The Mermaid's System (Part 1) He is like a real human being...
Through the screen, I could see despair in his blue eyes.
His voice trembled, "I will really die, you don't believe me?"
"letter."
"Then why do you..."
"Because it doesn't matter." I met his incredulous gaze and said calmly, "In my heart, you are just a stalker. Whether you are dead or alive, it has nothing to do with me. It is even more impossible for me to break up with my lover because of you and accept your confession instead."
He seemed to be stunned, "You...I..."
He shook his head, unable to accept that I was so cold-hearted. Tears slid down his face. "I was wrong. I didn't expect you to be such a cold-hearted person!"
He laughed bitterly, "The meals I cooked for you these days..."
“I have a chef.”
When will these raiders stop starting with my stomach?
"The lullaby I sang for you..."
"I was already asleep and you woke me up again."
At two o'clock in the morning, he was singing outside the window. What's the difference between this and waking up an insomniac in the early morning to take sleeping pills?
"I created so many romantic encounters..."
"It's not a chance encounter, it's harassment."
Who would want a fish to suddenly fall from the sky while they are swimming?
I don't know how high he jumped from. If I hadn't practiced martial arts, my eight-pack abs would have been smashed into pieces.
He was interrupted by me too many times, and he became crazy and desperate. "I just want you to accept my confession, just tonight! I promise, I won't disturb you after tonight! Only tonight, just tonight!"
His voice softened, with faint sobs, "Just be my boyfriend for one night."
"impossible."
His body swayed, and he laughed miserably in despair. He went from struggling to calming down, but now his eyes were lifeless, as if his heart was dead.
"I see."
"I was wrong. From the beginning, I shouldn't have fallen in love with you, nor should I have chosen you as my destined lover."
He turned his gaze to the assistant and laughed, as if mocking, but also as if disappointed, "You always think that I approach you with a purpose, but I treat you sincerely."
"The one who really approached you with a purpose is obviously..."
The video call was disconnected.
“Mingming” is… ?
I looked at my assistant. "Do you think I'm too cold-blooded?"
I still care a lot about the image I have in my lover’s heart.
The assistant did not answer, but looked at me with a dark and extremely complicated look in his eyes, but in an instant he returned to his normal state. I almost thought it was an illusion.
"Boss, aren't you curious about what he said last?"
I tapped the table twice and smiled, "Curious, but I'll wait until you're willing to tell me."
"Besides, it sounds romantic that my lover is doing everything he can to get close to me."
The assistant said helplessly, "Your definition of romance seems to be a little different from that of the rest of the world."
"I just believe that you have no ill will towards me, so all your attempts to get close to me are just for fun."
He chuckled, "Is this your confidence in your own judgment?"
"yes."
"My judgment tells me to trust you."
"Trust me..." The assistant murmured in a low voice, so soft that it was difficult for human ears to hear clearly.
The next moment, the system detector suddenly emitted a bright red light, and the direction indicator arrow was pointing in the direction of the assistant.
At this moment, I heard a mechanical sound.
[Great! We have collected the president's love! ]
[The energy of this world follows the old rules, 50-50.]
[You are worthy of your reputation. You have succeeded in conquering such a difficult CEO. Thanks to you for saying not to act too early and wait until this world is close to maturity before harvesting. Otherwise, we would not be able to obtain so much energy.]
It was clearly a mechanical sound, but I could hear endless joy in it.
Just at this moment, the assistant looked up at me with a serious look, his lips slightly parted, as if he wanted to say something.
But the mechanical sounds around me became louder and louder, and it seemed that the only thing I could hear in the world was the noisy mechanical sounds.
[Hehe, what about the most difficult CEO to capture? He still lost to you. ]
[When I first saw the mermaid, I was a little worried. After all, mermaids can exchange themselves for all creatures by sacrificing themselves to the sea. If he uses his life to exchange a pair of eyes that can see through everything for the president, we will be in trouble.]
[Fortunately, you are very skilled and the mermaid will soon turn into foam. Hurry up and ask the president again. After confirming that we have all his love, we can start harvesting.]
