Su Su stayed in the room for a while, and suddenly heard Qi Hanyi's breathing become rapid. He turned over and sat up, and looked over his head to find that Qi Hanyi's face was pale, his expression was painful, and his lips were purple.
Su Su reached out to touch him. Although he was covered with a quilt, his body temperature was frighteningly low.
Hey, what's going on?
Su Su was a little panicked, but he didn't dare to say anything. The old man outside was too fierce, and he looked like he would kill the fish if anything went wrong.
After thinking it over, Su Su sent a message to the mermaid named Xiao He, briefly explaining the situation and asking if she knew what was going on.
This time, it took him several minutes to receive a reply from [Xiao He], and the tone seemed more serious than before: symptoms of mental breakdown. His mental power was now confused and he was easily disturbed by nightmares. Once his consciousness was deeply trapped in them, he could not distinguish between dreams and reality. His body would also be controlled by his mental power and would reflect the injuries in his dreams, and he might even die.
Death! Will Qi Hanyi die?
Sharks witness the death of their own kind almost every day. Su Su is not as sensitive to life and death as most humans. But if the person who died was Qi Hanyi...
Su Su felt something was unreal.
Qi Hanyi could kill a yellowfin tuna by himself before, and he could drive the best starship in the world. He looked healthy and strong, but now he was lying weakly on a hospital bed, and he could die at any time?
"I don't want him to die. Is there anything I can do now?" Su Su asked in a message.
He didn't want Qi Hanyi to fall here. Even if Qi Xingli hadn't demanded it, and even if they had had some conflicts before, Su Su still hoped that this human could survive.
[Xiao He]: Mental power can affect reality. Similarly, the feelings in reality can also be fed back to the spirit and affect the other person's dreams.
[Xiao He]: You can't use your mental power to soothe the other person, you can only try to wake him up first.
All I have to do is wake him up? Is it that simple?
Su Su was delighted and encouraged Xiao He who was answering his questions: You are amazing, you know so much. Thanks to you for telling me, otherwise I would not know what to do.
[Xiao He] still said calmly: You're welcome. It's not easy to wake up a mentally disturbed person, and as the number of attacks increases, it will become more and more difficult to wake him up. If you want to cure him, you have to find a mermaid who is willing to decompose him, and quickly.
In a research institute filled with the smell of disinfectant, a female mermaid was half submerged in the water and half out of the water.
The mermaid looked to be in her twenties. She wore a white tights that outlined her beautiful upper body curves, and a silver fishtail that stretched all the way in the fish tank.
This fish tank looks a bit special. It has a cover on the top to prevent water from overflowing and fix the fish's tail in the center. There are wheels at the bottom, and with the mermaid's control, it can move around the room at will, like a special wheelchair.
This is designed for undifferentiated mermaids so that they can move on the ground without legs.
Around the mermaid, there were several sophisticated instruments of various sizes, performing complex calculations. The mermaid leaned against the edge of her own fish pond, staring blankly at the dialogue box on the communicator, pulling the corners of her mouth, revealing a somewhat self-loathing emotion.
She herself was forced to leave the Mermaid Kingdom in order to get medical treatment. Later, because she failed to successfully differentiate, she watched that person die in front of her. She didn't expect that she would now give such advice to others.
If she were more useful, if she could develop a drug to treat psychiatric breakdown, wouldn't there be fewer tragedies for both humans and mermaids?
The door was opened from the outside, and two people came in. The girl in the lead looked the same as in the photo of [Xiao He]'s avatar. She was very sweet and was a differentiated mermaid.
Behind her was Qi Hanyi's good friend, the owner of this research institute, Xiang Chen.
The mermaid who had already differentiated beside Xiang Chen was called Yun He, the owner of the account. It was she who found Su Su, who was asking for help, while she was slacking off and watching a live broadcast. The mermaid who had not differentiated yet was her sister, Yun Lu.
Both sisters have miserable lives.
The second princess has a fiancé, Yang Yuanshan, the eldest son of the Yang family. As one of the three major families, the Yang family has a status comparable to that of the Qi family. The head of the Qi family is the Minister of National Defense in charge of interstellar wars, while the head of the Yang family is the Minister of General Affairs in charge of the stability of the empire. All matters on the ground, from handling major and minor cases to security deployment, are controlled by the Yang family.
As the eldest son of the Yang family, he studied at the Imperial Academy. He was as brilliant as Qi Hanyi, and had excellent mental strength and top genes. When they were students, one of them ranked first in every subject at the Imperial Academy, and the other ranked first in the Imperial Military Academy every year. They were considered equals in both literature and martial arts.
Yang Yuanshan also won the favor of the princess Tang Xiruo. After graduation, he and Tang Xiruo successfully got engaged.
