Comet Beauty [Interstellar]

After pulling Qing Changye closer to him, the mermaid leaned against his shoulder, its pale hair pouring down, looking beautiful and weak.Contrary to this is the expression of the mermaid looking at Aaron. Its water-red bewitching eyes stare at the captain without blinking. At an angle that Qing Changye can't see, it hooks its lips provocatively at Aaron.

The evil suddenly revealed by the usually weak and docile creature on the opposite side is fascinating and chilling. Allen opened his mouth, and the next moment, he realized that he would find a mermaid scary, and the captain couldn't help it. Laughing, he said to Qing Changye: "You seem to be very familiar with it."

"I fed it some food when I visited it last time," Qing Changye turned back: "Will you let it go when it arrives in the Mermaid Galaxy?"

Before Allen could answer, the basement suddenly shook violently. Strong shocks came from all directions, and the indestructible starship heard the soft sound of the body breaking. Allen and Qing Changye looked at each other for a moment. Already!"

Even in the future with highly developed technology, some wormholes are still unfathomable mysteries to the human race. Although people try to use wormholes to travel through space, not all wormholes represent safety and convenience.The wormholes in the Mermaid Galaxy have always been dense, and when such an accident occurs, no one knows where the starship will end up and what degree of damage it will suffer.

The mermaid's cold body was stuck to Qing Changye, and he patted the other person's head reassuringly.I don't know how long it has passed, when the shaking and destruction stopped, the door of the basement was slammed open, and an ugly-looking bounty hunter found Allen and spoke quickly: "Boss, our engine has failed. Serious! The part of the accelerator flew out directly, the spare accelerator and the big engine have problems, and the technicians are rushing to repair it."

"Oh shit."

Allen cursed.

"And..." The bounty hunter showed a look of fear and confusion: "Not far from where we docked, there is another starship."

"Ask them for help?"

Qing Changye interjected.

"No, no," the hunter shook his head, "That starship has been around for at least 200 years. That is to say, 200 years ago, there were a bunch of unlucky people who were dragged into this ghost place like us, and they couldn't leave in the end."

The hunter who came to report rushed to the engine area of ​​the starship with Allen, Qing Changye was not suitable to be with them.When he returned to the hall, the door of the starship was already open. From the somewhat damaged door, Qing Changye could see a starship not far away. He considered for a moment and jumped out of the door, following some curious people The hunter boarded the starship that was 200 years ago.

From the outside, this starship is much larger than Allen's, and there is a Federation logo in the cabin, which probably represented the most advanced technology at that time. Most of the outermost metal shell of the starship has been corroded by sea water. The gold hunters quickly searched every location on the starship, but strangely, no one found any corpses anywhere.Qing Changye searched for useful information as much as possible.If he had an accident and was trapped in a place with no signal and no way to call for help...

He eventually found a notebook in a corner of the captain's cabin.Since entering the era of the big universe, fewer and fewer people are used to writing, and bounty hunters usually don't think of looking for notebooks and sticky notes.Qing Changye found a suitable place to open the notes. In the notes, he learned that this starship belonged to the Federation Army Department. These soldiers were sucked into the wormhole just like them. At the beginning, everyone still embraced the future Hope, they drove a small lifeboat and surveyed the surrounding area for nearly a thousand miles. Except for the empty ocean, it was still the ocean. The strange thing is that the lifeboats sent out usually cannot all return, and the soldiers on vigil will disappear inexplicably in the depths of the night. Soldiers Gradually realize that there are other creatures besides them on this planet, and that kind of creature has no good intentions towards them.As the companions died one by one, the owner of the notebook began to call the unknown creatures evil ghosts.

devil.

If he remembered correctly, in A's information, a shipwreck survivor also used this word to describe a species, and the guy known as the evil spirit was still squatting on him half an hour ago.

What interested Qing Changye most was the description of the last few paragraphs. When the victim wrote these words, he was probably in extreme despair.The victims said that evil spirits surrounded their starship, the crew who did not like them were drained alive, and those who liked them were forced into the sea. The poor victim did not understand why these beautiful monsters would Human beings lead to the ocean until he sees his long-lost companion held in the arms of an evil ghost, and in that mouth... a pearl-like ball.

This is not the first time he has seen this kind of round ball the size of half an adult's fist. There are often such beautiful shiny round beads floating on the sea beside the starship. The naturalist on the ship told them that it is some kind of The most incredible thing about biological eggs is that this kind of egg has self-fertilized since its birth. Compared with sexual reproduction, it is more like the product of individual division. That is to say, the birth of white eggs only needs the father and does not need Although the mother side does not know what kind of creature reproduces in this almost unscientific way, there is no doubt that even if the vitality is as strong as white eggs, it needs a suitable environment to grow. Most of the white eggs picked up died. Looks like it really likes the higher temperatures.Now it seems that the white eggs come from evil spirits. If evil spirits want to find a warm place in the cold and vast ocean, there is no doubt that humans are the most suitable choice.

And the warmest place on the human body, besides the mouth, is...

Qing Changye paused his fingers slightly, he shook his head with a smile, and turned to the next page.

In the last record, on a stormy night, evil spirits surrounded the starship, and the victim saw that they sent the captured humans to one of the creatures with a human body and fish tail. If it was not interested, the rest of the evil spirits would dare Keep touching humans.Just like it is their leader, it has the right to choose the most pleasing sacrifice. That special evil spirit exudes an ominous atmosphere.He was also sent to it. Because of panic, the victims forgot what it looked like, and only remembered that it had a pair of red eyes, the color of curses.

