Raise me, I'm super sweet

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"He's still here this morning." Qi Fanchen thought of something, suddenly thought of something, took out a bottle from his pocket, and handed it to him, "This is the used bottle that I asked him to come over this morning."

"Xin Jing doesn't look like a mermaid." Cang Luan took a look and frowned, "But I've heard what Master said, and now I'm not sure."

"What?" Qi Fanchen looked at him.

"I always thought you were a human being at first." Cangluan thought, "This means that if it is a child of a human and a shark, I can't sense it. They are more like a human being. But how many of the sharks on land are human?" Combined with humans, the number is not clear."

"It doesn't look like he knows this stuff from his appearance." Qi Fanchen tilted his head, "But the possibility of him acting is not ruled out. After all, he did deceive us at the beginning."

"There are patterns of our clan on this bottle." Cangluan held up the bottle. Under the sunlight, the originally transparent body of the bottle turned slightly and could see the colorful patterns on it. "This kind of pattern is very common. Our clothes up there."

Cang Luan moved his eyes down to him: "Where?"

Cang Luan stretched out his hand in front of him and said, "Look carefully, there are cuffs."

Qi Fanchen grabbed his hand and lifted it up, looked closely, and found that the cuff was indeed embroidered with gold thread, but the pattern was very small, and it was almost invisible if you didn't look carefully.

"If it's a mermaid's child, you can tell it at a glance." Cangluan could feel his warm breath on his wrist, arousing a burst of itching, he endured it, "But judging from the situation of those children, He shouldn't have done anything."

"Those five children were controlled by the sharks, so it has nothing to do with them." Qi Fanchen let go of his hand, guessing, "Will the sharks who were in the hospital back then stay?"

"Basically impossible." Cang Luan said with certainty, "Once the mermaids get sick, they are just like you humans, they can only wait to die."

Qi Fanchen stared straight at him: "Look, I survived."

Cang Luan was stunned for a second, then nodded, "Then maybe he has human blood and won't die."

"So the purpose of those five children may be to let you take those samples." Qi Fanchen guessed, "So, these people also know your identity."

"Only my father knows that I came to land." Cang Luan frowned, "It's impossible for them to know where I am so precisely."

Qi Fanchen fell silent, and finally started the car: "Let's go to the orphanage first."

On the way, Cangluan checked the orphanage with his mobile phone. There are very few records about this place on the webpage. It was built 15 years ago. At that time, there was no expressway here. There are several villages scattered here and there.

"Abandoned babies often appear on this road." Cang Luan read out this sentence and asked him, "What does this mean?"

"Rural people value sons over daughters, plus family planning at that time, so if the baby was a girl, the parents would throw the girl by the side of the road, and kind people passing by would take it away." Qi Fanchen explained.

"Then what if there are no kind-hearted people?" Cang Luan realized something was wrong.

"Then it depends on her fate." Qi Fanchen said softly.

Cang Luan frowned, and said dissatisfiedly, "It's so cruel."

Fortunately, a wealthy entrepreneur who passed by saw this phenomenon, and funded the construction of an orphanage near the highway, where the abandoned children were sent.But it was still too difficult to raise so many children with the philanthropist alone, so the orphanage closed down after only three years of operation.The rest of the children were sent to other orphanages by the government.

"The time is right." Cangluan said, "It closed down almost 12 years ago."

"According to Master, the mermaids may have appeared in the orphanage 12 years ago." Qi Fanchen calculated, "According to my age, I should have come with them."

"How old were you then?" Cang Luan asked.

"13 years old." Qi Fanchen paused and said, "Master said that not long after he rescued me, I developed a high fever. After the fever subsided, I couldn't remember the previous events. He didn't come to ask What about me, so no one knows about my own life experience."

Cang Luan looked at him quietly and asked, "Are you looking for your parents?"

Qi Fanchen shook his head: "It's been so many years, I probably couldn't find it long ago, besides, I don't remember it either."

Cang Luan just looked at him and didn't speak any more.

They arrived at the destination soon, but because the place had been abandoned for many years, weeds and trees were overgrown around the orphanage, Qi Fanchen couldn't drive in, so he had to park the car on the side of the road, and the two walked in.

There used to be farmland here, but now the grass in the field is as tall as a man, Cang Luan walked in front to help him push the weeds away, Qi Fanchen followed closely behind him.

"If it weren't for the big characters, it would be really hard to find this place." Cang Luan said while paying attention to his feet, "I didn't expect such a desolate place in your city."

