“By the way, was my singing voice in merfolk form lovely? I glanced at you when I was singing, and you looked completely captivated.”
On the way back, Bai Lixin casually remarked.
Xia Chi stumbled slightly. Under Bai Lixin’s clear and confident gaze, he nodded reluctantly, “Yes, it sounded good.”
Bai Lixin sighed softly, his beautiful eyes slightly distant with memories, “Speaking of singing, the last time I sang was a very long time ago. I stood under world-class spotlights, and people were immersed in my singing. At that time, I even earned the title of ‘Song God.’”
“Now looking back, it seems like it was just yesterday, but when I think about it again, countless years have passed.”
“Ah, it’s all in the youth of me and…”
Xia Chi lowered his head, silently swallowing a gulp of saliva, cold sweat trickling down his forehead.
‘Did Brother develop a heart demon due to singing, leading to these hallucinations?
Song God?
It is an understatement to say that with Brother’s caliber, he easily qualifies for the title of “Song Devil”.’
Xia Chi bit his lip, struggling to keep all the sarcastic remarks to himself.
As they retraced their steps, they saw the monster lying on the ground in the hall, limp.
Originally, there were over a hundred monster heads, now, only a dozen or so abstract monsters lay limp on the ground, emitting groans.
“Ouch, my brain hurts.”
“What was that sound just now? Was it a sonic attack? It hurts.”
“My ears are about to explode.”
“Ah, it’s so uncomfortable, it’s so uncomfortable.”
“Stop screaming! It’s over! I can’t take it anymore!”
They moaned to themselves, not even noticing Bai Lixin’s return.
Bai Lixin observed the pained expressions of the monsters in front of him. “Someone used a sonic attack just now? Xia Chi, did you hear anything? Why didn’t I hear anything? Could it be outside our frequency range?”
Xia Chi: “…”
‘Brother seems oblivious to everything. Should I tell him the truth?
No, he’s my brother.
Even his fart smells good.’
Xia Chi: “I didn’t hear anything; I only heard your enchanting singing, brother.”
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In the live broadcast room.
[Tsk tsk tsk, Xia Chi, you’re quite worldly-wise.]
[Xia Chi has clearly grown up, he knows how to respect elders now.]
[Xia Chi has finally matured. As a family, I am relieved!]
[Hahaha, the whole family is working hard to protect God Xin’s delicate self-esteem as a Song God.]
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Bai Lixin frowned slightly, “Could it be another player? To be able to injure this monster so severely, how did that person do it? Could it be Lin Xiao?”
Xia Chi clenched his teeth tightly, “…”
‘Isn’t it possible that this person is you?’
“Who cares who it is, brother? Maybe some mysterious person is helping us? They shouldn’t have any malicious intent towards us. Isn’t that better?” Xia Chi tugged at Bai Lixin’s sleeve, “Don’t you still want to rescue the merfolk? Let’s hurry and go?”
Bai Lixin temporarily set aside his suspicions this time and focused all his attention on the monster in front.
Handing the little merman to Xia Chi, he slowly walked toward the monster.
Hearing the footsteps, the heads lifted up from their moans. The once pained gazes suddenly brightened upon seeing Bai Lixin.
“You’re here.”
“You’ve returned.”
“That’s great! When I didn’t see you just now, I thought you left us. I knew you were a good person and wouldn’t abandon us.”
“We’re down to just a dozen people now. Can you help lift the curse?”
“Yes, please help us. It hurts so much.”
The young man looked down at the prostrate and distorted monster heads. They were once scholars with advanced knowledge in the country. They could have used their knowledge and talents for more meaningful purposes. However, they were gradually blinded by wealth, fame, and desire. Demons of evil kept breeding in their hearts, and they ultimately lost their original selves and became demons.
One wrong step led to continuous missteps.
In their youth, how many of them had dreamed of becoming scientists, astronauts, and aspired to contribute to their homeland?
But what remained in their hearts?
Just a desire to live.
The young man smiled faintly, with a hint of disdain and indifference.
He took the necklace from around his neck and shook it, “Fine, I’ll lift the curse for you now.”
The smooth and translucent black pearl emitted a faint glow. The monster heads greedily eyed the necklace in Bai Lixin’s hand, their faces showing ecstatic expressions of relief.
As the glow intensified, these heads looked around, and found that the ugly and foul black slime was slowly fading away from their bodies.
The curse was really fading!
But as the black slime disappeared, they suddenly felt something was wrong.
After the black slime vanished, the separated body parts did not regrow, only the slime disappeared, the head part remained.
