Among those who heard Su Su's threats, there were some fearless desperadoes, but they were stopped by their companions before they could make any move. Most of them came here to work just for the good treatment. They could bully the powerless mermaids here at will, but they did not want to really offend those high and mighty nobles.
Su Su's arms were held by two robots and his head was restrained, but his back was straight and his eyes were arrogant and calm, and he didn't care about the person in front of him at all.
A ray of sunlight came in through the narrow window pane on the outer wall and happened to fall on him. The black robe made him look mysterious and dangerous. The metal restraints reflected golden light, and his head was shining like a crown worn by him.
The person who ended the stalemate was Maureen. He had been on the sixth floor, in the darkroom next to the torture chamber. He originally just wanted to admire a suffering mermaid and find some creative inspiration, but he didn't expect to catch a good show.
Morin walked towards the crowd, not looking at the wolf staff, nor paying attention to the mermaid on the ground, but just looking at Su Su in fascination.
He always thought that there was something missing from Su Su. She was beautiful, but she seemed to lack strength. Su Su had a seductive look, but when he was with Qi Hanyi, his eyes always looked innocent and harmless. This made his beauty seem sealed.
When he saw the scene of Su Su fighting just now, saw his murderous eyes, saw him looking down at the people present with an arrogant look, and raised his chin proudly, Morin was so excited that his heart almost jumped out of his throat.
This is the look he should have! Morin thought, he should put on this arrogant look with a sharp edge. It makes people want to worship him on the throne, but also want to be stared at by his eyes full of murderous desire and be willing to have their hearts pierced.
Mo Lin felt his throat was dry, and it took him a long time to find his voice again: "Let him go, Mr. Su Su is just a guest of our training center. When did I ever let you take the initiative to attack him? It's really rude of you to treat guests like this."
I'm the "guest", Su Su blinked. The Mo family's hospitality is really unique.
The reprimanded staff member stopped talking. Mo Lin took off the restraints on Su Su's head and acted helplessly: "Please don't be nervous. You will be safe here, but in exchange, I hope you can also obey the rules here and don't make things difficult for me."
"As long as they don't provoke me." Su Su said. Although he didn't like Mo Lin's pretentiousness, he was a little shark who was good at judging the situation and knew that those people should not be provoked casually. Just like now, he could use the name of Qi Hanyi to bully these staff members, but he still had to keep some face in front of Mo Lin, the nominal manager.
"Of course." Morin smiled in a friendly manner. He had a sunny face, and this kind of smile on his face always worked well. He had captured the hearts of many mermaids and human girls with this handsome and harmless smile.
"Actually, I really want to spend more time with you, but now I have more important things to do. Can I come and accompany you later?"
Unfortunately, Su Su didn't buy it. Compared to Mo Lin's smile that was like the warm sunshine, he missed Qi Hanyi's icy face more.
He replied calmly: "I don't need anyone to accompany me, or you can give me a terminal so I can play games for a while?"
Of course, this request was not granted. After all, this place strictly prohibited mermen from accessing any equipment that could communicate with the outside world, and even their personal terminals were confiscated.
Because of the recent incident, Su Su was eventually spared from reprimand and was taken directly to the fourth floor. He was a male mermaid and could not be kept with other mermaids, so he was arranged to live alone in the room on the fourth floor farthest from the elevator going downstairs.
Dinner was delivered to the room. The food was very simple, with only a can of low-quality mixed nutrition. The taste was very strange, and the texture was like crushed tofu dregs. Even the shark, which is not a picky eater, found it difficult to eat.
However, Su Su still ate it all. Knowing the feeling of hunger, he would never waste any edible food. He needed sufficient physical strength to deal with the danger that might come at any time.
After dinner, as a whistle sounded, all the doors of the rooms were opened, and Su Su discovered that there were quite a few people living on this floor. A rough count showed that there were about 30 or 40 people, including Yi Lan, whom Su Su had met upstairs, and two others whom he had met at the dinner table today.
Under the guidance of the instructor, everyone lined up in an orderly manner, and the newcomers and Su Su lined up at the end of the team.
They were taken to a classroom-like room on the second floor. A documentary about humans saving mermaids was playing on the screen.
After the documentary, an old man came out, who was said to be a professor from some school, and gave them a lecture. He kept repeating the same old things, telling them that being able to marry a human was a gift from God, and that they, the mermaids, should be grateful and serve their husbands well. He also said that mermaids were an inferior race, and that they could live their current lives thanks to the help of humans.
After he finished speaking, he asked the mermaids to speak one by one and share their thoughts on the class.
The mermaid at the beginning talked a lot, confessing how she had not been considerate and attentive to her husband in the past, how ashamed and remorseful she was now, and how she would correct it in the future.
Everyone spoke one by one, and each of them cried bitterly.
The mermaids who had just arrived were confused and didn't know what to say. One of them, who had not been beaten before, got the chance to speak and pointed at the professor and cursed: "I could have lived freely in the sea, but now I have grown legs and had children for a human, and I am trapped in a small house and can't go anywhere. And what did this human give me? Betrayal, he flirted with human women recklessly and even brought them home, telling me to get out. Why should I thank him? Do you want to give you such a gift?"
