Fairy empire

Article 2 Mermaid

02. The second mermaid

If the desires of all species were brewed into a glass of wine, the glass belonging to humans must be the richest and most mellow.First of all, the complex brain and the intertwined emotions in the heart that override all species have dragged them down dozens of streets.From the way of thinking to the diverse personalities that diverge, after tens of thousands of years of evolution, human beings have become the masters of this world, holding the power of life and death of all things in the world.

As humans evolved, so did more emotions and desires.Human beings are not only satisfied with the satisfaction of tongue and tongue, satisfied with having shelter from wind and rain, but also desire other intangible and illusory things, such as complacency, such as the satisfaction of standing at the top of human beings, such as giving The pleasure of abuse.

The sense of victory brought about by competition and the frustration of losing can often become catalysts on the road of life.Of course, the catalytic direction of the catalyst is not determined by the individual. Positive catalysis and negative effects can completely lead people into two unimaginable extremes.When you see someone else has something you don’t have, to put it nicely, you envy him; to put it more bluntly——

You are jealous of him.

You are jealous of him who can have a better life than you even if he doesn't work as hard as you.

Perhaps from the beginning, such emotions were positive and positive.When you were in school, the anonymous you envied their good grades, the brand-name clothes they wore, the sneakers on their feet, and the joyful and loving eyes of the teacher on them; when you grew up, you thought you were out of this world , but you find that you start to envy more things - the performance of your colleagues, the salary of the leader, the beauties, cars, houses around your former classmates...

Material crushing makes you feel pain.

If you can’t ask for it, you have to say "You are so good" and "Today is really hard" with a smiling face. The dissatisfaction lingers in your heart. The classmates who were worse than you once lived a life that is a hundred times better than you, so your heart is even more resentful. For the first time, this unfair, disgusting, feng shui world allows you to experience such malice.

Finally, at a certain opportunity—maybe it was the urging of your parents, or maybe it was the complaint from your lover—in short, under the catalysis of these negative factors, your emotions become distorted, and you don’t even know yourself.

In the middle of the night when no one is with you, the radio station is ringing lonely and quietly, and the stories that belong to the lonely man and woman will also leave a deep mark on your heart.You smoked cigarettes one by one, letting the cigarette butts floating with the white smoke be strangled to death in the ashtray.The bright moonlight pours in, illuminating your frustrated and sleepy face.Even knowing that there is still work to be done early the next day, under the catalysis of the smoke, I still have no sleepiness.

Listening to the song, you recall your original self, how good you were at the beginning, and how abject you are now.

You find that your negative emotions in these years are far more than the past ten years in your school days-you have too many things to take into account.

When you squeeze the tram and see the beautiful scenery outside the window, you can no longer gather your energy to look at the falling cherry blossom petals, because all you think is "others already have a car, so there is no need to worry about squeezing the tram like me every day." “being late”; when apologizing to your boss for work problems in the company, what you think is that the person who came in with you has been promoted to the position of director and you are still struggling here; You spit out the food in your mouth, complaining in your heart about what it is, and at the same time, you think that others can go to high-end restaurants to enjoy delicious food, while your financial strength can only afford such cheap work meals.

what happened?

Do you hear the voice of chanting non-stop in your ear?What does it say?Cursing words?Don't just cover your ears, you might as well point to your beating heart and ask silently——

Are you unwilling?Resentment?Envious?jealous?

You have to admit that after these thoughts appear in your brain more and more times, your heart has already been gradually eroded by the devil, and the innocence and purest envy that belong to children have been left behind in the past years Never get it back.Put a label of "Honkai" on the head of envy, and it can immediately put on the skin stained with pure malice, and turn into jealousy that burns your peaceful heart.

Hey, are you ready to accept the collapse of yourself?

****

The morning sun shines into the room as always, laying a layer of more gorgeous colors on the already gorgeous floor.This is a villa in the bustling and bustling center of Tokyo. It can occupy so much land in such an expensive place, which shows how rich its owner is.Tanaka, who is a businessman and recently bought a pet from a pet shop, lives here.

