Qi Hanyi did not recognize that Su Su was the shark he had thrown into the sea while on the cruise ship. After all, to humans, sharks look very similar.
But he does have a natural liking for sharks, which to some extent even mitigates his aversion to their mermaid bloodline.
After a brief shock, Qi Hanyi quickly regained his composure, analyzed the situation in front of him, and quickly came to a conclusion: "Mermaid species."
Mermaids are extremely rare on land. They are the offspring of mermaids and marine creatures. If nothing unexpected happens, they will live in the sea all their lives in the form of marine creatures.
Of course, there are also some who, for various reasons, take mermaid medicine and choose to become mermaids. Some will become pets in some wealthy families. Because mermaids cannot differentiate again, they cannot leave the fish tank for their entire lives, so they are never seen outside.
Su Su responded. He was no longer the ignorant shark. He knew that when humans meet, they usually introduce themselves first. So he said in his own human language: "My name is Su Su."
"Su Su?" Considering that this shark had been using reduplicated words in his previous speech, Qi Hanyi's first reaction was that his name was also reduplicated.
"Sui." Su Su corrected himself, his pronunciation was particularly clear, as if he had practiced it many times in his mind: "It means to go upstream."
It turns out that sharks can speak with more than just reduplicated words.
Qi Hanyi couldn't help but think about it, and found his thoughts a little funny.
Qi Hanyi chased away this useless thought and looked at the pool with scrutinizing eyes. He looked at the shark in front of him through the glass and said, "Why are you here?"
This is a long story, and the thing Su Su is least good at now is speaking.
He talked for a long time but couldn't explain it clearly.
"Can you type?" Qi Hanyi asked.
Su Su nodded hurriedly, turned around and dived into the water, and took out the terminal Xiaoyou had given him. He threw it in front of Qi Hanyi, with a reminder on it: Facial recognition failed, unable to log in.
Qi Hanyi tapped Su Su's chip with the finger wearing the terminal ring.
Su Su's long-silent chip flashed a few times: [Guardian authority recognized, logging in. 】
Su Su looked at Qi Hanyi in amazement, wishing he could give him a seal applause. It was amazing, he had been trying to applaud for a long time but it didn't work, and the other party logged in with just one tap! The guardian's authority was too powerful.
Su Su was like an internet-addicted teenager who had regained access to the internet. He excitedly waved his fins and tapped on the projection of the input interface.
A half-true, half-false story unfolds under his keyboard.
[We met before, half a month ago, on a cruise ship, you saved me.]
Su Su's first sentence surprised Qi Hanyi.
The shark in front of him was the one that was caught on the cruise ship that day.
How could there be such a coincidence?
After years of war experience and being accustomed to intrigues and schemes, Qi Hanyi is suspicious of coincidences.
He waited quietly for Su Su to continue.
Su Su continued knocking: [But you abandoned me again. ]
Abandon? Qi Hanyi raised his eyebrows. This is completely nonsense.
[You threw me back into the sea. You didn’t support me yourself, and you didn’t let anyone else support me!!!] Su Su continued to output, and he deliberately typed a few more exclamations to emphasize the grief and anger that he couldn’t express at that time.
Qi Hanyi recalled how he had picked up the shark's tail and thrown it back into the sea, and corrected himself, "That's called releasing it."
【I don’t want to be released!!!】
Su Su continued to output: [I have mermaid blood, my body is not as big as other sharks, I don’t have enough to eat every day, I’m almost starving to death!!! I finally got a chance to be taken in by humans, but you threw me back!!!]
Perhaps the numerous exclamations aroused Qi Hanyi's guilt, and he rarely apologized: "I'm sorry, I didn't know you were a mermaid at that time."
But the apology was so cold and emotionless.
But Su Su was very impressed by this. After hearing Qi Hanyi's apology, the resentment he had before was like a deflated balloon, and it disappeared with a "puff".
"Then I forgive you." He said generously.
Looking at the little shark who said forgiveness in a serious manner, Qi Hanyi found it funny, but at the same time, a strange thought came to his mind.
Quite cute.
Su Su was no longer angry and continued to talk. He deliberately omitted the part about his acquaintance with Yi Qing and only said: "But I still wanted to come to the human world, so I went to the Mermaid Kingdom and asked the high priest for mermaid medicine."
[But the mermaid medicine only works for a few days. It's starting to lose its effect now. I've turned into a shark again. Although I can still speak, your robots don't recognize me. They haven't given me any food in the past two days. If you don't come back, I'll starve to death again.]
"Get to the point." Qi Hanyi didn't want to hear about the Mermaid Kingdom, as it always brought back many unpleasant memories. However, he wanted to know the origin of this shark, but he was impatient to continue learning more.
Thinking of Su Su's last complaint, Qi Hanyi whispered to the robot Xiaoyou: "Ask the kitchen to prepare some fresh live fish."
Su Su was a little unhappy at first because he was interrupted, but when he heard that there was food to eat, his unhappiness was immediately forgotten and he typed a lot faster.
[That day, after I took the mermaid medicine and was leaving, I ran into two humans in diving suits. They seemed to be planning to do something bad to the princess who was to marry. I felt something was wrong and quickly told Princess Yiqing about it. After some discussion, the princess decided to let me pretend to be her to test the intentions of these people. She would meet me halfway.]
[Who would have thought that those two nasty guys would actually put drugs in the farewell wine. On the way, they even tried to take off my clothes, I resisted with all my might and chased them away. Then the drug took effect and I fell asleep. When I woke up again, I was here. The princess must have had an accident and didn't come to pick me up in time. I don't know how she is now, I'm really worried about her.]
