Ye Yunxi looked at Ye Jinxuan, signaling him to continue.
Ye Jinxuan looked at Ye Yunxi and slowly told her about what happened back then.
"More than a hundred years ago, I was still young. Because I was playful and very curious about what the outside world was like, I secretly ran away from home without telling my parents."
Because I was playing, I was caught by fishermen not long after I swam out of the sea. I don't know how they knew I was a mermaid and that my tears could turn into pearls.
They beat me violently, like they were going to kill me, but I didn't shed a single tear.
Just as I was about to faint, I heard a woman's voice. She was trying to stop the people beating me, but the human men wanted to humiliate her.
She took the gun and wounded the humans who had humiliated her. Then she picked me up and left the place.
She took me to her space to heal my wounds. After spending some time together, I learned her name was Qingwu.
They also learned that she was from here, but came from another planet. She came here to find something.
After she found what she wanted, she told me she was leaving. Before she left, she gave me a pistol just like this one, with the initials of her name engraved on it.
At that time, I had nothing on me to give her, so I plucked a fish scale from my own body and gave it to her. It was the hardest part of our mermaid race, and I told her to wear it so that it could protect her if she was in danger.
And so we parted ways. For over a hundred years, I thought of her every day, but she never appeared again.
Until I saw the gun in your hand again, and this space and portrait. I'm sure this belongs to Sister Qingwu.
Ye Yunxi listened silently to the mermaid's story, then asked him a question in confusion.
"You said you were caught at sea and beaten by humans. Aren't you supposed to be very strong? How could you have been beaten by them?"
Ye Jinxuan didn't hide anything. "I was young at the time, and I was playful. Although my parents supervised my training, I didn't take it seriously, and my skills weren't up to par, which is why I was beaten up by those humans."
But after separating from Sister Qingwu, I returned and intensified my training. Eventually, I sought revenge on those who had hurt me, killing them all one by one.
He looked at Ye Yunxi and said, "Don't worry, although I don't know what your relationship is with Sister Qingwu, or why her things are with you, as long as you are related to her, I won't kill you."
Ye Yunxi rolled her eyes at him and said irritably.
"Then I should thank you, right?"
"No need for that. Now that you've heard my story, the choice is yours."
Ye Yunxi didn't rush to answer him. She tried to contact Fu Heng, but never received a reply.
No, regardless of whether the mermaid is telling the truth or not, we need to find a way out first. At worst, we can believe her this once and see what she does.
"Alright, I'll trust you this once."
Ye Jinran suddenly laughed. "Then can you give me that portrait? I just want to keep it as a memento, so that when I miss Sister Qingwu, I can look at her portrait."
Ye Yunxi refused outright. "No way."
Ye Jinxuan lowered his head sadly, looking somewhat distressed.
Ye Yunxi kept thinking that ever since she arrived at the bottom of the sea, she had been trying to contact Fu Heng, but she couldn't reach him, and she couldn't contact him even after entering the space.
Forget it, let's not worry about that for now. What if he goes crazy and kills her if I ask him rashly? Let's just take it one step at a time.
"What's your name? And where is this place?"
Ye Jinxuan looked up. "My name is Ye Jinxuan. What's yours?"
Ye Yunxi suddenly realized that whenever the man in front of her mentioned Qingwu, he would change his form of address from "wu" to "wo".
"Ye Yunxi. Alright, now that you've looked at the space, seen the portrait, and heard the story, it's my turn to ask you questions."
"Go ahead and ask."
"Why were there so many eggs in the sea three months ago? They were the eggs of your mermaid race."
"This egg is ours, and it isn't ours."
Ye Yunxi frowned. "What do you mean?"
Ye Jinxuan recalled what happened more than a year ago.
"That was more than a year ago. At that time, our sea was quite calm, but our mermaid race laid very few eggs, only one in a hundred."
This has resulted in a small number of offspring for the merfolk, and despite our best efforts, the situation remains the same.
Until one day, a silver-haired man broke into our home and told me that he could make our merfolk prosper and our offspring grow stronger and more powerful.
But he had one condition: he said that a year later, a group of humans would be stationed in Mengshi, and he wanted me to lead my people to kill you, especially a man named Fu Heng.
At the time, I was thinking about the offspring of the mermaids, and without thinking too much, I agreed to his request.
He first gave me some potion, saying it was to be given to the women of the merfolk, and that they should drink a little every day. He said they would become pregnant in six months and give birth to many children.
"So, all those eggs that suddenly appeared in the sea overnight were laid by women of your mermaid race?"
"Yes, it's strange, but mermaid women without partners can also become pregnant after drinking that potion, including the elderly ones."
This alone baffled us. We wanted to ask the man, but he told us that the potion wasn't age-specific; any woman who took it, including Zhang Shijie, would become pregnant.
"You just said it was a silver-haired man? Do you remember what he looked like?"
Ye Jinxuan shook his head. "I couldn't see his face clearly. I only remember that he had long, silver hair and was wearing black clothes."
Ye Yunxi was now even more certain that this person was Yan Luo. She hadn't expected that he had come here more than a year ago.
Ye Jinxuan didn't know why Ye Yunxi was asking about this person, but seeing that Ye Yunxi's expression was not good, he asked.
"What's wrong? Is there something amiss?"
Ye Yunxi looked at Ye Jinxuan and said, "The person you're talking about is our mortal enemy. The person he's looking for is my friend. He wants to use you to kill us."
"Does he have a grudge against you?"
Ye Yunxi nodded. "Yes, and it's a huge grudge. This person is called Yan Luo, extremely cunning, and has done all sorts of bad things. He's ruthless."
Ye Jinxuan was shocked. "He's targeting you?"
“That’s right, we’ve run into him several times, but he always manages to escape and we can’t find him. We never expected that after disappearing for a year, he would find you and ask you to work for him.”
Ye Yunxi stared straight at Ye Jinxuan without saying a word.
Ye Jinxuan felt a little uncomfortable under her gaze, he said.
"Don't worry, I keep my word. Although I haven't figured out your relationship with Sister Qingwu yet, I won't do anything to you or your friends until then."
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