The Mermaid's System (Part 2) "Is it really a mermaid?"...
"What do you mean?"
"Don't you think that your past experiences in this world are too detailed?"
Yu Ren's expression finally changed. "That's because our predecessors who came ashore will create identities for the new mermaids who come ashore so that they can better integrate into human society."
"Have you seen any mermaids who helped you create a new identity over the years? Or, have you seen any other mermaids?"
Yu Ren said without hesitation, "No, because mermaids want to blend in with the crowd in order to find their destined mates. In order not to expose their identities, they try not to communicate privately. If nothing unexpected happens, creating a reasonable identity for me will be the last help the tribe can give me."
“Did many mermaids make it to shore?”
"I don't know. A mermaid who finds her destined partner will stay on the shore. A mermaid who doesn't get the love of her destined partner will turn into foam. A mermaid who leaves the sea will never return to the sea."
"Really? That's strange."
"The mates of mermaids are humans. Mermaids who come to the shore will never return to the sea. So where do the new mermaids in the sea come from?"
"Of course..."
He suddenly stopped.
It's like realizing one morning that your dog can talk.
"How come I've never thought about this before?"
As if he knew this for the first time, he stood up from the fish tank and held his forehead.
“How strange.”
"Why has no mermaid ever asked such an obvious question?"
"Won't the little mermaid ask where her parents are?"
"We...we have a common mother and a common father. They are the king and queen of the mermaid tribe, and also our father and mother."
So, the mermaids living on the seabed consist of only two adult mermaids and a group of underage mermaids.
Abnormal population.
"The company under my name requires background checks before employment. Do you think I would be unable to detect if someone really forged an identity for you?"
He looked up sharply, "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is that the identity 'Yu Ren' that you are using now already existed."
"And you - at least as a mermaid, you didn't originally exist in this world."
Yu Ren subconsciously tried to grab his own fish tail, but when he found nothing, he realized that half of the tail had turned into foam.
"I don't exist in this world? Impossible! All my memories of living under the sea before I was eighteen are real."
"I have no intention of denying the authenticity of your memory. I am just saying that the moment you stepped ashore, you traveled through time and space, and you replaced the original identity of 'Yu Ren'."
Yu Ren shook his head blankly, "No... If it's like what you said, where did the original Yu Ren go?"
I didn't answer, but asked, "Have you always looked the same since you were a child? Did you not change your appearance when you came ashore?"
Yu Ren shook his head, "Of course not."
"Do you look like the other mermaids? Are your hair, eyes, and tails the same color?"
Yu Ren still shook his head, "Of course not, my brothers and sisters all look different, some have red hair and green eyes, some have black hair and silver eyes, and everyone's skin color is different, there are yellow skin, white skin, black skin, green skin, and red skin. According to different talents, the color of the fish tail is also different. I have the highest talent, so I have a blue fish tail."
Having said this, he swung his tail proudly, then froze again.
He also forgot that half of his blue fish tail, which he was so proud of, had turned into foam.
"What kind of talent are you talking about?"
My guess was slowly being confirmed. I stared at him and asked, "Is it the talent of 'Exchange'?"
Yu Ren was stunned and looked at me warily.
"That's what the system said."
Yu Ren frowned and bit his lower lip. Apparently, he also remembered the conversation between him and me.
【Do you know the existence of the system? 】
[The system mentioned in the novel? ]
【It is your system. 】
[I don't have such a thing. If I did, how could I have fallen to this point? ]
His initial confident rebuttal now became uncertain.
Finally, he relaxed with a serious look on his face.
"Yes, the talent of us mermaids is 'Exchange'."
“Use what you have to exchange what you want from the sea.”
"Anything can be exchanged?"
"In theory, yes, but only if it's fair."
Yu Ren looked at his broken tail and whispered, "Food can be exchanged for pearls and corals, legs can be exchanged for songs, and another person's peace and happiness... can be exchanged for one's own illness."
He raised his head slowly, tears in his eyes, and he looked like he wanted to laugh, but the corners of his lips couldn't stop trembling.
"Although you don't love me, I have already died in pain before I died, in exchange for your life of peace."
I didn't care about his self-admiration and tears, I frowned and asked, "What do you mean by exchanging singing for legs?"
Seeing that I had no reaction to his deep affection and self-sacrifice, Yu Ren lowered his head in disappointment. "Mermaids didn't grow legs from the beginning. Rumor has it that the ancestor of the mermaids used the fate of the entire mermaid tribe in exchange for the right to grow legs as soon as they reached adulthood."
"What?"
Yu Ren whispered, "Originally, mermaids could only live in the sea. Our ancestors made an exchange with the sea. From now on, mermaids can transform into human form after they turn eighteen to pursue their destined lover. The price is that if they still cannot be with their lover after three years on land, they will turn into foam."
"The destined lover is a sweet curse."
After listening to Yu Ren's words, I felt that either the mermaid ancestor was out of his mind, or he had other intentions.
How could anyone willingly put their life in the hands of someone else?
Perhaps seeing what I meant, Yu Ren suddenly raised his voice and said, "Our ancestors did this for us!"
"There are not many food resources in the deep sea. If we want to obtain living resources, we have to exchange with the sea. In the deep sea, we need to collect pearls, corals, sea urchins, and treasures from human shipwrecks in exchange for food and daily necessities."
“Even the smallest mermaid has to go out to find resources and exchange food from the sea.”
"Human society has so many resources. Since I came to human society, I have never felt hungry again."
