Chapter 48 The Innocent Fool

Although the cucumber and durian-flavored lollipops made Lu Xing realize in an instant what it means to be able to see gold stars even if he is blind, Lin Xiaodong's usual acting skills are too realistic, he still firmly believes that this is just the taste of the little mermaid. For ordinary people, not Lin Xiaodong deliberately rectifying himself.

Lu Xing calmly took the lollipop out of his mouth and said to Lin Xiaodong, "How long did Gu Xi promise you to come see me?"

Lin Xiaodong: "Twenty minutes."

"Then," the young man said slowly, "do you know why he asked you to come to me?"

Lin Xiaodong shook his head.

But the reason is actually easy to guess. Just by looking at Gu Xi's appearance every morning and returning to check the information, he must be trying to dig out some ways to relieve his drowsiness from Lu Xing, a mermaid.

But Lin Xiaodong didn't think Lu Xing would tell him so easily.

"Although it is slow, the female worm in Gu Xi's body is still growing," Lu Xing said, "You can see that he is normal now, but because he has been with you for a long time and is affected by the mermaid's singing, he has fallen into a temporary incubation period. ."

"Then what if it exploded?"

"What will happen?" Lu Xing's lips curled into a playful arc, "It doesn't really matter."

Before the little mermaid could breathe a sigh of relief, he said slowly and methodically, "It's just that the world will be in chaos."

Lin Xiaodong: "..."

"If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't bully the disabled," he sat blankly in front of Lu Xing and patted his tail impatiently, "I want to slap him with my big tail right now."

System: "Fan it. Anyway, the good man is in hand. I support it."

After the 10008th attempt to contact the headquarters was still unsuccessful, the system finally became Buddhist.

Anyway, there is no supervision and no salary. He is just a weak and helpless part-time job system who just wants to marry a daughter-in-law. Why should he be so conscientious and require the host to be perfect?

Lu Xing didn't know that he was about to be tortured with his tail smearing his face, and he kept chattering: "I heard that my eldest sister has become the speaker, I guess Gu Xi has done a lot of power behind her back? He should I also feel that some things cannot be controlled by human beings, just like the mermaid star that was destroyed at the beginning..."

"Wait a minute," the little mermaid interrupted him suddenly, "what did you just say?"

Lu Xing was stunned for a moment, but he reacted almost instantly.

He frowned tightly and asked, "Didn't he tell you Gu Xi...?"

"Tell me what?" A cold hand grabbed his wrist, and the little mermaid's voice sounded like it was shaking. "You're lying to me again, aren't you?"

It was the youth's silence that answered him.

This was the first time Lu Xing hoped that he was lying to Lin Xiaodong.

But in the end, he just sighed: "I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth."

"You are lying!"

Lin Xiaodong suddenly stood up from his seat and ran out without looking back.

*

Gu Xi has never regretted so much that he agreed to Lu Xing's request.

Although Lu Xing did keep his promise and told him a possible and probably the only solution to Lin Xiaodong's sleepiness problem, the consequences... Gu Xi was unwilling to see it anyway.

Under his repeated instructions, no one brought up the topic of Mermaid Star in front of Lin Xiaodong during this time.

And after they returned from the Rose Nebula, because Lin Xiaodong didn't mention it, the original plan to return to the Mermaid Star was shelved indefinitely.

Although he knew in his heart that this was impossible, Gu Xi still sincerely hoped that, if possible, let the little mermaid live happily ever after.

Even if it has been kept secret all the time, it is better than the miserable pain after knowing the truth.

But he did all the calculations, and still missed the variable Lu Xing.

"Xiaodong, I..."

Gu Xi stood in front of the closed bedroom door, raising and lowering the hand that was about to knock on the door several times.

Since returning from Lu Xing that day, Lin Xiaodong has locked himself in the room for a day and a night.

System: "Guess how long Gu Xi can endure?"

Lin Xiaodong pricked up his ears, heard the movement at the door, and silently hid the bag of potato chips that he had eaten most of the time under the bed.

He said firmly: "Three minutes at most."

But in fact, not long after Lin Xiaodong finished saying this, Gu Xi had already opened the bedroom door with the spare key.

As soon as he pushed the door, he saw the pale-faced little mermaid quietly curled up in the corner, crying silently.

Gu Xi's heart twitched instantly.

He walked to Lin Xiaodong's side in silence, and as soon as he put his hand on the other's shoulder, he heard the little mermaid hugging his knees say in a crying voice, "You, you go..."

"I'm not leaving." Gu Xi whispered.

He stretched out his hand and pulled the little mermaid into his arms forcibly, ignoring the punches and kicks of the person in his arms - but this bit of strength was basically equivalent to tickling for Gu Xi - the movement was a bit rough and wiped away With tears on Lin Xiaodong's face, he lowered his head and kissed his lips fiercely.

Lin Xiaodong stiffened.

It's over, he thought, wouldn't it taste like potato chips?

