can you stop thinking about it

After turning off the nerve sensor, Gu Xiuhan's right arm instantly changed from an intelligent mechanical prosthetic to an ordinary tool.

It's like picking up a piece of coal with iron tongs, and you can't feel the heat with your hands.

When rubbing the fish tail with the alloy palm, all Gu Xiuhan felt was the pressure from the junction of his right shoulder.

Ruan Yu's fish tail is flexible and the scales are tender and thin. When the mechanical arm is applied, it will be shallow and concave. A pearly white soft light flows up and down along with the ups and downs of the massage.

"Well……"

Most of the ant-biting pain was relieved, Ruan Yu was scratched to the itchy place, and he hummed happily, the tip of his tail curled and stretched happily, and even his mental net rippled into waves like seaweed.

Gu Xiuhan lowered his eyes, his pupils were as black as two ink dots, even the spiritual healers who were best at observing words and expressions had difficulty digging out emotions from them.

He had to exercise caution and restraint.

He still clearly remembered the touch of Ruan Yu's tail.

Different from the graceful and slender fish tail at the moment, Ruan Yu's fish tail was short and plump when he was a cub.

That year, Ruan Yu was only two years old when he first lived in Gu Xiuhan's house.

After the locust-like alien army wiped out the entire territory, the ocean planet on which the mermaids depended for survival became devastated.

The mermaid family is on the verge of extinction, and there are no more than two digits of survivors, and only Ruan Yu is left in the mermaid royal family with rare blood.

After being brought back to the capital planet by Gu Xiuhan, Ruan Yu, as an interstellar refugee without a place of affiliation, has a certain research value and needs to cooperate with the scientific research institute to conduct a series of experiments on the basis of protecting the right to life and health.

His destination should have been the Military Research Institute.

However, after confirming that Ruan Yu could cure Gu Xiuhan's mental defects, Gu Xiuhan's parents, who were senior military officials and special researchers at the time, used their privileges to issue a research institute identity card to the mermaid cub on the surface. Place him in the manor under Gu Xiuhan's name and let him live with Gu Xiuhan in order to provide treatment.

As for the research institute, Ruan Yu only needs to cooperate with them to conduct harmless experiments once or twice a month.

For Ruan Yu, this is naturally the best arrangement. Although the research institute will guarantee his survival needs, the environment is obviously very different compared to living in Gu's family.

During the few days when she first entered Gu's house, Ruan Yu was full of fear towards Gu Xiuhan.

The SSS-level gene is a double-edged sword. It will endow organisms with physical attributes and combat power that are almost superhuman, but at the same time, it will also bring negative personality traits such as tyranny, belligerence, and desire to conquer, which will lead to abnormal mental development of organisms. , irregular outbursts of mental power, perception disorders, and personality defects mainly alexithymia.

They are like war machines given to the race by the laws of evolution.

Or a guardian.

When he was a teenager, Gu Xiuhan looked handsome, with sharp lines. He was originally an excellent face, but unfortunately his eyes were dark and dull, as hollow as two holes dug in his face. When he looked at people, he almost resembled a Humanoid aliens.

Not to mention the asphalt-like scorched and distorted mental body and the brain signals that are on the verge of frenzy at every turn...

Ruan Yu could sense everything.

However, the two-year-old little Ruan Yu is also clingy.

The ocean is too vast, and the ocean currents change complicatedly. Such a living environment makes the mermaid cubs evolve a survival strategy similar to "Insui". The few breeders who are like a small tail that can't be shaken off, to avoid premature death due to being out of the group.

Because he was rescued by the mecha manipulated by Gu Xiuhan, Xiao Ruan Yu recognized Gu Xiuhan as a relative, sticking to him, but at the same time afraid of him.

Extremely contradictory.

Whenever Gu Xiuhan stays away from the artificial lake for more than a certain period of time, the anxious little fish cubs will "pop" and "pop" to spray water bubbles and water arrows towards the shore of the lake to show their presence and seek Gu Xiuhan's care and support. Soothe, like a baby who cries through the night for being left alone.

Except for Gu Xiuhan, no one else can make Xiao Ruan Yu stop this behavior if he comes to appease him.

But once Gu Xiuhan walked to the lake and asked Ruan Yu what he needed with empty and cold eyes, the joy on little Ruan Yu's pink face would ebb at the speed of light.

The relatives disappeared again, let's make a fuss.

The relatives are coming.

babble……

Something is wrong with this family!

The little fish squashed its mouth in fear and aggrieved, swung its tail, and sank into the bottom of the lake.

There are several solidifying and hardening crystals floating on the surface of the lake.

Gu Xiuhan: "..."

