59. Night 59: Angry
The room was very quiet. Lu Xi didn't say anything, perhaps because she didn't know how to start or where to begin.
But time was running out. She took a deep breath and asked, "Did you know there's a group of people who aren't poachers, but they've captured some humans for experiments?"
Lu Xi got straight to the point.
The merman frowned, "Ms. Lu Xi..."
"Do you know?"
The mermaid was silent for a moment, "I don't know."
"You're lying." Lu Xi interrupted him.
"It's not time for me to be replaced yet, right?" The merman looked at Lu Xi and said calmly, "Did Miss Lu Xi drug me?"
"I must clarify this matter."
Miss Lu Xi, do you think I was the one who ordered this?"
"They recognize you."
The mermaid didn't say anything else, just sat quietly on the bed.
"Asante, did you do this?"
The merman still didn't say anything, and Lu Xi's face turned ugly. The more he was like this, the more it showed that he was involved in this matter.
"Did you do this? Answer me."
He twitched his lips and turned his head away. "I ordered it."
Hearing this, Lu Xi's eyes suddenly widened.
"Why." Lu Xi couldn't believe it. Before this, she didn't believe that he would do such a thing. What went wrong?
"What does Miss Lu Xi think?"
"I don't know." Lu Xi clenched her fingers. Thinking of the scene she had seen, those people trapped in the transparent box, Lu Xi's face turned ugly. "Asent, tell me why you did those things."
"There's no reason, because I hate humans." A hoarse laugh rolled out of his chest, "Why did Miss Lu Xi abandon me? Why did you come so late? If you had come back earlier..."
With a "pop", the mermaid's face tilted to one side.
Lu Xi was furious. His palms were red, swollen and trembling after slapping the merman. He looked at the merman as if he were a stranger. "Asent, what are you talking about?"
His head tilted to one side, his hair covering his eyes in disarray. After a long time, he turned his head back. He reached out his hand, groped for it, and held Lu Xi's trembling hand, rubbing it. "Miss Lu Xi, does it hurt?"
"Don't touch me." She shook her hand away.
"Asente, why are you like this?"
The mermaid maintained the posture of being thrown away, looking a little embarrassed. After a while, he took out something from the bedside drawer. It was a silver whip made of unknown material, with a cold metallic luster.
"If you don't want to touch me, then use this to punish me." He stuffed the whip into her hand, "If it can make you feel better..."
Lu Xi didn't have time to think about why he hid this thing. With a "snap", the whip fell heavily on the boy, leaving a blood mark. Lu Xi looked at the blood mark and hesitated. After all, she still felt sorry for him.
But she gritted her teeth and took a second swipe.
Even if he is the target of the mission, it does not mean that he can use humans for experiments without any bottom line. Why can he do such a thing?
"Hmm..." He bit his lip and let out a muffled groan.
"Snap—slap—" The whips hit him one after another, and soon many whip marks appeared on the boy's body. He endured it silently. Lu Xi was determined to teach him a lesson this time, and no one knew how disappointed she was.
"Um...Miss Lu...Xi..." Every time the whip fell, the boy's body trembled slightly, as if he was in great pain.
His hands tightly grasped the quilt beneath him, without any struggle. In the dim room, only the whipping and low panting continued for a long time.
"Miss Lu Xi... try harder..."
Later, Lu Xi threw the whip on the bed and was about to leave the room, but was suddenly hugged by someone and fell backwards onto the bed.
To be precise, she fell on the mermaid.
"Are you relieved, Miss Lu Xi?" He restrained her with his arms and buried his face in her shoulder. Lu Xi smelled a strong smell of blood.
Lu Xi didn't say anything and tried to break free from his grip.
"Are you still angry, Miss Lu Xi?"
"Asent, let me go." She gritted her teeth.
"No." The merman seemed not to hear her and still held her tightly.
"Ascent, let go."
The mermaid felt a stinging pain in his fingers and was forced to let go. Some purple electric light flashed on Lu Xi's hand, and she successfully broke free from his embrace. After getting up from the bed, she fled the room without even looking at him.
When the mermaid woke up the next day, he had changed back into another personality.
There were many scars on his body for no apparent reason, but he did not deal with them. He just felt that Lu Xi was in a low mood, so he put a piece of cake in front of her. Lu Xi, who was in a daze, looked up, and the mermaid's expression was clear and clean.
"Ms. Lu Xi, have you figured things out?" asked the mermaid.
It turns out he knew that something was added to the glass of milk yesterday.
“…” Lu Xi still couldn’t accept what happened last night.
He pushed the cake in front of her, as if he wanted to comfort her with the dessert. Lu Xi saw the wound on his wrist that was accidentally exposed, and she felt guilty. It was obviously none of his business, but because he used the same body, he was forced to bear the punishment. It was too unfair for this personality.
"Sit down. I'll get the medicine box."
Lu Xiqi looked for the medicine box to apply medicine for him, but she didn't know that he could heal this kind of injury by himself with a little effort.
Since when did he become so cunning? But if he wasn't like this, Miss Lu Xi wouldn't even look at him.
"Does it hurt?" She applied the ointment carefully.
She was shocked by the scars. The light was too dim last night and she couldn't see clearly. If she had seen how hard she hit him, she wouldn't have hit him so many times. Why didn't he cry out in pain at that time?
"Yeah, it hurts."
Lu Xi felt even more guilty, "I'll go to the hospital to get some medicine later."
After that, Lu Xi avoided the mermaid for many days. Even though she knew it was not the same personality, whenever she saw that face, she would always recall the scene of the interrogation and whipping that night.
