With a loud bang, the U-shaped building on the hillside of Lanshan collapsed.
At the same time, at the port, a cargo ship quietly left the dock.
The ship used by Yan's Shipping is a floating ship, which is a special ship made in imitation of a floating vehicle. It does not sail directly on the sea, but relies on its own power to fly low over the sea at a very fast speed. When flying, the floating ship is less affected by wind and waves, is not easy to bump, and has a faster speed. It only takes two days to travel back and forth between the Empire and Liberty Island, which are half a planet away.
The sun slowly fell from the horizon, and the quiet night covered the sky.
Su Su sat in a standard cabin on the top floor, looking down at the quiet sea level through a layer of glass.
This feeling was somewhat new to him. He remembered that he had poked his head out of the sea countless nights and looked up at the starry sky above. He had longed to leave this sea, go to the land, and go to the sky.
Now he seems to have achieved it.
A long cry came from the distance. This sound did not belong to a flying bird, but came from a whale in the sea.
Hearing this voice, Su Su couldn't help but think of Yi Qing, the little mermaid who fell in love with the killer whale. He wondered if she was living happily among the killer whales now.
He should be grateful to Yi Qing for their accidental separation. Otherwise, he and Qi Hanyi might not have had this wonderful fate.
Su Su was lost in thought when there was a knock on the door. 06 appeared at the door with dinner in his hand: "Eat something. We've been busy all day and didn't have time to eat lunch."
Dinner was some fish dishes. The people at Anliu were obviously quite experienced in handling seafood. In addition, the ingredients were already fresh enough. Su Su was already tempted by the aroma from afar.
Su Su wheeled to the door and took the dinner: "Thank you."
06 laughed heartily: "No, actually, I should thank you. I know that the organization was not prepared to take action against the training center at first, but you persuaded Yan Bai to change the decision. Although this action may seem a bit rash and impulsive to Undercurrent, it is undoubtedly the best result for me."
"Don't thank me, I persuaded Yan Bai for my own sake. I am surprised that there is a human like you." Su Su's eyes flashed with confusion: "You are obviously a human, but you are completely thinking about the mermaid."
06's kindness to mermaids is different from Qi Wu's. Qi Wu loves An Xun first and then starts to care about mermaids. But 06 doesn't love any mermaid in particular, but she feels sad and guilty for the misfortunes of those mermaids. Saving mermaids does not benefit her in any way, but she sacrifices her entire life for it.
Su Su couldn't figure it out and didn't understand. But he didn't dislike 06, he even admired her a little.
06 seemed a little embarrassed: "Don't make me sound so great, I just did what I had to do. I never considered mermaids and humans as two different species. We have the same emotions and the same thinking. Mermaids can also become humans and even give birth to offspring for humans. So why should we draw a line between each other and hurt each other?"
"So when Yan Bai first found me and said they wanted to fight for the rights of mermaids and save those mermaids who were harmed by humans, I agreed to join without hesitation."
"By the way, I have compiled the videos I took at the training center and prepared to send them out. I believe that this time more people will see the real plight of mermaids and join the team to support mermaids."
"Don't be so anxious." Yan Jibai passed by the corridor. He had just given a round of soothing talk to the rescued mermaid, and the effect was quite good. There was a tired yet fulfilled sense of satisfaction on his face, and there was also a bit of laziness in his tone.
"How can we not be anxious? The Mo family reacted too quickly. Less than half an hour after the accident at the training center, the Mo family's public relations began to follow up, and they were trying to guide the public opinion, saying that Su Su colluded with members of the Undercurrent Organization of Freedom Island, kidnapped the mermaids in the training center, and planned to use it to threaten the empire. They even dug up the past of the Qi family, saying that General Qi Wu was deceived by his mermaid partner and died, and now Qi Hanyi could not avoid it and followed in his father's old path." 06's eyebrows were raised and he was furious when he talked about this.