I caught the assistant's voice through the electronic sound in the noise.
His voice was mixed in with the noisy mechanical sound, and it sounded a little ethereal, as if it was coming through a layer of frosted glass.
"President, will you always believe in me?"
Amid the electronic sounds of expectation, I smiled at him and said,
"Of course."
At this moment, everything is quiet.
The electronic sound disappeared abruptly. Because it was too loud before, there was still a buzzing sound in my ears after it disappeared.
At this moment, a crack appeared in his smiling mask, and I caught a glimpse of the almost blank surprise in his eyes.
It's like, he never thought that I would believe him.
"Of course I believe you, but now, there are other things to do."
I walked towards him step by step, and in an overly intimate posture, I put my left arm around his waist and my right hand on his vest.
"Strip off."
In an instant, a red light flashed, and it struggled to escape, but was captured by the stripping system again.
That ball of red light was caught in my palm.
It's this little thing that is sowing discord.
"Boss, have you caught him?"
I pinched the red ball of light and casually threw it into the system's imprisonment bottle, letting it run rampant in it, making the embrace even tighter.
"No, give me some more time."
"...President." The assistant said helplessly.
Tsk, I’ve been discovered.
I had no intention of letting go, and I tightened my arms even more. His waist was thin, but not soft. Under the cover of his suit, there was hidden strength. I defended myself, "It's just to better capture the system."
"Besides, the person I'm hugging is mine, not someone else's. Of course I can hug him if I want, right, my assistant?"
The assistant's voice was faintly amused, "Yes, my president."
"But if you don't let me go, Yu Ren will really turn into foam."
“Tsk.”
The feeling of being pressed against my body stopped my fingers from trembling. I let go of my assistant and said, "Let's go and see the foam mermaid."
I used the sound of footsteps to suppress the fear and anger surging in my heart.
I didn't expect that the system would target the assistant.
The system just now was captured from the assistant. This thing of unknown origin entered the assistant's body silently. It provoked our relationship and tried to make me believe that the assistant had ulterior motives. But I misjudged him. Yu Ren, who died for love, was the one who was truly good to me.
Yu Ren died because of my distrust.
What would happen to the assistant if I chose to trust the system?
As someone I don't trust, will he turn into a bubble or be taken over by the system?
No, maybe none of those.
I remembered what my assistant said to me after he was nearly possessed by the attacker.
[No one will try to take over my body anymore. ]
【Because, I am the one who has been seen. 】
The assistant will not be occupied by something else.
With his judgment, he would not casually sign a contract with the system and give the other party the right to harm him.
It is almost impossible for others to hurt an assistant who has hundreds of skills.
So the person who is most likely to hurt the assistant is me.
It's me who spends more than eight hours with him every day.
Whether it is his position as assistant, who is closest to me, or his identity as my lover, he has become a "seen person" and a springboard for attackers to try to conquer me.
My love actually became a tool to threaten him.
What do they want to do?
Since they couldn't occupy my assistant's body, they wanted me to vacate the position of assistant myself? They wanted to turn my identity as their lover into a part of their strategy?
ridiculous.
If I can't protect my people, what's the point of being President Jack Su?
In the car, I issued new tasks to the institute with a serious face, and then looked at the flowing scenery outside the window.
Because of Yu Ren's special situation and his harassment of me, I have reported his affairs to the Ba Squad. In fact, there are quite a few people from the Ba Squad and the research institute around Yu Ren, who are observing him in secret to prevent him from rioting and hurting others.
As early as when the video call was hung up, new news came from the team.
After he hung up the phone, he slowly walked into the bathtub.
His legs turned into a fish tail. The blue tail was so long and big that it couldn't fit in the fish tank at all. He could only curl up in the bathtub miserably.
The water in the bathtub overflowed as he moved. He closed his eyes and lay under the water.
Starting from his fish tail, he slowly turned into foam.
At this moment, the energy detector detected an energy fluctuation spreading from Yu Ren to the distance.
Pointing in my direction.
The researchers quickly turned on the energy shielding device, trying to block Yu Ren's energy transmission, but after the device was turned on, it still couldn't prevent Yu Ren from turning into a foam.