The professor shook his head helplessly: "You are so stubborn and disobeyed the teacher. Ten points will be deducted."
He just operated the interface for a while, and a red mark appeared behind the girl's name, which read: Waiting for training. Not long after, a robot came in from the door and dragged the girl away.
The girl seemed to realize what was about to happen to her, and she cried and tried to escape, but a restraint ring was quickly put on her head, and she lost her resistance after feeling a sharp pain.
When it was Yi Lan's turn to speak, she stammered and didn't know what to say.
She also thought that what the old man said in the video was all bullshit. She still hated her husband in her heart. It was impossible for her to change her opinion just because she listened to other people's nonsense for a few hours. But she didn't dare to say it out loud for fear of being punished again. In the end, she could only repeat what she had just heard from others by piecing together the insights she had just heard from others.
But it didn't quite fit her situation and sounded a bit out of place.
"It seems that you have listened to some of what I said, but your understanding is not deep enough. You still need to continue to receive education." The old man who was speaking tapped his terminal twice, and Yi Lan's performance score on the screen was deducted by three points. On the screen, there was an extra line of words behind Yi Lan's name: fast for one day.
Everyone had finished speaking, except Su Su. The old man, perhaps because he had heard about Su Su's great achievements from others, did not intend to call on him to speak, but instead intended to skip this topic and move on to the next one.
Su Su was not going to do it. He had just listened carefully for a long time and now had a lot of insights in his mind, which he wanted to share. Moreover, he had never experienced a human classroom before. This was his first time, so how could he not experience the fun of being asked questions and speaking?
So Su Su raised his hand high, trying to show his presence: "Teacher, I haven't shared yet, teacher, teacher, you haven't called me yet, teacher, I have a very profound understanding!"
The wrinkles on the old man's face were almost squeezed into a ball. He reluctantly pointed at Su Su and said, "Then you stand up and talk."
Su Su jumped up and spoke freely under the numb gazes of the mermaids: "I think what you said is very right. Without a human partner, I would not be where I am today. Although I was not a mermaid before, I was even worse than a mermaid. I was a mermaid. Before I took the mermaid medicine, I looked like a shark. I was smaller than my peers and was always bullied. I couldn't even eat enough. I even had to be careful not to show too weak to be swallowed by my hungry peers. Until I learned that mermaids can be kept in captivity by humans every day. They can stay at home and eat a full meal every day without doing anything."
The expressions of the mermaids present changed to some extent. They felt that they were forced to marry and met the wrong person, which was already miserable, but there were actually people who envied them.
The old man was confused for a moment. Wasn't Su Su a troublemaker? He thought he was going to argue with him, but why did he seem to be following his words?
Su Su ignored the stares of others and continued to tell her own story: "At that time, I was like, what a happy life this is, I wish I were a mermaid, I wish I could marry a human! I don't want to work hard anymore, I just want to be a useless little thing that doesn't have to do anything every day and is kept at home by humans to eat and wait for death."
"So I devised a plan and replaced the mermaid princess Yi Qing who was getting married at the time, and married Qi Hanyi."
"You all know Qi Hanyi, right? He is the admiral of the empire and the heir of the Qi family. It is said that he has always disliked mermaids. I only found out about this later because I never felt that he disliked me."
"Qi Hanyi is so nice. Since I've been with him, I've never been hungry again. I eat very well every meal. Human food is delicious, even better than the most delicious tuna. Qi Hanyi never complains about my ability to eat. Even when I had a huge appetite and ate the meals of several people by myself, he never complained about me."
"In fact, I have been wondering what he wants from me. I am a male mermaid and cannot give birth to children for him. I am a mermaid and cannot cure his disease even if I become a human. But even so, he has always taken good care of me."
"He doesn't want anything, but he's very nice to me."
"I wanted to play games, and he knew it was against the rules, but instead of stopping me, he bought me a nutrition cabin and even took the blame for it."
"I wanted to pilot a real starship, so he went to advise His Majesty that mermaids could become starship pilots."
"I yearn for the Shirazawa, who personally paved the way for me, held competitions in the game, and built a stage for me to fully demonstrate my strength."
Su Su was so moved by what he said that he reached out and touched the corners of his wet eyes and said emotionally, "It's so great to marry a human being. He gives me everything I want without asking for anything in return. I don't even know how to repay him..."
"That's enough, that's enough!" The professor interrupted Su Su's speech in an unbearable manner. It seemed quite normal at the beginning, but it changed towards the end.
What he wanted to instill in these mermaids was that no matter how badly their partners treated them, they should be patient and grateful to their partners. However, all Su Su talked about was what Qi Hanyi had done for him.
A general of noble status actually pampered him to such an extent, which made those men who treated their own mermaids badly and complained that they were not obedient enough feel even more unbearable.
The mermaids didn't dare to say anything, but shock was hidden in their eyes, as if they had no idea that humans and mermaids could get along like this. Some of them actually blamed themselves for the mistakes, thinking that human partners should be superior, and that they were sent here to be punished because they were too greedy and demanded equal love.
But now she found out that it wasn't the mermaid who married a human who deserved to suffer, it was just that she met a scumbag.