1. Night 1: Mermaid
The weather in Ancheng is changeable in summer. It was sunny in the first half of the day, but now there were lightning and thunder, and heavy rain was falling outside the window.
Many people were walking on the street holding umbrellas. The lights of the tall buildings and supermarkets on the roadside were on, and the city looked like it was at night.
In a moving black car, Lu Xi was flipping through the information in his hand, which contained information about several children.
However, she did not read much of this information, because it was not as detailed as the systematic information in her mind, and she only focused on one of the children, who was the object of her mission in this world.
Lu Xi is a clergyman of the Quick Travel Department. He has worked diligently for many years and is about to retire.
—Binding to the Successor Training System, completing the missions in ten worlds. This was her last job, and her superiors had no performance requirements for her this time. It was a buffer period given to employees about to retire, and even if she completed it with imperfections, no one would pursue it.
But as the best employee in the department, how could Lu Xi let her career be tarnished? With her hard work, she has successfully completed nine worlds. As long as she completes the last world, she can retire with honor.
The "Heir Training System" is just as the name suggests, it is to train heirs. Some of Lu Xi's previous mission targets eventually became emperors, some became company bosses, and some became famous generals.
And now, she is going to meet the target person this time.
After driving for a while, the car stopped in front of a very large villa. Lu Xi got out of the car with an umbrella. She did not go to see the child directly. She changed her clothes first. She wore a pure black conservative long skirt and tied her hair behind her head. She looked restrained and serious.
She wore a pendant with an intricate pattern on her chest. She stood in front of a full-length mirror, fixing her appearance. She glanced down at her watch before letting the maid take her to see the child. The house was very large, and she followed the maid for several minutes before reaching the child's room.
The lights were on in the room, and in the bright room sat a little boy, eight years old, in a wheelchair. He was very beautiful, with skin so white it was almost transparent and hair that was pure silver-blue. But his condition did not look good. His forehead was wrapped in bloody gauze, his eyes were gray and dull, and a blanket was covering his legs.
Lu Xi looked at him at the door and raised her foot to go over.
"Don't go, he'll hurt someone." The maid warned, "The wound was cleaned while he was unconscious, and he refused to let anyone get close to him."
Lu Xi smiled and said, "It's okay."
She walked in front of him, and a pair of high heels appeared in the boy's sight. He slowly raised his face and looked at her face with a smile on her lips. For many children, such a smile can make them let down their guard.
However, as soon as Lu Xi approached him, he was scratched by claws.
The maid behind him screamed in fright, but Lu Xi didn't even raise his eyelids and directly grabbed his thin wrist.
The other hand yanked the blanket off his legs.
After the blanket fell to the ground, a silver-blue fish tail, the same color as his hair, suddenly appeared in front of her. The fish tail was very beautiful, but it was stained with blood and covered with crisscrossing scars.
That’s right, Lu Xi’s mission target this time is a mermaid.
This world is very similar to the 21st century that Lu Xi had visited before. People live in a technological age built of cement and steel. Most people only believe in science, but they don’t know that in the corner of this world, there is a special race hidden - the demon race.
People only know that the "Yuan" family is the richest family in the world, but they don't know that this title is the cloak of the demon clan in the human world.
The Lu family, where Lu Xi's body is located, are apparently old friends with the Yuan family, but in fact they are servants of the demon clan. Due to the connection between their ancestors and the demon clan, they are responsible for training the heirs of the demon clan.
Today is Lu Xi’s first day of appointment.
As the newly appointed housekeeper, in the coming days, she will train five demon cubs, select the best one from them, and compete with the cubs in the hands of other housekeepers. Only the most outstanding demon can become the final heir of the Yuan family.
The mermaid in front of Lu Xi was originally planned to come half a year later, but just a day ago, the mermaid clan was exterminated for no reason. His parents sent him away with a secret treasure, allowing him to escape. However, judging from his injured appearance, he must have suffered a lot this time.
"Let me go." He struggled violently.
The little mermaid fell heavily to the ground. One of his hands was grabbed by Lu Xi, and he stretched out his other hand to try to continue attacking Lu Xi.
Lu Xi's eyes flashed, and a soft white light appeared on her body. The mermaid's claws pierced her body, and it was like sinking into a quagmire, unable to move forward at all. The excessive force made his face flush red.
Soon, he was bounced back and fell to the ground.
"Miss Lu Xi, are you okay?" The maid ran over.
Lu Xi shook her head. "It's okay. Don't come near."
The maid looked at Lu Xi with longing. Some members of the Lu family had spiritual talents, and Lu Xi was one of them. Only people with spiritual talents could control the demon cubs and become a qualified housekeeper. The maid did not have spiritual talents.
Lu Xi walked up to him in high heels, looked down at him, and said in a light tone: "Have you had enough of the trouble?"