Su Su's lies were 70% true and 30% false, and some of them were consistent with the information Qi Hanyi had.
When Qi Hanyi arrived home, he had already learned from the housekeeper that an accident occurred during the pick-up. When the mermaid princess arrived, she was in a coma. Drug ingredients could be detected in her blood. There were obvious signs of a fight on the shuttle boat. The two people sent by the family to pick up the bride were missing. Three days later, the body was fished out dozens of kilometers away, with vaginal discharge.
So for Qi Hanyi, Su Su's statement that two people pretended to be the bride-picking party and wanted to do something during the marriage was credible, and he had already sent people to investigate. Unfortunately, the other party did a very clean job, and the Qi family delayed the investigation for a few days, and there were not many clues.
But apart from that, there are still many doubts in the whole story. Qi Hanyi is very sure that Su Su lied.
Qi Hanyi started from the beginning to unravel the truth of the incident: "Mermaids cannot enter the Mermaid Kingdom at will. They need to be introduced by someone. The mermaid medicine of the high priest is not available to everyone. The person who introduced you to the high priest was the mermaid princess Yi Qing. You have known her for a long time, and you can even say that you have a good relationship with her. That's why you are willing to take such a big risk for her and become her substitute."
"You might have been planning to run away, but you didn't expect the other gang to show up and disrupt your plan. The drug they used made you miss the chance to escape, and you found yourself here when you woke up."
He spoke with great conviction, as if he had sufficient evidence.
Su Su opened his mouth blankly, and in his daze, he had already missed the best time to deny it.
Qi Hanyi confirmed his guess from Su Su's reaction and continued, "You deliberately concealed this matter so that I wouldn't know that you knew Yi Qing. This would make it easier for you to distance yourself from the whole matter as much as possible."
As a mermaid princess who is about to get married, what would she do that she is afraid of being known? Considering the current result, the answer is obvious:
"You're afraid that I'll know that she ran away from her marriage. You're afraid that the Qi family will hold the Mermaid Kingdom accountable for this."
In the empty room, a man and a shark faced each other silently across the glass fish tank.
Qi Hanyi stood tall in front of the fish tank, his head slightly raised and his eyelids lifted.
Su Su floated in the water, his body slightly higher than Qi Hanyi, looking down at him slightly.
Although he had the advantage of geographical location, Su Su felt that he was completely suppressed by the opponent's aura.
For the first time, Su Su felt a threat from Qi Hanyi's emotionless eyes, a danger comparable to that of a top spectator. He saw through everything sharply, and he tore everything apart indifferently.
He realized that the cute human in front of him was not so harmless, but rather dangerous. More dangerous than the strongest shark in the group, no, more dangerous than the killer whale named Chubby!
All the secrets were exposed. Su Su hid his head in the water as if to escape, spitting out a string of bubbles to block the two people's sight, and tried to play dumb:
I don't know anything. I'm just a little shark that can't understand human language.
Just when Su Su was panicking and didn't know what to do, he heard Qi Hanyi say, "I can pretend that I don't know about this, not hold the Mermaid Kingdom responsible, and find time to send you away, as long as you listen to my arrangements from now on."
Things took a turn for the worse. Su Su's hearing recovered at the speed of light. He rushed to Qi Hanyi, half of his body jumped out of the water, splashing water all over him, and spoke urgently in a sweet voice: "I'm listening, I'm listening."
"Yeah." Qi Hanyi was very satisfied with Little Shark's cooperation. However, he still needed to think about the specific plan. It would take some effort to hide the matter from Grandpa.
There were two gentle knocks on the door, and Xiao You came in pushing a basket full of fresh live fish.
Su Su's eyes lit up instantly. He opened his mouth and stared at the live fish eagerly. Then he turned to Qi Hanyi with silent pleading.
Looks like he's really hungry.
Qi Hanyi gestured to the robot, and Xiaoyou poured the whole basket of live fish into the pool: "Let's eat first. You will stay here for the time being, and you won't be short of food. You can also make other requests."
"My husband is so nice." Su Su pounced happily, bit the largest yellow croaker in one bite, and said sincerely.
Qi Hanyi still felt a little awkward being called husband by a shark.
"Don't shout nonsense. There is no relationship between you and me. Besides..." Qi Hanyi's eyes swept coldly over Su Su's abdomen near the tail, where there were two obvious mating processes: "You are a male shark, right?"
"Hmm." Su Su also followed Qi Hanyi's gaze and looked down at his abdomen, but his gender awareness was very weak, and there was no education on this aspect in the textbook.
So he didn't grasp the main point of Qi Hanyi's words at all.
[Do we have to be married to call him husband?] Su Su tapped the keyboard in confusion: [Can't I call him husband just because he's cute?]
After all, when he saw the mermaids on the mermaid forum, he saw that all the good-looking humans and mermaids called each other "husband".
Qi Hanyi thinks that the word "cute" has nothing to do with him, and perhaps humans cannot understand the aesthetics of sharks.
"no."
【What should I call you then?】Su Su asked.
"Qi Hanyi."
"Qi and Anyi." Su Su repeated it in loose human language, then shook his tail aggrievedly and typed: [Not as easy to pronounce as my husband. ]
"It will cause misunderstanding." Qi Hanyi said firmly, his tone was cold as if he was assigning work to a subordinate, but there was an abnormal pink tint in his ears.
[Okay.] Su Su compromised: [Then I will call you husband when no one is around, and call you by your name when someone is around.]
Qi Hanyi pursed his lips:...
It feels like something is even stranger.