Chapter 108 He is no longer your brother when he grows up
On the fifth day after losing contact with his brother, Li Yixi still hadn't found him.
Li Yixi stood on the street in Shencheng, staring at the direction where her brother disappeared. The strange vortex did not appear again. After she dealt with the fallen mermaids that gathered around her, the vortex suddenly disappeared.
Judging from the speed at which the vortex disappears—
Even if she jumped in immediately after her brother was sucked into the whirlpool, she would not have had time to get in.
"Eh..." Li Yixi sighed disappointedly.
She may have really thought she was omnipotent. Her brother told her about his concerns before he left, but she didn't take it seriously at the time. Maybe this is where the problem lies.
Li Yixi continued walking along the street.
The rainy season in Shencheng came and went quickly. The ominous fog that had previously made people feel that something was wrong also dissipated on the streets, and everything returned to the way it was when they first saw Shencheng.
But her brother is missing.
Li Yixi no longer had time to care about the transparent crabs patrolling the streets. Her heart was filled with suppressed anger. Now she was even waiting to meet them so that her gradually unbalanced mentality could regain a little bit of calm.
Calm down.
She comforted herself in her heart: Her brother wouldn't expect to see her like this.
Li Yixi suddenly stopped and looked quietly at the clouds floating in the sky. She thought: now that Liu Mei and the others had left, it was her turn to become the watcher of Shencheng.
There is a sense of irony...
Just as she was laughing at herself, she suddenly heard some noise coming from a nearby shopping mall, as if someone had fallen to the ground unexpectedly.
"elder brother?"
Li Yixi was stunned at first, then ran away in a hurry.
However, Li Yixi did not see her brother, but met a strange beautiful girl instead. The beautiful girl had a teardrop mole at the corner of her right eye, a graceful figure, and a charming and pure temperament.
At this moment, she fell to the ground pitifully, sobbing softly, "It hurts so much..."
Li Yixi lost interest instantly after seeing it.
Her purpose was to find her brother, not to meet a beautiful girl. But Li Yixi still coldly stretched out her hand and asked, "Are you okay?"
"Thank you, kind man." The girl stretched out her hand with emotion.
The girl's skin was very soft to the touch, and one could tell at the touch that she was not someone who worked often. When she came close to him, Li Yixi smelled a special fragrance on her.
It's not that pungent artificial perfume, but rather like natural body odor.
"Li Yixi, my name." Li Yixi introduced himself nonchalantly.
To be honest, instead of being curious about other people's body odor and appearance, Li Yixi wanted to know more about whether the other person could fight and the whereabouts of his brother.
"Aurora," the girl sobbed.
She raised her tear-stained face and asked, "Excuse me, are you familiar with this city? My brother is missing, and I'm going to look for him."
At the end of her words, Aurora couldn't help rolling her eyes.
"He was so young, and he disappeared. It was all my fault for letting him go out to play..." Aurora sobbed softly, revealing her true feelings, "The world outside is so dangerous..."
Li Yixi had no expression on his face.
She resisted the urge to roll her eyes and said coldly, "Reflect on it after you find someone for me. I've also separated from my brother, and your current behavior only makes me angry."
"I'm so sorry."
After hearing this, Aurora quickly wiped her tears and said in a calm tone, "I haven't met someone I can talk to for a long time. I couldn't hold it back and started crying again."
She didn't think there was anything strange about Li Yixi's reaction.
This made Li Yixi look up to him. Li Yixi asked casually, "What happened to your brother? Where did he disappear?"
"If I had known, I wouldn't have rushed over here."
Aurora sighed after hearing this and said, "I only learned about his disappearance a few days later. But he is definitely here. I have not lost contact with him, but I don't know his exact location."
"It's still possible to find it."
Li Yixi said gloomily after hearing this. She was now very upset about her soft-heartedness during the blood moon. Maybe if she had gotten the sequence of 'blood tracking' earlier, she wouldn't be so helpless now.
"Can I ask one more question?"
