Xiang Chen used the instruments he brought to check Qi Hanyi's body. Qi Hanyi was suffering from hypothermia, as if he had been soaking in cold water for a long time. Fortunately, his SSS-level genetic resistance was strong, so he could recover on his own after some rest.

The problem was that his mental breakdown disorder was not treated at all, and after the attack, it worsened rapidly.

Xiang Chen's eyebrows were twisted into a knot.

Su Su stared curiously at the numbers that popped up on the instrument, then looked at Qi Hanyi, who was sitting in front of the instrument with his upper body naked and looking calm and composed.

Ask Xiang Chen: "How is he?"

"Not far from death." Xiang Chen snorted coldly. Looking at Qi Hanyi's completely red mental power index, the anger he had just suppressed began to bubble up.

He wanted to get angry at Qi Hanyi, but he was concerned about Su Su being here, so he turned to Su Su and asked politely, "Could you please go downstairs and ask the housekeeper to bring up a medicine box for me?"

"Oh, sure."

Su Su didn't think much about it and was about to leave when Qi Hanyi grabbed his wrist.

Qi Hanyi operated the terminal, and a hidden cabinet popped up, which contained a whole row of bottles, jars and various tools that Su Su could not understand.

"The medicine is in the room. Just say whatever you want to say. There's no need to send him away."

He had already planned to have a frank talk with Su Su, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to let him know some of the situation in advance.

"Then I won't be polite." Xiang Chen originally wanted to save some face for Qi Hanyi, but seeing that the other party looked indifferent, he opened fire directly.

"You're really good. You hid it from everyone and married a merman who knew nothing about anything. Of course, I'm not saying he's a bad person, but you didn't even explain anything about yourself. If Xiao He hadn't happened to run into him during the live broadcast today, do you think you would still be alive here for the examination?"

Su Su couldn't help but interrupt: "Is Xiao He your person?"

"She is an assistant in my research institute." Xiang Chen answered Su Su's question gently, then changed his expression in a second and continued to glare at Qi Hanyi: "If she hadn't guessed that [Su Su] was your merman, I would still be kept in the dark by you."

Qi Hanyi was not surprised: "Thank you for your help today."

"Am I saying so much just to hear you say thank you?" Xiang Chen didn't appreciate it at all.

Qi Hanyi lowered his eyes, which was rare for him to be less stern. His pale face made him look much weaker for no reason. "I underestimated the situation."

According to the last check-up, he thought he had at least another month.

"Underestimated? I thought you just didn't want to live!" Xiang Chen didn't buy Qi Hanyi's show of weakness and scratched his hair irritably: "I've told you many times that mental breakdown is very dangerous. It might break out any day, and it will be too late when it does! This time Su Su woke you up and saved you, but what about next time? What if your mental power is completely out of control and you go crazy or die?"

Qi Hanyi did not answer. He looked calmly at the display screen of the instrument, indifferently looking at the whole row of red indicators, with deep fatigue and boredom hidden in his eyes.

Xiang Chen was shocked to realize that his friend, who was as diligent as a robot, might have already had a feeling of suicidal thoughts in his heart, but was just trying to stay alive out of responsibility, and might even be hoping to die in his subconscious. Otherwise, with his prudence, shouldn't he have made a backup plan early on, and why did he bring the matter to the old man of the Qi family?

Xiang Chen said seriously, "Qi Hanyi, tell me honestly, do you really want to be cured and live? Or do you just give up and leave everything to fate?"

"Of course I will try my best to survive. I promised Grandpa." Qi Hanyi half-lowered his eyes and looked at the beeping machine in front of him: "Besides, the Bai Ze is still waiting for me to return."

He said this, but Xiang Chen could not hear any desire for life in his heart. He was just living for responsibility, and he himself did not find the meaning of wanting to live.

But Xiang Chen couldn't persuade him much at the moment, he just hoped that he would be willing to cooperate with him subjectively.

"Then you should listen to me and find another undifferentiated mermaid right away. Spend a few days with her and let her use her singing to heal you."

"It's impossible to find a mermaid." Qi Hanyi refused flatly.

"Why are you so stubborn? Even if you are lucky enough to wake up once or twice, do you think you can be lucky enough to stay awake forever? I have read all the cases of mental breakdown. If the patient does not receive treatment from mermaids, he will die in less than half a year. The higher the level of mental strength, the shorter the time of death. Yang Yuanshan died in two months, and your time will be even less!"

"It's too late. The development of treatment methods takes time, and experiments also take time. I'm afraid I won't be able to save you in time. Do you understand, Qi Hanyi?"

Qi Hanyi was unmoved: "Then change the medicine. Don't you have a medicine that can completely block mental power?"

Hearing this, Xiang Chen jumped up from his seat in anger: "Qi Hanyi! Would you rather take that medicine than accept the treatment of the mermaid?"

"What's wrong with the medicine?" Su Su leaned in to inquire curiously, looking like a bystander watching the fun, and seemed not to be affected by the quarrel between the two people at all.

"After taking the medicine, Qi Hanyi's spiritual power gene will not be passed on to the next generation. His descendants can only be ordinary people without spiritual power. Qi Hanyi taking the medicine is equivalent to giving up the family inheritance rights."

"Oh, that's okay." Su Su didn't think it was a big deal.

Xiang Chen looked at Su Su in disbelief, unable to believe that this was spoken by a mermaid who loved Qi Hanyi so much: "Is it okay? Don't you want to have offspring with Qi Hanyi in the future? Do you know what it means to have offspring without spiritual power?"

