Chapter 25 The Innocent Fool

"You, are you awake?"

The little mermaid raised her head cautiously, only to find that Gu Xi had woken up.

But he soon remembered that Gu Xi couldn't hear him, so he gently pushed the man's chest, motioning him to let go of him.

His movements were not large, but Gu Xi suddenly let go of his hand as if he had been scalded by the fire.

Lin Xiaodong looked a little miserable. Of course, mermaids don't need to wear clothes, so since Gu Xi first saw him, he has been topless/topless.

But after the tossing just now, the originally fair skin was covered with gray dust, and the man's lips were bitten by the man. However, the little mermaid was not angry at all, just licked his lips and lowered his head from the ground. He got up from the ground and pointed at Gu Xi's wound with his finger, indicating that he was going to change his dressing.

Gu Xi said hoarsely, "I'm sorry."

The little mermaid shook his head, and took the initiative to reach out and hug him, indicating that he was okay at all.

Looking at his sensible and well-behaved appearance, the man's heart seemed to be grabbed suddenly.

He barely supported half of his body, took out a golden medal from the black military uniform he took off, and placed it in Lin Xiaodong's palm.

"This is," he took two breaths, his chest heaving up and down for a while, and then he said with all his might, "this is a very important thing, although I forgot, but my intuition tells me that it is absolutely very important. .If I die, you hand him over to whoever came to me, please."

But unexpectedly, the mermaid just glanced at it and refused directly.

"With me here, you won't die." He unfolded his uniform, put it over the man, and said to Gu Xi with his mouth.

The light inside the tent was dim, and the stars in the night sky illuminated the determined look on the little mermaid's face.

Gu Xi stared at him for a few seconds, and there seemed to be some kind of deep and obscure emotion brewing in his dark eyes.

After a while, the man lowered his eyes and took the badge back.

"Good," he said.

It was late at night, and Lin Xiaodong slept lightly beside him and stayed in the tent all night.

But without drugs, it means that Gu Xi can only rely on his own physical fitness to carry it through.

Fortunately, the second half of the night was relatively quiet, and there were no major problems for the time being.

It wasn't until dawn that the system reminded him, who was drowsy: "Wake up, it's time to pick up the trash."

Hearing this, he shook his heavy eyelids and let out a painful moan: "Don't..."

The family is a little girl who picks mushrooms, and it is his turn to become a little mermaid picking up garbage. This treatment is too bad!

Lin Xiaodong embarked on his garbage picking trip with a stinky face. The fire yesterday had not been completely extinguished, and it was impossible to expect anyone to help put it out, so he could only hurry up for a few minutes while the starship was dumping the garbage. At the time, before the flames spread to the gaps in the garbage heap, rummaged through the inside to find today's food, otherwise you would be hungry.

After a busy day, I finally found two pieces of brown bread and a can of spicy seafood that was expired for half a month.

Gu Xi can't eat canned seafood now, it will irritate the wound, so Lin Xiaodong cleaned it up on the spot.

He was going to take the remaining two pieces of brown bread back, and he had to make the sick patient fill his stomach.

Lin Xiaodong walked into the tent, woke Gu Xi, took out a piece of black bread and handed it to him, sitting next to him, looking at him eagerly to eat.

Before Gu Xi took two bites, he heard a rumbling sound from the little mermaid's stomach.

He raised his head wordlessly, saw Lin Xiaodong's old face blushing, and embarrassedly touched his shriveled belly.

Too spicy, a little indigestion.

But the man thought he gave him all the food, he opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything, just clenched his chin and broke the black bread in half.

Half of it was handed to Lin Xiaodong, and the other half was kept for himself.

Because he knew that if he gave it all to the other party, he would definitely be rejected.

Sure enough, after a little hesitation, the little mermaid quickly took over.

But instead of eating, he gestured and said, "Can't you eat it? I'll keep it for you and eat it when you're hungry."

"I've already eaten it, really!"

He swore to promise, but soon there was another rumbling sound in his stomach.

The black bread was dry and hard. Gu Xi lowered his eyes and chewed it hard, but his fingers were slightly white due to the force.

"Tong," Lin Xiaodong couldn't help asking, "Isn't his expression a misunderstanding?"

System: "Obviously, Gu Xi always has a filter for you whenever."

"……Have it?"

Lin Xiaodong really didn't feel it.

Black bread can fill the stomach, but it can't provide nutrition. It's okay to chew on it at ordinary times, but it certainly can't provide any help when it is seriously injured. The specific manifestation was that Gu Xi's face didn't look much better after eating, and his lips were cut open by the skin of the black bread.

Seeing that the man's lips were dyed weak and poignant with bright red, Lin Xiaodong swallowed his saliva unconsciously, leaned forward subconsciously, stuck out his tongue like a small animal, and instinctively wanted to lick the wound for him.