And the office that can represent this kind of person's identity is naturally not a place that is decorated casually - no, it should be said that the office is probably the place where the whole person decorates with the most care.In this key place used by Tanaka to receive business partners, Tanaka specially ordered a fish tank that is two high enough to be surrounded by seven people for his newly bought pet—Florence. In a conspicuous corner of the office.Although in fact, even if Tanaka is not deliberately placed in a conspicuous position, people who come in will immediately focus on the huge fish tank and the wonderful species in the fish tank.

Human beings are always 12 points curious about things they have never seen before. This is common even on the whole earth, because it is a common problem of human beings.

After Florence was sent to Tanaka's home and resettled, Tianzhong was filled with the joy of seeing Florence every day, and at the same time, the number of guests visiting Tianzhong also increased day by day.Originally, due to business problems, Tanaka had to receive many guests every day, but after he released the news that he had a mermaid pet, Tanaka was so busy that he never stopped.

Florence can't speak, and most of the time she nestled quietly at the bottom of the fish tank, propped her chin on the rockery, opened her eyes and looked out through the transparent glass, with undisguised curiosity and longing in her eyes.The time of eating is the happiest for Florence, because at this time, Florence will slap her tail from the bottom to the top, flicking her tail excitedly around the fish tank, waiting for the delicious meat into her mouth.

According to Earl D, Florence had to eat five kilograms of meat for each meal, three meals a day, and just changed the water once a month or so.In order to ensure that she gets the most perfect care, Tanaka hired a large number of staff to take care of her with a high salary, who are responsible for feeding and taking care of Florence every day, or taking the most beautiful photos of her while she is sleeping and giving them as gifts.Occasionally, when he was free in the fields, he would climb up the ladder to feed Florence meat, or he would tell her what he wanted to say to himself.

This shows Tanaka's care for Florence.

Of course, Florence is also a qualified pet. She is well-behaved and obedient. She is willing to blink and listen to her master's innermost thoughts, and she is also willing to show her graceful dancing posture for guests and audiences under the master's command.Or poke your head out of the water and greet guests with a friendly but clumsy wave of the hand.

For the owner, the more amazing things the pet does, the higher the owner's worth.

Everyone who saw Florence for the first time had exactly the same reaction as Tanaka's first time, it was a kind of touch brought about by something like electric current hitting the soul suddenly.All thoughts and the ability to speak are taken away, and even the soul seems to be able to fly to the beautiful heaven under the gaze of those beautiful violet eyes.Everyone can't help but exclaim: "My God, this is nothing short of a miracle."

——This is a miracle, Florence is a miracle, the mermaid is a miracle of the deep sea, a miracle created by the Creator.

Whenever he sees other people's admiring eyes and compliments "Oh, Mr. Tanaka, you are really amazing", Tanaka will still maintain a modest smirk on the surface, but in his heart he is always fluttered by the compliments that hit the soul. Desperate.It is undeniable that his inner vanity has been greatly satisfied, and the pride of successfully killing Yamamoto in seconds made him unable to hum some incoherent ditties.

Together with the increase in customers, there are also performances that are on the rise.Tanaka looked at his thriving performance report every day, and couldn't hide the smile from the bottom of his heart on his face, so it was like positive feedback, and Florence's treatment became better and better. The five kilograms per meal Meat can be almost doubled.

Dazed by joy, Tanaka completely ignored Florence's fast and sharp look while eating, and his mind was full of her beautiful face and the various benefits she brought to him.

The joy and love in his heart became more and more intense, and Tanaka even had to talk to her for a while every night before falling asleep, even though he knew that he would not get any response.

Florence almost captivated the souls of all the people who had seen her face. In front of her eyes and in illusory dreams, the beautiful and moving mermaid living in mythology, Florence, was everywhere.

No one would doubt that she possesses a certain magical power that humans cannot refuse.

****

When days like this cool down a bit, Tokyo's timeline and seasons have entered autumn.And the information dealer who was entrusted by Tanaka to investigate the mysterious pet shop - Orihara Rinya - came to visit his former customer - Tanaka on such a frosty autumn day: "Mr. Tanaka, for a long time I don’t see you, I’m Orihara Rinya, I don’t know if I’m still lucky enough to occupy a place in your mind without being deleted?”

