It’s just that I can’t eat, it’s no big deal.
Shui Yiyao: "What should I do now?"
Ao Li: "One hour, check whether all indicators are qualified. If they are qualified, continue observation."
"What if I fail?" Shui Yiyao was a little nervous.
Ao Li was adjusting the position of her ECG monitor when he heard her say this. He looked up at her and said, "Then let's do it next time."
Shui Yiyao stared at the data on the ECG monitor: "I'm sure I'll pass."
She turned to look at Ao Li again: "Ao Yuan, come to think of it, when did you prepare the gift for me? You are so busy."
A smile appeared in Ao Li's eyes: "Take a break from your busy schedule."
Shui Yiyao: "Is this a consolation gift? I have to take so many medicines this time."
I was originally unhappy about having to take medicine, but I am still very happy with this gift.
"I'm not trying to comfort you." Ao Li reached out and pressed his chest. In his left inner pocket was the Peaceful Spell, close to his heart. The shape was clear. He looked at her and said, "I like you."
Shui Yiyao was stunned for a moment, her ears red. She smiled and gave a thumbs-up: "Full marks."
Ao Li took out an electronic remote control from the drawer of the nearby cabinet and handed it to Shui Yiyao, who was sitting in the treatment chair. "We've added a water tank. You can go in anytime later."
He knew Yuyu was originally human, but she was a sea creature, so she felt much more comfortable in the water. This experiment required a more rigorous environment, so he couldn't go to his manor, so he built a water tank indoors.
Water tank?
Shui Yiyao took the remote control. She turned her head to look inside. The laboratory was large, a single room with a panoramic view.
No containers of water were seen.
Where is it?
She looked at the remote again and pressed the start button.
——"Ding! The water tank has been opened, the temperature is 21 degrees Celsius, and the water volume is 2000 cubic meters——"
As the warning sounded, the floor in the center of the laboratory suddenly opened up, like a sliding lid, and a pool of water appeared before their eyes.
A fairly large pool, the water is blue and must have been specially treated.
Shui Yiyao was stunned again. There was actually a large pool under the laboratory.
"It can only be built this small, I feel sorry for it."
Shui Yiyao shook her head: "It's big enough." It would be more than enough for a hundred of her to dance in it.
Ao Li began to tell Shui Yiyao the precautions for using the laboratory, including the water tank.
After he finished speaking, he asked, "Should that be clear? The precautions are all stored in the remote control and can be viewed at any time. Is there anything else you want to know?"
Shui Yiyao listened carefully, then suddenly looked up and asked, "Are you leaving now?"
Every detail was explained clearly.
"I'll stay with you and leave at night."
"Oh... so you don't work?"
"You're my job."
"So, do you have to work overtime when you get home tonight? Otherwise, you'd better go home early. Otherwise, you'll have to stay up all night again."
Shui Yiyao gave him some advice.
Ao Li was half-crouching on the ground, adjusting the height of the treatment chair for her. He looked up at her and said, "Teacher Shui, you're welcome. This is what I should do. After all—"
"Um?"
"You gave me money."
Shui Yiyao was immediately amused.
She nodded: "Yes, I gave the money."
"But," she added after a while, "you really don't have to accompany me. I can do jade carving here. It won't be boring."
The last time she came to the laboratory, Ao Li prepared a jade carving machine for her and placed it next to her. As long as she didn't have any equipment with her, she could go and work.
It's only three days, and the jade carving will pass. You're not a child, so you don't need someone to accompany you.
Ao Li smiled and said, "I accompany you, and you accompany me. This opportunity is rare."
Shui Yiyao smiled.
It is true that opportunities are rare.
"Once we finish our business, there will be plenty of time."
Ao Li placed the monitoring equipment on her one by one with gentle movements.
"Monitor for two hours first. If there is no problem, switch to a portable monitor." After completing all the monitoring, Ao Li took out a small transparent box from the cabinet next to him.
Shui Yiyao took a look and saw a portable monitor in the box. She had used it in the pool last time. It consisted of an electronic neckband, a wristband and two anklets.
The monitors currently used on the body can only be fixed on this treatment chair, but portable monitors are very convenient. They do not need to be fixed in place, can be put into the pool, and are lightweight.
