Mermaid Throne

As soon as the scabs on Tao Yiran's body fell off, before dawn, he sailed to the reef area by himself in a boat.

The rising sun shone brightly on the rocks, Tao Yiran threw his clothes on the rocks, tied the boat, and plunged into the water.

The golden thread fish was as cunning as ever, and Tao Yiran had a few new injuries before he caught his prey.

Even though there were several big fish swimming beside him that could sell for a good price, Tao Yiran kept chasing after the elusive golden thread fish. By the time he caught the first one, he had gone to the surface to take a breath dozens of times.

His body began to tire, but his eyes were unusually bright.

He finally understood why the mermaid was so proud of his evolution.The confrontation with water, the confrontation with pressure, and the confrontation with breathing are all the reasons why mermaids are far superior to humans who live easily on land.

When Rong Xuan came back from school, he unexpectedly saw Tao Yiran who disappeared early in the morning in the fish shop.

The boy was bargaining with the person who came to buy fish. The buyer was a chef in his 40s, and his eyes were full of surprise and inquiry as he stared at the pot containing seven golden thread fish.

"Boy, if the [-] gold deal is made, I can buy all your golden thread fish in the future. You have to know, with so many golden thread fish, it is impossible for mermaids to ignore you." The chef tried to threaten him.

"25 gold. Whether you like it or not, we have never had a [-]% discount in our store." Tao Yiran said lazily, leaning against the door with his arms folded.

"...Except for our restaurant, no one is so generous that they can pack this kind of high-priced goods at once." The chef was annoyed.

"Okay," Tao Yiran seemed to have finally softened a little, "You can also pack the conch and seashells over there. I want to go back and rest early."

The chef glanced at the dispensable seafood, and nodded dumbfoundingly: "Stinky boy, pack the fish quickly..." After finishing speaking, he suddenly exclaimed: "Why are there only six fish left!"

Tao Ran was startled, and suddenly remembered the little figure who had just come in from the door, left the chef behind, turned around and entered the inner room.

There was a child sitting in the room with his back turned to him, obviously startled by the sound of him coming in, his head shook, but he didn't turn his head.

Tao Ran grabbed his cheek and turned his head around.

"It hurts!" An indistinct voice came out of the child's mouth, and what blocked his voice was the unswallowed half of the fish tail.

"25 gold! You prodigal fish!" Tao Yiran yelled, "You want to eat the kelp, conch and seashells there! You, a piranha who can't even afford food, dare to pick the most expensive one!"

"It's not so easy to raise a mermaid!" Rong Xuan patted his hand away.

"It's really a big loss to count your food expenses!" Tao Yiran was furious.

"...Give it back to you." Rong Xuan rolled out the fish head from under the tongue, and a complete fish bone was pulled out.

"..."

"Tsk, poor ghost." The child looked for an opportunity to slip away from him while disgusted, but when he just walked to the door, he was picked up by someone, and before he could struggle to get away, he was severely beaten twice. down ass. "What are you doing!" The child blushed with embarrassment and wanted to flick his tail!The mermaid's butt is the most sensitive place, does this guy know that? !

"Does it hurt? It hurts a lot more when I go into the water." Tao Yiran snorted coldly, "If you don't teach me a lesson, you won't know what guilt is."

"...Don't touch my ass again!" Rong Xuan took a few steps back, although his face was still blushing, his whole body was full of murderous aura.

Tao Yiran was taken aback.

The child was obviously really angry, kicked the door open, and rushed out.

"...Fuck." Tao Yiran pouted, returned to the shop, and handed over all the goods to the curious chef.

Closing time was two hours earlier than usual.Tao Yiran closed the shop door and was about to leave when he heard a commotion in the street.

The manager of the fruit shop next door ran out immediately: "Drink, have you started yet?"

A crowd of onlookers suddenly formed on the street. In the center of the crowd was a god frame raised by 20 people. The people who lifted the frame were all muscular men with tattoos representing strength and momentum.The god stand is not big, and what sits inside is not the Bodhisattva in the temple, but a war god with a ferocious face.The God of War sits in a very casual posture, but his expression is extremely arrogant. There is an arowana under his feet. The exquisite carving and vivid expression make people feel excited.

"The God of Fighting Competition is about to begin," the store manager looked admiringly, "I don't know who will sign up to participate this year."

