Chapter 12 Chapter 12 "Let me go...let me go."...
In the second month after the selection, the outside world had completely classified her performance as a variant. This identity is not uncommon in the hunting grounds, but he is still wanted by multiple organizations.
The reason is: "The existence of mutants infringes on the rights of gene warriors."
On the fourth day of this month, Ani eliminated the third group of desperadoes who wanted to collect the bounty. Attacking a Star Sea Warrior is really a risky move, but the few successful cases have made many people lose their minds.
She loosened her grip, and the body, with its throat wrung, fell with a thud. Ani wiped the blood from her cheek, and the light behind her suddenly lit up.
Lin was woken up. He raised his fingers and pressed the corners of his eyes, looking at her figure sleepily. Half of her body was covered in blood, which was dripping down. Annie wiped her cheeks until they became dirtier and dirtier. When she turned around to look at him, she had a slightly embarrassed smile on her face. She looked terrifyingly like a murderer.
Lin held her hand and asked Annie to take off her coat. He wiped the blood on her nose with a handkerchief made of soft material: "Let's leave District 8."
Ani looked at him and asked, "Why? There is an ocean here, you can go back to the ocean to rest at any time. Don't you have trouble sleeping? Nowhere else can you find such premium oxygen and pure water—"
As she spoke, she counted the gains and losses of the deal on her fingers, and the blood that had been wiped away by her handkerchief left a faint red streak.
"You are too famous." Lin said, "There are always people disturbing us. I know a place that is very quiet."
Halfway through calculating the gains and losses, Ani withdrew her hand: "Okay."
Ani is very proactive, and according to the teacher's instructions, the two of them set off immediately. She rented a small aircraft, and this time, she flew it steadily and skillfully. The blue ocean of the eighth zone slowly recedes before our eyes. The temperature drops and water turns into ice. Beyond the snow-capped mountains is a higher layer of snow-capped mountains.
The aircraft landed on the top of the mountain. The air here is thin and even the signal is intermittent.
But there are actually mermaid residents here. The teacher seemed to be very familiar with the residents here and stayed here in a different language that Annie couldn't understand.
She has no other job. Her job was to accompany Lin and stay by his side almost 24 hours a day. While Lin was reading in front of the window, she was listening to the case of starship transformation while adding stones to the snow boiling furnace unique to the snow mountain. When these crystal clear stones were thrown into the furnace, they would burn and emit light and heat.
The two chatted. Ani was halfway through typing in the starship transformation in her mind when she heard the teacher ask her, "So...what do you look like?"
She grabbed Lin's hand and placed his fingers on her cheek: "That's it."
Lin's eyes left the screen, which showed "A Complete Guide to Fishes on Fran Planet". He raised his hand and squeezed it hard.
Ani's delicate features wrinkled and her cheeks were pinched red. She looks so cute, even a little bit cute.
She said a little dissatisfiedly: "It hurts."
Lin released his hand and asked: "Where did you copy this human body from?"
"The garbage cave," Annie answered. "When I first regained consciousness, it was the day I crawled out of the land of the Aquamarine Planet. I secretly crawled for a day and a night... It was probably around this time. My perception of time was not clear at the time. Then I crawled there. There was an abandoned baby girl. It seemed that she was thrown away because of a genetic defect called albinism."
Lin frowned.
"She died." Ani said, "I covered her body, learned the basic mimicry of cosmic humans, and became her. Then my father picked me up... My father was a dealer. He sold everything as long as he could make money. Living people, dead people, and contraband. He wanted to sell me, but I had a genetic disease, so people wouldn't take me. He got sick again, so he decided to raise me to make money for him."
“……”Lin took a deep breath.
Almost all humans who have undergone extensive prosthetic modifications suffer from mental illness.
"He knows there's something wrong with me, but I'm good at making money, and Dad doesn't want to ask why." Ani threw another white stone into the furnace, and sparks flew. "What about you? Teacher, how did you know about this place?"
"This is my mother's hometown," said Lin.
"Ah, mother..." Ani fell into a period of quiet contemplation. She said, "I wonder which planet my mother is on now."
"She just left you like that?"
Ani shook her head. "There are only female mimics, and their lifelong goal is to find a suitable mate and pass on their species. My mother left me alone on this planet, so she must have something very important to do. There are too few of us, and the teacher must have never heard of this name. Well, let me put it this way - I am a space beast."
Lin's originally relaxed state suddenly froze, his pupils constricted, staring at Ani's nonchalant face.
Cosmic star beasts are a group of different races and abilities. They are rare and powerful, with many branches crisscrossing each other, but without exception, mature cosmic star beasts almost all have the power to destroy a star.
Ani came over and put her hand on his abdomen.
This is an action she likes to do. At first, Lin felt uncomfortable, but now he has become accustomed to the warmth of her palm. He was silent for a while, then said, "If you are... a cosmic star beast, I'm afraid it would be useless even if you opened my reproduction lock. The more powerful a race is, the harder it is to reproduce. This is the curse of life."
Ani just focused on rubbing his belly. She said, "Teacher, let's try again."
Lin suddenly became restless and irritable.
"It's not going to work in the first place. Whatever you do to me is always in vain." He slapped Annie's hand away irritably. "That's enough. It's enough for everything you want to study. There's no need for you to perform hypocritical love dramas. We'll go our separate ways - you go and be a star sea warrior, and I..."
"Can you still be a good teacher?" Ani asked him, "You can only hide your identity and stay away from the gathering place of mermaids. Is this the place you found to spend your last years?"
