50. Night 50: Rescue

Lu Xi was eaten by the fish, but she was not swallowed. The fish carried her for an unknown amount of time and for an unknown distance. When she saw the light of day again, she was no longer in the vast ocean. Above her head were dark, uneven rocks, and the huge body of the lionfish leader was squeezed in the shallow sea water.

In the dark cave, the lionfish opened its mouth wide. Lu Xi stood terrified with it for a long time before tentatively crawling out.

As her toes touched the ground, the huge fish suddenly closed its sharp teeth, turned around and swam back into the sea and disappeared.

This is... letting her go?

It was a bit too strange, wasn't it? Could it be that this fish wasn't just an ordinary fish, but a demon? But she had never heard of this race.

She couldn't see anything in the pitch-black cave. It was almost dark outside and no sunlight was coming in. She tripped after taking only two steps.

But when she tripped, she didn't fall to the ground, but landed in a cold embrace. Lu Xi lay in an unknown embrace in a strange posture until she came to her senses and realized that someone was holding her back tightly. The hand was trembling and emitting a cold breath.

"Ascent?" She was almost sure who it was.

Hearing her voice, the person holding her felt even more depressed. He buried his head in her shoulder and said in a hoarse voice, "Hmm..."

Lu Xi breathed a sigh of relief. After so many days of thrilling adventures, she finally escaped from the poachers and regained her freedom.

"How are you these days?"

The only answer she got was silence. He hugged her tightly. They were reunited after many days, and he thought they would have a lot to talk about.

But in reality, there was only a hug in the dark.

In the darkness that Lu Xi could not see, the merman looked pale and haggard, his silver-blue eyes filled with scarlet bloodshot. They had only been separated for less than a month, but he looked as if they had been separated for forty years again.

I don't know how long it was before his voice came from the darkness again. His voice was deep and dry, "I failed to protect you."

"It's not your fault." Lu Xi put her hand on his back. He was more reliable and secure now than when he was a child. "I went to investigate something without permission, and that's why I got caught by accident."

"Next time, it won't happen again."

The voice is very soft and low, but convincing.

A blazing fire was burning in the cave. The two people sitting beside the fire looked very miserable. Lu Xi was soaked all over, and her hair was messy and stuck to her neck, but she didn't expect that the mermaid was even more miserable than her.

His silver-blue hair was much darker than the last time they met, as if it had lost its luster. His shirt was dirty, stained with moss-like marks, and his cheeks were pale and thin, as if he was seriously ill.

Lu Xi frowned, "Didn't you eat well?"

He lowered his eyes and stared at the blazing flames. His profile looked even thinner. Although he was still as handsome as ever, he seemed colder.

"Don't do this in the future. No matter what happens, you must eat well." Lu Xi frowned and taught him. Although he was no longer a child, sometimes he still needed to be reminded like a child.

He raised his eyes slightly, his narrow eyes reflecting the firelight, as if he could see her, and then he looked back at the fire. That look seemed to say, Miss Lu Xi is gone, why should I eat well.

Lu Xi suddenly thought of him when he was a child, and the little mermaid covered with thorns who had just come to Lu's family. No matter where she went, he would follow her, and if he didn't see her, he would make a big fuss in an instant.

Even though he has split into two personalities, he is still the same him, the mermaid she is most familiar with. He is not just a mission target, but a living being with flesh and blood, who treats her better than himself.

"You asked that fish to save me?"

"Um."

"How did you find me?" Poachers' whereabouts are very secretive, and they are even smaller targets in the vast ocean.

“I can control a lot of fish.”

For humans, the ocean is mysterious and vast. Without boats, humans would find it almost impossible to navigate the sea. However, mermaids are different. They are the overlords of the sea. If they so choose, they can control countless schools of fish. Those fish spread across the ocean like an invisible net, holding everything they want in their grasp. Therefore, how such a powerful mermaid race was wiped out remains a mystery.

"Their ship covered up your scent." The merman continued, "But in one area of ​​the sea, there was still the scent of Miss Lu Xi."

Could it be that what Arsenite was referring to was the smell that happened when Shilo fell into the sea during the storm and she jumped into the sea to save him?

"I won't mistake Miss Lu Xi's scent even for the slightest hint." The merman's gaze was so scorching that Lu Xi turned her eyes slightly to the side.

But she soon realized that he couldn't see, and why she had such a reaction, her eyes turned again.

The mermaid's expression made her feel uncomfortable.

After resting in the cave for one night, they returned to the villa they had not seen for a long time the next day. As soon as Lu Xi entered the door, he saw the snake cub sitting in a wheelchair in the corner. He was still so timid, but when he saw Lu Xi returned safely, he secretly looked at the mermaid and seemed to be secretly relieved.

"Xing Ya, I'm back." Lu Xi walked in front of Xing Ya. The snake cub looked up at her, its watery eyes blinking.

"Have you been good at home?"

He shrank his head and replied softly: "Hmm..."

