Chapter 169

When Yu Tu returned to the Chongming City Abnormal Affairs Bureau branch via the teleportation array, the entire branch was empty and Song Tu, who had brought him here, had also gone out on a mission.

There was a sticky note on the wall of the room where the teleportation array was located.

[Going on a mission, walk out of the main gate and go 300 meters to the south. There is a signal and you can take a taxi.

PS: Car expenses can be reimbursed. 】

Quite thoughtful.

Yu Tu took the sticky note off the wall, and it turned into a one-time access control card in his hand. The moment he walked out of the door, the access control card turned into tiny spots of light in his hand.

Yu Tu clearly felt as if he had passed through some kind of barrier, and he was not as unaware as Buyehou. He looked back curiously, turned around and tried to enter again, but was blocked by an invisible force.

After satisfying his curiosity, Yu Tu walked three hundred meters to the south and successfully took a taxi back to the teahouse. He first prepared dog food for Xiao Hui and then went to check on Jiao Yue.

Before losing contact with the vest, Yu Tu injected a considerable amount of energy into Jiaoyue's body. These energies were like scissors, slowly cutting the "threads" on Jiaoyue's body. The blood that was artificially attached to her body was being returned to the real owner who committed the sin. When the owner died, the blood would dissipate between heaven and earth. Through the efforts of energy, the densely packed threads on Jiaoyue's body have become much thinner.

Over the past month, Yu Tu and Jiao Yue have established their own unique way of communication. Although Yu Tu cannot drive the energy left in the mermaid skeleton as the Marquis of Buye, he can sense where this energy is used.

Jiaoyue's condition did not get worse. Yu Tu breathed a sigh of relief. He placed Jiaoyue on the counter. Jiaoyue's tail hung down along the edge of the counter, swaying gently. The skeleton's bones became moist after its resentment was reduced, and looked quite cute, like a small and exquisite bone ornament.

Little Gray was still in a bad mood. He had been depressed for more than a month. Apart from practicing his spiritual power and eating a few bites, he would lie on the recliner and watch over the Never-Sleeping Marquis.

Yu Tu picked it up, and Xiao Hui woofed softly. Yu Tu touched its belly, and it was not as plump as before.

"It'll be fine." Yu Tu took a comb and combed Xiao Hui's hair, telling Xiao Hui and himself, "Be patient."

The man and the dog interacted quietly like this. When the dog's hair was combed, Yu Tu heard someone knocking on the door of the teahouse. Even though the person knocking on the door tried his best to restrain himself, he still lost his rhythm and showed his urgency.

Yu Tu used his spiritual power to open the door a crack, and Bai Liming was standing outside the door.

Bai Liming had been wandering outside the teahouse for many days, but no one answered the door no matter how many times he knocked. Today, he went over and knocked with the attitude of giving it a try, but to his surprise, someone actually opened the door.

He was surprised at first, and then he couldn't help but try to push the door open, but... the pattern on the door didn't move.

Bai Liming felt a little embarrassed. He looked at Yu Tu who was standing at the door and said, "Hello, can you open the door for me? I'm looking for the owner."

Yu Tu recognized Bai Liming—the young man who came and knocked on the door late at night on New Year's Day in a thin suit.

Yu Tu asked, "What do you want to see the owner for?"

"I'm sorry, it's not convenient to tell you about my affairs."

Bai Liming's current situation is a bit chaotic. Ever since his grandfather's sudden death, his family has been in trouble. Either the most popular oral liquid of Anxin Pharmaceutical is out of raw materials and has to be completely stopped, or a certain project under the group has been exposed for tax evasion, or a senior executive of the group has been called in for investigation for corruption and bribery, or the rivals have started to add insult to injury and fan the flames of public opinion when they see Anxin Pharmaceutical's frequent troubles...

Although Bai Liming was a cultivated heir, he was still at a loss when he encountered such a big battle that many people would never encounter in their lifetime just a few years after he started out.

His grandfather was wary of his grandmother and never let her get involved in the core business of the group. He just let her be a pampered rich old lady. Therefore, his grandmother had limited understanding of the group and could not help much. His parents died when he was very young, and Bai Liming was left alone, helpless.

To make matters worse, one day after he fell asleep in a daze, he dreamed that he was reading a contract in the office. The pen in his hand turned into a blooming pine branch, but the next second, the flowers withered and the pine branches dried up, emitting an extremely unpleasant stench that woke him up immediately.

He had a bad premonition after waking up, and soon, the premonition came true - he could no longer understand those contracts that were like incomprehensible books, no longer understand the wit in the words, no longer make plans in the midst of laughter, and no longer be able to support the shaky group... It was as if someone had covered his head with an invisible glass cover, and all the sounds that came in were distorted into buzzing, incomprehensible mumblings.

Anxin Pharmaceutical has not yet entered bankruptcy liquidation, and shareholders are not in a commotion, all thanks to his ability to turn the situation around in the crisis, and his performance far exceeding that of an ordinary heir. If he had performed mediocrely, or even worse than an ordinary person... Bai Liming didn't dare to think about what the outcome would be.

When he heard his grandmother tell the story of his great-grandmother before, if he hadn't still had the golden talisman hanging around his neck and hadn't faced that bizarre crisis, he would have thought it was an Arabian Nights fantasy story, but the ending was particularly disgusting and tragic.

He accepted that the huge Anxin Pharmaceutical Group had suffered the consequences of his grandfather's evil deeds, and he also accepted that his great-grandmother would repay the debt with blood.

But his talent was not brought by the group, so why should he be implicated in the consequences?

