" Wither answered casually, lifted the quilt deftly, got out of bed, but suddenly lost her footing as if she lost her strength, and fell to the ground.

"Hold, I'm sorry!" Sixteen hurriedly squatted down and helped you up, "When Xianwang brought you back, he was afraid that you would resist, so he injected you with a little goblin-specific anesthetic. Some of the above. And I don’t know how to count, maybe, um, I used a little more for you.”

Wither shot sharp eyes at Shiliu, Shiliu trembled in fright, and smiled embarrassingly: "But at most, it will be fine in 10 minutes at most! I promise!"

"Then I can leave then?"

"Hold, I'm sorry. You still have to listen to us tell us about one of our plans, which is very important. Liu Xuan has been trying to contact people on your island recently..."

"I don't need to know your plans. I won't participate." Wither interrupted impatiently.

"Then you go." Sixteen bit his lower lip, looking a little angry.

"Thank you."

When Wither was about to stagger out, Sixteen added indifferently: "Anyway, whether you want it or not, there will be no human beings living on your island by then."

"What?!" Zhuo Cai held onto the door frame to stand firm, then glared at Shiliu again.

"Now, are you still interested in hearing about our plan?" A gentle man suddenly stood behind Qiao at some point, bent down and said softly to him.

…………

"Anyway, that's it!" Sixteen described their great idea, blushing with excitement, "Join us! Don't hesitate any longer!"

But wither cut through their 'dream' from a very realistic angle: "Want to occupy the entire Seven Scales Island? Just in this short three days? How is it possible! Let alone how many aborigines need to be killed by you!" If you drive them out, the living conditions of the elves are different. This island has a low latitude, and the temperature is very mild all year round; but what if there are elves from the North Pole? Do you want the elves from there to live here too?"

"But they will not be disturbed by humans living in the North Pole, so there is no need to move here." Sixteen tried to argue.

"Then your so-called 'Sky Holding Island' is impossible to appear; there will still be other elves and goblins scattered all over the world. If you do this, it will only facilitate the complete strangulation of human beings in the future!" Wither analyzed indifferently , no emotion can be seen in the gray eyes, "So, it would be better to let nature take its course, so that there is no need to make a big fanfare of a 'holding empty island'. Besides, some people in human beings are very bad , What if the party you are cooperating with happens to have other conspiracy in mind? You know, our skin, meat, and even hair are very precious to a small group of people! You are all pulled to do human experiments! Hmph, I'm afraid you will be wiped out!"

Sixteen lowered his head, a little frustrated, but the hope in his eyes was still not completely extinguished: "We, we just hope to coexist peacefully with human beings. Hiding all the time is not an option.

"We won't hurt any human beings! The human beings said that they will also cooperate. They will broadcast fake earthquake forecasts in advance, so that people will pack up their money and be sent to the mainland on a big ship!"

"What if," Qiao raised his head, his tone was extremely indifferent and cruel, "what if there are people who don't cooperate? Will you kill them?"

"No! We have a prescription that can make human beings fall asleep. And..." Sixteen suddenly hesitated to speak.

"And that's why we found you," Liu Xuan answered with an elegant and harmless smile, "This prescription needs a few mermaid scales, can you sacrifice them?"

"Okay." To their surprise, Wither readily agreed, "But I need to rest first, and then start prying tomorrow, okay? After all, it's almost dawn now, and I'm really sleepy."

"Okay then. I wish you good night. We will wake you up on time in eight hours." Liu Xuan pursed his lips helplessly, pulled Shiliu by the bed, and led him out of the room.

click.

The door was locked.

Wither: "..." Ugh, I'm in such a difficult situation.

Shiliu outside the door asked curiously: "Why did you lock it, A Xuan? Wouldn't it be impolite?"

Liu Xuan couldn't help rubbing Shiliu's short short hair fiercely, and said angrily, "Sixteen! Did you forget again, as long as the mermaids are adults, it doesn't matter if they don't sleep for a week."

Sixteen was depressed: "Sorry; let's go take a rest too, after all, we haven't had a good sleep for a long time."