Aurora suddenly raised her head and asked curiously, "Who is your brother?"
This sentence has many deeper meanings.
Li Yixi looked back at him in surprise and asked, "Do you know my brother? Or do you know me?"
"No, I don't know you." Aurora shook her head quickly, "I just didn't read your connection. My talent can help me understand a person's bond, but I just didn't read the fact that 'you have a brother'."
That's a bit strange.
Li Yixi lowered her head thoughtfully, but she didn't worry too much about it. There are a lot of talents in this world that are easy to use and difficult to use, and people will always encounter a few talents that are difficult to use.
"Let's talk while we're looking." Li Yixi said bluntly.
"OK."
Aurora quickly followed Li Yixi's footsteps. She suggested in a friendly manner: "If you don't mind, I can help you find your brother. My talent is very advantageous in the water area."
After hearing this, Li Yixi glanced at the other person coldly.
"Did I say something wrong?" Aurora said to herself in confusion, "I just want to help you."
"No, you did nothing wrong."
Li Yixi replied coldly: "It's just that I can't believe you yet."
It seems to be like this... Aurora realized it belatedly. She had rarely met people with whom she could communicate before, so her current actions might seem deviant to ordinary people.
"I'm so sorry."
Aurora apologized again: "Sometimes I can't tell what I can do."
The impact of the Abyss on the Lost Ones is too great.
Aurora's civilization had never taught her this. She and her brother had been wandering around all their lives, but the only good thing was that mermaids had a clear distinction between love and hate.
They never say one thing and do another.
Like is like, dislike is dislike. Aurora was able to raise her brother amidst the threat of disaster and racial discrimination.
When they reach the abyss, the situation changes, but it is roughly the same. Those with hostility will not do anything small, while those with good intentions will actively stay away.
"Perhaps I really lack such experience..." Aurora muttered to herself.
So she smiled and said to Li Yixi: "Then I will help you find your brother after I find your brother. If you have any questions along the way, you can ask me. I know a lot about this area of water."
Li Yixi did not respond after hearing this.
But she did notice something strange in Aurora's words. Li Yixi asked bluntly, "Does the concept of a whirlpool exist in the Mermaid Reef?"
"swirl?"
Aurora tilted her head hesitantly. She replied, "As far as I know, there can't be a whirlpool now. If there was a whirlpool, the city would have sunk to the bottom of the sea long ago."
"..." Li Yixi was silent.
In that case, it has nothing to do with Aurora. Then she can still help the other party... Li Yixi thought absentmindedly: Maybe Aurora can provide her with some new information...
Finding Brother Whale is obviously easier than finding Li Ming.
Aurora's talent is very useful.
She could vaguely see the streets within her brother's field of vision, but couldn't tell where they were. With Li Yixi's participation, the two of them quickly circled a few locations based on their familiarity with the area or city.
Li Yixi saw the whale that his brother described at the third location.
But it's not huge at all.
Its size was similar to the whale doll that Li Yixi had seen in a toy store in the past.
This chubby little whale was curled up in a dark corner and snoring. The translucent fish were swimming around him, like a night light to help him sleep peacefully.
A stupid little brother who was let out by his sister to play, but ended up sleeping in a random corner when he felt sleepy.
Seeing this, Li Yixi suddenly became discouraged.
Both adults were looking for it, and even Li Yixi herself was complaining about its disappearance. It turned out that the little whale brother was sleeping too soundly and was unable to respond to his sister's call in time.
"younger brother!"
Aurora ran towards the whale in small steps, complaining: "You idiot, didn't I tell you to remember to reply me on time?"
She put her silly brother in her arms and shook him vigorously, saying, "Do you know how worried I am about you? I shouldn't have let you leave the house alone!"
"Hello?"
The whale, shaken into confusion, uttered the particle sleepily.
"Oh my God, wake up!" Upon seeing this, Aurora quickly shook it a few more times, at a frequency so fast that mosquito coil-like spinning circles appeared in the whale brother's eyes.
