Chapter 34: Horror Oceanarium (10) It was born, it was born, for a whole...
Tan Yue said without hesitation: "Of course you are important."
He explained seriously: "When I was with you, I never thought about having children. How could something I never thought about be more important than you?"
He has already decided to date a man, why is he still pursuing a child?
The mermaid's lover asked him, "Don't humans attach great importance to procreation?"
Reproduction is the instinct of all living things in the outer world. It is something engraved in their genetic chain. And as a god, Guan Shan has seen many humans.
Compared with the feelings between lovers, the love between mother and child and the love between father and child are often purer.
Tan Yue shook his head: "There is no throne to inherit in our family, so why should we care about the continuation of the family line?"
"What if there is a throne to inherit?"
Tan Yue actually doesn't like talking about things that are impossible to happen, because there is no point in making assumptions.
But the person who did this was his beloved wife, who was now a sensitive and fragile "pregnant woman", so he could only go along with what she said.
"If I choose to be with you, I will definitely give up the throne. After all, there are plenty of good things to be snatched up by others."
Guan Shan said: "No one can take away what belongs to you."
Anyone who dares to rob will be killed, his bones will be crushed to ashes, and his soul will be destroyed.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore." Tan Yue asked, "Is there anything you should avoid eating when you're pregnant? This child is also a mixed-race child? Will he be affected by me and not be good for you?"
Humans often sing praises of the greatness of mothers, because pregnancy is actually a very difficult and painful process for humans, and requires many sacrifices.
If someone in my family is a biology teacher or a forensic doctor, they would often talk about the structure of the human body and the various negative consequences of women bearing children. In fact, they always use a light-hearted tone, without exaggeration, but just state it calmly.
But it was this kind of plain statement that made Tan Yue feel thrilling. Pain is pain, and it will not disappear just because of the joy brought by the birth of a new life.
He didn't know how mermaids gave birth, but he couldn't help but worry about her: "You said you were having a baby. I'm happy, but I'm more scared. Baby, don't hide it from me. Tell me if there are any negative consequences!"
The more Tan thought about it, the more worried he became: "My strength has increased a lot. Does this count as taking yin to replenish yang? Does this have any negative effects on you, making you weak or something?"
Isn't it written like this in TV dramas? A saint or a holy monk who was originally pure and chaste with a high level of cultivation has his virginity broken, and then his cultivation level plummets. After working hard for many years, he is then taken away by someone else.
The mermaid blinked her blue eyes: "No."
Humans are so weak, what impact can they have on him? There is no negative impact, but there is a positive impact.
Tan Yue was skeptical: "Really?"
"Really not, I won't lie to you." Guan Shan put his arms around Tan Yue's neck, motioning him to carry him out, "Carry."
Tan Yue picked up the mermaid carefully but steadily with his hands. After leaving the water, the mermaid's tail slowly turned into two long, delicate, porcelain-white legs.
The mermaid sniffed in his arms: After going out, Tan Yue must have taken another shower, and his own scent has become a little lighter.
Guan Shan sat on the latter's thighs, then rubbed himself in his arms, smearing all his scent on Tan Yue, making sure to mark him with the scent.
In the "gestational" state, His possessiveness was obviously stronger than before, even to an outrageous degree.
It's summer now, but it's not okay to be naked, so Tan Yue asked, "I'll go get you some clothes. If you're not going out, get your bathrobe."
There are many styles of nightgowns, which are actually similar to skirts, providing a little coverage but not as tight as pants.
"You carry me with you."
"Okay, okay." Originally, it was effortless for Tan Yue to hold Guan Shan, but after his strength increased, holding him was like holding a very light feather. His movements were particularly cautious, as if he was holding some extremely precious and fragile porcelain.
Guan Shan enjoyed this kind of care and was struggling over whether to extend the gestation period. However, he did not hesitate for too long and chose to give up: forget it, let's go according to the established time. Anyway, if he wanted to enjoy this kind of treatment, he could create another opportunity in the future at any time.
Outside the lounge, the aquarium resumed normal business. Originally, Tan Yue's part-time job did not affect the work of the other nine people, but the absence of Tan Yue attracted the attention of many guests, and the guests behind seemed to become more and more difficult to deal with.
On the 21st day, the mute middle-aged man who owed money at the beginning died. The reason was that he bumped into other customers during work, and the angry customers opened their mouths wide and swallowed the middle-aged man directly.
Everyone heard the chewing sound, and then the middle-aged man's body slowly turned into nothingness, because this guest had very good teeth and did not waste any food, and ate all the bones.