Until just now.
The moment I peeled off the red ball of light and threw it into the glass bottle, the energy transmission was interrupted.
Half of Yu Ren's fish tail had turned into foam, and a layer of foam was floating at the broken end. There was no blood at all, and the scene was extremely weird.
The researchers lifted Yu Ren out of the bathtub and placed him in a special observation box.
The box is not very big. After all, it was originally intended to be used to hold the system. In order to prevent some system light balls from being too large to fit into ordinary imprisonment bottles, this glass box was built.
Therefore, Yu Ren curled up in it and did not look comfortable.
But Yu Ren didn't care about his physical discomfort at this time. He supported himself on the glass with both hands and looked at the staff coming and going outside in disbelief.
"Why, what did you do? Why am I still alive?"
The video that was sent captured Yu Ren's astonishment and confusion very clearly. Judging from his reaction, it was very likely that he was unaware of the existence of the system, and it was the system that directed this boring and unexciting drama.
I picked up the bottle and shook it, and the red light ball inside rolled around.
I propped my face up with my fists and asked, "You are the one who led all this?"
The system doesn't speak.
"Uninteresting drama."
It seemed like I had exploded its anger bar, and its entire ball suddenly jumped up.
"Who are you to say my script is boring?! This is the most popular script!"
script?
It seems that this is a colleague of the Yellow Mosquito System.
Who is Yu Ren?
Actors from other worlds?
Or is he a kidnapped raider like Princess Mary Sue?
When the system saw that I didn't say anything, it started jumping in the bottle.
"You should have discovered the truth after Yu Ren's death. You should have discovered that your lover was a hypocrite and a real villain. You would have regretted killing Yu Ren and discovered that you had already fallen in love with Yu Ren."
"Why, why don't you follow the script!"
I sneered, "Why do you think that if you don't like someone before they die, you will fall madly in love with them after they die?"
"Why do you think that I would love without knowing it, and despise, insult, and fail to cherish the one I truly love?"
"Why do you think I would agree to his request to be his boyfriend for a day even if it means hurting my lover?"
The system takes things for granted, treating living people as chess pieces in its hands, and never considers the possibility of the chess pieces suddenly rising.
It is obviously an entertainment system that follows the emotional route, but it is arrogant and ignores the emotions that humans should have. It arbitrarily applies the template to others, thinking that all emotions will develop in the direction they expect. However, emotions are the most uncontrollable thing.
They didn't understand at all.
Or rather, they have been looking down for too long and have forgotten that they are holding living people, not lifeless chess pieces.
Suddenly, I heard the assistant speak, and it sounded like an exclamation or a sigh.
“You chose me.”
"Not 'choice'."
I don't like this term; it sounds like I'm treating my assistant as an object for me to choose from.
I looked at him, corrected him word by word patiently.
“There was no option from the beginning.”
"Only you."
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After arriving at the institute, I saw Yu Ren.
Yu Ren was transferred to a large box, where at least he could lie flat.
After he cut off half of his fish tail, his height was almost the same as when he was in human form.
When he saw me, he had a complicated expression, but his look was indifferent, as if he didn't care at all.
I wasn't in the mood to consider his thoughts, so I got straight to the point and asked him, "Do you know the system?"
"system?"
His voice was a little hoarse, but still moving.
"The system mentioned in the novel?"
“It’s your system.”
Yu Ren looked calm and said calmly, "I don't have such a thing. If I did, how could I have fallen to this point."
"What if everything you have now is caused by the system?"
In fact, from the very beginning, I felt that Yu Ren was a little strange.
There are so many strange things about him.
Too much detailed information about human society.
Cognitive changes before and after the age of eighteen.
A species of mermaids that does not exist in this world.
And most importantly – the way he behaves.
His actions and behaviors, the way he weighed the pros and cons, and his hidden thoughts were all so much like a human being.
A real human being.
If Yu Ren was not a mermaid at the beginning, and the red light ball belonged to Yu Ren's system at the beginning, it seems to make sense.
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