under the mask

Li Wei thought for a while and asked, "Are sandman mermaids considered advanced intelligent life? Or do they just look like humans, but actually completely obey animal instincts?"

"Animal instinct?" Russell casually took out a glowing ball from his pocket, stuffed it into the aquarium from the feeding place under the little mermaid's focused gaze, and watched the little guy swimming around excitedly holding the ball Go: "Humans also have animal instincts, Levy, and animals have more or less intelligence that we can't understand... But if you want to ask whether they have complex thoughts, languages, and civilizations...even if they have the same Emotions too... are they smart? Yes, I'll tell you, they are."

Levi noticed that he had changed in addressing mermaids.

Seeing the confusion on his face, Russell felt a little more smug in his cold gray pupils: "Although I don't study the creatures in the sea of ​​death professionally, I'm much better than those idiots... They still think that the Sharman Mermaid It's just a bunch of beautiful vases—and cannibal vases."

Idiot... Li Wei thought silently, Jacob also felt that those mermaids were a group of "sea dogs that only bark at people"... He also insisted that "Dominic didn't have any girlfriends for many years, so he was caught by the golden lured by stupid fish”…

What can he say, at least in Jacob's description, he really doesn't think those Sharman mermaids have any intelligence, maybe ordinary creatures in the ocean will think they are cunning and cruel hunters, but for human beings Weapons have no chance of winning.

"You don't believe it either, huh?" Russell chuckled, motioning him to observe the lively little mermaid in the aquarium: "I've been monitoring his mental development since he was born...then I found out that he and ordinary human children Same, becoming smarter and smarter—no, it should be said that he is faster, because the infancy of the Sharman Mermaid is very short, and the state you see now will only last half a month at most, and then he will be in the In the remaining half a month, he grew rapidly until he was as strong as his father."

He leaned over while supporting the aquarium, and whispered in Levi's ear: "The research institute over there released a female mermaid, and buried a signal tracker in her sutured wound... Do you know what happened afterwards?"

Russell's whisper made Levi feel like he woke up at the dawn in the flame desert in the game. The icy mist condensed on the skin before sunrise, bringing a burst of chill.

"The female mermaid dug open her own wound as soon as she entered the water, and took out the tracker... She also dragged one of the researchers who was close to the surface of the water desperately... If I were that group of researchers, I would Evacuate the newly built laboratory by the sea in the next few years, and vow not to go near any watery place in the next few years... because the mermaid population will do everything possible to get their cubs back, even if those cubs are still alive. "

Li Wei shuddered.Suddenly recalling a foreign movie I had watched before, I vaguely remembered that it was filmed in the United States... It told a thrilling story of a killer whale that took revenge on humans.

He turned his head to look at the baby mermaid in the aquarium. The little guy was already tired of playing with the little ball. He was rolling around in the water with his fat arms hugging his palm-sized fish tail. His naughtiness was no less than that of Yi. When Sa was younger.

What if the golden Sharman King was indeed alive... what if he knew his baby was in human hands?

And a week later, a group of helpless students and researchers including himself and Jacob will enter the deep seabed and enter the territory of the Sharman mermaid.Even if the sea is frozen in winter, the mermaid population that has been thinking about the female mermaid and the cubs that have been born, really won't notice the movement of humans?

The little mermaid found that the two people in front of her were no longer paying attention to her, she pursed her lips unhappily and approached the glass side, her chubby face squeezed against the glass was ridiculous and cute.But Li Wei was not as soft as before. He just looked at the little mermaid and thought about the huge troubles this little thing might bring in the future.

Really huge, troublesome.

He sighed and stood up, met Russell's gaze, which was still full of exploration and examination that was too late to retract, and couldn't help squinting his eyes to meet him.This guy knew that Jacob had previously participated in the bloodbath of the siren population in the military base, and even proposed to let him join dangerous scientific activities... Sure enough, his sixth sense was right, Russell is indeed not a good person !

"Why are you so fierce..." Russell looked away happily, and leaned back against the wall again: "You are really suspicious. Sooner or later, you will realize my kindness. Remember to send me some roses when the time comes."

"A military scientific researcher has the leisure to investigate the relationship between a member of the Imperial University?!" Li Wei was really angry, his originally light blue eyes became darker due to emotional ups and downs, and his gentle appearance turned out to be a bit cold and harsh.

However, the young and pale researcher next to him didn't care. He looked at him with a mocking smile on his lips, but his gray eyes were very calm.

