Chapter 137 Aquarium
Then I was taken to the aquarium.
…Ever since I knew they were planning to take me to check in and see each slice, I felt a little overwhelmed.
This behavior is somewhat similar to hospice care, but most people wouldn't care that much, right?
"Next we're going to see... the mermaids."
I:?
He'd been a mermaid himself, so he wasn't really interested in seeing mermaids at the aquarium. And was he another mermaid? Wouldn't that be a duplicate of Arinea's character?
"It's not what you think."
Shi Qing saw through my thoughts and said, "This aquarium should actually be considered a show venue."
"Does Sangsang know about freak shows?"
I nodded.
Although I didn’t know it in this world, I knew it before.
In some areas, the laws are not very sound and there are no laws to protect disabled people and deformed children. In pursuit of curiosity, many circuses will hire deformed actors to perform.
These deformed actors are regarded as outliers because they are born different from ordinary people, and most of them do not have a good ending.
——But this is a world full of monsters, so freak shows have no competitiveness at all, right?
There are many monsters that are even more deformed than deformed children.
"This is the freak show of the monster world."
Rose-head grabbed my hand. There were still many people on the way to the aquarium. "You can earn points here—just complete the random tasks posted by the aquarium."
…This is the first place I know of where you can earn points besides the casino.
"So which part does the one inside represent this time?"
Shi Qing and Rose Head exchanged a glance, "You'll know the first time you see him."
"But he is also quite special."
"Don't let him bewitched you...otherwise you won't be able to get out."
Shi Qing's expression was unusually serious, which made me extremely curious about the slice inside.
We followed the crowd into the aquarium.
At the beginning, there is a huge underwater tunnel that is completely invisible from the outside - but here it is an infinite flow, so it is normal to have some conventional means.
It was only when I walked in here that I realized what they meant by saying something different than what I was saying.
…There are no normal creatures in this aquarium’s tank.
There were all kinds of deformed creatures and broken limbs.
It's even hard to tell whether it's an ordinary creature or a self-aware monster.
They stuck to the glass or swam and hovered in the water. I even saw an eye the size of my head blink—how do eyelids actually work?!
[…Don’t bother with science at a time like this!!!]
After passing through a long underwater tunnel, we entered a circular space surrounded by huge water tanks. The circular space was about 1,000 square meters, and at the top was an extremely large circular fish tank, which contained...
A piece of fish tail was wagging in the water.
A real fish tail.
The same color fishtail as mine, but darker and longer.
No, huh?
Is this too abstract???
There's only a fish tail. You're not even too lazy to make a head and body for yourself?
How to think, relying solely on the lower half???
My silence was deafening.
I looked at the two people next to me as if asking for help, wanting them to tell me that the one with the tail was not one of my brothers, but Shi Qing and Rose Head turned their heads to look up and down but not at me.
"Welcome to the Carnival Freak Show Aquarium. I'm the curator."
The sound came from the fish tank above. I looked over there expressionlessly. Silver threads like tentacles extended from the tail of the fish, forming an upper body on top of the tail.
It looked like a rough white model of a human figure made with a 3D printing pen.
It's a bit eye-catching.
As he spoke, the huge fish tank began to slowly descend. When it landed on the ground, I realized that it was a huge round ornamental fish tank... It is difficult to describe what kind of mentality it is to put yourself in an ornamental fish tank.
"Here you can admire all kinds of deformed, dirty, bloody, and bizarre things." His tail slapped the glass. "Of course, there are some secret tasks throughout the aquarium. Maybe you can get some small rewards-"
He looked around. The whole space was packed with contestants, all waiting for him to announce the rest of his words.
Then he saw the three of us.
It might not be accurate to look at it, after all, his upper body is completely white and he has no facial features at all.
Then his eyes were fixed on me.
Thank you. It’s been so long, I feel like I’m almost used to this kind of perverted gaze.
"...You guys have to find it on your own. You have one hour to do it. I hope you're lucky enough."
His voice became a little nonchalant, and he swam from the other end of the fish tank to the side near us. After he said that, the crowd around him rushed into other passages.
There were only three of us still standing there.
I don’t know how he communicated, but some people who wanted to stay were pushed out by the staff wearing hoods.
His "hand" was placed on the fish tank, and then a silver thread stretched out from his back, across the water surface, out of the fish tank, and floated in front of me.
Then he tentatively took my hand.
I could feel Rosehead and Shi Qing’s bodies tense up, as if they were on guard against something.
“…Sangsang.”
His voice came, and then the silver thread went up along my hand, pinching here and touching there on my body - although it was a little itchy, it was surprisingly well-behaved.
Not some weird tentacle.
"It's really Sangsang, where's your tail?"
I:……
Now that we were on land, my tail certainly couldn't appear.
"Would you like to come into my fish tank and let's swim together?" He began to twist and turn in the water, the landscaping at the bottom of the tank falling into pieces as his tail swung. I also had a tail like this, so of course I know that it looks fragile, but it actually hurts. "Do you think this place is a bit small? I can open the big aquarium above-"
The silver threads that made up his upper body separated and merged with excitement, causing the silver threads in my hand to move around as well.
You can clearly feel his excitement.
And... my brain is not working well.
Like a little kid.
That’s right, you only use the lower half of your thinking, how smart can you be?