However, the results of portable monitors are not as accurate as those of large monitors, so large monitors must be used for the first two hours.
So now she is fixed in the treatment chair, unable to work or eat, which is really a bit boring.
She looked up at Ao Li and said, "Master Ao, shall we talk about something?" She couldn't just sit there in a daze the whole time.
"Hmm? What do you want to talk about?"
Shui Yiyao thought for a while: "You are not very old, and you have only been on land for ten years. How did you build such a big company?" Ao Li is only thirty-one this year, but his Deep Sea Group is almost the richest man, and it has many cooperations with domestic officials, so its position is very stable.
This fact is not mentioned in the original novel, as if he was born strong. But Ao Li was originally from the sea tribe and had only been on land for a few years. How did he build such a huge foundation?
"Selling ice gold." A new energy source.
Ao Li first gave the answer, then elaborated, "When I first went ashore to investigate, I realized that energy is extremely important to the land tribes. So I brought the 'Ice Gold' from the sea and went to the person in charge on land in China."
"Ice gold is very expensive, so I made a fortune."
Oh, it turns out that the original capital accumulation was formed by reselling marine energy.
Shui Yiyao had been listening quietly. When she heard the word "Ice Gold", she thought about it and asked again, "Is it the legendary Ice Gold?"
When she first started looking for jade information on the Internet, she would occasionally see advertisements for "Ice Gold", similar to
[This stone is as hard as ice gold!]
[This jade looks as good as ice gold! Miracle!]
There were so many advertisements for stones with ice gold, but no advertisement for ice gold. She was curious and went to check.
I found a piece of history.
Ten years ago, a Chinese fisherman discovered a new energy source in the ocean called ice gold. It's similar to oil, but more durable. One gram of ice gold can be used for ten years.
Without hesitation, the fisherman handed over the new energy source to the country, and the country gave him a large reward.
At the same time, new energy attracted great attention from the United States, which approached the fishermen and expressed its willingness to buy the development site of Ice Gold at a hundred times the price.
The fishermen refused.]
Shui Yiyao remembered the legend and realized, "You are the fisherman!"
Ao Li was obviously aware of the existence of this legend and chuckled lightly: "It's me."
"I heard that the US offered more money. You must have been short of money at that time. Why did you refuse them?"
Ao Li looked at her and said, "We, the Sea Clan, also belong to the Chinese bloodline. Secondly, the United States has no qualms about dumping pollutants into the ocean."
"Xiaomei Country? Isn't that China?" Shui Yiyao was puzzled. After all, China and Xiaoshan Country were closer to that sea area. Xiaomei Country was quite far away.
Ao Li shook his head. "After China discovered the initial spread of pollution, they halted the project. It was the United States that specifically sent the pollutants to the Chinese coast for dumping."
"How could this be so slick?" Shui Yiyao was speechless. The United States was a long way away.
Ao Li nodded. "Add to that the nuclear leak in Xiaoshan Country, and the pollution is getting worse. I hope the sea people can come ashore, and they can't do without their land residence permits."
"You've succeeded now, that's amazing!" Shui Yiyao couldn't help but sigh. Applying for a residence permit was extremely difficult, so it was obvious that he must have put in a lot of effort to secure one for the Sea Clan.
"To apply for a residence permit, one must have made sufficient contributions and gained a good reputation. Besides me, Ao Yun also came up. I thought I had to pursue research. But Ao Yun discovered online that celebrities were more famous, so we each went our separate ways."
Shui Yiyao laughed and looked at his white protective suit: "Luckily you didn't let Ao Yun fool you. I can't imagine you entering the entertainment industry."
Ao Li looked at the wall where a picture of the director of the research institute was hung. "Later, the director of the Huaguo mainland approved my application to join the institute and arranged for me to join the Xincheng Research Institute. I began to study and research ice gold under the guidance of then-director Chen."
Shui Yiyao also noticed the photo on the wall. It was particularly large, hung high in the center. The date of the photo was written on it, ten years ago, so the color looked old, but the frame was spotless, clearly showing how much Ao Li valued him. She asked cautiously, "Is this Dean Chen?"
"It's him." Ao Li looked intently at the large photo hanging high up in the air, and said each word carefully, "He is my mentor."
