2. Night 2: Becoming Stronger
"How do you know it's impossible if you don't try?"
"I can't do it, I can't do it..." He hugged himself in self-abandonment, his emotions vaguely beginning to get out of control again.
Lu Xi looked at him sternly, and suddenly, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. She turned around, opened the cabinet and took out something.
"Then you go down and keep them company."
The little mermaid looked at the scissors thrown on his blanket in shock. He thought she would persuade him and comfort him like they did.
But she didn't, she even told him to die.
She approached him, her face aggressive.
"Since there's nothing I can do, I might as well die. At least then I don't have to do anything and won't be in pain anymore, right?"
The little mermaid picked up the scissors tremblingly, his eyes turned red. Yes, since he could do nothing, why not go to accompany them? What's the point of living alone in the world?
With trembling hands, she gripped the scissors tightly and pointed them at his throat. As long as she stabbed it hard, he would no longer feel pain.
However--
"Snap." The scissors fell to the smooth ground.
The little mermaid covered his face and cried bitterly. He could neither protect his family nor commit suicide. He could do nothing.
Why, why is he so useless...
Lu Xi saw the scissors fall to the ground, kicked it away without leaving a trace, and just as he was about to use his spiritual power, he quietly dissolved it.
She didn't really want to force him to die.
Lu Xi tried to push the food in front of him. The freshly baked cake exuded a sweet aroma. He grabbed a piece and stuffed it into his mouth tremblingly. His mouth was full of cream and tears fell.
Tears turned into pearls and fell to the ground with a "crackling" sound. He ate voraciously, his whole body shaking violently.
"Eat slowly." Lu Xi scraped the cream off the corner of his mouth with her fingers.
The little mermaid whimpered softly, his face red from crying. Suddenly he stopped eating, and his hoarse voice broke into a tiny sound.
"Why do you think it tastes good..."
Why did he feel that the food in his mouth was delicious even though he was clearly in pain? Why was he happy to eat the food even though all his tribesmen had died and he was the only one left?
Lu Xi was stunned, and then his expression softened a lot.
He is just a child after all...
"Since you can't die, then struggle."
Struggling to survive in this cruel world is like a fish thirsting for oxygen, until the day when life disappears.
"No one lives without fatigue," she said. "You must live with the lives of your people on your shoulders. This is your future mission."
The little mermaid's crying became weaker and he looked at her in a daze. The woman in the black dress looked like a witch from hell.
She told him that if he didn't want to die, he had to keep struggling.
Carrying the lives of my people, I struggle on...
…
The next day, Lu Xi came to see the mermaid again.
She made breakfast herself, but there was no response after knocking on the door several times. She opened the door and found the room empty.
I put breakfast on the table and walked out to the balcony. There was a large swimming pool outside the balcony. The sun had already risen, and the sunlight reflected on the water surface, making people's eyes sore and painful.
Lu Xi glanced around the swimming pool and was about to turn around and go somewhere else when he suddenly heard a sound of water breaking behind him.
A figure jumped out of the water, with sharp claws aimed at Lu Xi's throat, but before it touched her, the woman casually raised her hand, grabbed a slender arm, and threw her over the shoulder.
The little mermaid fell heavily on the smooth floor and screamed in pain. Lu Xi then turned around and looked at him. The beautiful little mermaid was lying on the ground. Only then did Lu Xi see that he had no ears. His translucent fins were hidden among his short silver-blue hair. His silver-blue tail was exposed to the sun, and each scale glowed like a diamond.
According to legend, mermaids possess irresistible beauty and songs that can make people lose themselves in the sea. Lu Xi used to think that this was exaggerated, but now she believes it. She is so beautiful even as a child, it is hard to imagine what she will look like when she grows up.
Even the scars on her body cannot hide her beauty.
The little mermaid thought Lu Xi would be angry, but she just smiled and said, "What a special way of greeting."
She lifted him up from the ground, walked into the room and threw him on the table, "Eat quickly. After breakfast, I want to check your wound."
The little mermaid didn't know if she was really not angry, or if she planned to punish him later, so he looked at her with vigilance.
Lu Xi: "You only have ten minutes."
The little mermaid was stunned for a moment, then looked down at the food on the table. The aroma of the food stimulated his taste buds, and he picked up the sandwich and started eating.
Although mermaids live in the sea and usually only eat marine plants and creatures, the mermaids themselves are omnivores. Their stomachs are very strong and can adapt to all kinds of food, including human food.
"What's your name?" Lu Xi asked.
After a moment, he replied awkwardly: "Asent..."
"My name is Lu Xi, you can call me Miss Lu Xi."