So the whale floated precariously in the air.
It swayed dizzily and uttered some meaningless words: "Yo Yo... Yo Yo..."
Aurora covered her eyes in shame:
"Damn it, there is something wrong with my education of my brother..."
This is not just a general problem.
Li Yixi folded her arms across her chest and looked at the warm scene in front of her with indifference. The warmer the scene was, the more it highlighted how miserable her separation from her brother was.
"It's time for us to talk about something else, Siren." Li Yixi went straight to the point.
"Um?"
Aurora turned back to look at Li Yixi. She grabbed the dizzy whale brother back into her arms and said calmly, "I have long suspected that you knew who I am."
"The beauty of mermaids is a fact recognized by the entire universe, and even I, who have no tail, am no exception."
"And yet I don't know about that."
Li Yixi said in a cold tone: "The scope of the entire universe is too far away for Earth civilization. They have not yet grown to the point of communicating with civilizations in other galaxies. All I know is-"
"The only person who could appear in Shencheng during this period could be you."
Aurora blinked blankly.
This matter once again fell into her blind spot of knowledge.
She had never seen a civilization that failed to reach the concept of "cosmic communication". Other civilizations she had come into contact with, even those that were destroyed by the disaster, had already reached this level one after another.
"Oh my god," Aurora murmured, "Is there any need for such a civilization to exist?"
After hearing this, Li Yixi cautiously took a defensive posture.
Aurora was unmoved by this. She looked at Li Yixi with her bright peach blossom eyes and said, "I didn't understand your actions before, but now I do."
"Don't you know that you are a disaster?"
"Huh?" Li Yixi was stunned.
"The adult who concealed your identity was very skilled, but there is no falsehood in the eyes of a mermaid, only truth." Aurora stared at Li Yixi calmly and said, "I believe he is a good brother, but he is no longer your brother now."
"What do you mean?"
"Or were you once my compatriot?"
Aurora whispered with troubled eyes: "I'm sorry, maybe my words are wrong. I rarely encounter situations where people turn back into humans from disasters. There are too few such examples. Maybe you are the special case."
After hearing this, Li Yixi fell silent.
She wanted to tell herself that this was not the case, but the experience at the Wall of Silence was indeed shaking her cognition. Her brother was not her biological brother, and her origins were not as simple as she imagined.
In those dark days -
The vampires she despised protected her, and the humans of her own origin persecuted her.
They may indeed be monsters without humanity or self, but the loyalty of the monsters really touched the young girl. She did not walk that long and dark road alone.
She just... just didn't tell her brother about this...
Just like she said to her brother during the blood moon, the vampires will help her. If vampires are monsters, then what is she for trusting monsters?
"I want to ask..."
Li Yixi said with difficulty: "I want to ask how you define family..."
If the problem wasn't her, then it was her brother. She had walked a long, dark road in her past, and at the end of it, she met her brother.
If this isn't a dream, then someone should be able to respond to it, right?
"We call those who share authority a family." Siren explained clearly, "We call the day when a family member obtains complete authority that belongs to him or her an adult."
"You are an adult now, Li Yixi. Your brother no longer needs to share his authority with you."
Siren chanted softly:
"He's not your brother anymore."
Li Yixi was stunned after hearing this, and then she couldn't help but bent over and laughed:
"Is that so? Hahaha..."
She didn't want to believe it, but she had to because she couldn't even find any evidence to deny it.
Li Yixi has always wondered where the aura of death on the Blood Queen came from. She is obviously not the kind of person who would ally with disasters, but she has authority that does not belong to her.
It turns out that was proof of [family].
"Brother, my brother..."
Li Yixi bent down, covered her face and sobbed, "Have you ever thought that it was the last time we saw each other..."
She also remembers...
No, she had remembered.
At the end of the road, at the beginning of her new life—
Her brother once stroked her cheek and whispered, "When you truly recall what happened today, our fate will end, my sister."
"Happy coming of age, Li Yixi."
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