"If we didn't have our ancestors, we would still have to keep gathering food from the bottom of the sea."
"But mermaids have a long lifespan. There are more and more mermaids on the seabed, but the resources are getting fewer and fewer. If everyone is crowded on the seabed, the resources will only become more scarce, until a large number of mermaids die."
This is different from the mermaid in fairy tales.
The mermaid in the fairy tale is the child of the sea and the king of all marine creatures. How could she need to work all day?
This model reminds me of professional beggar gangs.
Little mermaids with different appearances.
The little mermaid without parents.
The little mermaid who works all day.
The little mermaid who can never come back after going ashore.
There are only two adult mermaids in the entire population who act as parents to the little mermaids.
…
They are so similar to abducted children.
Is the mermaid population that Yu Ren mentioned really a normal population?
Was his unconscious travel through time really an accident?
As my guesses were gradually confirmed, a hint of anger began to burn in my heart.
What if the mermaid Yu Ren is the human Yu Ren?
Since the system can kidnap Princess Mary Sue and tamper with her memory, turning her into an energy-collecting machine, why can't it take Yu Ren away, erase his memory, and place him in an environment with only mermaids to constantly brainwash him, changing his personality and ambitions, turning him from an excellent student who wants to be a policeman into a love-brained mermaid who is willing to interfere in other people's relationships and even threaten to commit suicide and use moral kidnapping in pursuit of so-called true love?
Yu Ren grabbed the remaining half of his fish tail and said, "Because the mermaid's exchange talent is too powerful and only harms itself, in order to prevent malicious predators, we never tell the secret of the exchange talent to others..."
"Why would the system know?"
"Could it be that this system really once belonged to me?"
"Then why did it appear on your lover's body?"
"Why don't I have any memory at all?"
He lay on the fish tank, looking at me through the glass, anxiously and nervously waiting for what I would say.
But I didn't say anything.
Until the speculation is confirmed, anything is possible.
The key to the matter, the final step to confirm all my speculations, is hidden in the red system light ball.
Thanks to the continuous stream of attackers and systems, the institute has been provided with so much research material.
As the saying goes, long-term illness makes one a doctor. After dismantling so many systems, even someone who knows nothing about it should know the internal structure of the system, not to mention that the researchers in the institute are all experts in this.
I guess I will know the truth of everything soon.
But before that, the team sent me the information that Chong Huan spit out.
…
"Name."
"Rejoice."
"gender."
"male."
"age."
"Twenty-eight."
"When did you regenerate?"
"Three years ago, on my twenty-fifth birthday."
"Before your rebirth, what year did you live to?"
"I'll live to be twenty-nine, which is next year."
"Tell me about your plagiarism."
"Officer, I've just been reborn. I haven't done anything harmful! I just picked a few songs from my past life. There's no law that says copying songs from a past life is plagiarism, right? I'm just using the resources I have to make a profit for myself! And I'm about to reach the point where I'll be reborn from my past life. I know nothing about the songs that will come after that. I'm harmless to society!"
"Don't get excited, just ask rationally, would you like some water?"
"Drink... gulp gulp, huh - thank you, I was a little emotional just now, sorry...
I admit that I am not clear about the time when all the songs were published. I used songs when their creators had already created them and labeled the real original creators as plagiarists. I also did buy a few songs and claimed them as my own.
Some small singers didn’t want to sell songs, so the company used some tricks to keep them quiet - I only found out about this later. After I found out, I told the company that I didn’t want to do that, but the company threatened me with the contract, asking me to cooperate with the company in marketing its image as a talented singer, otherwise I would have to pay compensation and add liquidated damages.
As you may know, our company has a bad reputation.
"I know."
"That's great. You must understand how I feel. I've been arrested now. I should only be charged with plagiarizing someone else's original work, right? The real culprit who ruined Yu Ren's voice, forced the company's artists to have sex, and caused the death of others by online trolling is my damn company! Can I ask if the person in charge of the company has been punished?"
"It went bankrupt, and all the people involved were arrested."
"Bankrupt? Really? Sorry, I'm not questioning you. I just believe you when you say that all the relevant personnel have been arrested. I absolutely believe it. But how could the company suddenly go bankrupt? Could it be that they forced to pay the penalty for breach of contract? No, there is a process to go through. It shouldn't be so fast... Could it be?"
"Who do you think of?"
“…”
"Silence is not an option."
"No, I'm not silent, I just...well, I guess it was the CEO who bankrupted them?"
"yes."
“…”
"It seems that when you mention the president, you become less talkative."
"Well, yes, I am a little afraid of him."
"Why? From what I understand, you approached him several times and tried to work with him."
"Yes."
"What was the president's identity in his previous life? What did he do?"
“…Huh, I can’t hide it from you guys.
The president...was also the president in his previous life.
You should know about my past life. It was quite different from the social environment of my current life - very different.
The legal system in the previous life was not perfect, and capital was supreme. As the president of a company that monopolized 55% of the global industry, he was a well-deserved king.
He was tough and didn't care about bloodshed and consumption. Under his rectification, the world entered an unprecedented era of peace, and as a result, the entertainment industry was extremely developed. But in his previous life, he was moody and had a very bad temper. No one knew whether he would be angered by a small matter.
So people privately called him a 'tyrant'.
People respected him and were afraid of him. They wanted to get close to him but were afraid to touch him.
There is only one person who can stay by his side, and there is only one person who dares to calm his emotions when he is furious.
We call him the Tyrant's Perfumer."
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