She usually does what she wants. Lin paused for a rare moment, then said: "Why are you acting so hard? You know you are acting, you treat me as a task, I also know that I have cooperated with you for so long, isn't it enough? Ani, it's time for you to let me go, it's time for you to tell me that we are breaking up... I will get rid of you soon, I don't want to see you again."
Ani showed a surprised expression. It wasn't this face, it was her body that felt unexpected. She forgot to simulate human emotions and stared at him blankly, as if she had crashed for a while, or had experienced a disastrous failure in a mission.
Neither of them spoke anymore. The stone in the fire was about to burn out, and Ani reached out and threw in a new one. The firelight illuminated each other's flickering faces.
"...Ani." The moment the sparks fell, he said, "You learn quickly and perform well. Your love can deceive everyone."
"But," Ani said, "I can't fool the teacher."
"It's not your fault. We met too early. You met me when you hadn't learned anything yet. It's not your fault." Lin said.
"The teacher still hates me." Annie said. She raised her hand to support her chin and lowered her eyes. "But I like you. I love... I..."
Lin raised his hand to cover her lips. He shook his head, then suddenly lowered his head and kissed her eyebrows. Annie had been getting along with him in the appearance of a mermaid, their coral ears gently caressing and rubbing against each other, intertwining and entangled.
Annie turned off the starship transformation case playing in her ears and raised her hand to take off her fluffy pink coat. The clothes were thrown on the ground one by one, and she said softly, "Try it again, Lin."
It was as if some soft tentacles had wrapped around him.
There are many hot springs in the residence of the snow mountain mermaids. In the boiling spring water, he had become accustomed to letting himself be open and accepting all the offenses that Ani made to him. The water waves were surging like snow, and the surroundings were extremely empty.
The teacher is different from usual.
Ani sensed this and when she wanted to retract her tentacles, Lin stopped her. His voice was trembling, and he said intermittently: "Can there be more... like this, is there a chance?"
Ani didn't know.
She didn't know if there was any chance, she could only try her best to satisfy the other party's wishes. In the end, Lin had bitten her so hard that her face was covered with marks. He seemed happy, but also seemed to be in too much pain. He just shed tears, and those tears turned into pearls that rolled down Ani's shoulders and fell into the spring.
At dawn of an unknown day, Lin collapsed and called for a stop. He slept for a while by the hot spring. When he woke up, he saw Annie dressed and sitting beside him watching an eagle flying not far away.
She watched silently, not knowing what she was thinking. Lin looked over and asked her, "Are you sure?"
Ani woke up as if from a dream, looked back at him and smiled subconsciously. She reached out her hand, but Lin didn't put it on hers. He just turned his head away from her sight and said in a low voice: "Then let's break up."
Ani nodded.
She had tried it since the teacher first opened the reproduction lock. Now nearly two months had passed, and there should be a definite result. The mermaid was unable to conceive her child, and the eggs she placed in the teacher's body had not shown any signs of movement.
She reached out her hand again and pulled Lin out of the spring. His hair was wet, and he was wearing a piece of clothing. The heat from his body was rapidly dissipating.
Ani hugged him, and Lin bit her in resistance. She didn't care and hugged him anyway. Lin gave up struggling and said, "When are you leaving? I've seen the discussion about you on the Star Network, and it's very heated. The Hunting Ground won't let you disappear for too long."
"In five days," Ani said, "I'm going to the A2 star in the central area."
That is the heartland of the Free Alliance, a place where chaos and order, terror and peace coexist. Compared to the central region, Aquamarine was just a small border area within the Free Alliance.
Of course, the Blue Dragon family does not only control the Aquamarine Star. Although this place is remote, it is one of the five origin stars and has special significance.
"Okay." Lin closed his eyes and said, "I'll take you there."
"Okay."
"Ani," he suddenly asked, "do you have a heart?"
"Yes, I have."
"Can I touch it?"
This was such a ridiculous request that even Lin himself was amused by the words that came out of his mouth. He quickly followed up, trying to say that he was just joking. But Ani said without hesitation: "Okay."
Can?
Can……?
Ani pulled a small knife from the side of her combat boots, took off her coat, and cut open her chest with the knife.
Lin's pupils trembled instantly. Annie's movements were too fast. She opened her chest like taking off a piece of clothing, revealing the warm heart beating inside - blood-red, the rich beating blood-red of the snow-capped mountains.
She reached out and took Lin's fingers, inserting them into her warm chest, and her flesh and blood squirmed and stuck to his fingertips. Lin's breathing suddenly became rapid, and he felt the beating heart, vibrating strongly in his palm.
He captured her heart.
Ani raised her eyebrows and said, "It hurts." Lin reluctantly let go of his hand, but she grabbed his wrist again and said straightforwardly, "Touch it." She gave him a playful look and said, "It's a benefit for the teacher."
What kind of benefit is this?
But he was indeed breathing rapidly, and his fingertips touched the pulsating blood vessels. The teacher looked nervous and satisfied. Ani observed him carefully and saw that his blue eyes became moist.
He started crying again. Ani always felt that she did not bully him, but she had not yet completely extricated herself from this messed up task. She reached out to wipe his tears and catch the little pearl, but the teacher's tears flowed everywhere, and the pearl rolled onto the ground along their clothes.
Lin pulled his hand back, and the wound on Annie's chest began to heal. She hugged him tightly and said, "Teacher, do you still hate me?"
"Yes," he said. "Let me go...let me go."
"Okay." Ani put her face close to his and answered again, "Okay."
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