Xiang Chen didn't know that Su Su was a male. He was very handsome, had long hair, and had appeared in public wearing a skirt. Although the clothes he was wearing now were more masculine, Xiang Chen still subconsciously thought he was a female mermaid.

He thought that since the two had feelings for each other, it was only natural for them to have children.

Su Su showed a strange expression. He and Qi Hanyi had a child? They were both men. Did the current medical technology allow men to have children?

Su Su asked sincerely: "Who of us gave birth?"

Xiang Chen was also confused by Su Su's question. What do you mean by who gave birth to the other two?

Qi Hanyi looked at the two people who were talking at cross purposes and couldn't help but interrupt: "I don't plan to have offspring, so this problem doesn't exist. I can bear the risk of taking the medicine myself."

"Are you crazy or am I crazy? You are the heir, but you don't plan to have offspring? Fine, this is your freedom, but you are not the head of the family yet. If people know that you can't have the best offspring, your collateral relatives will probably use this as an excuse to attack you crazily and snatch your inheritance rights. You are not yet firmly established. Once your inheritance rights are deprived because of this, Qi Xingli will no longer protect you. Without the support of the family, you will have trouble taking a single step in the military!"

Xiang Chen was so worried that he had a headache: "It would be fine if this medicine could cure the disease, but the key is that it can only delay the disease for three months, and you won't even have the mental strength during these three months. If someone takes advantage of the opportunity to deal with you, I'm worried that you won't live long enough for the medicine to work."

"I have no choice, Xiang Chen." Qi Hanyi said calmly, "I need you to help me."

"I..." Xiang Chen squatted on the ground with a face full of pain: "I really owe you."

He rubbed his face hard until it turned red, and raised his head again: "Can't we compromise this time? I know you hate mermaids, but you can't hate them so much that you risk your life for them, right?"

He stood up and pulled Su Su over: "Look, aren't there cute mermaids? There must be other good mermaids. You can't generalize, huh?"

"It's not because of hatred." Qi Hanyi didn't want to say too much, but seeing Xiang Chen was so anxious about his matter, he explained a few more words: "I admit that I did hate mermaids in the past. I blamed my mother and the mermaids for my father's death. I hated them for hurting my father. They suffered injustice, but those injustices were not caused by my father. Why should he bear it?"

"But now I understand. What's the difference between my anger at my father's fate and their revenge on my father?"

"What really led to the tragedy was humanity's attitude towards mermaids. If this doesn't change, tragedies will happen countless times."

"What I should hate is not mermaids, but the way humans treat mermaids. What I should hate is not my mother, but the rules that turn my parents into enemies."

"My father was right. He figured it out a long time ago. He has been trying to break the rules, even though he has failed."

Xiang Chen was very happy to hear Qi Hanyi say this. He once thought that the incident would be a knot in Qi Hanyi's heart that he would never be able to untie, but he didn't expect that he could now discuss this matter with him calmly: "Since you have figured it out, you should accept the mermaid's treatment..."

"No, Xiang Chen." Qi Hanyi said, "Using mermaids as a tool for healing is such an unfair rule. If I compromise with the rule today in order to survive, what position will I have in the future to oppose it? To change it?"

"I know you are against this rule, so you want to research drugs to treat mental breakdown, right?"

"But you are different. You are the general of the expeditionary force. If you are alive, many people can survive. If it were you... if it were you..." Xiang Chen said with difficulty. He knew that he had been convinced by Qi Hanyi, and he could never be the winner over Qi Hanyi.

But he wanted Qi Hanyi to live.

Xiang Chen looked at Su Su for help: "Don't you like him? Please help persuade him! In his current condition, even if he takes medicine, he may not be able to hold on until the treatment method is successfully researched. There are still mermaids to help with the treatment. Don't worry, we can find a mermaid who voluntarily comes ashore and negotiate terms with her. Once she cures Qi Hanyi, we can let her leave and give her everything she wants."

"But Qi Hanyi doesn't want this." Su Su was unmoved, and had no intention of helping or persuading him. Qi Hanyi had already made his choice, and he didn't have the habit of interfering with other people's choices.

"Aren't you afraid? If Qi Hanyi dies, the fact that you are a mermaid will be exposed. Not only will you die, but your family and the mermaid royal family will also be implicated." Xiang Chen reminded. He knew that he looked despicable now, and he said a lot of unpleasant things, but he had to ensure that Qi Hanyi survived.

"I'm not afraid." Su Su replied.

He was afraid of many things, most of all being hungry, dying, being in pain, not being able to turn into a human being, and being caught by Qi Hanyi while playing games.

But he was not afraid of the situation Xiang Chen described. Su Su counted on his fingers and said, "We still have three months after taking the medicine. Everything depends on human effort. If it doesn't work, he will just sleep like he did today. I will wake him up."

The young mermaid stood in front of Xiang Chen. He had a tall and slender figure, delicate and charming eyebrows and eyes. But at this moment, he looked at Xiang Chen with his eyes straightforward and sincere, with an almost naive fearlessness: "No matter how many times, I will find a way to wake him up."

At this moment, Xiang Chen suddenly understood why Qi Hanyi treated him differently.

Qi Hanyi looked at the young man in front of him, his heart pounding and unfamiliar emotions surging in his chest.

He liked Su Su, even though he had mermaid blood in his body.

Qi Hanyi wanted to hold him in his arms and hug him very tightly.

But he just stepped forward, held the other person's shoulders, and gently rubbed the top of his head.

After having his head rubbed, Su Su suddenly felt a sense of familiarity, as if someone had done the same action not long ago.

Su Su stood there stupidly, looked up and tried to recall: Who is it?