"Noel, Noel——"
Afu gently pinched her son's soft cheek, trying to wake him from his slumber. "It's time for today's physical examination. If you don't wake up, the high priest will come to call you personally."
The little mermaid curled up in the cushions woke up instantly, swam quickly into her mother's arms, hugged her neck and rubbed it: "Mom, I'm awake."
Afu pursed her lips and smiled, patted her son's back and led him out of the bedroom.
Noel hid in his mother's arms. When he saw the silver fishtail in the living room from afar, he subconsciously shrank himself down.
As if she didn't notice her son's little movement, Afu swam to her husband and the high priest, winked at them, and then forcefully tore Noel from her arms and stuffed him into the high priest's arms.
Noel turned his back to the high priest and watched his mother swim to his father's side. The two of them held hands affectionately, leaned against each other and ignored him.
Looking up, he saw the handsome face of the high priest. Noel pursed his lips, suppressed his sadness and greeted him politely.
"Well, be good." The high priest touched Noel's head, took out the mermaid tribe's secret treasure - a colorless and transparent crystal ball from the storage ring on his hand, and asked Noel to put his hand on it.
Seeing Noel obey, he gently closed his eyes and poured his strength into it. Instantly, a soft white light slowly illuminated the colorless crystal ball. After filling the crystal ball, the white light did not stop, but continued to expand outward along Noel's small palm, enveloping his entire body.
After a three-second pause, the high priest opened his eyes. The white light instantly vanished from Noel's body, and the crystal ball returned to colorless. Putting away the secret treasure, the high priest nodded to Noel's parents, "The weakness has completely disappeared. He is now as healthy as a normal cub."
The Kovia couple excitedly thanked the high priest. Noel took the opportunity to return to his mother's arms, leaving only his back to the high priest.
"Mom," Noel asked softly, "Does this mean the high priest won't have to examine me anymore?"
Afu also quietly replied to him: "As long as you stay healthy, it won't happen."
After thinking about it, Noel secretly glanced back at the high priest and decided that he would no longer dislike this beautiful mermaid. But after watching for a while, Noel began to feel strange. In the past, the high priest would leave immediately after checking the body. Why did he not leave even after so long today?
Just as he was wondering, his father suddenly swam up to the high priest, met his gaze, and said coldly, "Noel's body is now healthy, so should we talk about other things next? For example, the inexplicable disappearance of Arunas."
Noel's first reaction after hearing this was to run, but he was held tightly by his mother and couldn't break free.
Afu smiled and took Noel out and handed him to her husband. She patted Noel, who looked dazed, and said with a smile, "Good boy, face the reality bravely and don't think about running away."
Being pinned by his father under his armpits, Noel realized that he could not escape, so he lost his strength, relaxed his body softly, and slumped in his father's hands like a doll.
"Okay, I confess."
After promising to give his teacher a nice gift last time, Noel has been racking his brains to think about what to give to express his gratitude to the teacher.
Gold, silver, and jewelry? The Mermaid King's palace was littered with them. Besides looking pretty, they were useless. Giving him a bunch of useless decorations would be too perfunctory. Ordinary sea fish and seaweed didn't seem sincere, and he couldn't get the expensive ones, so the gift-giving was put on hold for the time being.
It was not until his mother was telling him common knowledge about the continent of Atlantis and mentioned the sea monster that could enhance the power of mermaids that his eyes suddenly lit up.
So he acted cute and begged his father to help him catch an Arunas.
"It's indeed my fault that Arunas disappeared." Noel lowered his head and picked at his father's nails, saying guiltily, "I can't catch him myself, so I have to ask my father for help."
The three adult mermaids looked at each other in confusion. After a while, the high priest asked with a strange expression, "How did you make it disappear?"
Kovia also looked confused.
When Noel begged him, Covia did not doubt it. He just thought that his son was curious about sea monsters after hearing the story, so he killed and captured Arunas and placed it behind the palace. He sent a mermaid to watch over it to prevent it from being eaten by other sea fish, and then let it go. He treated Arunas as a tourist attraction in the palace, so that the newly born mermaid could visit it at any time.
There will be no waste. The sea monster will not rot for a month after its death. As long as we grasp the time well, we can finally divide the sea monster and eat it.