It’s just that the way it eats is not very elegant. When it eats, there are some bloodstains and a few pieces of meat residue on the ground.
Chen Xuemei wanted to vomit, very much, but she pinched her palms tightly with her fingers, even until they bled, using the pain to wake herself up.
They couldn't vomit. The customers who had eaten that man's food, as well as other customers, all stared at these employees with eager eyes, and from time to time they would say something full of malicious words like "You smell so good".
After all, the good smell that the guests hear is the aroma of food, and foul-smelling saliva will occasionally flow out of their mouths uncontrollably.
If only Xiao Tan were here, faced with such a situation, he might be able to find a solution.
Such a thought popped up in Chen Xuemei's mind, but she quickly laughed at herself. It would be better to rely on God than to rely on a ghost for help.
After all, weirdness is like a time bomb. A crisis may break out at any time. Asking for help from weirdness is likely to be like making a deal with the devil. You gain something but often lose more.
Besides, Xiao Tan has been missing for more than half a month. It is impossible for him to suddenly appear and rescue them.
After the incident with the middle-aged man, everyone became even more tense.
Zhang Yang analyzed, "Don't worry too much. The fact that we are fine later on means that as long as we abide by the rules, they won't do anything to us. No. 5 is obviously mentally ill. Even if he can leave, he has become dumb and crazy."
From a normal person to a mute, he also had to endure a bad living environment and excessive pressure. The middle-aged man was not a particularly strong person. In addition, in order to save money, he bought some cheap weird meals, and unknowingly the latter had been contaminated.
With the pollution being so severe, death is inevitable.
"We have survived 21 days. The gate should be open in another 9 days. Hang in there."
At the beginning, Zhang Yang was indeed a bystander, but if he could wait until so many people got out, perhaps more people would activate special abilities, and some would become his colleagues in the future. In the absence of any conflict of interest, there would be nothing wrong in making friends with them.
The main reason was that no one had too many ghost coins on them, and there were a few people with good skills in the team. This amount of wealth was not enough to make him obsessed with it.
After being comforted by Zhang Yang, everyone's mental state improved a lot: "Yes, just hold on a little longer, we will be able to get out in a few days."
The people outside the door were enduring the pain, and in the small lounge, Tan Yue was also enduring the pain.
During the 5 days, Tan Yue had no mind to work at all and took very good care of her "pregnant husband".
He had no knowledge in this area in the past, so in addition to preparing three meals a day and exercising in the gym, he learned a lot about various things such as pregnancy and postpartum knowledge.
Those who raise children, take care of mothers...
In addition, he was always pulled into the sea by Guanshan.
Tan Yue asked: "Will it be bad for the child?"
“Are my needs less important than my children’s?”
"Of course you are important." Tan Yue also knew that a pregnant woman's mood is the most important. Forget it, the book contains all kinds of human knowledge. Guan Shan is a mermaid, not a human. He should still listen to Guan Shan. If there is anything abnormal, just stop.
Pregnant men are quite special. The originally hard chest and abdominal muscles become soft and fluffy to the touch, which is very different...
5 days is a slow time, but it is also a fast time.
Supervisor Tuntun put on a suit and a bow tie, and regained his friendly 45-degree smile: "Your part-time work is over. Unfortunately, given that everyone's performance is mediocre, no one is eligible to obtain a long-term contract with our aquarium. Our contractual relationship ends from today."
We didn't want to get any long-term contract, and everyone was complaining in their hearts, but finally it ended.
"From today on, our aquarium will be closed for renovation. Please hand in our employee uniforms and work badges, take your trash with you, and leave now."
The door of the aquarium opened, and everyone finally saw a narrow passage in the fog, at the end of which was a door emitting a faint white light.
Zhang Yang ran away: "Hurry up, the door of the safety passage has a time limit and will not be open for long."
The door may exist for several hours sometimes, but more often it may only be there for a dozen minutes, and you have to walk to the door and leave by yourself.
Not only that, they might be attacked on the way to the door. After all, they were no longer employees and might be attacked by greedy monsters.
However, Tuntun was obviously not the kind of greedy and cunning person who was penniless. After seeing them off, he couldn't wait to pull the door curtain and close the museum.
Everyone followed quickly, fearing that they would be left behind and trapped in this horrible otherworld forever: the aquarium didn't want them anymore, and if they stayed they would probably be eaten by the monsters that emerged from the white fog.
After desperately crossing the passage and reappearing in the bustling human world, they saw familiar buildings and a group of people cried and made noises, jumping and dancing: "We are out, we are all out!"
