Chapter 272 My Dear You

The water in the bathtub was not deep, barely covering two-thirds of his body. The wide mermaid's tail could not be covered, and the two tail fins were still exposed above the water, hanging loosely on the edge of the bathtub.

Zhou Yanshu's whole body sank, his head felt dull and unclear, and his cheeks and the area around his eyes were red.

Zhou Yanshu had sensed it early, and as soon as he entered the water, he buried his upper body in it, allowing the warm water to wash away his growing anxiety.

“…Don’t look at me.”

Half of his face was hidden under the water, revealing only a pair of silver eyes that were already cold and seemed clear.

Yu Zhuo's clothes were already soaked, and he simply sat down on the floor and grabbed the edge of the bathtub with both hands. There was a warm and slippery accumulation on the enamel covering, and he didn't know whether it was water or some other liquid.

"Why don't you show it to me? This is the first time I've seen a fish tail like yours." Yu Zhuo tilted his head. His features were obscured by the white mist and were unclear. Only his pure gold pupils were still bright. "It's sparkling, like a shell diamond on the coast of Mochilia."

Zhou Yanshu's eyelashes trembled, his pupils turned to the side, and a few tiny bubbles came out of the water.

Like the shell drills on the coast of Mochilia...

This sentence was also said by Gouqiu Tousheng.

"It doesn't look like them." Zhou Yanshu's tail swayed, and soon it was all squeezed into the bathtub. He said in a vague voice, "It doesn't look like them anymore."

Yu Zhuo chuckled for no apparent reason, and he immersed his palms in the warm water, covering the man's hot cheeks underneath.

"I'm really not like them... They're not even half as pretty as you." Yu Zhuo said affectionately, "Brother is the prettiest."

A tingling sensation exploded from Zhou Yanshu's spine. He raised his eyelids and felt the hand caressing his cheek was smooth and soft, as if it had never experienced any hardship.

"……elder brother?"

He rubbed his face tentatively in Yuzhuo's palm.

Yu Zhuo's fingertips moved slightly, and he smiled and said, "Ah...you are several hundred years old, and I am only twenty. It's not good to call you grandpa, right?"

Zhou Yanshu: "..."

Zhou Yanshu moved his face away, swam sideways to the other side of the bathtub, and said, "I don't mind you being a babe, but you dare to mind me being too old?"

"...I didn't say that." Yu Zhuo glared, and then he changed his tone and said, "Oh - in your heart, I am just a bastard, right?"

"What's wrong with you?" Zhou Yanshu's eyes slowly moved from Yuzhuo to him, "Are you manly?"

Yu Zhuo was shocked: "...What?"

"Heh..." Zhou Yanshu buried himself in the water, "If I don't tell you, you won't understand."

The water in the bathtub had cooled down. Zhou Yanshu's whole body was boiling hot. He curled up in it, his entire face burning red.

Manliness...

Certain scenes quickly flashed through Yu Zhuo's mind. He looked at Zhou Yanshu. Zhou Yanshu was so tired that he closed his eyes and leaned against the bathtub, breathing slowly.

"How do you know I don't smell manly? Smell me, I smell manly." Yu Zhuo said unhappily while lying on the edge of the bathtub, "You don't smell manly."

Zhou Yanshu frowned, then he opened his eyes and saw Yuzhuo standing up from the bathtub.

"What are you doing?"

Yuzhuo twisted his already soaked clothes and said, "It's all wet. I'm going to take a shower."

"Why are you going out to take a shower?" Zhou Yanshu raised his eyelashes and looked meaningfully at the bathroom heater not far away, "The things are right there."

Yu Zhuo: “…”

"Didn't you always keep me away and ask me to leave?" Yu Zhuo's tone was unclear. "What's going on now?"

"The past is the past, and the present is the present." Zhou Yanshu narrowed his eyes, "You said that you smell like a man all over? Let me smell it?"

Yu Zhuo narrowed his eyes, and soon he smiled and said, "Okay, whatever you want."

After he finished speaking, he unbuttoned his shirt and took off all his clothes in front of Zhou Yanshu.

Unlike Zhou Yanshu's thin body, Yu Zhuo's body has been trained. With the natural physiological advantages of an Alpha, the muscles on his body are clearly defined, outlining several pure white lines under the light.

Zhou Yanshu buried his face in the water again. His pair of silver eyes emerged from the water and stared straight at Yuzhuo's exposed skin.

From the bottom to the top, it stops for a moment somewhere and then continues to go up.