Shui Yiyao looked at Ao Li, there was a determined light in his eyes.
"Then I founded the Deep Sea Group, which only sells ice gold."
"The ice gold accumulated by my dragon clan over generations is enough to last the entire Chinese nation for ten thousand years. With small profits but quick turnover, we've made a lot of money. With financial support, we've developed other projects, and now we have the Deep Sea Group."
He started out by selling energy. Shui Yiyao was lost in thought. So, Ao Li, this is the story of an oil tycoon who made his fortune.
She sighed again, "It's not easy for you either. You've always lived in the sea, and suddenly came ashore. You were able to deploy so many things so safely and successfully establish the Deep Sea Group."
She thought about it and looked at Ao Li again: "When can Ao Yun help you? This is unfair. He is also the heir and should worry about the Deep Sea Group."
Ao Li: "It's almost done. I've found a trainer for him. He'll start working once he passes the exam."
"You should have done this a long time ago. If you keep working yourself to death like this, you'll end up as a bald man."
Ao Li: “…”
The two of them chatted back and forth, and two hours passed quickly. The results on the monitor came out, indicating that everything was normal and the test could continue.
Shui Yiyao breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the monitoring results and took her first dose of medication on schedule. Thirty pills took five minutes to complete, followed by two large glasses of water.
Ao Li helped her remove the monitor and put the portable monitor's neck ring, wrist ring and ankle ring on her one by one.
Shui Yiyao finished taking the medicine, and Ao Li was squatting in front of her, having already put the anklet on her.
She put the cup aside and asked, "If I go into the water and become a tail, won't this anklet fall off?"
Every time she comes to experiment, she wears a long skirt so that she can easily change back into a tail at any time.
Ao Li continued to help her fasten the thin anklet and explained, "One third of the medicine you just took is to prevent you from transforming back into a mermaid. Don't worry, your tail won't come out."
After hearing the explanation, Shui Yiyao stood up from the treatment chair. The three rings of the portable monitor were basically a thin, round metal ring. The material was similar to aluminum sheet, very light, and not at all cumbersome.
She walked towards the water tank: "Then I will try now to see if the tail will come out."
Walking to the edge of the pool, she turned around and looked at Ao Li.
"I went down?"
Before Ao Li could answer, she jumped into the water tank.
With a sharp sound of entering the water, Shui Yiyao opened her eyes. Her body felt neither cold nor hot; the water's temperature and touch were both pleasant, like melting into a ball of marshmallow. She looked down at her legs. Amidst the shimmering water, her skirt still showed two legs; it had indeed not transformed into a tail.
She looked up towards the shore and saw Ao Li coming over. He was half-crouching by the pool and looking at her.
Shui Yiyao swam towards the surface of the water, approached the edge of the pool, and reached out to Ao Li under the water.
Ao Li took her hand and gently pulled her up to the surface.
Breaking through the water, water drops slide down with a crisp sound.
Ao Li looked at her, his Adam's apple moving. Her red skirt seemed to be made of gauze, which became transparent after being soaked in water. It stuck to her body, revealing her figure clearly.
Somewhat tempting.
Seeing Ao Li in a daze, Shui Yiyao pursed her lips, with a hint of evil in her eyes.
She held Ao Li's hand tightly and pulled it down suddenly.
With a "splash", Ao Yuan was caught off guard and fell into the water.
The prank was successful and Shui Yiyao started laughing.
Shui Yiyao leaned against the wall of the pool, laughing as she watched Ao Yuan, who had suddenly fallen into the water and lost his serious look and seemed a little out of control.
"I think this pool is very comfortable to stay in, so I'll let you try it. How is it? Isn't it good?"
Even in the water, the two of them still held hands.
Ao Li emerged from the water, looked at the happy Shui Yiyao, and smiled himself.
Seeing that he was not angry, Shui Yiyao gradually stopped laughing and looked at the wet Ao Li.
"Master Ao, what is this?" From the protective suit collar of Ao Li's suit, one could see that he was wearing a white shirt underneath. The white shirt became translucent after entering the water, so Shui Yiyao saw a black pattern under his collarbone.
I've vaguely seen it before, but never asked about it.
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