Due to his guilty conscience, he struggled desperately, but Gu Xi mistakenly thought that he was trying to resist, so the force of the confinement in his hand became heavier.

"If you want to hate," the man didn't let go until he was out of breath after kissing the man in his arms. He stared at the little mermaid's eyes full of water, with a suppressed intense emotion. The voice said, "Then hate me."

"You wouldn't be going through these things if it wasn't for being with me."

He was supposed to be a carefree little mermaid living on the shore of Jialan Lake.

But because of himself, he left his hometown and resolutely followed him when the situation was not clear, helping his compatriots selflessly, ignoring the harm that humans had caused them.

But when peace finally came, the little mermaid lost his only home in this world forever.

While Gu Xi felt pain and guilt because of the various injuries he had brought to Lin Xiaodong, he couldn't control his inner yin/selfish desires/desire - since Lin Xiaodong is now homeless, he should be kept. Beside me, forever and ever.

He didn't have to think about anything, he didn't have to worry about anything.

Just look at yourself as before.

Gu Xi has not realized that his thoughts have been trapped in a paranoid dead end. The scary thing about the female insect is that it can subtly affect people's emotions and thinking. to such subtle changes.

Except for the mermaid.

Lin Xiaodong could clearly feel that the man in front of him was in a wrong state, but he couldn't tell exactly what was wrong.

He didn't care about pretending to cry anymore, wiped the tears with the back of his hands, raised his head, and said to Gu Xi with red eyes, "I don't hate you."

"I'm just thinking, why do people grow up?" the little mermaid said softly, as if asking, but also talking to himself, "Growing up is not fun at all. When I was a child, I had companions and Jialan. The lake, and home, is not a lonely fish, but when I grow up, I will only have you."

Gu Xi's lips moved.

He asked in a faint voice, "Don't you hate me?"

The little mermaid shook his head.

He sniffed hard and stretched out a little finger: "Come and pull the hook, don't be as angry as before."

"You must be fine, because," he pursed his lips and repeated, "I only have you."

Gu Xi stared at him for a long time.

"...don't you agree?"

The man lowered his eyes: "Okay, I promise you."

"-The hook is hanged, and it cannot be changed for a hundred years."

"Ding, good person card +1."

"The task is completed, the initial... rating %&@..., reward points ￥@%..."

"Host 68711 applied to leave this world, trying to connect to the headquarters...&¥d?%..."

"What else to connect," Lin Xiaodong interrupted after listening to the sizzling voice, "I can't connect anyway, stop connecting."

But just when the system was about to give up, it only heard the sound of "di", as if the second vein of Ren and Du was suddenly opened up, and the originally vague voice became clear again in an instant:

"The headquarters has received the host 68711 application."

"Statistics..."

"Task completed, preliminary rating: A, reward points 1500 points."

"Total declared reward points: 2500 points. It has been issued, please check it in the system wallet."

"Host 68711 applied to leave this world...

"Approve the application. The countdown begins, please prepare the host."

Lin Xiaodong: "Uh, your headquarters is finally connected to the Internet?"

The system is also very strange: "Yes, but it is reasonable to say that the disconnection has been so long, at least an explanation should be given."

The unification of one person is confused, and finally unanimously decided to give up thinking.

Lin Xiaodong was very happy: "Tong, I think we have been working together for so long, and our brain circuits have become more and more synchronized."

system:"............"

I don't know why, but it's not happy at all to hear that, thank you.

*

"You want to save him, so far, there is only one way."

"The ancestors of the mermaids have lived by the Jialan Lake for generations. If they leave there, they will only become weaker and weaker, and their spiritual power will gradually wither. There are no exceptions."

"The research institute under the royal family has already analyzed that the essence of female parasitism is to plunder mental power from other parasites. However, these mental powers are not necessarily used by it, and can also be redistributed to any parasite. It's just that once the brain worm in a parasite gets more mental power than the female worm, it will cause the female worm to degenerate and the host to die - you know what I mean?"

Gu Xi stared at the pale young man who rarely showed serious expression in front of him, as if to judge whether he was lying.

But Lu Xing was calm from beginning to end.

In this matter, there is no need for him to lie to Gu Xi again.

The man didn't seem to care about himself at all, just said coldly: "All the stars know that mermaids are the nemesis of brain worms. Even if you didn't lie to me, this method was not feasible from the beginning."

"Of course it is feasible." Lu Xing said softly.

He crossed his fingers and seemed to sigh: "It's just that there is a precondition."

"......what?"

"Starting today, don't let him sing again." Lu Xing said, "The female worm cannot be completely eliminated. Once its parasitic host dies, there will be brain worms in the population that will immediately evolve into new female worms. If the mermaid race has not gone extinct, there may be hope of suppressing them, but now... it can only be said that this country is doomed. However, perhaps there is still a glimmer of hope for humans living in remote star fields?"

He shook his head and laughed.

But there was a bit of coolness and self-deprecation in his voice: "This is probably the mermaid's revenge against humans."

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