"Do you smell it?" Yu Zhuo picked up the heater next to him and asked, tilting his head.

Zhou Yanshu said without hesitation: "I can't smell it. You need to get closer."

Yuzhuo pulled up the curtain next to him.

The thin curtain was semi-transparent, casting a layer of nude shadow under the light.

Zhou Yanshu surfaced. He grabbed the edge of the bathtub and looked inside, making sure that Yu Zhuo had covered the inside tightly, with no corners exposed.

She pretends to be experienced, but actually she is still an ignorant little girl.

Zhou Yanshu lay back in the bathtub. He tilted his head back and sniffed the pheromones floating in the air. His body and nerves slowly relaxed.

elder brother……

Manliness...

Zhou Yanshu narrowed his eyes and frowned unconsciously.

He has been waiting for some time.

From the beginning till now, he has never seen a spherical system appear.

In the previous world, this spherical system would automatically locate the location of the core soul fragments, bind the host and wait for an opportunity to approach.

As long as it appears, the core fragments will be attracted instinctively and move closer to it.

However, up to now, Yu Zhuo has not shown any signs of deliberately approaching someone. Similarly... the system responsible for collecting the core fragments has not appeared.

It encountered a problem along the way, which prevented it from entering this world.

Or is it still in a latent stage and has not found a host?

Zhou Yanshu was inexplicably worried. This was the last piece of his soul fragment. If he managed to survive and it didn't come, then all his efforts would be in vain.

It's time for him to go out and look for it.

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Yuzhuo took a cold shower in there. It didn't take long, and when he came out, he wrapped himself tightly in a bathrobe.

He just smelled a faint fragrance in the air, perhaps it was the pheromones on Zhou Yanshu's body.

He had been injured before, and now he was stimulated by the special period, and he could not control everything.

But we still have to wait for a while.

Yuzhuo pulled aside the curtains and walked outside while wiping the water droplets from his head: "Count, tonight I..."

He paused in his words, and Zhou Yanshu's face could no longer be seen in the bathtub. His silver fish tail was hanging on the edge and his whole body was drooping, almost completely submerged in the water.

Yu Zhuo was startled. He walked over quickly and saw a lot of slightly curly pure golden hair floating on the water.

Zhou Yanshu buried his face in the water and fell asleep.

Yu Zhuo: “…”

Fish are like this, they only feel safe in water. Zhou Yanshu is even more extreme to the point where it is hard to describe.

Yu Zhuo walked forward, pulled Zhou Yanshu out of the bathtub a little, held his forehead and let him lean against the edge of the bathtub.

Zhou Yan frowned and narrowed his eyes only slightly.

Yu Zhuo's figure swayed in front of him, blurry and blurry, forming an unclear gray-white line. Some warm water flowed down his tail, flowing through the cracks above, moistening his already dry scales.

Zhou Yanshu curled up his body, his tail fin moved slightly, and he closed his eyes with some consciousness.

Yu Zhuo didn't notice all this yet. He finished watering Zhou Yan's tail and adjusted the water temperature to a suitable level again.

It was impossible to sleep in bed at night, so Yu Zhuo squatted by the bathtub again. He rubbed Zhou Yanshu's face with his fingertips, and while he was asleep, he bent down and licked the corner of his lips.

A distant and slightly unfamiliar touch.

Yu Zhuo retracted his tongue, as if he felt something strange, and after a few seconds he licked it again for a while.

He knew how to measure, and only stopped at the periphery, not reaching inside. He just wetted the inside, soaked it, and added a little warmth.

"No……"

Zhou Yanshu raised his head and an unclear sound came from his throat.

Yu Zhuo suddenly sensed something, he stepped back and lowered the water temperature a bit.

Zhou Yanshu was breathing heavily, but he had not yet woken up. He leaned against the edge of the bathtub, the slight blush on his face still there.

"Okay, then don't kiss me." Yu Zhuo muttered, rubbed his cheek against Zhou Yanshu's hair, stood up and turned off the bathroom light.

The door was half closed, and the bathroom was pitch black, with only a beam of light yellow falling through the crack in the door.

The sound of breathing was heard in the room, and the water surface was slightly undulating. Zhou Yanshu opened his eyes silently, licked his lips with the tip of his tongue, and squinted his eyes to look outside the door.

Yu Zhuo's figure was reflected on the door, and he occasionally moved around. After about a minute or two, the incandescent light in the room was turned off, and Yu Zhuo opened the bathroom door again and walked in.

Zhou Yanshu immediately closed his eyes.