Unfortunately, he suffered from mental breakdown three years ago. He needs the mermaid's song to survive.
Yunlu is the mermaid who was chosen to treat Yang Yuanshan, who suffers from mental breakdown. But because Yang Yuanshan is engaged, she is destined to be a mere healing tool.
Mermaids are creatures that are easily moved by emotions, but Yunlu is an exception. She has only liked research since she was a child and has no interest in romance. If she had not been taken ashore that time, she would have planned to learn some pharmacology from the high priest and become a mermaid doctor.
She stayed at Yang's house for two weeks but failed to successfully differentiate. Because Yang Yuanshan could not get treatment, he finally died during his third mental breakdown.
There was indeed someone in the Yang family who wanted to avenge Yunlu, and the person who saved her was Yang Yuanshan's fiancée, Princess Tang Xiruo.
She loves her fiancé very much, but she lives soberly. She knows that no one stipulates that a person must fall in love with another person, and feelings are the most difficult thing to force.
Tang Xiruo asked Yunlu where she wanted to go in the future. Yunlu said that she wanted to do research on mental disorders. Later, through the introduction of Qi Yue, who was close to Tang Xiruo, she was transferred to Xiang Chen's laboratory.
She is indeed talented in this area, and within three years, she has become the project leader.
The story of the younger sister Yun He is much simpler. She just reached the age to get married last year, and successfully separated within a few days after the marriage. However, she was unlucky, and the human she met liked to abuse mermaids. Yun He couldn't stay there anymore, so she ran away secretly and hid in her sister's place. For Yun Lu's sake, Xiang Chen kept her as an assistant and helped her cover up a lot. The family was just a low-ranking noble family, and they couldn't find her, so they thought she died outside, and let it go.
However, this time, she was able to recover thanks to the help she received from Su Su, who she found online.
Xiang Chen said to the two sisters, "I just called the Qi family to confirm that Han Yi is indeed experiencing her first mental attack. I also confirmed it with Qi Yue. From the information she collected, Su Su is indeed the online name of the mermaid in Qi Han Yi's family."
Xiang Chen showed a puzzled look: "But what's more strange is that his merman attended the banquet in the form of a human. It should be a normal merman that has differentiated, not a mermaid species."
Yun He retorted, "But his tone on the Internet doesn't sound fake. If it's His Highness Yi Qing, there's no way he doesn't know the treatment method for mental collapse."
"No, he may not be a differentiated mermaid." Yunlu interrupted the argument between the two: "I know that the high priest once had a special mermaid medicine that could temporarily transform mermaids into humans, but the side effects are very serious and cannot be maintained for a long time, so it has been discontinued. If he took that medicine, pretended to be Yiqing to get married, and pretended to differentiate to attend the banquet, it does make sense."
"It's probably this medicine." Xiang Chen suddenly realized, "I was wondering why Qi Hanyi was so weird. He obviously has a mermaid at home, but he still insisted on waiting for me to treat him. It seems that he knew all along that the one at home was a mermaid, and the two of them were working together to deceive their father."
After understanding the current situation, Xiang Chen couldn't help but grit his teeth again: "How dare he! He really doesn't take his life seriously!"
"Then what should we do now, about General Qi..." Yun Lu also showed some worry - most of the research funds for their project were funded by Qi Hanyi, and the project involved the interests of many parties. Without Qi Hanyi's support, this project would be difficult to maintain.
"There's no point in being anxious. His body has already reacted. Life or death is a matter of ten minutes. If he can survive this time, he will be fine next time..." Xiang Chen sighed in worry: "I said he was unreliable. How can you be sure of something like that?"
He thought for a few minutes, made up his mind and prepared to leave: "Anyway, I'll go to Qi's house first to see if I can help. Xiao He, keep an eye on Su Su's account. He has a problem, you try to help him solve it. Anyway, at present, we can only hope that he can wake up Qi Hanyi and help him get through the first stage of mental collapse."
Su Su couldn't wake Qi Hanyi up at all.
He tried many things.
No matter if he shouted into the other person's ear, pushed and shook him hard, or bit him with his fangs, the other person seemed to feel nothing at all.
Su Su saw Qi Hanyi's face getting paler and his body getting colder, and he became more and more anxious. In biology class, we learned that humans are warm-blooded animals, and once the body temperature is too high or too low, they will die.
But the quilt covering Qi Hanyi seemed to have no effect in keeping him warm at all.
Qi Hanyi had control of the room, and Su Su couldn't even adjust the room temperature. He didn't dare to tell others that he couldn't sing for Qi Hanyi. He thought about it and realized that he could barely be a heat source as a human, so he took off his coat and got into Qi Hanyi's quilt, hugging him.