"It's like this in some rural areas. Young people have gone out to work, some old people have passed away, and some are living in nursing homes. The village gradually loses people." Qi Fanchen didn't notice a stone under his feet when he said this, and stumbled , and rushed towards Cang Luan in front of him.

Cang Luan was thrown into his arms, staggered, and quickly turned around to hug him: "Are you okay?"

"Ah, it's okay." Qi Fanchen supported his arm and stood up, looked down, "Scared me."

Cang Luan looked back at the big characters, and took his hand: "It's almost there, I'll take you there."

Qi Fanchen wanted to say no, he is no longer a child if he needs someone to guide him on such a flat road.Cang Luan's strength in pulling him was also very gentle, and he could easily break free, but Qi Fanchen hesitated for two seconds, and finally remained silent.

It also feels good.

The two walked through a patch of weeds and finally came to the abandoned orphanage in the middle.

The orphanage does not occupy a large area. It has been too long, and the skin of the wall has almost peeled off. Weeds that grow wantonly wrap the outer wall tightly, and it is almost impossible to see the inside.But the faded and rusted signboards on the roof are still standing.

When he got closer, Qi Fanchen discovered that on the wall below those large characters, there was still a pattern that faded to dark gray, which seemed to be a smiling little sun.

Red sun.

The sun was plentiful, and Qi Fanchen felt it was a bit dazzling, so he lowered his head after taking a look.

"Do you have any impression?" Cang Luan still led him to the gate of the courtyard before letting go.

The bricks and stones on the ground were mixed, and the red paint on the iron fence was very mottled. Qi Fanchen shook his head: "I have no impression."

Cang Luan shook the iron gate, turned around and smiled at him: "We're going to climb over the wall again."

The two climbed over the fence, and the yard was relatively clean, but some of the amusement facilities were so old that they couldn't see their original appearance.There was a big lock on the gate, just as Cang Luan was about to step forward to have a look, Qi Fanchen had already drawn out his sword and chopped off the lock.

"Does this count as trespassing?" Cang Luan joked as he pushed the door open.

"It doesn't count." Qi Fanchen put away his sword, "This place is no longer inhabited, it's no different from an open space."

As soon as you enter the first floor, there is a dining hall, and there are several activity classrooms to the left, and offices to the right.The second floor is where the children and staff live.

"Master said that the prison room is on the basement floor." Qi Fanchen looked around, "There should be an entrance."

The two walked around on the first floor several times before finally discovering the movable secret door in the adult bathroom.

"If the way to the basement is to pass through here, it is impossible for the staff here not to know." Qi Fanchen said, "It means that those businessmen probably reached a consensus with the people here."

"The mermaids don't have the ability to transform into humans until they are about ten years old." Cang Luan said, "If so many mermen in their teens are sent here, it will be difficult to deceive people."

"I'm afraid it's not just the orphanage." Qi Fanchen pushed open the secret door and said, "It's just that it hasn't been discovered yet."

Behind the secret door is a dark staircase that can only accommodate one person.Qi Fanchen turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone and walked ahead, he could smell a musty smell coming from the ground.

"It smells like blood." Cang Luan said softly, "It's much stronger than the smell of the hospital."

After walking a few meters, we arrived at the basement floor. The lights here were out of order, the sunlight couldn’t come in, and it was so pitch black that we couldn’t see anything.

Qi Fanchen could only rely on the light of the flashlight, touch the wall and slowly walk forward, before walking a few steps, his hand was held.

"There is no need to go forward." Cang Luan's voice became a little hoarse, "The cage is ahead."

Qi Fanchen was taken aback, he pointed his phone forward, and could vaguely see some black iron railings extending back row by row, he didn't know how big the cage was.

In the cage, there are iron chains glowing faintly, and there are mottled shadows on the ground, covered with dust.

"I've stayed here too." Qi Fanchen said quietly, "A rough estimate, how many mermen can be imprisoned here?"

"...One or two hundred is no problem." Cang Luan tightened his hand slightly.

Qi Fanchen closed his eyes. Standing here, he seemed to be able to feel the scene that his master saw when he came here 12 years ago.

That is the hell of sharks.

"Why did they catch the merman?" Qi Fanchen felt very depressed in this space, "They are all infected, why should they be locked up?"

"If you guessed right, it should be used as medicine." Cang Luan said slowly, "I suspect that the medicine that appeared in Mufu Village before, and the medicine that appeared in that community ten years ago all came from sharks. .”

Qi Fanchen suddenly remembered that when he was fighting with Uncle Wu in the cemetery, Cangluan once said to him: "Merman's blood is good for human beings."

Probably more than blood.

Qi Fanchen thought.

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