The following records became intermittent, and the handwriting became more and more illegible. I really couldn't understand what the master wanted to convey, so Qing Changye gave up and continued to read.Without thinking about it, he knows that the evil ghost refers to the mermaid. What he cares about is the strange motherless reproduction method of the mermaid and the mermaid leader mentioned in the notes. If the mermaid is still alive, the time it bears on it must be beyond imagination, just like... ...the femme fatale on the Allen ship with a lifespan of hundreds of millions of years.

Determined that no valuable information could be found anymore, Qing Changye burned the notes.He returned to Allen's ship, the sky was dark, just like in the notes, the bounty hunters who sent out to search found that the surroundings were surrounded by deserted oceans, and after dinner, he went to the basement where the mermaid was held. Unexpectedly, He saw the description of the notes during the day, and saw the real white eggs at night.

The mermaid in the water tank is lazily playing with the ball in his hand. It looks very beautiful. It seems that it was born not long ago. It is only the size of a thumbnail. The smooth surface has a pearl-like soft color under the lamp. Whoever tells Qing Changye the truth, even he will mistakenly think that it is a priceless pearl.

"what is this?"

Qing Changye approached it, and the mermaid handed the ball to him, and it signaled Qing Changye to hold the small ball with both hands, as if stimulated by the temperature, the ball became bigger after a while .He could see the time contained in this small ball. For a full 3000 years, the naturalist on that warship was right. Mermaids can produce offspring without sexual intercourse. Compared with reproduction, this is more like individual division.

Qing Changye lowered his eyebrows and smiled: "Is this magic?"

"..."

The mermaid shook her head and took the white egg from his hand, Qing Changye held its hand at this moment: "Do you have a name?"

Seeing that the mermaid continued to shake her head, Qing Changye said: "In human legends, there is a kind of sea monster called siren. They are as beautiful as you, and their voice is as beautiful as the sound of nature. Siren is good at using singing to confuse passing ships. When it hits the rocks, the sailors on board will become their prey. Do you like the name?"

Qing Changye's voice flowed in the quiet room, and the waves outside the window and the young man's voice were intertwined to indescribably evoke people's hearts. The mermaid nodded. In fact, it is estimated that whatever he said, the confused creatures in front of him would all nod.

"My name is Qingchangye," he said as he approached it, "This is my real name, Siren must remember."

Everyone's abilities are more or less limited, and the same is true for Qing Changye. If the object he steals is far stronger than him, there are two restrictions on Qing Changye's ability: First, the object he has stolen time must be Knowing his real name, the second point is that he can only successfully steal time when the other party is off guard and has a good impression of him.

He saw the mermaid staring at him intently.

"Then—" Qing Changye clasped the mermaid's fingers, and gently kissed its forehead with his lips: "Goodbye, little beauty with red eyes."

The moment the ability was activated, a lot of time flowed from the mermaid to Qing Changye's brain, the original pearly skin lost its luster, and its face gradually turned pale.Taking away all the time of any creature can lead to death. Qing Changye didn't want to kill it so early at first. After all, it is rare to meet his favorite appearance. The evil and possessiveness in the mermaid's character are within the range he can still accept.The problem is, the mermaid in front of me doesn't seem to be an ordinary mermaid. With red eyes, intelligence, good at disguising and an amazing amount of time, all the conditions combined together, it should be the mermaid who was the leader 200 years ago.In that notebook, it is not difficult to see that mermaids are creatures with thoughts and emotions. They will choose their favorite human beings. Judging from everything that has happened recently, he should be chosen by it.

Although it is a pity that the beauty cannot be suppressed, the danger of the mermaid is beyond Qing Changye's imagination. Fish eggs are a trivial matter. After all, holding them with your hands can make the white eggs grow up. The possibility of leaving the Mermaid Galaxy dropped and dropped.

【Long...long night...】

Suddenly, a voice that I had never heard before appeared in Qing Changye's mind. The voice was like the singing of a sea monster, charming and dark. The mermaid seemed very sad. The imperceptible crying sound and bloodless cheeks made it look like A child who knows nothing about the world.

【Why... lie to me? 】

【You need time...I can give it to you...】

Mermaids have too much time.

He simply couldn't pump it all up in seconds.Qing Changye stopped moving, and stared quietly at the mermaid with midnight-like eyes. Killing intent gradually appeared in his eyes. At the moment when his finger reached for the mermaid's neck, the latter flicked the fish's tail and splashed water all over his body. The sound lingered in his mind, the mermaid was singing, and his abilities seemed to be blocked in the singing, and the basement collapsed rapidly under the stimulation of the sound waves. The mermaid took a deep look at him, with water-red eyes. Li's expression was unpredictable, he saw Qing Changye squatting down with his head in his arms, and finally swam back to the deep sea through the cracks in the hull without doing anything.

damn.

After the mermaid left, the brain-stimulating singing stopped suddenly, and the young man relaxed and fell down in the basement as if discouraged. He raised his hand, and now he could see that the time on his body had changed to 700 million years.

I always feel like a scum, first I am greedy for beauty and want to sleep with others, and when things change, I will kill him. If he is a mermaid, he must be blackened by now, at least he will drag the other party to die together... He really is a scum.

"That's right," he said to himself, as if he thought his rare hypocrisy was funny, the obsidian-like eyes of the young man curved softly: "However, it's so hard to steal."