Li Wei also quickly calmed down from his anger. After all, he is not a real teenager. Why does Russell need to tell him all this?Since the fat dragons have been in the school for three years, if Russell has any thoughts about them, why should he choose this moment?It seems that he must know something else... not sure... it is indeed kind...

At this point, the researcher is really unpredictable.

"Forget it, we can't talk about trust on a platform where we don't treat each other honestly." Li Wei shook his head: "It's just that no matter what you do, I will protect them well. This is my bottom line."

The smile on the corner of Russell's mouth became softer.He is really...quite curious about Li Wei.How on earth was this child raised?Even if some people are over half a century old, they still don't know what they want...vanity, anger, curiosity...or worldly responsibilities and obligations, etc. These real and imaginary things will make people lose their way and go around in big circles.

But Li Wei did not hesitate. He made it clear from the very beginning that he valued the people around him above all else, including family, friends and lovers.

How many people can do it?

pity…

"Do you know how big the sea of ​​death is?" He changed the subject to ease the atmosphere between the two.

Li Wei looked at him with a frown, but still followed his question and said calmly: "On the auxiliary star, apart from the desert, there is an ocean. Does this question have any deep meaning?"

"I just want to say that in such a large ocean, from the time when humans entered the auxiliary star until now, there are only a dozen species of creatures we know..." Russell looked down at the aquarium, and there was a hint of exclamation in his tone: " Although I think those biologists are too stupid, I can also understand their frustration and urgency... It's like there is a treasure in front of you, but you don't know how to open the door to take a peek, and you can't take out even one treasure. "

"Compared to the soldiers who died to protect them, the researchers who died to study the secrets of the Sea of ​​Death are already worth an army. Compared to the preciousness of scientific researchers, this is undoubtedly quite unbelievable. He looked at Li Wei seriously: "I know you military students are very hostile to them, but everyone is just loyal to their profession in different fields, isn't it?"

Under such gazes, Li Wei was inevitably a little embarrassed.Whether in the past or now, even if he was just an ordinary person waiting to die, he actually didn't like the so-called scientific researchers...Human experiments, cloning technology, clinical tests...and various medical scandals that broke out before the end of the world, research All the monsters and so on... But just like the hostility that civilians have towards the army in peacetime, in the end of the world, it is the soldiers who have no selfish intentions and are willing to use their lives to rescue civilians like them, and go to various high-risk areas of radiation mutations to collect The samples, in order to manufacture medicines and various armors for civilians are also scientific researchers.

Now, he himself is a reserve student of the military department.

"I...I know," he nodded: "I understand what you mean, I will treat this scientific research activity as a task." To be taught like a child by this perverted scientist... Really... Tsk.

Russell felt a little hot and soft in his heart, and his eyes on Levi became softer.This feeling is hard to describe, and it may have started from the first time he noticed Li Wei in the virtual world. What a smart child... what an upright heart... that kind of comprehension and love for machinery, and the tenacity of the heart, let the people watching Accustomed to the hypocrisy of the nobility, it was as if he was being illuminated by the sun.

Look, there's a good one among the hypocritical Central City aristocrats.

In the land his father loved, there was still an unquenchable flame of justice.

Russell took a deep breath and controlled his trembling fingertips.He laughed at himself silently, turned around and pressed a few times on the silver metal wall under the aquarium, and took out a long white bath towel from the space behind the wall.

Levi took a step back to get out of the way, watching Russell open the glass above the aquarium in confusion, leaning over and unfolding the towel aside.Before he could ask a question, the eyes of the little mermaid, who was depressed and hiding behind the giant clam used as a bed, lit up, and then jumped out of the water with a kick of her little tail, and threw herself skillfully onto the towel in Russell's hand, and was finally caught by the man. Wrapped into a ball and hugged in his arms, he made a babyish babbling sound.

"He...he can make a sound?" Li Wei looked at the scene in front of him in surprise: "I thought they could only make infrasound waves."

Russell is obviously used to being a baby daddy. He wiped the little mermaid clean with a bath towel in his hands very neatly, and then changed to another dry and soft one to wrap the little guy. The same as humans? Why do they have the same facial features as us? We can guess that they just chose a different evolutionary path from humans, but what is left over must obviously be useful."

Li Wei understood what he meant. Since he has eyes, he can see things, and has a protruding nasal cavity, so he must be able to breathe. His facial features are the same as those of humans... and they can even live outside the water for a long time. Another set of respiratory system, since the respiratory system is also complete, naturally in theory they can speak like humans - after training, of course they can also speak the common language of Jialai Vance.