"Ding-ling-ling——" The cell phone rang. It was Ji Qiuhu calling.
"I've thoroughly investigated this gang. Here's some information that's a little different from what you described. Would you like to take a look?"
"Okay, I'll be there right away." Lu Xi felt a little uneasy.
Lu Xi appeared in Yuanshi Building twenty minutes later. Ji Qiuhu was sitting behind his desk, supporting his chin with one hand.
"It's on the table. See for yourself."
Lu Xi opened the paper bag in front of her. Inside was the information about the gang secretly founded by the mermaids. The more she read, the stranger her expression became, because the facts were not only different from what Lu Xi thought, but completely different.
"The humans in this lab were all rescued from poachers, and the experiment is to revive them," said Ji Qiuhu.
Lu Xi was surprised. She didn't expect such a reversal. She read the information over and over again before she was sure that Ji Qiuhu was not lying.
"I misunderstood at first because they were being too secretive. But the reason they were so secretive was because they were worried about being discovered by poachers." Ji Qiuhu held his chin. "It seems that personality is quite thoughtful."
After Lu Xi finished reading the information, his expression was not very good.
"So...I blamed him wrongly?"
Ji Qiuhu raised his eyebrows, "What did you say to him that day?"
What did they say? Lu Xi couldn't remember clearly. She said a lot, but none of it was nice. She even beat him up.
Lu Xi remained silent, not daring to tell Ji Qiuhu the truth. She was afraid that after she told it, she might not have the chance to see the mermaid again.
"Will there be any side effects if I use that medicine again?"
Lu Xi didn't expect that giving the mermaid medicine again would be so quick. He took the milk she gave him and drank it all.
"Ms. Lu Xi, can you tell me a story?"
"Yeah." She looked up at him.
The mermaid lowered her eyes and looked at her, "Just like when we were little."
His face showed the innocence of a young boy, which overlapped with the paleness on the boy's face that day. Lu Xi felt guilty.
"good."
Lu Xi followed him upstairs and sat beside the boy's bed. She searched for a fairy tale on her phone and began to read along.
"A long time ago, in..."
The soft voice was very peaceful and calming, and it seemed to have a soothing effect on people's hearts. Perhaps the drug was taking effect, and the boy gradually became unable to open his eyes.
"Ms. Lu Xi..." His eyes were half closed.
"Hmm?" Lu Xi stopped.
"I... like you..." His voice was unclear. Lu Xi was sure that the medicine had taken effect, and his half-closed eyes slowly closed.
"Good night." She put down her phone.
Lu Xi sat like this for a long time, so long that people thought the boy would never wake up again, but she still kept her back straight.
"Hmm..." A slight groan was heard.
Under the dim night light, the young man who was originally asleep on the bed slowly woke up, but he did not move after opening his eyes.
"Are you awake?" Lu Xi said.
"Yeah." His voice was hoarse from just waking up.
"Would you like some water?"
She stood up to pour him some water, but was grabbed by a hand. He was lying on the bed, and even though he couldn't see her, he insisted on looking at her.
Such silence made her think that there was no personality swap, but some subtle expressions allowed her to distinguish the two people.
"Why didn't you tell the truth that day?" Lu Xi asked.
His eyelashes trembled and his lips were tightly pursed.
"Ji Qiuhu investigated this organization. The humans imprisoned there are all victims of demon poachers. Why don't you tell us?"
Thinking about how he had beaten him that day and said some very hurtful words, Lu Xi felt distressed and a little angry at the same time.
He should have told her the truth, but she was so suspicious of him at the time that even if he explained, she might have thought it was an excuse.
"That organization originally intended to conduct experiments on humans," the mermaid said. "The goal of their experiments was to resurrect the dead."
How is it possible to resurrect the dead? And why do mermaids want to resurrect the dead? The answer is obvious.
"Then what happened? Why did it change?"
Why did he change? Because he was afraid that Miss Lu Xi would be angry when she woke up. He was afraid that she would never want to look at him again after knowing what he had done. So, he had a purpose in saving these people. He had anticipated this situation a long time ago.
Even though he was experimenting on dead people, his methods were not clean. Even though the truth had passed, he was still afraid that one day she would find out, so he deliberately angered her that day and let her beat him up, so that when she found out the truth, she would at least feel a little guilty.
Just like now, his goal has been achieved.
"Because I don't want to make Miss Lu Xi angry."
After his personality was transformed by the drug, his body felt very weak. The mermaid held Lu Xi's hand again, feeling her equally cold temperature. She had not been resurrected yet, but he did not dare to do those things again.
"I won't do those things again."
Lu Xi did not refuse. He put his face on her hands and said, "Even without them, I can revive Miss Lu Xi. I promise you."
Lu Xi softened her heart, but she didn't say it.
She noticed that the boy was beginning to feel sleepy. The effect of the medicine was just as Ji Qiuhu said, it was short-lived. "Go to sleep. You're sleepy."
The mermaid didn't feel very well when she woke up the next day. It might be due to the effects of the medicine. She was listless even when eating breakfast.
"Are you very sleepy?" Lu Xi looked at him.
"Um……"
"Eat later and then go back to sleep."
Lu Xi's concern did not make Jiao Ren happy. He even pursed his lips, frowned and said, "What did you talk about last night?"
"Huh?" Lu Xi didn't expect him to ask.
"Does Miss Lu Xi like him more?"
"Puff..." She almost spit out a mouthful of milk and said in surprise, "Ahem, what are you talking about?"
"Otherwise, why do you always call him out? Is he more important than me?" He asked her seriously with a serious face.
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