Other people on the street occasionally cast strange glances at me, but then hurried away. This is a cold and indifferent metropolis, but also a tolerant metropolis: "Maybe this group of people are doing some kind of performance art?"
The first thing Zhang Yang did when he came out was to contact the Imperial Capital National Special Bureau: "I just entered a role-playing strange area. Um... there are seven lucky people in my group. I need to arrange two cars to pick me up."
He glanced at the crowd. The Tan Yue mentioned by Zhang Yishi did not appear in their team at all. "By the way, we need to investigate the information of a freshman from the Imperial Capital Film University. I suspect that he may have also entered the other world..."
After receiving the notice, Supervisor Tuntun did not care about the humans who left. He operated in front of the computer to order related travel ticket purchasing business through major travel agencies.
The official website also released an announcement that the World Oceanarium (the site of the former Institute of Marine Biology) is under renovation and is temporarily closed and will not receive any tourists. The reopening date for visitors will be announced soon.
Tan Yue had no time to care about anything happening in the outside world. He would occasionally remember to send two messages to his parents a week to let them know he was safe and ask about their situation. The rest of his attention was on Guan Shan.
Pregnant mermaids do not have exaggerated big bellies like humans. At most, their abdominal muscles become softer, their lower abdomen becomes slightly bulging, and their skin feels better and more delicate.
He counted the days, and when the five days that Tan Yue mentioned came, he still didn't see any child born: "Maybe mixed-race children are different, and it takes longer to have a child."
After all, that slightly protruding belly looks like a person who has just eaten a full meal, and it doesn't look like she's going to give birth to a child at all.
In the work group, he took a look at the message sent by Tuntun and replied with a message saying he understood.
Guan Shan had mentioned this before, so Tan Yue was not surprised. As I said before, the development of this private aquarium was decided by Guan Shan himself, and he would not interfere casually.
He still made a sumptuous meal today. To be more precise, since the rice allowance had doubled, they had been eating particularly sumptuous meals every day.
Because of the heat wave, he had originally prepared nearly a month's worth of food. However, he didn't consume much during the heat wave in Guanshan, but consumed it rapidly after the heat wave ended.
In just five days, 2/3 of the food purchased had been eaten.
If Guan Shan didn't give birth so soon today, he would have to seize the opportunity to go out for a day and buy more fresh food.
Thinking of this, Tan Yue cracked 10 poached eggs in a row into the pot, two of which were specially made into the shape of a heart using a mold, which were prepared for Guan Shan.
After lunch, Tan Yue cleaned up the dishes as usual and put all the tableware into the dishwasher.
He gave Guanshan a massage out of habit, but at this moment, he suddenly found something wrong.
"Baby, is your tummy getting flatter?"
Tan Yue unzipped the drawstring of his nightgown and noticed that his lover's belly had changed from slightly convex to completely flat. He touched it and found that his soft belly had regained its firm and muscular texture, and the beautiful abdominal muscles had a clear and smooth outline again.
He also once put his ear against Guan Shan's slightly soft belly and listened. He did this every day, but he could not hear any sound. He could only hear his own heartbeat and Guan Shan's heartbeat.
Until this morning, he still couldn't hear any movement of the baby inside. In fact, according to human delivery, the baby is still an embryo at 5 days old, and normally you can't hear anything.
Guan Shan still said in a casual tone: "The children have been born."
"What, the baby is already born?! When was it born?" Tan Yue stood up suddenly, and the chair made a loud and sharp noise as it was dragged.
"Where was the child born?" Tan Yue lifted the quilt, lifted the blanket, and even looked for the table and chairs where Guan Shan had sat and in the kitchen where he cooked, but he found nothing.
He didn't see the baby, nor the little mermaid, nor anything extra. He pricked up his ears and listened carefully, but he didn't hear any baby crying.
Tan Yue pinched his face hard. Ouch, it hurt a little. It seemed that he was not dreaming.
"Brother, you are not kidding me about this, are you? In fact, we two don't have any children at all?" Tan Yue deliberately called him brother in an unhappy tone, just to remind him that he was so much older than his younger lover, and it was not funny at all to play such jokes with him.
Guan Shan said unhappily, "Who are you kidding? The children are in the bathtub. I took the time to give birth while you were cooking."
He had no intention of experiencing pain. Giving birth to a child was as easy as going to the toilet, and it only took seconds.
"I'm sorry!" Tan Yue immediately apologized and admitted his mistake, "I shouldn't have doubted you."
My dear wife is so nice, he deserves to die, how could he suspect that the other party was playing a prank?