The mermaid was standing behind Lu Xi. The strong sense of oppression made it difficult for the snake cub to breathe, and he forced himself to lower his head and stop looking at her.

When Lu Xi saw his appearance, she thought that her mission was to help him awaken his talent, but she didn't know when it would be completed.

She reached out to touch his head, and the cub's face turned pale.

"Well, what's going on."

She noticed the change in his expression, as if being touched on the head by her was a terrible thing. Behind her, the mermaid had a faint smile on her face, but her eyes were unfriendly. He couldn't see it, but he could sense her movements. The action she just wanted to do was what she often did to him when they were children.

"Are you feeling unwell?"

"I... am... fine." Her lips were trembling like a sieve and her eyes were red, as if she was about to cry at any moment.

Lu Xi actually doesn't like taking care of children, but she doesn't do it often because of the task, because it's very tiring to take care of only one.

"Anna." The merman called the maid, "Take him away."

"Yes." Anna walked in front of Lu Xi and discovered a magical scene. After Anna nodded, his expression relaxed a lot.

Was she rejected by the cubs?

"Ms. Lu Xi, I'm hungry."

Lu Xi just remembered that they had just returned and had been hungry outside all night. Now was not the time to care about others.

She went back to her room, took a comfortable bath, changed her clothes and came out. The mermaid was already standing in front of the dining table, which was filled with a lot of food.

"Where's Xing Ya? Ask him to eat with us."

"He's asleep."

"So fast?" she asked puzzledly.

"Yeah." The mermaid remained calm.

Lu Xi looked at the table full of food. Although the food was delicious, was it too much? "It seems too much."

"Ms. Lu Xi, eat quickly." He helped her pull out the chair.

The food in the villa was incomparable to the dry food on the boat. Although she didn't need to eat, the food was really delicious.

There was still sashimi in front of the mermaid. She saw him elegantly pick up the sashimi with a fork and put it between his lips. When he was eating, there was no sign of happiness or satisfaction on his face, as if he was just doing a task.

She seemed to rarely see what kind of food he liked.

"Is sashimi delicious?" she asked. "Better than steak?"

He stopped eating, gently put down his knife and fork, and asked Lu Xi, "Miss Lu Xi wants me to eat steak?"

Hope? That was a strange word to use. She had simply asked him which food was better; it should have been easy to tell.

Yuan Sen didn't wait for Lu Xi to answer, and directly asked the maid to bring a new steak, which exuded a strong aroma.

"The steak is indeed delicious." He smiled slightly.

The mermaid cut a small piece and put it into her mouth. Lu Xi continued to eat the food in front of her, but when she saw his expression while eating steak, it was no different from his expression when eating sashimi, so she couldn't help but frown.

The episode ended and life returned, as if that period was a dream. On the fifth day after Lu Xi returned, a guest came to visit.

Zixi's visit was unexpected. That meeting in the alley was just a coincidence. She thought he at least would not come to her on his own initiative.

"Have you inquired about the poachers' inside information?"

The first thing he asked when they met was to ask Lu Xi about the internal affairs of the poachers. Did he know that she was captured a while ago?

As if seeing through her doubts, Zixi said, "I was the one who told him that you were kidnapped. There was a college student running around the streets, and every time he caught someone, he said there was a monster that wanted to eat them. It was hard not to attract attention."

Lu Xi suddenly realized that it was all thanks to that medical student.

"Is he okay?"

"At least it's safe now."

"That's good."

Zixi looked at her and asked, "What about you? Were you scared at that time?"

As long as people know about the demon poachers, basically everyone is afraid of them, because their methods are too cruel and no one who is caught will have a good ending. It is already unexpected that Lu Xi can come back unscathed.

Of course Lu Xi was scared. If she wasn't careful in that situation, she would not be able to come back. Later, she reached the sea and could actually escape, but she continued to find out their next base, which led to what happened later.

They even threw their own companions into the sea to feed the fish. Such a demon tribe is an existence that is intolerable to heaven and must be eradicated.

"They... didn't do anything to you, did they?" Lu Xi saw a hint of concern through the eyes that had always remained calm under the mask.

"I'm lucky. Nothing happened." Lu Xi was indeed lucky. He returned unscathed. "Their next base is an isolated island. I asked Asent to order the fish to continue following. I hope there will be some gains this time."

Zixi didn't expect that Lu Xi had actually collected information, and it was such a huge harvest. If he could grasp their stronghold, even if it was just one of them, it would be of great significance to defeat the poachers later.

"Yuanshi will be grateful to you." Zixi looked at Lu Xi as if she was looking at a warrior. She was indeed a warrior.

"Oh, right." Zixi paused as he was leaving, turned around and looked back at Lu Xi. After a moment, he said, "Has that mermaid been out recently?"

Lu Xi was puzzled. "It seems not. What's wrong?"

"Really..." he muttered to himself.

"Is there something wrong?"

"No." He shook his head. "Maybe I saw it wrong."

His voice was unclear and Lu Xi didn't hear what he said clearly. Just when she was about to ask a few more questions, he had already left.