"They have done so many bad things themselves, and now they are throwing dirty water on the mermaids. Didn't General Qi Wu get into trouble because of a shipwreck? How can they blame his wife? Besides, wasn't General Qi Wu always committed to improving the treatment of mermaids during his lifetime? How could the mermaids take revenge on humans again? "
"..." Yan Bai was speechless for a moment. He knew that the Mo family had not wronged them. An Xun was indeed a member of the undercurrent, and he had indeed killed Qi Wu. At that time, the Qi family chose to suppress the incident and only explained it as an ordinary shipwreck. However, anyone who knew a little about the inside story knew that what the Mo family said was the truth of the matter, and they could not refute it.
Su Su also didn't expect that the Mo family would use Qi Hanyi's father's past as an excuse. Isn't this equivalent to rubbing salt into Qi Hanyi's wounds?
Su Su pursed his thin lips into a straight line, with a hint of hostility in his eyes.
The atmosphere was a little tense for a moment.
06 noticed the two people's unusually silent reaction and realized something. It was hard for him to accept it for a moment: "Could it be that what they said is true? No way?"
"We'll talk about this later." Yan Bai pinched his brows tiredly. Facing a human who was sincerely helping him, Yan Bai could not come up with the same excuses as Yan San no matter what - Qi Wu was being hypocritical, using a small favor to undermine the fighting spirit of the mermaids. The mermaids would not accept this kind of charity and would use more forceful means to seek their own status.
Even now he himself can no longer identify with it.
Yan Bai could only change the subject: "We must keep our composure now, don't be so impatient, let public opinion ferment for a while."
"Not many people are paying attention to this matter right now. If we release the video of the training center now, it will be easily suppressed by the other party before it gets too popular. It is better to wait for the other party to speak first, and wait until public opinion starts to criticize Undercurrent for blowing up the training center. Then we can throw out evidence to fight back. Tell them that Undercurrent did not want to kidnap the mermaids, but to save their lives."
"Everyone always likes stories with twists and turns, and the same is true for eating melons. The higher an emotion is pushed, the more intense the rebound will be when the reversal occurs."
06's attention was successfully diverted. She found it difficult to trace the truth of what happened at sea more than ten years ago, but what was happening now was happening.
"So what should I do?"
Yan Bai pondered for a moment and said, "You can upload the video materials there tomorrow evening. Edit a two-minute video, and select the clips that best show the persecution of mermaids by the training center. Then make a one-hour long video to explain the whole thing. Finally, put your original video recording of several hundred hours on the Internet as evidence for future reference. Remember to delete the part related to the design undercurrent. This task is more complicated. I will let Lin Dian help you with it later."
"Okay." 06 had received the order she wanted, but she did not leave immediately. Instead, she seemed to be hesitant to speak. She looked at Yan Bai and then at Su Su: "I don't know what role Anliu played back then, but at least this matter was not wrong, right?"
Yan Bai: "Destroying the Mermaid Training Center and taking these mermaids home is the decision I least regret."
06 heaved a sigh of relief and relaxed: "That's enough."
After 06 left, Yan Bai looked at Su Su with some uneasiness: "You also hate Anliu because of what happened back then, right? After all, they are Qi Hanyi's parents."
Su Su did not deny it: "I hope your leader can give me an explanation when I go to Freedom Island this time."
Yan Bai felt that Yan San’s statement could not impress Su Su, and it could not even convince himself: “If he can’t…”
"Then he should atone for his mistakes back then." Su Su looked at Yan Bai and said word by word: "Blood debt must be paid with blood."
After seeing Yan Bai's tense expression, Su Su's tone suddenly relaxed: "Just kidding, how could I dare to touch the leader of your Undercurrent?"
"But, blood debt must be paid with blood, isn't that what you have always insisted on? How come mermaids can demand that humans pay with their lives for the mistakes of their ancestors, but they themselves are unwilling to take responsibility for what they have done?"
