Chapter 138 Challenging Authority Damn, Crazy Fish
The aircraft landed on the roof of the Ritz Hotel.
It was a windy night and the aircraft was shaking. Bai Ling fell asleep unknowingly. Many bad things that mermaids had done flashed through his dreams, so much so that when he got off the plane, his shirt was soaked with cold sweat.
He walked down the spiral staircase.
The further you go down, the dimmer the light becomes. I stepped on the ground, raised my head slightly, and saw the moon hanging close to the large French window in the distance.
The moon is very close to the earth, and the pale craters on it can be seen with the naked eye. It filled the window view, as if it were peeking into the house.
That is an artificial moon, evidence of humans tinkering with nature.
Bai Ling tightly grasped the package in his hand, which contained another piece of evidence.
The news broadcast echoed in the room: "...The director of the art center disappeared today, the bloodline of the giant squid, the police call on those who know the situation to provide clues and actively report..."
Bai Ling's fingers trembled slightly as if he was being called.
He slowly looked towards the long table. There was a crimson tablecloth, and silver plates were placed on the table with the dishes already prepared. Occupying the center was a plate of giant squid that was so fat it was overflowing.
"Please take a seat."
Compared to the squid, the sound of insertion is more exciting.
Bai Ling controlled his breathing rate and walked over and pulled out a chair. The mermaid smiled, patted the soft chair beside her, and invited:
"Come sit next to me."
Bai Ling was frozen and didn't move.
Yu Chen shifted his gaze to the virtual screen behind him, then turned to his slightly swaying gray eyes, and said tolerantly:
“This is edible squid.”
Bai Ling felt seen through, and was panicked for two seconds, but finally sat down next to him.
Yu Chen half-closed his eyes, while arranging the tableware for the bird, he said softly:
"You are my loyal and lovely child. I will not feed you with the flesh of a traitor. It would taint you."
Such a twisted doting...
His heart rate suddenly soared to 100. Bai Ling suddenly grabbed the edge of the tablecloth and watched the other person stand up and walk towards him.
The scent of Alpha wafted over - rancid pheromones, woody texture, and neurosis hidden under a drowsy tone.
The fingers were icy cold when they touched the skin of my neck.
Bai Ling got goose bumps all over his body, but the mermaid just tucked the napkin in for his dear child and spread it across his lap.
"Is everything going well?"
The mermaid leaned forward from behind.
"smoothly……"
Bai Ling lowered his head to hand him the package, and the moment he lowered his neck, the wound was exposed.
A vivid, fresh smell of blood, mixed with the stickiness of platelets. The bacteria in the wound reproduced at a rate of one generation every 20 minutes. When his child came back, the bacteria had already reproduced three generations. If you get close, you can smell the white blood cells heating up fiercely as they fight the infection.
The mermaid inhales gently, then exhales.
"What are you smelling?" Bai Ling shrank his neck.
"I smell... the sweet smell of inflamed wounds."
His tone was lost for a moment, then he regained his gentleness, and said solemnly:
"You need to take some aspirin."
Bai Ling's animal instinct trembled, and he silently turned the toes of his shoes outward, ready to run at any time.
Yu Chen sat back down and unwrapped the package with his fingernails, "Have you opened it and looked at it?"
"No……"
"Why not?"
"I don't want to see it." Bai Ling spoke quickly, with a hint of anger in his voice.
"You always say that I have many secrets, but now you don't want to know?" Yu Chen laughed in a low voice.
He said as he took out the contents of the bag. Bai Ling's scalp felt tense, and he felt that bones, a heart, or other more terrifying fragments would be pulled out from inside in the next second.
But the mermaid took out a storage disk with a blank side and the date and the human name "Yu Chen" written on it.
When the AI was used for playback, the originally solemn news channel flashed and turned into a snowy scene with no signal.
What's this? Not put away properly? Bai Ling had doubts in his mind, but the next second, a subtle sound of wind came from the speaker, like a balloon being punctured, followed by an eardrum explosion and a scream piercing the darkness of the room.
