Hero Saves the Beauty (Part 1)
In the past few days, Nixos has noticed that Yunhe seems to have suddenly become much more "well-behaved".
He wasn't particularly interested in this human woman, but since he was bored out of his mind, teasing her was quite amusing.
It's like when you were a child, you'd suddenly and unexpectedly scoop up a passing little fish and stuff it into your mouth, letting it dart around in panic for a while before letting it out. It never failed, and it felt amazing.
In the human world, Yunhe is definitely not one of the "easy targets." He may seem timid, but he's actually quite nimble and jumps around easily, like a living toy frog.
"……I……"
The thought of "Damn it!" was barely swallowed back down his throat. Yunhe, like a Sichuan opera mask-changer, instantly switched to a sycophantic expression, smiling obsequiously like a madam: "Oh, Mr. Nixos has arrived! Please, have a seat!"
Nixos: "..."
He rolled his eyes in disgust and said coldly, "Human, can't you be normal for once?"
"Okay~~~"
Yunhe chuckled awkwardly, subtly shrinking back to maintain a safe distance from the golden-scaled mermaid. Nixos, however, ignored her evasions, forcefully moving closer and grabbing her collar to press her against him: "What, are you afraid of me?"
You're fucking asking a question you already know the answer to! I'm [blank] you! You fucking let go of my claws right now!!!
Yunhe screamed silently in her heart. However, her fear and panic were seen by Nixos as a coy retort: "Hmm? What's wrong, are you shy?"
I am—OOXXGDSHRHETHYEN!!
Yunhe cursed inwardly. But she also knew that offending this beast at this moment was inappropriate. "I'll endure it!"
"Hey, Cloud Researcher."
Seeing that she was no longer arguing with him, Nixos simply reached out and pulled her into his arms, nuzzling the top of her head with his chin:
"Hmm~ It's quite soft." He closed his eyes, looking rather lingering with satisfaction.
Yunhe: "..."
"Alright." Feeling the woman in his arms stiffen more and more, Nixos finally stopped playing around. "This is so boring. You want to go back, don't you?"
Yunhe: "..." Isn't this just a completely obvious rhetorical question?!
"Do you know why we invited you here?"
Yunhe finally couldn't help but roll her eyes slightly: "...For Shen Huai'an or the GI Research Institute?" She couldn't help but add: "Then you've arrested the wrong person. I'm just a low-level henchman. Neither the higher-ups at the institute nor Shen Huai'an would bother with a little Kalami like me!"
"Is that so?"
Nixos suddenly leaned forward without warning, his long blond hair falling beside her face, startling her so much that she froze. "Perfect, stay here and be my partner... well, in your human terms, be my wife, how about that?"
"You..."
Yunhe was completely speechless. Strangely enough, she wasn't so afraid of him anymore: "You fish, you look so young, but you're so greasy!"
Having been immersed in human civilization for a long time, Nixos naturally understood the meaning behind her words. However, he simply laughed it off, unconcerned.
"It doesn't matter if someone is greasy, the important thing is—"
Long fingers with sharp nails lifted her chin, forcing her to turn her head to look at him: "I will treat you very well."
"Pfft, hahahahahaha!"
Yunhe held it in for a long time, but finally couldn't hold it in any longer and burst out laughing!
"You?" She burst into laughter while pointing at his nose. "Not a buddy? We're not even the same species!"
However, Nixos's next words stunned her.
"Not necessarily."
What does "not necessarily" mean?
“You know what, Yunhe,” Nixos subtly changed how he addressed her, “I differentiated into a male because of your pheromones. In that sense, you should take responsibility for me.”
This statement had so many flaws that it was hard to know where to begin. However, Yunhe immediately seized on the key point: "Pheromone? My pheromones? How could I have pheromones?!"
"Good question."
Nixos snapped his fingers like a human: "Because you have the blood of the Silver Scales, Miss Cloud."
Yunhe was completely stunned this time. Or rather, she was dumbfounded.
“I’m not lying to you.” Nixos shrugged, nonchalantly. “If you don’t believe me, that’s your own business. Oh, by the way, you just rejected me, didn’t you?”
"Congratulations on getting it right." Yunhe said with a blank expression, "But it's just a no-prize quiz, kid~"
"Is it because you like Ceresis?"
"..."
"Silence means you admit it," Celestis scoffed. "But that's not surprising. The Silverscale race are born succubi; humans can't resist them. Sigh!"
Finally, he sighed with regret: "How superficial, Miss Yun."
"Laozi..."
Yun almost swore, but managed to hold back in the end: "Whether I'm superficial or not is my business, it's none of your concern, right? Hahaha..."
"Here's a piece of advice: it's best not to invest too much emotion in that silver-scaled creature—you humans are always prone to being sentimental, aren't you?"
Are promiscuity and being emotionally rich the same thing, you idiot?
Yunhe was too lazy to complain, so she simply asked, "Why?"
