There was a bright red cross wound on one of the fat starfish's arms.

Lu Yao didn't notice where Jiuhua's wound was last time, but after running the shop for a long time, the probability of encountering autistic fish of the same species is actually quite high.

This person, like Jiuhua, also became a chocolate starfish after autism.

She had never seen anyone come back after leaving the garbage sea.

After the initial surprise, Lu Yao just thought it was another new customer, so he walked over and opened the door.

The fat starfish crawled down from the roof with its fleshy arms and legs, entered the whale room, and turned into a girl wearing silver-gray home clothes.

Lu Yao was stunned, and spoke after a long while: "...It's you!"

Jiuhua got up, patted the non-existent sand on her body, and hugged Lu Yao happily, "Hey, I finally see you again."

The joy in her tone was not polite, Lu Yao had no choice but to hug her back gently, "Why are you here again?"

Jiuhua stepped back a little and looked at her: "You seem surprised? Didn't you say goodbye last time? I always keep my word."

Her eyes were clear and bright, without a trace of impurities, and she looked straight at him, as if everything was natural.

Lu Yao suddenly felt a little embarrassed. His eyes were too calm, which made her feel a little ashamed. She explained, "...No customer has ever come back after leaving. You are the first one."

Jiuhua's dark pupils lighted up slightly, "So that's how it is. I didn't have enough fun last time. I don't know how long I can stay this time. Let's go see the chickens first." Lu Yao

was led by Jiuhua to jog. She once again wondered in her heart: Is this really social phobia?

The owner often dives in the sea, and his physical strength has increased a lot without him noticing. He didn't feel anything when he ran.

But Jiuhua was out of breath after running less than 200 meters, so he had to pull her to stop.

"I can't do it anymore. I'm so tired."

Lu Yao laughed at her. "You don't have enough physical strength. You're out of breath after just two steps."

Jiuhua looked pale: "I'm old." Lu

Yao laughed: "Not that old, but I lack exercise. I'm curious, why did you come here again?"

Jiuhua put her hands on her hips, with a proud look on her face: "Maybe it's because I have a talent."

Lu Yao: "Oh, the talent of autism?"

Jiuhua raised her chin slightly: "What are you talking about? Why can't I understand?"

Lu Yao sighed: "It seems that you don't know why you came here."

"What reason?" Jiuhua was curious.

Lu Yao told her the general situation of the garbage sea and just arrived at the jellyfish room.

Jiuhua pulled her to walk a few steps faster and ran over: "I haven't seen you for a few days. The little fat bird seems to have gained a little weight. So cute."

Lu Yao: "..."

He didn't listen to her at all.

The little fat bird is round, small and clever, and is loved by the guests.

Under the bird swing, the guests lie together, each holding a little fat bird carefully in their arms.

Only one budgie is left standing on the swing stubbornly, and no matter how the guests tease it, it refuses to get off.

Jiuhua also came under the swing and whistled at the budgie: "Little Fatty, meow."

The customer next to him said: "It's useless. This budgie is the most stubborn and doesn't care about anyone."

Lu Yao squeezed next to Jiuhua: "It has a stubborn temper and likes to stand on high places. I trained it, but the effect was not very obvious. Later I thought to forget it. In fact, there are cats in the store. There are several places to relax along the tunnel and eat seafood."

This little budgie's personality is different from other parrots. It was hard to see at first. After working for a day or two, Lu Yao discovered that there was a fat budgie paddling in the bird house.

Lu Yao found an opportunity to listen to its voice.

The good guy pretended to be sociable and friendly at the beginning, but he was found out for being lazy, so he simply stopped pretending and paddled the water openly every day.

Don’t look at the little parrot standing on the swing stupidly, there are many things on its mind.

After listening to it a few times, Lu Yao felt that there was no need to suppress its nature. It was just not friendly, but it was cute anyway.

Don’t look at its stubborn temper, it is quite popular among the guests, and everyone wants to try to tease it.

Jiuhua stood there unwilling to leave, "I think it's cute. You go and do your work, don't worry about me, I'll play with it for a while and then go somewhere else."

Lu Yao did have things to do, so he turned and left.

She asked the researchers in the blind box store to study a crystal core solution that can effectively purify water. The main ingredient is the crystal core produced by mutant plants, which is natural and harmless.

She was ready to try to purify the ocean currents polluted by the garbage mountain. She put on a diving suit, carried a spray bottle of concentrate on her back, and swam towards the garbage sea.

Passing by the jellyfish room, she heard a burst of applause from the second floor, and Lu Yao swam over to check.

The bird swing was full of guests, and the little fat birds all returned to the swing, holding the crossbars with their claws and rolling around skillfully.

Even the most stubborn little tiger was rolling on the swing, and even more vigorously.

What happened?

At this time, Lu Yao saw a chubby chocolate starfish lying on the jellyfish umbrella outside the transparent wall membrane.

Three arms and legs were firmly attached to the wall membrane, and the other two arms and legs turned over, and with a "snap", they turned over on the wall membrane skillfully, and the little parrot in the wall membrane rolled over with her movements. When

the fat starfish lifted up its arms and legs, Lu Yao clearly saw a bright red cross scar on one of them.

