Her Tentacles 58

Chapter 58: The Mermaid

In the end, Shu Yao punished the little octopus with three hours of no food.

In fact, it was also just the right amount of time for her to rest. She didn’t know if it was because she was easily tired during her period, or if the abilities of these parasites had evolved to become more and more tricky and difficult to deal with recently, but she was a little overwhelmed by such high-intensity work. So she had the flower fish park the mission car on a less-traveled roadside, and took a nap in the car with the window open.

As she fell asleep.

The little octopus, which had been listless and seemed to have been really punished by her, drooped its ears and curled up by her hand. Until the flower fish came over in a flurry with a beef pancake he had bought from a nearby snack street, wanting to share it with her—

The little octopus immediately perked up. Its round, black eyes narrowed, and it fiercely raised a tentacle, gesturing for him to shut up.

As if it were afraid that its expression was not clear enough, the tentacle even moved horizontally, making a neck-slitting gesture in front of it.

The flower fish: “!”

His eyes widened in terror.

In the end, the flower fish aggrievedly moved to the side of the road, more than ten meters away, and carefully nibbled on his pancake like a hamster.

And the little octopus, which had defended its master’s rest, finally regained its energy and also rewarded itself with a nap. It quietly climbed to the vicinity of Shu Yao’s right shoulder, and was content just to have its soft skin and hair, which smelled of shampoo, pressed against each other.

It did not see.

The person who was supposed to be asleep, at some point, had relaxed her furrowed brow, which had been wrinkled by the noise from the nearby construction site, and had even curved her lips slightly.

…

And so.

Shu Yao handed over the case of investigating the health product organization to Lu Ren and the newcomer Guan Tong to advance. She herself took the flower fish and the little pet to support the field team’s missions day and night for more than half a month, becoming a woman who made the parasites in Nancheng tremble in fear.

The day before the National Day holiday, Shu Yao found that her little octopus’s momentum of not being able to be pulled away from food had finally slowed down a little. It even often stopped in the middle of eating and seemed to be in a daze.

At this time, all the high-risk and untamable malignant parasites in the entire city had been cleared out—

Shu Yao had really thought that her little pet’s stomach led to a bottomless pit. She had just scrapped another mission recorder and had also finished the mission target. She casually sat in the stairwell and poked the little octopus in front of her.

“You ate too much and finally made yourself stupid?”

Because of the teasing smile in her tone, her voice and expression were not as cold as usual. And because of the concern in her eyes at this moment, her gaze was much gentler.

Shu Yao really lacked experience in raising strange pets.

Before, she was worried that her pet’s diet was too special and that it would be forced to hibernate in the twenty-five-degree autumn due to lack of energy. Now that she saw it had been hungry for too long and let it eat freely, she was afraid that it was the type with no self-control and would eat itself to death.

She even lightened her movements and looked at her still-small pet with some difficulty, not knowing how to help it digest.

Rub it?

Or should she take it out for a walk? Or let it swim more in the bathtub at night?

Sitting in the old corridor, where the sky was a little cloudy and it looked like it was about to rain again, Shu Yao focused on thinking about how to help her pet digest. For a moment, she didn’t notice that under the skylight on the wall behind her, a human-shaped figure in a mimicked state was clinging to the wall in a twisted posture, slowly approaching.

He was a fish that had slipped through the net.

Another one, a very well-hidden sea snake parasite.

The clouds rubbed against each other, making a muffled thunder sound.

Although Shu Yao had already undergone special training and had overcome her fear of this kind of loud noise, when the muffled thunder rumbled in the sky, her heart still tightened.

It was at this very moment—

The lurking sea snake parasite seized the opportunity, opened its human mouth, revealing extremely sharp snake fangs, and in the air, it showed a strange light that carried venom.

Just as its neck was about to extend infinitely, like a snake raising its upper body and launching a swift attack on its prey, and was about to attack Shu Yao’s neck.

The little octopus, which was being poked by Shu Yao and was feeling the faint heartbeat of its two newly grown hearts, and the strange images that were always appearing in its repairing main brain, looked up and saw the attacker’s posture.

When the sound of something breaking through the air was heard.

Shu Yao, as if she had sensed something, reflexively dodged to the side.

At the same time.

The rolling thunder in the sky sounded again, accompanied by a dragon-like lightning that cut across half the city.

