The little shark fell into a deep sleep, and his body slowly changed under the influence of the drugs.

Qi Hanyi looked at him quietly through the glass, thinking over and over again in his mind what Su Su had just said.

Qi Hanyi knew that Su Su liked him. Su Su never concealed his feelings and expressed his joy, anger, sorrow and happiness directly. But it was precisely because of this that he wanted to hide, and he had to hide.

From the moment he sank into the dark and cold sea, he knew that his parents were gone.

The grandfather took him in, provided him with food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and taught him how to behave in the world, but in return, he required unconditional obedience and satisfactory results.

From now on, he must be responsible for his own life, and no one will protect him from the wind and rain. No one will sing to lull him to sleep after waking up from a nightmare, and no one will indulge him to stay in bed when he is sick and sad. No one cares about his emotions, and no one pays attention to his sorrows and joys.

Before that incident, he seemed more mature and sensible than his peers, but he still showed his childish side occasionally. But after that incident, he gradually became the emotionless and tireless working machine he is now.

Because he knew he had to do this in order to survive.

Qi Hanyi looked at the corner next to the fish tank. The shark doll Ah Yin that Su Su brought back from the old house was lying there quietly. When Qi Hanyi looked at him, he would think of the appearance of the little shark. He often thought that maybe the kind little shark only supported him, but his heart was already buried in the cold deep sea.

How can a heartless person respond to a heartfelt love?

Qi Hanyi stubbornly blocked all his emotions, and now he didn't even know how to feel his own feelings.

When he learned that he was suffering from mental breakdown, Qi Hanyi even felt relieved. He finally had an excuse to put down all his burdens and take a rest, but now he wanted to live.

He wanted to wait until he had his revenge and everything was arranged before thinking carefully about his and Su Su's future.

But not now. He had seen his mother vomit blood and die. Even a mermaid like his mother would vomit blood because of her feelings. If he really died because of the collapse of his mental power and let Su Su feel sad for him, how could he bear it?

Qi Hanyi waited for Su Su to transform from a shark into a mermaid and then into a human. Then he took him out of the water tank, dried his body with a bath towel, and gently placed him on the bed.

Su Su's sleeping appearance is completely different from her ferocious appearance when awake. She looks pretty and well-behaved.

When Qi Hanyi came back to his senses, he had already kissed the other person's forehead unconsciously, then the tip of the nose, and then the lips. He kissed very devoutly, looking like a believer prostrating at the feet of a god, or like a prey bewitched by a sea monster.

The other party's slightly disordered breathing interrupted Qi Hanyi's actions.

He suddenly came back to his senses, as if he just realized what he had done. He pulled the quilt for Su Su in an obvious way and walked out the door quickly.

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Su Su opened his eyes.

When Qi Hanyi was helping him wipe the water stains, he had already woken up. He used almost all his life's acting skills and endured until the other party's kiss landed on his lips, then his breathing became slightly disordered.

But he didn't blink, nor did he pull Qi Hanyi to ask him to explain why he kissed him.

Su Su didn't know why he pretended not to know. If he had to say something, it was probably when Qi Hanyi kissed him that he suddenly had a vague feeling that Qi Hanyi was sad.

Su Su lay down for a while before getting up and getting dressed. Dinner was ready. After so many days of cold war, they sat together again and shared a table of dinner.

"It was my fault before. I shouldn't have arbitrarily put you in a protected position." At the dinner table, Qi Hanyi was the first to break the silence, and his voice had returned to its usual businesslike tone: "Go if you want to. Before that, I will tell you everything I have found out."

Su Su raised his head in surprise, with a grain of rice on the corner of his mouth. He stared blankly at Qi Hanyi as if he suddenly didn't know him. The other party had such a tough attitude just now, he really didn't expect that the other party would give in.

Qi Hanyi reached out to wipe the rice grains from the corner of Su Su's mouth, thinking about how to explain to Su Su the complicated relationship of interests involved.