The sound was indescribably depressed and miserable. Even Bai Ling, who often treated prisoners, had never heard such a breathless panting sound.
Bai Ling had learned a little mermaid language by himself, and he understood that syllable - pain.
As he listened, he couldn't help but hold the dinner knife in his hand, his pupils trembling, and slowly turned to the mermaid:
"Who is that..."
Is it a mermaid relative, or his brothers and sisters, or even his elders and parents? A recording without any pictures could bring complete disgrace to Isupalaiso, and Bai Ling had to speculate in a more immoral direction.
Amid his uncomfortable breathing, Yu Chen cut the fresh meat on the plate, speaking in a gentle and elegant manner:
"I."
Bai Ling's breathing stopped suddenly.
"My scream. Was it an accident?"
Bai Ling opened his lips slightly, but no sound came out. You screamed, no wonder. To say that you would be ruined, for this man, decency and dignity are his last line of defense as a human being.
But in front of Bai Ling, he easily threw away his dignity. Bai Ling didn't dare to think too deeply about the meaning of this.
"You may have always had a question in your mind, why I have never had a partner at this age." Yu Chen paused and said frankly, "Because I don't trust people."
Bai Ling pursed her lips: "You have been betrayed."
"yes."
Yu Chen picked up the small plate, put two spoonfuls of meat puree on it, and mixed it carefully with the apple puree.
Bai Ling held onto the edge of the table, his expression complicated: "Someone betrayed your information, causing you to be kidnapped, right?"
"Yes and no."
Yu Chen said lightly, "The people who kidnapped me are my brothers."
He spread the meat paste on the finger biscuits and brought them to Bai Ling's mouth in an orderly manner. This was pure feeding, and the food was the minced meat of babies that raptor families often feed to their children. Bai Ling did not suspect anything and swallowed it all.
The meat was fresh, the finger biscuits were crispy, and surprisingly delicious.
Seeing him eat it, Yu Chen turned the pinky ring on his right hand meaningfully.
Bai Ling noticed this movement and recalled in his mind the time when Admiral Shi Luolan mistook him for the Crown Prince.
The admiral said that Isupalaiso never took off the ring, even if it was broken and oxidized.
Bai Ling only saw him pick it once, when he marked it.
His little finger was well-shaped, straight and thin, but other than that, there was nothing special about it.
The mermaid continued to feed him the finger-pie puree, and continued:
"Strictly speaking, I cannot call them brothers. They are born from a mother, and I am just a fertilized egg in a petri dish. I am not a direct descendant of the previous emperor. In order to maintain the concentration of pure blood, the royal family will regularly transfer high-level mermaid fertilized eggs from the ancient earth gene bank and use them as adopted children for internal breeding."
"So, although I live in the year 2400, my maternal and paternal lines are from the 19th and 20th centuries respectively."
Although they are relatives, the relationship is actually very weak.
To a certain extent, this allowed the mermaid royal family to avoid the decrease in pure-blood power caused by reproduction. But on the other hand, it also caused acute conflicts between the adopted mermaids and the biological mermaids, and they killed each other.
——Social Darwinian natural selection.
The strong prey on the weak, and the strong become king.
Bai Ling didn't need to guess what happened next. This can be seen by simply understanding the brutality of competition among marine organisms in the food chain.
Big fish eat small fish, expensive jellyfish eat cheap jellyfish...older mermaids bully younger mermaids.
After a while, Yu Chen arranged a row of lady fingers on the plate. He held his cheek with his right hand, looking bored, and occasionally fed the birds with his left hand:
"I am the weakest one. I have ever been the weakest."
"I was the last to hatch, the youngest, and was supposed to be food for the other merpeople, but I was careful enough to grow into my teens. One day, they called me here, to this planet, to this hotel—"
He tapped the tablecloth with his finger bones. "This table."
Bai Ling pressed his arm against the tablecloth and felt an inexplicable chill.
The mermaid turned his eyes and suddenly smiled. His deep green pupils were like a forest filled with poisonous gas. He said:
"They grabbed my hand, pinned me on the table and chopped off my little finger."
