Chapter 16 Chapter 16

From Dai Rong’s narration, Mu Mu learned that Wen Ming’s mental abnormality was caused by a rare disease.

Wen’s father was the first patient with this disease in interstellar history. When he was fighting the Zerg, his mental turmoil spread to the entire battlefield, affecting enemies and comrades.

When he died in the turmoil, he had just gotten married and his wife Dai Rong was pregnant.

Humans know very little about this special mental disease.

After Wen Ming was born, he showed the same symptoms as his father, resisting mermaid counseling. Everyone then realized that it would be hereditary, and even more serious after being inherited.

From then on, Dai Rong changed his research direction to rare mental diseases and put all his energy into the laboratory.

She wanted her child to survive...

"While other people relied on mermaids to channel their energy, Wen Ming had been using sedatives to suppress his spiritual sea."

Dai Rong lowered his head and said to Mu Mu: "You are the first mermaid he raised."

Mu Mu rested his head on his arm with his face turned sideways, listening to the story obediently:

"Oh?" What happened later?

"It is better to channel than to block. Wen Ming's spiritual sea has not been channeled for a long time, and the pressure has accumulated to the limit. Like his father, he faced a spiritual sea riot on the battlefield...

He barely pulled his sanity back from the edge of the riot, but ended up with a damaged spiritual sea."

Dai Rong pondered for a moment: "You mermaids can also feel the damage to the spiritual sea. Most mermaids avoid Wen Ming as much as possible when they see him."

Mu Mu poked the pool wall with his fingers, thinking: Is it referring to the broken spiritual sea tree?

Although Dai Rong knew that the mermaid couldn't understand, he looked at the clear eyes and said what was in his heart unconsciously:

"The mental defect makes him feel pain all the time, and the more anxious I am to treat him, the worse his condition is..." "

?" Why?

Dai Rong's mood became more and more depressed. He looked at the photo of the young man Wen Ming and didn't say anything else.

"Huhu?" Mu Mu tried to urge her a few times, but Dai Rong was still in a trance.

It also calmed down and moved closer to Dai Rong, keeping a distance from her.

According to its observation, this distance will not make humans afraid of themselves...

Dai Rong stretched out her hand and touched its head: "Are you comforting me?"

The counseling started from the contact point between the two people. It was subtle and weak. It was a low-level counseling among low-level mermaids.

For Wen Ming, although Mu Mu's counseling was painless, it was not as effective as a soothing agent.

According to Dai Rong's treatment evaluation, it is an unqualified mermaid.

However...

Dai Rong touched Mu Mu's hair a few times and felt smooth. Only regular and careful care can maintain it like this.

Mu Mu felt that her hand was not moving, and he would push up his head and rub her palm.

Dai Rong smiled with relief: "Maybe you are the one who will eventually cure him..."

After Wen's father died, Dai Rong's obsession with curing Wen Ming became a demon in her heart.

She had to race against the countdown of Wen Ming's mental decline. She was immersed in the laboratory, and the time she spent with Wen Ming was not as much as the time the nanny robot took care of Wen Ming.

Later, Admiral Wen Ming was a killer on the battlefield, and people feared him; Wen Ming, the founder of Wen's Company, was mentally handicapped, and people pitied him.

The psychological gap was enough to knock down a proud son of heaven.

During this period, Dai Rong's messages to Wen Ming always revolved around one topic:

'How is your mental state recently?'

'Have you run out of sedatives?'

'You must raise mermaids, and counseling is the only way to cure you.'

...

Unable to feel love, Wen Ming lost interest in life.

He even regarded Dai Rong's efforts as a way to make up for the regret of not curing his father's death.

"Surviving" became the source of Wen Ming's pain.

"Mu Mu, I still want him to live."

Dai Rong looked at Mu Mu, "But I can't do it alone."

Mu Mu tensed up his fins.

Dai Rong said solemnly, "He has been through a lot, has no desires, looks aloof, but is actually a very good person.

Are you willing to work with me to cure him?"

Mu Mu didn't dare to nod for a while.

"...Gu?" How to cure it? Will I be caught and work in the laboratory?

The task assigned to the low-level mermaid is too difficult.

Dai Rong touched it again: "I will continue to look for a treatment method; you stay with him, let him maintain his desire to live, and give him what he wants most."

Mu Mu was enlightened: give him star coins!

Dai Rong placed his palm on Mu Mu's hand: "It's a deal."

"Ah."

"Ding ding!" The housekeeper interrupted at an inopportune moment, "We detected that the mermaid was active for a long time. Should we cancel the sleep mode?"

Dai Rong glanced at it and murmured in confusion:

"How could the housekeeper's shell be damaged like this?"

When he looked back, a mermaid's head slowly dropped below the water surface...

Mu Mu: Playing dead.

Dai Rong: It fell asleep so quickly.

"Stay in sleep mode." Dai Rong whispered as she passed by the housekeeper.

She left the mermaid room and did not forget to close the door.

It was still a long time before Wen Ming got off work.

Dai Rong turned on the living room projector and randomly selected a drama.

This is the most popular romantic drama in the stars recently. The plot has just reached its climax. The hero and heroine are looking for each other in the heavy rain, calling each other's names loudly.

Dai Rong looked expressionless.

Just as she was about to change the channel, she suddenly felt a gaze behind her.

She turned around, but didn't find any suspicious figures, only the door of the mermaid room swaying in the wind...

"?" She remembered to close the door.

Dai Rong turned back for a moment, turned up the volume of the projector by two levels, and paid close attention to the movement behind her.

'My dear, where are you? Even if the heavy rain drowns this planet, I will still say those three words to you...'

"Hmm..."

