Chapter 54: Eternal Day (XVIII) Escape
A low voice fell.
Cold fingers supported the back of Wen Yin's neck.
The finger only exerted a slight force, and Wen Yin was forced to raise her head, exposing her fragile throat and plump lips completely to the air and to the hunter's sight.
The fingers supporting the back of her neck even slowly stroked the small piece of delicate and smooth skin on the back of her neck with interest and an ambiguous intimacy.
Through 028's perspective, Wen Yin could see her own fair and slender shoulders and neck, which formed an extremely strong contrast with Cangyu's arms that contained inhuman strength.
A few strands of long black hair fell from her shoulders as she tilted her head back, spreading on the dark sheets like silk.
Wen Yin closed her eyes, her long and thick eyelashes drooped, and the abnormal blush on her cheeks spread all the way to her ears and neck.
The whole person seems like a sacrifice carefully displayed and waiting to be dismantled, presenting a thrilling beauty of brokenness.
On the other side, Cangli didn't seem to be dissatisfied with Cangyu's intervention.
His cold fingertips instead entangled with Wen Yin's spread black hair, as if he was playing with his beloved water plants.
The dark blue fish tail swayed silently, and the translucent, thin dark blue tail fin, like the softest water wave, lightly covered Wen Yin's smooth calves.
The edge of the tail fin is cool and slippery, brushing against the skin lightly, bringing a tingling sensation to the scalp.
It formed a double attack with the fingers slowly stroking the back of her neck.
Caught in a dilemma, a cold breath rushed towards her, carrying the breath of the deep sea, and covered her slightly parted lips in an irresistible posture.
This kiss was completely different from the one Cangli had just given her, which was full of temptation and allure.
The moment Cangyu's cold thin lips covered Wenyin's lips, the tip of his tongue pried open her teeth and went straight in.
The touch was cold and smooth, flexible beyond human imagination, and with an irresistible force, it swept and entangled wantonly on the warm inner wall of her mouth.
As if marking his own possessions.
Wen Yin let out an extremely tiny, muffled whimper.
His body subconsciously tried to struggle, but was firmly restrained by the chest in front of him, unable to move.
The feeling of suffocation mixed with dizziness and heat hit her remaining consciousness like a tide.
Through 028's perspective, Wen Yin could even see Cangyu's deep eyes hidden behind the mask, staring at her face, which was dazed and dazed due to suffocation and emotion.
Cangli's dark blue tail fin, as thin as gauze, was still sliding gently across her ankle, his eyes fixed on her swollen lips.
I don’t know how long it took, until Wen Yin felt the root of her tongue was numb and sore from being sucked, and she was almost losing all consciousness, when a warm smell of blood suddenly flowed into her mouth along her entangled lips and teeth.
This is... Cangyu's blood.
The smell of blood seemed to carry some ultimate allure and power, causing her thoughts to plummet like a kite with a broken string, plummeting into a boundless, dark ocean...
Wen Yin's last sensation was the thick, warm blood between her lips and teeth, and the hand holding the back of her neck, which was full of absolute control.
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Cold.
This is Wen Yin's only perception of the surrounding environment.
She seemed to be immersed in icy sea water, and her "perspective" was shaking uncontrollably.
It took her a long time to come out of her drowsy state, and she found that the scene before her was filled with the unique sense of alienation that was unique to memories.
As the "sight" shook violently, the deafening noise of propellers and the excited and crazy cheers of humans rang in my ears.
"There are still some over there! Don't let them get away!"
A dazzling white light swept over, illuminating the sea area like daylight.
Before my eyes, a huge fishing net with a metallic luster was rapidly closing and rising.
The mesh of the mesh was covered with bright red blood, which dripped down and dyed the surrounding sea water a shocking red.
And bound in the fishing nets were countless struggling and crying mermaids.
In a small fishing net nearby, a young mermaid in a dark blue color was tearing at the rope in vain.
His face was filled with fear and anger, and he was shouting sharply in a certain direction.
The next second, an anesthetic needle flashing with cold light flew down from the boat and accurately pierced the side of the young mermaid's neck.
His struggling movements froze instantly, and his whole body drooped down like a puppet with its strings cut, and was quickly lifted up by the fishing net.
"Cangli!"
A heart-wrenching roar filled with endless anger and despair suddenly erupted from the depths of "her" throat!
This voice...is not hers.
Wen Yin suddenly realized this voice, this perspective...
It is the memory of Cangyu watching his brother being captured!
She "felt" a sharp pain in her heart as if it was being torn apart, and boundless anger almost burned her sanity.
"She" wanted to rush forward regardless of the consequences, but was held back tightly by the remaining tribesmen around her.
On the fishing boat overhead, human figures swayed in the strong light, and their cheers were clear and terrifying, forming the most cruel contrast with the shrill cries of the mermaids in the sea.
