Desharow Mermaid - Chap 51

“Desharow… Desharow!”

Agaress roared my name, his voice thundering like rolling thunder, causing a whirlwind wherever he passed, making the leaves around me rustle. Perhaps realizing that yelling would only scare me away, he suddenly quieted down, tilting his long and powerful neck and squinting his narrow eyes as if trying to sniff out every scent in the wind and determine my direction.

I was extremely nervous, crouching in the shadows, and I wished I could bury my whole body in the mud. I couldn’t be sure if he could smell my scent or not, maybe it was just a matter of time. I hoped I would be lucky. It was easy to imagine how angry Agaress was. He might just be out hunting or relieving himself in the sea, only to come back and find me gone, along with his belongings! If he caught me, I could easily imagine how he would punish me. I could not let him have any physical contact with me!

Just then, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my ankle. I looked down, and my goodness, three long leeches were trying to burrow into my calf skin, with one of them already half inside, and the pain was like a skewer piercing my flesh. I wanted to immediately jump up and shake off these disgusting things, but my rationality and experience held me back. Even if I made the slightest move now, Agaress would detect it, and leeches required special methods to remove. Even if I jumped up now, it would not have any substantial effect.

I covered my mouth and nose, enduring the pain without moving, staring intently at Agaress not far away. He turned to sniff the sea breeze, apparently not discerning my scent. His chest, like a rock, heaved violently with excitement, suddenly arching his back, his long tail sweeping over a tree like a lightning bolt, snapping it in half with a crack, the sharp tail fin cutting through the air with a terrifying sonic boom, almost grazing my head, making me shiver.

God, please don’t let him find me! I buried my face in my arm to suppress my trembling breath. In the air, Agaress emitted a low, rough growl, “Desharow, you can not leave me! You will change… you will need me!”

My muscles were tensing even tighter. The pain of the leech burrowing into my flesh was sharp and piercing, shooting deep into my nerves, causing my calf to twitch. I bit down on my arm and remained motionless, persisting through the pouring sweat.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes…

I recited silently in my mind, suddenly feeling as though I had been transported back to my military training days, enduring the scorching sun, crawling on the blazing concrete ground, with Agerres as my strict instructor. But if I misbehaved and was caught by any other instructor, at worst, I would just receive a beating. If Agerres found out, I would never escape from his grasp and this Mermaid Island!

Perhaps my persistence paid off, for when I counted to ten minutes, Agerres’ movements gradually faded away. I dared not let my guard down, waiting a while longer before getting up and immediately checking my ankle. Damn it all, these three leeches had already sucked my blood, their translucent abdomens hanging onto my skin, desperately trying to burrow inside!

I quickly took off my pants and urinated on my leg, catching the urine in my hand and wiping it onto my calf. Although it was a bit dirty, it was the only way to stimulate the leeches with the salt in the urine. As soon as my hand touched these bloodsuckers, they wriggled around as though they were being burned, and soon shriveled up and fell to the ground, where I crushed them with an iron anchor.

I had no idea how many more leeches were lurking around, but judging by the biology, this entire area was a swamp, and I couldn’t continue to stay there. I climbed up the large tree I had chosen earlier, using the iron anchor, and sat on a thick, high branch. I opened my package and thankfully found that the bottle of disinfectant had not broken. I unscrewed the cap and poured the liquid onto my leg, wiping away the blood from the leech bites, and did a simple disinfection treatment, wrapping it up with a piece of cloth.

Actually, such a small wound did not require bandaging, but the blood would spread my scent, making it easy for Agerres to find me quickly. So even though the mud on my body was very uncomfortable, I dared not remove it.

I am currently completely alone and must rely on my own knowledge and abilities to survive. My survival experience is not as extensive as Raffael’s, but I am not inexperienced either. After all, I have had many experiences camping in the wild and have a great deal of knowledge of biology, which could come in handy. As long as I am careful and do not meet Agares head-on, it should not be too difficult to return to the ship.

With this in mind, I took out the antique telescope and stretched my neck to look out at the sea in all directions. Soon, I saw some faint lights approaching the west coast. It seemed like several ships and a few helicopters were coming. I was first shocked, then happy, but also mixed with some worry because I could not be sure if it was the rescue team that Raffael had sent or if they were from the Shakalar side, or neither. But at least these incoming ships were my greatest hope of being rescued.

I observed their distance from the coastline and knew it would take at least another day for them to reach Mermaid Island. I had to contact Raffael and the others as soon as possible. After the gun battle with Leyin and the others, if… no, they must still be alive, but they would not stay in the same place. Where are they now?