He made the mermaid cub cry again.

Gu Xiuhan stood motionless, and after a long while, he slowly bent over, knelt down on one knee by the lake, and touched the gentle azure water with his fingertips.

It seems to be trying to communicate with Ruan language.

The personality defect brought by the SSS gene to Gu Xiuhan is a serious expression disorder, especially language expressions that are beyond the logical category and are related to emotions.

Even though he was caring, his face was still sickly cold, like a mask that trapped all emotions.

Under the three-meter-deep water, Ruan Yu curled up shyly, hugging the fat and short fish tail with her joint-like arms, trying to reduce the size. This is the instinctive action of the mermaid cubs when they want to avoid the attention of predators.

He heard Gu Xiuhan get up and walk away. After a while, he went back to the shore and did something, then walked away again.

After an unknown amount of time, Ruan Yu floated to the surface of the water anxiously, tormented by the fear of losing traces of her relatives.

There is a pot of fresh and clean small whitebait on the shore of the lake, the bones, scales and internal organs of the fish have been removed, a holographic ball dedicated to playing children's programs, various waterproof toys, a clean military uniform and a finely crafted mech model .

It was made after scaling down the proportion of the exclusive mecha that took care of Xiu Han.

Food, fun, or a sense of security, Gu Xiuhan put everything Ruan Yu might need by the lake.

"..."

"babble."

For the rest of the afternoon, Ruan Yu lowered his head, leaning against the lake wall and pulling his tail fin listlessly.

It's like a human child picking his fingers with shame.

That line of kinship is fine.

That relative also saved him.

It was he who was too timid and made his relatives sad.

……

When Gu Xiuhan was summoned to the lake by Ruan Yu's water bubbles and water arrows again, Ruan Yu didn't panic and hide at the bottom of the lake as he did a few times before.

On the contrary, little Ruan Yu twisted her short tail and arched towards the lake shore.The fish in charge of swimming has a strong tail, but the mermaid cub was very clumsy when it came to the shore. In order to use its strength, it swung wildly in the lake, splashing water all over Gu Xiuhan's body.

Gu Xiuhan was stunned, afraid of disturbing the timid cub, he didn't dare to move, he didn't even dare to hide, and let the lake water drip along his trousers.

"Yeah..."

You don't hurt me.

Ruan Yu's immature cry trembled, and she managed to move to Gu Xiuhan's feet.

Seeing that Gu Xiuhan's mental strength showed no signs of breaking out, Ruan Yu tried his best to overcome his fear, wobbly stood on his body with his tail, and raised his arms to grab Gu Xiuhan.

The cub's hands are extremely small, bulging white, with a layer of watery and transparent webs between the chubby fingers.

With a child's strength, one in each hand, he firmly grasped Gu Xiuhan's pale wheat-colored fingers covered with thin calluses.

Then, Ruan Yu dragged Gu Xiuhan to sit on the ground like this, and raised his tail with difficulty—the tail was too short and plump, but it was actually just bent a little towards Gu Xiuhan with great effort.

He grabbed Gu Xiuhan's hand and pressed it against his pink and pearly white fish tail. The ear fins, elbow fins and tail fins were all trembling with instinctive fear, but the strength transmitted to Gu Xiuhan from those small hands be firm.

Touching of the important tail is allowed.

——This is a peaceful signal for the tense mermaids to "let their guard down".

The tail of the fish is cool and smooth, and because the scales are tightly fitted, it will bring slight resistance to the palm when stroked, like silk soaked in cold water.

The palms that hold the cold and hard firearms and mecha joysticks all the year round rarely experience this kind of tactile sensation.

At that time, Gu Xiuhan only felt strange and soft-hearted, as if he was stroking a milk cat.

But now...

Gu Xiuhan restrained his thoughts from slipping to the edge of the restricted area.

……

The mechanical arm is more accurate than human hands in grasping the strength and musculoskeletal distribution, which is quite suitable for massage.

Ruan Yu was overly relaxed with his comfortable foul technique, and because he was sleepy because of the pain in his tail, he half-closed his eyes and collapsed into a sleepy fish cake on the recliner.

It wasn't until the mechanical arm touched the nerve-dense tail tip that Ruan Yu shook his tail fin in shock and woke up——

He still has work to do.

Ruan Yu turned his face to a slightly sneaky angle, looking at Gu Xiuhan consciously and covertly.

It was a clear-cut face, with black eyebrows and eyes, and his face was as cold as frozen jade under a thick ice shell, which was coated with a layer of sparkling light by the lake water, and the thin light surged, making his coldness even stronger.

I haven't seen him for a year, but his appearance hasn't changed.