Bai Ling shuddered suddenly and felt uncomfortable in his stomach.
He spoke calmly, like a bystander who had nothing to do with the matter: "I screamed and felt pain, but they still wanted to snatch my finger and put it into a necklace so that I would tremble involuntarily when I saw them next time. In order to avoid being robbed, I swallowed the severed finger."
"Since then, I have had stomachache every day. It feels like a hand has grown in my stomach. It is a broken finger, pointing the way in my stomach—"
"Kill them," he said, smiling.
Bai Ling looked at the plate in horror, and then he realized what this man was doing and what he was feeding him.
Finger...cake...
He pushed the table away like a madman and ran to the bathroom to vomit violently. The toilet tank was brightly lit, and he glanced over and saw in the reflection that the mermaid had followed him in.
The mermaid was very quiet. She didn't mind his dirt at all and even wiped his mouth with a towel.
"I have to say sorry to you."
Bai Ling turned around and glared at him, his voice hoarse: "You still know how to apologize?"
Yu Chen looked at him, unable to conceal his love and pity: "You know what? Every time I see you eat, I feel like an accomplice."
"...You are really very sick!" Bai Ling gritted his teeth.
He looks like a murderer, but he is actually just a victim of a madness.
In Freud's psychoanalysis, there is such a phenomenon - after a trauma, people tend to repeat the scene over and over again to gain spiritual salvation.
This guy was forced to eat his own organs and tissues. His painful memories gradually transformed into a feeding habit in a distorted way.
But fortunately, he has absolute rationality. Restraint caused him to turn the act of feeding outward—feeding potatoes to the people, milk to the children, and meat puree to himself.
Every time, every time he fed out his own food, his guilt for being forced to commit suicide would be alleviated a little.
That's how he survived in this twisted way.
Bai Ling realized it later and finally realized where the whole world's deep fear of Yu Chen came from.
It's that sense of disconnection.
His good aspects are too good, and his bad aspects are too bad, as extreme as the two ends of a magnet, with no transition zone in between. You can say that he was born a bad guy, but he turned himself around through self-discipline; you can also say that he was a good fish, but the evil world turned him into a cruel demon.
The seven virtues are born from the seven deadly sins.
Bai Ling wanted to sneer, but the corners of his mouth drooped gradually in the spasm. He closed his eyes and asked tiredly:
"Have you told anyone about this?"
"Never." Yu Chen said.
"Then why are you telling me this?"
Yu Chen helped him up, his tone still polite:
"You have to submit your application tomorrow morning. By then, there will be countless people accusing you of my terribleness. Rather than letting them destroy your perception, it is better for me to come in person. I will be more honest, have a more comprehensive perspective, and tell you everything I know."
Bai Ling felt a chill down his spine.
This person's desire for control is so terrible that he even wants to seize the opportunity to expose himself.
Seeing that he was resisting, Yu Chen wanted to touch his face, but Bai Ling turned his head away.
Not only did he hide, he also quickly took two steps back. Bai Ling stood at the door of the bathroom and raised his confused gray eyes:
"Give me some time to think about it."
Yu Chen lowered his eyes and said calmly, "Are you leaving?"
In the restaurant, AI quietly moves under the chairs. It raised its camera and found that the mechanical bird was extremely unstable.
The other person walked over quickly, almost running away, and the soles of his badly worn boots flashed past his eyes. But his footsteps were soon caught up, and in the blink of an eye, the owner had blocked him in front of the French window.
A bird in a jar.
The tattered mermaid poked the bird's forehead with her patched and regrown fingers.
It was a horrific sight, the bird staring at him grimly.
Then, he took out the remaining Band-Aid in his pocket and put it on his severed finger.
The mermaid fell silent.
Invisibly, it seemed as if a dark and corrosive line of defense had been broken through.
Yu Chen slowly raised his little finger and looked at the Band-Aid in confusion.