Unexpectedly, on the third day after Arunas was captured, its body disappeared.
There was no way a sea monster that large could be taken away quietly while being guarded by mermen, especially with so many mermen in the palace. A storage ring was one option, but it wasn't cheap, and it was simply not something a mermaid could possess. After searching endlessly, there was no clue, so the only possibility was an inside job.
Just at this moment, a small fish confessed its guilt, and its guilty conscience was almost written on its face. It hid in the palace and made people suspicious.
In fact, when Noel was added to the list of suspects, the Kovia couple were completely bewildered. Their son was only a month old, palm-sized, and no bigger than the tip of Arunas's tentacle. Their storage rings were still intact, so how could Noel have made such a large sea monster disappear?
After realizing that there was an inexplicable reason, the Kovia couple did not dare to delay and went directly to see the high priest to ask him for help in examining Noel to see if there was any problem with his body.
I'm afraid that some evil land race has bewitched Nol, or has done something to Nol's egg without their knowledge, causing Nol to be controlled by someone.
Turns out Noel is healthy and even admitted that the disappearance of the sea monster was his doing?
Kovia couldn't help but hold his son in front of him, looking him over carefully. He even touched his tail to confirm that his son was naked and had no storage equipment. Then he wondered, "Could it be that you secretly got to know the fish outside and worked together to get rid of the sea monster?"
This kind of thinking is what a normal mermaid would think. However, in front of the three adult fish, Noel shook his head firmly and told them a bizarre fact.
Noel: "Actually, after I broke out of my shell, every time I slept, I would enter a strange place..."
After recounting the reasons Teacher Yan had prepared, Noel emphasized, "Everything I said is true. I didn't finish the snacks the teacher gave me. I hid them under the cushions of the shell bed in my room. If you don't believe me, you can go and see for yourself."
Everyone moved to another place and fell into a strange silence after looking at the strange food packaged with unknown materials and the incomprehensible Chinese characters on it that did not belong to any race on the continent.
The Kovia couple turned to the high priest for help.
What should I do? What my son said seems to be true.
The high priest threw down the snacks, took out the secret crystal ball and began to perform mysterious tests, and once again began to examine Noel over and over again.
Noel successfully recalled the painful experience when he just broke out of his shell, and he just decided not to hate the high priest anymore and returned to his original idea.
After listening to Nuoer's story about his return, Yan Jue patted Xiaoyu's head comfortingly and asked, "Since your parents and the high priest all believe in it, what is their attitude towards the transaction?"
Noel held his chin in his hand in distress. "I haven't had time to say it yet... Ever since I confessed that my consciousness can travel to another world, the high priest has been asking me about the details of my world. He has so much to say, it's so annoying, but I have to answer him. I'm afraid he won't believe me, but there are some things I don't know."
"Then I took advantage of my tiredness and said I was going to sleep and ran here."
"It's okay." Yan Jue laughed and patted Noel's head again: "This matter is very bizarre. We need to give them time to believe and verify it."
"It just so happens that the teacher has sorted out the information here. Noel can take it back to show your parents, so that they will dispel their doubts."
The so-called information was cut out by the expert group from the database. It was a list of various precious items that China could give out in large quantities or use for exchange. After being sorted and printed in color, it was bound into a book with side volumes, which also included photos of the items and a brief introduction.
After having 91 estimate the price and spend points to give it to Noel, Yan Jue suddenly thought of a very serious problem when he saw Noel flipping through the book and exclaiming in amazement.
Noel is a kindergartener and can read the text of his world without any obstacles with the help of 91. What about Noel's parents and the high priest?
Yan Jue called out customer service: "91, can Noel's parents read that book?"
91: “No.”
Well, luckily he asked ahead of time, otherwise it would have been another big pitfall. Although Noel could translate in real time, it was still no match for his father being able to read it in person at any time.
After thinking for a moment, Yan Jue tentatively asked, "Is there any way to translate the text in the book into the language of the merman tribe?"
After listening to this, 91 asked formally, "Would you be willing to spend 200 points to have customer service translate for you?"
Two hundred points!
Yan Jue choked and complained, "You're just trying to break my points limit, right? Wait, I'll ask someone and give you an answer."