A cool glance can stop a child from crying at night, and it can also stop a fish cub from spitting water and bubbles in the middle of the night.

However, after returning to the capital planet from the border, something really went wrong with Gu Xiuhan.

Ruan Yu concentrated on thinking.

He concentrated all the energy of the spiritual network on Gu Xiuhan to detect Gu Xiuhan's mental state.

When he was a teenager, because the SSS-level mental power was too strong and difficult to control, Gu Xiuhan often faced the danger of mental power explosion.

Ruan Yu, who was still young at the time, taught him a way to build a "spiritual dam".

This kind of mental dam can trap Gu Xiuhan's flood-like mental power and minimize the frequency of mental power explosions.

But at the same time, the mental dam will also block Ruan Yu's mental perception, making it difficult for Ruan Yu to catch Gu Xiuhan's EEG signals, and even the most basic emotional perception requires mobilizing all mental power and concentrating.

At this moment, Gu Xiuhan's mental body settled into a cloud of dark blue, melancholy and depressed.

This proves that Gu Xiuhan is in a depressed and negative state.

Earlier today, Ruan Yu asked Gu Xiuhan if he was unhappy, but was choked back by his blunt "nothing".

Expected.

Gu Xiuhan had a long mouth, but apart from giving military orders, he only had a few words in his daily life—it’s okay, what’s wrong, I got it, Ruan Ruan...

No matter how unhappy you are, you will only hold back silently.

As for the brainwaves, Ruan Yu couldn't hear any meaningful sentences. Even if he pricked up his ear fins to listen hard, he could barely intercept some messy brainwaves, like the sizzle of electric current when the communication signal was poor.

[Zizi...Zizi...]

[Zi...Zi Zi...]

Faint and noisy, meaningless.

Ruan Yu had no choice but to give up listening and sort out through logic.

There shouldn't be any major incidents happening on Frontier Star, otherwise, even if Gu Xiuhan didn't say anything, the reports on Starnet would have been overwhelming.

In other words, it's trivial things that make Gu Xiuhan unhappy.

... Could it be jet lag?

The circadian rhythms of Frontier Star and Capital Star are quite different. Changing environments abruptly may lead to jet lag syndrome, which in turn leads to emotional sensitivity, and is easy to feel depressed because of some small things...

Ruan Yu was too preoccupied, and Ruan Yu had long forgotten to cover it up. He folded his arms and rested his chin, frowned, and stared straight at Gu Xiuhan.

It was obvious that Gu Xiuhan could see that Ruan Yu was thinking about him intensely from the corner of his eye.

Gu Xiuhan: "..."

A soft emotion surged through my heart, dispelling the gloom.

"Brother Xiu Han," Ruan Yu realized, and asked seriously, "Are you suffering from jet lag, have you taken your medicine?"

"Yeah," Gu Xiuhan fooled the fish, "I just ate it."

really.

Ruan Yu endured it, but couldn't hold back, and complained softly: "I knew that the medicine to prevent jet lag should be taken in advance on the starship. I reminded you that day, but you still forgot..."

Gu Xiuhan paused, his voice was as cold as ice, and his sudden opening could scare the soldiers into a fright, but at this moment, he said without any coercion, "I'm sorry."

Gu Xiuhan admitted his mistake with a good attitude, Ruan Yu softened instantly, and said in a low voice: "Well...then next time this happens again, I will remind you a few more times."

After finishing speaking, Gu Xiuhan's mental body has slowly changed from dark blue to pale gold.

It was warm and pleasant, like a smiling state.

Sure enough, no matter how strong Brother Xiu Han is, he is not made of iron, and he needs the care of his relatives when he is down.

Ruan Yu twisted her tail in satisfaction and a little bit of embarrassment, withdrew the energy from Gu Xiuhan's body, and stopped checking Gu Xiuhan's mental state.

"Wait a minute, I want to turn over." Ruan Yu said, changing from lying on his back to lying on his stomach.

The fish's butt also has to be pressed by the fish.

Gu Xiuhan paused, and the mechanical arm slowly reached over.

When Ruan Yu lay on her stomach, she could see her waist.

There are some fine soft scales growing on the edge, and the light gray shadows in the depressions make the surroundings whiter, like the miniature eddies caused by stirring the milk with a spoon in circles.

When pressed elsewhere, they are slightly deformed by pulling.

[So soft. ]

After a while.

[Don't think about it. ]

With abstinence down to the bone, Gu Xiuhan even restrained his thoughts.

Even if there was a spiritual dam, Ruan Yu couldn't hear anything, and he wouldn't let his thoughts grow.

Because that's not "correct".

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A cub coming ashore with its short tail twisted: gùyong