Arsenal knew the Lu family. Probably no demon tribe didn't know the Lu family. They had been servants of the demon tribe for generations. Arsenal's parents had told him that he would go with the Lu family in the future. Only the cubs raised by them would become the masters of the entire demon tribe.
Arsenal said nothing more, just lowered his head and ate his sandwich.
"The tragedy that befell the mermaid clan is an irreversible fact. The Yuan family will help you investigate and handle the remaining issues. Whether there is a result or not is beyond your control. You should know that I am not an enemy. I think you know what to do."
Assente was a smart cub. He was just blinded by sadness for a moment. He knew that it was meaningless to attack people randomly. Only by finding the real murderer could he avenge his people.
But this time the blow to him was really too great.
He could do nothing about the mermaids. He was too weak and could only watch them die.
The calm little mermaid was a little beyond Lu Xi's expectations. His temperament changed drastically. His previous irritability was swept away, replaced by a calmness comparable to that of an adult.
This kind of temperament was something she had found in the children she had successfully nurtured in the past, and it was something that only very few children possessed.
"I want to become stronger." He said solemnly, clenching his fists.
Assente hated the enemies who killed his people. He wanted to become stronger and avenge them. This was his only thought in life.
Lu Xi sympathized with the little mermaid's life experience. Perhaps if it were someone else, they would advise him to let go of his hatred and live a good life, but Lu Xi did not think this was the best. Even if there was no mission, she did not want him to be powerless. This world was very cruel.
There's no guarantee that no one will come to hurt him again.
Only by becoming stronger can you protect yourself.
"If you want to become stronger, you have to listen to me." Under the scorching gaze of the mermaid, she pointed at the unfinished sandwich and said, "Now, you have five minutes left. Finish your breakfast."
Arsenal pursed his lips and continued eating his sandwich.
…
After breakfast, Lu Xi examined his wound. The little mermaid had healed faster than she had expected. Even though the information about the mermaids mentioned the ability of the demon race to recover, the bloody wound that had been so hideous just two days ago was almost healed today. Seeing it in person still made her sigh in admiration. It was much stronger than the humans she had previously led. A human would have taken at least two weeks to recover.
Next, Lu Xi arranged courses for each child. As a qualified heir and housekeeper, she tailored the children's schedules and invited the best teachers to teach.
She did not let these cubs interact with each other. The cubs who had just left their families tended to have more negative emotions, so she let them adapt for a while. What made Lu Xi happy was that the little mermaid was praised the most by the teacher because he had the strongest learning ability.
That day, after Lu Xi asked the maid to take back the dried clothes, he closed his eyes and sensed for a moment, then walked towards the garden.
Walking to the depths of the lush garden, she saw a figure sitting up in a wheelchair not far away. Ascent seemed to want to pick a flower far inside, and he stood on tiptoe and stretched out his trembling fingers.
But then, he fell into the flowers along with his wheelchair.
She hurried over and helped him up. He was covered with wounds from the thorns and his clothes were torn with many bloody holes.
But he seemed unaware and looked down at his hands.
"This flower is the most beautiful one here."
But now, the petals had been crushed, no longer showing their former beauty, and the oozing flower juice had stained his hands red.
"Am I useless?" he said dejectedly.
Lu Xi squatted in front of him, brushed off the dirt and leaves on his body, and carefully picked off the small sharp thorns that pricked his skin. The branches of flowers here are all thorny, and it would be uncomfortable to fall into the flowers.
Assente looked at the broken flower in his hand. He couldn't even stand up to pick a flower, so how could he avenge his people?
Lu Xi looked at the depressed little mermaid. She glanced at the flowers around her, turned around, picked a flower and placed it in front of Arsenal.
The blood-red petals were tender and juicy. Arsenal looked up along the slender white fingertips and saw Lu Xi's face, which was more beautiful than the flowers.
Arsente took it and held it tightly in his hand.
“Now, it’s the most beautiful.”
The flower just now has been ruined, and this one has become the most beautiful flower.
Arsente was stunned for a moment, then pursed his lips and said, "Yeah."
Lu Xi pushed Arsenal back into the room. He still looked a little depressed until Lu Xi unbuttoned his shirt.
"What are you doing?" He grabbed the collar of his clothes.
"Your clothes are torn and you are dirty."
Arsenal looked at his dirty clothes and the bloodstains on them, then slowly let go and let her take off her clothes.
She took the flower from her hand and put it in a transparent glass bottle filled with water. The sunlight from the window shone on the petals.
Lu Xi took off his clothes. She had been taking care of the little mermaid during this period, and he had become less wary of her.
"Have you found any clues about the mermaids?" Asent asked with his head down. This was the question he asked most recently.
He was anxious to know the results of the investigation.
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