[Host, your swearing is really advanced. ]
"I dream of swimming with Sangsang again."
He slapped his hands on the fish tank, and the huge impact force caused a lot of water in the tank to splash out.
Thinking of what Shi Qing said to me before I came in, I shook my head decisively.
Children are the most troublesome - it is useless to reason with them, and you can only tell them your thoughts in the most straightforward tone, otherwise it will definitely be very troublesome.
"don't want."
The fish tail and the silver thread in my hand both stopped.
"Why?!"
"Why--"
"Why----"
I:……
Why did he go berserk???
More silver threads rushed out of the fish tank. He slapped the tank with even greater force, causing cracks to appear on the tank. The fin on his tail exploded, and bone spurs extended out.
——It looks like an exploded pufferfish, dangerous and a little funny.
Rose Head and Shi Qing attacked at the same time. Rose Head's vines and Shi Qing's knife blocked the surging silver threads. The two cooperated very well.
"Sangsang, there is a hidden mission in the aquarium."
Rose-head still had the energy to turn around and talk to me, "So, if you kill the curator, you'll get 100 points."
I:?
Wait, tell me what this means?!
No, it was so sudden? Hospice care turned directly into just seeing him off to his death???
I know you guys don't have a good relationship, but has it gotten to this point?
"He wants to pull you into the water and fight you."
Shi Qing added as he pulled the silver thread, "That's why he didn't pinch his upper body."
I imagined that scene and felt a little nauseous.
"To put it simply, he's a yandere, toxic guy."
I:……
That's too simple! And don't you know too many words?!
No, huh?
I know you guys are very twisted and toxic, but isn't this a bit too twisted?
"...By the way, his dream is to lock you and him in a fish tank together forever."
"You're not lying to me, are you?"
I finally couldn't hold it in and said it out loud. I felt like I couldn't hold my glasses on anymore.
Surprising and concrete.
"Sangsang, become one with me and we can be together forever~"
"This way no one can hurt you. I will always protect you. I will be better than them all—"
"Choose me!"
"Choose me!"
With the help of the silver thread, Fishtail had climbed to the top of the fish tank. He was climbing from the inside to the outside step by step, and then with a "pop" sound, he fell to the ground outside the fish tank.
Although there were silver threads to help him move, the movement really looked like a stranded fish.
There is also a sense of eating half and releasing the other half.
It's so weird.
I gradually believed what Shi Qing and Rosehead said.
Is it so scary to think with only the lower half of your brain?!
Then he took advantage of Shi Qing and Rose Head being unable to split their attention and rushed towards me. My bone spurs instantly appeared on my hands, and then he swung it up.
It penetrated straight into the cross section of the fish tail.
"Ah...it's Sangsang's spine...Sangsang and I have become one..."
Rose Head and Shi Qing had already rushed up from behind and grabbed the silver threads flying around him, but my hand holding the bone spur didn't shake at all, and I pushed forward bit by bit.
The bone spurs are getting deeper and deeper.
Ice crystals also began to appear on the part touched by the bone spur, and I could feel his vitality fading.
“Sangsang——”
“Sangsang…”
"Brother...become one with me."
"Brother will protect you."
The silver threads struggled desperately to rush towards me, but most of them were stopped by Shi Qing and Rose Head.
In the end, only the first silver thread touched my face.
My bone spur has completely penetrated.
A few drops of water dripped onto my hands.
Did I cry?
I felt a surge of love running down my spine.
That love almost overwhelmed me.
The fishtail is the most important part of the mermaid and the source of his strength, so it is full of his pain and love.
So strong that it made me cry.
Shi Qing was wrong—he didn’t choose to sculpt the upper body in order to merge with me, but the emotions contained in this tail were too terrifying.
No body except his own could bear it.
Even if a body is squeezed out, it will disintegrate in an instant - 'he' will not allow anything else to taint this love... and hatred.
Then the fish tail broke into pieces in front of me and disappeared in front of us.
What a terrifying person the protagonist of this world is. Just the feeling I got from following the bone spurs had such a huge impact on me.
What kind of mood was he in when he cut himself into so many pieces?
…
“Sangsang——”
"Sangsang?"
"Sangsang, are you okay?"
I heard an urgent voice next to my ears, and I seemed to wake up from a dream. Suddenly I realized that Shi Qing and Rosehead were frantically wiping my tears.
It's strange, this wasn't the case when I killed Arinea—
I must have been affected by the emotions left in that fish tail.
So that's not my emotion, that's the protagonist's emotion.
...No wonder the curator acted like that, anyone wouldn't go crazy.
"So what's his name?"
My voice is a little hoarse.
Before I even knew his name, he was gone.
"He didn't give himself a name, we all called him Fishtail," said Rose Head.
I nodded.
It's also reasonable——
After all, he is not even a complete individual, but just a puppet controlled by emotions.
Just like the exhibits at this aquarium, it's like a freak show.
Who cares about their names?
[Xiaoyu, you've been deeply affected. Wake up.]
Veraer's voice rang in my ears.
[Host, everyone needs to use props——]
"Mother's love."
Two crisp slaps hit me on the face.
...Thank you, it’s so clear and so painful.
They are all love attacks, but mother’s love is more real.
I covered my face and thought silently.
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