"Is it starting so soon?" Tao Yiran was quite surprised.The annual God of Fighting Competition is actually the only legalized competition in underground boxing rings.In addition to other government-manipulated competitions, the God of God Competition without any selection threshold is the entrance to evolutionary people that countless unidentified and even outlaws flock to.

"I heard that there are mermaid slaves participating this year." The store manager has a computer at home, which is considered a rich family, so some news came more widely, "The competition stipulates that only humans can participate, and the mermaids want to use these slaves to humiliate humans. So the government extended the selection period in order to attract more strongmen."

Tao Yiran stared at the God of War passing by the door, and almost rushed up several times, asking for the registration form from the leader.

However, the footsteps were stepped out several times and then retracted.

……no.

He can't go back yet.

Biting his lower lip tightly, the boy's legs even trembled a little.

He is too eager to return, but even more afraid of failing again.

Rong Xuan angrily walked towards the house.

Damn humans!

...Damn, shameless humans!

A handsome face was dyed crimson, and the child clenched his fists.Does he know what it means to touch buttocks! ...this is basic common sense taught in seventh grade, this stupid...

When thinking of this, the anger suddenly disappeared.

He blinked, remembering that guy once said he dropped out of school at 12, at 12...probably didn't even go to seventh grade...

This guy is an out-and-out illiterate!

He actually lives in the home of an already quite rare illiterate!

Rong Xuan covered his face and moaned in pain.

The most noble purebred mermaid would actually live with an uneducated human being... Even if he goes back in the future, this unbearable history will probably become a joke for others.

After entering the house, Rong Xuan immediately flipped through Tao Yiran's few books.If you don’t pay attention, you don’t know. Most of the books this guy buys are mainly pictures, with a little more text. The pages are obviously much newer than others.

While he was researching, Tao Yiran had already walked into the room holding something he didn't know what it was.

The absent-minded teenager threw his things aside and started cooking.Rong Xuan kept staring at him, but didn't make a sound.When he put a plate of fried rice with dried fish in front of him, the child was taken aback.

Even when Tao Yiran was eating, his mind was not on the meal, so he didn't notice Rong Xuan's expression changed a few times at all.

Taking a spoon, he turned over the dried fish in the fried rice which was obviously double the amount in the other's bowl. Rong Xuan didn't understand how the boy who had just gotten angry with him would suddenly do something to please him.

After finishing his meal in a hurry, Tao Yiran dug out the things he had carried back, fiddled with them for a long time, and finally noticed the gaze that he hadn't moved away from.

"What's wrong?" The candlelight in the room was a little dim, and the child standing in the corner looked like... the younger brother who had almost been forgotten by him.Tao Yiran lost his mind for a moment.

"Why did you drop out of school?" Rong Xuan was always curious, but never found a suitable opportunity to test this person.

Tao Yiran was stunned for a moment, and quickly replied indifferently: "The whole family is dead. I owe a whole lot of debt, and if I don't pay back the money, I will be sold as a mermaid slave."

"...The mermaid slave is not as bad as you imagined." Rong Xuan frowned.

Tao Yiran looked up at him, and sneered: "A dog in a suit, and a man with a bare butt, the latter can at least stand and walk."

Rong Xuan pursed his lips and did not refute. "How did your family die?"

"Mermaid war. My father died because of stray bullets from his own people. My mother was robbed and killed by mermaid slaves when she took her younger brother to get relief. At that time, our family had just bought a ticket to enter the city and owed others five thousand gold." Tao Yiran stared blankly at the flickering candle while recalling.But six years have passed, and I seem to have forgotten the heart-piercing pain at that time.hate?Who do you hate?Those guys who had caused him pain were killed by another group of people in the next moment.When I arrived, there were only piles of corpses left on the scene, and I couldn't even tell which was my mother and brother.

"Five thousand gold?! How do you pay it back?" Even Rong Xuan was shocked.

"City tickets for four people. During the war, you can only buy them at this price." Tao Yiran smiled, "But I don't use any of them. I hid outside the city to avoid the war, and I sold the ticket to another group of people, and I lost a little, but at least the creditor couldn’t sell me. Later, I was short of [-] gold, and there was a mess outside the city. At my age, I could only fight underground. I found a job in the boxing gym, and I worked [-] hours a day in the boxing gym, but somehow it kept me alive."

Rong Xuan was stunned when he heard this, and at first he thought that this person had all kinds of disgusting shortcomings, but now he became rationalized again.