Dai Rong quickly looked back -

the little mermaid poked her head out from the crack of the door, grinning and watching intently.

Sit back and wait, success√Dai

Rong: "Do you like watching this?"

"Huh!" Mu Mu was caught and shrank back into the mermaid room like a turtle shrinking its shell.

"..."

When Dai Rong entered the mermaid room, the water surface was so calm that it seemed as if nothing had happened.

She pushed the mermaid cage to the side of the mermaid pool and tried to ask:

"Do you want to watch it together?"

A few minutes later, the door of the mermaid cage was open, and Mu Mu was clinging to the door frame and was pushed to the sofa in the living room to watch the soap opera with Dai Rong.

To be precise, only Mu Mu was watching.

The plot is predictable. As soon as the hero and heroine rushed into the heavy rain, Dai Rong guessed that they would miss each other several times before finding each

other. As expected, the two passed each other in various ways, as if they had vision problems and did not see each other.

"Ouch...ah...ah~"

The little mermaid was so distressed. Every time the hero and heroine missed each other, the strength in her hands increased.

The door frame of the mermaid cage was about to be crushed by it...

Finally, after looking back at the same time as fate would have it, the hero and heroine ran to each other, hugged, and kissed.

'The heavy rain can't extinguish our love.'

'I love you!'

Water can't extinguish it? Love = super flame?

Mu Mu propped up his chin, and the more he thought about it, the more confused he became: "Oh?"

Dai Rong helped to explain: "They are talking to each other, expressing a wonderful feeling."

Mu Mu's eyes were confused: "?" What feeling?

Dai Rong couldn't count how many academic reports he had made at interstellar conferences, but now facing a mermaid, he was a little stuck:

"As for love... even if someone who has never experienced it encounters that moment, they can instantly realize that it is love."

Mu Mu seemed to understand, and his thoughts quickly ran to the next plot.

Dai Rong also breathed a sigh of relief...

When Wen Ming returned home, the living room was in a harmonious scene.

He walked straight to the mermaid cage and said disapprovingly:

"Mu Mu is very resistant to entering the mermaid cage."

"Really?" Dai Rong was surprised, and looked at the mermaid's relaxed posture of watching the drama, "I didn't see it."

"?"

Wen Ming put his hand on the mermaid cage and leaned over slightly: "Mu Mu?"

Mu Mu gave him a look and immediately immersed herself in the projected picture.

Dai Rong: "It watched it very attentively. I heard that mermaids like moving pictures, and Mu Mu especially likes them."

The protagonist in the play was acting a crying scene, and Mu Mu sniffed and also burst into tears.

Dai Rong added: "It can even understand part of the plot. It is too human."

This is the first time that Wen Ming was not warmly welcomed by the mermaid after returning home.

He moved half a step to the side without leaving a trace, blocking the view of the mermaid cage.

"Ah!" It's kind of blocking my view of the show!

Mu Mu reached out and pulled him, looking up pitifully, as if to give it another look, asking it to do anything.

"......" Wen Ming sighed lightly and gave up his position.

"I understand, I really can't resist that kind of look." Dai Rong smiled, "I just finished watching the update, and I even opened an advanced on-demand program for it." As

she spoke, she met Wen Ming's eyes and slowly put away her smile:

"Why didn't you reply to my message on the day of the thunder? Was there something wrong with your spiritual sea?"

"No." Wen Ming said indifferently, "Just a little agitated, it's okay now."

Dai Rong nodded silently.

It seemed that they only had this one common topic, and the mermaid background music became the only sound in the living room...

Mu Mu was so embarrassed by the atmosphere that his fins trembled, and he patted the mermaid cage:

"Ahhh!"

Dai Rong found another opportunity to speak: "Mu Mu, don't you want to watch it?"

"Ahh!" I want to watch it!

Mu Mu cried out in tears: "Woo..." But I didn't make any sound, I was afraid that you two would continue to be embarrassed.

This family has no little mermaids to leave.

"It's time to feed it, it should be hungry." Wen Ming pushed the mermaid cage away.

Dai Rong turned off the projector and followed them to the door of the mermaid room to see them.

Wen Ming stopped by the pool and tapped the mermaid cage with his knuckles. Mu Mu understood and jumped into the pool with a plop.

It grabbed the mermaid bowl and knocked on the pool wall, "beep, beep, beep", urging them to eat.

Wen Ming rolled up his sleeves slowly, as if he was testing the little mermaid's patience, and it took him a long time to adjust after rolling them up.

As Mu Mu was knocking, he realized that something was wrong and reflected on himself -

did he forget to welcome his master home today?

"Awooo--"

Mu Mu cried exaggeratedly, raising his arms high, performing a circle, and stirring the pool with his tail like a joke.

After turning a few circles, he squeezed a smile at Wen Ming: "Hehe." Is that enough?

Wen Ming lazily raised his eyelids and looked at it: "Continue."

"...Humph." Childish master.

Wen Ming didn't embarrass it anymore, and looked for the food to be fed today in the storage cabinet.

He paid attention to Mu Mu's expression with his peripheral vision, and his hand brushed over a row of fish food bags. When passing by a bag, the tips of Mu Mu's ears trembled happily.

Wen Ming chose the one: "Want this flavor?"

The little mermaid had already brought the mermaid bowl to him...

Dai Rong at the door was stunned.

This expression was considered inappropriate for her, but she couldn't adjust.

"Feeding mermaids is divided into two steps: pouring fish food into the mermaid bowl and placing the mermaid bowl by the pool."

Dai Rong looked at everything in front of her in a trance: "So what are they doing..."

She spent too much time in the laboratory. Has the mode of interaction between humans and mermaids evolved to this point?