He had seen Su Su play games and knew too well that Su Su liked to take risks to gain the most benefits, so he was afraid that he would put himself in danger in reality. But at the same time, Qi Hanyi also knew that Su Su was very good at using known information to maximize his advantage. So if he couldn't put Su Su in a safe place, he could only provide the opponent with as much information advantage as possible.

After a moment, Qi Hanyi started talking about the incident itself: "The Mo family was behind this incident of proxy gaming, and the leader was Mo Shan, the eldest son of the Mo family. He is the heir of the Mo family and also the president of the private chamber of commerce. Mo Shan has a typical businessman's mindset and values ​​profit. The purpose of this action was ostensibly to control the gambling situation and gain huge profits."

"If that was all, he would just be a substitute, and there would be no need for him to instruct those three people to point the finger at me during the show." Su Su thought seriously: "Did he know about the relationship between you and me a long time ago and deliberately set a trap for you here?"

Facing Su Su, who understood everything immediately, Qi Hanyi explained with ease: "Yes, he should be expecting me, or the military, to distance themselves from you. Then he will immediately throw out evidence to prove our relationship. By then, public opinion will completely turn against us, and he will take the opportunity to get rid of the military's control over Star Wars, which will be easy."

"In fact, Moshan, who is in charge of the operation of Star Wars, has always been dissatisfied with the military's ban on the exchange of game currency and real-world currency. He is using this matter to put pressure on me. It involves interests, and even if the plan fails now, he will not give up."

Su Su nodded. This was the same as what he thought. However, he still didn't understand one thing: "Doesn't Star Wars rely on data provided by the military to run? Can getting rid of the military bring him greater profits?"

Qi Hanyi picked up some dishes for Su Su, who was busy asking questions but didn't eat for a long time: "Most of the top-up income of "Star Wars" goes into the pockets of the military as military expenses, and the actual profit of Mo Shan is not very high after deducting the operating costs. So he wants to open up the game currency and reality to gain extra benefits from some invisible channels that the military can't find."

Su Su gnawed on the duck leg that Qi Hanyi had brought to him: "So your plan failed, and you're worried that he'll attack me again at this party, and find some evidence to seduce you? Why was he able to attend the party? Is his wife also a mermaid?"

"That's not the case, but the club where the banquet was held this time is his family's business."

"Not only that, as far as I know, next door to that club is the mermaid training center run by the Mo family. The Mo family uses some mermaids abandoned by humans there to do some...not very formal mermaid business."

"Mermaid Training Center? What exactly is that place?" Su Su remembered that Yan Bai had mentioned this place, and it seemed that the mermaids there were not having a good time.

Qi Hanyi didn't really want to describe the situation there, but he felt that Su Su had the right to know, so he turned to the chopsticks and introduced it to him in detail:

"On the surface, it's a place to house and train mermaids. If humans feel that their mermaid partners are not obedient enough, or if their mermaid partners are unable to differentiate, they will be sent here for training and transformation."

"In addition, mermaids who escape marriage, trigger the law, are abandoned by their human partners, or whose human partners die will also be sent here."

"In fact, there is no difference between the training and torture here. The transformed mermaids are not so much trained as tortured. In order not to return here, they are naturally fine. And those mermaids who have lost their partners are no different from slaves. After training here for a period of time, they will be sent to the Mo family's club to become special service personnel and provide services to the high-end customers there."

"You should see a few mermaids like this when you go to the club this time. The so-called annual gathering itself is just a cover. The purpose of the banquet is to let these nobles who have married mermaids bring their own mermaids, so that they can see the power of the training center and behave themselves at home."

Su Su probably understood what was said. He also understood why Yan Bai was so angry when he mentioned this place. If he were imprisoned in such a place and suffered humiliation, he would probably want to kill everyone inside.

But he was not one of them, so even though he understood it, he was not angry or hateful.

He was just a little confused: "No one objects?"

"Of course there are." Qi Hanyi said. He vaguely remembered that his father hated this kind of place very much and had always hoped to close these training centers. Unfortunately, he failed. All he could do was not to take his mother to such places.

