Chapter 113: Mermaid Elegy and Werewolf (3) Si Ling’s eyebrows twitched slightly…
The human waiter leading Si Ling seemed oblivious to the two mermaids' presence. He smiled and invited Si Ling upstairs. "This way, please. I'll show you the special facilities in the room."
Si Ling nodded and followed her upstairs. The two mermaids followed in silence. Perhaps out of fear, they walked very slowly. The leader didn't bother waiting for them. After leading Si Ling into the bedroom, they introduced her to the other two.
She first invited Si Ling into the bathroom and showed her the sink. Si Ling noticed a thinner faucet next to the central faucet on the sink. Thinking it was for drinking water, the waiter explained, "This pipe connects to seawater. We have a similar device in the kitchen. Our mermaids offer silent service by default. If you want to hear them sing, you'll need to give them a glass of seawater first." After a pause, he added, "You can also use it as a reward."
The two mermaids also entered the bedroom at this time and stopped by the wall at the door.
The waiter led Si Ling out of the bathroom and, without stopping in the bedroom, went straight to the adjacent entertainment lounge. The room was about 50 to 60 square meters. The right half was occupied by computers, game consoles, bookcases, and other amenities, seemingly intended for entertainment. The left half was empty, save for a metal cabinet with a fingerprint lock against the wall.
The waiter first entered Si Ling's fingerprint, then opened the cabinet and took out a suitcase from the bottom layer with ease. Inside the suitcase was a brand new set of kitchen knives.
The waiter calmly introduced: "If you want to enjoy the freshest sashimi, here are the tools."
Si Ling choked. The implication in his words sent a chill down her spine. She forced herself to remain calm and asked in English, "Do it yourself...?"
The waiter took the suitcase away and smiled, "You can also order room service. A professional chef with superb knife skills will serve you."
Si Ling felt like there was something stuck in his throat and subconsciously turned his head to look at the door. The two mermaids who had just followed in were standing there with pale faces, obviously having heard their conversation.
Then, the waiter took out a bracelet with a touch screen from the storage basket on the side of the cabinet and handed it to Si Ling.
Si Ling was puzzled: "What is this?"
"We call it the 'merman remote.'" The waiter jokingly smiled and reached out to touch the screen a few times. A mermaid's pupils suddenly constricted, and she fell to the ground, her whole body convulsing. She stared at the bracelet, her mouth open in pain, but no sound came out.
Si Ling hurriedly looked down at the bracelet in his hand and saw the stop button on it. He quickly pressed it. The twitching mermaid immediately breathed a sigh of relief and then held on to the wall and tried desperately to stand up.
In order not to arouse suspicion, Si Ling resisted the urge to help or comfort her in front of the waiter. The waiter continued to explain as usual, "Mermaids are implanted with special chips that connect to the bracelet. If they make you feel bad, you can enter your employee number to activate the electric shock. The intensity is adjustable between 5V and 400V. However, it should be noted that the upper limit of the voltage that mermaids can withstand is about 380V. If you don't want to kill the fish, it is not recommended to increase the voltage to the maximum."
"Also, if you want to cook sashimi yourself but are worried about not being able to control the mermaid, the bracelet provides two different anesthetics. One can make the mermaid fall into a complete coma, and the other only anesthetizes the body, but the mind is completely clear."
"Of course, if you choose to order room service, you don't have to anesthetize yourself. Our chef will bring a full set of tools."
Si Ling listened to his words and felt as if her heart was being weighed down by a huge rock. Even with 30,000 years of experience, she still couldn't understand how humans could use such perverted means to torture species that had no grudges against them, and she couldn't understand why some humans could get pleasure from such evil deeds.
Fortunately, her thirty thousand years of experience allowed her to keep her emotions under control. Even though she was shaken, her face remained calm.
The waiter finally explained, "If you want to see them in mermaid form, just ask. All mermaids can transform at any time."
"Okay, I understand." Si Ling nodded.
The waiter bowed respectfully and said, "I wish you a pleasant stay. I won't bother you for now."
After saying that, the waiter walked away after getting Si Ling's permission.
Si Ling watched him walk out of the lounge, silently chanting a spell in his heart, leaving an illusion of himself in the original place, and his spirit passed through the floor and went down to the first floor.
After confirming that the waiter had left the villa and closed the door, Si Ling returned to the second floor and reappeared.
The mermaid who had just been knocked down by the electric shock had gotten up. The two of them stood motionless at the door of the lounge, like two beautiful sculptures.
Si Ling sighed in his heart, walked out of the lounge and returned to the bedroom, took two cups, and filled two cups of water from the faucet in the bathroom.
When she walked out of the bathroom, two mermaids slowly walked into the bedroom. Si Ling handed them two glasses of water and told them in English: "If you want to drink sea water, just get it yourself, but don't sing, thank you."