"Because they're not even carbon-based life forms. Understand?"
Not carbon-based life? Then what is it?
Nixos then added, his tone already somewhat impatient: "You don't know, do you? Then I'll tell you simply and clearly—"
Celestis is the origin of the Silverscale Clan's 'mother' lineage throughout history.
The Mother Body will decay, perish, and be reborn over time as its force field weakens, but it will never truly "disappear." The so-called "ancestral prophecy" is actually the Mother Body automatically selecting the most suitable "successor" from its branch nodes generation after generation, who then shoulders the shared mission of the race!
The Silverscale are a honeycomb-like society. From the day they are 'born,' every mermaid is a branch node in the 'mother' neural network, and branch nodes must explicitly obey. Every individual in this group has only one mission from birth, and that is…”
He paused deliberately at this point.
"Tell me already!" Yunhe said impatiently, "Why are you keeping me in suspense!"
That is—
Nixos gave a wicked laugh: "I don't know either."
Yunhe was so angry with him that she almost died on the spot.
"Have you heard of the Mermaid Temple?"
Yunhe was taken aback.
"The ultimate secret of Silverscale is hidden in the Mermaid Temple."
Nixos sneered, "It's a pity, the so-called temple ruins may not even exist, let alone be able to open them? Silverscale was obsessed with such an illusory thing, and in the end, the extermination of his clan can be considered an eye-opener from the Sea God, hehehe..."
“So,” Yunhe seemed to have suddenly gained a breakthrough, “this is why you want to exterminate the Silver Scale Clan? For their ‘temple ruins’?”
Nixos's cynical smile finally disappeared.
"This has nothing to do with you!" He interrupted her "daydreaming" with some irritation, forcibly bringing the topic back on track: "That silver scale could never fall in love with a human—not just a human, it could never have any of the emotions that animals can have, understand, human?"
Yunhe: "..."
She felt that the golden carp in front of her, which looked quite nice, seemed to be a little obsessed.
“Brother,” she hesitated for a moment before cautiously asking, “why… do you have to come to me? Are you Golden Scales so short of female mermaids?”
Nixos: "..."
Just as the two were killing time with their conversation, a shrill scream suddenly came from outside the door: "Intrusion! Intruder!!!"
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This is the first time since the Golden Scale Clan established itself as an independent clan millions of years ago that its home base has been invaded by "outsiders".
Moreover, it was an unimpeded, unimpeded advance.
Hundreds of valiant Golden Scale Warriors immediately charged out, halberds in hand, and surrounded the invaders in layers! Meanwhile, within the vortex…
It is a pure white male mermaid.
Silverscale, a pure-blooded noble.
"What happened?"
"Isn't that Silverscale?! Weren't all the Silverscale dead?!"
"The Seven Royal Clans...?"
The seven royal families. The moment those three words were uttered, all the Golden Scale Warriors seemed to understand. One sharp-eyed warrior took a closer look and immediately shouted, "He's wounded! Inflicted by human weapons! Attack!"
...
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"Intrusion! Intruders!!!"
Upon hearing the sound, Nixos immediately stood up and looked outside. However, the next second, the cave he was in was blasted open by the enormous external force!
"Sink...!"
Before Yunhe could utter a second word, she was pulled into a cold embrace. Shen Huai'an held her close with one arm, while using the other to fend off Nixos's fishtail that lashed out at her.
"Celesis." Nixos, having failed in his first attack, stopped fighting and instead smiled coldly, "You're badly injured, aren't you?"
Only after his reminder did Yunhe belatedly detect a faint smell of blood. This was the seabed, and although an environment resembling land had been created, the strong fishy smell of the sea still masked the odor emanating from his wounds…
—Neck, chest, shoulders, arms, tail. Almost every major part of the body is covered in wounds. Some look like they were cut by superalloy wire, some look like firearms wounds, and some are even…
It looked as if it had been corroded by some highly toxic drug; it was a bloody mess.
"I'm taking the person with me first."
Shen Huai'an's face, which had long since transformed into its mermaid form, was indistinguishable in terms of paleness—because his face was inherently almost transparently white. His attitude and tone were very gentle: "Thank you for your care."
"Trying to leave?"
Nixos moved almost instantly in front of the two, looking down at them: "Celesis, you won't last much longer. And this human is mine."
Before he could finish speaking, a golden halo suddenly appeared beneath Shen Huai'an. Yun He hadn't even realized what was happening when the "halo" suddenly went vertically upwards, forming a pillar-shaped ring of light resembling a magic array.
The moment the pillar of light rose, Shen Huai'an suddenly lowered his head in pain, and a mouthful of blue blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
"Dimensional array. Do you like it?"
Nixos clapped his hands, then leisurely lowered his head to observe Shen Huai'an's current situation: "You don't really think that Jinlin has been able to establish itself in the three oceans for so many years just because of its muscles, do you?"
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