Bai Liming was at a loss, the only solution he could think of was to ask for help from the owner of the teahouse - things that could not be solved by human power naturally required extraordinary people to solve them.

The group's stock price continued to fall, but he had recently put off many things and wanted to seek a solution from the store owner.

He remembered that the shop owner once said jokingly while they were drinking tea, "When one's pen blooms in dreams, one becomes famous all over the world; when one loses the five-color pen, one's talent fades away," and then added, "Don't take those stories and legends that have been passed down seriously."

When he began to come into contact with mermaids, a being that was incompatible with the real world, he knew that some of the stories and legends passed down might be false, but many of them must be true.

Anyone who can distinguish between truth and falsehood can definitely solve his own problems. At the very least, he will know how to solve the problems.

Maybe the desperate look on his face showed, but Bai Liming heard the young man standing behind the door, who looked like an adult, say:

"You reap what you sow. It's no use looking for the owner."

"But I'm not the direct perpetrator!" It sounded like the person in the door knew something. Bai Liming's voice was slightly raised, and he retorted, "As the descendant of my grandfather, I did enjoy the superior living conditions brought about by his evil deeds, but this was not something I could choose. Could I choose not to be born into their family? I didn't have the right to choose my birth, and I accepted my fate to share the consequences, but you can't just kill them all like this!"

After releasing all the pent-up anger in his heart, Bai Liming suddenly realized that the young man in the door looked at him strangely. The young man seemed to turn his head to look at something, then turned back and looked at him directly: "When you say kill them all, do you mean your disappearing talent?"

When Bai Liming started talking, he was still concerned about the fact that he was on a busy commercial street, so he spoke in a low voice. But after he finished speaking, he found that no one walking on the street was looking in his direction, as if this store and he in front of the store did not exist.

After waiting here for many days, he was tortured by hope and disappointment, worried about losing his talent, and received all kinds of bad messages on his phone. Bai Liming's sanity was on the verge of collapse.

"Yes!" he said loudly, "If my dream is my talent, then it belongs to my soul. What does it have to do with mermaids? Why should it be taken away from me?"

"Do you know that in my dream the pine branches withered and the flowers died———" He obviously couldn't accept it, "I will become an ordinary person!"

He told Yu Tu about his panic through a door and vented his negative emotions, as if all the misfortunes in the world were coming at him like a tidal wave.

Yu Tu turned his head and looked at Jiaoyue again.

The tiny mermaid skeleton sat on the edge of the counter. Her fish tail had stopped swinging, and her empty eye sockets looked towards the direction of the door. However, due to the angle, she could see Bai Liming clearly, but Bai Liming had a hard time seeing her.

“Is it shameful to be ordinary?”

Yu Tu withdrew his gaze. Before, Bai Liming came late at night. His attitude seemed to be reserved and sincere like a young man, but he was still unconsciously arrogant in his politeness. Now his talent was about to disappear. He was like a trapped beast in a strange road, extremely aggressive.

"The vast majority of people in this world are ordinary people, and you are even luckier than many people."

Even if Anxin Pharmaceutical went bankrupt, even if his luxury cars and mansions were auctioned off to pay off his debts, he would only change from a rich kid to an ordinary person who needed to work from nine to five to support himself.

He has a healthy body, handsome looks, and the vision and abilities cultivated by his past life. Even if his abilities are discounted, he can still live an ordinary and stable life.

"You have never been in society, so you don't understand." Bai Liming continued to stretch out his hand and try to open the door. "Please ask the owner to come see me."

"Have you ever resented Jiaoyue?" Yu Tu suddenly asked out of the blue.

Bai Liming's hand froze as he pushed the door open: "Great-grandmother was also a victim."

"I understand." Yu Tu said, "I can fully represent the owner."

Yu Tu put his hand on the door, and the door that Bai Liming couldn't open no matter how hard he tried slowly closed in front of him.

"The owner means, no."

“Crack———”

The carved wooden door closed gently, and the knocking sound was silenced by a soundproofing.

Yu Tu turned his head to look at Jiaoyue. He could feel that the energy wrapped around the mermaid skeleton had changed. The energy that remained near the kinship line had been replenished to other places.

Jiaoyue is indeed a very kind mermaid who has a clear distinction between love and hate.

Jiaoyue did not blame Bai Liming for the beastly things that Bai Licheng did. The reason why Bai Liming's talent became ineffective was because he enjoyed the "happiness" that was built on the flesh and blood of mermaids. Now that happiness has backfired, he must pay back for what he enjoyed before.

Others who have directly or indirectly enjoyed these happiness may have suffered serious illnesses, died in car accidents, or had their lives shortened. Only Bai Liming paid the lightest price.

But heaven and earth, clouds and mud, from being a high and mighty prince who is held in high esteem by everyone, he suddenly falls to become an ordinary person. Even if he says he has nothing, will he really have no resentment in his heart?

His eyes couldn't match his words.

Even if Jiaoyue was the victim, even if Jiaoyue was ripped clean of flesh and blood.

"Children do not have the right to choose their parents." Yu Tu said softly, "Since he is so dissatisfied, give him a chance to choose again."

Everything in this world is conserved.

Jiaoyue is the last mermaid in the world. As compensation, she can give birth to love children with humans, and make her bloodline children smart. There is even a chance that her offspring will be born with unique talents, which can help them suffer less from the hardships of life.

But the compensation given by heaven cannot include the most fickle human heart.

If Jiaoyue cuts off the line of kinship, then the talents brought by blood will naturally leave with the disappearance of blood.

What you wish for is granted.

You reap what you sow.