She knew that this sentence sounded impolite, but the singing method of communication was still too abstract for her. She found it difficult not to laugh, which would be even more impolite.
The two mermaids looked at each other in surprise, then hesitantly reached out to take the cup of water from her hand and took a sip of sea water. Their eyes lit up. Si Ling looked at the one who had just been electrocuted: "Are you okay?"
The other party nodded immediately. Si Ling smiled and asked, "What should I call you? Don't sing...type."
She said as she opened her phone to a clipboard and handed it to them, but the shocked merman pointed to the nameplate on her chest and then to her companion's.
Both signs only have simple numbers on them, 122 and 237 respectively.
Si Ling frowned slightly, but still handed the phone to them: "Tell me your name."
Seeing her insistence, the two mermaids had no choice but to do as she was told. The one who was electrocuted wrote her name first: Elowen.
The transliteration is probably Ai Luowen.
Another wrote Linnea, pronounced Linnia.
"Okay." Si Ling wrote down their names and said nothing else.
She considered telling them everything directly, but it was hard to control her psychological state that had been tamed by high pressure. If the other party had some Stockholm mentality, they might sell her out. It was safer to keep some distance.
She then ended her conversation with the mermaids and called Hyun Chi on her cell phone, asking him if he wanted to have dinner together and go for a walk.
This was actually the code word they had agreed upon before. The so-called "walking around" meant that Hyun Chi would take her to fly over the island to quickly understand the layout of the entire resort, but the two mermaids suddenly became nervous and obviously focused on "eating".
Si Ling only noticed their terrified faces after hanging up the phone. He curled his lips and called room service again. He flipped through the menu and ordered two platters of shellfish sashimi. According to the basic information about the mermaids provided by Lucifer, shellfish and algae were the mermaids' favorite foods.
After waiting for less than fifteen minutes, the dishes she ordered were delivered. Si Ling handed two large plates to them respectively: "I'm going out to play with my friends. You guys eat and rest first. You don't need to follow me."
Elowine and Linnia were flattered and didn't dare to reach out to take the plates for a long time. Si Ling had no choice but to put the plates on the dining table and then went out to meet Xuan Chi.
They agreed to dine at the resort's Deep Sea View Restaurant, located in the basement of the main building. An entire wall of floor-to-ceiling windows framed the ocean view. The restaurant only had private rooms, and like the check-in area, it had multiple entrances to protect guests' privacy. But upstairs was a massive ballroom, where the masked ball was held every night. For Si Ling, this was the most important map of the mission.
They met at a small garden not far from their residence. There were many such small gardens on the island, and most of them were only open to individual guests. Only for those who traveled in groups like Si Ling would there be some paths connecting to the same garden.
When Si Ling walked into the garden, Xuan Chi was already waiting there. Like Si Ling, he left the mermaid in the room, and then the two of them went to the main building together.
When they reached the end of the path, a human waiter came up and politely asked, "Excuse me, are we going to the main building?"
"Yes." Si Ling nodded, "We are going to the Deep Sea Scenery Restaurant for dinner."
"Yes, ma'am." The waiter immediately led them to another path and swiped the employee key card to open the iron gate. Si Ling soon discovered that the path was sloped. They walked lower and lower, and soon reached the underground, where they saw the restaurant sign.
The waiter stopped at the restaurant entrance, turned around, and said respectfully, "To protect customer privacy as much as possible, we recommend that you have the mermaid in your room provide the service. The other service staff will not have to interact with you. However, if you are comfortable with this, we can also arrange for another service staff to serve you."
"You guys arrange it." Si Ling said casually.
"Okay, no problem." The waiter led them into the restaurant. Si Ling found that although it was quiet here, it was not as crowded as he had imagined.
She thought that there would be no one in the corridor, but the fact was that although the guests were all in the private rooms, the mermaids who were serving as waiters would walk around in the corridor, some even in the shape of fish tails, which should be the request of the guests.
When passing by a woman fish with a fish-shaped tail, Si Ling saw a brand new wound on her fish tail. It was several centimeters long and wide, and the surface was very smooth. It was obvious that it was cut by a sharp weapon.
The mermaid's face was pale, her hair stuck to her forehead with sweat, and two human waiters followed behind her. They didn't seem to be making any coercive moves towards her, but if you look closely, you can see that both of them have strong bodies and are not ordinary waiters.
Si Ling's eyebrows twitched slightly. He quietly pinched the two paper figures and threw them out with his backhand.
The paper man was driven towards the ceiling by an invisible force, and floated for a while with the group of three people. When passing by a ventilation duct, he drilled in through the gap in the duct.
Three minutes later, the mermaid was brought into the kitchen, and a gust of cold wind blew out from the ventilation duct.
The chef, oblivious to this, reached for his knife upon seeing the mermaid and casually asked the waiter, "Sashimi?"
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