Wen Yin was trapped in the cruel scene before her eyes. When her sight flickered, the picture shattered and reassembled like a mirror.
The sea surface before my eyes was under the afterglow of the setting sun, which dyed the sea surface into a beautiful golden red, like flowing molten gold.
But beneath this beautiful scenery lies deathly silence and despair.
The once prosperous and peaceful seabed has turned into ruins, the beautiful fluorescent corals have been smashed to pieces, and pearls and shell ornaments are scattered all over the ground, buried by the turbid sea sand.
Almost no adult mermaids survived, and the entire population was almost wiped out.
Wen Yin's perspective showed that she was hiding in the deepest and darkest shadows of the seabed.
Behind him were two trembling mermaid children with light-colored tails, as well as several old mermaids with scars all over their bodies and expressions of endless sorrow and fear.
Overhead, the shadow of the steel behemoth was still slowly circling, its searchlight sweeping across every possible area of the sea where it might be hiding.
Every time the beam of light passed by, it would cause the mermaid child to suppress a whimper like a small animal.
The shadow circled overhead for a long time, and finally confirmed that nothing was missing. The engine roared loudly, and it began to turn and head towards the deep sea.
It felt like a century passed until the terrifying noise completely disappeared in the distance. Wen Yin's perspective floated up and finally emerged from the water.
Under the golden-red sunset, a little mermaid child timidly held his own hand, with tears in his big eyes.
"Dad and Mom...were they also captured by those bad guys? What...what should we do?"
Another, smaller one also began to sob softly.
Wen Yin's perspective followed Cang Yu's lowered head and looked at the two frightened and helpless faces.
All I heard was Cangyu taking a deep breath, reaching out his hand, and very gently touching the hair of the two children. His voice was a little hoarse because he tried hard to suppress it, but it was filled with an unquestionable firmness.
"Don't be afraid. Listen, brother is going to chase that ship."
Turning his gaze to the elderly merman elders, Cangyu's voice continued to ring out.
"Take the trouble of taking them, and all the remaining members of the tribe who can still move, and immediately go deeper into the sea, to an area that humans absolutely cannot reach... and don't look back."
"Cangyu, what about you..." A silver mermaid looked worried.
"I have to rescue them."
Cangyu's cold young voice rang out.
"They captured our people, my parents, and... Cangli."
"Even if there is only a glimmer of hope, I have to follow."
Wen Yin's gaze followed Cang Yu's gaze into the distance.
The ship had long since disappeared, and the beautiful sea scene at dusk had become the cruelest backdrop for the mermaids whose homes had been destroyed.
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The "sight" moved at high speed again.
Cang Yu dived through the deep sea at the fastest speed, tracking the faint traces and noises left by the giant ship. After an unknown amount of time, the huge shadow appeared in his sight again.
At this time, Wen Yin observed more carefully and felt that there was something strange about the ship.
It is nothing like a traditional fishing boat.
It showed no signs of rushing to the shore, just hovering quietly above the sea.
The ship is incredibly large, like a moving steel island, exuding a cold, non-fishing sense of technology.
More like a... floating offshore laboratory.
Cangyu obviously realized this as well. He didn't dare to get too close, but just lurked in the darkness of the deep sea from a distance, observing and waiting patiently.
Until late at night, most of the lights on the ship went out and the whole ship seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep.
Cangyu finally moved.
He lurked at the bottom of the ship, opened his mouth slightly, and emitted an extremely low audio frequency that was impossible for human ears to capture.
The sound spread in the sea water, like the most sophisticated sonar, carefully exploring every detail of the bottom of the giant ship.
Wen Yin couldn't "hear" the merman's unique language, and could only watch him slowly swim around the bottom of the huge boat, one circle, two circles...
Finally, the "sight" stopped in an extremely hidden recess near the stern of the hull.
There is a huge outlet grid for discharging recycled wastewater.
At this moment, it seemed that because it was late at night and not the maximum power operation period, the grid was not completely closed, leaving a narrow gap.
Turbid water, carrying a warm smell and various complex chemical agents, is slowly flowing out from it.
This is it.
Cangyu's dark fish tail swung violently, and under the powerful force, his tail created a bigger gap in the grid.
Then, his body contracted and twisted extremely flexibly, and with an almost unbelievable flexibility, he narrowly squeezed through the narrow gap that was impossible for a human to pass through.
The cold scales rubbed against the rough metal edges, making an extremely subtle sound that was quickly drowned out by the sound of draining water.
The next second, Wen Yin's sight fell into a dark and damp pipe filled with a strong smell of chemicals and the hum of machinery.
Relying on the mermaid's excellent night vision and sonic positioning, Cangyu moved silently through this maze-like pipe system.
Finally, he found a maintenance exit, pried it open silently with brute force, and slid into the hull.