"But you are too far away from an evolutionary person." Rong Xuan looked at the props he sorted out, all of which were crude and even some damaged training equipment. If such things can train an evolutionary person, it is really a meteorite hitting the earth probability.

"I never thought of becoming an evolutionary person." After Tao Yiran wiped all the training equipment clean, he arranged them one by one. "What I want to do...is just to conquer the underground boxing ring."

"It's the same thing." He'd heard stories of underground boxing rings, where conquerors often became evolved.

"It's not the same." Tao Yiran looked back at him, "It's like the mermaid species still can't become a real mermaid in the end. As long as he doesn't accept the transformation of an evolutionary human, he will never be an evolutionary human."

"...Your ambition is really small." Rong Xuan walked over, picked up a dumbbell weighing several tens of catties with ease, tossed it and caught it in Tao Yiran's slightly surprised eyes, "Look, this is the dumbbell born in nature. If you don’t become an evolutionary person, so what if you dominate the boxing ring? Ordinary people like you, even if you are called the king of this species, it’s a joke to us.” He just wanted to see this guy The dissatisfaction in his eyes, living for so long, and enduring his disrespect to him every day, this time he finally had a chance to fight back, of course Rong Xuan wanted to rub salt on his wounds fiercely.

Tao Yiran didn't speak, and suddenly punched Rong Xuan, who immediately dodged backwards, but he didn't expect that the other party kicked the chair in the direction of his retreat at the same moment.Before he had time to dodge his feet, Rong Xuan fell violently.

"Even if you are holding the earth, I can still trip you up with a lever." Tao Yiran grinned an extremely nasty smile.

The child with a bruised nose and a swollen face got up in embarrassment, and said angrily, "You are cheating!"

"Win is winning." Tao Yiran relaxed his muscles.

"You are illiterate! You don't even know what a lever is, and you don't learn it with humility!" Rong Xuan wiped the corners of his mouth and exposed him viciously.

This time, a trace of embarrassment finally flashed across Tao Yiran's face.

Rong Xuan threw his book on the table and spread out the contents inside: "A book is only badly read where there are pictures, and where there are words are all new. Are you a young child? That's it. Do you still want to use the principle of leverage at your level? Yours is obviously a trick you learned from Xia Sanlao. Most of the guys in the boxing ring are at your level. If you can think of it, others can't? Don't you want to let Are the audience in the audience watching the monkeys fight?"

"...What does it have to do with you!" The young man who was finally poked in the sore spot snatched his book.

Of course it matters!Rong Xuan thought bitterly in his heart.This human being is not weak. Before he became an adult, he needed a relatively trustworthy assistant to protect him, and he was barely an option.But what he wants is not a thug with a muscular body and a simple mind. If he can't even understand mermaid writing, how can he communicate in the future!

"If I can help you become stronger, just sit down and study with me obediently."

Tao Yiran refused without even thinking about it: "I'm not interested." A dead child, pretending to be a teacher.

"Now you have to face, when you lose, what face do you have?" Rong Xuan felt that he was simply a teaching and counseling director who led the scum back to the right path.But that bad student still has a bad attitude of "study wasting money".

"What can you teach me? How to dive?" Tao Yiran sneered.

"If there are ten golden thread fish and seven black ball fish in the sea at the same time, assuming that the price of black ball fish is [-] times that of golden thread fish, but your time to catch one black ball fish is [-] times that of golden thread fish , and your physical strength can only catch seven golden thread fish in total. How do you choose to earn the most money?" Rong Xuan asked suddenly.

"..." The two stared at each other.

"How to choose?" Rong Xuan asked again.

"Damn it! I've tried my best to catch it all!" the boy replied in a vicious voice.

"So, it's terrible to be uneducated, right? If you accidentally catch five golden thread fish and one black ball fish, if you catch another black ball fish, you will drown."

"..."

"So I can make you stronger."

"..."

"I've learned bioengineering, culture is higher than you."

"..."

"If you agree, just sign here, and one hour of class a day will be deducted from one day's food expenses... Tsk, fingerprints are also fine."

"...Don't grab my hand and press it!" The boy blushed and scolded.

"Can you wash your hands! There are still fish scales on them after eating!" Rong Xuan also scolded.

The two argued for a while, and finally Rong Xuan got a letter of commitment with his fingerprints on it.When he returned home after hiding the letter of commitment, Tao Yiran asked awkwardly, "How many are there?"

"..."