"But there are more supporters and they have more power. They are either participants or beneficiaries. They will block all relevant public opinion and kill those who dare to go against them. In the mainstream thinking, mermaids are the private property of human partners, so not many people care about this kind of thing. Even if it is exposed, it will not cause much splash."

"Hmm." After listening to Qi Hanyi's description, Su Su understood why Yan Bai was so hostile to humans. At the same time, he also had a new guess. He had just stuffed a big mouthful of rice, and in a hurry to speak, he swallowed the rice without chewing it: "The Mo family is not really the murderer behind this, right? Even you didn't know the relationship between me and the white-scale shark before, which shows that the account Yan Bai gave me is very secret, and the Mo family shouldn't have found it."

"Yes." Qi Hanyi raised his hand and poured a bowl of soup for Su Su, with some encouragement in his eyes: "Speak slowly, don't choke."

Su Su took the soup, gulped it down, and let out a long sigh: "Is it Yan Bai? Or the people behind him, who gave my information to the Mo family? Yan Bai has always been very hostile to humans, and he also tried to instill this idea in me. So it seems that he may want to use me to do something detrimental to humans."

"But they failed, so they want to get rid of me?"

"You guessed right. According to my investigation, Yan Bai and the Yan Shipping Company he memorized have close ties with an organization called 'Undercurrent' on Liberty Island. This organization colluded with the Zerg a few months ago, causing the theft of space station secrets. The assassin you met on the way to the bride should also be one of them. Yan Bai's purpose in contacting you and giving you the Star Wars account is not simple."

"But I don't think Yan Bai is a bad person." Su Su's idea was confirmed, but he was not happy. He always regarded Yan Bai as a friend.

Qi Hanyi softened his heart and consoled him, "Perhaps Yan Bai really wanted to help you, so he tried hard to persuade you to defect and save your life. In fact, it would be more in their interest to use you directly to deal with me."

"Yeah, I think so too." Su Su immediately stood up again: "What on earth do they want to do?"

"It should be related to the Bai Ze." Qi Hanyi frowned and stated in an emotionless tone as much as possible: "Also, many years ago, when my mother killed my father, she asked about the login rights of the Bai Ze. I suspect that she may have been brainwashed by this organization, or she was sent by this organization to deal with my father from the beginning."

"How could they do this!" Su Su stood up quickly, his eyes turned red instantly, tears welled up in his eye sockets, and he gritted his teeth, as if he was going to join the Undercurrent Organization and eat the mermaids alive in the next second.

Qi Hanyi had already accepted this fact, so even when it was brought up, he was able to control his emotions, but he never expected that Su Su would have such a big reaction.

Qi Hanyi stood there in a daze, unable to react: "Why are you..."

"Plop!" Su Su's tears welled up from his eyes. He sniffed and said in a sobbing voice, "Why? Your father is such a good person. He is also very good to mermaids. Why did they do this?"

"If not, if it wasn't like that. You wouldn't... sob, sob." Su Su cried so hard that she couldn't speak. All she could think of was the boy who was almost out of breath when she pulled him out of the sea, and the desperate eyes when he woke up.

He had seen it, he had seen it. That man recited poems to Qi Hanyi and taught him the principles of being a human being, with such a gentle tone. He gave himself a name and fed himself small fish. He also tried to change the future of the mermaids and said those powerful principles. Such a good, such a good person, why did he die in such a boring hatred? He did nothing wrong from beginning to end.

Qi Hanyi could have been so happy, but in one day, he lost his father and mother. He sank into the deep sea and almost lost his life. He had lived a hard life alone for so many years.

"I'm fine, it's all over, don't cry, don't cry..." Qi Hanyi was a little at a loss, it was the first time he saw Su Su cry. In his opinion, although Su Su looked a little soft, she was actually a very strong person. He couldn't understand why Su Su was indifferent after hearing so many stories about mermaids, but cried so sadly for the death of her father.

"Wuwuwu, I, hiccup, must, must find the murderer, hiccup!" Su Su buried his face in Qi Hanyi's shoulder, wiping his tears and hiccuping, his words intermittently: "As long as I'm here, they won't succeed."