When they were cursed and fused together, they could survive as monsters. If they revert to humans and only the heads are left, they will die!
“Stop, quickly stop!” Dr. Camila finally reacted, yelling at Bai Lixin in panic, “Don’t lift the curse anymore, we’ll die if you do.”
“Yes, stop, please stop.”
However, they were astonished to find that the previously seemingly docile and obedient young man was just staring at them expressionlessly, completely ignoring their pleas, and the process of lifting the curse continued.
“Stop him!” A head shouted, “Kill him, he wants to harm us. He’s not a good person!”
In the next moment, the messy black slime wrapped around a dozen heads, crawled on the ground and approached Bai Lixin.
Seeing the opponent about to reach him, the young man merely jumped into the air, easily evading the monster’s attack.
As the monster moved frantically, the sticky black slime continuously dripped from its body, leaving a sticky puddle wherever it passed.
Xia Chi stood far away, his expression relatively calm, but his inner world was in turmoil.
‘Damn, this scene is too damn impactful.
It’s like a freaking giant booger!!!’
Bai Lixin was like an agile little squirrel, effortlessly darting around the room. The pursuing monster was furious, and every time it seemed like it was about to catch Bai Lixin, he escaped before it in the next moment. It hadn’t even touched the hem of Bai Lixin’s clothes.
It appeared to be the closest distance, yet it was the farthest distance.
The heads roared, howled, went mad, and frenzied.
They were furious because they were being toyed with by someone they had once looked down upon.
Amidst this endless negative emotion, the curse on the monster gradually lifted.
A head silently rolled out from the monster’s body.
Then came the second, the third…
Not long after the heads fell off the monster’s body, they became lifeless. It wasn’t until the last head completely fell silent that Bai Lixin gently tapped the clean spot on the ground and landed steadily on his feet.
The room finally returned to silence.
The ground was a mess, with broken limbs and heads everywhere.
Xia Chi gulped and endured the nausea as he carried the little merman through this hellish space.
As he passed by those heads, he subconsciously looked over. In their final moments, their expressions were ferocious. Limbs were strewn around, and their deaths could be said to be extremely ugly.
Shivering, Xia Chi quickened his pace, following closely behind Bai Lixin and left.
…
When Bai Lixin and Xia Chi walked out of the underground laboratory, they found chaos outside. An experimenter passed by and saw the two of them and said hurriedly: “Why are you still standing here?! Quickly leave, a tsunami is about to hit!”
The two rushed to the window, and saw a massive wave dozens of meters high at the end of ocean rushing towards them.
After uttering these words, the experimenter ran off again. Through the window, Bai Lixin saw people fleeing towards the mountainside, rushing onto the giant ship that had been docked by the shore.
The research institute echoed with piercing alarm sounds and rapid red flashes from overhead, and people kept rushing out.
Bai Lixin took the little merman from Xia Chi and shouted, “You run too!” and quickly rushed towards Lab 1.
Xia Chi originally wanted to follow, but then he remembered that Bai Lixin could turn into a merfolk.
His brother could turn into a merfolk, so he is not afraid of the sea water, but he himself is afraid of it.
Run, he must run!
Without lingering, Xia Chi immediately ran towards the main gate of the research institute, quickly joining the running crowd.
Bai Lixin kicked open the door of Lab 1 while holding the little merman. Inside, Dijia lounged lazily by the poolside, his gaze indifferent and profound.
Seeing Bai Lixin, Dijia gave him a faint smile, “You’ve come?”
Bai Lixin slowly scanned Dijia’s body, focusing on his wrist.
The bracelet that was originally attached to his wrist had disappeared, leaving only a shallow mark.
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Oh, is this guy going to stage a bloody eight PM drama of “I don’t love you, I just used you to free myself, hahaha, you idiot, you were fooled by me!”?’
“I summoned the tsunami.” Just as Bai Lixin couldn’t help but let his mind wander, Dijia spoke up, “When the tsunami arrives here, the seawater will completely cover this research institute. By then, all the merfolk can swim out, and this institute will be submerged into the sea, disappearing from this world completely.”
“It will take about two hours for the tsunami to reach here. Two hours are enough for the innocent humans to escape from here.” Dijia paused, “It’s also enough for me to find you.”
Their was a sound of water splashing around, and then the merman, who had been lying in the pool held onto the edge of the pool and propped his body up. When the beautiful tail emerged from the pool, it rapidly contracted and changed into two long, slender, straight legs.
The man walked up to Bai Lixin with two strides, and before Bai Lixin could react, embraced him tightly.
The little merman on Bai Lixin’s shoulder slipped down and fell on the cold ground.