I turned my head to look around the island and, using the geographical advantage, quickly found a small cluster of fires in the northwest woods. It was not far from me, about an hour’s walk, but I could not determine if those people were from Shakalar’s team or ours. Until I confirmed their identity, I could not take the risk easily. I had to lurk in the shadows and not expose myself.

After making up my mind, I immediately took action, climbed down the tree, and moved forward in the direction where I had observed earlier from the tree. After walking for a few tens of minutes, I found the kind of ruins I had seen before. It seemed like I was back in the mermaid ruins where I started. This made me nervous all of a sudden, and I almost wanted to run away, but I stopped myself in time.

It was quiet here, and there was no movement. Agares was obviously not here, but the chance of him appearing here was too great. I looked cautiously at the artificial pool where he had been and instinctively crouched down and moved in the other direction, intending to bypass the area where the stone group appeared, even though it would lengthen my journey.

As I was passing by the pond from afar, a familiar scent of pheromones suddenly wafted over. I quickly covered my nose and realized it was the scent left by Ageres. I took a few steps, but for some reason, my legs suddenly gave way, and my body became as heavy as if it were filled with lead. I stumbled and fell to the ground, unconscious.

I don’t know how long it took, but I woke up feeling uncomfortable. My body felt like it was burning at one moment and freezing in an ice cellar the next, leaving me in a state of both ice and fire. I was covered in sweat, but shivering with cold, and the feeling was getting stronger and stronger, like electric shocks coursing through my body.

I opened my heavy eyelids and tried to get up, but the strength in my body seemed to have been drained, and I fell back to the ground.

What’s going on?

I thought groggily, and the intense reaction in my body only added to the confusion in my brain. Cold chills roamed over my skin, making me shiver uncontrollably. I hugged my body, and my skin broke out in goosebumps. Heat seemed to have invaded my body, leaving my internal organs dried up like the cracked earth scorched by the sun. I couldn’t help rolling around on the ground, making wild, beast-like screams from my throat. Oh my God, what’s wrong with my body? Is this the beginning of my second mutation? No, the first and second attacks were too close together. Will I grow scales and webbed feet again like last time? This is terrible!

I can only endure it like this. Before the next attack comes, I have to go back to the ship to get medical treatment!

I closed my eyes in pain, and dug my hands into the ground to endure it. Gradually, my mouth became dry, and my throat felt like it was smoking from the heat. Apart from the thirst caused by lack of water, I also felt another completely different kind of thirst, and it was getting more and more urgent. Terrifying electric currents seeped out of every cell, coalescing into a force that coursed through my body.

I can’t accurately describe this feeling, as if I had taken some kind of drug with an aphrodisiac effect. It made my sense of smell extremely sensitive, and the scent of Agares in the air suddenly became several times stronger, permeating every pore of my body, making me shudder and sweat profusely. I tried to hold my breath and close my eyes, attempting to become a closed, insulated entity to resist the physiological response, but my mind was filled with the scenarios in which Agares invaded me, and the feeling of his touch. I was madly craving all of it, stronger than any secret fantasy I had ever had. Even the muscles in my lower body contracted, as if a mouth was screaming for desire.

I realized that I was in heat like a female animal, feeling ashamed, I turned over and buried my head in the mud, trying to wake up. But it was futile, my intestines seemed to be twisted due to the turning motion, causing intermittent cramps and indescribable emptiness, as if something had to be inserted quickly to glue the structure inside.

Instinct drove me to undo my belt and half undress myself, reaching into my clothes to touch the hidden, painful part between my legs. The moment I touched it, my anus, like a thirsty fish, took hold of my finger, sucking it in and secreting a mucus that should not exist in the rectum, slippery and sticky. It trembled violently at even the slightest touch, making me arch my back and tremble all over like an electric shock.

Oh no, damn it! What’s wrong with my body?

I pulled my finger out, bit my arm hard, and curled up to resist this abnormal physiological impulse. But the surging desire inside my body seemed to rapidly expand under my skin. I felt my body rapidly developing like in puberty, eventually becoming a mature fruit that was ripe and waiting for Agares to pick. I was ripe. I even felt that if he arrived a little later, my body would explode.

My body crazily longed for his arrival, but my rationality did not want it. Just as I struggled in agony, I suddenly heard a noise, the sound of people talking and coming closer.

I shuddered violently, almost being discovered…