Besides Noel, there are only 91 people who are familiar with both the Mermaid language and the Chinese language. Let's not even talk about whether Noel can recognize the entire Mermaid language. Just imagine how long it would take for Noel to translate that palm-thick book.
After a brief discussion with the expert group, Yan Jue had no choice but to pay the two hundred points.
In the game, Noel, who was so engrossed in reading, suddenly closed the book for a few seconds after 91 prompted "Translation completed". When he opened it again, he was surprised and said, "Teacher, there are more words in it."
"But what is this crooked symbol? Is it a word? Why write the same thing twice?"
Noel opened the book and showed it to Yan Jue.
Yan Jue zoomed in on the screen and saw that, sure enough, beneath the originally laid out text, there was an extra line of incomprehensible symbols, likely the language of the mermaids. And after hearing Noel's question, he didn't mind losing the 200 points anymore.
Sure enough, this little fish didn’t recognize the mermaid language at all!
After Yan Jue explained, he asked curiously, "Noel, how did you understand the content above?"
Noel was bewildered: "Ah, I knew it as soon as I saw it."
He didn't recognize the squares and the twisted symbols, but he just knew what they meant.
Needless to say, this was all a bit of customer service wizardry. Yan Jue didn't dwell on the issue. After reminding Noel not to forget his book at the kindergarten, he added, "Noel, you need to study hard. The fact that you can understand now is all thanks to kindergarten. There's no such magical feature in the real world."
He felt like he had completely become an old father, always worrying about his child's studies and future.
Noel nodded and said sweetly, "I know. Mom said she'll send me to school when I'm a year older! My body is still accumulating energy, so I need a lot of sleep every day. Mom said it's rude to fall asleep in class."
Yan Jue agreed, and after praising him a few times, he casually asked, "It'll take another year. How long does it take for a mermaid cub to grow?"
"You become an adult at thirty." Noel frowned. "Thirty years is such a long time! I'm only a month old. How long will it take for thirty years to pass?"
He can't even count them all.
Yan Jue almost dropped his tablet in shock. He wanted to find someone to confirm whether he had heard correctly, but Pan Wencheng was not there. He had no choice but to repeat Nuoer's words in surprise and asked, "You said you were just one month old?"
That's not right. It has been almost two months since he got this game. Logically, Noel was also born two months ago. How could he disappear for a month inexplicably?
Noel didn't realize the problem. He counted on his fingers and answered affirmatively, "Yes, in reality, it has been exactly one month since I hatched."
A month, isn't that the time when the game is updated and Noel's favorability is full and he can return to reality?
Because of Noel's process of growing from ignorance to wisdom in the game, Yan Jue and the expert group had always believed that Noel was pulled into the game by the customer service as soon as he was born. Later, as he grew older and learned courses in kindergarten, he gradually understood the meaning of kindergarten and accepted the fact that he came to kindergarten well.
As for why the newborn cubs were brought to the kindergarten, the customer service had previously said that the first cub was a test for Yan Jue to see if he was destined to own the game, so they didn't think much about it.
No, it should be said that only Yan Jue didn't think much about it, and the expert group always did not interfere with the process and way he played the game, so he consciously sorted out the "logic" through his own imagination.
In addition, Noel had no questions and was happy every day since he was able to return to reality, so he naturally thought that his guess was 80% correct and did not take the initiative to ask. As a result, Noel now blew himself up, and he only hatched the shell in reality for a month?
Yan Jue sighed and said weakly, "Noel, don't you feel something is wrong? Since you have just emerged from the shell in reality, then what happened to the previous month in kindergarten?"
Noel paused as he turned the pages of the book and repeated blankly, "Yeah, what's going on?"
He only broke out of his shell after returning to reality, so why was he able to enter kindergarten before breaking out of his shell? Noel was caught in a logical paradox, his mouth slightly open and his eyes dull in thought.
Yan Jue became even more depressed. It seemed that this little fish had no worries every day because he didn't realize that something was wrong. Wasn't it because he didn't have this idea in his head?
If it were Zhuo Feng, he would have probably asked a million questions a long time ago.
However, having experienced many ups and downs in his forties, Zhuo Feng clearly couldn't compare his thinking to that of a purebred cub. Similarly, Yan Jue couldn't blame Noel for being so careless about important matters.
