13. Night 13: Disappearance
The maid changed his direction and led him to the garden. Assente looked at the bright red flowers and thought of Lu Xi. This garden was taken care of by Lu Xi in the past. She had said two days ago that she planned to trim the branches in a few days so that it would look better.
"Where are the scissors?" Assente suddenly said.
"Scissors? Are they for gardening?" The maid noticed that the mermaid's eyes were fixed on the lush branches and leaves.
"Um."
The maid found a pair of scissors for him. In the maid's eyes, the beautiful little mermaid stroked the scissors in her hand, as if stroking a beloved object, and lowered her head to sniff the scent on them. She thought the scene was strange, but soon the little mermaid stopped, held the scissors and began to trim the branches and leaves, as if what just happened was just an illusion.
“Crack, crack—”
Arsente tried hard to imitate the way he saw Lu Xi pruning by the window. He cut off branches and leaves one by one, but he felt something was wrong. Nothing looked good. He gritted his teeth and continued pruning, but at the end he found a dent in the ground and it looked completely ugly.
"I don't want to cut anymore." He threw the scissors to the ground.
In the eyes of the maid behind him, the little mermaid was surrounded by a gloomy atmosphere, with his head lowered and his body trembling slightly.
That night Arsenal went to bed early, too early for Luman to tell him a story, but his sleep was not good.
He had a long, intermittent dream. He dreamed of his people being killed, and the glaring blood dyed the entire sea red. He dreamed that his mother teleported him away, but failed. Just when he was about to be killed, a slender figure appeared and blocked the fatal blow for him.
He watched helplessly as her body was shattered and merged with the blood of her people, never to be found again.
"Ms. Lu Xi, no, no..."
Arsenal woke up from his dream panting, gasping for breath for a long time with his eyes open in the night before he realized that it was just a nightmare. However, the dream was still terrifyingly clear, and the heart-wrenching fear in the dream still remained in his body. He didn't dare to close his eyes.
The dark environment frightened him. He looked at the wheelchair beside the bed, struggled to climb up, turned the wheelchair over and turned on the light. With a "click", the whole room became bright.
Only then did he calm down a little.
"This looks like Miss Lu Xi's clothes?"
"She probably forgot to bring it. Put it away for her first."
"Then I'll put it in her room."
Assente went to bed so early that he woke up from a dream. The maids were still asleep. He opened the door and saw them standing not far away. One of the maids opened the door of the room and went in.
Arsente waited until they left before going out.
Lu Xi's room was locked before, but it became empty after she left. Asente opened the door and was greeted by a familiar breath that made him tremble. He went in and closed the door carefully.
The room was filled with Lu Xi's scent. His tense nerves gradually relaxed. His eyes fell on the neatly folded quilt on the bed, on which lay a black long skirt, the skirt she usually wore. He turned his wheelchair over and gently placed his hand on it.
Carefully lifting up her skirt, she buried her face in the fabric, absorbing the unique body fragrance that remained.
Her scent reassured him.
"Ms. Lu Xi..."
"Where are you……"
"I want to see you. I want to see you."
He kept muttering to himself.
…
When Lu Xi received the call that the mermaid was missing, it was the third day after she returned to her previous residence. As Lu's assistant, she was paid, and it was not a small amount. She bought a house in Ancheng.
I had just returned and lived there for a day, and was still adjusting to the sudden free time when I unexpectedly received a call from the villa.
——The mermaid is missing.
It was an unexpected accident. After checking the surveillance footage, they found that the little mermaid opened the gate of the villa in a wheelchair in the middle of the night. He used the special abilities of the mermaid tribe to control the security guard to open the gate for him.
After that, he disappeared.
"Calm down first and don't be anxious." Lu Xi said.
"How can I not be anxious?"
Lu Man didn't expect this to happen. She thought the little mermaid would just be depressed for a few days and then it would be over. She didn't expect him to run away. Something like this was more serious than Lu Xi's concealment.
The demon cubs cannot be discovered by the outside world. If ordinary humans see the little mermaids, no one knows what will happen.
"I doubt he wants to find you."
"Looking for me?"
"You don't know how he was the past two days. He kept wanting you to come back. I thought he had given up, but unexpectedly..." Lu Man felt a little regretful. She should have kept a close eye on him. "Although you are not responsible for this matter, I am sorry to trouble you, but I hope you can help me look for him, just... just because he is so reluctant to let you go."
"I understand." Lu Xi took a deep breath.
Lu Xi knew the seriousness of the matter. The existence of the demon race could not be known to ordinary humans. Human curiosity was terrifying. It could be seen from the fact that they had been conducting various studies on any clues they had found over the years. The little mermaid was likely to be sent for research.
Some were even sent to the operating table for anatomical research.
Even if Lu Man didn't ask her for help, she would still look for him. What's more, he was the target of her mission, and nothing could happen to him.
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