Something was poking him.
Bai Lixin’s eyes instinctively moved down, and then he quickly turned his head, his cheeks blushing.
“I’m glad that I planted my mark on you early on. This way, I can know your location and safety no matter where you go. Although you didn’t say it these days, I sensed you went to the deep sea, the underground laboratory, and many other places. Every time you took a risk, I remained sleepless and unable to eat.”
Bai Lixin was momentarily stunned.
He recalled several times in the morning when he came to Lab 1, the fish laid on the plate by the pool wall wasn’t touched. At first, he thought Dijia was picky about food. So, the real reason was that he was worried about him?
So that’s it.
Worried about his safety but unable to help, Dijia chose not to say anything, silently bearing this worry alone.
It turns out that his lover knew whatever he did and wherever he went during this time.
At this moment, a warm current suddenly surged into Bai Lixin’s chest.
When he thought he was fighting alone, there was always someone silently worrying and praying for him from a distance behind him, unseen.
Even though he couldn’t assist him, his heart was always with him.
Turns out, he was never truly alone; there was another person who had been caring for him during his journeys.
“I’m glad you always returned safely,” Dijia looked apologetic as he looked at Bai Lixin. “I’m sorry, I haven’t been able to help you.”
Bai Lixin: “There’s no need to say that. I’m glad that I’m strong enough to be able to help you.”
Just like when he was trapped in the Eternal Diamond Mountain, Dijia used his body to pave the way for him to escape.
The man embraced Bai Lixin forcefully again.
The tight hug left no gap between them, and Bai Lixin once again felt the sudden poke.
Dijia was hugging his big baby when something was suddenly stuffed into his arms. He instinctively grabbed it, feeling a soft and comfortable touch at his fingertips.
Looking down, it was a towel.
The young man shouted with some embarrassment, “Cover up!”
Dijia held the towel and, although he felt it was useless, obediently wrapped it around his waist. Without any care, he walked to Bai Lixin, “Merfolk don’t need to wear clothes.”
Bai Lixin secretly took a look and found that the man had wrapped the towel around him. He turned his face away with a cold expression, reprimanding, “But now you’ve become a human. In human society, everyone wears clothes. If you continue like this, you might be charged with ‘public indecency.’”
Dijia shrugged, with a look of disdain on his face, “I’m a merfolk, not a human.”
His gaze fell on the little merman on Bai Lixin’s shoulder, and when he saw the legs of the merman’s lower half, his expression was slightly stunned. “Half-merfolk?”
Bai Lixin nodded, “Yes, his mother is a merfolk, and his father is a human. His parents, including him, are victims of experiments. His background is quite tragic. Now, both his parents have passed away, and I plan to entrust him to the merfolk clan, hoping they can provide him with a healthy environment to grow.”
Dijia: “So that voice like a broken gong was his singing, right? No wonder it sounded so unpleasant.”
“???” Bai Lixin: “To be honest, I was the one singing.”
‘Voice like a broken gong?
Where did that come from?
I am the Song God. In the past, people had to specifically wait for a suitable time to hear me sing. It was not easy to make an appointment, okay?’
“Oh, it was you singing!” Dijia suddenly changed his tune. “No wonder it was so unique. I’ve never heard such wonderful merfolk singing.”
Bai Lixin: “?”
‘Your flattery looks a bit awkward.’
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In the live broadcast room.
[Bah, a big boss without principles, I look down on you.]
[The big boss can be considered a renowned trademark.]
[Normal operation of the big boss.]
[Tsk tsk tsk, I actually want to see the video of the merman big boss getting out of the pool. Why did the screen suddenly go black? The big boss is a merman, not a human. What’s wrong with watching a merman? The system is really old-fashioned.]
[System: All explanations are the sole right of the official.]
[Little merman: You guys are pretending to be noble, pretending to be affectionate, and you throw me on the ground while hugging each other?]
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“Actually, I’m also a half-merfolk,” Dijia glanced at the half-merman on the ground and then withdrew his gaze. “Although the merfolk’s power is formidable, their lifespan is not as long as humans.”
“Maybe because I have merged with half of human genes, my lifespan is longer than other merfolk,” he continued.
Bai Lixin: “You’re also a half-merfolk? So, that’s why your teeth are different from other merfolk. Other merfolk have sharp serrated teeth, but your teeth are like humans. What about your legs? Can all merfolk transform into human form?”
“Not exactly,” Dijia shook his head. “The ability to switch between human and merfolk is probably a special ability of half-merfolk. Pure merfolk can only survive in the ocean.”
Bai Lixin: “How were you captured into the laboratory before?”