Besides, this is just his definition of importance. Noel doesn't think so, so it's okay to put it behind him.
Yan Jue, who thought he could just deal with Zhuo Feng's problems, suddenly found himself burdened with more tasks. Both of his sons were "problem children," and neither of them was a cause for concern.
Perhaps this is the life journey that a qualified old father must go through, Yan Jue thought with vicissitudes of life.
"Noel, if you can't figure it out, then forget about it." Yan Jue tapped Noel's forehead, loosening his increasingly wrinkled face. "Since the incident happened during the time you were hatching, perhaps you could ask your parents what happened from the time you were born until you hatched."
Zhuofeng's injury is related to his experience, and the same goes for Noel.
"Things will eventually be resolved. There's no need to rush."
After Yan Jue finished speaking, he began to reflect on whether his action of reminding Noel was right or wrong. In the end, he could only sigh helplessly, because after thinking about it, he found that if the incident happened again, he would still do the same thing.
After being comforted by Yan Jue, Nuoer immediately stopped worrying and nodded heavily, deciding to do as the teacher said: "Okay, what the teacher said is right!"
Yan Jue: No, I’m not you, don’t talk nonsense.
Yan Jue chatted with Noel for a while, and after pulling him back from another extreme, they said goodbye and returned to reality.
Yan Jue was still a bit dazed when he lifted his head from the screen, closed the game, and left the room to look at the darkening sky outside. He had received so much information from the two cubs today that it felt like several days had passed, but in reality, the day hadn't even finished yet.
After stretching himself, Yan Jue asked the soldier guarding the gate, "Is Director Pan not back yet?"
After getting a positive answer, Yan Jue couldn't help but feel worried, but he could only pray silently that the magic potion from another world should have an extraordinary therapeutic effect on ordinary people.
After dinner, Yan Jue was too tired to earn points. Instead, he planned to take a night's rest and returned to his dormitory early. While watching anime, he fell asleep in a daze before 8 o'clock.
Yan Jue was dreaming again.
He could clearly feel that he was dreaming. This time, there were no monsters or Atlantis seafood in the dream, only darkness.
In the darkness, he seemed to have turned into a leaf or a feather, floating around with the wind, crossing mountains, rivers and lakes to a place that looked like a city, and then flying higher and higher, until he passed through the clouds. The scene underground became blurred, and he could no longer distinguish between the sea and the land. Then he stopped.
Yan Jue was forced to lower his head and look down. In the darkness, tiny firefly-like points of light slowly rose from the "ground." Their distribution was uneven, some clustered together, others scattered. But the only thing they had in common was that they were appearing at an increasing rate, forming a layer across the ground, with a faint upward trend.
What is that?
Yan Jue's curiosity was piqued. He wanted to reach out and grab it, so his arms moved downwards as he wished. When he was about to touch those spots of light, his whole body sank, and the scene before his eyes disappeared.
He opened his eyes and looked at his arm sticking out of the quilt. Yan Jue silently put it down and stuffed it back into the quilt.
What's going on? He's never had a dream come true before. Is he under too much pressure and needs counseling?
What if it develops into sleepwalking? Then he will have a nightmare of being chased by monsters and running around the courtyard in his pajamas. The thought of it makes him feel socially depressed.
Rubbing his head, Yan Jue planned to forget the dream and continue sleeping, but when he turned over and saw the light coming through the curtains, his sleepiness flew away. He opened his phone and saw that it was already seven o'clock, time for breakfast.
He slept for so long?
After washing up and having breakfast, Yan Jue discovered that Pan Wencheng hadn't returned yet. Frowning, he entered the confidential room, checked his nearly empty points, and after looking at the descriptions of the healing and antidotes, he simply contacted the expert team to inquire.
Unfortunately, because the two sides' work areas were unrelated, there was no news from the expert group watching the live broadcast, so Yan Jue had to wait patiently for Pan Wencheng to come back.
[Mr. Yan, could you please help me with my research on points today?]
Yan Jue was stunned when he saw the content in the dialog box. He remembered what 91 said yesterday and decisively replied with a "good". After answering the call, he started the online communication.
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