...by the way.

Gu Xi took a breath.

But unlike a few days ago, the man did not push away the little mermaid in his arms this time, but indulged in a gesture of acquiescence, and even took the initiative to reach out and gently touched his head.

The system sighed deeply: "It seems that if you change your body, it is true that the host's IQ and bottom line will also change."

Lin Xiaodong: "This is your fault."

System: "What?"

Lin Xiaodong said as a matter of course: "When did I ever have a bottom line?"

system:"…………"

shameless!

Because there was no medicine, for several days, Gu Xi had a low-grade fever intermittently, and the speed of the wound healing was terrifyingly slow.

The little mermaid didn't mind at all, and still took care of him with all his heart, finding food for him, wiping his body, and humming a song and saying to him, "When you heal your wounds, you have to come and do it for me. Pick up trash alive, don't be fooled, do you hear?"

The man was lying on the ground with a pale face, tilted his head to look at him, and after a while, gave a soft "um".

However, the day did not go as planned, and three days later, Gu Xi once again developed a high fever.

This fever lasted for a whole day and night. Looking at the man whose fever persisted and couldn't even feed water, Lin Xiaodong felt that he couldn't go on like this.

He had to take Gu Xi into Jialan Lake.

Although I don't know the principle, once the mermaids get sick, they are treated by soaking in lake water.

This lake contains some kind of magical element that can purify the filth, improve immunity, and even speed up wound healing.

However, there is an invisible barrier around the Jialan Lake that prevents outsiders from entering. Only humans who have been recognized by the mermaid can pass through this barrier. Lin Xiaodong didn't know what this "admit" was referring to. Fortunately, there were still experiences of predecessors to learn from—

He needs to pluck a scale from his tail for Gu Xi to take.

System: "The nerves on the mermaid's tail are very dense, are you sure?"

"Then you can't just watch him die," Lin Xiaodong said. "However, are you sure that just doing this will allow him to pass the barrier?"

"The information says that Lu Xing used to go in like this." The system said, "And after taking the scales, even ordinary humans can talk to mermaids normally."

"Wake up again."

Lin Xiaodong couldn't help frowning.

It seems that this human crown prince must be one of the key characters in the plot.

In fact, he is also quite strange. It stands to reason that Gu Xi should have sent out the good person card for taking care of him so meticulously these days, right? But there is not even a fragment. Is it because he died early in the original world line and is not the key character in the plot at all?

Now there is no way to prove it, he can only take this question to heart, gritted his teeth and pulled a scale from his tail, twisted a face and stuffed it into Gu Xi's mouth.

It hurts grandma!

The unconscious man swallowed it unconsciously. Seeing this, Lin Xiaodong immediately put him on top of him, dragging Gu Xi step by step towards the direction of Jialan Lake.

Sure enough, this time he was no longer repelled by the holy lake of the mermaid tribe, and after a faint ripple appeared all over his body, he successfully passed the barrier.

Night falls.

Gu Xi, who was lying on the shore, trembled with his fingers, and slowly opened his eyes.

He touched his abdomen first, and his body was intact, as if he had regained his health overnight. The man blinked, as if he was a little confused about the environment he was in, and looked up at the front.

But when he saw the picture in front of him, Gu Xi even thought he was still dreaming.

Under the starlight, the windless lake is as smooth as a mirror.

This quiet and delicate balance was broken in an instant by a silver mermaid that broke out of the water.

The mermaid turned her back to the shore, and with the movement of her head, the long black hair that reached her waist and back poured down like a waterfall, meandering and floating on the water.

Not paying attention to the sight of the shore at all, Lin Xiaodong closed his eyes, reached out and brushed his wet hair back casually.

The young mermaid raised her slender neck, her red lips were slightly opened, and she let out a sigh of relief. The snow-white back outlined a perfect arc, with her long hair swaying, she could even vaguely see the two shallow waist fossa on the slender waist. .

Dazzling white.

Gu Xi couldn't help thinking, this waist size, he could just wrap his hands around.

The thumb is on the dimple, just right.

The water droplets splashed and fell into the Jialan Lake, which was as bright as a galaxy at night, and rippled in circles.

System: "Look behind you."

Lin Xiaodong's movements stopped.

He turned around and was not surprised to find that Gu Xi had indeed woken up.

"Are you awake? How are you feeling?"

"..."

"Why don't you speak?"

Lin Xiaodong asked several times, but the man just stared straight at his face and didn't answer. The wound on his body should have been healed, but his breathing rate was still a little abnormal.

He tilted his head, puzzled.

This is... a fever again?

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The author has something to say:

Lin Xiaodong: I want to go fishing.

Gu Xi: I want to eat fish.