However, the lightning was pulled by a mysterious force in the next instant. It was originally far away in the sky, but the end of the lightning was like an extended tree branch, and it came straight toward this community building, which had a lightning rod installed!

The lightning accurately passed through the square-shaped small opening of the skylight and struck the hidden sea snake parasite.

And all of this happened in a very short time.

By the time Shu Yao had smoothly pulled out the combat dagger at her side, rolled over, and turned around, what she saw was a half-charred corpse, with a strange smell that also had the smell of cooked protein.

She: “?”

Just as she was surprised by this coincidence of divine justice, the little octopus, which had not been very active in eating just now and was in a daze at the dinner table, happily jumped over, flipped over half of its belly, and opened its mouthparts to a degree sufficient to swallow this body.

With a “gulp.”

It ate him whole.

Shu Yao, who found it difficult to adapt to its freely changing size no matter how many times she saw it: “…”

She quickly pocketed the little octopus and strode out of the building.

The probability of being struck by lightning was usually lower than the probability of winning five million in the lottery. She didn’t know if the parasite just now was too unlucky, or if the feng shui of this building was bad. Shu Yao decided to quickly take her little pet and leave this place.

…

When the flower fish opened the unique red umbrella over her head, Shu Yao picked up her usual mobile phone and found several missed calls from Situ Jin on it.

Her face changed slightly. She quickly called back, and even opened the back door of the car and sat in directly, gesturing for the flower fish to drive to the next place quickly with her eyes. But before she closed the door, she said to the head of the logistics team in a hurry:

“The sea snake is a social creature, and it also has the nature of mimicry and concealment. It is possible that there are still parasites in this area that are naturally lazy and don’t like to release biological signals. Please search carefully. If there are still dangerous species, you can call me again.”

Before the other party could answer, she turned to the flower fish and said, “Go to One Villa first.”

That was the community where Situ Jin’s family most often lived, at the foot of Nanshan, which had the best scenery in Nancheng, where land was as expensive as gold. And it was not far from the bustling area, so it was also convenient for their family to travel.

Previously, after the disaster caused by the sea slug parasite, their family had almost wanted to tear down this villa and rebuild it. Even the procedures had been approved. In the end, it was because the reconstruction took too long and was too troublesome that they gave up.

As the car cut through the rain curtain and tried to weave through the congested traffic during the evening rush hour, heading toward the destination, Shu Yao finally got through to Situ Jin’s phone.

“Jin,” she said. “You called me many times just now. Is there something urgent?”

Situ Jin’s tone was a little depressed. “It’s kind of urgent, but not that urgent. Are you busy with official business? When you’re done—”

“I’m already done,” Shu Yao replied quickly.

“Oh,” Situ Jin replied smoothly. “The situation is too complicated. I can’t explain it clearly in one or two sentences. If you’re free, just come to my house now. You’ll know when you see it.”

Shu Yao was a little puzzled.

But feeling that she was not in any immediate danger, she finally relaxed a little.

Half an hour later.

When she arrived at that detached luxury manor, the security guard outside the Situ family’s door came forward to open the car door for her and said with a smile, “Miss Shu, Miss Situ is now waiting for you by the swimming pool on the basement level.”

She nodded and said okay, and at the same time, she pushed back the little octopus that had poked its head out of her pocket to look around.

After passing through one after another of the wide trees that had been carefully trimmed by the gardener and were very expensive, Shu Yao crossed the courtyard with its rockery and flowing water, and after walking for five minutes, she finally reached the side door of the villa that was closest to the swimming pool.

A familiar nanny was already at the door to lead the way. She was holding a plate of the baked cookies that she used to like to eat when she came over, and a cup of brown sugar ginger tea. It was originally to warm her up since she had rushed over on a rainy day, but it was also just right for Shu Yao’s current state.

She followed the nanny to take the elevator to the swimming pool floor. As soon as the door opened, a huge splash of water came up in front of her, and snow-white foam came at her, accompanied by Situ Jin’s very weak voice, “You can’t do this!”

Shu Yao expressionlessly opened the red umbrella she had just taken from the car.

With a ‘thump.’

The umbrella surface, made of the skin of the [Monarch Slayer]’s once-broken tentacle, was like a giant beast’s open tentacle, and in an instant, it blocked all the splashes outside the elevator.