The little mermaid was lying on the ground in a mess, his hands clenched into fists. He raised his head, and his angry red eyes were revealed from between his shiny silver-blue hair. He glared at Lu Xi with gritted teeth.
He tried to attack Lu Xi again, but without legs, he was like a fish at the mercy of others on the shore. He slipped again and again and couldn't get up at all, and his injuries became even worse.
“Hehe… Hehehe…” Although his injuries were getting worse, he suddenly laughed out loud, and the strange laughter echoed in the room.
Lu Xi frowned, he was afraid that he was crazy.
The little mermaid was like a hedgehog covered in thorns, attacking anyone who came close to him, but his physical strength was not inexhaustible. When he was exhausted, Lu Xi walked over and easily picked him up.
"What are you going to do?" He glared at her viciously.
He tried to struggle, but the struggle and injuries he had sustained had almost drained him of all his strength, so he could only let her carry him to the bed. Lu Xi threw him on the bed and removed the loose, bleeding bandage on his forehead, revealing a bloody wound.
She ignored his hateful gaze and asked the maid to bring the medicine and reapply it to his wound. The little mermaid had no way to resist and could only let her do as she pleased until she had treated the wound on his forehead.
Lu Xi squeezed the ointment onto her hand and was about to apply it on the silver-blue fishtail, but the little mermaid suddenly struggled violently again.
"Don't touch me. Get away."
His struggle was in vain. Lu Xi applied the ointment on his wound and narrowed his eyes slightly. "Don't be so willful anymore."
Her patience was limited. "Think about your dead tribesmen. They didn't send you here to let you throw a tantrum."
The secret treasure that the mermaid clan used to save him was the teleporter given to the mermaid clan by his family. It was originally intended to be used half a year later to send him here, but no one expected that he would use it to escape.
Lu Xi originally meant to tell him to stop messing around, but he sensitively grasped another message in her words.
"You're talking nonsense. They're not dead. Not dead."
"I'm not talking nonsense," she said coldly. "The Yuan family has already sent demons to investigate, and no one from the merman tribe has survived."
"You're lying, you're cheating." He was so angry that his eyes were red. "They are all alive and well, father, mother..."
"The sea was dyed red with blood. Your people were all torn to pieces. Their remains floated in the sea, swarmed by other fish to be eaten. This is the mermaid clan, known as the overlord of the sea. Their former glory is now just history."
"You're talking nonsense. I won't listen. Get out of here." He became more and more agitated, and the bandage he had just tied began to bleed again.
But Lu Xi wanted him to face reality. She pinched his face and continued cruelly: "Listen, they are all dead. I have the video that was sent back. Do you want to see it?"
"No, you're lying to me, you're lying to me..."
Although the little mermaid refuted, her empty eyes were filled with despair, her voice was torn and hoarse, tears gathered in her eye sockets, slid down from the corners of her eyes, rolled to the ground and turned into pearls, making a crisp sound.
It was the first time Lu Xi saw a mermaid shedding tears that turned into pearls.
Lu Xi knew that he actually knew everything in his heart, but he just couldn't accept the reality for the time being. Not to mention that he was just a child, even an adult with strong mental qualities could not withstand such a blow.
She sighed and suddenly leaned over and hugged him.
The frail little body trembled violently in her arms. She said, "You have no choice but to become stronger. Only when you stand at the top of the demon clan can you protect yourself and everything you care about."
The genocide of the mermaids was not accidental. In fact, although the various demon tribes lived in harmony on the surface, they had been fighting openly and secretly. The one who destroyed the mermaids was also a member of the demon tribe.
The little mermaid's eyes were vague and unfocused, and her thin body stiffened slightly. She stopped shaking violently, as if she had heard what was said.
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"Why, you don't want to eat?" Lu Xi looked at the closed door and said to the maid, "I see, go ahead and do your work."
Lu Xi opened the door of the room. The curtains in the room were almost all drawn, with only a small gap letting in light, so it was not completely dark.
She saw a small figure sitting in a wheelchair, a blanket covering his lower body. His silver-blue eyes were half-closed, and he was holding a bouquet of flowers taken from the vase in one hand. With the other hand, he grabbed the beautiful petals and crushed them without mercy, causing many petals to fall to the ground.
He didn't seem to notice Lu Xi coming in, or perhaps he pretended not to see it and continued to destroy the originally beautiful and bright bouquet.
"What are you doing?" She walked over and snatched the bouquet.
"Give it back to me." He glared at her darkly.
"I thought you already knew what you should do."
"It's useless." He muttered absentmindedly, "I have no power at all. I can't do anything, I can't protect anything."
The little mermaid was filled with negative emotions, and these negative energies were so dense that they almost solidified into substance and completely devoured him.
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