Taking this opportunity, Bai Ling walked away and pushed open the French window, allowing the bright moonlight to fall all over him. It was windy outside. He lowered his head and cupped his hands to light a cigarette. The flame flickered, as if a burning flower had bloomed on his lips in an instant.
The smoke went deep into his lungs, and he walked towards the railing with the cigarette between his fingers. Leaning against the terrace, he looked at the mermaid standing inside, his voice without any fluctuation:
"I don't have any good qualities. I'm only good at comforting myself, so your little past really can't scare me."
"I'm not a judge, so I can't judge right or wrong from a legal perspective. I also won't say nice things to comfort you, like, 'Oh, if I were there, I would definitely help you beat the guy back.' I can only say realistic things -"
Hayabusa curled his lips coldly: "You can rest assured that I will not betray you."
Yu Chen looked over suddenly and saw him standing at the edge of the terrace, with a pale face, like an inorganic machine. He turned outside, the prosperous interstellar world reflected in his eyes. Downstairs, there was the noise of people eating, a scene of decay and luxury; below that was the factory left over from the era of large-scale industry, with steel monster-like pipes crisscrossing like a maze, all in decay.
A gust of wind blew over, lifting Bai Ling's shirt, making it flutter gently like a bird spreading its wings and ready to fly.
Yu Chen had seen him giving orders, and had also seen him being fumigated by body temperature. The calmness he felt now was so charming... Tasting it carefully, it was the pride in the bones of a female who was often pursued by alphas.
"And don't think I'm at a disadvantage," Bai Ling tapped the ash from his cigarette, raised his eyebrows slightly at him, and said in a arrogant and playful tone:
"I am your loyal servant, and you are also my loyal dog."
This is to point him out, your possessiveness of me is also a form of surrender.
A blatant challenge to the alpha's authority.
This is already presumptuous enough. But the bird seemed to think it was not enough. It passed by the mermaid and put out the cigarette on Yu Chen's shoulder.
Squeak. Black shirt with burnt holes.
Yu Chen felt a heat on his shoulder, and he couldn't help but let out a deep gasp. In an instant, the tendons in his neck became visible and scales flashed across his chin.
This rebellious eagle...actually used him as an ashtray.
His eyes were dark, and he suddenly turned the bird's body over, grabbed its thin wrist, and pressed it against the wall with a rough move.
Bai Ling had already anticipated that he was going to attack, so he smiled coldly, kicked the ground hard with his mechanical legs, pounced on him and started biting him.
The AI alarm sounded, and just as the powerful AOs were about to lose control and fight each other, Bai Ling cried out in pain, "Fuck!"
Damn, I’m so nervous that my thigh is cramping.
Yu Chen stared at him for two seconds, turned around and called AI to bring the ointment, forcibly dragged Bai Ling into the bedroom, pressed him on the bed, personally took off his pants, and slowly rubbed his muscles with his hands.
The two had not yet finished their quarrel and had almost come to blows, so they just looked at each other coldly and didn't speak.
Bai Ling cursed in his heart: Damn, you crazy fish.
I hate him so much, he's crazy.
Bai Ling took a quick glance and saw that the mermaid's expression was still indifferent. He couldn't tell whether she was angry or furious. But he said that sentence, comparing the mermaid to a loyal dog or something... He would definitely be beaten up.
Bai Ling had a headache, so he just lay there wearily and let him do whatever he wanted.
As expected, the fish came closer, leaned over and stared at him with a strong presence. After looking at him for a while, it suddenly spoke.
“I haven’t learned it.”
Bai Ling was puzzled: "What?" What to learn? What bad things are you trying to do again!
The mermaid patiently rubbed his leg muscles to warm them up, turned her eyes to the side, and asked seriously: "Is this what a loyal dog does?"
Do this to you.
——He admitted that he was loyal.
Bai Ling is missing a leg, but the nerves are still there, and the blunt mechanical toes can curl up. The wind blew, and the contrast between hot and cold was strong, making his face feel even hotter. He pursed his straight lips and replied stiffly:
"Um."
In the end, he still got beaten up.
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