Yan Bai was silent for a while, then said dryly, "I will ask for an explanation for what happened back then."
There were many things that he could no longer avoid and had to figure out, such as what Yan San wanted to do, what he wanted to get, and what he was prepared to sacrifice.
The next evening, the video of the mermaid being abused in the training center was posted on various websites. Because it coincided with the hottest time, it received a huge amount of attention as soon as it was released.
By the time the Mo family's public relations department discovered the post and wanted to delete it, it was already all over the Internet.
The Mo family's public relations team was busy contacting various websites to delete the video and block related topics, but the topic was too popular and the video was spread in a very short time, and it could not be completely deleted. Instead, the onlookers thought that this was a manifestation of guilty conscience, which further confirmed that the content in the video was true.
Originally, everyone sympathized with the Mo family and they had planned to open a training center, but it was bombed. The young master of the family, an artist who lived a peaceful life and just liked to paint mermaids, was also kidnapped and his whereabouts are unknown.
But now the wind direction suddenly changed.
Everyone can see how the mermaids sent here have been tortured, especially those without family protection. The mermaids on the sixth floor live like slaves, being beaten, scolded and tortured at will. Some died, some went crazy.
And their young master, who was as gentle as the breeze and bright moon, and who loved to paint mermaids the most, opened his studio on the upper floor of these mermaids. The blood and tears of mermaids could not flow here, and their desperate cries could not be heard here. He painted here, sang praises to the beauty of mermaids, and then sent them to the executioner downstairs, turning a blind eye to the torture they suffered.
People watched the video of the filthy, tortured mermaid girl with numb eyes and exclaimed: "Isn't this the mermaid girl in his painting "Under the Setting Sun"?"
Then he looked at a mermaid whose tail had been stripped of scales and was bouncing on the floor in pain due to the electric shock, and shouted, "Is this the mermaid in the painting "A Milky Way"? "
These are all works by Morin that have become popular beyond the circle. The auction price of each one has reached hundreds of millions. The mermaids in his paintings are peaceful, beautiful and happy. But the more beautiful the painting is, the stronger the impact of the video will be.
Such beautiful mermaids deserve to be treated gently by time, but what they encounter is a reality more terrifying than hell.
[Is this something a human can do?]
[I just used facial recognition to compare and found that among the administrators here, the ones who were the most cruel to the mermaids, several were death row prisoners who should have been executed a few years ago.]
[Why are death row inmates still alive? It's terrifying to think about it. ]
[Mo family, don't say you don't know. ]
[So Undercurrent is doing a good thing?]
[I think it's weird for someone to send his wife to this place. He took a mermaid home, but instead of taking good care of her, he treated her badly?]
[I think that brainwashing class is even more outrageous. The partner's cheating, beatings, and cold violence are all the mermaid's fault? ]
[Suddenly I feel that compared to the Mo family, the undercurrent is not that hateful. ]
[The Mermaid Training Center is hateful, and the White Undercurrent is unnecessary. What they did to General Qi Wu cannot be excused.]
On the Internet, there were all kinds of voices condemning the Mo family and the training center. The nobles who sent the mermaids to the training center all distanced themselves from the matter, saying that they were not aware of it and thought it was just ordinary teaching and training.
But they were soon slapped in the face by new video evidence. Many of them had been to the training center, not to visit their partners, but to visit the mermaids on the sixth floor as guests, inflicting harm and violence on them.
There are also some confused people who say that mermaids were originally raised by humans, so there is nothing wrong with teaching them a lesson if they are disobedient.
However, this argument was immediately attacked by many people. They questioned these people, saying that humans can be compassionate to cats and dogs, so why can they be so cruel to mermaids who share the same roots with them.
Over the course of one night, the topic further fermented, and the topic of protecting the basic rights of mermaids was raised again. This time, the idea of supporting mermaids to have equal personal rights as humans and establishing a special protection agency once again received a lot of support.