"Then let's go to the bathroom?" Tan Yue was a little nervous. He grabbed Guan Shan's hand and said, "How about I carry you and go with me?"
He was worried that if he held Guan Shan in his arms, he would be too nervous when seeing the child and would drop Guan Shan to the ground: "I'm a little nervous, baby, can you walk by yourself? If you can, how about I help you walk?"
"Let's go." Guan Shan got up from the bed, looking lively and in much better condition than Tan Yue.
The two went to the bathtub, and Tan became more nervous when he thought about meeting their children.
Walking to the bathtub, Tan Yue widened his eyes. The bathtub was full of water. The clear water was covered with colorful bubbles. These bubbles were sparkling, a bit like the bubbles he blew with soapy water when he was a child.
His expression was a little subtle: "Are these bubbles our children?"
In the fairy tale, the little mermaid turned into foam after she died. So when she was born, was she also foam?
"No, this is the children's membrane. The children are in the incubation stage."
Wasn’t Tan Yue washing dishes and cooking before? He wanted the children’s father to see the birth of the children, so that it would be more ceremonial.
Tan Yue immediately asked: "How do we hatch the baby? Do we need to make any preparations? What nutrients should be added? What temperature should be maintained?"
Guan Shan snapped his fingers: "It can be hatched now."
A bubble burst, and two tiny hands pushed open the cracks and came out of the bubble.
Perhaps feeling her father's gaze, the little mermaid with blonde hair and black eyes raised her head and looked at Tan Yue with curiosity.
One, two...the bubbles burst one after another, and little mermaids that looked almost identical all came out.
After the rupture, they washed the mucus off their bodies in clean water, shook off the water droplets, and their bodies became refreshed.
The little mermaid, who was about the size of a tadpole, soaked in the water for a while, and her body began to absorb water, and then it swelled up in obvious proportion.
The water was clearly absorbing, but it didn't seem to decrease. It was as if the endless supply of sea water was replenishing the energy of these little mermaids.
Soon, the water tank could no longer accommodate all the little mermaids, and the little mermaids that grew big enough jumped out of the bathtub. They were still very small, but compared to the original size of tadpoles, they were now about the size of two palms and looked like an exquisite puppet.
When they are in the water, they have beautiful mermaid tails. After leaving the water, the newly born mermaids seem unable to control the changes in their bodies. They still have mermaid tails, so they cannot walk flexibly and can only move by hopping.
A large group of mermaid dolls quickly occupied the entire bathroom space and surrounded Tan Yue.
"Dad, Dad..." They could speak soon after they were born, calling Tan Yue "Dad" sweetly.
Some have blonde hair and black eyes, some have black hair and blonde eyes, but you can tell from their eyebrows and eyes that they are a combination of two people. Except for the color combination, there is no other difference. These children share the same face and look like copy and paste.
The human dad smelled sweet, and the children instinctively wanted to get closer. However, in view of Guan Shan's rejection and intimidation, they did not all cling to Tan Yue, but formed a large circle about 10 centimeters away from the latter.
The children at the back also squeezed out of the bathtub, until all the little mermaids in the bubbles had hatched, reaching an astonishing number.
"One, two... thirty... a hundred..."
Tan Yue took a look and felt that he couldn't count them all. He was good at arithmetic, but at the moment he felt dizzy, as if there might be hallucinations in front of his eyes.
After all, children can move and look exactly the same, so it is easy to count them wrong.
His voice seemed to be trembling due to excessive excitement. He was always calm, but now his voice was trembling into wavy lines and he started to stutter: "Guan... Guanshan, how... how many children do we have?"
The god said in an understated tone: "A thousand is not a lot."
He also specifically thought about the number of children. Marine creatures give birth to a lot of children. For example, red crabs. A male crab shivered for three seconds, which would allow a female crab to lay 100,000 eggs at a time after a while, and tens of thousands of them would survive. Of course, it would be good if there were 10,000 that could hatch into true adults.
The number of spawning for crucian carp is 100,000 to 300,000, for grass carp it is 400,000, and the sunfish, which has the highest spawning record in the ocean, can even reach hundreds of millions.
Aquatic amphibians, such as frogs, usually lay 3,000 to 6,000 eggs.
He thought about it and decided that a few hundred were too few and would not be able to demonstrate the power of God. Too many would be troublesome and the area would not be able to accommodate them all. So, considering the actual needs, he chose 1,000.
Hearing the voice of his father and a thousand children, Tan Yue's eyes suddenly went dark and he fainted with a bang. He still remembered not to crush the children, but fell in the direction where Guan Shan was standing, and fainted completely in Guan Shan's arms.
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