No one knew what Yu Zhuo was doing after he came in. The rustling sounds completely disappeared, and Zhou Yanshu could only smell the faint scent of pheromones in the air.

Soothing his nerves, body, and bones that ached for unknown reasons.

"Good night, darling."

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Zhou Yanshu had already fallen asleep, leaning against the edge of the bathtub without moving at all. Yu Zhuo watered his tail several times, and later secretly planned to buy a bigger bathtub.

It was already past three in the morning and Yuzhuo was feeling a little tired.

He sat aside and looked at Zhou Yanshu's face, which suddenly became a little unclear.

Five hundred years have passed... Zhou Yanshu still looks the same.

No, it has changed a little.

The bridge of his nose was high, his eyebrows were no longer as kind as before, and they were no longer as happy and upturned. Compared with before, these facial features had become more stern and more intimidating.

He no longer looked the same as when Yu Zhuo first saw him, but he still made people unable to take their eyes off him.

——Just like when Yuzhuo first met him.

Yu Zhuo closed his eyes, the warm water in the bathtub had a thick smell, he carefully stroked the scales on the silver tail. It was a little wet and slippery, sensing it in Yu Zhuo's mind, slowly its original appearance emerged.

That was the scene that Yu Zhuo saw for the first time, ten thousand meters below the abyss.

I don't know how many years have passed. When Yuzhuo thinks back now, he only remembers those endless whirlpools and darkness.

Ten thousand meters below the abyss, there is nothing but an empty valley and dark dead water surrounding it.

Yuzhuo has been looking at such scenery since he was born.

The water here seemed to be still, dark and lifeless. The valleys were even more so, empty and deserted, all living things had died early, and not even seaweed was allowed to grow.

Yu Zhuo didn't know where he was, no one talked to him, and he couldn't walk. He was like a wild animal that didn't know where to go home, often crawling on all fours on the edge of the valley.

Thousands of data cables connected his body, from his head to his chest and abdomen, and all over his limbs.

Every day, a large amount of clear energy flows into his body along the data line. He has no dirty heart, let alone internal dirt. The current box buried in his mechanical chest is his starting device.

It was unknown how long he remained in this state. The energy flowing into his body changed every day, and his body also changed along with it.

As the energy became stronger, Yu Zhuo's mechanical arms gradually became softer. He grew white hair, his rotating plastic eyeballs turned into golden pupils, and flesh and blood slowly grew inside his body, generating internal organs and organs similar to those of humans.

The moment his heart developed and began to beat, Yuzhuo learned to walk.

Thousands of data cables were wrapped around his neck, flashing with colorful light.

Yu Zhuo often looked up. Everything above the abyss was pitch black, with only the clear colors on the data line standing out.

They bend and twist, yet continue to provide nourishment to Yuzhuo, like a mother's umbilical cord.

Yuzhuo began to grow slowly, but he was constrained by the data lines above him and could not go far. He was like a butterfly stuck in a spider web, struggling and being bound, constantly groping in the dark world.

Until one day he saw some strange creatures outside.

It was something he had never seen before, a long, pure silver tail that stirred up the stagnant water as it swam, and created tiny bubbles that shouldn't have existed.

"Little Prince, you can't go there. There are sea ghosts there! Hey, my dear little ancestor, please come back soon!"

The figure swam quickly past Yu Zhuo's eyes, his golden hair floating and curling into small circles, making his face look unusually bright.

He didn't know what they were saying, it was all words that Yu Zhuo couldn't quite understand. In this abyss, no one had contact with him, he didn't know the external language, let alone communicate with other creatures.

Yu Zhuo saw the man in front of him slightly raised his silver eyes and rushed down to the bottom of the abyss at an accelerated speed.

"Bang!"

The barrier below was shaken by the impact, and Yu Zhuo was also affected by the force. The data line on his body was shaking, and he saw the mermaid on the other side of the barrier covering her head with one hand, her face wrinkled and she retreated a little distance.

"What is this?"

The mermaid was not very tall, with a thin face and a pair of round eyes looking straight into the barrier.

Yu Zhuo subconsciously wanted to hide inside, but he saw the mermaid groping around on the opposite side for a long time with a puzzled look on her face, and he immediately realized that he couldn't see him.

"Little Prince! Oh my God... You are bleeding. Go! There are giant beasts in this abyss. They will smell the scent and come here!"

The mermaid who came from behind grabbed Zhou Yanshu. His face was extremely nervous, and he quickly ran away from the edge of the barrier with the young Zhou Yanshu in his arms.