By the time the splashes had fallen back onto the white porcelain floor, Shu Yao had stepped out of the elevator. She ignored the little octopus, which had excitedly jumped onto the umbrella handle and was pulling at it when she opened her umbrella, and her gaze fell on the character in the swimming pool who had caused the splash.

…

Her long, silver, snow-like, crystal-clear curly hair fell down. At this moment, the woman lying by the side of the pool had a particularly cold and aloof face, not like a human living in the mortal world. Her silver eyebrows, and her thick eyelashes of the same color, all made her look like a snow woman who had just walked down from an ice mountain.

And she was indeed not human.

At this moment, her lower body, which was submerged in the pool water, from the part below her snow-white waistline, was a smooth fishtail that was integrated with the pool wall. It was even more high-class than the color of the pool wall. In the light of the large chandelier on this floor, her fins and wide fishtail all shone with a silver light.

Another mermaid.

Shu Yao moved her gaze from her fishtail back to her face, but found that her pupils were the vertical pupils of a cold-blooded animal. She couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

At least this time, it wasn’t that terrible stitched-together creation.

But it was either a new monster from the bottom of the sea, or a [Parasite].

Thinking of the news from the hospital that they were still trying to maintain the vital signs of the mermaid from the auction, Shu Yao turned to look at Situ Jin, who was now walking quickly toward her, and asked with her chin raised, “How did this come here?”

Situ Jin’s expression was on the verge of collapse. She ran to her side in three steps, and the expensive designer dress she was wearing had many wet marks. When she held her hand, her emotions were rarely on the verge of collapse as she said:

“They’re sick! These second-generation rich kids are really sick!”

It turned out that this mermaid was a gift from that Young Master Ye. It was the apology gift that the organizers of the previous monster auction had given him. And he was not interested in keeping fish. Thinking that the previous mermaid had been given to her friend by Situ Jin, he had, without saying a word, had someone send this real mermaid to the Situ family for her to dispose of as she pleased.

Situ Jin, who had received this strange gift in the morning: “?”

She tried to return it, but only got a sentence from Young Master Ye, “I heard that that thing is not easy to tame and has a very bad temper. I don’t have the time to spend money to serve a fish. If you don’t like it, I’ll have someone send her to the special department’s research institute. Peeling her skin and dismantling her bones should make for some good materials.”

Situ Jin: “…”

She looked at this fish’s beauty and couldn’t bear to be so ruthless.

She had originally called a few of her family’s special security personnel over, afraid that this mermaid would perform a brutal drama of eating humans raw for her. But she found that her temper was bad, and that every night she would start to tear off the scales on her body in the pool.

Like self-mutilation, she would make herself covered in blood.

Unfortunately, every morning, she would grow back perfect, beautiful scales, and the Situ family’s servants had recently spent the most effort cleaning this large, bloody pool.

She had just changed the water just now, and she didn’t know what had made that little ancestor depressed again, splashing water everywhere. Situ Jin had no temper left.

Now she grabbed Shu Yao as if she had grabbed a lifesaver.

“Yaoyao!”

Situ Jin also glanced at the little octopus that was crawling all over her umbrella handle. Seeing that she had raised this little octopus, which the auction house people had said was about to die, to be so lively, she immediately gained confidence. “Quick! She’s all yours!”

Shu Yao: “?”

She looked at the mermaid’s particularly wary gaze at her, and the fishtail under the water, which was both powerful and beautiful, and was faintly tensed. After a few seconds, she honestly shook her head:

“My house can’t keep such a big fish.”

After a pause.

She looked down at the little pet that was coiled up on her umbrella handle and was glaring at the mermaid.

She chuckled. “And even if there’s enough space, she might not be safe… My little octopus is very jealous.”

…

The little octopus, which was thinking about how to tear apart this low-level parasite that was seducing humans with its beauty, suddenly had its killing intent dissipate when it heard this.

Its tentacles loosened their grip on the umbrella handle and instead climbed onto Shu Yao’s fingertips.

It deliberately used the tentacles that had retracted their mouthparts to wrap around the other’s five fingers, and the little octopus tried its best to rub its scent on them—

That’s right.

It’s hers. This is something that can only be enjoyed by it alone…

【Yaoyao】

A very faint voice sounded softly as the splashes in the pool were once again stirred up by the fishtail.