The little mermaid is obviously also very happy to be able to move around in a wider space. Although he obediently put his two fat arms on Russell's chest, and his small face is also attached to it, but his body slightly exposed outside the towel The fat tail flicked back and forth excitedly, which made Li Wei couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

"Can they... take human form too?" he asked softly.Anyone who has read Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales will be curious about this question. Since so many strange animals can become humans (including mysterious dragons and disgusting earthworms), why can't intelligent mermaids?

Russell casually touched the little mermaid's soft golden hair: "I also want to know this question...and it involves the source of the sea of ​​death. Over the years, in addition to the research on the sea of ​​death itself, we are also suspicious , Why are there so many rare creatures in the sea of ​​death? They don't belong to the life form of the Goddess galaxy at all, and it's even very likely that most of them are intelligent..."

"So why don't you just raise one yourself now, and you will know sooner or later whether he can become a human?" Li Wei suddenly said lukewarmly.

The researcher with a feminine and beautiful appearance showed a vicious smile, and his pair of reptilian cold gray pupils blinked slyly.

"I'm a dedicated scientist," he hugged the little mermaid, and then kissed her soft little cheek: "And it's better for me to keep it than in the hands of those butchers?" He kissed and looked at it Touching the little thing in his arms, he asked with a kind of gentle coaxing: "Isn't it, Isaac?"

The little mermaid stared at him with watery eyes, not sure if she understood, but his expression was full of innocent dependence.He was as dependent on Russell as a chick is to its mother.

Li Wei couldn't help covering his face and sighing, it's so despicable... He even chose his name.

Was it necessary for him to tell Russell that the child's biological father was still alive?In case the other party is suddenly dragged into the water and killed without knowing why...

"I'm leaving." Li Wei decided to leave quickly, so as not to see more ugliness in the world.

Russell didn't stop him, he hugged the little mermaid and watched him leave, but when Li Wei was about to disappear at the other end of the disinfection tunnel, he suddenly said, "Do you know the physical characteristics of the Derek star?"

Li Wei paused, and looked back at the researcher on the other side of the laboratory in doubt.

"I can't find these things on the Internet..." Russell said with a smile: "Although your little ones haven't replaced their deciduous teeth yet, but the Derricks with humanoid form, their estrus period will come earlier than the growth period... In other words, if they lose their virginity, they will grow rapidly..."

He was answered by a loud slamming door.

Russell wondered if his second door had been broken.

"Ah." The little mermaid was dissatisfied with his distraction, and grabbed his earlobe with fat hands and tugged.Russell bowed his head and shook him with one hand, and gently closed his slender fingers to hold that naughty little hand.

"...When you grow up, is it racial instinct that prevails...or emotion..."

On the other hand, Li Wei, who was sitting on the bus back to the West District, had hot cheeks and stared out the window with blank eyes, and Russell's shocking words kept echoing in his head.

Estrus...

estrus…

"It's not an animal's fart, what the hell!!!" He couldn't help but yelled violently.

Shouts of fright came from the back row, followed by extreme silence.

Li Wei sighed deeply, completely ignoring the weird atmosphere around him.He is just thinking about some... not so heavy things... shouldn't be considered heavy... right?

Such as upper and lower positions.

Regardless of his mental age, his body is still in a sensitive puberty after all, so when he was with the twins, he had some intimate actions almost every day... Although he never reached the last step—that kid Jacob must know what to do, but Aya Uncle is not necessarily... In short, at present, they are still pure, male-male relationship.

The problem is, as a psychologically mature uncle, Li Wei noticed that the recent battles between him and the twins on the bed almost ended with him being ecstatic and sandwiched between the two from active to passive... Although the two boys have no experience Self-sufficient, but full of firepower, and it is particularly difficult for him to fight against two...

If there is a so-called estrus period, or if they have further contact, it is likely that Li Wei will suffer.

Li Wei laughed. He had already discovered the things that Jacob secretly hid in the cabinet. If it wasn't for fear that he would find out, how could the two of them be so active in cleaning up the cabinet today?

Uncle Wei expressed his complacency, and he just waited to see how long those two fat dragons could endure before revealing their tails... As for the issue of up and down, well, as a mature and gentle lover, he doesn't really care about it, at first, everyone They are all men, no one has to be above or below, not to mention he is older after all, if Abel and Jacob insist, why not let them?

The biting cold wind has begun to quietly affect Sky City, but spring flowers seem to be blooming around the black-haired boy.