There seems to be no slight change from the person in the impression. The man in front of him is still wearing the same black fur ball trim jacket for thousands of years, with a black vest inside and the same black trousers on his legs.The scarlet eyes shone with an unpredictable light, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was as mysterious and malicious as a fortune-teller. Orihara Rin also put his hands in his pockets, folded his clothes and bowed slightly.

Seeing the person coming, Tanaka squinted his eyes with a smile, and warmly greeted Orihara Lin to sit down on the leather sofa in the office: "Ah, Mr. Orihara, welcome. Thanks to you, I finally bought this mermaid as I wished. Of course, I have to thank you very much!"

Businessmen never let themselves do business at a loss, and since Tanaka is determined to buy pets, of course he will ask people to do a careful investigation.After inquiring about news among colleagues, Tanaka approached Orihara Rinya, an intelligence dealer who had been active in Ikebukuro, Tokyo for a while. It is still valid, even if Orihara Rin is not in Tokyo, he still holds high-level secrets that others cannot obtain.

Perhaps he also said that he would never care about other people's business anymore, but he who loves human beings has always been unable to keep himself away or cut himself off from the human world.So now, after many years, Orihara Rin is still wearing his iconic clothes, swaying on the streets of Tokyo—ah, of course, you have to be careful of the terrible vending machines that fly from behind from time to time. The familiar "Pro! Also! Old! Brother! Yo!"

Well, why isn't that nasty Xiaojing dead yet?

Orihara Rin also had a half frowning smile, dodging Heiwajima Shizuo's attack, thinking so.

After Orihara Rinya returned to Tokyo to continue working as an intelligence dealer, he was commissioned by Tanaka to investigate a pet shop.To be honest, this level of entrustment is simply an insult to the name of "Orihara Rinya" that he left behind for so many years, but this pet shop was opened during his absence, and the information still needs to be collected Yes, plus the amount that Tanaka offered was quite considerable, no one would be so stupid as to have trouble with money, even Orihara Rin, who loves all human beings, would not be able to eat or drink without spending money.

Originally thought it was an easy task, Orihara Rin handed over all the information he could investigate to Tanaka within a few days, stretched his waist and started the next task.He thought that his information was perfect, and he even found out about the personal hobbies of Earl D of the store. In fact, Tanaka was also satisfied with his information, and paid cash without saying a word.

There are always twists and turns in the story, and when Orihara Rin also started to collect the next information, he accidentally discovered something different hidden behind the pet shop.

This pet store is not the first new store opened, but it was originally opened on the streets of New York and then moved to Tokyo.While crossing the country, many stories in the pet shop have been quietly erased. No one will find out what the story behind a newly opened pet shop is, even Orihara himself has ignored this point.

Cross-border investigations are far more difficult than he imagined, not to mention that the pet shop is involved in various criminal cases, and the various forces involved behind it still make Orihara Lin feel extremely headache.Originally, the mission was over, but when Orihara found out the wonderful story behind it, he couldn't help but continued to investigate further, and the result surprised him.

Most people who have bought a pet from a pet store end up in an accident—either dead, injured, pulled out of the store, etc.The reason can't be investigated, but I know that the police in New York have intervened in the pet store's business many times and even made it and Earl D a key object of observation. From this, we can also deduce what kind of bloody storm this pet store caused in New York.

So, what is the reason why Earl D moved his pet shop to Tokyo?Is it impossible to gain a foothold in New York?

No one knows the reason, even the information dealer, who is revered as a prophet, is at a loss at this moment.

These investigations are no longer within the scope of Orihara Lin's investigation, and even if there are results, Orihara Lin will not come to the door.There is only one reason for his visit this time, that is, Yamamoto, who Tanaka wanted to buy as a pet, died suddenly the day before. The autopsy result was that he was bitten to death by a tiger, but the strange thing is that there is no trace of a tiger in his entire house.

Orihara Lin also immediately connected this matter with the pet shop, and came to Tanaka's house with a complicated and excited mood, sat leisurely on the sofa, and glanced in the direction of Florence. I took it back.Relatively speaking, compared to looking at the fish, he still wants to see the expression on Tanaka's face after hearing the news:

"Mr. Yamamoto... passed away, right after buying the tiger."

Orihara Rinya's eyes shone with excitement and malice, and the arc of the corner of his mouth was exactly the same as Earl D's.

Now, let me see how you react to this sudden news, Mr. Tanaka?

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