What came into view was a narrow, cold, undecorated metal corridor.
The walls are covered with various thick and thin pipes and wires, exuding a cold industrial feel.
It was late at night and the ship's internal security did not seem to be very strict. Perhaps it was because humans would never have thought that any creature could sneak in from such a place, or perhaps they were too confident in the closed nature of this steel behemoth.
Cangyu held his breath and opened his mouth slightly again. High-frequency sound waves came out, and suddenly, he determined a certain direction.
The young man's slender, jet-black tail was no longer used for swimming, but instead strongly supported his body, with the end of the tail fin slightly curled to adapt to the ground.
He began to move forward along the metal corridor in a silent and smooth sliding posture. The friction between his scales and the ground made an extremely subtle rustling sound, but it was completely drowned out by the hum of the environment.
He indeed encountered few people along the way. Occasionally, the sound of patrol footsteps came from a distant intersection, but he sensed it in advance and cleverly hid behind shadows or equipment.
His goal is very clear.
The sound wave feedback told him that in a cabin ahead, there were a large number of dense life signals, and...
The same breath of pain and despair.
Finally, the view stopped in front of a heavy metal hatch.
A human guard in uniform was leaning back in a chair, his head nodding off, completely unaware of the approach of death.
Wen Yin saw "himself" raise his hand, and with a precise and fierce knife strike, he chopped the guard's neck.
The guard fainted completely before he could even make any sound.
Then, Cangyu neatly pulled out an access card from his waist and swiped it lightly on the electronic lock.
There was a soft "beep" sound.
The heavy metal hatch slid open silently to both sides, revealing the scene behind the door.
Although Wen Yin had already seen the heart-wrenching scene in the bottom of the cabin, the impact of seeing a similar display through Cangyu's perspective was completely different.
The scene before my eyes was a cabin space so huge that it made my scalp tingle.
The cold, neat, and dimly glowing cylindrical glass containers are so densely packed that you can't see the end of them.
Each container was labeled with a cold, heartless white number.
However, it was completely different from what Wen Yin had seen in the bottom of the Eternal Day, which were empty waiting cages filled with sea water.
At this moment, a living mermaid is imprisoned in each glass container.
Wen Yin saw those beautiful and lively mermen of various colors that she had seen in Cangli's memories, those majestic adult mermen warriors, and even a few older mermen that she was familiar with...
At this moment, they are all like butterflies nailed to a specimen stand, immersed in the dark blue sea.
Their wrists, ankles, and even waists were firmly locked with specially made metal shackles, fixed to the inner wall of the container, making it impossible to break free.
Countless thin transparent tubes pierced into their arms, necks, and even the main blood vessels in their tails, continuously drawing out their dark red blood.
The blood flowed through the tubes into the collection system at the bottom of the container, making a scalp-numbing gurgling sound.
Some mermaids seemed to be unconscious, with their heads hanging lifelessly, allowing their blood to be drawn.
Some of them were still struggling weakly, their tails weakly flapping against the glass wall, making a dull "dong...dong..." sound, their eyes filled with endless pain, fear and despair.
Their scales had lost all their luster, becoming dull and lifeless, and some had even begun to fall off, revealing the pale skin underneath.
Scarlet blood oozed from the puncture point, spreading into ominous pale pink wisps in the dark blue sea.
The entire space was filled with a strong smell of blood and despair, mixed with the smell of disinfectant, forming a disgusting hellish atmosphere.
This is no ordinary fishing boat.
Instead, it is an efficient, cold-blooded, large-scale base for collecting the blood of living mermaids.
Through Cangyu's tear-blurred vision, Wen Yin saw the older mermaid with a purple fish tail, who was their mother.
At this time, she was already lifeless, and the gorgeous scales on her entire tail had been peeled off, revealing the bloody skin underneath.
She just floated silently in the glass container, and could never open her eyes that looked like purple gems and were full of smiles again.
Wen Yin heard a shrill and suppressed whimper of pain coming from her throat, tears rolled down her cheeks, and drops of them fell on the cold floor.
Cangyu turned his tear-soaked eyes and looked at a container in the corner.
Imprisoned inside was none other than Cangli. Cangli's eyes were tightly closed, his face was as pale as paper, and his long, dark blue hair floated like withered waterweed.
The slender needle pierced into his slender arm, and the boy's red blood, which should have been full of vitality, was being ruthlessly extracted.
It seemed to be the unique telepathy between twins. The moment Cangli approached, Cangli's tightly closed eyes suddenly struggled to open a gap.
There was a brief shock in his dim blue eyes. After confirming that the person in front of him was not an illusion, he struggled to give Cangyu a relieved yet resolute smile.
Wen Yin saw Cangli's bloodless thin lips move and said, "Yes."
"Leave me alone and run away."
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