Qi Hanyi's body seemed to have been immersed in the deep sea, and Su Su shivered from the cold. He was not so afraid of the cold, but the human body seemed to be structured differently from the shark's.
So Su Su lay on Qi Hanyi, shivering while trying to transfer his body heat to Qi Hanyi. At the same time, his hands were not idle, and he was trying various ways to wake him up.
He looked up a method on the Internet that involved pinching the nose to wake someone up. It said that as long as the person is unable to breathe, they will wake up in pain.
So Su Su covered Qi Hanyi's mouth with one hand and pinched his nose with the other.
Ten seconds, twenty seconds, half a minute passed, but Qi Hanyi showed no sign of waking up.
Su Su didn't dare to pinch anymore, for fear that Qi Hanyi would suffocate to death, so he quickly let go of his hand. But strangely, after he let go, he found that Qi Hanyi's breathing stopped.
If he hadn't been able to hear the other person's heartbeat, Su Su almost thought that the other person was dead.
【He stopped breathing! 】
Su Su hurriedly sent a message to Xiao He: [I tried many ways to call him, but he didn't seem to wake up at all. I saw a method that can wake people up by holding their breath, so I wanted to try it. I pinched him for a short while, less than a minute... When I let go, I found that he was no longer breathing! ]
[Will he suffocate to death? It's been almost two minutes now. How long can a person go without breathing? Is there any way to help him breathe first? ]
Su Su quickly sent out a long string of messages and finally received a reply from the other party.
[How about... try artificial respiration? ] Yun He typed this line of words nervously. In the absence of equipment, this is indeed the most primitive way to help. However, I heard that Admiral Qi doesn't like mermaids. When he wakes up and knows that it was me who proposed it, he won't rush over to retaliate against me, right?
Well, that shouldn’t be the case. I’m doing this to save him.
Thinking of this, Yun He found the detailed process of artificial respiration and sent a copy to Su Su.
Mouth to mouth? Su Su watched the entire process at the fastest speed. Without any hesitation, he immediately opened Qi Hanyi's mouth and started the operation.
"Ha!" He took a deep breath, lowered his head to cover Qi Hanyi's mouth, and passed the air in his mouth to him.
"call--"
Qi Hanyi was still sinking in the deep sea a second ago. He felt that he could no longer breathe and would soon drown. But the next moment, something soft pried open his teeth, and fresh air poured in, bringing with it a special sweetness.
Qi Hanyi begged greedily, his consciousness gradually emerging.
This happened three times in a row. Suddenly, he felt a faint breath response from the person under him, and then he moved.
Just as Su Su was about to look up to check Qi Hanyi's condition, a hand fiercely grabbed the back of his head.
"Woo woo!" Su Su was startled and couldn't help but push and struggle.
But this escape-like struggle only resulted in stronger control by the opponent. Their lips and tongues were entangled in one place, but the disorganized movements did not look like a kiss. Instead, they looked more like a domineering invasion, demand, and plunder.
The root of the tongue, the teeth, the palate, the opponent searched aggressively, not wanting to miss any corner.
Su Su felt his teeth were a little sore, but... it seemed quite comfortable. His body was numb and itchy, and he felt a little powerless.
Sharks have a combative nature, so he quickly learned how to kiss the girl properly and tried to kiss her back without showing any weakness.
But the other party suddenly stopped, loosened the hand that was holding him, and pushed him away for a distance. His voice was still hoarse, but his tone had returned to his usual restraint: "Sorry."
"Awake!" Su Su reacted belatedly, raised his eyes and looked up, only to meet a pair of misty eyes that looked as if they had been dipped in ice water.
Su Su's mind was confused. His mood at the moment was more like a person who has been expecting too much about something but feels that it cannot be realized. When the dream really comes true, the first reaction is not joy, but shock and disbelief.
He grabbed Qi Hanyi, wrapped his two thin white arms around her neck, and yelled, "You finally woke up! Woohoo! I was scared to death, you didn't even breathe just now! I thought you were going to die!"
"I..." Qi Hanyi tried hard to recall, but could only remember that he seemed to be doing morning exercises in the military camp before he fainted.
This was his bedroom. What happened to him? Who sent him back? Why was Su Su here? They just...
Qi Hanyi wanted to think, but his head hurt so much, as if an axe was chopping straight down the middle of his head.
The door was pushed open from the outside, and Xiang Chen rushed into the room first, carrying a large medical box: "Qi Hanyi! You are still alive——"
His words stopped abruptly when he saw the two people kissing each other on the bed, and he quickly turned around and pushed the old housekeeper who followed him out. As he closed the door, he shouted, "I'll give you ten minutes to solve the problem. I'll come in and give you a physical examination later!"