Liu Xuan pampered Shiliu's soft cheeks: "Okay."

in the room.Three hours later.

The scarred iron gate was still stubbornly resisting. Wither looked sadly at his exquisite and sharp fingertips, finally took a deep breath, and stabbed it hard towards the iron gate.Seeing that the cut piece of iron was about to 'bang' to the ground, Kuangyan quickly supported it, then gently put him on the ground, and tiptoed out.

Outside the door was a long corridor that seemed endless on both sides.Wither first go to the left, at the end of the left is a door.There is a combination lock on the top, showing two digits.

Wither: "..." Then try sixteen?

Tick.

The door opened.

withered:"……"

There are a lot of scientific and technological instruments piled up in a mess, and there are many medicine bottles, which contain all kinds of strange things, neatly placed on a small shelf made of iron.There is also a wooden table in the middle, with many papers stacked on it.Qiao took a closer look and found that one of them was a prescription for the sleeping potion.

Although it is written in Elven language, it is hard to beat the witty wither!As early as ten years ago, when Zhuo and a high priest of the same family were learning human language, they learned Elvish language by the way; it is very complicated and true, and the complicated and overlapping patterns are each an element, and each element Various permutations and combinations form various words.

As he continued to look through it, he also found the original manuscript of the Sky Island project and the teleportation scroll.

'It's so strange, didn't the teleportation scrolls say that they were all used up in the last century?And there is no alchemist who can make him. '

'Could it be! Wither suddenly realized, "Is there a space department in their team?"Well, it's just a medium!Too dangerous. '

Wither then turned his head to look at the original manuscript of the Sky Island project, which was changed to another language.Fortunately, wither can also understand.

The handwriting on the paper is very clear, but what is written is so cruel: Bombs will be placed on the ship in advance, and the island will be deliberately set on fire in ten places... The humans on the island are bait and abandoned children. The elves will be strangled without any effort...

"This, this is completely different from what they said!" Wither felt a chill emanating from his bones, it was obviously a sultry summer night, but it gradually submerged his whole body, and his hands and feet were covered with cold.

"Which side is different?"

Liu Xuan said indifferently, without getting angry: "It seems that when we were resting, some guests quietly left the living room."

Qiao Shun angrily roared: "This is different from what you said! It says..." Behind him, he tried his best to stuff the prescription into his palm, and stretched his fingertips towards the teleportation scroll.

At this moment, Shiliu walked in, rubbing his sleepy eyes: "Ah Xuan, it's so late, what are you doing...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, why did you come in?"

Wither continued to pretend to be angry, his palms were sweaty from nervousness: "This manuscript paper is different from what you said, it contains human beings and elves who came over..." A group of sharp willow leaves flew towards him, scratching Wither's waist, legs and face were covered with blood.

Liu Xuan's face turned slightly pale: "Sixteen, I have nothing good to say about this rotten fish. I'll just kill him and bring him here. You go out first, and I'll ask you to come in after I'm done."

"But……"

"I will accidentally hurt you."

As soon as the door was closed, Liu Xuan heaved a sigh of relief, but an extremely dazzling light suddenly burst out in the room.

"Hey, brother, no one told you, you need to concentrate on fighting?" Wither holding the prescription, standing in the light of the teleportation scroll, smiled sinisterly, "There will be a time later!"

"You!" Liu Xuan was so angry that he swung another pile of willow leaves over, but only hit Qiao's shoulder and abdomen, and the rest hit the medicine shelf behind him, shattering into pieces .

"Ah Xuan, be gentle." Sixteen poked his head out from behind the door, then quickly stretched out many brown vines, caught everything firmly, and put it back lovingly, "Many are broken. Oh, what a waste."

"He! He..." Liu Xuan blamed himself and looked down at Shiliu, "He took the prescription away. I can only remember the first twenty medicines and dosages. There are three more!"

"Then let's go find him!" Sixteen anxiously grabbed Liu Xuan's clothes, "Well, he was captured by us from a villa by the sea, and it is unlikely that he will go back; we will go to their family. Find it here!"

"it is good!"