It was Jiuhua .

Lu Yao: "..."

The system couldn't help but say: [Occasionally, there are freaks among humans.]

Lu Yao: "What's strange about it? She's very cute."

System: [...Don't be so official.]

Lu Yao: "You don't have to judge others by your own standards. Can't you see that she is very happy?"

System: [Excuse me, people who come here can't be really that happy.]

Lu Yao was silent. Jiuhua's condition was indeed a bit abnormal, but her happy look didn't seem to be fake.

And she is the only one who can return to this sea after leaving.

As soon as the words fell, the fat starfish that was still rolling happily outside was caught by the bubbles, slowly rising up and flying out of the garbage sea.

Lu Yao: "I see she's having a lot of fun."

System: [……]

Lu Yao turned around and swam upstream to the garbage.

Jiuhua left again, and I wonder if she will come back.

...

Lu Yao had been busy in the garbage mountain for two hours, and the concentrated crystal core liquid in the spray bottle had all been sprayed out, and the effect was not very obvious for the time being.

She suspected that the amount was too small, and at the same time, purification also has a process, so she planned to come back and have a look in the afternoon.

Before returning to the furry shop, I saw many fish swimming around outside the shop in various ways from a distance.

There were the most fish outside the jellyfish room, with cross wounds on their bodies, all of which were self-locking fish.

Lu Yao even saw Qingmei, who turned into a manta ray and turned and rolled in the water, working particularly hard.

"…What's going on?"

Longgu was on vacation, and Xiao Heilong came early in the morning.

He came a little late, and Lu Yao dived into the sea, and he flew over behind him, but unfortunately missed him.

The store was short of people, and he was caught by Qingmei as soon as he arrived, and was busy greeting customers.

Seeing Lu Yao coming back and coming out to pick her up, he was also speechless: "I heard that a starfish was rolling outside in the morning and was picked up by Bubble, and some customers began to imitate."

Lu Yao: "…Puff."

Since the store opened, it was the first time I saw a customer in a closed fish state so energetic.

After a long time of struggling, no one was able to leave, and the customers gradually stopped blindly imitating.

Back at the furry shop, the guests who had turned back into humans looked at each other, recalling the commotion in the sea just now, their cheeks flushed, their toes clenched, and the atmosphere gradually became awkward.

On this day, the cat climbing frames in each cat room showed varying degrees of damage, and evidence similar to human scratches was left on the remains.

Lu Yao checked the cat climbing frame in the afternoon and couldn't help laughing, "Without the cat climbing frame, the floor will be in trouble."

The system gloated: "I'll build you a high-end villa area."

Harold shook his head: "The human mind is too fragile."

Lu Yao: "It can't be said to be fragile, but I just worry too much. The mark left by the pressure of life on the human spirit is difficult to erase easily. But in this sea, the more complicated the thoughts are, the easier it is to be bound, and the harder it is to leave. This afternoon, except Jiuhua, no guest left."

Why do people come to this sea?

Why do they become marine creatures?

In fact, Lu Yao thought about it for a long time, and it was not until he met Jiuhua again that he completely understood.

People in this world are overwhelmed by life and will return to the original state of life, to the ocean that is as safe and warm as the mother's womb, stop, put down their burdens, degenerate into marine life, and act only for the simplest goal.

For marine life, that goal is survival.

And for the humans who drowned in the sea, by some strange coincidence, the Furry Shop replaced the original goal and became their Garden of Eden.

But can humans who have been born really return to the original state of life?

It is almost impossible.

People who come here are still bound by life, and use the knowledge they have learned in the human world to desperately try to find shortcuts.

Just like a butterfly entangled in a spider web, the more it struggles, the tighter it is entangled by the web until it can't move.

…

The next day, Lu Yao came from the blind box store, pushed open the door of the furry shop, and looked up to see a chubby chocolate starfish lying outside the wall membrane, rolling around like a pancake.

“Why are you here again?”

The fat starfish squeezed in through the crack of the door, still turning into a girl wearing comfortable home clothes.

She stood up and patted the white sand on her knees: “Good morning, I’m here for breakfast.”

Lu Yao: “…”

In the airline box, the piglets couldn’t wait any longer, and meowed to get out. Lu Yao

bent down to let them out.

Jiuhua's eyes sparkled, and she looked like she was about to melt: "Oh, I'm dead! This is simply heaven!"

"It's not good to eat raw food in the morning. I'll cook you a bowl of noodles." Lu Yao was curious about how Jiuhua could come and go freely in this sea, but she always walked too fast. This time, he planned to have a good chat while eating.

Jiuhua picked up Erxin with difficulty, and purred on Erxin's fat belly like playing the pipa, "Okay, I haven't eaten noodles for a long time." Lu

Yao turned to the kitchen and quickly cooked two bowls of seafood noodles.

Jiuhua fell asleep with Erxin as her pillow. Lu Yao hesitated whether to wake her up, and saw that her limbs began to degenerate, and she slowly turned back into the appearance of a chocolate starfish and flew away on the bubbles.

"..." Lu Yao was in a complicated mood.